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Title: Editing Identity Online: Film Reviews as Religious Narratives on Patheos
Author: Twist, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: 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...

Title: Maintenance of a Tradition: An Analysis of Identity and Memory Making Processes at Rock Springs Camp-Meeting
Author: Manlove, Wyatt
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: The Rock Springs camp-meeting in Denver, North Carolina is a communal religious gathering, the maintenance of which is passed down generationally and regarded by some as an important piece of Denver's community history. The camp-meeting phenomenon...

Title: Naming The Boogeyman: Constructing Marginalized Religion As Threats To White Bodies In The X-Files
Author: Richards, Oliver
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: The X-Files is an American science fiction television series that ran from 1993 to 2002, spawning an extended universe of books, two feature films, and an additional two seasons of the show which aired in 2016 and 2018. The show revolves around tw...

Title: PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
Author: Carskaddon, Chelsea
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Ethics, Philosophy and religion
Description: 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 ...

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 Broken Shelves: Ex-Mormon Reddit Narratives of Deconversion
Author: Wright, Lesley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: 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...

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...