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Native American Flute Meditation: Musical Instrument Design, Construction And Playing As Contemplative Practice, Daniel Cummings

Senior Honors Projects

For almost two years now, I have been involved in hand-crafting and playing my own Native American-style flutes. In the course of that time, this hobby has gradually merged with my interests in mindfulness and meditation practices to produce a unique result, nearly a fully fledged form of contemplation in its own right. For me, flute making and playing have become inseparable and vital components of a seamless process, one whose various stages can all be undertaken as occasions for the application of meditative techniques. Defining meditation in essence as the expansion of awareness in any activity—whether focused on a …

Narses And The Birth Of Byzantine Egypt : Imperial Policy In The Age Of Justinian, Marion W. Kruse Iii

Honors Theses

Late Antiquity has long been portrayed as a period of transition between the classical and medieval worlds. Its history, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, has been forced to fit the contours of a transitional model, and no figure has been as ill-treated by this interpretive schema as the Emperor Justinian (r. 527-565 AD).

Justinian is known both as the last Roman and first Byzantine emperor; in fact he was neither. It is true that he ruled an empire which was both physically and intellectually the heir of Augustus' Rome and that he introduced wide-ranging reforms which were maintained by …

Julia Hills Johnson, 1783-1853 My Soul Rejoiced, Linda J. Thayne

Theses and Dissertations

Julia Hills Johnson, the 48-year-old wife of Ezekiel Johnson and mother of sixteen children, found spiritual fulfillment in the doctrines of a new religion called Mormonism. Her baptism in 1831 was a simple act that ultimately led her halfway across the American continent, and strained her marital relationship, yet filled her with a sense of spiritual contentment. Julia's commitment to her faith, her tenacity, self-determination and willingness to take risks to participate in this new religious movement sets her apart from other nineteenth-century farm women in New England and New York. Julia's religiosity was self-determined and tenacious. She chose to …

Poetry And Ritual: The Physical Expression Of Homoerotic Imagery In Sama, Zachary Holladay

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sufi poetry of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 CE/132-655 AH) exhibited a particular penchant for highlighting the relationship between humankind and God with homoerotic language. While the homoerotic nature of Sufi poetry has received considerable scholarly attention, the ritual expression of such literature has not. The ritual of sama was a practice that occurred in the Sufi institutions and incorporated various elements of the poetry examined. By listening to the poetry, in the form of song and often with accompanying instrumentation, the mystics would experience transient moments of altered state experiences, usually interpreted as moments of union with God.

This thesis …

Free Winona: Community Economy, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Examining Local Economics;
• Riverway Grows Food for Hot Lunches;
• A Week of Anti-Recruitment Demonstrations;
• Invitation to the Really Really Free Market;
• Backmatter: What Happened to Montezuma?

Economic Growth And Women's Education In Malaysia And Thailand, Beth N. Simons

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduate requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Linear And Nonlinear Identities: Problematic Identity, History, And The European Union, John Arrington Woodward

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

A First Look At The Worst: Slavery And Race Relations At The College Of William And Mary, Terry L. Meyers

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1618. Letters from Bowling Green native William Slaughter Covington, Lake Forest, Illinois, regarding acquisition of a copy of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse. The letters relate his observations about Bowling Green history. Includes a copy of Covington's obituary from the (Bowling Green, Ky.) Park City Daily News, 3 December 1985.

Free Winona: Short Term Memory Loss, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• The story of the Everland Collective, an all-ages events project;
• Critical Mass Community Bike Rides;
• Punk Rock in Winona, Recollected;
• Green Lantern Coffeehouse & Cabaret;
• Winter Walk in Aghaming Park;
• Food Not Bombs Interview w/ Organizers;
• Backmatter: Can There Be Life After Death?

Gypsy Pentecostals: The Growth Of The Pentecostal Movement Among The Roma In Bulgaria And Its Revitalization Of Their Communities, Miroslav Atanasov Atanasov

ATS Dissertations

Gypsy Pentecostals is a ground-breaking study of the Pentecostal movement among the most marginalized ethnic group in Bulgaria - the Roma, more widely known as 'Gypsies.' This phenomenal movement started about fifty years ago, but it has seen its greatest growth in the recent years of the Post-Communist period. It has transformed the Roma communities in positive and constructive ways and advanced their integration into society. The dissertation is a thorough analysis of the movement and the first scholarly text on it written from the perspective of a Pentecostal missiologist.

The text reviews Roma history, which is a fascinating story …

Duncan, Matilda Jane "Mattie" (Backus), 1896-1986 (Sc 1585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1585. Duncan's brief remembrances of people, businesses and educational institutions in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She made these comments while looking at a copy of "Do You Remember When?", a small pictorial history of Bowling Green, published in 1970.

Free Winona: First Of Many, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Notes from the Long Weekend Dec 2007;
• Mutual-Aid Primer;
• International Food Market;
• Beware: Capx 2020;
• Backmatter: What Dreams May Come?

When The Fires Die: Religious Critiques Of Revivalism In The Aftermath Of The Second Great Awakening, John D. Bratt, Lester Ruth

Symposium on Worship Archive

A document accompanying a talk on the aftereffects of the Second Great Awakening, including types of critics, common charges, common complaints, and proposed solutions.

Germany, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Dead Reckoning (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Long before she became the first female president of Harvard University in July 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust showed herself to be an inventive, energetic, and restless historian. Her first book, in 1977, focused on a subject many people had doubted was a subject, "the intellectual in the Old South." Five years later, she produced what is still the fullest — and most disturbing — portrayal of a white Southern planter, a man who sought complete mastery over the white women in his charge as well as over the enslaved people he claimed as property.

Soon after that, in a series …

Japan And The World: Japan’S Contemporary Geopolitical Challenges – A Volume In Honor Of The Memory And Intellectual Legacy Of Asakawa Kan’Ichi, Frances Rosenbluth, Masaru Kohno

CEAS Occasional Publication Series

Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 2

The History Of The Marimba, Daniel Rager

Music Faculty Publications

The author presents an international and historical history of one of the earliest melodic percussion instruments made by man. His research suggests the instrument was widespread throughout Asia and Africa, although many other regions claim it to have originated in their country.

Known by many names and created from an endless array of materials, this paper reflects the marimbas evolution from the fourteenth century to present day. The writer’s research encompasses the marimbas social roles, musical functions, timbres and styles across many countries as well as its evolution into the twenty-first century.

Manufacturing In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.

Churches In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.

Stores And Services In Bridgewater, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.

Education In Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1900-1910, Benjamin A. Spence

Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A Town in Transition

No abstract provided.

The Shanachie Index 1989-2008, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.

Silver Bullet: Depleted Uranium As A Military Weapon, Ralph Patterson

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 44-57

Talk To Me, Emily A. Nelms

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 117-120

Memory And Forgetting In A Time Of Violence: Brian Friel’S Meta-History Plays, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In the 1980s, Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s most successful twentieth century dramatists, authored two plays – Translations and Making History – which were concerned with major events in colonial history. Given the context in which the plays were written – Northern Ireland was in a state of war at the time – ­the playwright’s choice of topics (the introduction of the National Schools and the Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century and the failed Gaelic revolt against English rule and the Flight of the Earls in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) was both pointed and politically contentious. Yet, the …

2008 Ruby Yearbook, Kristen Jennings Hildebrand, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2008 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Review Of Slave Ship Sailors And Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 By Emma Christopher, Edward E. Andrews

History & Classics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Accessing History: The Murals Of Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Emancipation Of Bolshevik Women: No, The Soviet Woman Is Not Yet Free!, Kristina Brandon

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 11-20