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








