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Title: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: ARMY MANAGEMENT STYLES AND THE SIMILARITIES WITHIN ATHLETICS
Author: Simmons, Jackson
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Military art and science
Description: When comparing athletes to soldiers in the military you discover that there is an abundance of similarities that link the two in how they prepare themselves both mentally and physically to accomplish the task at hand. There are different programs ...

Title: Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Bruce, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...

Title: Christian Sun Worship and Theurgy in Late Antique Rome
Author: Sells, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: In Late Antique Rome the worship of the sun penetrated into Christian belief and practice. This is usually explained in terms of a type of syncretism, where the sun god in Roman religion during this time (often seen as being at the apex of the pan...

Title: Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: McElveen, Viola
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Judaism--Study and teaching, History, Ancient
Description: ABSTRACTVIOLA L. MCELVEEN. Identifying the Voice of the Teacher in the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) of the Dead Sea Scrolls(Under the direction of DR. JAMES D. TABOR) The central purpose of my thesis is to attempt to identify the methods and crite...

Title: Mark: A Messianic Post-War Gospel
Author: Beaumont, Jenny
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Bible, Theology
Description: The Gospel of Mark, understood as our earliest post-70 CE early Christian/Jewish writing, can provide a new interpretive lens for setting forth the parameters of an understanding of spirituality for Mark’s community in a new era in which Jerusalem...

Title: PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
Author: Kimbrel, Suzannah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Area studies
Description: This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...

Title: Praise the Sun: The Game Dark Souls Illuminated by Ritual Theory
Author: Gonzales, Aaron
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: By focusing on the social meaning-making of ritual Catherine Bell paved the way for new avenues of exploration for religious studies. My paper pulls this theory into a realm of playful activity unique to the digital age: the world of video gaming....

Title: SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Author: Williams, Joshua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
Description: This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that intimacy, deriving from play, allows for a deeper understanding of self and a...

Title: South Park's Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror
Author: Casper, Joshua
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Queer studies, Ethnology, Area studies
Description: JOSHUA CASPER. South Park Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror. (Under the Direction of DR. SEAN MCCLOUD) In this thesis, I argue that Satan in South Park is portrayed as a sympathetic character who acts as both a role model o...

Title: The Gospel of Luke as Rewritten Mark: Jesus as a Hellenistic "Divine Man"
Author: Melton, Tyler
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: In a society that reveres "divine men" who typically hold positions of power, it should be no surprise that an author would want the subject of their writings to emulate traits that line up with such a title – even if they are rewriting an earlier...

Title: The Origin and History of the Cenacle on Mount Zion: An Examination of the Textual, Artistic, and Archaeological Evidence
Author: Clausen, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects, Archaeology
Description: Scholars have, for nearly a century, theorized about the origins of the building known as the Cenacle on southwestern Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Some suggest that it represents the surviving remnants of either or both of the large-scale churches tha...

Title: The Vanity of a Visionary: A Close Reading of the Inquisitorial Trial of Francisca de los Apostáles (de Avila)
Author: Rice, Tabitha
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: This thesis explores the trial of Francisca de los Apostáles, a woman who lived in Toledo, Spain, during the mid- to late-sixteenth century. Her Inquisitorial trial provides insight into the subversion of female authority and autonomy by the Spani...

Title: Utopic Pessimism: The Messianic Underpinnings of the Antinatalist Polemic
Author: Miller, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy and religion
Description: Pessimism in the west was made into a system by Arthur Schopenhauer. It has never been a popular philosophy but provides rich insights into the nature of human desire and the possibility of happiness in a materialistic cosmos. Antinatalism, the id...