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Workforce Alignment In Tennessee, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

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The Continuation Of Religion By Other Means?, Chris Daly

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Freedom Of Speech In The Age Of Information And Misinformation, Edward Mehrer Iii

University of Dayton Law Review

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A Holistic Response To The Problem Of Evil, Jonathan Fuqua

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Aman Iman: Resilient Customs, Community Water Management, And Dry Futures In Anounizme, Morocco, Haley Kirtland

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This project explores how Anounizme, a village in southeastern Morocco, interacts with water. I was particularly curious about how traditional community management systems operate in the context of drought. I argue that the customary management system exhibits resiliency like it has in the face of Arabization, colonization, exploitative industry, and land privatization. It is capable of adapting to drought because it is more than a management system; it is a part of culture engrained as custom. Customs have porous boundaries, allowing a space for old aspects of culture to interact with both emerging aspects of culture and external pressures. I …

The Rinpoche Sent Me A Friend Request: The Roles And Perceptions Of Social Media In Buddhist Religious Life, Solveigh Barney

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

When I first heard about His Eminence the 8th Chokyong Palga Rinpoche, I didn’t expect to find an Instagram page consisting of gym pics and sunglass selfies. As I kept scrolling through Instagram, I soon found out that Palga Rinpoche is not alone in this influencer-like social media façade; he is a part of a younger generation of Buddhist monastics who are trying to be what some call monkfluencers. These monastics are growing up in the digital world of social media, making it more accessible to share with the outside world the #monklife. My goal is to investigate the relationship …

Towards A Post-Pandemic Mission, Boubakar Sanou, Josh Dietrich, Tyler Kern

Faculty Publications

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A Story Of Digital Church Development And Its Implications, Petr A. Činčala, Foye Michael Belyea, Mabio Cohelo

Faculty Publications

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Biblical Boogeymen, Holy Ghosts, And The New Demonology: A Review Of Three Recent Books On Religion And Horror, Brian Collins

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review essay on three books: Brandon R. Grafius, Reading the Bible with Horror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); Brandon R. Grafius and John Morehead, eds., Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination (Fortress Academic/Lexington, 2021); and Steve A. Wiggins, Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons (Fortress Academic/Lexington, 2020).

Refocus: The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky, Rebecca Ver Straten-Mcsparran

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Sergei Toymentsev, ed., ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

Religion And Film: The Basics, Sofia Sjö

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Religion and Film: The Basics (Routledge, 2021).

Teaching Asian Religions Through Film: Response And Reflections, Robin Rinehart

Journal of Religion & Film

This article presents reflections on Chien’s, Richey’s, and Mixon’s articles on the benefits of using film as a component of courses about Asian religions. I first explore how incorporating film can help meet the goals that instructors set as part of their course planning, and then shift to analysis of the various pedagogical strategies Chien, Richey, and Mixon employ, highlighting how the techniques that they use for East Asian religions and Islam can be valuable in teaching about other Asian religions as well.

This paper was part of a panel on “Teaching Asian Religions Through Film” presented at the Association …

The Riz Test: Teaching Against Islamophobia Through Film, Candace Mixon

Journal of Religion & Film

This paper offers a concrete tool for teaching against Islamophobia using a film assignment and “the Riz Test.” In four parts, it briefly reviews terminology and literature connected to Islamophobia and Muslimophobia, histories of looking and the power of visual culture, pedagogy and critical viewing habits, the Riz Test, and examples of student engagement and course learning goals met through this assignment. Then, readers can use the concrete tool in their courses and practice critical viewing habits.

This paper was part of a panel on “Teaching Asian Religions Through Film” presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference in Honolulu, …

Using Film To Teach About Compressed Modernity In East Asian Religions, Jeff Richey

Journal of Religion & Film

Teaching about East Asian religions all too often presents them as artifacts of the premodern past. This can encourage students to assume that modernization has rendered the East Asian past, especially religious traditions, obsolete. Teaching with contemporary East Asian films is a way to remedy that oversight, challenge that assumption, and bring students into contact with East Asian religious cultures as living traditions in modern societies. Since contemporary East Asian societies have been shaped by what Chang Kyung-sup calls “compressed modernity” – a process by which “economic, political, social and/or cultural changes occur in an extremely condensed manner in respect …

Employing A Chinese Ghost Story To Teach The Syncretism Of Chinese Religions, Gloria I-Ling Chien

Journal of Religion & Film

Upon its release in 1987, the Hong Kong blockbuster A Chinese Ghost Story resulted in sequels, adaptations, and two remakes in 2011 and 2020. Despite its popularity, only a few critics have noticed its eclectic representations of Chinese religions, nor has there been any evaluation of its pedagogical potential. This article details how the author employs this 1987 work to teach the syncretism of Chinese religions in an undergraduate course “Asian Religions in Film.” By decoding the embedded concepts, the meanings and history behind “the Jade Garland talisman,” the inclusion of the Diamond Sutra for exorcistic efficacy, and the portrayal …

Life In The Multiverse: Bringing Chaos Out Of Order?, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This paper was given as the opening keynote address at the International Conference on Religion and Film at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on June 8, 2022, and is here presented in that form.

My thanks go to those who organized the conference for Vrije Universiteit, notably Professor Johan Roeland and Miranda van Holland.

