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Palaung Lives: Navigating Questions of Identity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2008)This paper seeks to address the relation between cultural identity and religion for the Palaung living in Northern Thailand. The Palaung are newcomers to Thailand. who began arriving in the mid-l980s as refugees from the ... -
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 ... -
"Born Shinto, Die Buddhist. " An Analysis of Modern Religion in Japan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2007)For hundreds of years, Shinto was the state religion of Japan. But after the Axis Powers were defeated in 1945, Shinto sort of phased itself out. It was not that there was an animosity towards the belief system itself, it ... -
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 ...