TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME TWO
Effects of World Religions Courses on Undergraduates: A Pilot Study of Tolerance, Homogenization, and Contextualization
Bret Lewis - PhD Religious Studies Graduate Student, Arizona State University
Shamanism in Early Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: The Concept of the Pure Land Reconsidered
Aaron Proffitt- PhD Buddhist Studies Graduate Student, University of Michigan
The Limitations of Kantian Epistemology in the Study of Religion and What We Can Do About it
Brian J. Nichols - PhD Religious Studies Graduate Student, Rice University
Determining the Importance of Sait Veneration Practices for the Growth and Maintenance of Early Christianity Through the Use of Theological/Historical Perspective
Evelyn Steiner Sanchez - PhD Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Arizona
The History and Practice of Contemporary American Convert Zen Buddhism
Michael Grossman - MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Unspoken Propositions in the Construction of American Religious Imagination
John Kinsey - Religious Studies MA, University of Colorado at Boulder (currently seeking PhD program)
Constructing the North American Muslim Subject Through Humor
Radia Amari - MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Building Boundaries: The Role of Religion in Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian Ethnic Identity
Stephen D. Louy - Graduate Theological Union
VOLUME ONE
Pure Land Buddhism and the Construction of Buddhist Studies
Aaron Proffitt –
MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Evangelical Christians and Racial Inequality: An Analysis of Explanation of Inequality
Zachary Owens –
PhD Sociology Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Going the Distance: The
Church of Endurance
Sarah Chimileski –
MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Christianity, Kachinas, Crosses, and Kivas: Religion, Resistance, and Revolt in Seventeenth Century
New Mexico
Seth Schermerhorn -
MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Transubstantiation in Aquinas and Ockham
Cindy Scheopner -
MA Philosophy Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad; Struggles of Creating Religious Communities and Liberating Them from Oppression
David Walsh - MA Religious Studies Graduate Student, University of Colorado at Boulder