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An Exploration of Gavin Langmuir’s Theories of Rationality Using an Interdisciplinary Approach
(2021-04-10)
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 ...
Ecstasy as an altered state of consciousness in Sufi Practice
(2021-04-10)
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 ...
Rubbing a Text to Life: Reading and the Living Word in Levinas
(2021-04-10)
In a talmudic reading of an encounter between a Sadducee and the Jewish sage Raba, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas notes how Raba, deep in study, rubs his foot until it bleeds. Levinas compares Raba’s rubbing to the act of ...
Decolonization and Independence in 20th Century Africa
(2021-01-01)
With the end of the Second World War in 1945, colonial troops who had fought in the conflict returned home and joined movements demanding independence from European empires. This process of decolonization saw increasing ...
World Explorers
(2021-01-01)
This StoryMap has curriculum themed on World Explorers appropriate for middle school students Grades 6-8. The curriculum includes lessons on a broad overview of the history of map-making, and how it influenced world ...
Objects of Influence: Sacrality and Native American Material Culture Across Five Contexts
(2021-04-10)
Much has been written on the politics of (re)presenting Native American objects in American museums and on the successes and stumbles associated with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. ...
La geografía del desplazamiento climático
(2021-01-01)
This StoryMap uses AGSL maps and photos, as well as current data on extreme climate events, to lead students through an exploration of five major causes of climate change displacement. For each extreme climate event, the ...
