Faculty Publications
Publications written by faculty and staff in the Department of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of Northern Iowa.
Submissions from 2023
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
Submissions from 2021
Is Eliphaz A False Prophet? The Vision In Job 4.12-21, John Burnight
Hannah Arendt And The Role Of Truth In Politics, Yasemin Sari
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
Woodrow Wilson's Christian Internationalism And The Pursuit Of A Just And Lasting Peace, Cara Lea Burnidge
Virtue Epistemology And Collective Epistemology, Reza Lahroodi
Submissions from 2017
A Proposed New Etymology For In Northwest Semitic, John Burnight
America’s “Peculiar Children”: Authority And Christian Nationalism At Antebellumwest Point, Michael Graziano
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
An Arendtian Recognitive Politics: The Right To Have Rights As A Performance Of Visibility, Yasemin Sari
Submissions from 2016
Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas, Francis Dominic Degnin
Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas, Francis Dominic Degnin
Submissions from 2015
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
Enhancing Academic Integrity and Facing Academic Dishonesty Afternoon Plenary Session & Wrap-Up, Abbylynn Helgevold, Jennifer Waldron, Disa Lubker Cornish, Brittany Flokstra, and Craig VanSandt
Cheating Resistant Pedagogies: Applying Insights from “Cheating Lessons” in the Classroom, Martha Reineke, Kim Baker, Lisa Brodersen, and Timothy Adamson
Submissions from 2014
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
Job 5:7 As Eliphaz's Response To Job's "Malediction" (3:3-10), John Burnight
Academic Freedom And Tenure: Northeastern Illinois University, Rebecca J. Williams, Betty A. Deberg, and Joseph J. Persky
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
Submissions from 2007
Phenomenology, Edgar C. Boedeker
Overmedicating "Difficult" Patients, Francis Dominic Degnin
Levinas And Society's Most Vulnerable: A Philosopher's View Of The Business Of Healthcare., Francis Dominic Degnin and Donna J. Wood
"The Ooze Of Gluttony": Attitudes Towards Food, Eating, And Excess In The Middle Ages, Susan E. Hill
Collective Epistemic Virtues, Reza Lahroodi
Evaluating Need For Cognition: A Case Study In Naturalistic Epistemic Virtue Theory, Reza Lahroodi
Submissions from 1999
Homosexuality, Misogyny, And God's Plan, John D. Kronen and Eric H. Reitan
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: 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 [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
