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Leading The Way

Daniel J. Curran (2002-2016)

2010 President's Report

Reading, Writing, And Religion: Institutions And Human Capital Formation, Latika Chaudhary, Jared Rubin

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, although we find no similar result for Hindu literacy. We employ a theoretical model which suggests that districts which experienced a more recent collapse of Muslim political authority had more powerful and better funded religious authorities, who established religious schools which were less effective at promoting literacy on the margin than state schools. We …

Website: 2011 Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium 2011 Website

Contents:

Keynote Speaker

Schedule - Wednesday

Schedule - Thursday

Schedule - Friday

Poster Program

Associated Sessions

Abstracts

Honors Program

Independent Study Projects

Participating Departments/Programs

Why Altered States Are Not Enough: A Perspective From Buddhism, Igor Berkhin, Glenn Hartelius

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Transpersonal psychology has at times employed Buddhist terminology in ways that do not

reflect distinctions that underlie these tightly defined terms. From a Buddhist perspective,

attempts to equate Buddhist terms with language from other traditions are misdirected, and

produce results that no longer represent Buddhism. For example, it is an error to translate

certain Buddhist terms as referring to a shared universal consciousness; Buddhism explicitly

rejects this idea. Nor is it appropriate to assume that the generic, cross-traditional altered

state of nondual awareness postulated in some transpersonally-related circles is in any way

related to nirvana or other advanced states described …

On The Validity Of Pascal's Wager, Antony Aumann

Faculty Works

Recent scholarship has shown that the success of Pascal’s wager rests on precarious grounds. To avoid notorious problems, it must appeal to considerations such as what probability we assign to the existence of various gods and what religion we think provides the greatest happiness in this life. Rational judgments concerning these matters are subject to change over time. Some claim that the wager therefore cannot support a steadfast commitment to God. I argue that this conclusion does not follow. By drawing upon the line of reasoning employed in getting married, I explain how unstable considerations can provide a sufficient rational …

The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Consciousness, Mysticism And Psi, Les Lancaster

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The greatest contemporary challenge in the arena of cognitive neuroscience concerns the

relation between consciousness and the brain. Over recent years the focus of work in this

area has switched from the analysis of diverse spatial regions of the brain to that of the

timing of neural events. It appears that two conditions are necessary in order for neural

events to become correlated with conscious experience. First, the firing of assemblies of

neurones must achieve a degree of coherence, and, second, reflexive (i.e. top-down, or reentrant)

neural pathways must be activated. It does not, of course, follow that such neural …

2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalog, Sacred Heart University

Graduate & Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Whither Secular Bear: The Russian Orthodox Church’S Strengthening Influence On Russia's Domestic And Foreign Policy, Robert C. Blitt

Scholarly Works

As 2012 presidential elections in Russia draw near, evidence points to a collapse in that country’s constitutional obligation of secularism and state-church separation. Although early signs of this phenomenon can be traced back to the Yeltsin era, the Putin and Medvedev presidencies have dealt a fatal blow to secular state policy manifested both at home and abroad, as well as to Russia’s constitutional human rights principles including nondiscrimination and equality of religious beliefs.

The first part of this article argues that leadership changes in the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have triggered an unprecedented deepening of state-ROC …

Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer I - C Session] | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Academic Calendar | Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer Ii - D Session] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Academic Calendar | Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer I - C Session] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer I - C Session] | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

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New England Faculty And College Students Differ In Their Views About Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, And Religiosity, Guillermo Paz-Y-Miño C, Avelina Espinosa

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

Public acceptance of evolution in Northeastern U.S. is the highest nationwide, only 59%. Here, we compare perspectives about evolution, creationism, intelligent design (ID), and religiosity between highly educated New England faculty (n = 244; 90% Ph.D. holders in 40 disciplines at 35 colleges/universities) and college students from public secular (n = 161), private secular (n = 298), and religious (n = 185) institutions: 94/3% of the faculty vs. 64/14% of the students admitted to accepting evolution openly and/or privately, and 82/18% of the faculty vs. 58/42% of the students thought that evolution is definitely true or probably true, respectively. Only …

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2011-2012, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Undergraduate Course Catalog for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Academic Calendar | Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer I - C Session] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

No abstract provided.

Academic Calendar | Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011,Summer [Summer Ii - D Session] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

No abstract provided.

Academic Calendar | Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2011, Summer [Summer Ii - D Session] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

Calendars

No abstract provided.

The Debate On The Uselessness Of Western Studies, Susanna Fessler Phd

East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship

In 1902, Mori O¯ gai and Anesaki Cho¯fu¯ briefl y engaged in a public debate on the importance of study abroad and Western learning in general. Cho¯fu¯ was cautionary about Japan following foolishly in the steps of Germany; O¯ gai countered with the argument that the West (and Germany in particular) offered intellectual riches as long as the Japanese student chose his subjects carefully. Neither man “won” the debate, but their arguments reveal how German philosophy infl uenced modern Japan and how variably that philosophy was interpreted.

