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Past Religious Studies Honors Thesis Titles

2016-2017
Matthew Drew – Cum Laude: “Histories of the Secular: Medical Mindfulness Meditation in the United States”

2013-2014
Margaret Mullen Ignell – Summa Cum Laude: “Pluralizing Mature Faith”
Sarah Levenstam – Summa Cum Laude: “Finding Agency in the Shared Lexicon of Caste: A Study of the Transformation in Seepur”

2010-2011
Emily Dunn – Cum Laude: “The Americanization of Buddhist Meditation Practices as Realized in Hospital Pain Management Care, Hospice Care, and Prison Rehabilitation Programs”

2009-2010
Julia Jay – Summa Cum Laude: “”Hiding the World in the World”: Environmental Ethics and the Zhuangzi”
Iain Prendergast – Cum Laude: “Divided by a Common Religion: Secularization in the United Kingdom and the United States “
Travis Proctor – Summa Cum Laude: “The Battle in the Soul: Demons, the Logos and the Purpose of Justin Martyr’s Apologies “
Jonathan Salzinger – Magna Cum Laude: “The Kosher Meat Riots of 1902: A Moment of Democratic Transformation for American Jewry and Urban Political Culture”
Jessica Spencer – Summa Cum Laude: “One Flesh: The Development of a Chrisitan Sexual Ethic in 1 Corinthians”

2008-2009
Michael McEvilly – Summa Cum Laude: “”Push, or the World Will Be Deceived”: Imagistic Thinking Through Humor as a Means to Maintain Indirect Communication in Kierkegaard’s Attack on Danish Christendom”

2007-2008
Emily Soderberg – Summa Cum Laude: “Religion in Germany: Islam in a Christian Society”

2006-2007
Danielle M. Weiner – Magna Cum Laude: “Converting to Judaism in Northern Peru: A Quest for Spiritual and Material Betterment”

2005-2006
Anne T. Lamb – Summa Cum Laude: “Pragmatic Development and the Price of Power: The Christian Right, the GOP, and a New Era of Political Influence”

2004-2005
Chesney P. Fowler – Summa Cum Laude: “”Contrary To Popular Belief…”: A Consideration of the Theology and Lifestyle of the Old Order Amish”
Callie L. Richman – Summa Cum Laude: “Did God have a Consort? Yahweh and Asherah in Ancient Israel”

2003-2004
Holly Donovan – Magna Cum Laude: “Madhyamika, The Middle Way: The Middle Way, Agnostic: Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika as a Pedagogy of Liberating Agnosticism”

2002-2003
Kristen Lackritz – Summa Cum Laude: “Women in the Church: An Examination of the Roles of Women in 1 Corinthians 11 and 1 Timothy 2 From a Conservative Evangelical Perspective”

2001-2002
Joy Hougnon – Summa Cum Laude: “Jews, Gentiles, Justification, and Raiding the Icebox: An Exegesis of Romans 9-11”
David Weiner – Summa Cum Laude: “Words out of the Fire: Theophany as Polemic in the Bible”

2000-2001
Amber Stancliffe – Summa Cum Laude: “Re-narrating Christianity: John Milbank’s post-secular theology”
Anuj K. Shah – Summa Cum Laude: “Pointing at the Moon: On Nagarjuna and Newton: A Contemporary Truth-View According to Madhyamika Buddhism”