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 simil[...]

Should scholars of Buddhism start getting into some good methodological trouble? Matthew King's In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Bud[...]

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[...]

Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activit[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a p[...]

This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by reca[...]