• Objects of Influence: Sacrality and Native American Material Culture Across Five Contexts 

  Holtzman, Emily (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. ...

• Veneration at the Gates of the Past: Greek Hero Cults at Mycenaean Tombs 

  Gleesing, Justin (2021-04-10)

  This paper aims to draw a religious connection between the Myceneans of the collapsed bronze age and the early Iron Age Greek culture. Establishing a relationship between these two provides the ability for researchers to ...

• Analyzing Religious Texts, Objects, and Archaeological Evidence 

  Flynn, Casey; Gleesing, Justin; Holtzman, Emily (2021-04-10)

• Rubbing a Text to Life: Reading and the Living Word in Levinas 

  Flynn, Casey (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 ...

• Ecstasy as an altered state of consciousness in Sufi Practice 

  Khatun, Sayema (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 ...

• Religion and Politics During the 2016 Presidential Election: A Stakeholder Analysis 

  Melatti, Kyle (2021-04-10)

  While the results of the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States were shocking to many, the most shocking and complex element of President Trump’s victory was his support from the Protestants and Evangelicals. ...

• Overcoming Personal Crises and the Role of Spirituality: Seclusion and Inclusion 

  Şen, Deniz Ecem (2021-04-10)

  During the course of life, individuals go through psychological and spiritual crises such as middle-age crisis, the crisis of confidence, the crisis of faith, and so on. As every individual is unique, their ways of coping ...

• Spirituality: In Crises, Consciousness, and Country 

  Şen, Deniz Ecem; Khatun, Sayema; Melatti, Kyle (2021-04-10)

• Trinitarian Influences upon Christian Interreligious Discourse in a Globalizing World 

  Hawkins, Stephen L. (2021-04-10)

  In pluralistic societies, where neighbors come from a variety of cultural backgrounds, religious literacy among the populace is crucial. Connections must be made between people of differing faiths, and theological bridges ...

• Interreligious Engagement: Discourse, Rationality, and Race 

  Tarleton, Madison; Kasten, Andrew M.; Hawkins, Stephen (2021-04-10)

• An Exploration of Gavin Langmuir’s Theories of Rationality Using an Interdisciplinary Approach 

  Tarleton, Madison E. (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 ...

• Racial Sciences and Religion in Germany: From Unification to the Fall of Hitler, 1871-1945 

  Kasten, Andrew (2021-04-10)

  The question of religious tolerance and the underlying causes of intolerance are pertinent when considering events like the role of anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany. By looking at the study of ...

• No Place Is So Dear to My Childhood: Nostalgia, Evangelicalism, and the History of an American Hymn 

  Cantwell, Christopher D. (2021-04-10)

• Facebook is God: An Analysis of the Ideas of Pascal Boyer in the Information Age 

  Mitchell, Emma (2020-04-04)

  In his 2001 book Religion Explained, Pascal Boyer identifies that which gives spiritual beings importance in religion as not their perceived agency or power, but rather their possession of strategic information. Strategic ...

• The Memory of the Concentration Camp System in the two Germanies 

  Kasten, Andrew M. (2020-04-04)

  Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the concentration camp system established by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) remained on German soil, with many continuing to function in some capacity. ...

• Population Control, Climate Change, and Christian Ethics 

  Groth, Rachel (2020-04-04)

  This paper explores how population control is a harmful solution to the climate crisis. I seek to do this from a perspective of Catholic Environmental Ethics, while focusing on the ways in which the effects of climate ...

• Nonhierarchical Interdependence and the ‘Eternal Newness’ of the Church-Cosmos Ecosystem 

  Hawkins, Stephen (2020-04-04)

  Thomas Aquinas’s thirteenth-century hierarchical view of an ordered cosmos, resembling a pyramid, positions abiota at its base, followed by plants, and then animals – ranked by levels of sentience and reason – with humanity ...

• The Ecological Conscious of a Biblical Imagination: Noah’s Radicalism as a Model for Acknowledging and Responding to Human-Generated Climate Disaster 

  Liguori, Ryan; Koyama, Kristine (2020-04-04)

  Despite overwhelming scientific consensus and visible evidence, large groups identifying as part of the Christian community, continue to reject the reality of the human-created climate crisis. These groups use the Bible ...

• Empowering Women Through The Three R’s: Reading, Writing, and Religion Among Indonesian Islamic Women’s Group 

  Klein, William (2020-04-04)

  Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any single country in the world, currently numbered around 225 million (87.2% of the total population). The status of women among this religious community and among the country ...

• Iranian Women and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 

  Grobben, Thomas (2020-04-04)

  The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was a pivotal event that changed the fabric of Iranian society and the history of the entire Middle East. Despite their far-reaching influence during the revolution, women are often misrepresented ...

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