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- Title
- "Everyone Wants Their Bifröst": Analyzing Heathen Practice and Radicalization Risks for the U.S. Military
- Author
- Konzen, Riley
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Criminology, Military art and science, Religion
- Description
- The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021 functioned as a national watershed moment, generatingfar-reaching aftershocks across American society. While hypotheses abound proposing various catalysts, it has spurred a robust conversation regarding domestic...
- Title
- "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth"
- Author
- Mesibov, Sally
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects, Religion, Literature, Medieval
- Description
- SALLY JO MESIBOV. "I Received an Inward Showing of Truth." (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM SHERMAN) This paper analyzes the changes in language between two texts, written by Julian of Norwich, that reportedly describe the same religious vision...
- 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
- Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
- Author
- Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...
- Title
- Counting Days in Ancient Babylon: Eclipses, Omens, and Calendrics during the Old Babylonian Period (1750-1600 BCE)
- Author
- Jedael, Steven
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Astronomy, Area studies
- Description
- STEVEN JEDAEL. Counting days in ancient Babylon: eclipses, omens, and calendrics during the Old Babylonian period (1750-1600 bce).(Under the direction of DR. JOHN C. REEVES) Prior to the sixth century BCE, each lunar month of the Babylonian calend...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Elijah the Tishbite: The Zealous He-Prophet's Gender Performance in 1 and 2 Kings
- Author
- Argonauta, Matthew
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Bible, Sex role, Religion
- Description
- The prophet Elijah is known for his zealousness on behalf of the Israelite deity, Yhwh. This zeal particularly manifests itself as Elijah defends the exclusive worship of Yhwh in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, after ...
- Title
- MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
- Author
- Caro, Lennin
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Economics
- Description
- Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...
- 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
- 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
- Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
- Author
- Amezquita, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
- Description
- An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...
- Title
- Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
- Author
- Flores, Bertha
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, Religion
- Description
- ABSTRACTThe objective of this thesis is to use two films: Marcos Loayza’s Cuestión de fe (1995) and Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s The Devil’s Miner (2005) to analyze their representations of Indigenous religious practices. I focus on two dif...
- Title
- Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
- Author
- Rumfelt, Trina
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Literature, Religion
- Description
- TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...
- 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
- Sacrifice and Violence: Paśubali in Nepal
- Author
- Carroll, Lindsay
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- Animal sacrifice in Nepal—known as paśubali—exemplifies the complexities of ritual animal sacrifice. It also complicates understandings of the relationships between sacrifice and violence. The word "violence" in sacrificial studies has been met wi...
- Title
- Sanctuaries, "Special Needs," and Service: Faith Community Leader Perceptions on Including Children with Disabilities
- Author
- Stewart-Ginsburg, Jared
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Early childhood education, Religion
- Description
- Religion plays an important role in providing support, purpose, and positive emotional health in the life of a family with a child with a disability. Yet studies on parent and child perceptions indicate that many families struggle to feel accepted...