HORNET HIVE
ATHLETICS
SITEMAP
WEBMAIL
Browsing Religion Senior Integrated Projects by Title
Now showing items 115-134 of 180
-
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 ... -
The Parables as a Means of Communication
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1980)This paper will discuss the communicating aspect of the parables -- why they so effectively communicate, and what it is they communicate. The paper will begin with a survey of parable interpretation, because the parable ... -
Pascal's Theology as Seen in the "Pensees" and the "Provincial Letters"
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1971) -
Peace House : Lived Religion and Social Activism in Kalamazoo
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)The author reviews the history of the Catholic Worker Movement and Quakerism and then reports on the day to day work of Peace House, an intentional community providing outreach services to the Edison neighborhood of Kalamazoo. -
The People of Peoples Temple
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)The three-decade-long history of the new religious movement known as Peoples Temple has essentially been reduced to one day: November 18, 1978. The headlines in both Time and Newsweek pegged the Temple as the “Cult of ... -
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. ... -
Performer, Prophet, Priestess: Women, Spirituality, and the Dance of Martha Graham
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1997) -
Persephone: Religion as a Successful Tool of Hellenic Colonization
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)Persephone is an example of how religion facilitated the integration of natives into Greek society. Her personality and story were easily recognized. She was the goddesses of agriculture, which was the main source of ... -
The Phenomenology of Oppression : The Experience of Evil in Contemporary Goddess Religion
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1996)The author explores the definition of evil in contemporary Goddess religion. Using the analysis of evil in Paul Ricoeur's book, The Symbolism of Evil, as three discrete experiences in Christianity--defilement, sin, and ... -
The Pilgrim's Way: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)I read that the pilgrimage used to be a religious journey, but now it is known more for spiritual purposes. With all this on mind and still in search for a SIP topic, it all came together; I came to the conclusion that ... -
Possessed of Seven Devils: Images of the Magdalene in the New Testament, The Apocrypha, and Gnosticism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1991)We have now seen how a minor biblical figure, that of Mary Magdalene, has been vastly reinterpreted by no less than four major religious traditions, all associated with the Western Church. There is the popular Mary Magdalene, ... -
Poverty Sucks : Lessons from Students Working with Poor People's Organizations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1996)Part I reviews the political and economic issues that have shaped poverty and homelessness. Part II focuses on the efforts of community organizations such as Empty the Shelters where the author worked. -
A Preliminary Report on the Status of Women at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1996)This project to uncover the status of women at Kalamazoo College was a very difficult project to undertake due to the fact that no one had previously attempted it. The very fact that no one had previously conducted such ... -
Queer Love in the Bible
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Despite the use of the Bible as an exclusionary text in the past, proactive queer interpretations of the text of the Book of Ruth and the Books of Samuel can allow for increased inclusion and representation for queer ... -
Reading Religion in the 19th Century: Kalamazoo College and Baptist Missions
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)In 1851 the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary stated in their yearly course catalogue that, “It is the design of its [the Seminary’s] founders to promote the cause of sound learning, to assist in training up an efficient and ... -
The Reality of the Sacred in the Understanding of Mircea Eliade and Teilhard de Chardin
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1970)lt is the purpose of th1s paper to discuss and compare the answers each of these men has found for the predicament of modern man and to examine to what extent each has truly encompassed the heart of Christianity. -
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 ... -
Religion and Rhetoric: Development and Delivery of Compelling Sermons
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2009)Preaching is the process by which a designated member of a religious community earnestly advocates a specific religious doctrine, spiritual message or position to the rest of the community. It can be anything said openly ... -
Religion SIPs, 1996-2010
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010)This is a list of Senior Individualized Projects completed by religion majors at Kalamazoo College from 1996 to 2010.
