Past Honors Theses
"Yes in God's Backyard: The Past, Present, and Future of Faith-Based Housing in the United States"
Student, Elijah Smith , Professor Randall Balmer
On Religions Grounds: The Practice of Medicine, Conscientious Objection, and Moral Compromise
Student, Tea Wallmark Professor Jeremy Sabella and Professor Randall Balmer
"Responsible Only to God": The Life of Nathan Lord, Dartmouth's Pro-Slavery President
Student, William Bryant, Professor Randall Balmer
Am I My Brother's Keeper? Lessons Learned from Rabbi Marshall Meyer and Jewish Liberation Theology
Student Samantha Palermo, Professor Susannah Heschel
Last Words Speeches in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature
Student, Drew Whitley Professor Susan Ackerman
Constructing and Contesting Legacies: Religion and the Gendered History of Abstract Art
Student Caris White, Professor Devin Singh
By bumper stickers and T-shirts : A re-examination of American spiritual expression in the 'New Age'
Student Seth Weprin, Professor Shaul Magid
Rachel T. Gambee
Professor Timothy Baker
2022
Student Max A. Pumilia Professor Christopher MacEvitt
Woe to You, Jerusalem: The Transmission and Reinterpretation of the Fil Agap Prophecy
Student Evan B. Schafer, Profesor Christopher MacEvitt
Student Tina Xinran Li, Professor Jeremy Sabella
Creating Worlds and Shaping Hawaiian Identity in Early and Contemporary Makahiki Rituals
Student Kourtney Kawano, Professor A. Kevin Reinhart
Enlightenment in a Female Body: The Creation of the Togdenma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhist Yoginis
Student Eliza H. Rockefeller, Professor Reiko Ohnuma
Student Olivia Morrison, Professor Robert Baum
Remaking the Cosmopolis in Zion: Early LDS Conceptions of God and Jacksonian Democracy
Student Samantha N. Smith, Professor Randall Balmer
Immanual Kant on theodicy : God, the Afterlife, and the Moral Life
Student Isha Flores, Professor Ronald M. Green
Ritual, the Body, and the Brain: The Neural Correlates of the Catholic Rosary
Student Charlotte Morris, Professor A. Kevin Reinhart
Ongoing Evolution: Robert Bellah's Elements of Axial Religion in the Modern Secular United States
Student Rochele Brown, Professor Nancy Frankenberry
Student Theresa Ramponi, Professor Ronald M. Green
Ethics and Morality in Kurt Vonnegut's Novels
Student Timothy Koeth, Professor Ronald M. Green
Student Isabel Starr Murray, Professor Ronald M. Green
"From Dan to Beersheba": Sacred Space in Ancient Israel
Student Kurt W. Prescott, Professor Susan Ackerman
Piety through Praxis: Muslim Women and Fundamentalism
Student Stephen Amrhein, Professors A. Kevin Reinhart and Ehud Benor
National Unity or Religious Persecution? The Coptic Question in Egyptian Politics
Student Kyrollos Wanees, Professors M. Anne Sa'adah and A. Kevin Reinhart
God's Medicine: Healing and Conversion to the True Jesus Church
Student Sarah Veeck, Professor Gil Raz
On Shari'ah: Virtue, Vice and the Law in Post-Colonial States
Student William Roth, Professor A. Kevin Reinhart
Religion in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Student Alexander R. Lloyd, Professor Ronald M. Green
Jesus Rocks My Soul: Contemporary Christian Music and the Evangelical Consumer
Student Ray Padgett, Professor - not listed
Student Dierre D. Upshaw, Professor Ronald M. Green
St. James and the Integration of Spain into Latin Christendom
Student Georgina Hastings Emerson, Professor Christopher MacEvitt
Meeting the Demands of Fair and Body: Black Gay Religious Identity in the United States
Student Damaris Y. Walker, Profesor Clarence Hardy
Student Peter Francis Kitlas, Professor Christopher MacEvitt
Reconciling Poverty and Obedience in the 1320s: The Sanctoral Sermons of Bertrand de la Tour, O.F.M.
