This research examines the nexus of witchcraft and early modern healthcare. It draws on witchcraft studies and history of medicine to frame witchcraft as a public health crisis originating in, and investigated through, misogynistic medical ideologies. This research began primari…
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Despite being one of the oldest topics in the history of western philosophy, the nature of rationality is still a substantial source of disagreement, especially when it comes to its normativity. Current theories of rationality are either not exhaustive enough or do not sufficien…
Teenage pregnancy and motherhood are often constructed in contemporary, policy and academic discourses as social problems, resulting in poor health and socio-economic outcomes for mother and child. However, in the last decade, a considerable body of international research has no…
This thesis will examine Jung’s concept of the Archetypal Shadow and its role in evil. Most Jungian work on evil has revolved around the Personal Shadow, those elements of the personality that are rejected for personal, familial, or cultural reasons. Those researchers who have d…
This thesis argues that the narrators of nineteenth century slave narratives used their knowledge of America’s economy of enslavement to condemn the cruelty of White enslavers, showcase the morality of enslaved people, and depict the triumphant liberation of enslaved people. The…
This study presents an interpretive approach to Cormac McCarthy’s early works—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God—which seeks to account for the deterioration of traditional community values and the accompanying degradation of the individual that occurs over the cou…
Within this written thesis and in conjunction with a physical practice I will explore the complex nature of identity as a universal concept throughout humanity. Examining how it develops and changes through time as a fluid thing. From my perspective, as a gender and sexually que…
This thesis examines how people compare the president to the Antichrist online, specifically during the Trump administration. Looking at digital Antichrist comparisons as distinct communicative practices, I argue that the digital affordances and logics that allow for the rapid s…
In the early American republic, local historical actors sought to create ideal “American” communities following the success of the American Revolution and the ratification of the United States Constitution. Through this process, the people of the new United States determined the…
Throughout history, warfare is used as a means to accomplish the goals of a nation or faction. In an ideal situation, the cause for war is to defeat an evil force. Warfare is a means of exacting peace, and each side can have a different definition of peace and the means to obtai…
This project interrogates the weaponization of heteronormative marriage in processes of state formation and in relation to practices of polygamy. This dissertation explores how gender and race have been used at the service of the white settler-colonial state via the criminalizat…
This thesis examines the development of materialism in the French Enlightenment from 1745 to 1789. As a relatively new intellectual category in the eighteenth century, materialism was systematized after the 1740s in France and endorsed a monistic ontology and cosmology of matter…
Corruption is pervasive in all societies and in all walks of life. Governments, public and private companies, sports, education, religious and charitable organizations: none are untouched by corruption, which seems to be both timeless and universal. We propose that gaming, an un…
This thesis studies a period of historical transition (1945-1950) and proposes to use scandal as a critical tool to account for the ambiguity of the immediate post-war period in literature. As set out in pragmatic sociology, scandal is understood to involve a test to the stabili…
Concentrating on six plays in the 1610s, this thesis explores the ways theatrical visual effects described as “strange” channel the period’s moral anxieties about rhetoric, technology, and scepticism. It contributes to debates in repertory studies, textual and material culture, …
Contemporary scholars of comparative religious ethics study various ideal types of morally paradigmatic persons to understand the morality of a community. Many of these scholars discuss ideal Westernized types, specifically, the "saint" and the " hero" as if these types could be…
This capstone investigates why business ethics are sometimes different from personal ethics. This can lead to moral dilemmas in business decision-making. Five courses from the Master of Management and Master of Business Administration program at the College of St. Scholastica we…
I argue that most Somalis living in exile in the Eastleigh neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya are deeply concerned with morality both as individually performed and proven, and as socially defined, authorized and constructed. In this dissertation, I explore various aspects of Somali …