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Returning To The Sources: Integrating Textual Criticism In The Study Of Early Mormon Texts And History, Colby Townsend

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

As historians engage with literary texts, they should ask a few important questions. What is the text that I am using in my research? What is the manuscript tradition from which the manuscript or text evolved? How does that evolution inform the specific period I am studying? Did it evolve orally or in written form? And are there variations that have been handed down through time and through tradition that may provide greater context or clarity to my research? Implicit in these questions is an interest in authenticity and accuracy. As literary texts evolve and are shared over time, there …

Heavenly Mother In The Vernacular Religion Of Latter-Day Saint Women, Charlotte Shurtz

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

Creativity is one of the few culturally appropriate ways that Latter- day Saint women seek for and learn about Heavenly Mother. In my research, I draw on twenty-six interviews with women ages 21 to 55 from around the world who self-identified as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or “Mormon.” According to their interviews, these women seek Heavenly Mother because She is the manifestation of their potential, a topic I will discuss in more detail. Their beliefs and practices—which I define as vernacular beliefs, that is, personal rather than official expressions of religion—are centered around the …

From Loving To Obergefell And Beyond: Plural Marriage As The Next Sexual Justice Issue, Philippa Juliet Meek

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

In 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional, citing the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling struck down laws in sixteen states that banned inter-racial marriage and overturned an earlier 1883 Supreme Court ruling; Pace v. Alabama. Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred, a woman of colour, had been sentenced to a year in prison for marrying contrary to Virginia law; their sentence was suspended upon condition that they leave the state and not return for at least …

Foreword, Christopher James Blythe

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

It is my honor to open this 10th anniversary issue of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies. Reader, please appreciate just what an oddity that is in the world of student-run journals. The problem with student (and thus editorial staff) turnover is very real. The typical student journal lasts only a few issues before consistency in publishing begins to wane. The fact that the IMW Journal has remained afloat and regularly publishing for a decade is a monumental accomplishment for the program in Religious Studies at Utah State University and the staff of the journal. My congratulations.

Front Matter

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

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Imw Journal Of Religious Studies Volume 10 Number 1

Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies

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February Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

February 13, 2020, Caa

Minutes

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Volume 57, Number 25: February 12, 2020, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Combing Texts: A Quest To Increase The Timeliness And Accuracy Of Geotagging Multilingual Toponyms And Tagging Persons In Large Corpora Using Tensors For Disambiguation, Anthony D. Davis

Theses and Dissertations

This research demonstrates an effective algorithm and provides a tool for efficient and accurate disambiguation of domain specific texts. The goals outlined in the research are: 1) to demonstrate that a simple knowledge base can be used to tag texts, 2) to demonstrate that a tensor can be used to efficiently and accurately tag entities in raw text documents, and, 3) create and provide a machine learning digital humanities tool for scholars interested in early Christian documents in English and Greek from late-antiquity. The research shows that a simple knowledgebase using a comma delimited file along with a rank-3 tensor …

Peregrinatio: Anever-Ending Pilgrimage To An Unspecified End, Bernice Lamb-Senechal

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

To most modern-day thinkers a pilgrimage entails a journey to a sacred place. Thus, the primary purpose of the voyage is to reach a locale that holds special meaning for the pilgrim. Typically, the end destination is a place where a significant familial, historical or religious event has occurred. In contrast to this contemporary understanding of pilgrimage, some Irish Christian monks of late antiquity undertook sacred journeys of an indefinite duration with no express terminus in mind. Furthermore, these monastic sojourners exiled themselves from their homeland vowing never to return to kith and kin. This working paper explores the practice …

Pilgrimaging Through Time: The Theoretical Implications Of Continuing Journeys On The Shikoku Henro, John Shultz

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Fantastic growth in the field of pilgrimage studies raises real questions about whether our theories and methods are up to the task of describing increasingly diverse phenomena. Herein, I maintain that the future of the field lies not with articulating some vague generalisations in an attempt to somehow maintain universals, but to consciously ponder the variability found with respect to pilgrimage. I argue that pilgrimage analysis needs to be more ground-up with a methodological focus on how key variables shape the fundamental meaning of pilgrimage. I demonstrate such methods by looking at the relativity of time in the context of …

Negotiating With The Sacred Other: The Ancient Mechanisms Of The Personal Vow Practice, Mirela Hrovatin

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

By questioning the anthropological definition of vows as instrumental prayers, which has been generally accepted since William Christian (1989) introduced it, the paper will discuss the notion of a vow as a personal prayer in the effort to expand it beyond the mere request for a miracle or fulfilment of a pilgrim’s or believer’s wish. The votive prayer is mentioned already in the Bible (Deut. 23) as a somewhat problematic way of communicating with God due to a promise it contains. Based on the Amir Mashiach’s (2014) interpretation of prayers as performative utterances in the Jewish tradition and Radoslav Katičić's …

College Faculty In The News: February 10, 2020, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Associate Professor Nancy Martorano Miller, Department of Political Science and University Honors Program, was a recent guest on WBNS/TV10's (Columbus) Face the State with Scott Light to discuss secure voting, minimum wage increases and the financial outlook in Ohio. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Breaking Gendered Boundaries in our Bones & our Crimes
• British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference Feb. 21-22

Dyed In Mummy: The Stratford Festival’S Modern Orientalist Approach To Shakespeare’S Othello, Daisy E. Lupa

Conspectus Borealis

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Ud In The News Feb. 1-7, University Of Dayton

News Releases

National higher education writer Jeff Selingo highlighted the University's four-year approach to tuition in his newsletter Next: The Future of Higher Education. Political scientist Christopher Devine wrote about the Presidential Medal of Freedom via The Conversation

Latest 'Line By Line': 'Solid Writing And Research', Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

Open-access journal honors excellence in undergraduate writing.

