Senior Capstone courses are designed to provide a culminating experience to the religion major.
There are two paths to completing the capstone experience. One option is the RELG 401-402 sequence that is taken during the fall and spring semesters, respectively. This two-course sequence is designed for those who choose to research and write an extended research paper as a capstone experience.
The second option is RELG 405, Senior Readings Colloquium, which is only offered in the spring semester. This course is designed for students to have shared reflection about their academic work in the major through reading and writing reflections on common themes within the field of religion.
RELG 402 Senior Capstone - Projects Spring 2019
Katie Ryan-O'Flaherty
The Rural Urban Divide in Moroccan Walis
Shannon Silberhorn
Mary Church Terrell: Public and Private Motherhood
Bryton Smith
Nature of the Crescent: Humans and the Natural World in Genesis 1-11 and Mesopotamian Mythology
Sarah Williams
Body and Blood: Divine Violence in the Mystical Writings of Medieval Women
Jackson Zinn-Rowthorn
Authority, Abuse, and the Construction of Meaning in American Renzai Zen Communities
RELG 405 Senior Capstone - Projects Fall 2018
Sam Bailey
Out of the Ground: An Ecofeminist Response to Lynn White Jr.'s The Histroical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
Alex Broekhuijse
Medea's Madness: An Analysis of the Role of Religious Delusions in the Case of Andrea Yates
Evan Corey
The Market as God: Market Fundamentalist Rhetoric in a Christian Deist Framework
Linnea Halsten
The NoDAPL Resistance as a Practice of Sioux Religion
Emily Kelkar
Feminism through Temporary Marriage in Shi'I Iran
Megan Kenney
Becoming Change: Octavia Butler's "Earthseed" and Green Religious Revitalization
Keifer Ludwig
Not Just Cunning: The Existential Importance of the Kitsune Within a Mytho-Religious Framework
RELG 402 Senior Capstone - Projects Spring 2018
Ethan Aronson
A Covenantal Theology of Protest: The Jewish Tradition of Moral Confrontation with God
Owen Ellerkamp
Purifying the Sacred: How Hindu Nationalism Reshapes Environmentalism in Contemporary India
Claire Kotarski
Gay Shamans and Gatekeepers: Radical Faeries and the Implications of “Playing Indian” in the New Age
Rebecca Primoff
“Muscle Judaism”: The German Origins of Modern Israeli Masculinity
Frances Purcell
Rethinking the Purpose of Religion Education: Toward the Sociological Study of Religion in Public Schools
Daniel Thin
Pluralism in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism
RELG 405 Senior Capstone Seminar in Religious Studies - Presentations Fall 2017
Eitan Barkow
Marketing Mindfulness: Issues of Race and Religious Identity in American Convert Buddhism
Ryanne Berry
Reclaiming the Body: The Corporeal Spirituality, Physical Love, and Social Gain of Women Medieval Mystics
James Flemming
Islam on the Internet: The Great ‘Original’ Rebranding
Emily Isaacson
Faith-Based Community Organizations and their Contribution to Social Justice Movements: Building Diversity and Practicing Allyship and Solidarity in United States Cities
Abbie McCrea
Religion as a Positive Influence on Public Health: Faith Based Organizations Working to Eradicate Malarie
Lucas Nikkanen
Faith, Becoming and Doubt: Two Conversations with Paul Tillich
Jones Pitsker
Speeding Toward the End Eco-Apocalypse in Earth First! and MaddAddam
Noah Schiller
Gandhi’s Non-Violence as Spiritual Grounds for an Alternative Vision of Revolution
Michal Schorsch
Candomblé within Capoeira Religious Elements of the Afro-Brazilian Dance-Fight Form
Oliver Smith
Sounds of the Living Light: Understanding Hildegard of Bingen’s Mystical Impulse through Artistic Expression and Musical Composition
Olivia Tsang
A Sacred Biography Retold: Including Manga in Buddhist Scripture
Riley Walters
Does Virtue Take Two? Filling in St. Augustine’s conception of Christian Marriage with Mengzi’s Confucian Virtue Ethics