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2009 Senior Integrative Essay (“Comps”) Titles

  • Metro-Evangelization: Faith, Religion, and Social Capital in American Metropolitan Politics
  • Mary Magdalene and Claims to Authority in Early Christianity
  • The Origins of Buddha Image in Early Indian Buddhism
  • The Bhikkhuni Debate in Sri Lanka
  • Faith in Suffering: Engaging James H. Cone and Delores S. Williams
  • Upright Before God: Seeking Job in the Protest Theologies of Elie Wiesel and David Blumenthal
  • I Heart Tibet: A Case Study of Modernity and Buddhist Pilgrimage
  • We Began to Live as Human Beings: Liberation and the Contemporary Ambedkar Buddhist Movement
  • Authority, Syncretism, and the Reconstruction of a Religion in Western Mongolia: An Exploration of Khoton Religion
  • Recycling the Myth: Orientalism, Buddhism, and a Modern Tibetan Identity
  • Ritual Ecstasy and the Shamans of Prehistory: An Archaeological Approach to the Study of Religion
  • Salvation dot com: Modern Paganism and Community Building in Cyberspace
  • The Deconstruction of the Imitatio Christi and the Obsolescence of Christian Martyrdom
  • A Comparison of Ecofeminist Theologies in Context: Rosemary Radord Ruether of the United States and Ivone Gebara of Brazil
  • Towards Christian Pluralism: Examining the Pluralist Theologies of Gordon Kaufman and John Hick
  • Shaheeds, Sannyasinis, and Self-Sacrifice: Applying Palestinian Suicide Bombing and Hindu Female Asceticism to Victor Turner's Theory of Sacrifice
  • Missional, Incarnational, Communal: An Emerging Church Ecclesiology
  • Guadalupe: Devotion, Identity, and Power
  • Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age: An Analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu's Sufism and Taoism
  • Jack Kerouac's Contribution to American Buddhism