Composing the Book of Jeremiah: Relocating the Oracles against the Nations in the Masoretic Text
Honors College Theses
Part of the Religion Commons
Works in Religion
2023
2022
Euthyphro's 'Problem' of Divine Inspiration: Comments on Taylor Baker's ‘The Euthyphro Problem in Plato's Cratylus
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Spreading the Dharma is a Double-Edged Sword: Himalayan Buddhist Women as Messengers and Storytellers
M. Alyson Prude
A Reexamination of Marginal Religious Specialists: Himalayan Messengers from the Dead
M. Alyson Prude
Book Review: Fearless in Tibet: The Life of the Mystic Tertön Sogyal by Matteo Pistono
M. Alyson Prude
Book Review: Pilgrim of the Clear Light: The Biography of Walter Y. Evans-Wentz by Ken Winkler
M. Alyson Prude
2021
When the Death Process Reverses: At What Point are the Dead truly Dead?
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Techniques for Teaching Buddhism to Christian Students
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
2020
Book Symposium: Trevor Tchir, Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Action: Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who’
Karin Fry
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI’S “CANTICLE OF THE SUN.” THE BEGINNING OF ITALIAN LITERATURE AND THE SACRALITY OF NATURE AND THE MEDIEVAL BIRTH OF THE MODERN ECOLOGICAL CULTURE.
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
The Illusiveness of Translating Holiness
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites
Department of Curriculum, Foundations, & Reading Faculty Publications
Weaponizing Religion: A Document Analysis of the Religious Indoctrination of Slaves in Service of White Labor Elites
Edward A. Muhammad
2019
Book Symposium: Trevor Tchir, Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Political Action: Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who’
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Child-Protecting/Nurturing-Oriented Cultural/Religious Practices in East Asia: Reports and Observations from China and Japan
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
2018
Did Tuscan Dioceses Confessionalize in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries?
Kathleen M. Comerford
From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays in Honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.
Kathleen M. Comerford
Ordaining the Catholic Reformation: Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675
Kathleen M. Comerford
Post-Tridentine Tuscan Seminaries: Collaboration between City-State and Church?
Kathleen M. Comerford
Politics, Gender, and Belief. The Long-Term Impact of the Reformation: Essays in Memory of Robert M. Kingdon
Kathleen M. Comerford
Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education
Kathleen M. Comerford
Teaching Priests to be Pastors: Comparing Jesuit Schools and Diocesan Seminaries in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Kathleen M. Comerford
What Did Early Modern Priests Read? The Library of the Seminary of Fiesole, 1646-1715
Kathleen M. Comerford
The Historiography of the Jesuits in the Italian Peninsula and Islands before the Suppression
Kathleen M. Comerford
‘I Can’t Imagine It Won’t Bear Fruit’: Jesuits, Politics and Heretics in Siena, Montepulciano and Lucca
Kathleen M. Comerford
“The Care of Souls Is a Very Grave Burden for [The Pastor]”: Professionalization of Clergy in Early Modern Florence, Lucca, and Arezzo
Kathleen M. Comerford
A Generation Comes of Age: The New Histories of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Catholicism in Italy
Kathleen M. Comerford
Jesuits as Global Citizens: Geography and World History in European Jesuit Libraries
Kathleen M. Comerford
Were Diocesan Priests in Tuscan Towns Really ‘Agents of the Counter Reformation’?
