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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 ... -
Religious Change Among the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge Reservation
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2002)The focus of my SIP at the start was the influence of the boarding schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation. As I was able to get out into the community more often and experience Oglala life as it is now through the Sun Dance, ... -
Boys, Makeup and Christ: How Faith Fits Into the Lives of Adolescent Females
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2003)While working with the middle school students at my church, I began to understand what a difficult period the ages of eleven through fourteen were for adolescents. Then if ou throw faith and church in with developing ... -
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 Buddhist-Christian Interfaith Dialogue: From Roots to New Heights
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)The goal of this paper is to document the movement of the interfaith dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. First, I will look at a history of the dialogue, including reasons why it has taken place, where it has taken ... -
Creating the Conversation: The Dialogue Between Theology and Aesthetics
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2001)The theologian and the artist share many of the same tasks. Both penetrate the surface of everyday life, seeking meaning beyond the mundane, to answer the great existential questions of life. Both seek truth, beauty, and ... -
Speaking Wakan: Ceremonies in Past, Protest, and Page
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)Lakota, Oceti Sakowin, Sioux, Indian; regardless of their appellation, this tribe of American Indians roamed and ruled the Great Plains for centuries immediately following , their first contact with French traders, and ... -
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 ... -
Spirituality in Medicine: A Study on Writing the Autobiography to Promote Emotional Healing for Cancer Patients
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)Modern day methods of medical practice and patient care show an incredible advance in technology and success since even one hundred years ago. With the coming of the Age of Enlightenment and an increasing amount of followers ... -
The People: Stories of Faith and Hope in Revolutionary Nicaragua
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2005)The Sandinista Revolution captured my imagination. Here was a revolution where Christian faith played a key role in the decisions and actions of countless militants and citizens. It is a story about people, about individuals. ...