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A Liminal Hell Using the Work of Johann Weyer to Bridge the Gap Between Intellectualism and Belief
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-01-01)Johann Weyer's work in De Praestigiis Daemonum and its appendix is an important example of the complexities within the intellectual discourse about witchcraft and demonology in early-modern Europe. His educated and ... -
Lives That Are Lived with God: Fiction for a Religious Understanding
(1982)In our secular age the struggle for justice has been isolated from an acknowledgment of the presence of God. At the same time, thought about God has been disjoined from history. I do not think that these are ... -
The Lost Devil and Human Evil: The Divorce of the Devil from the Concept of Evil in the Modern World
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)This will not be a theodicy, theology of evil, or even a history of the Devil. Rather, I hope to trace the progression of the Devil, as the anthropomorphic personification of evil, through the Western Judeo-Christian ... -
Many Ways of Knowing God: Metaphor and Analogy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)At this point my range of questions focuses mainly on the meaningfulness of interpretation and meaning of the central Christian symbols. McFague and Tracy present two manners of interpreting that they believe explicate the ... -
Marie Laveau : Transgressing Powerful Gentility and Darkness
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Marie Laveau and voodoo have been such great influences to religion, the media, and people. All the religious believers and non-believers have created their own perceptions of Marie Laveau based on her relation to Christianity. ... -
Material Culture in the Borderland : A Focus on the "Miracle Room" at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Material culture in the lower Rio Grande Valley exists among the faithful devotees that attend Our Lady of San Juan del Valle who put their faith in a variety of religious objects to feel secure from the many social, ... -
Mending Transatlantic Ties: Rewriting Orientalism as a Catalyst for New Approaches to Arab and Muslim Feminist Theory and Solidarity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)Orientalism is a multi-dimensional analysis of Western systems of creating and producing knowledge of and for both the East and the West. Said's analysis of Orientalist epistemologies is foundational to the field of ... -
Metatron: Angelic Oposition to Humans in 3 Enoch
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)The primary texts used for this study are the original English translation of J. Enoch, done by Hugo Odenberg, and a later more complete translation by P. Alexander. Other texts were used to provide a background to the ... -
“The Milk of the Two Breasts of the Father” : Motherhood & Salvation in the Odes of Solomon
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Despite all of the arguments scholars have about the origins of the Odes of Solomon, this text is clearly linked to Christian values and theologies because of its focus on New Testament Biblical characters like Jesus, the ... -
A Ministry of Presence : Finding the Role of the Healthcare Chaplain in the Ministry of Jesus
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)The author interned at the Mary Washington Hospital and the Mary Washington Hospice in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she observed her mentors using four essential tools in their ministry of presence: taking initiative, ... -
Ministry to the Youth of Today's Inner Cities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1993)In doing my Senior Individualized Project, I endeavor to place some ideas and techniques that are very essential to inner city ministry, in writing. The goal is to take gathered information and put it with practical ... -
The Missionary Calling: Lessons from a Short-Term Missions Experience in China
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1999)My program was called the Tongliao, China Global Project 1998, one of several summer missions programs organized by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an interdenominational student movement. It was officially a ... -
Modernity, Colonialism, and Women in Islam
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011)In my research I will examine the political and economic facilities of the Middle East and the social opportunities and protective security of women in Muslim countries. I will address what economic facilities scholars ... -
Moral Development and Education in College Students
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1992)The intent of this project is to examine the increasingly vital role that college student personnel plays in the moral development of college students. A general discussion of the terminology used both in the profession ... -
Morality, Niebuhr, and The Soviet Union: A Window into the Conflicts, and Construction of Jimmy Carter's Morality
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)This essay will explore the moral construct of Jimmy Carter in a three-fold manner. First, looking at Jimmy Carter's interactions with his parents and community growing up in a small farming area, this section will explore ... -
Muslim Courting Practices in the United States: The Effects of American Culture on Islamic Tradition
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2001)This work seeks to highlight a specific aspect of Islamic life: Muslim relationships in the United States of America with regard to courting practices. Born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, a community rich with Muslim ... -
Mystical Empowerment: A Phenomenological Study of Five Women Spiritual Leaders
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1997) -
Mythmaking: A Study of Women and Religion in Sheri Tepper's The Awakeners and Grass and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Wild Seed
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1996)When I began working on this project I had no idea whether anything like it had ever been attempted before. I also did not realize how needed such a project is for women. I soon discovered that while the topic of religion ... -
The Nature of Religious Symbolism : Paul Tillich and His Critics
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1965)The author reviews Paul Tillich's concept of religious symbolism and then considers the opinions of two of Tillich's critics: Henry Nelson Wieman and George Henri Tavard. -
Navigating Religious Conversion to Hinduism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021-04-01)Of the many religions that exist in the world, Hinduism is one without a clear and distinct conversion process. As a convert to Hinduism from Lutheranism, I have found it necessary to tell the story of how I became Hindu ...
