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True love waits? : an examination of the motives and methods of the True Love Waits organization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
True Love Waits was created in 1993 with the intention of encouraging teens to refrain from premarital sexual activity. Despite the efforts of TLW most studies show rates of sexual activity for teens have remained relatively ...
"Until God shall visit the Earth" : the role of covenant theology in the Qumran movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Since their discovery, the Qumran community and the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls have often been viewed through the lens of contemporary and later religious groups, such as the Pharisees, Sadducees, or Christians. In this ...
We shall see God face to face : crossroads in Augustine's journey of the soul
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Augustine of Hippo is commonly described as an instrumental figure in the gradual development of modern human identity. He is thought to envision the ...
Inequality in the rhetoric of Buddhist-kami relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Buddhism has long been praised and viewed as religion that embraces other faiths without compromising itself or the other religion. In history, Buddhism has been thought to meld with the indigenous traditions it encountered ...
Where the dancer meets her divine: dance as religious experience in the lives of Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This thesis begins with a simple question: Can seemingly-secular dance be a religious experience for an individual dancer? I investigate this question through specifically examining the lives of dancers Loie Fuller and ...
Returning god or blood sacrifice: what were Moctezuma's intentions toward Cortéz?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In my thesis I will be exploring why Moctezuma Xocoyotl, the leader of the Aztecs when they were conquered by the Spanish, sent Hernán Cortés, the leader of the invading Spanish, the sacred garments of three Aztec gods. ...
Religious literacy in the social work profession
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Multiculturalism and diversity are terms we hear about often in the United States. For many years now, the discourse about embracing multiculturalism and racial diversity has been a fact of life in the United States. The ...
The role of witchcraft accusations as an alternative form of self-expression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Witchcraft has been extensively dismissed or simplified in popular thought, media and scholarship as a negative force that aggravates social hostilities ...
Kolosalno! There Is Something Here...Power, Energy, The Future! Haunting, Steel, Progress, And The Urban Religious Landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The Buddha said that Buddha said so: a translation and analysis of "Purvayogaparivarta" from the Ratnaketu dharani sutra
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The present work is a translation and analysis of a particular variant of the second chapter of the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra, entitled "Pūrvayogaparivarta,” the provenance of which can be traced to Vikramādityanandi, the ...
Set and setting: interrelated determinants for psychointegrator and religious experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research looks at why different psychointegrators, in different geographic locations, in different cultures, are often all considered to be ...
Re-deliniating Paul's boundaries of porneia in the early church via the sexually available bodies of first-century slaves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This work attempts to re-delineate Paul's theological boundaries of sexual immorality, porneia, in the early church by way of the sexually available bodies of first-century slaves. While most scholars of Paul's ideas of ...