Faculty Work
This collection contains works by faculty and staff in the Department of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Submissions from 2025
Relational Objectivity, Nicholas Sars
Submissions from 2024
Feminist Thought and Mimetic Theory: Insights and Challenges in the Work of René Girard, Martha Reineke
Introduction, Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek
Religion and Foreign Relations, Cara Lea Burnidge and Lauren Frances Turek
Religion and National Security in the Early Cold War, Michael Graziano
Books from 2023
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies, Amy Erdman Farrell and Susan E. Hill
The Politics Of Fat And Gender In The Ancient World, Susan E. Hill
The View From Pȏle Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, And Girard On Mimesis, Embodiment, And Desire, Martha J. Reineke
Submissions from 2022
From Shared Governance to Shared Leadership: Our COVID Response to Faculty Evaluation, Support, and Advancement, John Burnight, Danielle Cowley, Becky Wilson Hawbaker, James Mattingly, Patrick Pease, Amy J. Petersen, and John Vallentine
Books from 2021
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, Michael Graziano
Hannah Arendt And The Role Of Truth In Politics, Yasemin Sari
Is Eliphaz A False Prophet? The Vision In Job 4.12-21, John Burnight
Submissions from 2020
Towards An Arendtian Conception Of Justice, Yasemin Sari
Submissions from 2019
A New Interpretation Of Job 6,5-7, John Burnight
The Broken Thread Cervantes, Don Quijote, And War Trauma, Martha J. Reineke
Submissions from 2018
Virtue Epistemology And Collective Epistemology, Reza Lahroodi
Woodrow Wilson's Christian Internationalism And The Pursuit Of A Just And Lasting Peace, Cara Lea Burnidge
Submissions from 2017
America’s “Peculiar Children”: Authority And Christian Nationalism At Antebellumwest Point, Michael Graziano
Ana-Maria Rizzuto and the Psychoanalysis of Religion: The Road to the Living God, Martha J. Reineke, David M. Goodman, Ana Maria Rizzuto, John McDargh, Mario Aletti, Arne Austad, Leif Gunnar Engedal, Anthony Stern, Jacob Waldenmaier, and Gry Stalsett
An Arendtian Recognitive Politics: The Right To Have Rights As A Performance Of Visibility, Yasemin Sari
A Proposed New Etymology For In Northwest Semitic, John Burnight
Building a Culture of Ethics in Higher Education, Abbylynn Helgevold, Yasemin Sari, LeAnn Faidley, and Timothy Adamson
Girard And The Feminist Critique Of Religion: Intimate Mediation In Kristeva And Girard, Martha Reineke
Submissions from 2016
Building a Culture of Academic Integrity [Helgevold], Abbylynn Helgevold
Commemorating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Michael Blackwell Reverend
Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas, Francis Dominic Degnin
Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas, Francis Dominic Degnin
Peaceful Conquest: Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order, Cara Lea Burnidge
Events from 2015
Cheating Resistant Pedagogies: Applying Insights from “Cheating Lessons” in the Classroom, Martha Reineke, Kim Baker, Lisa Brodersen, and Timothy Adamson
Enhancing Academic Integrity and Facing Academic Dishonesty Afternoon Plenary Session & Wrap-Up, Abbylynn Helgevold, Jennifer Waldron, Disa Lubker Cornish, Brittany Flokstra, and Craig VanSandt
How Cornerstone Changed My Teaching, Story 1, Susan E. Hill
Peer Mentors in the Religions of the World Classroom, Martha Reineke
Religion And Fat = Protestant Christianity And Weight Loss? On The Intersections Of Fat Studies And Religious Studies, Lynne Gerber, Susan Hill, and Lerhonda Manigault-Bryant
Submissions from 2014
Academic Freedom And Tenure: Northeastern Illinois University, Rebecca J. Williams, Betty A. Deberg, and Joseph J. Persky
A New Interpretation And Translation Of Job 5:5, John Burnight
Does Eliphaz Really Begin "Gently"? An Intertextual Reading Of Job 4: 2-11, John Burnight
Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory, Martha J. Reineke
Job 5:7 As Eliphaz's Response To Job's "Malediction" (3:3-10), John Burnight
Submissions from 2013
Men's Studies: A Retrospective View, Harry Brod
Not A Country For Old Men: Scapegoats And Sacrifice In Santa Varvara, Martha Reineke
The Legacy Of Gordon Kaufman: Theological Method And Its Pragmatic Norms, Jerome P. Soneson
Submissions from 2012
Social Convention And Neurosis As Obstacles To Moral Freedom, Margaret Holland
Submissions from 2011
The Historical Chronology Of The Hasmonean Period In The War And Antiquities Of Flavius Josephus: Separating Fact From Fiction, Kenneth Atkinson
Submissions from 2010
Josephus's Essenes And The Qumran Community, Kenneth Atkinson and Jodi Magness
Submissions from 2009
Difficult Patients, Overmedication, And Groupthink, Francis Dominic Degnin
Gluttony, Corpulence, And The Good Life In Plato's Timaeus, Susan Hill
Sacrifice And Sexual Difference: Insights And Challenges In The Work Of René Girard, Martha Reineke
Truth, Faith, and Intelligent Design: A Pedagogical Essay, Francis Dominic Degnin
Submissions from 2007
Collective Epistemic Virtues, Reza Lahroodi
Evaluating Need For Cognition: A Case Study In Naturalistic Epistemic Virtue Theory, Reza Lahroodi
Levinas And Society's Most Vulnerable: A Philosopher's View Of The Business Of Healthcare., Francis Dominic Degnin and Donna J. Wood
Overmedicating "Difficult" Patients, Francis Dominic Degnin
Phenomenology, Edgar C. Boedeker
"The Ooze Of Gluttony": Attitudes Towards Food, Eating, And Excess In The Middle Ages, Susan E. Hill
Books from 2006
A Central European Synthesis of Radical and Magisterial Reform: The Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier, Kirk R. MacGregor
Submissions from 2005
Faculty Learning Communities at UNI: The Carver Institutes, Marilyn Drury and Edward Amend
Books from 2004
Hinduism, James Burnell Robinson
Submissions from 1999
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: Can You Prove the Existence of God?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: Do You Have a Final Comment?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: Do You Think Humans Would Be Religious If They Were Never Going to Die?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: Do You Think Humans Would Be Religious If They Were Never Going to Die (cont.)?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: How Do You Define Religion?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: How Do You Respond to the Claim: “All Religions Are the Same, They Just Use Different Symbols”?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: How Should a Student Approach the Study of Religion?, Martha Reineke
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: How Should a Student Approach the Study of Religion [cont.]?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: What Are Your Major Interests as a Scholar?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: What do Proofs of the Existence of God Offer to Religious Believers?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Dr. Martha Reineke Engages with the Question: What Influenced Your Choice to Be a Scholar of Religion?, Martha Reineke and Alfred Benney
Homosexuality, Misogyny, And God's Plan, John D. Kronen and Eric H. Reitan
Books from 1997
Sacrificed Lives: Kristeva on Women and Violence, Martha J. Reineke
