This thesis explores the iconic anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996) and its cinematic counterpart The End of Evangelion (1997) through the philosophical lens of Geo[...]

By focusing on the social meaning-making of ritual Catherine Bell paved the way for new avenues of exploration for religious studies. My paper pulls this theory into a re[...]

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 [...]

This dissertation examined the experiences leading to working as a Substance Abuse Peer Recovery Coach and experiences while working as a Substance Abuse Peer Recovery Co[...]

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 societ[...]

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 Inter[...]

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 2[...]

Job satisfaction and burnout are directly related to turnover within the substance abuse counseling field and a variable that could predict burnout and job satisfaction s[...]

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 ofin[...]

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 s[...]