Current Search: Undergraduate Honors Theses (x) » Department of Religion (x)
Search results
(1 - 5 of 5)
- Title
- Anyone Can Protest, Only We Can Save Souls: Authority and Dissent in a Brazilian Christian Church.
- Creator
-
Porter, Jacqueline N., Department of Religion
- Abstract/Description
-
More and more, religion scholars question the usefulness of the category of "religion." Many reject presumptions that what "religion" signifies is unique, universal, inherently meaningful, and, perhaps more importantly, self-evidently "religious." Scholars have therefore reconceived "religion" as a modern technology fabricated as a private domain intended to contain political dissent. Such arguments, however, depend on a distinction between the religious and the political rather particular to...
Show moreMore and more, religion scholars question the usefulness of the category of "religion." Many reject presumptions that what "religion" signifies is unique, universal, inherently meaningful, and, perhaps more importantly, self-evidently "religious." Scholars have therefore reconceived "religion" as a modern technology fabricated as a private domain intended to contain political dissent. Such arguments, however, depend on a distinction between the religious and the political rather particular to North America. My project, in contrast, aims to explore these categories through a history and ethnography of the lives of contemporary Brazilian evangelical Christians belonging to the International Church of Christ (ICOC). I take issue specifically with the narrowness by which recent arguments have defined "politics," arguing for a more nuanced understanding of what the political is in relation to local forms of religious organization in the Brazilian ICOC.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0444
- Format
- Thesis
- Title
- Irreconcilable Worlds: A Shift in the Relationship between Japanese Women and the Other World beginning with Literature from the 1950s.
- Creator
-
Evans, Jessica M., Department of Religion
- Abstract/Description
-
There has been a shift in how the relationship between Japanese women and the other world is portrayed in Japanese popular culture: the shift is important because it reflects societal beliefs that have undergone a drastic alteration. This previously unsuccessful and death-ridden relationship has recently seen the addition of successful endings in the 1980s. This shift can be seen in both literature and folk tales. According to Ian Reader, folk tales can be regarded as folk religion, which in...
Show moreThere has been a shift in how the relationship between Japanese women and the other world is portrayed in Japanese popular culture: the shift is important because it reflects societal beliefs that have undergone a drastic alteration. This previously unsuccessful and death-ridden relationship has recently seen the addition of successful endings in the 1980s. This shift can be seen in both literature and folk tales. According to Ian Reader, folk tales can be regarded as folk religion, which in turn reflects the beliefs of the common people.1 As such, ancient tales and The Legends of Tono can all be seen as representing contemporary beliefs of the other world by the people. Folklore recorded in the Kojiki and Fudoki can be read as reflecting societal beliefs, and the shift seen in my sources can therefore reflect a change in society. More modern literature also illustrates a belief in the other world, as can be seen in works from the 1980s, such as Kitchen and Alseep by Banana Yoshimoto, as well as in manga. All of the stories I will examine below feature a relationship between Japanese women and the other world. Looking at literature may help us to better understand religious changes in modern society, by investigating the mangas and literary depictions of successful relationships.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0470
- Format
- Thesis
- Title
- Local Diets, Global Foods: The Dietary Habits of Ivorian Immigrants in the United States.
- Creator
-
Rojas, Alfredo, Department of Religion
- Abstract/Description
-
Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral...
Show moreFood production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral relationships persist abroad. My fieldwork among West African immigrants in Atlanta, GA reveals that immigrants use mass-produced African foods to sustain their diets and moral relationships in order to avoid foods produced in the United States. In the United States, immigrant women usually cook for themselves, their husbands, and friends. Men with no strong moral ties to an African woman may have to resort to fast food unless they can cook. My research attempts to explain these relationships.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0333
- Format
- Thesis
- Title
- Local Diets, Global Foods: The Dietary Habits of Ivorian Immigrants in the United States.
- Creator
-
Rojas, Alfredo J., Department of Religion
- Abstract/Description
-
Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral...
Show moreFood production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands and wives assume mutual tasks to produce food for their families. Women cook meals, tend gardens, and run urban markets while men hunt game or harvest crops. Thus, men and women rely on each other for food. My research aims to show how these gendered, moral relationships persist abroad. My fieldwork among West African immigrants in Atlanta, GA reveals that immigrants use mass-produced African foods to sustain their diets and moral relationships in order to avoid foods produced in the United States. In the United States, immigrant women usually cook for themselves, their husbands, and friends. Men with no strong moral ties to an African woman may have to resort to fast food unless they can cook. My research attempts to explain these relationships.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0469
- Format
- Thesis
- Title
- A Transcription and Preliminary Analysis of the Latin Text of Book Six of Josephus' Jewish War in St. Gallen Latin Ms 627.
- Creator
-
Leach, Chelsea, Department of Religion
- Abstract/Description
-
This thesis presents a transcription and preliminary analysis of the Latin text of book 6 of Josephus' Jewish War found in the 9th century St. Gallen Codex 627. This is the first transcription of any book of the fifth- or sixth-century Latin translation of the Jewish War, a translation that was one of the most widely disseminated works in the medieval Christian West. The transcription includes all corrections and glosses in the manuscript as well as all readings from two other important...
Show moreThis thesis presents a transcription and preliminary analysis of the Latin text of book 6 of Josephus' Jewish War found in the 9th century St. Gallen Codex 627. This is the first transcription of any book of the fifth- or sixth-century Latin translation of the Jewish War, a translation that was one of the most widely disseminated works in the medieval Christian West. The transcription includes all corrections and glosses in the manuscript as well as all readings from two other important manuscripts, Vatican Latin 1992 (10th century) and Cologne Latin 163 (12th century), that differ from St. Gallen 627. A comparison of an extended sample from the St. Gallen manuscript with forty-nine other manuscripts establishes a close relationship with two other manuscripts: Einsiedeln Latin 345, and British Library 39645. An analysis of the differences among St. Gallen 627, Einsiedeln 345 and BL 39645 in the sample passage demonstrates that they ultimately depend upon a common source rather than any one being directly dependent on another. A preliminary analysis of the scribal hands and orthography of the manuscripts confirms earlier work that posited two different 9th century scribes responsible for almost all of book 6. In addition to confirming an earlier analysis that identified a twelfth-century hand in a page of book 6 that replaced a damaged or lost page, the thesis identifies for the first time an additional 12th century replacement page in another part of book 6. Comparison of the scribal hand in these two replacement pages and in another replacement page found in book 1 suggests that while the hands are very close, some differences can be observed, leading to the possibility that the replacement pages are the work of different scribes. Analysis of the corrections for the first part of book 6 establishes that the correctors made at least some of their corrections on the basis of other manuscripts to which they had access.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0152
- Format
- Thesis
