Recent Senior Projects in Religion

2008

Amanda Gale Project Title:

Anna Henschel Project Title:

Arianna Reagan Project Title:

Emma Grace Skove-Epes Project Title:

Jeanne Ladd Project Title:

Jeffrey Sutton Project Title:

Jerusha Kellerhouse Project Title:

Kalia Feldman-Klein Project Title:

Madeleine Soborn Project Title:

Mozhdeh Zahedi Project Title:

Patrick Kindlon Project Title:

Porter Michael Project Title:

Tracy Potter-Fins Project Title:

Tyler Dusenbury Project Title:

William Tesdell Project Title:

William Wylie Project Title:

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2007

Aviva Tombrink Project Title: The Death of Khadija and her Effects on the Prophet of Islam

Brenna Chase Project Title: When East Meets West: American Interest in Religions of India

Briana Milligan Project Title: Salaryman Champloo: Traditions in Motion in Japan's Corporate Culture

Desiree T. Porter Project Title: Moral Profit: Refugee Resettlement as an Act of Holistic Humanitarianism

Erin Kinmont Project Title: "A Persistent Orientalism:" Authenticity, Acculturation, and Appropriation in the Discourse Over an American Buddhism

Jacqueline Reiko Teruya Project Title: The Baby in the Box: A Novel

Jamie Barret Riley Project Title: Dwelling Here: Reflections on Women, Spirit, Community, and the Meaning of Home

John Dawson Project Title: Pendulum Politics and Reform in the Thai Sangha

Meg Gatza Project Title: Engaging religious Pluralism: Pluralism and Secularism, their functions and relevance to students and society

Orrin Johnson Project Title: Songs of Bhusuku

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2006

Anna Leue Project Title: In Search of Wicca: understanding the development of canon in modern witchcraft

Johanna Klotz Project Title: Turn to Play with the Lord: Participation by Identification with and within Krsna Lilas

John Burrowes Project Title:

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2005

Amy Hillman-Siracusa Project Title: Shameless: Women Transcending a Traditional Representation of Mysticism

Heather Crimmins Project Title: Four Conversion Stories: An Ethnographic Analysis of Four Religious Conversions

Jaime Kauget Project Title: Monkey business: the fable of the monkey and the crocodile, as it appears in early Indian literature

Michael Millan Project Title: "And I Saw..." Ascending into the Presence of the Divine: Ma'aseh Merkabah in Judaism and Early Christianity

Mollie Andron Project Title: Women as Other: An Analysis of Women in Mishnaic Literature

Stephanie Bauman Project Title: Girl Meets Death: a theological memoir

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2004

Alexa Sara Lennard Project Title: The Blossoming of the Lotus: Tibetan Buddhism in the Physical Landscape of the Hudson Valley

Annabelle Irene Richardson Project Title: Spider Stories: nature Tales for Young Americans

Constantine Demetrios Comenos Project Title: Radicalized Theologian: Alan Watts, his relation to the Counter-Culture of the 1960s, and his contribution to Religious Pluralism

Dan Zinder Project Title: The Stuggle for a Green Religion: a history of Christian Ecotheology

Jason Schwartz Project Title: Fever and the Sacrifice: Investigations in the Daksa Narrative of the Santiparvan

K. C. Serota Project Title: Township Minarets and Ocean Views: Diversity and Development in the South African Muslim Community of Durban

Katrina Masback Project Title: Mutable Material: an exploration of new age system making

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2003

Daniel Prendergast Project Title: The Fascination of Soma

Douglas Brush Project Title: Out of the Books and Into the Village: Essays on Time Spent Sharing the Religious Lives of the People of Baan Phraan Muan, Thailand

J. P. Kingsbury Project Title: Self-effort and grace in the spiritual practices of the non-dual Saivism of Kashmir

Nathan Rutenbeck Project Title: The Boundaries of Heresy and the Implications of Holy War in the Albigensian Crusade

Paloma Fataar Project Title: Tibetan Lamas in the West: cultural Crossovers and Controversies

2004

Constantine Demetrios Comenos:

Radicalized Theologian: Alan Watts, his relation to the Counter-Culture of the 1960s, and his contribution to Religious Pluralism

Alexa Sara Lennard:

The Blossoming of the Lotus: Tibetan Buddhism in the Physical Landscape of the Hudson Valley

Katrina Masback:

Mutable Material: an exploration of new age system making

Annabelle Irene Richardson:

Spider Stories: nature Tales for Young Americans

Jason Schwartz:

Fever and the Sacrifice: Investigations in the Daksa Narrative of the Santiparvan

K. C. Serota:

Township Minarets and Ocean Views: Diversity and Development in the South African Muslim Community of Durban

Dan Zinder:

The Stuggle for a Green Religion: a history of Christian Ecotheology

2003

Douglas Brush:

Out of the Books and Into the Village: Essays on Time Spent Sharing the Religious Lives of the People of Baan Phraan Muan, Thailand

Paloma Fataar:

Tibetan Lamas in the West: cultural Crossovers and Controversies

J. P. Kingsbury:

Self-effort and grace in the spiritual practices of the non-dual Saivism of Kashmir

Daniel Prendergast:

The Fascination of Soma

Nathan Rutenbeck:

The Boundaries of Heresy and the Implications of Holy War in the Albigensian Crusade

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