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The Red Tent A Case Study For Feminist Midrash, Karen Flagg
The Red Tent A Case Study For Feminist Midrash, Karen Flagg
Religious Studies Theses
This thesis puts forth the argument that two contrasting models of modern feminist midrash evolved in the late nineteenth century. Both models successfully bridge Jewish tradition and modern experience. The Red Tent serves as a primary text and a case study in this discussion of modern feminist midrash.
Changing Narratives, Changing Destiny: Myth, Ritual And Afrocentric Identity Construction At The National Rites Of Passage Institute, Michael Karlin
Changing Narratives, Changing Destiny: Myth, Ritual And Afrocentric Identity Construction At The National Rites Of Passage Institute, Michael Karlin
Religious Studies Theses
According to the National Rites of Passage Institute (NROPI), African Americans have lost their authentic identity, which has led to inauthentic, broken individuals and communities. In order to reverse these trends, according to NROPI, African Americans must rediscover their authentic identity through a rites of passage program that plucks them from a Eurocentric narrative and places them into an Afrocentric one. This thesis explores how NROPI is a religious response to adversity that takes on a decidedly American form of contemporary religiosity. I argue that by analyzing NROPI and other contemporary rites of passage programs through the lens of religious …
To Cover Our Daughters: A Modern Chastity Ritual In Evangelical America, Holly Adams Phillips
To Cover Our Daughters: A Modern Chastity Ritual In Evangelical America, Holly Adams Phillips
Religious Studies Theses
Over the last ten years, a newly created ritual called a Purity Ball has become increasingly popular in American evangelical communities. In much of the present literature, Purity Balls are assumed solely to address a daughter’s emerging sexuality in a ritual designed to counteract evolving American norms on sexuality; however, the ritual may carry additional latent sociological functions. While experienced explicitly by the individual participants as a celebration of father/daughter relationships and a means to address evolutionary sexual mating strategies, Purity Balls may implicitly regenerate existing social hierarchy. This ritual facilitates a sociological purpose by means of re-establishing the role …