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Hate Studies Through A Constructivist And Critical Pedagogical Approach, James M. Mohr Jan 2007

Hate Studies Through A Constructivist And Critical Pedagogical Approach, James M. Mohr

Journal of Hate Studies

Most of us are probably familiar with the child’s lament made during dinner: “I hate vegetables.” If you are a teacher, you may have heard students announce with conviction, “I hate homework.” It seems that everyone hates someone, something, or some action; so what value is there in a field of hate studies? Hate, when discussed as a strong feeling toward something one dislikes, appears simply as an emotion that does not deserve the special recognition of having an entire field committed to its research. However, this narrow focus on this one aspect of hate leaves ignored them very real …

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Tantra: An Analysis, Damien L. Mcdonald Jan 2007

Tantra: An Analysis, Damien L. Mcdonald

All Volumes (2001-2008)

The tradition of Tantra, which is often without clear classification amongst scholars, does not have a single definition that thoroughly or accurately describes it. Because of the multifaceted nature of Tantric teachings, which include multiple goals and methods of practice, the task of defining Tantra is arduous at best. Without an agreed upon definition amongst scholars, Tantra can broadly be viewed as a connection to and simultaneous divergence from Vedic and Brahmanical teachings. This classification can be illustrated through an analysis of the Vedic and Tantric pantheon and rituals performed by each group’s practitioners. Additionally, an analysis of accounts by …

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Experience, Purpose, Pedagogy, And Theory: Ritual Activities In The Classroom, Mark I. Wallace Jan 2007

Experience, Purpose, Pedagogy, And Theory: Ritual Activities In The Classroom, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

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Love Of God And Unity Of Wisdom In Plato And Leibniz, Tinu Ruparell Jan 2007

Love Of God And Unity Of Wisdom In Plato And Leibniz, Tinu Ruparell

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In what follows I wish to consider the following question, the relevance of which should be fairly obvious for a discussion on the love of God: does love flow from wisdom or wisdom flow from love? The question is at the heart of much Christian reflection on the nature of the love of God and how it is to be known.

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A Woman's Kind Of Love: Female Longing In The Tamil Alvar Poetry, Archana Venkatesan Jan 2007

A Woman's Kind Of Love: Female Longing In The Tamil Alvar Poetry, Archana Venkatesan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In the eighth section of Andal's Nacciyar Tirumoli, a woman calls to the clouds and bids them to take a message of love to her delinquent lover, Vishnu, here figured as the lord of Venkatam. In the opening verse of the decad, she begins by plaintively questioning the clouds of her beloved's whereabouts only to end with a bitter complaint about her sullied womanhood -- pen-nirmai. Bracketed by her eager questions -- "has the lord of Venkatam come with you" -- and her bitter complaint -- "how does this bring him pride" -- is the landscape of her …

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Scholarship On Religion And Communities Of Faith, Gerald James Larson Jan 2007

Scholarship On Religion And Communities Of Faith, Gerald James Larson

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Due to a formatting error, part of this article was inadvertently omitted from its original appearance in the 2006 issue of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. The article is now published in its entirety.

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Forgiveness: Hindu And Western Perspectives, Alan Hunter Jan 2007

Forgiveness: Hindu And Western Perspectives, Alan Hunter

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

This paper compares Hindu and Christian beliefs on forgiveness: it argues that forgiveness is an important element within the Hindu religious world-view, even if less explicitly so than within the Christian tradition. Before the late 1980s, discussion of forgiveness in the West was for the most part confined to Christian communities, seldom reaching mainstream publications in other areas. The situation has now changed dramatically. Since the 1990s, scholars from different disciplines have written dozens of books and journal articles on forgiveness, which also featured in numerous popular essays, exhibitions, websites, and other media. There are four major areas for forgiveness …

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The Methodic Of Hindu-Christian Studies, Raimon Panikkar Jan 2007

The Methodic Of Hindu-Christian Studies, Raimon Panikkar

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

After more than half a century struggling to find my own identity just following the universal sapiential counsel of "knowing oneself", whereby the self is not just the individual, the new editor of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies has put to me the most difficult question to answer in words: "Where do I now stand?". Aware that there are no stupid questions but certainly silly answers, I take the risk of summarizing my perhaps too many writings on this topic in these few pages, as a tribute to the magnificent task of this Journal, which is a practical example that …

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Vulcan Historical Review 11 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2007

Vulcan Historical Review 11 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

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Suffering Many Things, Samuel Koranteng-Pipim Jan 2007

Suffering Many Things, Samuel Koranteng-Pipim

Perspective Digest

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The Parameters Of Social Justice And Natural Law Theory, Edwin Cook Jan 2007

