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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
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
Storm data and unusual weather phenomena: Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena June 2008 Time...; Tags: Anderson, Armstrong, Athens, Bernard, Central, City, Denton, East, Fisher, Graham, Gray, Harris, Jones, Lake, Mission, Moore, North, Power, Randall, S, Smith, Taylor, Terrell, Upshur, W, West, Western, White, Wind, Wood; Research articles 2008-06-01
Storm data and unusual weather phenomena: Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena Time ...; Tags: Anderson, Athens, Bryan, Central, City, Eastern, Ellis, Gray, Grayson, Green, Hamilton, Henderson, Hutchinson, La, Lake, Leon, Little, Madison, Moore, N, North, Randall, River, Smith, South, Taylor, Tom, Trinity, W, West, Western, Wind, Young; Research articles 2008-05-01

Freedom of the press and Catholic social thought: reflections on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church in the United States: FROM THE FIRST REPORTS in the 1980s in the National Catholic Reporter to the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in 2002 in the Boston Globe, the free American press played a central role in uncovering the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States. That role has been highly...; Tags: Allen, American, American Media Inc., Catholic, Church, David, Dialogue, God, Identity, II, John, Paul, Politics, Rome, Social, Sources, Taylor, Western; Research articles 2007-12-01
The post-9/11 hijab as icon: The integration and assimilation of second and third generation Muslims into U.S. society was expected to proceed according to a predictable trajectory noted among previous immigrant groups. The children of the immigrants would shed their parents' religious and cultural markings and become more Americanized, and if a reassertion of a...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Arab, East, Eastern, Gender, God, West, Western; Research articles 2007-09-22
Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958: Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958, by D.K. Fieldhouse. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii, 376 pp. $115.00 US cloth. The study of history is often driven by current events, a fact demonstrated by David Fieldhouse in the introduction to this book when he expresses his hope that...; Tags: Arab, Oxford University Press, Western; Research articles 2007-03-22
Neoliberalism, inequality and politics: the changing face of Australia: The 1980s and 1990s saw the most profound transformation of Australian public policy since World War II and one that fundamentally reworked a framework in place since Federation (Castles et al 1996; Kelly 1994). This transformation was underwritten by two principles: liberalism--the view that citizens are autonomous individual actors whose...; Tags: A., Allen, American, Australian, D., E., Education, F., G., Gender, J., L., M., Oxford University Press, P., Research, S., Science, Social, Western; Research articles 2007-03-22
"Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat" [1] : Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity.: Yasmin Moll School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Abstract There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation...; Tags: American, Culture, God, Identity, James, John, Liberal, Oxford University Press, Politics, West, Western; Research articles 2007-03-22
The pitfalls of cultural consciousness: In "The Empire Fights Back," a lecture delivered at Harvard University, (1) Chinua Achebe hints that his novel, Things Fall Apart, was conceived, among other reasons, as a response to the misrepresentations of Africa in some Westerner stories. He mentions Joseph Conrad and Joyce Cary, whose stereotypical images of Africa...; Tags: African, Black, Culture, Empire, God, Journal, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, West, Western; Research articles 2007-03-01
Queering international law: The panel was convened at 10:45 a.m., Thursday, March 29, by its moderator, Ralph Wilde of University College London, who introduced the panelists: Doris Buss of Carleton University; Aeyal Gross of Tel Aviv University; Dianne Otto of the University of Melbourne; and Amr Shalakany of American University, Cairo. INTRODUCTION...; Tags: Agora S.A., Father, Ralph, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01
Racial categories and the politics of difference in late imperial Russia: The past two decades have produced a virtual explosion in academic interest in racial theory and the history of race and racism. Historians, literary critics, and moral philosophers have published a staggering number of books, articles, and journals and organized countless conferences, symposia, and seminars devoted to these themes. The...; Tags: A., American, D., David, Empire, G., History, Jew, Jews, John, Judaism, L., M., N., NJ, Oxford University Press, P., Paul, Politics, Press, Princeton University, Racism, S., Science, Social, West, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01
The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's paintings: (Original Title: Racialized Images in 1920s and 1930s San Francisco: The Paintings of Eva Fong Chan) Eva Fong Chan (1897-1991), a Chinese-American artist who actively painted and exhibited her work between 1925 and 1940, painted Bo Kay Chart Golfing, Thomas Kwan Watching (1931) and Portrait of Tom Yuk Lan...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Asian, Early, Thomas, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01
Removing the government's immunity from suit in federal cases: [A citizen cannot sue the government without a 'right to proceed', that is, a law removing the government's immunity from suit. Current High Court doctrine holds that, in cases in federal jurisdiction, a right to proceed derives by implication from the grant of jurisdiction. This article subjects that doctrine to...; Tags: Australian, British American Tobacco Plc., Constitution, Deane, High Court, Justice, Section, Western, Wilson; Research articles 2006-12-01
Doctrinal war: religion and ideology in international conflict: Justifying War Because war is more devastating than any other form of human conflict, it begs for justification, which must be compelling if it is to be generally persuasive. The exercise of armed force seeks legitimacy and legality, and that is no less evident today than in the past....; Tags: American, Americans, Christians, God, History, J., John, M., non-Western, Oxford University Press, West, Western; Research articles 2006-04-01
Why Indian CEOs Are in Great Demand: News that Vikram Pandit will be the new chief executive officer of Citigroup, joining other Indians such as Pepsi's Indra Nooyi at the top of major U.S. corporations, comes at the same time that we learn that Tata Motors may buy Jaguar from Ford Motor. The Indians...; Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Western, Money, Foreign-exchange, India, Indian Company, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Shoes of invisibility and invisible shoes: Australian hunters and gatherers and ideas on the origins of footwear: Abstract: Apart from a single brief paper written by DS Davidson and published in 1947, and a detailed description of bark sandals from the Tanami desert region by DF Thomson in 1960, most attention in relation to Aboriginal Australian footwear has focused on the emu-feather and hairstring kadaitcha shoes or...; Tags: Australian, Early, Gibson, Lake, Meggitt Plc., Spencer, West, Western; Research articles 2005-09-22
Quarrying masses of information: an approach to the recording and interpretation of a quarry assemblage: Abstract A detailed study using a non-site distributional approach has focused on Quarry 35, situated in the Mt Wood Range of Sturt National Park, Northwestem New South Wales. The analysis illustrates how accurate recording and appropriate sampling techniques were used to firstly understand the spatial and technological variation in...; Tags: American, Australian, C., Cambridge University Press, D., Doelman, G., J., M., Nelson, NSW, P., Press, S., Western; Research articles 2005-07-01
Prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia: evidence from the Northern Rock Islands: Abstract We report on an assemblage of well preserved fish remains recovered from the site of Chelechol ra Orrak in the Rock Islands of Palau. This is only the second such study to date in Palau and one of the few for the region, indicating the need to better...; Tags: A., Allen, Asian, BP Plc, C., Clark, D., Easter, F., G., II, J., Journal, L., M., Northern Rock Plc., Oceania, Perspectives, S., T., W., Ward, Western; Research articles 2005-04-01