T H E D E PA R T M E N T O F R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S H O N O R S T H E S I S A N D M C V I C K A R P R I Z E

T H E S I S P R E S E N T A T I O N

Thursday, May 8, 2014 1PM – 3PM RI Hall 108

Presenters:

First Prize shared by Joshua Schenkkan (Religious Studies concentrator)

“The Imaged Dead and the Ethics of Rupture: Thinking with Georges Bataille and Judith Butler”  and 

Thom Finley (History concentrator) “‘A Church Where Jesus Is Real’: Race, Religiosity and the Legacies of Protest Activism in the Church of God in Christ, 1968-1989”

  Honorable Mention:

 Elizabeth Carroll (Religious Studies concentrator) “Ida Robinson and the Mount Sinai Holy Church: Towards a Greater Understanding of Ida Robinson as Mother Assuming Authority in the Public Sphere”

and  Julia P. Elstrodt (Religious Studies concentrator) “The Sacred Practice of Psychotherapy: An Argument for The Inclusion of

Spirituality in Psychology”