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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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South Park's Satan: Sympathetic Character and Critical Cultural Mirror
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Author
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Casper, Joshua
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Queer studies, Ethnology, Area studies
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Description
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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...
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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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Utopic Pessimism: The Messianic Underpinnings of the Antinatalist Polemic
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Author
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Miller, Joshua
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Philosophy and religion
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Description
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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...