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- 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...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
- Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University. By Thomas Albert Howard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 476 pages. $135.00 cloth. Howard's book is a welcome addition to studies of nineteenth-century Christian thought, modern intellectual history, and university history. Ably researched and skillfully written, the...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- 'A new and exceedingly brilliant star': L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Mary Miles Minter
- Following the success of Anne of Green Gables (1908), and of the first film version (1919), both L. M. Montgomery and the actress Mary Miles Minter found themselves being reinvented in Anne's image. The relationship between author, heroine, and actress was played out through the public circulation of celebrity names...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998
- Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster, 1921-1998. By Patrick Mitchel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 362 pp. $99.00 cloth. In this lucidly written history of Irish evangelical unionism, Patrick Mitchel applies that elusive biblical mandate that the Christian should "be in the world but not of...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- 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
- 9. Perspective
- Analyzing "American" Wars As was mentioned at the beginning of this discussion, I have concentrated on the later history of the mass media's involvement with wars, as well as tending to focus on both American media and American wars. Both emphases seem justified on the grounds that the American...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860
- Edited by Mark A. Noll. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. np. In God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860, evangelical scholar Mark Noll has brought together contributions from several talented authors who explore the relationship between Protestantism and capitalism in the formation of American culture. The...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- Straightening the Altars: The Ecclesiastical Vision and Pastoral Achievements of the Progressive Bishops under Elizabeth I, 1559-1579
- By Scott A. Wenig. Studies in Church History, vol. 10. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. xi + 290 pp. $61.95 cloth. This helpful study deepens our understandings of the origins and tempo of the Protestant Reformation in England under Elizabeth I during the first twenty years of her reign....
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- 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
- Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution
- Dans cet article, nous examinons la celebre these de S.M. Lipset, qui affirme que la revolution americaine a cree des differences durables entre les valeurs canadiennes et americaines. Nous reconsiderons tout d'abord l'affirmation centrale de la these selon laquelle l'exode des loyalistes vers le Canada a ancre de facon permanente...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism
- In Milton's description of the marriage of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, the entire Garden of Eden is seen to participate in the celebration of their union. Spousal and nature imagery are woven together, beauty and desire joined in the mystery of Adam's amazement at this gift of his...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
- Roman Catholic-Quaker Dialogue
- PRECIS Theological similarities between Roman Catholicism and Liberal Quakerism are examined using the theology articulated in the documents of Vatican II and various writings of the Society of Friends. Religious authority, liturgical uses of Divine Presence, and the role of social action in religious life are emphasized, and possibilities...
- Research articles 1999-06-22
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- Mahoney, Kathleen A. Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: the Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University.(Book Review)
- Mahoney, Kathleen A. Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 360 pp., $42.95, ISBN 0-8018-7340-l Publication Date: October 2003 Kathleen Mahoney teaches at Boston College and has written many ...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Non-Belief.(Brief Article)
- THE SOUL OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: FROM PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT TO ESTABLISHED NON-BELIEF. By George Marsden. Oxford; 462 pages; $35 and Pounds 25 THE SOUL OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: FROM PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT TO ESTABLISHED NON-BELIEF. By George Marsden. Oxford; 462 pages; $35 and Pounds 25...
- Research articles 1994-07-16
- Protestant leader David Trimble to quit after election defeat
- BELFAST AFP — David Trimble, the Northern Ireland politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize, resigned as head of a moderate Protestant party after losing his seat in the British parliament to a hardliner. At a meeting with the president and chairman of his Ulster Unionist Party UUP Trimble,...
- Research articles 2005-05-07
- British government gets tough on N. Ireland Protestant group after riots
- BELFAST AFP — The British government took tough action against a hardline Protestant group in Northern Ireland following recent serious rioting, announcing it no longer recognised a ceasefire by the organisation. The move by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain to "specify" the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force UVF will have...
- Research articles 2005-09-14
- N Ireland Protestant paramilitary group disbands
- BELFAST AFP — A Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, supportive of British rule, announced it was disbanding, following the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army IRA, the main Catholic paramilitary group. The order from the Loyalist Volunteer Force LVF leadership to "stand down" was to take effect on...
- Research articles 2005-10-30
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