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Fall 2011

Habkirk, Scott

This research examines how religious and supernatural beliefs have changed with the rapid modernization and increased standard of modern, scientific education in Tainan, Taiwan. Participants in my project were between the ages of 20-40, had at least some post secondary education, and were from...

Fall 2010

Buijs, Peter T

This thesis is a detailed examination of the relationship between historical faith and rational religion in Immanuel Kant's philosophy, especially as presented in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Due to recent contemporary philosophical debate about Kant's philosophy of religion,...

Spring 2011

Bakker, Colin

Charles Taylor writes that identity emerges from the reflection upon, and articulation of one’s lived experience. This account of identity precludes psychology from taking a natural science approach to the study of ‘identity’, or ‘the self’. Psychology has emerged within secular society, and...

Fall 2012

AlDigs,Siddiqah Kamil

This thesis examines the Thoughts of Buber, Augustine, and Ibn Khaldun on resolving interreligious tensions. It demonstrates their common ground in articulating morality as the basis for peace. This morality comes out of love of God, requires respect for all human beings, and has the potential to...

Spring 2021

Canlas, Gino Ruggiero L.

This study examines the roles of sacred spaces in Thessaly as agents in the formation, maintenance, and negotiation of group identities in Thessaly from the Archaic period until the beginning of the Roman Imperial Period in Greece. I demonstrate that the individuals who formed the communities of...

Fall 2009

Dunfield, Timothy

This thesis studies the benefits that a religious organization acquires from its identification of, and reaction to, “deviants” within it. If an organization is to continue growing while still maintaining a unique identity, periodically it must have deviant movements within it. Theoretically, I...