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The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer
The Rise Of An Eco-Spiritual Imaginary: Ecology And Spirituality As Decolonial Protest In Contemporary Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Andrew Michael Spencer
English Theses and Dissertations
The Rise of an Eco-Spiritual Imaginary reveals a shared ecological aesthetic among contemporary U.S. ethnic writers whose novels communicate a decolonial spiritual reverence for the earth. This shared narrative focus challenges white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism to instantiate new ways of imagining community across socially constructed boundaries of time, space, nation, race, and species. The eco-spiritual imaginary—by which I mean a shared reverence for the ecological interconnection between all living beings—articulates a common biological origin and sacredness of all life that transcends racial difference while remaining grounded in local ethnicities and bioregions. The novelists representing …
Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Foodways (Fa 1202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1202. Collection of papers written by students in Professor Barry Kaufkins’ Foodways class (FLK/ANTH 388) at Western Kentucky University. While a majority of the papers focus on Easter traditions, other topics of note include immigrant foodways traditions, fundraising efforts, community organizations, tailgating, and sorority life. Papers also include photographs taken by students.
Godly Heretics: Essays On Alternative Christianity In Literature And Popular Culture, Marc Dipaolo
Godly Heretics: Essays On Alternative Christianity In Literature And Popular Culture, Marc Dipaolo
Faculty Books & Book Chapters
"When computers freeze, they are "rebooted" and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus' original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas Jefferson, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, and the religious leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Surprisingly enough, even classic television shows and films meant to be entertaining--Lost, Battlestar Galactica, It's a Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, Decalogue, and A Charlie Brown Christmas--are attempts to apply the basic principles of Christianity to modern times. …
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 2, J. Ritchie Garrison, Mac E. Barrick, Miriam Pitchon, Donald E. Taft, Maurice A. Mook, John A. Hostetler, Don Yoder, Stephanie Farrior
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 2, J. Ritchie Garrison, Mac E. Barrick, Miriam Pitchon, Donald E. Taft, Maurice A. Mook, John A. Hostetler, Don Yoder, Stephanie Farrior
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Battalion Day: Militia Exercise and Frolic in Pennsylvania Before the Civil War
• Folklore in the Library: Cherished Memories of Old Lancaster
• Widows' Wills for Philadelphia County, 1750-1784: A Study of Pennsylvania German Folklife
• Forest County Lore
• The "Big Valley" Amish of Central Pennsylvania: A Community of Cultural Contrasts
• Maurice A. Mook (1904-1973): An Appreciation
• Collectanea: Ore-Mining and Basket-Making in Maxatawny ; The Sharadin Tannery at Kutztown ; Occult Lore Recorded in Cumberland County
• German Immigrants in America as Presented in Travel Accounts
• The Pie and Related Forms in Pennsylvania Cuisine: Folk-Cultural …
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 1, Angus K. Gillespie, Susan Stewart, Mac E. Barrick, Gary D. Hydinger, Leonard Primiano, Louis Winkler, Gordon C. Baker
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 26, No. 1, Angus K. Gillespie, Susan Stewart, Mac E. Barrick, Gary D. Hydinger, Leonard Primiano, Louis Winkler, Gordon C. Baker
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Pennsylvania Folk Festivals in the 1930s
• Rational Powwowing: An Examination of Choice among Medical Alternatives in Rural York County, Pennsylvania
• Memories of a Moonshiner
• The Pennsylvania Germans: Folklife Studies from Autobiographical Sources
• Student Life at a Pennsylvania Dutch College
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy & Astrology XIV: Health and the Heavens
• A Traditional Family Reunion
• Roads, Ferries, Fords and Bridges: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 45
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 2, Don Yoder, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs, Rufus A. Grider, Gabriel Hartmann
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 21, No. 2, Don Yoder, C. Lee Hopple, Friedrich Krebs, Rufus A. Grider, Gabriel Hartmann
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The Pennsylvania Germans: A Preliminary Reading List
• Spatial Development of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Community to 1970: Part I
• Palatine Emigrants of the 18th Century
• Winter Album
• Emigrants from Dossenheim (Baden) in the 18th Century
• Farm Layouts and Building Plans: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 22
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3, Harry E. Smith, Donald R. Friary, L. Karen Baldwin, Amos Long Jr., Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3, Harry E. Smith, Donald R. Friary, L. Karen Baldwin, Amos Long Jr., Friedrich Krebs, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The End of the Horse and Buggy Era
• Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: A Review
• Humor in a Friendly World
• Chickens and Chicken Houses in Rural Pennsylvania
• Eighteenth-Century Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken and the Germersheim District
• Horse-Drawn Transportation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 11
Pennsylvania Folklife Special 1960 Festival Issue, Don Yoder, J. William Frey, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Martha Ross Swope, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora
Pennsylvania Folklife Special 1960 Festival Issue, Don Yoder, J. William Frey, Edna Eby Heller, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Martha Ross Swope, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch: Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies
• Hex Signs: A Myth
• Lebanon Valley Date Stones
• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Folk Festival Program
• Religious Patterns of the Dutch Country
• The Costumes of the Plain Dutch
• "Love Feasts"
• "Horse-and-Buggy" Mennonites
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish