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Once again, this year, our Masters students will make a strong showing at the Regional Regional AAR. The Regional AAR (Great Plains Region) will take place on March 18-19 at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. The following Masters students in Religious Studies will present papers:

Angela Maly, “Politics of Space: An Examination of the Polemics Surrounding the Park 51 Mosque through its Situation within Manhattan”

Talia Di Manno, “From Matter to Spirit: The Pagan Image and Christianity in Renaissance Rome.”

Danielle Lancellotti, “The Work of Feminism in Creating a Definition of Religion.”

Lisa Brooks, “Sealing, Healing, and Revealing: Tantra and Contemporary Western Āyurvedic Therapeutics.”

Chip Horner, “Soteriology, Thaumaturgy, and Subversive Didacticism in Tantric Siddha Literature: A Literary Analysis of Drukpa Kunley's ‘Ethical’ Geriatricide.”

Claire Miller Skriletz, “Ethical Prescriptions and Gender in the Mahā‐paduma Jātaka and the Bandhanamokkha Jātaka.”

Kenneth Richards, “The Religious Body in Law: Navajo Nation v. USFS and the Enforcement of Religious Freedom.”

In addition, Associate Professor��Loriliai Biernacki��will present on “Rethinking the Religious Body: Tantric Models of Embodied Divinity” and department alum��John Kinsey��will present on “Religious Identity, Social Justice, and the Indian Constitution: Ambedkar and the Law.”

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