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 ...

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 ...

American religious scholarship in the late 20th century identified a supposed cultural shift away from communal authority and towards individual interpretation when it came to religious identity. This thesis examines the ...

In this thesis, I analyze the claim that April DeConick makes in The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today that the New Age was inspired by ancient Gnosis. ...

The tradition of Sufi poetry has been analyzed extensively through the well known works of Rumi, Hafiz, Ibn ‘Arabi, Ibn Farid, Al- Ghazali, Farid al-Din ‘Attar, and Sa’adi—among many others. These well-known figures of ...

The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion, but nowhere in the religion clauses or even in the Constitution does a clear definition of ‘religion’ exist. This poses a problem to justices trying to determine ...

Faith-Based Community Organizations (FBCOs) are important and effective institutions working for progressive change in the United States. Many scholars have researched these groups’ outward successes and challenges while ...

The historic Obama campaign in 2008 hinged on whether prejudice and racism would prevent Obama from being able to successfully win the democratic nomination and the presidency. Because of Obama’s outsider status through ...

This project examines the proliferation and use of digital Bibles. To do so, I address the history of Bible text authority, digital text reading experience, the importance of literacy for digital Bible dissemination, digital ...

There has been a long tradition in Black American culture that documents the history of racial suffering. This tradition can be seen through the cultural markers of Blues music, Negro spirituals, religious culture, and ...