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• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

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• McCarthyism: political repression and the fear of communism

  - 2004-12-22

  THE 28-YEAR-OLD SEAMAN WAS PUZZLED. LAWRENCE PARKER HAD BEEN forced off his job as a waiter on the S.S. President Cleveland in February 1951 as a "poor security risk," but had not been told why. This was not the first time he had been barred from the waterfront under the...

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• Books Received

  - 1999-04-01

  Appearance in this list neither guarantees nor precludes a future review of the book. Adamson, Jane, Freadman, Richard and Parker, David (eds.), Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 294, 35.00 [pounds sterling], 12.95 [pounds sterling]. Annas, Julia, Platonic Ethics Old...

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