Greek Life and God Attachment: the Interaction of Sorority Influence and Religiosity on Women's Body Shame

The present study investigated the relationships between sorority women’s internalization of Greek thin ideals and body image, and dimensions of sorority women’s religiosity and body image. A combined relationship among sorority women’s internalization of Greek thin ideals, body image, and religiosity was also examined. Based on previous research it was expected that women’s internalization of Greek thin ideals would be associated with worse body image (in terms of body shame, body esteem, and drive for thinness) and that women’s religiosity (in terms of secure attachment to God) would be associated with better body image. Combinations of Greek thin ideal internalization and God attachment were expected to significantly predict changes in women’s body image. Women completed a series of survey measures assessing their awareness and internalization of Greek sociocultural thin ideals and their sense of community within their particular sorority. Women also completed a series of survey measures assessing their body shame, body esteem, and drive for thinness, in addition to survey measures assessing dimensions of their religiosity. The study’s findings revealed that women’s internalization of Greek thin ideals was associated with worse body image outcomes and that anxious attachment to God was associated with worse body image outcomes, particularly in relation to body shame. Moderation analyses revealed that Greek thin ideal internalization significantly interacted with anxious God attachment to predict body shame.

Miss Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne. : The wanton God, that pierces hearts, Dips ingall his pointed darts; But the Nymph disdains to pine, Who bathes the wound in rosy Wine.

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G00594

God: Savior, Butcher, Or Oblivious Artist? The Theodicy Of Alfred North Whitehead

This paper is a critical examination of Alfred North Whitehead's attempt to solve the traditional problem of evil. Whitehead's conception of evil is crucial to his process cosmology because it is integral to his process cosmology because it is integral to his notion of creation in which evil is understood in relationship to the larger dynamic of God’s creative activity. While Whitehead’s process theodicy is interesting, he fails to successfully escape between the horns of the traditional dilemma. Whitehead is often criticized for treating evil as merely apparent. While some process philosophers, notably Maurice Barineau, have defended Whitehead from this charge, it can be shown that this is an implication of Whitehead’s approach. Moreover, Whitehead’s theodicy fails to address radical moral evil in its concrete dimension in respect to real human suffering. As a result, Whitehead’s theodicy is not relevant to Christian theology. My paper is divided into two parts. I will first briefly discuss the traditional problem of evil and some of the traditional problem of evil and some of the traditional solutions proposed to resolve it. The reminder of the paper will demonstrate why Whitehead’s theodicy addresses the traditional problem of evil only at the expense of theological irrelevancy.

" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man" : commencement essay, 1793

One-page sheet with handwritten essay titled, "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man," composed by graduate Ward Cotton for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins with the quote "'Man is a being composed of an organized body, and a rational soul.'"

A treatise on divine union, designed to point out some of the intimate relations between God and man in the higher forms of religious experience.

5th ed.

God's discriminating but mysterious treatment of his own people : a discourse delivered at the funeral of Rev. Joseph Bennett, Woburn, November 22, 1847 /

Mode of access: Internet.

God helps those ... Psychology and the development of character,

Translation of Die Arbeit am Charakter.

A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of earth : revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America : read and understand all ye in mortal clay : in two parts /

Part I: vii, 222, [4] p.; part II: [4], 223-402, [4] p.

The man of to-morrow; human evolution impelling man onward to God-consciousness,

Mode of access: Internet.