Essays Completed by MA students in Religious Studies for the past five years. 

2010

"The Greening of Chinese Daoism: Modernity, Bureaucracy and Ecology in Contemporary Chinese Religions"

"Daoism in Brazil: The Globalization of the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi) Tradition"

"Transhumanism as a Religious Product of the West: A Comparative Analysis with Christianity"

"Deep Ecology and Jainism: A Critical Assessment of Theory and Practice"

"Evangelical Violence: Fundamentalism in Abortion Politics in the Contemporary United States"

"Music, Mimesis and Resistance: Destabilizing and Reimaging Traditional Constructions of Femininity in Christianity"

"The Uyghur and the Scholar: Competing Narratives of Ethno-religious Identity"

"From Wilderness to Warfare: An Examination of the radical Environmentalist Violence of the Earth Liberation Front"

"Blackness and Suffering in Conian Theology"

"Make This Your Home: The Impact of Religion on Acculturation: The Case of Canadian Khoja Nizari Isma'ilis from East Africa"

"Taking Account of Religious Diversity: A Case Study of Quebec's Ethics and Religious Culture Program"

"Nasiha and Ideology: Evolution in Religious Authority in Post-Colonial Morocco"

 

2009

"Towards a New Understanding of the Views of the National Association of Evangelicals and Focus on the Family Regarding the Legalization of Same sex Marriage: An Analysis Using the Theories of Judith Butler".

"Magic, Modernity and New Religious Forms".

"The Epidemic of Enlightenment: Metaphor and Cognition in Buddhism's Encounter with the West".

"Imagining the Rational, Egalitarian Nation: Ambedkar's Navayāna as a Buddhist Modernism".

"Receiving Dinah: Reading, depicting, and Writing Rape".

"The Possibility of Queer Ethics".

"The Phantasmagoric Buddha: Buddhist Representation in Odilon Redon's Oeuvre".

 

2008

"Science and Feminism as Adaptive Reorientation Strategies for Buddhism in North America: A Study in Transplantation Processes".

"The Canadian Council of Muslim Women and its Efforts at Promoting Civic Participation for Muslim Women: A Survey of Its Objective and Activities".

"An Orientalist Critique of the Discourse of Environmental Ethics:The Case of EcoBuddhism".

"Remediating the Sacred: Religion and the Internet".

"Restructuring the Probable Angles: Creating a Balanced Cognitive Science of Religion".

"Of Cyborgs and other Monsters: The Posthuman, Critical Posthumanism and the Study of Religions".

"'Comfort, comfort my people': The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) and Fundamentalist Christian Zionism".

"The Five Challenges: Shari`ah Responds to Bioethics".

"Epistemological Sacrifice: Georges Bataille, Genealogy and Prospects for the Poststructural Study of Religion".

"A Study of Alienation Theory: Young Hegelians, Berger, and Buddhist critique of the self".

"The Quest for "Godly Heterosexuality": An Analysis of the Discourse of Christian Evangelical Ministries Through the Lens of Queer Theory".

"Freud's Myth Understanding:The Oedipus Complex as Modern Myth".

 

2007

"Inside Out: Locating Jewish Identity Formation in the First Century C. E. Diaspora Synagogue".

"Explicit and Implicit Religious Responses to the Perception of Environmental Crisis: A Comparative Study of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society".

"Enchanted Modernity: Refutations of Weber's disenchantment thesis with particular focus on the reemergence of astrology in contemporary culture".

"The Religion of the Sabra: The Postmodern Sacred in Secular Israel".

"Dancing on a Higher Level; Liturgical Dance as Worship and Alternative Method of Religious Studies".

"The Goddess Ungendered: Gender and Performativity in Wicca and Goddess Spirituality".