Using history and contemporary sociology, this paper seeks to understand the relationship of the Catholic Church and the public square in the present-day United States of America, critically examining the ways by which ...

In this project, I examine the common phenomenon of experiencing the spiritual within secular music. In particular, I focus upon the mystical minimalist music of contemporary Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. By exploring ...

The following paper is interested in the predisposition to profound boredom and its potential to arouse despair. In light of such, it explores three modes of being – perceiving, walking, and writing – to illustrate a ...

Walter Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel, criticized early Christianity's rejection of property, the “ascetic tendency,” as antithetical to social reconstruction. Two contributing factors to this antithesis ...

This paper analyzes various theories of asceticism and the body and assesses those theories in the context of two behaviors typically considered to have ascetic components: medieval female fasting and modem anorexia nervosa ...

The definition of the umma/(community) has evolved considerably over the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood. The evolution of this concept can be traced by following the ideological leadership of this organization from ...

Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in the early hours of August 29, 2005, causing the levees surrounding the city of New Orleans to rupture. As flood water rushed into the city, many people questioned the justice of God. ...

This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ...

The Life of Symeon is classified as Christian hagiography, capturing a saint's journey of practicing ascetism in both the desert and city. Leontius of Neapolis wrote this text with the main intent to edify his audience. ...

This paper seeks to investigate and provide renewed clarity to the ways Johann Gottfried Herder's (1744-1803) theory of nationalism is contested by using more modern theories of 'nation' and 'religion.' Using Benedict ...