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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
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
List of books received: Berry, Ciaran, The Sphere of Birds. Oldcastle, Co Meath: The Gallery Press, 2008. 82 pages. EUR 18.50 hardback; EUR 11.95 paperback. Bruni Roccia, Gioiella, Myriadminded Men: Coleridge and Joyce. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 2008. 143 pages. EUR 10.00 paperback. Cave, Richard and Ben Levitas editors, Irish Theatre in England:...; Tags: Dublin, Joyce, Oxford University Press, Press, Southern; Research articles 2008-09-22
New book chronicle: Memory, from the 'dark abyss of time' to present day conflict zones, via biographies of some of the British players in twentieth-century archaeology, permeates this chronicle. Two points emerge: first, that good writing matters. Second, that the past is eternally composed. The past composite LAURENT OLIVIER. Le sombre...; Tags: A., American, Andrew, Athens, Classical, Cyprus, David, Davis, Early, English, Heritage, Ma, Mediterranean, Memory, Michael, Museum, Norman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philip, Press, Rome, Studies; 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

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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction: In Australia, as in many other parts of the world, there is a growing realisation that freshwater resources are finite and cannot support unlimited growth and development. Intensifying economic practices have led to the degradation of major aquatic ecosystems, while simultaneously creating conflicts between water using groups. Urban communities now...; Tags: A., H., J., M., Oxford University Press, P., Press, Routledge, S.; Research articles 2008-03-01
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
Unbounded naturalism: INTRODUCTION John McDowell's explicit aim in his seminal work Mind and World is to provide a spirited defense of common sense realism. To go about this, McDowell takes seriously Kant's famous dictum on empirical judgments, 'Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind', in hopes of calling...; Tags: A.V., Adorno, Bildung, Cambridge University Press, Critique, Descartes, Friedman, God, Hegel, Heidegger, John, Journal, Kant, Kantian, Lyotard, Miller, Mind, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Press, Robert, Spirit, Stern, Weber; 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
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
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
Books received: The list includes all books received between 1 June 2007 and 1 September 2007. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity. General ...; Tags: Athens, David, Early, Ma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Perspectives, Press; Research articles 2007-12-01
Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers: metaphor, ideology and practice: But the mind attempts to contrive a principle of order and regularity into certain parts of the mass of signs, and this is the role of relative motivation. (Ferdinand de Saussure 1974:133) Il y a trop...; Tags: A., American, C., Cambridge University Press, Communion, D., East, English, J., Jones, Journal, L, M., North, Press, S., T., West; Research articles 2007-11-01
Tendencies and other realizables in Medical Information Sciences: 1. Introduction 1.1 Why Tendencies Are Important for Medical Information Sciences It would sound a bit odd if a medical scientist were to describe his work as research on certain special sorts of entities called 'tendencies'. Nevertheless, searching the standard Medline database of medical research literature yields 48,884...; Tags: B, Oxford University Press, Press, R, Science, T, T., U; Research articles 2007-10-01