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Title
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"I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
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Author
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Mesibov, Sally
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
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Description
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SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
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A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
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Author
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Staton, Jonathan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
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Description
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The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....
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De natura religionis Romanum: A Re-appraisal of the Role of Roman Private Cult and Practice
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Author
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Young, Thomas
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Religion, Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching
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Description
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This study questions the contemporary privilege afforded Roman civic cult and its relationship with the divine over the private cult of the individual or group. Exploring the historical underpinnings of the civic cult theory as exemplified by such...
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Editing Identity Online: Film Reviews as Religious Narratives on Patheos
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Author
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Twist, Haley
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion
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Description
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How do we construct narratives about ourselves, how are these narratives influenced by our religious lives, and how do these narratives look when they appear on the Internet? Exploring the construction of autobiographical narratives and how they a...
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Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
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Author
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Argonauta, Matthew
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Bible, Sex role, Religion
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Description
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The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...
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PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
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Author
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Carskaddon, Chelsea
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Ethics, Philosophy and religion
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Description
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The question driving this thesis is to what extent religious othering is actually experienced compared to the extent to which religious othering is simply perceived. To seek an answer to this question the author chose to analyze the ways in which ...
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Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
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Author
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Amezquita, Joseph
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
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Description
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An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...
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Title
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Reporting the “Summer of Shame”: Clergy Sex Abuse and U.S. Catholic Journalism in 2018
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Author
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Davis, Samuel
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, History--Religious aspects
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Description
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This paper explores how two US Catholic newspapers—the National Catholic Reporter and the National Catholic Register—reported on the topic of sex abuse in the Church in 2018, revolving around how they presented and discussed the events surrounding...
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Title
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Sacrifice and Violence: Paśubali in Nepal
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Author
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Carroll, Lindsay
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Area studies
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Description
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Animal sacrifice in Nepal—known as paśubali—exemplifies the complexities of ritual animal sacrifice. It also complicates understandings of the relationships between sacrifice and violence. The word "violence" in sacrificial studies has been met wi...
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THE PRAGMATISM OF FOOD PORN: MODERN MEDIA AS A MODE OF ZEN PERPETUATION
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Author
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Haley, Gabrielle
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Area studies
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Description
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The revolving door of food trends – particularly those regarding vegetarianism and veganism – provides a unique opportunity for food cultures that are traditionally associated with religions to sit down at the table and enter the conversation. Thi...
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The Broken Shelves: Ex-Mormon Reddit Narratives of Deconversion
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Author
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Wright, Lesley
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion
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Description
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What are the reasons ex-Mormons give for why they leave their religion? This study identifies what causes Mormons to lose their religion—or to use an ex-Mormon parlance—causes their shelf to break, by analyzing online deconversion narratives poste...
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Title
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The Insta-Hijra: South Asian Hijra Photographic Performances
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Author
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Flaherty, David
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Area studies, Religion, Art--Historiography
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Description
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Indian hijras have captured anthropological, religious, and media attention as they have been categorized as "third-sex," "neither men nor women," and most recently, indexed under the identity structures of "transgender" and "kinnar." From their s...
