Browsing HDS Student Papers by Title
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Race in Contemporary Politically Conservative Jewish Thought
This essay argues that politically conservative Jews deploy a post-racial politics to both align themselves with whiteness and deny what they view as a progressive claim that Jews are white. It gives an overview of how ... -
Race Rendered Theologically: The Entangled Theological and Racial Discourse of Josiah Strong, 1885-1915
(2021)Analyzing the relationship between white mainline Protestant theology and white supremacy in the twentieth-century United States raises methodological challenges because of the coded language of dog-whistle politics and ... -
Re-Riting Ritual for Reproductive Loss: An Inclusive Support Resource for Catholics Experiencing Reproductive Loss
“Re-Riting Ritual for Reproductive Loss” is a resource to ritually support Catholics experiencing different forms of reproductive loss. Rooted in intentional and inclusive language, this resource invites individuals and ... -
Reading the Baptism in the New Testament Through the Symbolism of Water in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
This project shows how a core Christian theological concept from the New Testament, baptism, can be read through the theological understanding of the symbolism of water from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). The symbolism ... -
Reading to Live
An MDiv Senior Thesis on the relational practice and transformative potential of reading and the practice sharing narrative through story-telling -
Real Hope: How Love Can Lift Us All
In this faith autobiography, the author uses the funeral of his newly discovered brother as a platform from which he brings the reader along on a journey that highlights how he found hope, his purpose, his faith, and the ... -
Reflections on Ministry
Authentic ministry is not simply a role or activity in service of the spiritual care of others. More fundamentally, it is the inner life turned outward - an internal disposition that opens new and profoundly counter-cultural ... -
Reimagining Gendered Practice in American Buddhism
(2021-05)Buddhism has been gaining attention in the West since the turn of the twentieth century. Despite this increasing popularity, there is a certain aspect of the tradition criticized as sexist. This paper scrutinizes the ... -
Reimagining Queer Affirmation in an Evangelical Identity: Narratives, History, Wonder, and a Journey to Heal and be Seen
This work delves into the history and patterns of modern American evangelicalism, drawing upon personal narrative and theological works from people of various spiritual traditions to understand an experience of being queer ... -
Reinventing the Wheel: Unitarian Universalist Youth History and Covenantal Theology
(2021)A paper examining Unitarian Universalist youth movements since 1953, asking how the past might inform youth history today. Roughly chronological, this paper looks at moments in history through four central themes: youth ... -
Religion's Fragmented Condition and the Secular Inertia
The words ‘religious,’ ‘spiritual,’ and ‘sacred,’ are ubiquitous and used interchangeably, both in the academy and in public discourse. How does this create discrepancies between “religious freedom” as outlined in the First ... -
The Revelation of John, Field Notes from the Edge of the Abyss
The thesis is in book format and offers the original Greek of the Book of Revelation on the verso and the author's translation on the recto. Each chapter is followed by notes explaining the author's translation choices ... -
The Role of Christian Faith Leaders in Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: A Workshop for Seminary Students
(2021)This is a workshop guide for facilitators teaching Christian seminary or divinity school students how to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) in their congregations. Building theoretical, theological, and ... -
The Sanctuary and the Schoolhouse: Forming and Re-forming a Confederate National Identity
The contemporary culture of the United States is the consequence of delicate national tensions that have existed for the vast majority of its history. Though certainly not a universal position, the state that today espouses ... -
Scripturalizing Ramacaritamanasa
Scholars of the Hindu traditions are divided over the category of ‘scripture’ and its utility. Besides contesting Oriental encounters and the universalizing conception of the term by early/Western scholars and suggesting ... -
Searching for Mustard Seeds and Flickering Flames: A Guide to Reading as a Mode of Care
(2021)How can reading stories help us become better caregivers? And what skills can Theravadin story literature build in the context of chaplaincy and spiritual care? Using original translations of the story of Kisa Gotami as ... -
Secure in Uncertainty: Hospital Chaplains Modeling Secure Attachment
In this paper, I apply attachment theory and the therapeutic skills it represents to hospital/health care chaplaincy to show the ways it benefits patients and loved ones in the hospital. Through case examples, I explore ... -
‘A Seed of Truth’: Ahmadiyya Muslim Propagation Networks and the Development of Islam in America
Abstract: The reformist Ahmadiyya Muslim sect's contributions to the development of American Islam are frequently sidelined or diminished, in part due to sectarianism. But the Ahmadiyya movement has been central to building ...