Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Religious Voices in a Sixth Graders Life: An Examination of How Attending a Religious School Affects Students Views of Religion, Caroline Bohn
Department: Religious Studies
Writing From the Belly of a Paradow: Thomas Merton and the Recovery of the Christian Experience Through Zen, David J. Cooper
Department: Religious Studies; English
Effects of Hellenization on the Oral and Written Tradition of the Sefer Yetzirah and the Beginning of the Kabbalah, Christopher A. M. Coughlin
Department: Religious Studies
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, James F. Cubie
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy
Canonized Sexuality? Exploring Women's Sexuality within the Context of the Song of Songs, Elizabeth L. Feroe
"Many Faces of God: Individual Images of the Christian Deity and Their Interactions With Society", Rebecca J. McClintock
Department: Religious Studies
Abomination: a Controversy of Homosexuality in the Church, A. J. Moore
Department: Religious Studies
Identity Through Communalism: Politics and Religion Among Indian Muslims in the Century Before Partition, Dawn M. Packer
Department: Religious Studies; History
Education As Transformation: Connecting the Head and Heart Through a Pedagogy of Spirituality, Dana Sommers
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Holy Spirit: a Means of Empowerment and Relationship in The
Pentecostal Movement, Allen L. Weaver
Department: Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
A Study of Han Shan Poems: Songs of Cold Mountain in the Context of Chinese Religious Thought and Practice, Edward A. Burger
Department: Religious Studies
A Critical Exploration of African Oppression and Subsequent Means of Liberation, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
A Critical Exploration of African Oppressions and Subsequent Means of Liberations, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
Ordination of Women, Benjamin E. Harpster
Department: Religious Studies
Gender Biases of the Middle Ages Indicated By the Narrative Cycles of Two Thirteenth Century Italian Hagiographical Altarpieces Depicting Saint Francis and Saint Clare, Melanie Hartman
Department: Religious Studies
McGaw Chapel: A Wooster Revolution, Rowell A. Levy
Department: Religious Studies
Continuation, Pertinence and Evolution of the Catholic Worker Movement in Contemporary Society, Stott M. Shlaes
Department: Religious Studies
Critical Exploration of African Oppression and Subsequent Means of Liberation, Esther G. Tobey
Department: Religious Studies
Affliction and Attention: a Study of the Philosophy of Simone WeilAnd Its Connections to Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez, Shannon R. Vance
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997
Trancendence Amidst the Dogma of Fear and the Chaos of Truth: a Look Into the Radical Message of Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh, Erik R. Bloom
Department: Religious Studies
Aleister Crowley and "The Inelastic Mind", Spencer L. Dew
Department: Religious Studies
Black and White: a History of the Racial Theology of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845-1995, Wade C. Halva
Department: History; Religious Studies
Revision of Evil: the Ethical Systems Within the Teachings of Jesus and Lao Tzu, Aaron A. Hoffman
Department: Religious Studies
Critique of Three Churches From a Black Theology Perspective, Elizabeth A. Howe
Department: Religious Studies
Dreams and Dream Groups: Revitalizing Religious Experience in Late 20th Century America, Benjamin H. Larson
Department: Religious Studies
Faith, Youth, Calling, Short Term Mission, Prayer, Action, Faith, Christina H. McKean
Department: Religious Studies
Tradition Versus Translation: a Study of I Corinthians 3:1-5 With Regards to the Problem of Historical Accuracy, Sarah M. Morron
Department: Religious Studies
"Moving From Dependency to Autonomy: Liberation Theology's Critique of Capitalism and Hope For Latin America", Kristi K. Sanford
Department: Religious Studies
The Strength of Community: Liberation Theology in El Salvador and Guatemala, Juliana B. Taylor
Department: Religious Studies; Spanish
Religion and the Education of Muslim and Hindu Communities in America, Miriam J. Wahid
Department: Religious Studies
Mary Magdalene in Text: a Whore or Leader?, Heather M. Wilson
Department: Religious Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
God's By-Products and Other Discrepancies: A Critical Analysis of Plato's Magnesia and Liberation Theology as Viable Utopic Constructions in Relation to Mainline Christian Tradition, Courtney Caswell-Payton
Abortion: Evaluating the Moral Complexities of Reproductive Rights in the Realm of the Roman Catholic Church and the Supporters of Choice, Julie S. Grimm
Abortion: Evaluating the Moral Complexities of Reproductive Rights in the realm of the Roman Catholic Church and the Supporters of Choice, Julie Smyth Grimm
The Oppression of Muslim Women, Michael R. Mahler
The Oppression of Muslim Women, Michael Robert Mahler
Compassion: A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, Brian Sprouse
Compassion: A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, Brian Sprouse
Compassion: A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, Brian Sprouse
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995
Ritual Awakening: A Spiritual Rebirth for Veterans of the Vietnam War, Heather Marie Altstaetter
Department: Religious Studies
Revision of Paradise: The Apocalypse of Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Millennial Dream, Rebecca D. Boatright
