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There's An App For That: Headspace, Meditation, And The Shifting Religious Landscape Of A Digital World, Darcy Isobel Cyr Groves Jan 2020

There's An App For That: Headspace, Meditation, And The Shifting Religious Landscape Of A Digital World, Darcy Isobel Cyr Groves

Senior Projects Spring 2020

There’s An App For That: Headspace, Meditation, and the shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World is a senior project in Religious Studies that explores the conditions, both historical and clinical, which led to the popularity of the guided meditation app Headspace, and the cultural attitudes that surround mindfulness meditation in America.


Recognizing The Interdependent Self: The Perception Of The Production And Consumption Of Meat At Bard College, Avery Evelyn Brown-Cross Jan 2017

Recognizing The Interdependent Self: The Perception Of The Production And Consumption Of Meat At Bard College, Avery Evelyn Brown-Cross

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Siddhartha's Smile: Schopenhauer, Hesse, Nietzsche, Benjamin Dillon Schluter Jan 2015

Siddhartha's Smile: Schopenhauer, Hesse, Nietzsche, Benjamin Dillon Schluter

Senior Projects Fall 2015

In this project, I argue that Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha can be read as an attempted reconciliation the antithetical worldviews of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. The first two chapters show that the figures of Gotama and Siddhartha represent Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean worldviews, respectively. The third chapter analyzes the smile as a symbol used to reconcile Siddhartha and Gotama. In the fourth and final chapter, I investigate Hesse’s development of symbol of the smile in relation to his engagement with Chinese philosophy, specifically Taoism, a tradition of thought based on the ultimate reconciliation of apparent opposites.


Sangha And State: An Examination Of Sinhalese-Buddhist Nationalism In Post-Colonial Sri Lanka, Hannah Clare Durham Jan 2015

Sangha And State: An Examination Of Sinhalese-Buddhist Nationalism In Post-Colonial Sri Lanka, Hannah Clare Durham

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College


Endless Dishes: Encounters With The Transmission Of Zen-Buddhist Training From Japan To America, Alexandra Garlan White Jan 2015

Endless Dishes: Encounters With The Transmission Of Zen-Buddhist Training From Japan To America, Alexandra Garlan White

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Life In Samsara: Torment, Torture And Tolerance In Buddhist Hell, Maya Shari Maclaughlin Jan 2013

Life In Samsara: Torment, Torture And Tolerance In Buddhist Hell, Maya Shari Maclaughlin

Senior Projects Spring 2013

This project is about Buddhist hell. It discusses time, location and the community in hell through images and text.