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Accepting Film: A Study On Tradition, Values Change And Continuity In Tebuireng Pesantren, Jombang, Nurman Hakim

Antropologi Indonesia

The pesantren tradition contains values that become a guide for life and become a source for the actions of santri and kiai. The values in the pesantren tradition in the form of akhlak (morals), ibadah (worship) and barokah (blessings) become an anchor for kiai and santri in responding to films that are considered products of modernity emerging from the west. In the past the act of watching and making films was rejected and considered contrary to the pesantren tradition, but slowly now films are used by pesantren to preserve the tradition itself. This article explores how values in the …

Sex, Riots, And Holy Water: How Modern Society Desecrates And Reconsecrates The Sacred, Jodeyah J. Mills

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how modern societies desecrate and reconsecrate the sacred through rhetoric, ritual, and visual performance. Using three case studies, Nazi Germany’s transformation of Quedlinburg Abbey, the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Sabrina Carpenter’s controversial church music video, “Feather,” this project analyzes how sacred meaning is violated and restored in religious, civic, and popular contexts. Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic cycle and postsecular theory, it argues that desecration and reconsecration are dialogic acts that expose competing moral vocabularies within culture. Each event demonstrates that even in a secular age, people respond to ruptures of ultimate meaning …

Islamic Political Anti-Theology: A Discursive Practice Of Contingency Beyond Sovereign Politics, Jason Andrus

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Contributing to the field of political theology from outside the European Christian tradition, this dissertation develops a description of the distinct logics that Islamic theology generates from its metaphysical assumptions. These logics in turn make possible a discourse of political anti-theology where politics operates through contingency rather than sovereignty. Political theology scholarship has excavated how modern politics derives from secularized Christian theological concepts—particularly transcendent sovereignty. This study demonstrates that Islamic theology's absolute insistence on divine transcendence (tawhid) produces something fundamentally different: a politics that renders sovereign authority conceptually impossible. I identify this discursive practice of political anti-theology through …

Ud In The News Nov. 15-21, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Dayton stations featured UD's Nativity exhibit and new partnership with IBM on a $20 million semiconductor lab. The National Desk, The Conversation, Our Sunday Visitor and Fast Company are among the national outlets tapping faculty expertise.

Doc 2025-19 Proposal For New Bachelor Of Science In Data Analytics, University Of Dayton. Academic Policies Committee

Senate Documents

The Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics is an interdisciplinary program designed to prepare students with the skills to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret complex data. Building on foundations in mathematics, statistics, and computer science, the program emphasizes hands-on experience with programming, databases, regression, and machine learning. Students learn to translate data into actionable insights, preparing them for careers in data analytics, business intelligence, and related fields, as well as for advanced study in data science and analytics.

Cv: Elizabeth Sartell (Theology, Islamic Studies), Elizabeth Sartell

Theology Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 55, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Higher Education Concerns Regarding Compact Proposal -- Shutdown Caused Flight Delays and Cancellations -- Christmas Tree Lighting Kicks off the Holiday Season -- Home Away From Home: Thanksgiving at SHU -- Pioneer’s Make History (Twice!)

What Covid-19 Taught Extension: Experiences Of Extension County Engagement Specialists Promoting Vaccinations In Meat Processing Plants In Rural Missouri., Wilson Majee, Ifeolu David, Lynelle Phillips, Rachel Buenemann, Kassandra Maturino

Journal of Extension

Extension played a significant role, in collaboration with other key community organizations, by disseminating information that debunked COVID-19 myths, and promoting vaccinations at the community level. In this article we present insights from the experiences of Extension faculty at the University of Missouri who were engaged in promoting COVID-19 vaccinations for meat processing plant workers. Findings from this quality improvement project highlight opportunities for leveraging Extension field faculty, and challenges to consider in future public health promotion efforts.

Program Review Report 11-18-25, Angela Brock

Program Review Committee

No abstract provided.

Review Of A Descriptive Bibliography Of Imprints From The Israelite House Of David And Mary’S City Of David, 1902–2010, Heather Van Wormer

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

Review Of Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, And Religion In The American West, D. E. Mills Jr.

