Theses from 2024
The Proliferation of African American NONES and the Effects of Secularism on African American Culture, Willie Cartwright
Towards a Culturally Sensitive Psychiatry: Lessons from Thomas Adeoye Lambo, Alapa P. Odugbo
Theses from 2022
The Role of Arabic Grammar in Tafsīr: An Analysis of Iʿrāb al-Jumal in Mughnī al-Labīb and al-Kashshāf, Egbal A. Almahatwary
Political Religion and the American Dream, Ruben A. Lebron Villegas
The Role of Perennialist Thought in the Development of Psychedelic Research in the United States, Nathan Keele Springer
The Role of Perennialist Thought in the Development of Psychedelic Research in the United States, Nathan Keele Springer
Theses from 2021
Rastafari: A Modern Method of Marronage, Melvin Douglas
Prana in Prison: An Analysis of Teacher-Student Dynamics in the Teaching of Trauma-Informed, Mindfulness-Based Yoga to Incarcerated Youth in Atlanta, Georgia, Vladimir Tchakarov
Theses from 2020
Affirming Theologies and Transgender Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Catherine E. Moore
Theses from 2018
Religious Symbolism in August Wilson’s the Piano Lesson, Pedro E. Alvarado
The Classification of Artificial Intelligence as "Social Actors", Mallory Reed
Theses from 2017
Not on My Watch: Moral Trauma and Moral Injury Among Combat Medics, Courtney Benshoof
I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: A History of Transgender Identity and What It Means For Progressive Christianity, Clara Monique Deal Barlow
Altered Bodies, Altared Art: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Pandrogeny, Andrew Lee
The Slaves' Devil: The Parallel between Experiences of Slavery and Christian Conversion, Brandon Render
Theses from 2016
Faith in the Fandom: Finding Meaning and Identity in Works of Science Fiction, Lauren M. Cooper
Civil Rights and the Theology of Atonement, Joy Spann
Embodied Contestation: Alternative Ritual Conclusions on the Camino de Santiago, Clare Van Holm
Theses from 2015
Sankofa Healing: A Womanist Analysis of the Retrieval and Transformation of African Ritual Dance, Karli Sherita Robinson-Myers
Moral Injury on the Home Front: Can a New Approach Provide Fresh Insight into Spirituality and Alcoholism?, Edward Van Herik
Theses from 2014
The Way They Never Were: Nationalism, Landscape, and Myth in Irish Identity Construction, Natalie Barber
In the Shadow of the Beast: The Impact of Aleister Crowley on New Religious Movements and Contemporary Culture, Robert Jones
Theses from 2013
Dispositional Religiosity:Religion in the Context of Life Narratives, Suzanne Giovanna Degnats
Contemplative Studies in Context, Bishal Karna
A Reception History of Gilgamesh as Myth, Nicholas R. Newell
How to Weaponize a Philosopher: Hobbes' Deadly Arsenal, James Webb
Flesh as Text[ile]: How Toci's Embodiment in Ochpaniztli Provides an Alternative Reading of Aztec Gender, Kathryn Yates
Theses from 2012
Bad Religion: How Ex-Mormon Fiction Reinforces Normative Views of American Religion, Ilani S. Blanke
The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Dance: Nietzschean Transitions in Nijinsky's Ballets, Sarah Levine
Contemplating Convivencia: Cosmopolitanism, Exclusivism and Religious Identity in Iberia, John F. Sullivan II
Theses from 2011
Religious Freedom or Child Abuse' Drawing the Line between Free Excercise and Crimes against Children in Georgia, Christina G. Bennett
Raising the Voice for Communion and Conquest: Hymn Singing in Contact among the Brainerd Missionaries and the Cherokees, 1817-1838, Gavin M. Cooper
Redescribing Agency through Sport and Ritual: Considering an Alternative Approach, Bethanie Harsh
Hagiography, Teratology, and the "History" of Michael Jackson, Kelly M. O'Riley
Sacrilege in the Sanctuary: Thucydidean Perspectives on the Violation of Sacred Space during the Peloponnesian War, Suzanne Y. Tryon
Theses from 2010
Bhaktivedanta Swami's American Scripture, Christa Marie Lasher
Can We Be Forgiven?: On "Impossible" and "Communal" Forgiveness in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology, Joshua Scott Lupo
The Brain on Ritual: How Tantric Puja Shapes the Mind, Sherry Lynn Morton
A Hermeneutical Examination of Creation in Islam at Georgia State University, Ndola M'Balia Owuo-Hagood
The Audacity of Faith: A Study of Barack Obama's Religious Views and How they could Shape his United States Presidency, Zachary Ross
Mythmaking from the Fringe to the Center: The Appropriation of Barack Obama in an Emergent UFO- Based Religious Movement and in Mainstream American Culture, Kenneth Paul Smith
Theses from 2009
The Red Tent a Case Study for Feminist Midrash, Karen Flagg
Changing Narratives, Changing Destiny: Myth, Ritual and Afrocentric Identity Construction at the National Rites of Passage Institute, Michael Karlin
To Cover Our Daughters: A Modern Chastity Ritual in Evangelical America, Holly Adams Phillips
Theses from 2008
The Shrine of our Lady of Ephesus: A Study of the Personas of Mary as Lived Religion, Heather Abraham
The Significance of Jesus' Healing Miracles: A Study of their Role in the Synoptic Gospels and their Importance to Early Christianity, John Morgan Cadenhead
Wiccan Marriage and American Marriage Law: Interactions, Jeanelle Marie Carda
The Value of Buddhist Responses to Issues of Overpopulation, Overconsumption, and Environmental Degradation, James H. Hitchcock
The Making of an Image: The Narrative Form of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, Katherine Amanda Milby
Nietzsche as Interpreter: Against the Religious and Secular Appropriations, John D. Rivenbark
Theses from 2007
Liberation Gospel: A Study of Contemporary Radical Liberal Theology and Practice in the Southern United States, Jeannie Malena Alexander
A Euro-American 'Ulama? Mu'tazilism, (Post)Modernity, and Minority Islam, Anthony Robert Byrd
On the Viability of a Pluralistic Bioethics, Christopher Durante
The Spectacle of the Sotah: A Rabbinic Perspective on Justice and Punishment, Andrew Durdin
Distinction without Separation: Challenging Contemporary Yoga-Christian Praxis Dialogue Through a Comparison of Striving and Personal Transformation in the Yoga-S?tra and the Life of Moses, Scott William Hodgman
Loose Canon on Deck: How Contemporary Christians React to Media Portrayals of Faith, Beliefs, and Rituals, Mitchell L. Leopard
Labors of Authenticity: The Function of Spirituality and the Construction of Selfhood in the American Business, James Dennis LoRusso
Mary of Magdala: The Evolution of an Image, Rachel D. Owen
Death in Sacred Harp, Jessica Tilley
Theses from 2006
Goddess Dethroned: The Evolution of Morgan le Fay, Dax Donald Carver
Fundamentalism and Modernity: A Critique of the "Anti-Modern" Conception of Fundamentalism, Andrew Charles Hoffmeister
Can Religion Help? Using John Howard Yoder and Mohandas Gandhi to Conceptualize New Approaches to Intractable Social and Political Problems such as Violence and War, Gregory T. Keeter
Shankara: A Hindu Revivalist or a Crypto-Buddhist?, Kencho Tenzin