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According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonm [...]
29 July 2024 |
Divinity School |
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Large portions of Eckhart’s writings are dedicated to urging his readers to adopt a specific way of life aimed at achieving union with the divinity. He argues that t [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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My dissertation provides an intellectual history of attempts within the German Dominican School between 1200 and 1361 to define and demarcate the relationship between [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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A Blaxican Theology explores the relationship between race and religion by exploring two racial categories-- mestizaje and Blackness-- and how they become integrated into [...]
2024-08 |
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“The Antitheses of Religion: Marx, Materialism, and the Making of American Religious Studies” critically examines the category of materiality in the study of religion [...]
2024-08 |
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This dissertation integrates insights from metaethical constructivism and enactive cognitive science to rehumanize both “religiously” and “secularly” grounded mor [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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The present dissertation represents a constructive cross-cultural analysis of the philosophical problem of relation (Sanskrit: sambandha). This involves general theoretic [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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“Energy Selves: The Vital Minds and Bodies of American Spiritual Practitioners” examines theories of “Energy” as a psychospiritual substance that are produced by [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation critically examines the imaginative habits of a strand of environmentalism characterized by its preoccupation with transforming the worldviews of other [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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Ancient Israel and Judea existed under the shadow of the great empires of their time. These empires were built around the notion of sovereignty. But how did ancient Israe [...]
2024-08 |
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This dissertation, titled “A Different Path to Jewish Modernity: Counter-Enlightenment Responses of Philosophies of Halakhah to German Idealism in the Twentieth Century [...]
2024-08 |
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This dissertation explores how trauma and sexual injury have been deployed in feminist theories and theologies, with attention to conceptions of the human, structural vio [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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Synthetic biology allows us to reuse, repurpose, and reconfigure biological systems to address society’s most pressing challenges. Developing biotechnologies in this wa [...]
26 June 2024 |
Divinity School |
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18 June 2024 |
Divinity School |
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The article develops a concept of “secular religiosity” to characterize “post-traditional” Jewish affiliation as an individual and private matter, which the socio [...]
13 June 2024 |
Divinity School |
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“Mythical Night: Religion and the Unconscious of History” retrieves the category of myth as a critical term for the study of religion. It does so by turning to the in [...]
2024-08 |
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This dissertation examines complex theological-philosophical speculations concerning the concept of nonbeing, or meontology, in the classical period of Islam. The concept [...]
2024-06 |
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“A Sickness of Tradition: Ambivalence and Identity in Early Twentieth Century French Jewish Thought” offers a new lens to think about the canon of thinkers who have c [...]
2024-06 |
Divinity School |
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The Carolingian era has hitherto been largely neglected by scholarship investigating the meaning of beauty in Christian thought. This dissertation begins the project of r [...]
2024-08 |
Divinity School |
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This talk discusses the unsavory aspects of the legacy of Harold H. Swift which have been officially ignored by the University of Chicago and beyond. I show that he was a [...]
26 October 2021 |
Divinity School |
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This dissertation argues that human dignity is best understood as an act. The conventional view promotes institutions that reinforce social hierarchies in Brazil. Premise [...]
2024-03 |
Divinity School |
Dissertation |
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The relationship between the calamities of Joel 1:2-2:11 remains an unsettled problem. This article contributes to discussion of the problem by attending to what the spea [...]
10 January 2024 |
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This paper reconsiders the relationship between esoteric or tantric Buddhism and Zen in premodern Japan. Taking the teachings of Enni 圓爾 (1202–1280) and early moder [...]
05 December 2023 |
Divinity School |
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This essay offers a statement and defense of four core claims of my work, Why Study Religion? Those are: (1) the field of religious studies is preoccupied by procedural m [...]
07 December 2023 |
Humanities |
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This paper addresses the relationship between Zen and tantric or esoteric Buddhism in premodern Japan from the point of view of the Buddhas and Buddha bodies considered t [...]
12 December 2023 |
Divinity School |
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