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Diffused Religion : The Religiosity of BABYMETAL
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022-11-01)The world of metal music was at an interesting point in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but that is not to say it was dying or lacking in volume. Simply put, these years marked the creation of a band that would push forward ... -
Vessels of the Gods : Women’s Bodies, Sexuality, and Suffering within Greco-Roman Prophecy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022-11-01)With theology, religion, and belief, prophecy is often present at the forefront. Yet, often in sociological, religious, and historical studies of women’s divination, the focus is not on the women themselves, but rather on ... -
The Northern Ireland Conflict : Troubles to Peace Depicted in Political and Religious Murals
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022-11-01)In section one, I discuss the importance of murals during The Troubles. The Troubles were a thirty year, violent conflict between Nationalists/Republicans (Catholics), the Loyalists/Unionists (Protestants) and the British ... -
From the Streets to Plasma Screens, An Analysis of The Man in the High Castle’s Depiction of “Honorable” Kempeitai
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022-11-01)The Man in the High Castle portrays the Kempeitai in a fashion that hinges upon unity and static characterization, reducing the individuals of the military unit to mindless, obedient drones who follow their commanding ... -
Is Christianity Racist? : A Historical Analysis of Politics and Religion
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021-11-01)The author explores the role of white Christian nationalism through history and politics. -
Docile Bodies, Model Citizens : The Role of Religious Reformers in Nineteenth Century Prison Reform
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021-12-01)Throughout this SIP, I will analyze the role of religion in the construction and management of prisons in the nineteenth century. The first chapter will explore the birth of the penitentiary in America, providing historical ... -
Jazz Funerals in a Pandemic : A Celebratory-Mortuary Ritual Of New Orleans
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021-12-01)The insurmountable loss and death caused by the pandemic and experienced by the Black communities of New Orleans created unique obstacles on how to properly funeralize a loved one. The people of New Orleans were able to ... -
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 ... -
The Boy Who Never Died
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021-03-01)The author introduces the collection of poems with an essay that describes the structure, themes, and theological basis for the work: “In this piece, I thought it would be rather fascinating to grant Lucifer the opportunity ... -
Catholicism’s Role in Mexican Immigrants Journey to the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-12-01)The goal of the essay was to understand the hardship an immigrant faces when leaving their country. It is a life-changing decision with many risks involved. Religion was and still is a token of hope for most immigrants. ... -
Jerusalem of the Midwest : An Ethnography on Jewish Summer Camp
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-11-01)My senior individualized project is an embodied ethnography of camp counselors at OSRUI (Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute), a Reform Jewish summer camp in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. OSRUI (formerly “Union Institute”) was established ... -
Fandom : a Third Space for Self-Expression and Community
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-11-01)In this paper, I will describe how fandoms serve as third spaces that exist outside of academic and religious spaces. These spaces simultaneously provide participants with similar resources and benefits that more traditional ... -
Big Data, State Surveillance, and Securitization : Problematizing the LGBT Data Inclusion Act
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)This paper concerns the 2017 LGBT Data Inclusion Act, a proposed piece of legislation that would mandate the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data on all federal surveys which collect other demographic ... -
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 ... -
Harmonology : The Study of Harmony and The Apex of Eternity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)Harmonology is a religion that exists and, by all known accounts, has existed for eternity, regardless of size or form because, embedded within all histories both present and future, including oral, literary, metaliterary, ... -
Rejecting Modernity in the Study of Muslim Women's Piety and Agency
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)My senior individualized project proposes that secularism, liberalism, and religious freedom negatively influences Western perceptions of Muslim women's agency while performing pious devotional practices. It suggests that ... -
Different Creationist Perspectives of Evolutionary Science in Conjunction with the Agency of God
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)Creationism is the concept that there is a God, specifically the Christian one, who created the universe, Earth, and life on Earth. While this might sound like a rather straightforward answer to what creationism is, this ... -
Creating Capaciousness in Islamic Law : An Examination of Abrogation & Consensus
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019-09-01)To Amidi and Ghazali, the real object of an abrogation is, of course, a rule of law or other type of divine categorization of a human act, not a text. But since, according to the majority view, only rules contained within ... -
Culture and Commodity : The Ascendance of Yoga in the Western World
(2020-01-01)Americanized yoga has been fabricated and molded by and for Americans, and is executed in a manner that continues to exclude certain social groups that have been historically ostracized. Due to the legacy of colonialism, ... -
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. ...
