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  • Buddhist Temple ProfileHe began his education at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley California for three years. After graduation, he spent two years in Japan studying first at Nishi Hongwanji’s seminary school, Chūōbukkyōgakuin (Chūbutsu) where he eventually received his Kyoshi, and the next year he studied for the year-long program at ritual and chanting school, Gonshikishidōsho. Tadao is the first North American-born minister to receive the specialized chanting and ritual license from

  • “culmination” of over a decade spent researching 20th century evangelical Christianity. The assistant professor of religion and affiliate faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies program has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. He has also lectured and presented at universities and conferences, both domestic and abroad. Dowland also recently appeared on the Marginalia Review of Books podcast and contributed an op-ed to ReligionDispatches.com that was republished by Salon.com. Purchase

  • grandmother not come to the U.S. that year. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) The Holocaust in the American Literary ImaginationThis year, Professor of English Lisa Marcus will do something different with her class, “The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination.” Along with readings, literary analysis and the other trappings of a literature course, students will work with historical artifacts from the Holocaust. “To engage in the material,” Marcus said, “I think one has to do other things than just

  • alcoholic beverage and, to some extent their alcohol cultures to the wider world.” The quote is saying that alcohol has many purposes to show status, power, culture, religion, community, and more. Yes, there are people who do drink but there are others who would follow the temperance movement. In the Women’s Christian Temperance Union view of temperance as “sober and pure world” by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity. During 1998 to 2015, scholars have developed two groups about temperance

  • Cinema” HIST 289 when taught as “Women in World History” KINS 315: Body Image RELI 330 when taught as “Sex and the Bible” RELI 366 when taught as “Race, Gender, American Christianity” RELI 368: Feminist, Womanist, Latinx, and Queer Theologies RELI 390 when taught as “Women in the Ancient World” PSYC 375: Psychology of Women SOCI 210: Gender and Society SOCI 494: Gender and Violence GSRS Approved Elective Courses - Critical Race Studies Distribution COMA 304: Intercultural Communication ENGL 216 when

  • presentation will reflect on how Eastern Christians opened their understanding of God through the theological work of bishops, the Byzantine court’s care for the welfare of imperial identity, and the Byzantine monk’s care for the welfare of the individual. Dr. Ihssen teaches religious history in the Department of Religion at PLU3:00 P.M.Dr. Samuel Torvend Luther’s cosmic Christ and care for our wounded earth While he was taught as a child that Christianity helps one escape the earth for a “better life

  • diverse talent to the faculty and staff."- Oneida Blagg “It wasn’t a ton of extra work,” she said. “It was more a distinction for good scholarship.” Blagg also was inspired by classes outside her major. She took two religion classes that challenged her to rethink her preconceived ideas about Christianity — and countered her initial assumption that PLU faculty would try to convert her.   “I thought it was going to be preaching, and fire, and brimstone,” Blagg said. “The guy who taught it was a

  • courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published extensively on the origins

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  • Biography Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published

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  • courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published extensively on the origins

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