2008 Honors Theses

Sonia Marie Olson Hazard
Purity as Product: Capitalism and Evangelical Christian Values in the Art of the Pink Nun
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Kimberly Terea Wortmann
Re-claiming the Veil: An Historical and Literary of How Islamic Feminists Have Appropriated the Veil as a Hermeneutical Tool
James Laine, Advisor

2007 Honors Theses

Ashley Rose Geisendorfer
The Christian Science Child: Subjectivity and Social Marginalization
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Zachary Saul Teicher
American Children Encountering the Bible: Ensuring Engagement through the American Education System and the Children's Bible
James Laine, Advisor

2006 Honors Theses

Cassandra Nicole Berman
Wayward Nuns, Randy Priests, and Women's Autonomy: "Convent Abuse" and the Threat to Protestant Patriarchy in Cictorian England.
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Mashal Saif
The 'Offence of Zina Ordinance' of Pakista: An Invented Tradition or Divine Sanction?
James Laine, Advisor

Eleanor Cecile Strand
Inheritance and InnovationL The Project of Understanding Contemporary Experiences of South Indian Christians
James Laine, Advisor

2005 Honors Theses
Elisa K. Berry
The Redemptive Power of Art
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Kathryn O'Brien Cohen
What We Say: Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and Sudan
Paula Cooey, Advisor

SherAli K. Tareen
The Rhetoric of Religious Revival in 17th Century India: A Hermeneutical Investigation into the Life and Writings of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (1563-1624)
James Laine, Advisor

Samuel L. Worley-Ekstrom
There's a Darkness on the Edge of Town: Religion, Secularism, and the Claim to "America"
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Ben Wurtmann
What Have You to Do with Me?
Paula Cooey, Advisor

2003 Honors Theses

Christina M. Blank
Religious Art and Controversy
Sarah Horton, Advisor

Mikella M. Hurley
"We Shall Be Fruitful in the Land": The Life-Affirming Theologies of West African Charismatic Churches
Allen Callahan, Advisor

Elizabeth S. Kaziunas
Mother as Teacher: A Study of Homeschool Mothers and Dissent
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Richard Landon
To Partake in the Nature of the Religious: Music's Role in the Process of Meaning-Making
Peter Harle, Advisor

2002 Honors Theses

Catherine C. Bowler
Radical Orthodoxy
Paula Cooey, Advisor

Valerie L. Miller
Stripmines as Stigmata: Case Studies in the Use of Religion to Address Environmental Problems
James Laine, Advisor

Jason M. Schlude
Jewish Perceptions of Gentiles: An Approach to the Study of Hellenistic Jewish Identity
Calvin Roetzel, Advisor

2001 Honors Theses

Jane Yager
The Rosary and the Lawnmower: The Making of Public Religion in the American City
Paula Cooey, Advisor