Rollins Magazine, Spring 2011, Rollins College Office Of Marketing And Communications

Rollins Magazine

Issue Title: "Brave New Academics"

Common Data Set, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Common data set

No abstract provided.

Winter 2011, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

How To Read A Book: Irenaeus And The Pastoral Epistles Reconsidered, Benjamin L. White

Publications

Both the title of Irenaeus’ Refutation and Overthrow of Falsely-Called Knowledge and the opening lines of the preface to Book One of this work feature language from 1 Timothy. This prominent positioning once garnered significant attention from scholars, who, building on a larger narrative of a second-century Pauline captivity to “the heretics,” argued that it was only with the pseudonymous Pastoral Epistles that a Paul emerged who could be useful for the proto-orthodox church (Irenaeus, in particular) in its fight against the “heretics.” More recently, however, the role of the Pastorals in Irenaeus has been downplayed by those who are …

The Unexamined Faiths And The Public Place Of Religion: Emerging Insights From The Law, I Benson

Law Papers and Journal Articles

The article examines certain key terms, such as “beliefs” and “faith” and how these are understood in relation to the public sphere. It examines some writings of recent popularist authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and is critical of the authors’ claims that they do not have faith or beliefs. Drawing on legal decisions in Canada and South Africa the article suggests that this sort of terminological looseness has legal and political implications when it comes to whether or not beliefs of all sorts (religious and non-religious) are treated fairly in the public sphere. Arguing for a more …

2010-2011 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Annual Report, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

A Re-Evaluation Of Early Christian Pilgramage The Letters Of Gregory Of Nyssa, Jerome, And Egeria, Emma Cawlfield

Theses & ETDs

How did the earliest Christian pilgrims conceive of their practice? This thesis analyzes the motivations and interests of three fourth-century CE Christian pilgrims through a close reading of their surviving letters. The first chapter discusses the limitations of contemporary scholarship on pilgrimage and elaborates on the difficulties in treating these early pilgrims as a cohesive group. The second and third chapters provide close readings of the letters of Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome, and Egeria, illuminating the diverse and sometimes contradictory ways in which these three pilgrims conceived of their journeys.� Although each author consistently expresses a concern over personal piety, …

Pachomius And The Nag Hammadi Codices, Charles Carter

Theses & ETDs

In this work, I have attempted to outline an alternate way of interpreting the Nag Hammadi texts, so that scholars no longer have to go into the texts looking for signs of �gnostic� influence. The gnostic assumptions of the past, in light of recent developments spearhead by Micheal Williams, no longer work as the primary principle by which we interpret the Nag Hammadi texts. Instead, I have taken the Pachomian monasteries as the grounding principle through which I place my interpretations into the reality of late antique Egypt, thanks in large part to the works of Rousseau and Goehring. From …

Saints And Geography, Margaret Cormack

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Western Notions Of Canon Is Buddhism Obscuring The Nature Of A Multiplex Scriptural Tradition, Rachel Mclean

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores the extent to which Western notions of canon can be applied to the Buddhist scriptural tradition. It seeks to resolve inconsistent portrayals of Buddhist scriptural collections rendered by Buddhist scholars in the West; these portrayals often use the technical term canon to frame the tradition's sacred texts in terms of Theravadin Pali, Chinese Mahayana, and Tibetan canons. Although canon has been employed by Buddhist scholars since the mid-19th century to frame depictions of Buddhist scripture, there has been little consideration within Buddhist Studies about using this term in a specifically Buddhist context. In my research, I explored …

God's Liberated People? Men And Women In The Metropolitan Community Church, Kathleen O'Neal

Theses & ETDs

The Metropolitan Community Church, as a liberal mainline Christian denomination that caters to the LGBT community, provides an open and safe space for people with non-normative sexual and gender identities to practice religion. However, Christianity has a history of being a patriarchal and heteronormative institution. As a progressive denomination, the MCC strives for gender equality, but still works within a religion built on rigid hierarchies. Twenty qualitative interviews were conducted with attendants of a MCC church to determine how queer men and women understand gender in their gay-affirming church. The aim was to determine what role gender plays in the …

Wooster Magazine: Winter 2011, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2011-2020

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the winter of 2011. Alumni news is featured on pages six to eight. A section from page ten to nineteen is on the fall exhibition at the College of Wooster Art Museum titled Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Painting. The following section is on alumni involved in global health care: Craig Lindsey '80, Angela Garcia '95, Jay Cox '54, and Susan McDowell '05. Andy Weaver '49 inspired four students to study spiders and those four students are now successful in their field. The history of the bronze Abe Lincoln statue that …