Revision of Paradise: The Apocalypse of Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Millennial Dream, Rebecca D. Boatright
Revision of Paradise: The Apocalypse of Jehovah's Witnesses and the American Millennial Dream, Rebecca D. Boatright
Living as Fishers of Men: A Study and Application of Christ's Methods of Lifestyle Evangelism as Recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, Karen L. Gerber
Department: Religious Studies
Physican - Assisted Suicide : A Legal and Theological Perspective of Oregon Measure 16 the Death with Dignity Act, Debra Hartrum
Department: Religious Studies
Reflexive Rage, Racialism, and Religion: The Relationship Between the Christian Identity Movement and the Federal Government, Matthew Linsley
Department: Political Science; Religious Studies
Religion, Rhetoric, and Grassroots Political Organization: An In-Depth Examination of Christian Coalition and People for the American Way, Noah D. Parker
Religion, Rhetoric, and Grassroots Political Organization: An In-Depth Examination of Christian Coalition and People for the American Way, Noah D. Parker
The Relationship between Christianity and Generation X in the United States, Melissa Knight Shipley
Department: Religious Studies
The Concept of Denominational Identity with a Focus on the Presbyterian Church (USA), Robert Tonkin
Department: Religious Studies
Boundaries the Define God: Mormonism and Christianity, Christine M. Torres
Boundaries the Define God: Mormonism and Christianity, Christine M. Torres
Boundaries That Define God: Mormonism and Christianity, Christine Margaret Torres
Experiencing Jesus Through the Foursquare Gospel Church, Katherine Nash Williams
Department: Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
The Spirituality and Death Anxiety of Hospice Volunteers and Trainees: a Qualitative Research Study, Laura B. Abernethy
Department: Psychology; Religious Studies
A Limited Look at Comtemporary Ethical Discourse, Chad W. Coffman
Department: Religious Studies
Christian Morality and Its Influence on U.S. Legislation as Illustrated by Laws Pertaining to Homosexuality, Jane M. Erickson
Christian Morality and Its Influence on U.S. Legislation as Illustrated by Laws Pertaining to Homosexuality, Jane M. Erickson
Deepest Ecology and Eco-Justice, Daniel B. Jacobs
Spiritual Journeys, Robert C. Johnson
Department: Religious Studies
An Analysis of Nonviolence as a Mode of Social Reform: Then and Now, Eric D. Meyers
An Analysis of Nonviolence as a Mode of Social Reform: Then and Now, Eric D. Meyers
Legitimacy, Ethnicity, and Multiple Traditions in Two Pan-Indian Religions, Rebecca J. Mullin
Legitimacy, Ethnicity, and Multiple Traditions in Two Pan-Indian Religions, Rebecca J. Mullin
Civil Religion and American Society: The Possibility of a Prophetic National Faith in America, Carrie F. Phillips
An Exegesis of a Tibetan Buddhist Text Mahamudra: Distinguishing the Provisional from the Definitive Meaning, Emese O. Vudy
Hindutva: A Viable Political Movement?, Chitralekha Zutshi
Department: History; Religious Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Images of God and Gender Socialization, Heather A. Brandstetter
The Complex of Peyotism in Native American Religion, Charles R. Gall
The Complex of Peyotism in Native American Religion, Charles R. Gall
The Complex of Peyotism in Native American Religion, Charles R. Gall
The New Age Movement and Native America Spiritual Traditions: Appropriation and Use, Jeffery Scott Mettee
Lost Sheep Theology: a Study of Graham Greene's Catholic Novels, Emily E. Riley
Department: Religious Studies
Challenges to the Realist Claim that Ethics and National Interest Are Antithetical: an Examination of the Paradigms of Moralism and Realism and Their Effects on International Relations, Alissa N. Steelman
Department: History; Religious Studies
Exposing the Myths: Rethinking the Christian Justification for the Human Domination of the Animal World, Lea K. Zawatski
Department: Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992
An Investigation and Critique of Robert Bellah's and Robert Wuthnow's Contemporary Discourse on American Civil Religion, Heather M. Finck
Department: Religious Studies
Housing, Homosexuality, and Christian Perspectives: The Wooster Fair Housing Debate, Martha E. Graham
Department: Religious Studies
Lessons Learned from the Edge: The White, U.S. Middle Class as an Agent of Recognition and Resistance within the Christian Context, Jessamyn A. Neuhaus
Department: Religious Studies
Zen and the Way of Language: A Critical Religious Examination of Language, Benjamin Kluyver Simon-Thomas
Department: Religious Studies; English
Zen in the United States: A Ritological Cross-Cultural Study, Kara S. Swinehart
Department: Religious Studies
Public Virtue - Private Rhetoric: One and the Same? A Study of the Influence of Religion on Politics in America, Jillian C. Truscott
Religion in the Worlds of John Irving; A Rule or a Prayer?, Laura Ward
Religion in the Worlds of John Irving: A Rule or a Prayer?, Laura Ward
Religion in the Worlds of John Irving: A Rule or a Prayer?, Laura Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Look Who's Missing: A Study of Young Adult Involvement in the Church, Barbara L. Bena
Incarnational Love: Theological Reflection on Sexuality, Love, and Justice, Adam M. Geary
Womanist Theology in Black Women's Narratives, Deborah L. Howe
Low Intensity Warfare: Warfare Waged in Defense of Violence, Craig Kauffman
Presbyterian Women in the Ministry and their Struggle for Equality, Jennifer G. Kenworthy
Approach of Protestant Missions in Korea, David H. Reeves
Approach of Protestant Missions in Korea, David H. Reeves
Women as Rabbis: Transformations in the Contemporary American Reform Movement, Elissa Fay Schwartz