Introduction – Whither The Spiritual? Rethinking Secularism’S Legacy In Post-Ottoman Art, Hannah Feldman, Kirsten Scheid

Regards

This dossier seeks to pinpoint hazards emerging on the globally redrawn map of art and culture. It was conceived to expose and navigate the mines laid when the ostensibly methodologically secular discourse of art history turns to art made outside Euro-American cultural centers – art often considered out of sync with Euro-American modernity.¹ As commonly approached, the pinnacle of that modernity corresponds roughly to what one of us has referred to as the “decades of decolonization,” in an effort to avoid reaffirming the Eurocentrism inherent in labeling the period as ‘post-war’...

Ud In The News Sept. 24-30, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Catholic Reporter, American Psychological Association, American Society for Engineering Education and Ohio cable news outlet Spectrum News 1 are among those highlighting UD research and faculty expertise.

From Bus Bans On Religious Advertisements To Beyond: Why Religion Is More Appropriately Classified As A Viewpoint Rather Than A Subject Matter, Anna Kukharenok

San Diego Law Review

This circuit split created the issue identified herein: Is a ban on religious advertisements—aimed at all religions equally—permissible because it constitutes a restriction of a subject matter, or is it impermissible because it constitutes restriction of a viewpoint? This narrow issue implies the existence of a broader issue: Should religion as a whole be classified as a subject matter or a viewpoint in order to avoid laborious and fact-intensive inquiries into each particular law? This Comment aims to answer this question through the lens of not only legal precedent, but policy perspectives as well. This Comment advances the position that …

Effects Of Spiritual Intelligence On Person- Organization Fit, Organizational Commitment, And Customer-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior Of Real Estate Agents, Peetikarn Pattanawit, Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

This study investigates the effect of spiritual intelligence on person-organization fit (P-O fit), organizational commitment, and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (CO-OCB) among real estate agents. Moreover, P-O fit is proposed as the mediator that explains the effect of spiritual intelligence on organizational commitment and CO-OCB. The survey data was from 398 real estate agents selected from 60 brokerage firms in Thailand. The partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The results from the model estimation significantly support the positive effect of spiritual intelligence on P-O fit, organizational commitment, and CO-OCB. Moreover, the mediating effect analysis …

Bringing Diverse Library Exhibitions And Events To Life, Essraa Nawar

Library Books and Book Chapters

Libraries all over the world are incorporating events, displays and exhibitions as a tool to engage with students, faculty, and the larger communities as well as to raise awareness about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion throughout its walls, activities and collections. The scale of these programs can vary from small in-house displays to library-wide or loaned exhibitions or events. They can either be collaborative in nature or curated internally by students, staff or librarians. The Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University engages the wide community with its Events and Exhibition programming not only to promote DEI initiatives at the Leatherby Libraries but …

Vista: September 29, 2022, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

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Indigenous Community Grounded Research. Perspectives From Atikamekw Youth (Manawan, Nitaskinan, Lanaudière, Québec, Canada)., Laurent Jérôme, Étienne Levac, Anthony Quitich Dubé, Laurie Guimond (Facilitator)

Nulungu Research Week

In this session, we will discuss the history, the structure and the impacts of the Matakan project, a participative research project designed for promoting and passing down atikamekw knowledge to young people of the Atikamekw community of Manawan (Lanaudière, Québec). We will address issues related to the decolonization of research and knowledge, and show how this project is also part of the Atikamekw strategies and priorities related to education and youth.

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Reformatted Text Of Book Of Mormon Enhances Study

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Just in time for the study of the Book of Mormon in the 2008 churchwide Sunday School courses, the Maxwell Institute recently released an updated and expanded edition of Donald W. Parry’s Poetic Parallelisms in the Book of Mormon: The Complete Text.

Scripture Update: Lehi As A Visionary Man, Matthew Roper

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

One of the complaints leveled against Lehi by his rebellious sons Laman and Lemuel and his wife, Sariah, was that he was a “visionary man” (1 Nephi 2:11; 5:2). Although this term does not appear in the King James translation of the Bible, it accurately reflects the Hebrew word hazon, meaning divine vision.1 Although this Hebrew term appears in connection with true prophets of God, it is also sometimes written with a negative connotation, describing false prophets, especially in the writings of Lehi’s contemporary Jeremiah (Jeremiah 14:14; 23:16).

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Welch Expounds The Sermon On The Mount At Museum Of Art Lecture

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

On January 31, John W. Welch addressed the topic “The Five Faces of the Savior in the Sermon on the Mount” as part of the Museum of Art lecture series on the life of Christ, which has now concluded. Welch, Robert K. Thomas professor of law at BYU, editor in chief of BYU Studies, and the founder of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, spoke about five specific layers of instruction within the Sermon text in Matthew 5–7. As Welch related, “the Sermon on the Mount is not a scrapbook” of moral maxims, but more importantly it reveals …

Institute Supports Graduates And Undergraduates

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Maxwell Institute continues to encourage and support the work of graduate and undergraduate students through two funds.

Each year at this time we remind graduate students about the Nibley Fellowship Program and its application deadline. Named in honor of the late eminent Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, this pro-gram provides financial aid to students enrolled in accredited PhD programs in areas of study directly related to the work and mission of the Maxwell Institute, particularly work done under the auspices of one department of the Institute, the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, such as studies of the …

President Samuelson Remembers Elder Maxwell In Institute Lecture

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Recalling how his longtime friend and mentor inspired others without preaching or condemning, President Cecil O. Samuelson shared memories of Elder Neal A. Maxwell at a lecture on March 23, 2007. The president of Brigham Young University and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, President Samuelson spoke at the inaugural annual lecture of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.