My research uses my painting practice as an experimental and investigative tool to test the capacity of practical aesthetics to generate similar or analogous experiences to the non-dualist reception aesthetics of certain key examples of post-Tridentine (1563) Catholic Counter-Re…
This study draws on the theoretical parallels between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Pierre Bourdieu. It uses those parallels to demonstrate how placing embodiment at the center of their philosophies attempts to bridge the subject and object dichotomy. It also shows how embodied reas…
Previous research on religion and the body has focused on the influence of religion on body image. This study examines the effects of specific spiritual disciplines (i.e., prayer, fasting, solitude, journaling, service, worship) on body image (i.e., self- objectification, body a…
Islam and the West, a dualistic phrase that gained sudden ascendancy following the events of September 11, 2001, is used variously to refer to the mutual relationship between Muslims and those living in a sometimes ill-defined region called "the West." The binary phrase in quest…
