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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
William Wilberforce: A Biography: doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001868 William Wilberforce: A Biography. By Stephen Tomkins. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. 238 pp. $18.00 paper. The 2007 bicentennial celebrating Britain's anti-slave trade act witnessed a spate of biographies of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), the British politician and philanthropist at the center of the antislavery campaign. Many...; Tags: Tomkins Plc., William; Research articles 2008-12-01
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
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

Storm data and unusual weather phenomena: Storm data and unusual weather phenomena Time...; Tags: Charles, Chittenden Corp., City, Cross, Dahlgren, E, East, Evidence, Franklin, Green, Hill, King, Kings, Lake, Leesburg, Leonard, Little, Madison, N, Nelson, North, Old, Prince, S, W, Warren, West, White, William, Wind, Windsor; 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
William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops: William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum: The History of the English Bishops, Vol. I: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thompson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xxxiii + 693 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-820770-2. 110.00 [pounds sterling]. Vol. II: Commentary, by R. M. Thompson,...; Tags: English, Oxford University Press, 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
'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
Liminal language: boundaries of magic and honor in early modern Essex.: In 1645, in the small village of Stisted, Essex, two serving maids told the Justice of the Peace that a group of twenty or more men and women had, on several occasions, visited various gentry households where they "conjured" the residents to sleep. This group included ...; Tags: Catholic, Early, English, Henry, John, Justice, Oxford University Press, Ralph, Religion, Robert, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, William, Wood; Research articles 2007-12-22
New Book Chronicle: Children, they say, should be seen, not heard. But are we seeing enough of them in the archaeological record? This is what we shall first consider, reviewing a couple of very different books on the subject. The step from children to food is easily taken, and we shall pass into...; Tags: Cyprus, David, Early, History, Ma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Press, William; Research articles 2007-09-01
Books received: Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William; Research articles 2007-09-01
The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books: John Askin, [1739]-1815, was a well-known eighteenth-century fur trader in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. He and his family possessed a library, the contents of which have not yet been fully studied. Works in the Askin library reveal the family's intellectual and cultural interests, attributes that we do not...; Tags: A., American, Books, Church, David, English, History, J., James, John, Joseph, Jr., Letters, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Philip, Society, Thomas, Voltaire Inc., William; Research articles 2007-03-22
Books of interest: [The following titles are of ecumenical and/or interfaith interest, but are now too old to be reviewed in a timely manner. Readers will want to be aware of them.] Amaladoss, Michael, Making Harmony: Living in a Pluralist World. Chennai: Institute of Dialogue with Cultures and Religions; Delhi: ISPCK, 2003....; Tags: Christians, Church, Cross, Dialogue, God, John, MN, Oxford University Press, Pp, Theology, William; Research articles 2007-01-01
Richard E. Flathman, Pluralism and Liberal Democracy: Richard E. Flathman, Pluralism and Liberal Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), vii + 218 pp. The constellation of issues concerning the relation of pluralism to liberal democracy could not be more deserving of the attention of contemporary political philosophers. Both domestically and globally, we live within increasingly...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Liberal, William; Research articles 2007-01-01
Shakespeare's Sonnet CXI and John Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos: Lines in Shakespeare's Sonnet CXI bear a strong resemblance to lines in John Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos (1603). In the sonnet Shakespeare's Poet persona blames Fortune for making him reliant on 'public means which public manners breeds'. It has been widely supposed that Shakespeare is alluding to his career as...; Tags: English, Francis, II, James, John, King, Literature, Oxford University Press, William; Research articles 2007-01-01
Recent titles in Philosophy: ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...; Tags: A., American, Aquinas, Books, Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, Daniel, David, E., F., G., God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Joseph, Life, Logic, M., Nature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Routledge, Science, Social, Thomas, Vol, W., Whitehead, William; Research articles 2006-06-01
English Calvinism and the crowd: Coriolanus and the history of religious reform: Late Tudor London comes alive when Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed biography of William Shakespeare, shadowing its subject, takes to the streets. "The unprecedented concentration of bodies jostling ... crossing and recrossing the great bridge, pressing into taverns and theaters and churches," Greenblatt suggests, is a "key to the whole spectacle" of...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Christians, David, Early, English, God, History, James, John, Life, Oxford University Press, Patrick, Press, Rome, Thomas, William, Wilson; Research articles 2006-06-01
Michigan: cartographic perspectives on the "Great Lakes State": Since the beginning of American statehood, a map of the commonwealth has been an important expression of sovereignty and civic identity. The United States, it was true, cemented together the separate states, a unity created out of many entities, e pluribus unum. In the federal vision, however, individual states, especially...; Tags: American, Bay, C., Commissioner, English, Farmer, Freeman, H., Henry, History, Hudson, Indian, John, Johnson, Jr., La, Lake, Louis, Mitchell, Nicolas, Rand McNally & Co., Robert, S., W., William, Young; Research articles 2005-03-22