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Creating a Market for Salvation: Neoliberalism and Pastoral Power
Title
Creating a Market for Salvation: Neoliberalism and Pastoral Power
Author
Eyrich, Timothy
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Philosophy
Description
This thesis examines the megachurch phenomenon in the United States since the 1950s as a way of explaining the transformation of pastorship in Christianity with the onset of American neoliberalism. This examination relies on Michel Foucault’s anal...
Black Bodies That Matter: Corporeality in the Movement for Black Lives
Title
Black Bodies That Matter: Corporeality in the Movement for Black Lives
Author
Williams, Ashley
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Philosophy, Dance
Description
The purpose of this research project is to merge discourses concerning performance studies, dance theory, and the use of bodies in the Movement for Black Lives. Protest descriptions may include demographic information of participants, but they alm...
Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Title
Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Author
Molina, Luciano
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Political science, Religion, Philosophy
Description
The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...
SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
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...
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Title
Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Author
Pearce, Trevor
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Evolution, Philosophy
Description
This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...