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Productivity, Relevance And Natural Selection, Stuart Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Recent papers by a number of philosophers have been concerned with the question of whether natural selection is a causal process, and if it is, whether the causes of selection are properties of individuals or properties of populations. I shall argue that much confusion in this debate arises because of a failure to distinguish between causal productivity and causal relevance. Causal productivity is a relation that holds between events connected via continuous causal processes, while causal relevance is a relationship that can hold between a variety of different kinds of facts and the events that counterfactually depend upon them. I …

Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"

Spectres, Monstres Et Fantômes. Les Chants Maldoror" Et Le Spectacle De La Fantasmagorie, Eloise Sureau-Hale

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Découverts quatre ans après la mort de leur auteur Isidore Ducasse dit le Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror ont fait l'objet de nombreuses études. L'étrangeté du texte, les manèges narratologiques et les images déroutantes ont depuis la fin du XIXe siècle inspiré la critique. En revanche l'aspect ludique de l'oeuvre n'a retenu que peu de critiques. Pusique Ducasse demeurait au coeur d'un Paris en pleine effervescence culturelle, il ne serait pas difficile d'envisager un goût pour la culture populaire, le visuel, le cirque ou la magie, prévalents au milieu du siècle. Les Chants auraient-ils été pris trop au …

Review Of The Crisis Of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The essays in this volume address the "crisis of secularism" in India, a crisis which, the editors suggest, emerged during the Emergency and culminated in the 2002 Gujarat violence.

History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the "Greatest Show on Earth" in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners of the show, and one prone to self-aggrandizing bluster, claimed that America was the second elephant ever born in captivity. America was born only to months before the arrival in New York of the most famous circus elephant of all time, Jumbo, on Easter Sunday, 1882, and only two years before the origin of a small wagon …

Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, And Agency In Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to Christianity in the region often experienced a contraction of the range of their activities. Bauman analyzes this counterintuitive result of missionary work and then draws on the work of Saba Mahmood and others to interrogate the predilection of feminist historians for agents, rabble-rousers, and gender troublemakers. The article concludes not only that this predilection represents a mild form of egocentrism but also that it prevents historians from adequately analyzing the complexity of factors that motivate and influence human behavior.

Postcolonial Anxiety And Anti-Conversion Sentiment In The Report Of The Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Conversion to Christianity is one of the most politically charged issues in contemporary India and has recently been very much in the news.1 For example, in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of B. R. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism2 hundreds of dalits gathered to convert, some to Buddhism and others to Christianity, rejecting Hinduism, a religion they claim oppresses and demeans them. In attacks on Christians in Orissa at the end of 2007 (and associated reprisals), dozens of churches, homes, and businesses were destroyed, hundreds of people were injured, and thousands were displaced.

Editor's Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The editor's introduction to this issue.

Postcolonial Theological Approaches To Hindu-Christian Studies, Susan Abraham

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The disciplinary boundaries of "Hindu-Christian" studies call into question the cultural and political terrain in which it is engendered. As a Christian theologian from India whose encounter with academic Hinduism is as it is taught in the US, my experience is tangential and rather critical in terms of the power issues it raises. Nevertheless, as a theologian of culture I am most interested in how the project of decolonizing theology of the study of religion should take place in the context of the North American academy. Of primary importance here is the dissolution of problematic devaluations. For example, what goes …

Comparative Theology, Comparative Religion, And Hindu-Christian Studies: Ethnography As Method, Kristin Bloomer

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Concerns that likely inspired today's panel can be traced textually to the beginnings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and to the earliest writings of what we now call Hinduism. In the field of Hindu-Christian studies, these concerns suggest ethnographic approaches that are not in themselves new, but which borrow in potentially new ways from the methodological tool-boxes of anthropology, theology and the history of religions.

Viewpoint: More Or Deeper? What Should Be Next In (My) Hindu-Christian Study, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Recently I completed two books in the field of Hindu-Christian studies. The first is The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus. This project, for Catherine Cornille's new series of Christian commentaries on the sacred texts of non-Christian traditions, is heavily indebted to Vedanta Desika's 14th century reading of the Tiru Mantra, Dvaya mantra, and Carama Sloka. The second book is Beyond Compare: St. Frances de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God, an intensive doulbe reading of Desika's Essence of the Three Holy Mysteries (Srimadrahasyatrayasara) …

In Memoriam: Selva J. Raj (1952-2008), Corinne Dempsey

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Selva J. Raj was a man dedicated to life and work in all its breathtaking complexity. At the time of his untimely death of a heart attack on March 14th, he was the Stanley S. Kresge Endowed Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Albion College. In addition to tirelessly serving on a lengthy list of campus-wide, national, and international committees and boards, Selva was co-chair of the Comparative Studies in Religion Section of the AAR since 2001; he rekindled the Conference on the Study of Religions of India in 2004 and served as its annual organizer; he …

Can Christians Be Bhaktas? A Sanskritic View From Central India, C. 1850, Richard Fox Young

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

My essay focuses on an undeservedly obscure individual, Somanath Vyas, whose name hardly registers among South Asia scholars. Recently, however, Somanath's writings have elicited interest among Sanskritists in Central India where he lived. Of these, I focus on the Kalandikaprakasa, composed between 1847 and 1850. A major treatise in wissenschaftliches and Sanskrit, it discusses knowledge, scientific and religious, that the author, a traditionally-educated Hindu pandit, deemed worthy of knowing. Importantly, this knowledge included a knowledge of Christianity. For an era rife with interreligious polemics, to advocate on behalf of Christianity as a religion worth knowing in relation to its …

Book Review: "Bourgeois Hinduism, Or The Faith Of The Modern Vedantists", Brian K. Pennington

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Bourgeois Hinduism, Or the Faith of the Modern Vedantists by Brian A. Hatcher.

