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Books received: Barbosa, Jose Carlos, Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil. Trans. Fraser G. MacHaffie and Richard K. Danford. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008. Bauman, Chad M., Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. Beaudoin, Tom, Witness to Dispossession: The...; Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, Grand, History, John, Oxford University Press, Press, Religion, William; Research articles 2009-03-01
Law, sovereignty, and political ideas in early modern Britain.(Book review): Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Alan Cromartie. The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. David Armitage,...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, English, History, James, John, Macmillan, Nicholas; Research articles 2009-01-29
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
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US cloth. Thomas Carlyle's notion that it is great men that make history has not had much traction lately....; Tags: American, Americans, Daniel, History, Morse Plc., Oxford University Press; Research articles 2008-09-22

Which rules? International sport and doping in the 21st century: I. HISTORY, STRUCTURE, AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT II. DOPING AND THE GRAVE DANGER TO THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT III. THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT IV. CONCLUSION I. HISTORY, STRUCTURE, AND...; Tags: Court, History, International Olympic Committee, National, R., Sports; Research articles 2008-09-22
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
Recent titles in philosophy: ADAMSON, PETER. Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception. London: The Warburg Institute, 2007. 212 pp. n.p. AGAMBEN, GIORGIO. Profanations. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 99 pp. Cloth, $25.95. ALBAUGH, STEPHEN LYMAN. The Image. Des Moines: Iowa Institute of Philosophy, 2007. 159 pp. Paper, $12.00. ALBAUGH, STEPHEN LYMAN. Talking...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, David, History, J., John, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Religion, Science; Research articles 2008-09-01
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...; Tags: A., African, Barrett, C., Catholic, Christians, Church, Colonial, David, East, Europeans, Family, G., Gender, Gray, H., History, INTRODUCTION, James, Jean, Journal, Mann, Marriage, Mission, N., Oxford University Press, R., Religion, Social, Thomas, West, Western; Research articles 2008-09-01
mirage in the VALLEY OF THE SUN, the: ABSTRACT The Valley of the Sun, a booming metropolitan region of 3.7 million people in a desert that gets seven inches of annual rainfall, has enjoyed an oasis lifestyle during the twentieth century, supported by government-funded reclamation projects and water pumped from aquifers deep underground. Following World War II, groundwater...; Tags: A., American, Bureau, CARTER, Growth, History, Jacob, James, John, Jr., Management, Phoenix Technologies, Press, Salt River Project, Scottsdale, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tucson, West, Western, William; Research articles 2008-07-01
Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report): Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...; Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York; Research articles 2008-06-22
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
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
New book chronicle: Piles of animals, smaller piles of records from the 1920s to 1940s, revisited: three reports on three sites, seminal for the recognition of the antiquity of humans in North America, showcase new investigative methods and techniques to further our understanding of human-animal interaction in the dying days of the Pleistocene...; Tags: American, Athens, Chapter 5, Classical, David, Early, History, Hudson, John, Medieval, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Robert, Royal Commission; Research articles 2008-06-01
Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896: THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...; Tags: American, C., Charles, Cross, Democratic Party, East, Farmers, Gregg, H., Hill, History, James, John, Journal, L., Labor, M., Martin, Miller, Politics, Reform, Thomas, Turner, W., William; Research articles 2008-05-01
A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969: Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...; Tags: Church, D., E., Easter, English, F., G., Gilbert, God, History, House, J., Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lincoln, Lord, M., Macmillan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Social, Society, T., Thomas, W., Wales, William, York; Research articles 2008-03-22
Asceticism and the hopeful self: subjectivity, reductionism, and modernity: Recently at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem I was struck by an Orthodox nun who queued to kneel by Christ's tomb in a very pious way, to be ushered out after only a minute or so by a monk whose job it was to ensure a regular...; Tags: Bowker, Cambridge University Press, Church, God, History, J., John, M., Nietzsche, Oxford University Press, Press, Religion, Ritual, West; Research articles 2008-01-01
Books received but not reviewed/Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December 2007/Januar-Decembre 2007: Ajzenstat, Janet, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi, 200 pp. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, David, Early, History, James, John, Politics, Pp, Press, Social; Research articles 2007-12-22
Frontiers, empires, and the new world: the significance of the frontier in American foreign policy: Abstract The late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century frontier profoundly shaped American cultural values and political institutions, and continues to influence the way most Americans look at the world. Studies of how Americans dealt with their western frontier may hold important clues as to how American policy makers and the American...; Tags: American, Americans, David, History, John, Lincoln, Oxford University Press, Thomas, Walter, West; Research articles 2007-12-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros. Ed. and trans. Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii + 304 pp. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978-0-934977-61-6. Bruno, Giordano. De la causa, principio et eno/Uber die Ursache, das Prinzip und das Eine. Ed. and trans. Thomas Leinkauf. Giordiano...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, David, De, E., Ed, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, Letters, Life, Maria, Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Renaissance, Rome, Strasbourg, Susan, Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-22