Student John A. Zaleski, Professor - not listed
Progress and Tradition, Strength and Submission: Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Feminism
Student Angela M. Libby, Professor Susan Ackerman
Oshaya Began Thus: Wisdom, Logos, and Torah in Bereshit Rabbah 1.1
Student Timothy M. Baker, Professor Ehud Benor
Sacred Space in Secular Conflicts: Religion's Role in Modern Debates over Holy Sites
Student Julia Frances Bernstein, Professors Ehud Benor and Reiko Ohnuma
Judas Iscariot: Worst Friend or Best Betrayer ? A Study of the Gospel of Judas
Student Rebekah M. Junkermeier, Professor Susan Ackerman
Harry Huberty, Professors Susan Ackerman and J. Edward Wright
There's Something Happening Here: Esalen and Secular Spirituality in America
Student Benjamin Selznick, Professor Clarence Hardy
Student Vaughn A. Booker, Jr., Professor Clarence Hardy
Gathered to Their Fathers: Reconstructing the Folk Deathways of Iron Age Israel
Student Benjamin D. Cox, Professor Susan Ackerman
Tawhid and its Challenge to Christianity: The Early Muslim-Christian Debate over Monotheism
Student Willa Rose Forkner Johnson, Professors A. Kevin Reinhart and Christopher MacEvitt
Student Charlotte Sadler, Professor Mary Jo Iozzio
Women in Islamic Ritual: The Imamah Controversy
Student Dale J. Correa, Professor A. Kevin Reinhart
Modernism and Protestant Fundamentalism: The Quest for "Authenticity" in a Chaotic World
Student S. Luke Blair, Professor Ehud Benor
Student Torivio A. Fodder, Professor Clarence Hardy
There's Something About Mary: Interpretations of Mary Magdelene in Modernity
Student Emma W. Sloan, Professor Susan Ackerman
Getting Caught Up in the Clouds: Exploring the Christian Doctrine of the Rapture
Student James R. Young, Jr., Professor Susan Ackerman
The Status of Women in the Ancient Israelite Monarchy
Student Esther Mihindu, Professor Susan Ackerman
Christian Responses to the Environmental Crisis: A Typology
Student Frederica Ghesquiere, Professor Ronald M. Green
Hanukkah and the Maccabees: Historical Questions of Jewish Identity
Student Rachel Bender, Professors Susannah Heschel and Ehud Benor
Christianity and Same-Sex Marriage: Exploring Theology and Ritual
Student Lauren S. Foley, Professor Ronald M. Green
The Evolution of a Debate: Opposition to Darwinism in the United States
Student Jonathan H. Eisenman, Professor Ronald M. Green
Becoming Ferenc Berko: Modernism, Jewish Identity, and Photography
Student Mirte B. Mallory, Professor Ronald M. Green
Building the New Israel: Childrearing in the Twelve Tribes
Student Karen M. Hart, Professor Ronald M. Green
Student Bejamin D. Herson, Professor Susan Ackerman
Re-thinking Divine Androgyne: The Use of Gender in Theosophic Kabbalah
Student Lara Belkin, Professor Ehud Benor
Arriving in America: Mind, Body, and the American Perceptual Disorder
Student Luke Gonzales, Professor Darryl V. Caterine
The Roman Catholic Church and Croatian Nationalism: The Life of Archbishop Stepinac
Student Chris Hummel, Professor - not listed
Soren Kierkegaard: A Vision of the Christian Life and Community
Student Elizabeth McGarvey, Professor Ronald M. Green
Student Alexandra Meise, Professor A. Kevin Reinhart
The Beginnings of the End: An Examination of Potential Foreign and Indigenous Influences on the Origins of Jewish Apocalypticism in the Hellenistic Period
Student Greg Baker, Professor Susan Ackerman
Apophatic Anthropology: Negative Theology and Human Subjectivity in Late Antiquity
Student Byan Coyne, Professor Amy Hollywood
Rethinking Turner's Communitas: A re-reading of Victor Turner in light of Sartre and Buber
Student Leslie Cushner, Professor Ehud Benor
This One Shall Be Called Woman: Representations of Female Sexuality in Genesis
Student Susi Kandel, Professor Susan Ackerman
Lubavitch: A Mystical Ethic Within its Religious Matrix
Student Gabriel J. Levy, Professor Ehud Benor
Double-Barreled Religious Experience: Jonathan Edwards, Willaim James, and Religious Affections
