Browsing Religion Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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Skinny Jeans in the Sanctuary: Malleable and Solidified Boundaries in the "Hipster Christian" Subculture
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)This is a project concerned with the creation of boundaries within subcultures. Subcultures, even the ones which eschew traditional markers of borders, must navigate the ways in which a group marks in and out status. In ... -
So . . . I Just Wrote
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2004)This project began as an assignment for the completion and requirement for my undergraduate degree from Kalamazoo College. The assignment was to simply write and compose a collection of sermons. As with most long projects ... -
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 ... -
Spirituality : Connecting to the Spiritual World in Sacred and Secular Spaces
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The author uses the methodology of Kathy Charmaz, known as grounded theory to explore some of the main features that enhance or detract from spiritual moments. In order to do this, I had to design a project that would cover ... -
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 ... -
St. James the Greater and Pilgrimage: The History of El Camino de Santiago
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)Pilgrimage is fascinating ritual. While it is known that pilgrims want to physically touch the relic, as well as have some spiritual enlightenment along the way to touch the relic, even these are not absolute. Not everyone ... -
Striving to Survive: Discourses of Sexual Assault in Christian Communities
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A Study Into the Breakdown of Coalition Formation in Israel's First Knesset
(1977)The state of Israel, at this writing, has existed for twenty-nine years. In those twenty-nine years the ruling government coalition has fallen eighteen times. (Arian, 1975, 31) Three times, the fall has been so complete ... -
A Study of Kibbutz Living: Experiencing Jewish Community and Analyzing Jewish Identity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1979)This study examines the modern striving of the Jewish people in the new State of Israel. It was my privilege to be accepted for a work-study program (Ulpan) at Kibbutz Merchavia for the time period between July 1978-November ... -
Sylvia Browne in the new Age Context
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2001)Rather than attempt to inquire about and discuss the vast elements of the New Age Movement by going through a variety of writers, I have chosen to approach it through the life and activities of the famous psychic, Sylvia ... -
The Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich and His Doctrine of the Church
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1986)The main purpose of this paper is to examine Paul Tillich's doctrine of the church. However, understanding his doctrine of the church is not possible without first understanding his systematic theology as a whole and his ... -
The Teacher of Righteousness: Modern Scholarship and the Unique Teacher of the Dead Sea Scrolls
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2001)In this paper the Teacher of Righteousness, a figure found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, will be reviewed and analyzed. Unfortunately, information surrounding this figure is few and far between. Little biographical information ... -
Teaching the Forbidden Fruit : The Role of Religion in the Development of Sex Education
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011)The author analyzes the religious backgrounds of the two major approaches to sex education in the United States : the liberal Christian roots of the comprehensive sex education programs of the 1960s and 1970s supported by ... -
That Word is Liberty: The Genesis of the Matilada Joslyn Gage Foundation
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The Theology of Paul Tillich in Relation to Contemporary Church Architecture
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1966-01)To show how the theology of Paul Tillich relates to modern church architecture, this paper will be divided into four main sections. In the first, theology and culture will be discussed. Religion, as Tillich refers to ... -
The Theology of St. Paul
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1985)The purpose of this project is to try to better understand the theology of St. Paul, a theology that stems from the question, "What does the Christ event mean for humanity?" It should be noted that for the purposes of ... -
Three Contemporary Positions on the Christian Attitude toward Non-Christian Religions
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1968)For all practical purposes the majority of this paper concerns an examination rather than an evaluation of three well-known authors. My reaction appears hopefully only in the third section, but I would add that my conclusions ... -
Tibetan Buddhism in the West: The Dorje Shugden Controversy and the New Kadampa Tradition
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)This paper is about that area of Tibetan Buddhism that does not get covered as often in the media. To a large degree, it remains untouched in academia. It is also about the west's reaction a controversy within Tibetan ... -
Tourism in Nepal: Engagements with Constructions and Meaning Foreignness
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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) ...