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The Scholar As Celebrant, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

The Scholar As Celebrant, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of New Perspectives In Mormon Studies: Creating And Crossing Boundaries, Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

Book Review Of New Perspectives In Mormon Studies: Creating And Crossing Boundaries, Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

No abstract provided.


"Out Of Zion Shall Go Forth The Law", Nathan B. Oman Sep 2019

"Out Of Zion Shall Go Forth The Law", Nathan B. Oman

Nathan B. Oman

No abstract provided.


Two Necessities Of Poetry: Plenitude And Exuberance, Marianne Rogoff Feb 2016

Two Necessities Of Poetry: Plenitude And Exuberance, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"Alicia Ostriker advocates a 'poetics of ardor,' one which is not detached, objective, or merely intellectual, instead a poetry that embraces a big-hearted and practical definition of what erotic means. Dancing at the Devil’s Party is mostly about women’s poetry but Ostriker also reminds us of the wide-reaching sensuality of Whitman, Hopkins, Keats, and other sexy male forebears who permitted love to appear in their work."


Irreconcilable Differences With God: On "The Monk Downstairs" By Tim Farrington, Marianne Rogoff Feb 2016

Irreconcilable Differences With God: On "The Monk Downstairs" By Tim Farrington, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"The Monk Downstairs is an easy read about God. It seriously ponders the split between the contemplative life and life in the world while describing the most bedeviling aspects of simple survival on the secular plane."


Review Of "Into The Beautiful North" By Luis Alberto Urrea, Marianne Rogoff Feb 2016

Review Of "Into The Beautiful North" By Luis Alberto Urrea, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"There are still many places in the world where electricity is a luxury and bandidos regularly assert power over powerless villages, where a plate of beans has to suffice as daily bread, and the lure of Hollywood cowboys and television heroes encourages the imagination to believe in fantasies. Escapism is a form of hope. The men of Tres Camarones, the dusty pueblito in Sinaloa, Mexico, at the center of Luis Alberto Urrea’s new novel, Into the Beautiful North, have escaped to the U.S. The fantasy was, the men cross the border, acquire riches, and return to the land of lagoons …


In Search Of Our Brains: On Teaching "Proust Was A Neuroscientist" By Jonah Lehrer, Marianne Rogoff Feb 2016

In Search Of Our Brains: On Teaching "Proust Was A Neuroscientist" By Jonah Lehrer, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"I have always wanted to teach a semester of freshman English using a single text, moving students via rich allusions out beyond it for further reading according to their individual interests. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer is a collection of essays linking contemporary findings in neuroscience with visionary knowledge dreamed up by writers and artists a hundred years ago. Concepts like Walt Whitman's poetic "body electric" and Virginia Woolf's psychological "stream of consciousness" are proven to have physical origins in our brains and bodies. I created a whole course around the book in Fall '08 at California College …


Is The Internet Ruining Our Lives? On "The Cult Of The Amateur" By Andrew Keen, Marianne Rogoff Feb 2016

Is The Internet Ruining Our Lives? On "The Cult Of The Amateur" By Andrew Keen, Marianne Rogoff

Marianne Rogoff

"Not everyone will agree with the premise of Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today’s User-generated Media Are Destroying Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values, recently out in paperback. Are you a throwback if you do? Are you a cultist if you don’t? Which is worse?"


Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro Jun 2015

Review: The Death Of A Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories And A Novella, Crystal Renfro

Crystal L Renfro

Review of the short story collection "The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella," by Pat Carr.


Mooknayak: The Mute Protagonist, Ananya Vajpeyi Apr 2015

Mooknayak: The Mute Protagonist, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi Jan 2015

Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Review Of Machingura, Francis: The Messianic Feeding Of The Masses. An Analysis Of John 6 In The Context Of Messianic Leadership In Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, Mussa Muneja Dec 2014

Review Of Machingura, Francis: The Messianic Feeding Of The Masses. An Analysis Of John 6 In The Context Of Messianic Leadership In Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, Mussa Muneja

Mussa Muneja

No abstract provided.