Book Review: "Loving God: Krsna And Christ, A Christian Commentary On The Narada Sutras", Lance E. Nelson

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Loving God: Krsna and Christ, A Christian Commentary on the Narada Sutras by Daniel P. Sheridan.

Book Review: "Christ Across The Ganges: Hindu Responses To Jesus", Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Christ Across the Ganges: Hindu Responses to Jesus by Sandy Bharat.

Book Review Of "Indian Religions: Renaissance And Renewal", Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. The Symposium featured both newer and more advanced scholars who presented papers on a variety of topics and traditions of India (but especially Hinduism and Buddhism).

History And Fiction In The Acts Of Thomas: The State Of The Question, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The Acts of Thomas has not yet received as much attention as the Gospel associated with the same individual, and this is understandable. Current students of this early Christian work, however, are in danger of missing out on the discussions and differing perspectives long offered by scholars of the Indian church and Indian history on this work. The current study suggests that, while the Acts of Thomas is almost certainly a work of novelistic fiction, this should not lead us to ignore the instances of confirmable historical information embedded therein, as in many other works of historical fiction. The Acts …

Do We Teach Disciplines Or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The single most difficult notion for graduate students and new professors to grasp about teaching--and, indeed, many experienced teachers never grasp this point either--is that successful teaching to undergraduates has little to do with the degree of one's mastery of disciplinary knowledge.

Humanities Education Then, Now And Why, Marshall W. Gregory

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The problem of educational metaphors in the humanities is that the metaphors driving the humanities since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-metaphors that educators still rely on today-no longer work in the twenty-first century.

From The Streets To The Screen: The Music Of Madrid In Saura's Deprisa, Deprisa, Linda M. Willem

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

With a distinguished career as a director of over thirty-five feature films, Carlos Saura has been a prominent figure within the international film community for nearly fifty years. One of his most critically-acclaimed works, Deprisa, deprisa [Hurry, Hurry], is a documentary-like portrayal of a group of friends - Pablo, Angela, Meca, and Sebas - engaged in ever-escalating acts of crime and violence in Madrid in the early 1980's. This is Saura's second film to deal with the topic of alienated urban youth. In 1959 his very first feature film, Los golfos [The Hooligans], focused on a young gang of thieves …

The Drift (2008), Butler University

Butler Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Events Not Processes: Reassessing And Redating The Lower Fills Of The South Stoa Wells At Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, Lynne. Kvapil

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Abstract from paper presented at: Pottery, Peoples and Places: the Late Hellenistic Period, c. 200-50 BC Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, International Conference at Sandbjerg Manor House, Aarhus, Denmark, November 2008. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/415/

Innocent Initiations: Female Agency In Eroticized Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Bawdy folktales have generated controversy and scholarship for centuries, and their literary, sexually explicit descendants, eroticized fairy tales, are also deserving of attention. Marketed in short story collections as erotica, eroticized fairy tales use fairy-tale characters, plots, and themes as the setting for sexual adventures. Some of these tales focus on a naïve heroine’s initiation into sexual pleasure without her knowing precisely what is going on. I have termed these “innocent initiation” tales. Their use of traditional fairy-tale motifs contributes to discourse about female sexuality, agency, and objectification.

Mesotic For George Carlin (2008), Frank Felice

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Text-based Fluxus-style piece for an unspecified number of performers – premiered by the JCFA Composers Orchestra, October 2008

Awakenings (Winter) (2008), Frank Felice

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Piano solo, for either the left or right hand alone – commissioned by the American Pianists Association – premiered by the candidates for the APA Fellowship, March, 2009

Loch Lomond - Ttbb | 10-96280, James Q. Mulholland

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Loch Lomond, From "Three Scottish Songs"

Part Number:
10-96280

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
TTBB

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

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Caledonian's Air; Wi' A Hundred Pipers

Message, The | 10-96290, James Q. Mulholland

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The Message, for SSA Voices with Piano Accompaniment

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10-96290

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Voicing:
SSA

Lyrics By:
Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)

Music By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned by the Harry C. amd Jean I. Snyder Family Trust
for the 10th Anniversary of the Milwaukee Choral Artists,
Dr. Sharon A. Hansen, conductor

Take, O Take Those Lips Away | 15-96190, Benjamin Martinson

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Take, O Take Those Lips Away

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15-96190

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Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
William Shakespeare

Music By:
Benjamin Martinson

Amid The Splendors Of The Sun | 20-95990, Nick Page

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Amid The Splendors Of The Sun

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20-95990

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$1.95

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
William Blake

Music By:
Nick Page