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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
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: 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
Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer: Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer. By Milton S. Katz. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. Pp. xxii, 256. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-847-9.) In this thoroughly readable biography Milton S. Katz has rescued from relative obscurity the outstanding basketball coach John B. McLendon Jr. McLendon...; Tags: John, University of Arkansas; Research articles 2008-11-01

SUSPENDING THE DEBATE ABOUT DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMAN FREEDOM: The debate about divine sovereignty and human freedom is a series of competing attempts to reconcile two apparently conflicting components of Christian belief. Each of these attempts, or reconciliation projects, offers an account of how it can be true both that God is sovereign omnipotent and omniscient and that human...; Tags: David, Freedom, God, John, Joseph, Josephine, Oxford University Press, Paul, Peter; Research articles 2008-09-01
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
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
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
God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush: God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from john F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. By Randall Balmer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 243 pp. $24.95 paper. In 1960, presidential candidate John Kennedy insisted that his religion should be a non-issue; most voters apparently agreed, and...; Tags: God, John, Kennedy, Randall, White House; 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
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
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
David Loewenstein and John Marshall, eds. Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture: David Loewenstein and John Marshall, eds. Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. X + 318 pp. $96.00. Review by EUGENE D. HILL, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE. "For there must be ... heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Heresy, Hughes, John; Research articles 2008-03-22
Introduction: cultural and linguistic anthropology and the opacity of other minds: The essays in this Social Thought and Commentary section are exercises in a tried and true anthropological trick, albeit one that these days is perhaps not so often performed. The trick involves taking some very focused, one might even say "small," bits of ethnography and using them to unsettle major...; Tags: John, Oxford University Press, Paul, Press, Rafael; Research articles 2008-03-22
'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
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
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