Donald Harman Akenson. Some Family: The Mormons And How Humanity Keeps Track Of Itself, J. Michael Hunter Dec 2014

Donald Harman Akenson. Some Family: The Mormons And How Humanity Keeps Track Of Itself, J. Michael Hunter

J Michael Hunter

Review by J. Michael Hunter of Donald Harman Akenson’s Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself (Montreal: McGill University / Kingston, Ontario: Queen’s University Press, 2007).


Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers Oct 2014

Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Larry Rasmussen’s new book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, like his last environmental ethics masterpiece Earth Community Earth Ethics (won the 1997 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion), is eloquently written and incorporates a multitude of interdisciplinary sources to argue for Creation justice.


Antiracist Education: From Theory To Practice By Julie Kailin., Laura Stivers Oct 2014

Antiracist Education: From Theory To Practice By Julie Kailin., Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Although I help students to see the complexity of racism and how their actions or inactions can further individual and institutional racism, this book pushed me to think more deeply about the racism in my own university and classes and how I can more intentionally pursue antiracist education. The book is written for primary and secondary education, but it is useful for college and seminary professors in religion as well.


The Triumph Of The Hindu Right, Ananya Vajpeyi Sep 2014

The Triumph Of The Hindu Right, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Handbook Of Classical Rhetoric In The Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.- A.D. 400 (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

Handbook Of Classical Rhetoric In The Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.- A.D. 400 (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


Handbook Of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation For Literary Study (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

Handbook Of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation For Literary Study (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


The Third Kind Of Knowledge: Memoirs And Selected Writings (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

The Third Kind Of Knowledge: Memoirs And Selected Writings (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


Ancient Rhetorical Theory And Paul. Revised Edition (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

Ancient Rhetorical Theory And Paul. Revised Edition (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


The Therapy Of Desire. Theory And Practice In Hellenistic Ethics (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

The Therapy Of Desire. Theory And Practice In Hellenistic Ethics (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


Greek Myths And Mesopotamia: Parallels And Influence In The Homeric Hymns And Hesiod (Review), John T. Kirby Jul 2014

Greek Myths And Mesopotamia: Parallels And Influence In The Homeric Hymns And Hesiod (Review), John T. Kirby

John T. Kirby

An abstract for this item is not available.


Richard Newhauser (Ed.), The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities To Individuals (Book Review), Denise A. Kaiser Mar 2014

Richard Newhauser (Ed.), The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities To Individuals (Book Review), Denise A. Kaiser

Denise A. Kaiser

Book review by Denise Kaiser: ISBN 9789004157859


Review Of Raymond Corbey And Annette Lanjouw's The Politics Of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships With Other Animals, Ian Werkheiser Jan 2014

Review Of Raymond Corbey And Annette Lanjouw's The Politics Of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships With Other Animals, Ian Werkheiser

Ian Werkheiser

No abstract provided.


Poems The Big Cats Brought In (Review Article), John Gery Nov 2013

Poems The Big Cats Brought In (Review Article), John Gery

John R O Gery

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Arnold H. Leibowitz, An Historical-Legal Analysis Of The Impeachments Of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, And William Clinton: Why The Process Went Wrong, Jeffrey B. Morris Oct 2013

Book Review Of Arnold H. Leibowitz, An Historical-Legal Analysis Of The Impeachments Of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, And William Clinton: Why The Process Went Wrong, Jeffrey B. Morris

Jeffrey B. Morris

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy In Cold War Laos., Edmund F. Wehrle Aug 2013

Book Review: Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy In Cold War Laos., Edmund F. Wehrle

Edmund F. Wehrle

No abstract provided.


Review Of Religious Division And Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman Feb 2013

Review Of Religious Division And Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

A review of Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007.


Review Of Mark Bekoff's Ignoring Nature No More: The Case For Compassionate Conservation, Ian Werkheiser Jan 2013

Review Of Mark Bekoff's Ignoring Nature No More: The Case For Compassionate Conservation, Ian Werkheiser

Ian Werkheiser

No abstract provided.


A Non-Take On Kannada Cinema, Chandan Gowda Jun 2012

A Non-Take On Kannada Cinema, Chandan Gowda

Chandan Gowda

No abstract provided.