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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

  Tags: America, angel, Boston, California, Cambridge, Earth, Emerson, garden, Park, Richard, Robert, temple, University of Oxford, Valley, Yale University

• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

  Tags: affiliation, America, analysis, Barry, Cohen, Gary, Israel, M., network, Phillips, Richard, Robert, U.S., University of Oxford

• What really matters in history? Environmental perspectives on modern America

  - 2002-04-01

  What really matters in history? In the introduction to Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), editor Harvard Sitkoff addresses that question with unusual candor. To organize the conference that laid the foundation for the book, Sitkoff writes, the history department...

  Tags: America, Conservation, Donald, environment, Environmental, environmentalism, pollution, Richard, Robert, South, University of Oxford, women