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Title
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The varieties of secular experience
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Secularism, Religion
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Description
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Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...
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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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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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Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
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Author
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Molina, Luciano
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Political science, Religion, Philosophy
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Description
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The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...
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Title
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MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
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Author
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Caro, Lennin
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Economics
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Description
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Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...
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Title
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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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Title
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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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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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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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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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The Persistence of Images: Mūrti, Monotheisms, and Museums
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Author
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Bowmer, William
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion, Aesthetics, Area studies
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Description
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Even anciently one finds debate among Indian sources as to whether image-worship is unacceptable, ignorant, tolerable, laudable or ideal as a means of connecting with divinity. Yet it has been ubiquitous in Indian society for thousands of years, t...