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Books received: Alexander, Dominic, Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Atherstone, Andrew, ed., The Heart of Faith: Following Christ in the Church o/ England. Cambridge, U.K.: Lutterworth,...; Tags: A., Baptist, Bologna, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, Grand, History, J., Jews, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Press, R., Religion, SAINTS, Society, Theology, Thought; Research articles 2008-12-01
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...; Tags: American, Cartesian, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Early, Fall, G., God, H., History, J., Jacques, Jeffrey, Jesus, John, Joseph, Journal, L., La, Les, M., O'Connor, Old, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Voltaire Inc., W.; Research articles 2008-12-01
Books received: 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...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Charles, Church, Culture, David, Early, Faith, History, J., James, John, L., Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Press, Theology, William; Research articles 2008-09-01
The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report): John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...; Tags: Church, Culture, De, Early, English, Enlightenment, History, John, Magic, Martin, Medieval, Moore, Oxford University Press, Press, Protestant, Reformation, Religion, Richard, Roman, Science, Spanish, Thomas, Western; Research articles 2008-06-22
Evolutionary analyses of ethnic solidarity: an overview: The author presents an overview of the contribution that evolutionary theory has made, and can make, to studies of ethnically based social cohesion in the social sciences. INTRODUCTION Evolutionary approaches have a minor though persistent place in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, probably due to the social...; Tags: A., C., Culture, D., E., Ed, Electronic Data Systems Corp., F., H., J., L., M., Oxford University Press, P., Press, S., Social, W., Wilson; Research articles 2008-06-01

'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company: SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...; Tags: A., American, Charles, Culture, English, Frank, Green, House, Hudson's Bay Co., Indian, J., James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lake, Marie, Michel, Mission, Pierre, Raphael, Thomas, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
Books received: Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Library of Pauline Studies. Peabody, Mass.: Henderson Publishing, 2007. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Anderson, Emma, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey...; Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, James, John, M., Paul, Press, Theology; Research articles 2008-03-01
Cognition and religion: Consider the following: A social scientist conducts a survey of college students to see whether or not they pray and, if so, what they pray about. He finds that students usually pray for something mental, such as asking God to help them remember a formula for a test; something emotional,...; Tags: A., American, Barrett, Berkeley, Boundaries, Cambridge University Press, Culture, Gelman, God, Heaven, Journal, Life, Mind, Moses, Narrative, NJ, Pp, Press, Princeton University, Religion, Review, Robert, Science, Smith, Social; Research articles 2007-12-22
Portable politics and durable religion: the moral worldviews of American evangelical missionaries: INTRODUCTION We began this study with the assumption that American international missionaries, having been exposed to a foreign culture, would relativize their own perspective on American culture, religion, and politics. In particular, we were interested in whether American international missionaries from the Pacific Northwest PNW exhibited similar traits to...; Tags: American, Americans, Bush, Christians, Contact, Culture, Freedom, God, Green, Michael, N, Oxford University Press, Political, Politics, Press, Protestant, Religion, Smith; Research articles 2007-12-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, El, English, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Leo, Les, Life, M., Nicholas, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Rhetoric, S., Simon, Susan, Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received.: AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.; Research articles 2007-09-22
Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780: Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...; Tags: African, American, Assembly, Black, Chapel, Christmas, Church, Council, Culture, Early, Easter, English, God, Hall, History, J., James, John, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, Kingston Technology Corp., Lord, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Testing, Thomas, W.; Research articles 2007-09-01
Books received: 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...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William; Research articles 2007-09-01
"Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat" [1] : Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity.: Yasmin Moll School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Abstract There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation...; Tags: American, Culture, God, Identity, James, John, Liberal, Oxford University Press, Politics, West, Western; Research articles 2007-03-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Bideaux, Michel, ed., and Herberay des Essarts, trans. Amadis de Gaule. Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]63. ISBN: 2-7453-1422-X. Cardano, Girolamo. Liber de ludo aleae. Filosofia e scienza nell'eta moderna....; Tags: Alexander, Cambridge University Press, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, English, F., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, M., Mann, Martin, Michel, Oxford University Press, Paul, Poetry, Rome, Thomas, Venice; Research articles 2007-03-22
The pitfalls of cultural consciousness: In "The Empire Fights Back," a lecture delivered at Harvard University, (1) Chinua Achebe hints that his novel, Things Fall Apart, was conceived, among other reasons, as a response to the misrepresentations of Africa in some Westerner stories. He mentions Joseph Conrad and Joyce Cary, whose stereotypical images of Africa...; Tags: African, Black, Culture, Empire, God, Journal, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, West, Western; Research articles 2007-03-01
Books received: 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,...; Tags: A., American, C., Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, David, Grand, History, J., James, John, L., Oxford University Press, Press, Princeton University, R., Reformation, Religion, Robert, Society, Yale University; Research articles 2007-03-01
Six Steps to an Ethical Business Culture: A recent white paper from Allegiance, a company which provides what they call Enterprise Feedback Management, attempts to outline a plan for creating an ethical business culture in six steps: Establish an enforceable code of conduct. Initial and ongoing training. Regular communications. Anonymous reporting...; Tags: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Policies And Procedures, Business Ethics, Litigation, Culture, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Recent titles in Philosophy: ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...; Tags: A., American, Aquinas, Books, Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, Daniel, David, E., F., G., God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Joseph, Life, Logic, M., Nature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Routledge, Science, Social, Thomas, Vol, W., Whitehead, William; Research articles 2006-06-01
Culture: The Biggest Single Impediment to the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: Okay, let's assume that Microsoft is successful in grabbing Yahoo and that anti-trust authorities in Washington don't block the deal entirely. Â There's still a major question mark hanging over the deal--the role of culture. Microsoft's culture is somewhat inbred, arrogant and totally focused on Windows. Microsoft people...; Tags: Culture, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-02-01