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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...