Kathleen M. Comerford
‘The Cure of Souls is Burdensome for [the Pastor]’ or: We Didn’t Invent the Mission Statement in the 20th Century
Kathleen M. Comerford
‘I Can’t Imagine It Won’t Bear Fruit’: Jesuits, Politics and Heretics in Siena and Neighboring Regions
Kathleen M. Comerford
‘Our Schools’ and Theirs: Comparing Jesuit and Diocesan Education in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Kathleen M. Comerford
"Timbuktu" ou comment expliquer le djihad aux nuls
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
“A Dark, Abiding, Signing Africanist Presence” in Walker Percy’s Dr. Tom More Novels
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Hannah Arendt and Philosophical Influence
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
2017
Tibetan Delogs and their Cosmologies of Hell
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Spreading the Dharma is a Double-Edged Sword: Himalayan Buddhist Women as Messengers and Storytellers
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Epistemology of Religious Experience
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Socio-Cultural and Socio-Linguistic Functions of Nursery Names in Rural China
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
2016
The Semantics and Semiotics of Fitnah
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
The Best Way to Die: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender among Nepali Delogs
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Presentations
Book Review: Pilgrim of the Clear Light: The Biography of Walter Y. Evans-Wentz by Ken Winkler
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
2015
Cosimo I dei Medici’s Cooperation with the Jesuits in Creating a Christian Realm in His Expanding State
Kathleen M. Comerford
Jesuit Tuscan Libraries of the 1560s and 1570s: "Bibliotheca" not-yet "Selecta"
Kathleen M. Comerford
Questions of Body and Spirit: Bringing Tibetan Studies Research into the Undergraduate Classroom
M. Alyson Prude
Bringing Polychoral Composition into the Virtual Era
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
The Significance of a Religious Pilgrimage in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
The First Pontiff: Expansion of Papal Authority Under Damasus I (366-384)
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Truth and Metaphor in Ibn Taymiyah
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Dynamics of Religiosity in Contemporary Spanish Soccer as Portrayed in José Luis Sampedro’s That Saintly Day in Madrid
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
El Informe al virrey, 1693 de Damian Mazanet: El papel de la alteridad y el biopoder en el desprecio de un fraile hacia los indigenas tejanos
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
2014
Politics, Gender, and Belief. The Long-Term Impact of the Reformation: Essays in Memory of Robert M. Kingdon
Department of History Faculty Bookshelf
The Hypothesized Benefits of Religious Fundamentalism
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of Loyola: The Quest for the Historical Ignatius
Department of History Faculty Presentations
Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of Loyola: The Quest for the Historical Ignatius
Kathleen M. Comerford
Extraordinary Women, Ordinary Lives: Personal narratives of contemporary female delogs
M. Alyson Prude
The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson
Library Events and Exhibits
2013
Religious Concepts Are Easy to Acquire but Scientific Concepts Are Hard: A Cultural Epidemiological or a Pedagogical Problem?
D. Jason Slone
Not Just about Eleonora: Women and Support for Jesuit Colleges in Tuscany, 1547-1621
Kathleen M. Comerford
A Classroom of Bunnies, Blimps, and Werewolves: Teaching Asian Religions Online in Second Life
M. Alyson Prude
Why is Evolution Harder to Teach than Creationism? Exploring a Cultural Epidemiological Puzzle
D. Jason Slone
The Bible and Healing Traditions of the Gullah Geechee People.
Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development Faculty Presentations
2012
Academic Mission Creep: Advice from the Trenches on How to Live your Life and Still Get Tenure
Kathleen M. Comerford
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
2011
Confrontation and Compromise: Cosimo I dei Medici’s Program for Creating a Christian Realm
Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions by Luke Clossey
Kathleen M. Comerford
Review of La Biblioteca del Collegio dei Gesuiti di Trento edited by Claudio Fedele, Italo Franceschini, and Adriana Paolini
Kathleen M. Comerford
Book Review: Buddhism and Daoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China by Christine Mollier
M. Alyson Prude
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
2010
The Body in and Beyond Death: Questions of Corporeality in a Tibetan Buddhist Context
M. Alyson Prude
Is Religion about Biology More than Theology? Sexual Selection Theory and Religiosity
D. Jason Slone
Why Women Cheat (Death) More Often than Men: A Look at Gender through the Lens of the Delog
M. Alyson Prude
Mutual Conquests: Jesuit and Medici Strategies for the Control of Tuscany, 1550s-1650s
Kathleen M. Comerford
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, The Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
2009
Review of Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
D. Jason Slone
African Americans and the Bible in American Culture
Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development Faculty Presentations
Review of Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: Teachers, Pupils and Schools, c. 1250-1500 by Robert D. Black
Kathleen M. Comerford
2008
The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East"
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
2007
Kids these days…are a lot like kids those days: The neurological anchor on cultural change
D. Jason Slone
Contextualizing counterintuitiveness: How context affects comprehension and memorability of counterintuitive concepts
D. Jason Slone
Prince among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold into Slavery in the American South
Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys
2006
Theology isn’t what folks think: Experimental evidence for the ‘minimally counter-intuitiveness’ hypothesis
D. Jason Slone
2005
It’s Hard to Imagine What God Looks Like: Imagery Effects on the Recall of Counterintuitive Concepts
D. Jason Slone
Cognitive contributions to the social construction of religion hypothesis: Or, experimental studies which show that postmodernists are (half) right
D. Jason Slone
Review of Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms by R.N. McCauley and E.T. Lawson
D. Jason Slone
2004
Escribiendo desde el margen de la colonia. La autobiografía de Sor Catalina de Jesús Herrera
Diana Serrano
A Generation Comes of Age: The New Histories of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Catholicism in Italy
Department of History Faculty Presentations
2003
Inferring fortune from force: Transfer violations of mechanical causality in luck beliefs
D. Jason Slone