• The Study of Lived Religion Through Different Interpretations: An Ethnography on Perceptions of Singaporean Malay-Muslims' Islamic Prayer Ritual Practice 

  Gan, Julia (2020)

  There are differences between traditional Islamic textual interpretations and modern Singaporean state interpretations of the mandatory Islamic prayer ritual of wudu (ablution in preparation for prayer) and salat (the five ...
• Parochially Political: An Examination of The Political Nature of the Eucharist in the Thought of St. Augustine 

  King, David (2020)

  This thesis proposes to re-examine St. Augustine's political thought through an exploration of the political ramifications of the sacrament of the Eucharist, particularly as it is described in Augustine's "Sermon 227." In ...
• America's Pastor: Billy Graham, The Civil Rights Movement, and Religion in American Politics 

  Tortolani, Lucy (2020)

  Billy Graham is a fixture in American history, as both a religious force and as social figure; to many he is a household name. Graham's tremendous popularity from the 1950s through the early 2000s, as well as his ability ...
• Two Cowardly Ruffians Committed the Coldest-Blooded Murder in the History of the World: Constructing Criminality, Sexuality, and Jewish Masculinity in the Leopold and Loeb Case 

  Wise, Allison Riley (2020)

  In the summer of 1924, nineteen-year-olds Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb committed what would come to be called "the crime of the century" when they murdered fourteen-year-old Robert Franks on the outskirts of Chicago. ...
• Imagining Africa: Négritude and Primitivism in Corps perdu 

  Kerper, Alyssa (2020)

  My thesis explores the way Pablo Picasso and Aimé Césaire claim Africa as a source of inspiration in their jointly-published book Corps perdu , an illustrated volume of poetry released in Paris in 1950. I look at the way ...

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