Faculty Senate Agenda, Helen Bland

Faculty Senate Agendas

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Recogition Assembly, Jiří Moskala

Seminary Scholarship Symposium

• Anna Galeniece, et al., eds. The Bible, the Spirit of Prophecy and Contemporary Issues Biblical Hermeneutics: Implications and Applications in Africa
• Denis Kaiser Trust and Doubt: Perceptions of Divine Inspiration in Seventh-day Adventist History
• S. Joseph Kidder Journey to the Heart of God
• Jiří Moskala Ezra and Nehemiah Ezra and Nehemiah Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guild & also Teachers Study Guide
• Roy Gane “Theology Enshrined in the Israelite Sanctuary”
• Oliver Glanz TextFabric: All Qumran Scrolls and Fragments for Python and Linguistic Research
• Hyveth Williams Adventist Review Columns
• Ante Jerončić “The Truthful Self: Subjectivity, Truth, and Hermeneutics in Dialogue with …

University Launches New Minor In Latinx And Latin American Studies, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton’s new Latinx and Latin American Studies minor allows students from those backgrounds to see themselves in the curriculum, while also preparing students from other backgrounds to increase their knowledge and understanding of the historical and contemporary issues of the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group.

Introduction To The Study Of World Religions, Mark Luttio

Lynn University Digital Press Books

Introduction to the Study of World Religions, by Mark Luttio, is a prolegomenon to the study of the religions of the world from a historical perspective, focusing especially on the culture and geography of each religion and their respective practices which express the essential core of each tradition. In addition to an introductory chapter on the nature of religion, and a concluding chapter on the future of religion, an examination will be made of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and New Religious Movements. Course: HUM 335

The Idea Of A National Church In The Ukrainian Intellectual Discourse, Natalia Ishchuk, Oleksandr Sagan

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The reception of the idea of a national church in the Ukrainian intellectual environment in the context of current socio-political events in the country is examined here. Among the most influential Ukrainian religious scholars, there is a dominant idea that the formation of a national church is a part of the state formation and security of the country. They opposed historical distortions of this idea, as it occurs in case of ethnophyletism—domination of the national over the ecclesiastical, and etatism—the domination of the state, imperial (in the form of the Orthodox empire) over the ecclesiastical. Signs of these distortions are …

Exvangelical: Why Millennials And Generation Z Are Leaving The Constraints Of White Evangelicalism, Colleen Batchelder

Doctor of Ministry

This research presents the argument that Millennials and Generation Z are not leaving the church; they are reconstructing their faith and distancing themselves from fundamentalism. When exploring the history of evangelicalism, church history, and generational distinctives, one is given the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of generational dynamics in regard to faith, theology, and praxis.

Chapter 1 explores the various distinctions and biases that encompass each generation. It also provides background for how generational influence shaped the narrative of the church, faith, and purpose.

Chapter 2 tackles the generational shift in ecclesiology and gives readers a glimpse into the …

Fear Voting: Securitization Of Migration In The Context Of European Parliament Election 2019 In The Czech Republic, Martin Brozik

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is devoted to the phenomenon of securitization of migration. This phenomenon is observed on a case study of Election campaigns before the EU Parliament election in May 2019 in the Czech Republic. The thesis looks into if and how the relevant political parties used securitization of migration in their election manifestos. By using a combination of a disciplined interpretive case study and content analysis, a framework is created based on Thierry Balzacq's theory on securitization. The content analysis uses the scope of various levels (context, attributes, statements) to identify individual securitization speech acts. This thesis sees securitization on …

Ud In The News Jan. 24-31, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Faculty shared their expertise with international outlets The Conversation, Reuters and Crux plus The Telegraph in India. Several outlets statewide shared stories about how faculty and students are working for the common good

Volume Cxxxvii, Number 12, January 31, 2020, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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2020 State Of The Library, Jennifer Nutefall, Lev Rickards, Nicole Branch

State of the Library

Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian

• Budget & Library staffing
• Mission, Vision, Values

Lev Rickards, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Scholarly Communication & Open Access
• Archives & Special Collections

Nicole Branch, Associate University Librarian for Learning and Engagement

• Instruction & Assessment
• Space & Access

Introductory Remarks To The 2019 Shachoy Symposium, Daniel Mark

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Halakhah Between Historicism And Dogmatism, Christine Hayes

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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