Come join us for the Religious Studies Department Senior Comprehensives! (Afternoon tea included)
Lucky Looby: "The Untenability of Ideologies of Purity: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses as Critique of Khomeini's Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran"
Ellie Alberg: "Feeding the Transnational Orishas: Factors in the Resilience and Adaptability of Santeria"
Emily West: "Narrating the Royal Kumari: Debates Over Agency and Secularism in the Role of a Living Goddess in Nepal"
Pai Miller: "Hechicería and Hierarchy: Isabel Duarte de la Cruz and Women's Subversion of Power Through 'Witchcraft'"
Ivy Salinas: "Charity Revisioned: Creating Artistic Bridges Between the Sacred and Secular Through the Patronage and Creation of Chapel Environments"
Naomi Brauner: "Community and Difference: The American Moral Experience--How Love and Solidarity Can Guide Us"
Sophia Vallas: "The Imitatio Game: An Exploration of the Shift from Imitatio Christi to Imitatio Martyri in Christian Martyrdoms"
Franny Hutchins: "American Folk Piety in The Exorcist: The Decline of Organized Religion and the Recovery of Catholic Exorcisms in the United States"
Olivia Tenney: "The Greater Reason: Emotion in the Cultivation of Wisdom--A Neitzchean Critique of Metaphysics Applied to Contemporary Life Philosophy"