Student Ross M. Wilken, Professor Nancy Frankenberry
Disputed Sacred Space: Conflict Over Jerusalem
Student Ben A. Cooperberg, Professors A. Kevin Reinhart and Ehud Benor
The Meaning of Messiah: An Examination of Anointing in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Student Philip J. Glasser, Professor - not listed
A Scapegoat for Secularization: Representations of the Jew as Parvenu in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
Student Molli J. Hamermesh, Professor - not listed
Traditions of Biblical Interpretation in Apocalyptic Judaism and Early Christianity
Student Peter T. Lanfer, Profesor - not listed
A Faith in Someone Else's Faith: Justification and Belief in Contemporary Foundationalism, Pragmatism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Student Jennifer D. Molinar, Professor - not listed
A Kiss Which Was Something More Than a Peck: Kierkegaard's Embrace of Romantic and Erotic Love in his Pseudonymous and Religious Writings
Student Theresa M. Ellis, Professor Ronald M. Green
Can This Marriage Be Saved? - The Search for a Successful Union of Early and Later Ethical Themes in Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism
Student Michelle Meyer Professor - not listed
Facing Mount Kenya? - A Discussion of Changing Indigenous Religions of the Gikuyu and Tiriki Peoples
Student Gretchen Ann Freeman, Professor Hans H. Penner
From Whence the Water Flows: An Analysis of the Initiation Ritual of the Sande Secret Society
Student Nicole Reboe, Professor Ifi Amadiume
Islam as Discourse - Capturing Diversity and Affirming Unity
Student Barbara L. Seniawski
Sacred History at the Smithsonian: Veterans, Historians, and the Politics of Memory
Student Andrea Hill Useem
Religious Violence and the Quest for Meaning
Student Blake Wentworth, Professor Hans H. Penner
With One Heart and One Mind - The Messianic Communities as a Case Study in New Religious Movements
Student Kimberly Blanchard Professor Kimberly Blanchard
Theological Constructions of the Jewish Woman:An Analysis of the Relationship Between Female Sexuality and the Laws of Family Purity
Student Elizabeth Goldstein
Order Out of Chaos : The Cosmological Argument, Process Philosophy, and Chaos Theory
Student Derek C. West
Breaking with Tradition - A New Look at Biblical Women
Student Betsy Barth
Joseph as a Religious Hero - A Comparative Study of Jewish and Muslim Exegesis
Student Kamran Pasha
Dying the Great Death: Existential Analyses of Early Ch'an Buddhist Texts - An Examination of the Content and Function of 'The Platform Sutra of the sixth Patriarch' and the 'Mumonkan' through the lens of the Existentialism of Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann
Student William O. Brant
Determinism and Indeterminism: Implications for Human Freedom and Responsibility
Student Barry Hurwitz
The Modal Ontological Argument of Charles Hartshorne
Student J. Kenneth Joung
The Process of Becoming an Authentic Self: A presentation and Discussion of Soren Kierkegaard's Stages of Human Existence and their Role in the Project of Christian Self-Becoming
Student Michael Lazar
Robin Farina
Maternal Responsibility and its Ethical and Legal Ramifications
1990
Diane Fisk Bray
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary... An Examination of the Historical Development of Mariology
Diane Fisk Bray
1990
Mario Fantini-Cepedes
Monsignor Jose María Escrivá and the Opus Dei,"The Work of God"
1990
Andrew Harris
Zen Buddhism as a Technology of the Self - An Investigation of the Relations Between Language, Belief, and Experience
1990
David Klaus
Moralistic Legislation in a Morally Pluralistic Society: The Problem of Sodomy Laws in the United States
The Closed Mythological System of the Ancient Near East: A Structuralist Interpretation of the Mesopotamian and Biblical Primeval Histories
Student, Sharyl Hirsh
A Comparative Study of Death Rituals and Mourning Customs in Contemporary Greece and China
Student, Kara Kelly
