• “Everybody Knows ‘She is Mataji:’” The Relationships of Jain Sadhvis as Instruments of Empowerment and Identity Formation 

  McConnell, K.C. (2016)

  Both within and outside of South Asia, sadhvis are revered by Jain laypeople as paragons of the religion’s ascetic imperative. Yet while some might conceive of these renunciant women as unaffected by the nexus of relationships ...
• “The Greatest Woman in History since the Mother of God”: Global Catholic Community in Contemporary Efforts to Canonize Isabel of Castile 

  Grace, Kat (2016)

  This paper emerges from a lacuna in the historiography of Isabel of Castile. Numerous studies explore the rituals, art works, and language employed by Isabel’s medieval supporters, by the Queen’s imperial grandson, by ...
• Exploring How Diet and Nutrition Redefine Notions of Black Identity, Health, and Gender in the Nation of Islam 

  Yellets, Jonathan Alexander (2016)

  In this thesis, I explore how the Nation of Islam’s dietary regulations are used as an instrument that is intended to reinforce Black gender roles, strengthen camaraderie in a separatist framework, revitalize Black bodies, ...
• I Am Who They Want Me to Be: The Extent Portrayals of Moses in Film Document the Fragmentation of Institutionalized Religion in the United States 

  Santay, Erick (2016)

  Over the past few years biblical films have seemingly increased following the release of the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Since then, topics ranging from the life of Christ to the life of Noah have gone to the box ...
• A Winter Count Documents Changes in Identity 

  Armendariz, Julianne (2016)

  The Lakota are an American Indian tribe in South Dakota. Throughout history, the Lakota have faced many changes with the onset of settler colonialism. The Lakota have had to face many changes to their lifestyle, and in ...
• “Here is a people that dwells alone, and that does not consider itself among the nations”: Balaam ben Beor and the National Boundaries of Ancient Israel 

  Steinberg, Jeremy (2016)

  Contrary to the claims of religious fundamentalists, the Torah is not a single, consistent work of sacred literature, handed by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Instead, it is a composite text, representing a collection of ...
• On the River, On the Road: Lower Mississippi Peddlers and their Judaism, 1820-1865 

  Eckstein, Laura Newman (2016)

  Scholars who study the Jews of the Southern United States often struggle to understand how Jewish identity affected the way in which Jews presented themselves, the way in which outsiders viewed them, and the extent to which ...
• Negotiating Hindu Identities in the United States: Diaspora, Geography, and Sacred Authenticity 

  Marqusee, Anthony (2016)

  Given the central importance of sacred geography in Hindu traditions, how is it possible for members of the Hindu diaspora to practice their religion “authentically” while abroad? To address this question, my thesis examines ...
• Cancer and Faith: The Intertwining of Narratives in Episcopal Perspectives 

  Caggiano, Dominique (2015)

  Illness narratives can be understood as the language that emerges from the experiences of the body. Many studies have explored these fascinating narratives in which individuals afflicted by illness seek to make sense of ...
• "I am a wall and my breasts are towers": Female Resistance to Patriarchal Oppression in the Song of Songs 

  Nojechowicz, Maya (2015)

  Feminist theorists Alicia Ostriker and Phyllis Trible argue that as a nonpatriarchal text free of gendered hierarchy and sexual stereotyping, the Song of Songs is the most prominent example of countertext in the Hebrew ...
• Reading The Fire Next Time and The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Religion and Multicultural Education in the High School Classroom 

  Sweeney, Abigail (2015)

  In the following thesis, I present The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin as educational texts that productively open space for student exploration of ...
• Using My Religion: The Use of Religion as a Legal Tool in the 19th Century Debate on Plural Marriage 

  Levine, Madison (2015)

  This thesis aims to add to the existing academic conversation on the juncture between law and religion. In this thesis, I unpack the myriad ways in which religious rhetoric was used to defend and instigate legal positions ...
• Reading Rumi: The Collapse of the Real, the Imaginal, and the Literary in Jalal al-Din Rumi's Masnavi i-Ma'navi 

  Palmer, Lindsey (2015)

  Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known by most Western readers by the name Rumi, was a mystical poet who wrote two major works, the Masnavi i-Ma’navi (“Rhyming Couplets of Profound Spiritual Meaning”; also called ...
• Uncovering Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in al-Ghazali’s Etiquette of Marriage 

  Love, Alexandra (2015)

  This thesis seeks to understand the constructions of gender and sexuality fundamentally a part of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s analysis of the virtue of marriage, as translated by Madelin Farah in Marriage and Sexuality in Islam: ...
• Running Down a Dream: The Islamic Empire of Sultan Suleyman I the Lawgiver 

  Katsos, John E. (2007)
• A study of conversion efforts in Achebe's Things Fall Apart 

  Gumbs, DeLaina Juliette (2000)
• "Because of the Care I Must Give My Body": St. Basil of Caesarea's Fight for the Destigmatization of Illness and the Incorporation of Healing into Christian Charity 

  Sztein, Dina (2007)
• The Witness in the Martyr's Mirror: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Myth and Christian Duty in 'Amish Forgiveness' 

  Pirtle-McVeigh, Ryan (2007)
• Three Techniques to Relieve Anxiety: Relationship Self-Help Books in Contemporary America 

  Hartz, Andrew (2007)
• Deconstructing Primitivisions: Appropriations of Black Religiosity and the Subversive Aesthetics of Juxtaposition in Georges Bataille's Documents 

  Dreskin, Jeanne (2007)

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