The Parameters Of Social Justice And Natural Law Theory, Edwin Cook

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Genealogy Of Morals: Contemporary Empirical Accounts, Franklin Donald Worrell Jan 2007

The Genealogy Of Morals: Contemporary Empirical Accounts, Franklin Donald Worrell

LSU Master's Theses

In the late twentieth century, moral realists began to resurrect a type of argument that emerged during the Enlightenment. These realists appealed to moral progress as evidence for moral facts, and their arguments took the form of inferences to the best explanation. Recently, the argument style has emerged again. This time, the inference to the best explanation is being used by empirically-informed sentimentalists to argue that their theories can provide accounts of moral evolution that have greater explanatory and predictive power than the accounts offered by the moral realists. This thesis examines the arguments to the best explanation of such …

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Somatic Computationalism: Damasio's Clever Error, Christopher D. Pope Jan 2007

Somatic Computationalism: Damasio's Clever Error, Christopher D. Pope

LSU Master's Theses

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio wrote a book entitled DESCARTES’ ERROR (1994) in order to address popular misconceptions about the mind, particularly those which relate to Cartesian philosophy. One of the author’s major goals for the book is to argue that emotion contributes to reason, that emotion is in fact necessary for rational thought to occur. In order to link emotion to reason, Damasio proposes a theory of mind which explains several mental functions in terms of neurological representations. Consciousness, reason, instinct and emotion all occur because the brain forms representations of the subject’s body and of the world in which the …

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Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman Jan 2007

Geoaesthetics: New Orleans, Landscape, And Eros, Robert Frodeman

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The success of contemporary society in producing knowledge serves to highlight the breakdown between knowledge production and its use. New Orleans and Katrina offer one example of this breakdown. All the knowledge necessary for acting beforehand was available; the problem was not one of knowledge but of will. Geoaesthetics, appropriating the erotic nature of our relationship to the land, is offered as an inter- and transdisciplinary means for making disciplinary knowledge more pertinent.

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An Analysis Of Origen’S Charismatic Ideology In His Commentary On The Gospel Of John, Kimberly W. Logan-Hudson Jan 2007

An Analysis Of Origen’S Charismatic Ideology In His Commentary On The Gospel Of John, Kimberly W. Logan-Hudson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis aims to examine whether Origen projects a charismatic ideology within his Commentary on the Gospel of John. Five characteristics will be utilized during the process: (1) Charismatic authority is given directly from God and only God; (2) Those who have been chosen sought and maintain the position; (3) Individuals must recognize this authority along with others; (4) Those with charismatic authority must mediate God's word for others; (5) This authority may only belong to individuals within the one body of the church. In analyzing Books 1, 2, 6, and 10 along with these five characteristics, the thesis will …

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The Art Of Existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer And The American Existential Tradition, J'Aimã© L. Sanders Jan 2007

The Art Of Existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer And The American Existential Tradition, J'Aimã© L. Sanders

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of my research is to examine the philosophic influences on three literary works: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and Norman Mailer's An American Dream. Through an investigation of biographical, historical, cultural, and textual evidence, I will argue for the influence of several European philosophers---Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Martin Heidegger---on these authors and on the structures and messages of their works. I will discuss how the specific works I have selected not only reveal each author's apt understanding of the existential-philosophical crises facing the individual in the twentieth century, but also …

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The Proliferating Sacred: Secularization And Postmodernity, Donald Surrency Jan 2007

The Proliferating Sacred: Secularization And Postmodernity, Donald Surrency

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

When analyzing the role religion plays in contemporary American society, one is forced to address the notion of secularization. This is a term that broadly refers to the marginalization of religious influence in culture and society that began at the outset of the Enlightenment, sometime during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but, as Peter Berger argues, can actually be traced back to the times of the great Israelite prophets who emerged during the Axial Age (800-200 BCE). Throughout the available literature, proponents of the secularization thesis extend the marginalization of religious influence from the societal level to the level of …

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Religion And The Academy: Report On The Western Conference On British Studies Roundtable, Robert Ellison Jan 2007

Religion And The Academy: Report On The Western Conference On British Studies Roundtable, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

This article is a report of a roundtable I moderated at the 2006 meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies. It proposes some directions religious studies might take in the 21st century; it is also the first publication to mention of the British Pulpit Online, an emerging digital resource for the study of the sermon from 1688-1901.

