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Title: American Atheism: An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Stigma Borne by Twenty-First Century Citizens
Author: Lee, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion
Description: This paper analyzes the stigma that surrounds atheists in twenty-first century America, and shows that assumed moral shortcomings of atheists have remained mostly unchanged over the course of America’s history. By outlining the development of a Ch...

Title: Apocalyptic Mother: Revelations of a World Turned Upside Down in The Book of Margery Kempe
Author: Bruce, Julie
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects
Description: The Book of Margery Kempe is a fifteenth-century memoir that recounts the transformation of an English prophet or mystic from a "sinful wretch" to a vessel for the "Holy Ghost." She interprets this change in her life as one from abundance and fert...

Title: De natura religionis Romanum: A Re-appraisal of the Role of Roman Private Cult and Practice
Author: Young, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching
Description: 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...

Title: SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Author: Williams, Joshua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
Description: This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that intimacy, deriving from play, allows for a deeper understanding of self and a...

Title: THE PRAGMATISM OF FOOD PORN: MODERN MEDIA AS A MODE OF ZEN PERPETUATION
Author: Haley, Gabrielle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Area studies
Description: 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...

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...