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Service Beyond Bars: How Correctional Chaplains Mediate the Movement of Religion in Prisons and Jails This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2028-05-18
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Lia F. Kornmehl
Access: Embargoed
Visions of Unity, Memories of Violence: American Civil Religion and the Japanese American Incarceration
Date: 2018-05-01
Creator: Brigitte Helene McFarland
Access: Open access
The Sacralization of Absolute Power: God's Power and Women's Subordination in the Southern Baptist Convention
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Sydney Smith
Access: Open access
Religion and science in the Eastern mediterranean
Date: 2016-09-01
Creator: Robert Morrison
Access: Open access
- “Science and Orthodox Christianity: An Overview” is an ambitious survey that reminds scholars of science in Islamic societies that the conversation between Islam and science is really a conversation between Islam and science in different contexts and that conversations between Islam and science can be found with less renowned scientific developments such as prophetic medicine. This response points out parallels in how Greek Orthodox and Ottoman Muslim scholars mediated new developments in Western European science and in how both Greek Orthodox and some Ottoman Muslim scholars propounded a mathematical humanism. Finally, it argues that the account of post-1453 scientific exchange is more complex than “Science and Orthodox Christianity” intimates. At the least, if there was no scholarly exchange between Greek Orthodox Christians, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, Muslims and Jews—who, in turn, enjoyed scholarly exchange with the West well after 1453—there are clearly two different Easts.
Religious Negotiation and Identity Formation: Reading Material Religion in Oaxaca’s “Guelaguetza Oficial”
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Rene Sebastian Cisneros
Access: Open access
- The Oaxacan Guelaguetza Oficial is a folk-dance festival in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico which takes place on the last two Mondays of July each year. This state-sponsored celebration of Oaxacan identity is intertwined within histories of Indigenous religious belief and Catholic everyday practice. The Guelaguetza Oficial can be traced back to late 19thcentury celebrations venerating the Virgen del Carmen Alto. Oaxaqueños today predominantly practice an Indigenous-Catholic tradition whose rituals, festive scripts, pantheon of popular saints, and immanent understandings of heavenly power over earthly events can be traced back to negotiations between Indigenous forms of popular belief and institutionalized Catholic practice. Through historical and present-day religious tensions between existing modes of Indigenous religious belief and institutionalized Oaxacan Catholic practice, this thesis asserts that while Indigeneity often represented an obstacle to different structures of power in Mexican history, hegemonic institutions eventually came to accept the lasting presence of Indigenous identity and religious life to varying degrees within Mexican society and culture. This resulting reading of Guelaguetza demonstrates how religion is fundamentally implicated in the history of public festival and popular culture in Oaxaca. Furthermore, this thesis argues that Indigenous-Catholicism has not lost its prominence in public space in Oaxaca despite the reforms of post-1910 Oaxacan state and Mexican national politics and the effects of globalized neoliberal economies in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Jackson David Lakowsky Hansen
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The Scientists of The Dawnland: Reframing the Boundaries of Knowledge Through Wabanaki Epistemologies
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jonah Bussgang
Access: Open access
- This honors project explores how Wabanaki scientists navigate and reshape dominant paradigms of science, land use, and education by strategically integrating Western science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Through theoretical and historical analysis alongside three ethnographic interviews, I show how Indigenous knowledge is not simply surviving within colonial systems but actively transforming them from within. Framing the work through the concept of etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), I examine how my interviewees—Dr. Suzanne Greenlaw, Sam St. John, and Tyler Everett—use science as a relational, spiritual, and community-based practice to support cultural continuity and natural resource protection. Their work challenges the dominant binaries between science and religion, objectivity and identity, and knowledge and responsibility. They engage with Western institutions on their own terms to support their communities and uphold Wabanaki sovereignty. While the work of Indigenous scientists is increasingly studied across the U.S. and globally, Wabanaki communities remain underrepresented in this discourse. This project helps fill that gap and calls on Bowdoin College to invest more seriously in reciprocal relationships with Wabanaki communities, including institutional collaboration and the hiring of Indigenous faculty.
Between Orientalism, Tradition, and Nationalism:
Building Jewish Identity in Twentieth-century Libya
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Jonathan Gordon Lerdau
Access: Open access
- Libyan Jewry and Jews of the Italian peninsula have engaged in near-constant interaction at least as far back as the time of the Roman empire. This project seeks to add to the history of those interactions by discussing Italian Jewish colonial impacts on the Libyan Jewish population. Using ideas of Orientalism and the imagined nation, this project demonstrates how Libyan Jewish identity was shaped by interaction with Italy and how Italian Jews worked colonially to subjugate, define, and change Libyan Jewry. Through analyzing–among other things–newspapers, scholarship, and general Italian Jewish discussion of and interaction with Libyan Jews, I show how Italian Jews (and elite Libyan Jews) worked to Italianize and later ‘Hebraicize’ the Libyan Jewish community..