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

The Communal Studies Association At Forty: A Personal Retrospective, Donald E. Pitzer

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Analysis Of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri, Rachel Beck, Alison Ormsby

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

Cv: Christie Billups (Theology, Peace And Justice Studies), Christie Billups

Theology Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

Cv: Mark Schultz (History), Mark Schultz

History Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Madrasah: Digital Pedagogies And Nigerian Yoruba Muslim Women's Engagement With Islamic Knowledge, Abdulgafar Olawale Fahm

Comparative Woman

This paper explores how digital pedagogies are reshaping the landscape of Islamic education among Nigerian Muslim women, with a primary focus on Yoruba communities in Southern Nigeria. Historically, Islamic learning in Nigeria has been rooted in traditional institutions, notably the madrasa, characterized by face-to-face instruction and rigid gender norms. However, the proliferation of digital technologies - particularly online madrasas, WhatsApp study groups, Zoom-based Qur’anic classes, and Islamic mobile applications - has significantly altered women’s access to religious knowledge. Utilizing ethnographic evidence and qualitative interviews, this interdisciplinary study examines how digital platforms enhance accessibility, overcome sociocultural barriers, and enable Nigerian Yoruba …

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

News Releases

WKRC-TV in Cincinnati featured UD engineering research to help develop AI to detect lung nodules in children's CT scans. The Conversation, BBC, Our Sunday Visitor, Mississippi Catholic and Alabama Catholic Radio also tapped faculty expertise.

Volume Cxlv, Number 7, November 7, 2025, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

The Gods Of The Dunes: The Diverse Spiritual Practices And Beliefs Of The Dunites, Amy Hart

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

The Peoples Press: The Evolution Of The Media’S Treatment Of Jim Jones And Peoples Temple, Cheryl Coulthard

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

The Erasure (And Re-Inscription) Of African Americans From The Jonestown Narrative, Rebecca Moore

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

Communal Learning In The Socialist Context Of Jonestown, Edward Cromarty

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

Apocalyptic Redemption And Utopian Resignation: How Visions Of Dystopia Made Community Impossible In Jonestown, Morgan Shipley

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

An Unfathomable Complexity: Using Peoples Temple As A Primer In The Study Of Religion, Stephen C. Taysom

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.

Father James L. Heft Lecture On St. John Henry Newman, Doctor Of The Church, James L. Heft S.M.

Documents and Publications of the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives

In this recorded lecture, Father James L. Heft, S.M., provides history, commentary, and reflection about St. John Henry Newman, who became a Doctor of the Catholic Church on Nov. 1, 2025.

The recording is a collaboration of the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives (IPI), the Learning Teaching Center (LTC), and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton.

Sources to which Father Heft refers in the lecture:

• "Newman 101" by Roderick Strange
• "John Henry Newman: A Biography" by Ian Ker
• "The Parting of Friends" by St. John Henry Newman
• "An Essay on the Development of the Christian Doctrine" by …

Vatican Kiseki Chousakan As Philosophy Of Religion: The Intersections Of Faith, Science, And Philosophy In An Anime Adaptation, Carl Jayson D. Hernandez

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

Ideas concerning religion are often communicated through popular media, such as anime. One of the anime adaptations that explicitly engages the intersections of religion, science, and philosophy is Vatican Kiseki Chousakan. This anime adaptation centers on a special unit from the Vatican that verifies miraculous phenomena worldwide. In this study, I reflect on how the anime representation communicates religious ideas about miracles, prophecies, and other spiritual matters to its viewers. This critical reflection reveals how anime promotes a philosophical view centered on the complementary relationship between religion and science. With these in mind, this study proceeds as follows. The first …

Religious Security As A Component Of National Security In The Sphere Of Social And Economic Communication, Yevhen Kharkovshchenko, Vitalii Nitsenko, Yevhen Piletskyi, Mariia Nesterova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

National security is proposed to be viewed as a coordinated open system that, in addition to the religious, also includes military, economic, social, and other components. Considering religion as part of such an open system makes it possible to distinguish two mutually directed vectors of communication within religious communities: from church leaders to the faithful and vice versa. This presupposes feedback communication links that allow a denomination to balance interactions among the actors of church–society relations. The concept of “communication” in the context of religious and national security is thus expanded from a narrow understanding of information exchange to an …

Review Of Communes In America, 1975-2000, Donald E. Pitzer

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.