This page contains honors theses produced by senior Religious Studies majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.
Theses from 2024
Organically Grown: The Sprouting Eco-Kashrut Movement, Miriam Phoebe Stern
Theses from 2023
Of Pawos and Bodhisattvas: The Poltico-Religious Language of Tibetan Self-Immolation, John Henry Waugh Cantor
Gardens of Oppression: In Search of Her Delight, Khushi Choudhary
The Mark of the Beast, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the End of the World, Alice M. Cockerham
Theses from 2021
Laying the Groundwork: Desert Spaces and the Sacralization of U.S. Settler Colonialism, Anna-Elena Maheu
Theses from 2020
“Your Favorite Rapper’s a Christian Rapper”: Chance the Rapper’s Creation of a New Community of Christian Hip Hop Through His Use of Religious Discourse on the 2016 Mixtape Coloring Book, Samuel Patrick Glenn
"One" and "I": Dimensions of Ritual Unity and Individuality in the Liturgical Practice of the Catholic Nicene Creed, Jack M. McLarnon
Theses from 2018
The Construction of a New Religion: L. Ron Hubbard's Use of Religious Discourse in the Transformation of Dianetics into Scientology, Robert John Daniels