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Form And Content : King Hu's Raining In The Mountain As Stylization And Allegory = 形式與內容 : 胡金銓《空山靈雨》的風格化及諷喻, Yun Tong, Thomas Luk Jan 2007

Form And Content : King Hu's Raining In The Mountain As Stylization And Allegory = 形式與內容 : 胡金銓《空山靈雨》的風格化及諷喻, Yun Tong, Thomas Luk

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Twentieth Century Approaches To Defining Religion: Clifford Geertz And The First Amendment, Barbara Barnett Jan 2007

Twentieth Century Approaches To Defining Religion: Clifford Geertz And The First Amendment, Barbara Barnett

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

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Waetjen's "The Gospel Of The Beloved Disciple: A Work In Two Editions" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson Jan 2007

Waetjen's "The Gospel Of The Beloved Disciple: A Work In Two Editions" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

567-02781-3. This new commentary seeks to make sense of the Fourth Gospel’s enigmas on the basis of analyzing its points of view from the perspective of its first edition and its final edition.

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Lioy's "The Search For Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality Between The Genesis And Johannine Prologues" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson Jan 2007

Lioy's "The Search For Ultimate Reality: Intertextuality Between The Genesis And Johannine Prologues" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

In a rare combination of interdisciplinary approaches, Lioy analyzes the prologues of Genesis and John in the light of the search for ultimate reality. Beginning with critiques of approaches to ultimate reality, Lioy engages his task in an "analytical, integrative, and thematic fashion."

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Kysar's "Voyages With John: Charting The Fourth Gospel" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson Jan 2007

Kysar's "Voyages With John: Charting The Fourth Gospel" - Book Review, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

In this new collection of sixteen essays, Kysar, arguably the leading analyst of secondary Johannine literature, treats the reader to some of his most incisive work.

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"George Fox University" In Founded By Friends: A Collection Of Essays On The Quaker Colleges In America, Paul N. Anderson Jan 2007

"George Fox University" In Founded By Friends: A Collection Of Essays On The Quaker Colleges In America, Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Excerpt: "George Fox University is owned by Northwest Yearly Meeting, which appoints all its trustees. Four-sevenths of these must be Friends, and this relationship keeps the institution close to its parent religious body. This being the case, a high degree of interaction exists between Northwest Yearly Meeting and the university, and this relationship is felt to be mutually beneficial. While the number of Friends students in the traditional undergraduate program has remained between 74 and 145 over the past three decades or more (making up between 4 and 15 percent of the traditional undergraduate population), aspects of Quaker identity are …

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Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones Jan 2007

Review: Biblical Faith And Other Religions: An Evangelical Assessment, Michael S. Jones

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Fitting Under The Marriage Canopy: Same-Sex Weddings As Rites Of Conformity In A Canadian Liberal Jewish Context, Shari Rochelle Lash Jan 2007

Fitting Under The Marriage Canopy: Same-Sex Weddings As Rites Of Conformity In A Canadian Liberal Jewish Context, Shari Rochelle Lash

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The topic of same-sex marriage continues to be a source of controversy, yet the publicly recognized commitments between lesbian and gay partners is an emerging reality in the twenty-first century, especially in North America. This thesis focuses on the ritual aspects of same sex marriage by exploring the ways in which weddings are adapted to accommodate the needs of a lesbian or gay couple, particularly within Judaism, a tradition in which the components of a wedding ceremony are historically and culturally significnat. Drawing from participant observation and fieldwork interviews with Jewish lesbians in Toronto, this work examines how wedding ceremonies …

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Jesus, The Great Shepherd-King, Dana M. Pike Jan 2007

Jesus, The Great Shepherd-King, Dana M. Pike

Faculty Publications

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters” (Psalm 23:1–2). So begins one of the most beloved psalms and best-known biblical passages mentioning a shepherd. Shepherd imagery is utilized in scripture to depict three important aspects of Jesus’s identity and mission: His roles as Savior, King, and Jehovah, the God of Israel. Of these three, His role as compassionate Savior, devoted to protecting and saving the flock of God, is the aspect of shepherd symbolism that typically comes to mind. Less well known, …

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Spectrum 2007, Saint Mary's College Of California Jan 2007

Spectrum 2007, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Undergraduate Spectrum

No abstract provided.

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African Religious Integration In Florida During The First Spanish Period, Christopher Beats Jan 2007

African Religious Integration In Florida During The First Spanish Period, Christopher Beats

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the unique conditions for African-descended slaves in St. Augustine, Florida, during the First Spanish Period. St. Augustine was an important garrison at a remote point in the Spanish Empire at the edge of a hostile frontier. As such, economics were less a priority than defense. Slaves, therefore, received different treatment here than in English colonies or even other Spanish colonies. Due to the threat of Protestantism, religious adherence was more important as a test of loyalty than ethnicity and slaves and freed-people were able to integrate better than in other Spanish holdings. In order …

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Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-Day Saints In Modern America. By Claudia L. Bushman, Armand L. Mauss Jan 2007

Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-Day Saints In Modern America. By Claudia L. Bushman, Armand L. Mauss

BYU Studies

Claudia L. Bushman. Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006

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