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Rāvaṇa Reclaimed: The South Indian Dravidian Movement's Reclamation of Identity Through the Rāmāyaṇa (thesis)
The Rāmāyaṇa proves itself to be an inimitable and lasting artifact of cultural measurement. The variety of interpretations, filled with intertextual complexity and culturally-specific commentary as well as surrounding ... -
Reclaiming Responsibility: Theological Resources for Criminal Justice Reform (thesis)
The United States incarcerates more individuals than any other country in the world. The anthropological viewpoint that allows these injustices to persist sees incarcerated individuals as existentially different than ... -
Returning to "The Way": Reframing Authenticity to Embrace the Paradoxes of the Camino de Santiago
Countless scholars have contributed to our contemporary understanding of pilgrimage and the question of authenticity which it raises. This paper begins with a review of prominent secondary literature on pilgrimage, tourism, ... -
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity (thesis)
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 ... -
A Social Gospel of Antiquity: Examining Walter Rauschenbusch's Description of Early Christianity Through the Life and Works of Saint Basil of Caesarea
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 ...