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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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: 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: A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Author: Staton, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
Description: The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....

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: 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: 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: THE HISTORY OF THE CURSE: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL TABOOS OF MENSTRUATION AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON AMERICAN SOCIETY TODAY
Author: Webster, Samantha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Religion
Description: ABSTRACTSAMANTHA B. WEBSTER The history of the curse: a comparative look at the religious and social taboos of menstruation and the influence they have on American society today. (Under the direction of DR. KENT BRINTNALL).James Frazer, in his lat...

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: The Persistence of Images: Mūrti, Monotheisms, and Museums
Author: Bowmer, William
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Aesthetics, Area studies
Description: Even anciently one finds debate among Indian sources as to whether image-worship is unacceptable, ignorant, tolerable, laudable or ideal as a means of connecting with divinity. Yet it has been ubiquitous in Indian society for thousands of years, t...

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...