The history of St. Sebald Lutheran Church in Strawberry Point, Iowa is one of outreach and influence. Despite being located in a town that seems insignificant on a current map, St. Sebald itself was a hub of religious ...

America has an obsession with all things geek. One can hardly go ten minutes without hearing a reference to Spiderman, Iron-Man, or Thor. From Dr. Who to Dr. Strange, American have surrounded themselves with quasi-divine ...

This paper is a philosophical inquiry into the theological concept of revelation. I approach the concept in three stages and I divide the paper into sections accordingly. In §1 I consider what a claim to revelation means ...

In this cross-curricular Social Studies and English Language Arts unit, immigrant and refugee students will explore maps of their homelands from the AGSL Digital Collections. Students can use pre-selected maps or search ...

In 1990, Gavin Langmuir produced two single-authored monographs: History, Religion, and Antisemitism, and Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Across these two texts, he offers a bifurcation of the two terms anti-Judaism ...

Living in the global epidemic depression and rise of PTSD provoke me to explore the experience of ecstasy and the community of euphoria exist in the cultural practices around the world. Religious rituals and practices as ...

The period beginning with Muhammad Mosaddeq’s premiership in Iran from 1950 through the revolution in 1979 was characterized by anticommunist policies enacted by Muhammad Reza Shah, and imposed by the United States and ...

This investigation examines the ancient ritual drink Soma and encompassing Vedic mythology surrounding Soma practices and beliefs. The biochemical identity of Soma has long remained a mystery to scholars, though Ephedra ...