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Title: Playing Ponies: A Critical Evaluation of Religious Elements and Gender Politics at Work in "Brony" Fandom
Author: Mullis, Justin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Religion, Religions
Description: This work aims to illuminate the cultural institution of the fandom by approaching it from the vantage point of Religious Studies while seeking to avoid the obvious similarities of devotion and social organization so often brought to the table wit...

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: Dating the Teacher of Righteousness and the Floruit of his Movement: An Evaluation of Methods (1952-2010)
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Judaism--Study and teaching
Description: The Dead Sea Scrolls are Hebrew and Aramaic texts representing more than 800 manuscripts. Found between 1947 - 1956 in 11 caves near an ancient Qumran archaeological site, they consist of copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls h...

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: THE HISTORY OF THE CURSE: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL TABOOS OF MENSTRUATION AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY TODAY
Author: Webster, Samantha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Religion
Description: ABSTRACTSAMANTHA B. WEBSTER The history of the curse: a comparative look at the religious and social taboos of menstruation and the influence they have on American society today. (Under the direction of DR. KENT BRINTNALL).James Frazer, in his lat...

Title: Reporting the “Summer of Shame”: Clergy Sex Abuse and U.S. Catholic Journalism in 2018
Author: Davis, Samuel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Religion, History--Religious aspects
Description: 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...

Title: The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
Author: Boaz, Stephen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies, Folklore
Description: This paper primarily examines how white conservative Evangelicals engage narrative constructions of identity through the use an embattled lens. The paper does also consider two other Evangelical groups (black Evangelicals—largely civil rights lead...