This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2025

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DAOIST CULTURE IN WUDANG SHAN: ENCHANTED HERITAGE, NEO-TRADITIONALISM, AND SECULAR SPIRITUALITY, John Abercrombie

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DISTRIBUTED SOVEREIGNTY: LAW, COMMUNITY, AND AUTHORITY IN THE POLITICAL THEORIES OF AL-MĀWARDĪ, AL-JUWAYNĪ, AND AL-FĀRĀBĪ, Ahmet Çelik

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Genealogies of Religion & Humanity in the Divine Institutes of Lactantius, Daniel J. Kimmel

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FERTILE, SOCIAL, DANGEROUS, SACRED, GIFT, AND SYSTEM: RELIGION, SALT CITY HARVEST FARM, AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN SHIT, Sarah Elizabeth Nahar

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Glorifying Fat: Body Size, Race, Gender, and Religion in the United States, Danae M. Woodfaulk

2024

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Initiated Reading: Occult Hermeneutics in Helena Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, Diana Brown

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Between Visits: Hindu Domestic Religiosity, Home Shrines, and Thirdspace in the Diaspora, Aarti Patel

2023

My Eyes Are Up Here: Guardian Iconography of the Judean Pillar Figurines, Lauren K. McCormick

2022

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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940, Adam D. J. Brett

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Dynamics of Secrecy in the Sworn Book of Honorius, Connor Feliu

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Between Homeland and Hostland: Imagining Diasporic Indigeneity With the Center for Babaylan Studies, Elizabeth Rae Herrick

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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience, Jordan Brady Loewen

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Finding “A Self to Speak Of”: Affective Enactments of the Self in Black and White Victorian Women’s Elegies, Kellie-Sue Martinucci

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Leviticus 25’s History of Inspiring Freedom as a Moral Challenge to Literary-Historical Interpretation, James Watts

2021

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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion In America, John William Borchert

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Immanent Technologies: Posthuman Digital Religion in America, John William Borchert

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The Emotional Heschel, Maria Junttila Carson

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Columbus [as A] Circle And Skä•noñh As An Ellipsis: A Case Study On Shifting The Interpretive Center In Syracuse, New York, Grace Fritzke

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Columbus [as A] Circle and Skä•noñh As an Ellipsis: A Case Study on Shifting the Interpretive Center in Syracuse, New York, Grace Fritzke

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Transphobia in Black Churches, Blake A. Garland-Tirado

Sacred Sites, Ceremony, and Belonging in Ohlone Territory: A Case Study of Indigenous Survival, Abel R. Gomez

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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth in a Global Buddhist Movement, Mallory Jacklin Hennigar

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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth In A Global Buddhist Movement, Mallory Jacklin Hennigar

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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam, Sara Ann Swenson

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Sample Syllabus using Understanding the Bible by Watts, James Watts