Browsing by FAS Department "Religion"
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An Analysis of Muslim Women’s Rights Based on the Works of Amina Wadud, Fatima Mernissi, and Riffat Hassan
(2020-07-17)This thesis will analyze the arguments, methods, results and contexts of Islamic feminist scholars Amina Wadud, Fatima Mernissi, and Riffat Hassan. These three women have been at the forefront of writing about the equal ... -
Awakening to Mortality: End-of-Life as Rite of Passage and Pathway to Transformation
(2019-01-25)Many view death as catastrophe, resulting from a cascading failure of biological systems. Fear, denial or unconsciousness results in a medicalized, often institutionalized, approach to end-of-life care. Is dying predominantly ... -
Features of Trance Mediumship in Tibetan Buddhism and Spiritulaism
(2018-09-07)The term "trance" comes from the Latin transitus (a passage) implying a passage from one state to another and it has been widely researched in fields as diverse as neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, and religion. Given ... -
Laid Bare by Prejudice and Paranoia: How America’s Historical, Misconceived, and Evolving Fear Gave Rise to Modern Islamophobia
(2019-05-09)Islamophobia has been a major topic of academic and scholarly discussion, as well as a force in the ordinary lives of many Americans, especially since 9/11. This thesis attempts to build on the topic of contemporary ... -
Meat and Islam: How Vegetarians in Egypt Navigate Faith and Contemporary Food Ethics
(2018-10-03)Meat is an important feature of culinary traditions across Muslim communities globally. As the central focus of Islamic dietary laws, halal meat consumption functions as a marker of Islamic communal identity, and is a ... -
Ritualized Peyote Use Can Facilitate Mental Health, Social Solidarity, and Cultural Survival: A Case Study of the Religious and Mystical Experiences in the Wixárika People of the Sierra Madre Occidental
(2020-04-09)This paper examines how the Wixárika, or Huichol, as they are more commonly known to the outside world, have successfully engaged in a decade-long struggle to save their ceremonial homeland of Wirikuta. They have fended ...