2020: The Intersectionality of Religion and Contemporary Issues
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Facebook is God: An Analysis of the Ideas of Pascal Boyer in the Information Age
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Sakyadhita Movement
(2020-04-04)The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap on the scholarship about the global movement to reinstate the higher ordination of women in Buddhism. More specifically, regarding the history of the Sakyadhita International ...
RSS 1.0