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The Volatile Middle East, Frank L. Jenista
The Volatile Middle East, Frank L. Jenista
History and Government Faculty Publications
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"A Serious Ethnological Exhibition": The Indian Congress Of The Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition Of 1898, J. Brent Etzel
"A Serious Ethnological Exhibition": The Indian Congress Of The Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition Of 1898, J. Brent Etzel
Library Faculty Publications
“It will be either a colossal success or a colossal failure, and time alone can decide which.”
This was the prediction of Edward Rosewater, editor and publisher of the Omaha Daily Bee, regarding his city’s Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, held from June to November 1898. The few historians who have studied the event agree that the exposition was a huge commercial success. The fair drew over 2.7 million visitors to a remote and economically depressed city during wartime, and those who purchased stock in the exposition corporation gained over a ninety percent return on their investment.[2] The exposition …
Religiosity, Secularism, And Social Health: A Research Note, Thomas S. Mach, Gerson Moreno-Riano, Mark Caleb Smith
Religiosity, Secularism, And Social Health: A Research Note, Thomas S. Mach, Gerson Moreno-Riano, Mark Caleb Smith
History and Government Faculty Publications
This article is a research note addressing various theoretical and methodological issues in the measurement and analysis of religiosity and secularism and their relationship to quantifiable measures of social health in advanced and prosperous democracies. Particular attention is given to cross-national frameworks for studying religiosity and secularism as well as to the conceptualization and statistical analysis of these notions for research design. Various procedural suggestions regarding the use of comparative frameworks are presented to assist in the development and implementation of future studies gauging the impact of worldview commitments upon societal wellbeing.
A History Of The Idea Of "God's Law" (Theonomy): Its Origins, Development And Place In Political And Legal Thought, Marc A. Clauson
A History Of The Idea Of "God's Law" (Theonomy): Its Origins, Development And Place In Political And Legal Thought, Marc A. Clauson
Faculty Books
This book addresses the idea that the judicial law of God, as found in the Old Testament of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, has a place in legal and political thought and practice, as well as economic thought, and has advanced in various forms since the beginning of Christianity, and previously, during the period of the Hebrew Commonwealth. This work traces the Theonomic movement and its ideas from its roots in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into its modern form, placing Theonomy in context of legal, political, and economic philosophy.
Political Fallout: Terrorism And Our National Political Conversation, Mark Caleb Smith
Political Fallout: Terrorism And Our National Political Conversation, Mark Caleb Smith
Mark Caleb Smith, Ph.D.
Dr. Smith explores the political and religious ramifications of September 11, 2001.