Religion

Being is Becoming: An Ethnography of Unitarian Universalist Conversion

Alyssa Michelle Bogdanow — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:21:53 PDT

We All Deserve To Die: Uncovering the Warped Christological Model in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd

Christopher James Ceccolini — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:05:05 PDT

Constructing Colonial Binaries: French Representations of Religion in Algeria and Morocco

Rhee Soo Lee — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:03:09 PDT

Arming God: Demons, Myth and Text in Spiritual Warfare Christianity

Nicholas Allen Bickford Marshall — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:45 PDT

This thesis examines an assemblage of texts in modern charismatic Christianity to reconstruct their engagement with demons and mythic world. It situates this discourse in terms of hermeneutic, evangelism, alterity and apocalypse.

Chasing Consecration: Mormons and Modernity

Zachary Isaac Levine — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:03 PDT

What are Mormons talking about when they talk about Consecration?

"The Contradiction at the Heart of the World": Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Detonation of Denotation

Brendan Thomas Conuel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:56 PDT

This investigation represents what one could call an exercise in postmodern reader-response criticism. In it, I address the stylistic mechanisms by which contradictions inherent in the character of Jesus within Nietzsche's text invoke in the reader a psychological state analogous to the one Nietzsche attributes to Jesus. This trajectory is examined as a possible device towards a non-reactive means of combating ressentiment. Implications of how language figures into such a systemically aconceptual endeavor are discussed.

Fluid Figurations: Images of the Divine in the Testimonies of Gertrude of Helfta, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila

Clare Nevin Trissel — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:43 PDT

Misunderstanding Religion: A Critique of the New Atheists

Lightning Peter Jay — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:32:52 PDT

Since 2005 atheism has take hold of the public eye in a new way. Ardent atheists like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett have written books like The God Delusion and God is Not Great that directly challenge the place of religion in our society. Branded the "New Atheists," these men have publicly fought religion. This thesis looks at the antagonistic nature of their arguments, and attempts to demonstrate the inherent shortcomings of those arguments. Hopefully, understanding the limitations of the New Atheists can help us find a better, more productive way to live without belief.

Toward the "One New Human": Undoing the Racial-Religious Bipolarirty of American Evangelicalism

Jason Craige Harris — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:31:55 PDT

At the Frontlines of God's Army: BattleCry as a Microcosm of Modern Evangelical Culture

Lillian Matson Dagdigian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:56:19 PDT

Chulent: Post-Hasidic Explorations and Jewish Modernities

Jonah Sampson Boyarin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:55:40 PDT

Missionary Lizards: Dinosaurs in American Evangelicalism

Eliza Hope Ford — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:53:50 PDT