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Zionism, Liberation and Religion: Gush Emunim and the Palestinian Theology of Liberation
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)This paper examines two religious groups intimately involved with today’s conflict in Israel and Palestine. It compares the messianic fundamentalism of Gush Emunim, a fringe group of Israeli Jews responsible for settling ... -
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 ... -
The Experience of Loving Kindness: The Ultimate Concern in Thai Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." As a religion ... -
Traditions of Certainty: The Orthodox Church as the Preserver of Truth
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)Using the works of many authors far wiser than I, we will examine the role the Greek Orthodox Church plays in religion. We will form a preliminary ethic of the Greek Orthodox Church (hereon Orthodox, unless otherwise noted) ... -
Navigating the Vessel: Meso-and South American Sacrificial Beliefs and Practices
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2006)Human sacrifice, according to Eliade, was performed by groups of people in almost all areas of the globe at some point in human history, and yet, the field of sacrifice has been crossed by too few modern scholars and exposed ...