Apparently Irrational Beliefs and their Interpretations
Student, Robin MacDonald Professor Hans H. Penner
Jewish Students at Dartmouth College: A Study of Third and Fourth Generation American Jews
Student Jevin Seth Eagle, Jevin Seth Eagle
Other Sheep: Non-Christians in Christian Theology
Student, Deborah Lynn Hanney
Religious Developments in the Hellenistic World:The Encounter Between Egyptian and Greek Religious Systems
Student, Joon P. Hong
As Verily as God is Our Father as Verily is God our Mother: Two Case Studies of Feminine Naming for God in Christianity
Student, Lindsay Bridges
The Search for the Historical Jesus: The Relationship of History and Theology
Student, Mary Beckman
Religion in Politics: An Essay at Conceptualizing Religion's Role in the Political Sphere
Student, Laurence Chang
Brevard Childs and the Servant of the Lord: An Analysis of Canonical Criticism
Student, Elizabeth Crawford
Julius Wellhausen and the Development of the Documentary Hypothesis
Student, Jennifer Kerns
God, Omnipotence and the Defective Newborn:Using Theodicy in Ethical Analysis
Student, David C. Linehan
Christian Creation in a Darwinian Age: An Examination of the Creation Theologies of John Cobb and Langdon Gilkey
Student, M. Ian Smith
Protestant Liberalism and Catholic Modernism:The Nineteenth Century Defense of Faith and Culture
Student, Michael J. Ferris
Radical Disquiet: A Dialectical Inquiry into Soren Kierkegaard's and Walker Percy's Insights into the Hyper-Rationality of Western Man
Student, Adam Seessel
From Being to Ereignis the Path of Eigentlichkeit
Student, Stephen Cho
The Ethical Implications of Advancing Neonatal Technology: Spina-Bifida - A Case Study
Student, Erin Foley
Quaestiones Disputatae: Revelation, Kerygma, and Dogma In the Thought of Karl Barth and Karl Rahner
Student, Sarah LaBudde
Albert Camus and Existentialism
Student, Deborah Schupack
Navajo Religion: The Mythological Basis for Medicine and Morality
Student, Sarah Strauss
Social Structures and Religious Systems
Student, Brad Weiss
Moses as Folk Hero
Student, Gary Apfel
The Problem of Abortion
Student, Amy Bloch
The Theology of Christian Perfection as Expressed by the Reverend John Wesley
Student, Joel Hubbard
On Meaning and Symbolism
Student, Kennth Lehman
The Marian Implications of the Protevangelium of James
Student, Raymond Patterson
A Study of the Sephardic Community in New York City
Student, Steven Levitan
Scientific and Ethical Implications of in vitro Fertilization
Student Carol Mason, Advisor Carol G. Mason
The Founding of the Disciples of Christ
Student, W. Thomas Booher
Dostoevsky and the Meaning of Life - A Study in The Brothers Karamazov
Student, Joan Danziger
The Oneida Community
Student, Lynn Peterson
The Theology of George Berkeley
Student, Dennis Biggie
Schleiermacher on Protestantism and Kant
Student, Theodore Blaisdell
The Figure of Krishna in Hinduism
Student, Leilani Crane
Just War, Just Occupation, and the Case of Israel: A Moral Theory with an Illustrative Application
Student John Dolan, Advisor John Vincent Dolan
The Historical Jesus in the Work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Student, Joel Getzendanner
Predestination in the Thought of Augustine and Aquinas
Student, Peter Hutchins
The Problem of Abortion
Student, Edith Marie Keating
Max Weber's Conception of the Transformation of Religious Ideas into Secular Action
Student Eric Ziolkowski
Structural Analysis and the Ugaritic Myths
Student, Judith Copeland Advisor, Judith Copeland
The Framework of Meaning: Synchrony and Diachrony in the Structural Anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss
Student, Alistair Jessiman
The Virgin Mary in Mexican Culture
Student, John Harrington
An Analysis of Freud's View of Religion Considering his Conception of Reason as the Prefecting Characteristic in Man
Student, Stephen Rappaport
Whitehead's Theory of Mind
Mark P. Muth
The Theology of the Jesus Movement
Student, Donald L. Drakeman