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Title
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This Generation Will Not Pass Away Before All These Things Take Place
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Author
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Cataldo, Ryan
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Religion, Theology
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Description
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This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia,...
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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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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...
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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...
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Title
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The Influence of Religious Centrality on One's Experience of Traumatic Life Events
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Author
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Brightman, Alexis
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology, Religion, Spirituality
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Description
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Posttraumatic growth is the positive psychological change that may occur as the result of coping with disruption of one’s core beliefs, following the experience of a traumatic event. Some trauma survivors report a change in how they relate to othe...
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Title
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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 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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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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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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Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
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Author
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Rumfelt, Trina
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Literature, Religion
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Description
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TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...
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Title
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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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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 ...
