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Zanders, Roderick (Fa 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Zanders, Roderick (Fa 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 505. Paper: "Folklore in Football," written by Roderick Zanders for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class, which focuses on folklore elements related to football with emphasis on the Super Bowl.
Sport As The “Opiate Of The Masses”: College Football In The American South, Eric Bain-Selbo
Sport As The “Opiate Of The Masses”: College Football In The American South, Eric Bain-Selbo
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion is an ideological tool that legitimates and defends the interests of the dominant, wealthy classes in the population. It does so in part by placating the poor and exploited classes. Faced with an arduous and seemingly unjust life in this world, the poor and exploited at least can look forward to a more perfect existence in the afterlife. To reach that afterlife, however, one must peacefully and quietly persevere through life’s tribulation—respecting the life, liberty, and (especially) private property of others. In this way, religion …
“Texts Memorized, Texts Performed: A Reconsideration Of The Role Of Paritta In Sri Lankan Monastic Education.”, Jeffrey Samuels
“Texts Memorized, Texts Performed: A Reconsideration Of The Role Of Paritta In Sri Lankan Monastic Education.”, Jeffrey Samuels
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
During the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in monastic education within the larger field of Buddhist studies. Within the last ten years in particular, a number of monographs and articles examining the training and education of monks in Korea (Buswell [1992]), Tibet/India (Dreyfus [2003]), Thailand/Laos (Collins [1990], McDaniel [2002, 2003]), and Sri Lanka (Blackburn [1999a, 1999b, 2001] Samuels [2002]), have been published. Many of those works have paid particular attention to the texts used in monastic training, as well as to how the information contained in those very texts is imparted to and embodied by monks …
Grappling With Scholarship On Pro Wrestling: Comparative Media Studies Inside The Ring., Sam Ford
Grappling With Scholarship On Pro Wrestling: Comparative Media Studies Inside The Ring., Sam Ford
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
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Ua64/10/5 Scrapbook 1989-1994, Wku Recreation Majors' Club
Ua64/10/5 Scrapbook 1989-1994, Wku Recreation Majors' Club
Student Organizations
Scrapbook created by members of the WKU Recreation Majors' Club between 1989 and 1994. Book mostly consists of photographs. There are a few event programs.