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Intellectual (Dis)Formations: Notes From The Borders Of The Third Wave, Patricia J. Saunders

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

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Gardner-Webb’S Life Of The Scholar Presents Holocaust Survivor In Voices Of Terezin, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University’s LOTS (Life Of The Scholar) program presents a powerful mixed-media event called Voices Of Terezin, featuring Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger, on Monday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located in Hamrick Hall. This program is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception where attendees will have the opportunity for a meet and greet with Weissberger. Voices Of Terezin is an event centered on the art, poetry, and music that originated in the World War II concentration camp at Terezin in the Czech Republic.

Inter-Religious Contexts And Comparative Theology In The Thought Of Evelyn Underhill: Symbolic Narratives Of Mysticism And The Songs Of Kabīr, Michael Stoeber

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) regards mysticism as the core of religion. All religions include various dimensions: scripture/ mythology, doctrine/ philosophy, ethics/ law, social/institutional features, ritual, material aspects, and personal and communal experience. For Underhill, personal religious experience inspires and influences the development of these other aspects of religion—the heart of which is mysticism. Underhill asserts: “The mystics are the pioneers of the spiritual world” (4); “Mysticism is the art of union with Reality”.

Christians And Vedic Sacrifice: Comparing Communitarian Sacrificial Soteriologies, Christopher Denny

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Can there be a constructive Christian appropriation of understandings of religious sacrifice from another religious tradition? As far back as the first-century letter to the Hebrews, Christians defined the efficacy of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice over and against previous sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem, and in subsequent centuries have argued that Christ’s sacrifice is an unrepeatable historical act manifesting God’s favor to human beings. Unless Christian theologians are willing to take the path of liberal pluralism and concede that the sacrifice offered through Jesus of Nazareth is one species within a genus of soteriological possibilities, an epiphenomenon of an underlying …

Mysticism In Patañjali’S Yoga Sūtras And In Carl Jung’S Psychology, Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In this article we will examine the understandings of mysticism as offered by Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras I:41-51 and Carl Jung’s Western psychology. For our purposes, mysticism is not to be understood as something “misty,” vague or emotional (to list but three current misinterpretations). Rather, as understood by the great mystics of all religious traditions, mysticism is experienced as something like sensory perception – only more direct and more vivid! In Patañjali’s Yoga, for example, mysticism is a case of intuition or supersensuous perception (pratibhā) from which distorting emotions have been purged by disciplined meditation. While Western philosophers such as Bertrand …

Author’S Response: Cognitive Science, History-Centrism And The Future Of Hindu Studies, Rajiv Malhotra

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

I thank all three responders to my books for their careful and detailed consideration of my work. I will address the following concerns that they raise:

• their challenge to my claim that the dharmic traditions are more in tune with modern cognitive science than the Abrahamic ones are

• their challenge to my claim that history-centrism in the Abrahamic faiths is an important point of difference

• their claim that I ignore how historical forces influence dharma

• their claim against a coherent Hindu philosophy and unity

• Brian Pennington’s tension with the reality that the academy seeks to …

The Pitfalls Of Trying To Be Different, Brian K. Pennington

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

For more than a decade Rajiv Malhotra has been known to the study of South Asian religion as a vigorous critic of the practices and frameworks that academics have employed to represent India to the West. Those who know him from his no-holds-barred online articles or by his unflinching confrontation with established scholars at academic meetings may be pleased by the rather different tone of Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, Malhotra’s latest attempt to intervene in the academic study of the religious traditions of the South Asian subcontinent. Whereas Malhotra has achieved much of his renown through …

Volume Cxxxi, Number 9, November 15, 2013, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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A Study Of The Effectiveness Of Learning Communities At A Small Liberal Arts College, Paul Watkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the learning community program at a small liberal arts college on educational outcomes as measured by differences in semester GPA between learning community participants and non-participants, as well as differences between types of learning communities, time of participation in learning communities, and the effect of demographic variables and prior attainment (converted SAT scores). Data was provided by a small liberal arts college on 294 participants. The sample was composed of 152 students who participated in a learning community and 142 who did not participate in a learning community for …

Kenyon Collegian - November 14, 2013

The Kenyon Collegian

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Vol. 45, No. 10 (November 11, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2013-11-08, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2012-Present

The headline article "Band members question policy in wake of controversy" details the resignation and reinstatement of the drum major regarding his pushback against auditioning for the Scot Symphonic Band. "Swin team plans Hour of Power for cancer research" covers the logistics of the event, noting that the relay was on a two-year hiatus at the college. Another news article covers the disconnect between administration and students regarding sustanibility on campus. The Features section covers a gardening class by professor Matt Mariola, LGBT+ representation on campus, a course that creates a better understanding of labor on campus, and a local …

Montana Kaimin, November 8, 2013, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Associate Professor Of Religious Studies, Musselman Library, Megan Adamson Sijapati

Next Page

In this new Next Page offering, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Megan Adamson Sijapati divulges her old school methods of keeping track of what to read next, as well as which book recently replaced Steinbeck's East of Eden as her go-to book for giving as a gift.

The Santa Clara, 2013-11-07, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, November 7, 2013, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Kenyon Collegian - November 7, 2013

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

November 6, 2013 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Utah Statesman, November 5, 2013, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Spirituality In The Last Days Of Life In Persons Born In Japan, Gloria Duke

The Qualitative Report

End - of - life care is encumbered with many complex issues that can impede quality of life, especially in populations for which little is known. This study addresses spirituality and preferences for last days of life in persons born in Japan and living in eastern and south central Texas. Descriptive, qualitative methods were used for data collection and data analysis. Two major themes emerged for spirituality: Spirituality as Culture and Universality of Spirituality, and three major themes reflected preferences for the last days of life: Environmental Peace and Comfort, Interconnectedness, and Communication is Key. Nurses and health care providers …

Beware Of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics And Literature, Roger K. Green

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using the discourse of Political Theology as a mode of enquiry we can overcome a longstanding tension between aesthetics and history that characterized much of twentieth century thought. Focusing on literary and occasionally musical works from the mid twentieth century, my aim is to show how works displaying psychedelic aesthetics are important venues for political deliberation with regard to citizenship. Through affective means, psychedelic aesthetics reimagine the boundaries of liberal subjectivity through a consciousness expansion and return from that expansion. The subject who returns from a psychedelic “experience” – which can be attained in various ways – comes to ethically …

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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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End Matter

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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What Has Moroni To Do With John?

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Front Matter, Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Volume 20, Number 2 (Fall 2013), Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

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Bereavement, Storytelling, And Reconciliation: Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, Frida Kerner Furman

Peace and Conflict Studies

Despite the ongoing conflict and the general neglect by the media, power brokers, and the public, grassroots organizations in the Middle East persist in their dedication to “people to people” diplomacy between Israelis and Palestinians. The Parents Circle-Families Forum is a bi-national NGO committed to peacebuilding and reconciliation between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Its most distinctive features are its membership, composed of 300 families from each side who have lost a close relative to the conflict, and its use of storytelling to connect the two sides. Bereaved individuals develop the capacity for empathy …

"Pure" Science And "Impure" Influences: The Dsm At A Scientific And Social Crossroads, Rebecca A. Johnson

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Review Of Mark Ryan, The Politics Of Practical Reason: Why Theological Ethics Must Change Your Life, Jacob L. Goodson

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

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Front Matter

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.