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- Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648
- Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 338 pp. $99.00 hardcover. Bridget Heal's work is a thorough case study of Reformation and Counter Reformation Marian piety in three representative cities: Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne....
- Research articles 2009-01-01
- The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France
- RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin
- Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
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- Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. d'Abrera, Anna Ysabel, The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Ando, Clifford, The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Liminal language: boundaries of magic and honor in early modern Essex.
- In 1645, in the small village of Stisted, Essex, two serving maids told the Justice of the Peace that a group of twenty or more men and women had, on several occasions, visited various gentry households where they "conjured" the residents to sleep. This group included ...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Freedom of the press and Catholic social thought: reflections on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church in the United States
- FROM THE FIRST REPORTS in the 1980s in the National Catholic Reporter to the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in 2002 in the Boston Globe, the free American press played a central role in uncovering the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States. That role has been highly...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
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- Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
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- Albanese, Catherine L., America: Religions and Religion, 4th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007. Albanese, Catherine L., A Republic of Mind and Spirit. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Artigas, Mariano, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902. Medicine, Science,...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform
- Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling ... crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches," Greenblatt suggests, is a "key to the whole spectacle" of...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Genius loci: placing place in Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ABSTRACT Genius loci: Placing Place in Gerard Manley Hopkins by Malcolm Hardman Key to Hopkins is his precise sense of place--including landscape, speech patterns, and the origins of poetic vocabulary. He shares a sense of cosmic geography with Boethius and Abelard, wrestles with the Roman legacy of territorial absolutism,...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- State attempts to define religion: the ramifications of applying mandatory prescription contraceptive coverage statutes to religious employers
- I. INTRODUCTION There has been much attention given of late to the issue of whether the law should require private employers to cover prescription contraceptives under their health care plans. Although the exclusion of prescription contraceptive coverage by plans that offer coverage for other prescription medication was for many...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- The Scottish Witchcraft Act
- Few acts of the Scottish parliament can have had such deadly consequences as the following, passed on June 4, 1563: Anentis Witchcraftis. ITEM Forsamekill as the Quenis Majestie and thre Estatis in this present Parliament being informit, that...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- The making of a celebrity: Lady Gregory and the Abbey's first Amercian tour
- In late September 1911, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory sailed from Ireland to Boston, arriving on the twenty-ninth of that month to guide the Irish Players of the Abbey Theatre through their first tour of America. (1) The visit, arranged by the American theatrical organizers Leibler and Company, was conceived in...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Saving Roe is not enough: when religion controls healthcare
- INTRODUCTION Gilroy, California, is a small town about thirty-three miles south of San Jose--the heart of Silicon Valley. (1) Gilroy historically has been an agricultural community. It has the highest rates of poverty and teen pregnancy in Santa Clara County. (2) It has one hospital. (3) There are five...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- In Search of An American Catholicism: a History of Religion and Culture in Tension
- By Jay P. Dolan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 312 pp. $28.00 cloth. Jay P. Dolan's most recent book, In Search of An American Catholicism, rooted in his groundbreaking Autumn 1981 article in The Wilson Quarterly, "A Catholic Romance With Modernity," traces the evolution of the...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550-1750
- By Marc R. Forster. New Studies in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 268 pp. $59.95 cloth. The Reformation affected southwest Germany in a gradual fashion. In the middle of the sixteenth century it was not always easy to distinguish Catholic from Protestant, but by 1700...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- The "complex fate" of the Canadian in Howard O'Hagan's Tay John
- HOWARD O'HAGAN'S Tay John opens with a magisterially acerbic declaration, not that the Canadian Pacific Railway was built to make Canada a nation, but that "Canada was made a dominion" so that the railway "might be built and that men might gain money from its building" II. O'Hagan's novel begins,...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- Patronage, millennialism and the serpent God Mumbo in south-west Kenya, 1912-34
- From 1914 to 1934 the creed of Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, extended across south-west Kenya. Mumbo condemned Christianity as rotten and vowed to cleanse the land of white people--colonial officials and missionaries--and their lackeys--chiefs and converts. It pledged to provide followers with abundant cattle and grain. Mumbo,...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Japan
- JAPAN including Okinawa Major Cities: Tokyo, Yokohama, Ō saka, K ō be, Ky ō to, Nago ya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Nagasaki Other Cities: Chiba, Gifu, Hamamatsu, Himeji, Kagoshima,...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- The Ecclesiastical Vision of the Reformed Bishops Under Elizabeth I 1559-1570
- Upon their appointment to the initial Elizabethan episcopate in 1559-60, the former Marian exiles Richard Cox (bishop of Ely, 1559-81), John Jewel (bishop of Salisbury, 1560-71), James PiIkington (bishop of Durham, 1561-76), and Edwin Sandys (bishop of Worcester, 1559-70, and later bishop of London, 1570-77) attempted to promote an advanced...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
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