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Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in History
Monsters And The Moral Imagination, Stephen Asma
Monsters And The Moral Imagination, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
The article discusses the cultural interest in monsters in the 21st century. The author speculates on the reasons for the interest, citing anxiety after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the war in Iraq, or the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. He notes a conference in September 2009 at the University of Oxford entitled "Monsters and the Monstrous." Cultural uses of monsters, he notes, include scolding ourselves for failure to be inclusive, the medievals' punishment for the sin of pride, or the ancient Greeks' warnings of impending calamity. He notes that monster stories can promote the individual's thought about what …
Self-Actualization In The Lives Of Medieval Female Mystics: An Ethnohistorical Approach, Cherel Jane Ellsworth Olive
Self-Actualization In The Lives Of Medieval Female Mystics: An Ethnohistorical Approach, Cherel Jane Ellsworth Olive
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This dissertation explores the cultural and psychological factors that permitted six medieval female mystics to assume positions of leadership and innovation in a world marked by extreme gender inequality. Women religious have often been charged with being neurotics, hysterics, narcissists, and nymphomaniacs whereas males with similar experiences are rarely subject to the same degree of criticism. It is argued here that the women may well have been seeking to achieve the form of self-actualization described by humanist psychologist, Abraham Maslow, as a result of the "conversion" experience analyzed by William James. Furthermore, applying modern categories of mental illness to these …
Ancient Antidotes To Timeless Troubles: Stoicism And The Recession, Stephen Asma
Ancient Antidotes To Timeless Troubles: Stoicism And The Recession, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
The article reviews the books "The Present Alone is Our Happiness," by Arnold I. Davidson and Jeannie Carlier and "A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus" by David Konstan.
Happy Serf Liberation Day: China And Tibet, Stephen Asma
Happy Serf Liberation Day: China And Tibet, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
No abstract provided.
Religion As The Cause Of Temperance And Abstinence: How The Second Great Awakening Took The Fun Out Of Nineteenth Century America, Savannah L. Williamson
Religion As The Cause Of Temperance And Abstinence: How The Second Great Awakening Took The Fun Out Of Nineteenth Century America, Savannah L. Williamson
Undergraduate Research Conference
Pre-Marital sex and consumption of alcohol are a continuous presence in America. While many may think this statement would describe a modern day college campus, it is actually an accurate portrayal of the 19th century in the United States. These trends continued until one reform movement resulted in a sudden decrease in pre-marital sexual activity and constant intoxication. This reform came in the shape of religion. The Second Great Awakening brought about several changes in society that altered the way Americans lived their lives. After the mid-19th century, sex and alcohol would never be the same. Ultimately, the Second Great …
Discipliana Vol-68-Nos-1-2-2009, Glenn Thomas Carson
Discipliana Vol-68-Nos-1-2-2009, Glenn Thomas Carson
Discipliana - Archival Issues
Discipliana Vol-68-Nos-1-2-2009
Scott D. Seay, Conventional Wisdom in Absentia
Paul Blowers, An Emerging Movement
John Mark Hicks, Quiet Please: Churches of Christ in the Early Twentieth Century and the "Woman Question"
Megan Ammann, Creating a Greener Church
Menorah Review (No. 70, Winter/Spring, 2009)
Menorah Review (No. 70, Winter/Spring, 2009)
Menorah Review
A Poem by Richard E. Sherwin -- Believing Christian... Agnostic Believer -- From the Classics -- New and Notable Books -- Oy Vey Is Mir -- The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock's Christian Problem
Menorah Review (No. 71, Summer/Fall, 2009)
Menorah Review (No. 71, Summer/Fall, 2009)
Menorah Review
Abraham: A Seminal Personality -- Author's Reflections -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Soviet History as it Unfolds -- The Talmud Revisited: Tragedy and "The Oven of Aknai" -- Tourist Heaven -- Traduttore, Traditore?