JSIS C493: Honors Thesis Religion
Autumn 2014 5 Credits Final grade: 3.9 Honors and Religion |
Departmental Honors: ReligionMy departmental honors thesis for comparative religion is a particularly special piece to me. I used the opportunity to write this thesis to truly "book-end" my time at the UW as the theory I argued (the use of religious ecstasy as a catalyst for religious adaptation) was one I initially proposed in the final paper of my very first course at the University, taught by the same professor: James Wellman, head of the Comparative Religion department. This is, truly, the culmination of four years worth of undergraduate work in ways that no other assignment can be. My honors thesis for religion really felt "reflective" in ways that most other things haven't - I used an astonishing amount of material from previous essays that I have completed for other classes to put in this piece (in fact, the sections on Shembe in South Africa and the spread of Buddhism into China and Japan are, essentially, old essays copied in their entirety). Combing through my past work at the UW helped me find sources I had forgotten about and link up all of the work I had done and theories I had argued for into one massive project. |
Photo: Experimentation with photograms (placing items on photo paper and exposing the paper to light). Chads, loose-tea, beads, ribbon, bracelets, and a fake flower.