Dogma and Dread: How Religion Becomes Reality
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Authors
Jackson, Christopher M.
Issue Date
2004
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
This project has been the culmination of most of my interests over my
entire time at Kalamazoo College. Sophomore year, for Carol Anderson's
Ritual Theory and Practice, I wrote a paper as a final project getting in
to some parts of the physiological foundations of religious experience,
especially in ecstatic practices. This paper was originally going to
simply expand upon that theme and give it more depth, but as the project
went on, I found more and more things that I thought would be interesting
to include. My Junior year, I took Cultural Psychology with Gary Gregg and
came across the work of Felicitas Goodman and Janice Boddy for the first
time. I also wrote a paper on the Kwakiutl for Dr. Anderson's Native
American Religions class that was helpful in recalling information for the
section on them in here. I focused on the theory side and addressed something I had not given
much thought to before: how religions act in people's understanding of the
world, and just how deeply one's religious convictions can be in how they
understand themselves and their place in the world. That was the key topic
that the final form of this paper addressed, and I hope I did it justice in
these 55 pages.
Description
v, 48 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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