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Mapping 'New' Geographies Of Religion: Politics And Poetics In Modernity, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly, the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. I illustrate the key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in these areas, and suggest various ways forward. These 'new' geographies emphasize different sites of religious practice beyond the 'officially sacred'; different sensuous sacred geographies; different religions in different historical and place-specific contexts; different geographical scales of analysis; different constitutions of population …

Principles, Practices, And Problems-The Pastoral Theology Of St. John Chrysostom, Jack Ferguson

Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers

The importance of this limited outline of the life of St. John Chrysostom is that it highlights the pastoral periods of his work within the context of the two metropolitan communities which he served. It also locates within these periods several of his major works which yield, upon examination, a wealth of material as well as many points of comparison concerning the rudiments of his pastoral theology.

Newsletter The Catholic Deaf Community, May 2001

Newsletter the Catholic Deaf Community

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Sacramento, CA

Newsletter the Catholic Deaf Community Finding Aid

Finding "The Catholic Thing": Catholic Studies Should Be "Catholic", Paul G. Crowley

Religious Studies

Catholic studies programs seem to be springing up like mushrooms all over the country'. Typically, these programs involve the awarding of a certificate or a minor, and in some cases bachelor's and master's degrees. They range from well-funded and highly developed enterprises such as the program at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to modest interdisciplinary programs such as the one at Santa Clara University in California. Not only Catholic universities, but some secular ones as well, are in the process of establishing some kind of Catholic studies program or chair. Some of these programs signal a …

On The Resurrection Appearances Of Jesus, Gary R. Habermas

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

In this essay I will evaluate Evan Fales's approach to the resurrection appearances of Jesus. His strategy is creative and lively, employing a considerably different approach from that of most contemporary scholars, hence its provocative nature.

Book Review: Meeting Of Minds: Intellectual And Religious Interaction In East Asian Traditions Of Thought, Irene Bloom, Joshua Fogel, Deborah A. Sommer (司馬黛蘭)

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought, a volume of eleven essays written in honor of Wing-tsit Chan and William Theodore de Bary, proposes to explore how Confucian and Neo-Confucian traditions have responded to and have influenced other traditions (Buddhist, Taoist, folk, Japanese nativist, and so on) in China and Japan. The essays are arranged first geographically (seven articles on China precede four on Japan) and then roughly chronologically. All essays, save one, describe Sung or post-Sung developments. A few sentences per essay must suffice in this review. [excerpt]

“A Man That You Could Not Help Likeing”: Joseph Smith And Nauvoo Portrayed In A Letter By Susannah And George W. Taggart, Ronald O. Barney

BYU Studies

The Prophet Joseph Smith's call for members of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints to gather to Nauvoo, Illinois, had a wide effect once the settlement acquired the trappings of civilization. What had been the obscure riverside village of Commerce soon evidenced expansion and progress: new inhabitants and bustling construction. Among those who gathered to Nauvoo were Washington and Susannah Taggart, who converted to Mormonism in 1841 or 1842 in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Taught the gospel by Elder Eli P. Maginn, the Taggarts soon planned their departure for the Mormon capital. Their eldest son, George Washington Taggart …

And I Saw The Hosts Of The Dead, Both Small And Great : Joseph F. Smith, World War I, And His Visions Of The Dead, Richard E. Bennett

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Genetic Testing's "Soft Underbelly": Christian Vision And Bio-Utopia, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Appreciating The Beauty Of Earth, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Categories used by contemporary environmental philosophers to explore esthetic appreciation for the beauty of the physical world have parallels in reflections by patristic and medieval theologians on the beauty of God's creation, A sampling of the theologians' notions yields a promising foundation for ecological ethics from a theistic perspective, especially when understood from their world view at the time the text was written, reformulated to reflect broad scientific findings about the world today, and worked creatively to identify norms for human behavior.

Russia On The Threshold: Orthodox Tradition And Protestant Ethics, Leons G. Taivans

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Fr. Józef Tischner (1931-2000) : Chaplain Of Solidarnosc And Philosopher Of Hope, Gerald J. Beyer

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Menorah Review (No. 53, Fall, 2001)

Menorah Review

Uriah Levy and Monticello -- Prejudice and the Military -- The Feminist's Corner -- Derrida Remembers Levinas -- Tu B'Shvat -- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv -- Noteworthy Books -- Understanding the Holocaust

Ad Experimentum: The Paradoxes Of Indian Catholic Inculturation, Mathew N. Schmalz

Religious Studies Faculty Scholarship

A discussion of the inculturation movement in Indian Catholicism that attempts to adapt Catholic liturgy and religious symbolism to Hindu culture. The article discusses the writings of Indian theologian D. S. Amalorpavadass, their reception, and reactions to them among Dalit (Untouchable) Catholics. The article focuses on the experimental Indian rite Mass as well as the overall relationship between theology and anthropology. The article was published as part of the annual volume of the College Theological Society.

Introduction - Misogyny And Religion Under Analysis Masterplot And Counterthesis In Tension, Diane Jonte-Pace

Religious Studies

In this work, I expose the shadowy presence of this non-Oedipal counterthesis in the cultural texts on religion. My sources are not only Freud's four major "cultural texts," Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents, and Moses and Monotheism, but also some of his shorter writings related to religion and mythology ("Medusa's Head" and "The Theme of the Three Caskets," for example), and some of his writings which address religious themes and issues only indirectly (such as "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" and The Interpretation of Dreams). All of these are "cultural …

Menorah Review (No. 51, Winter, 2001)

Menorah Review

Celebrating Nathan Glazer's American Judaism -- Is "Process Thought Progress? -- Biblical Claims: The Historical Basis -- Defining and Redefining Jewishness -- Engagement in Writing Jewish History -- Noteworthy Books

About Our Contributors, P L. Gross, S. I. Shapiro

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Explore, Fall 2001: 40th Anniversary Of The Second Vatican Council, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Post-Vatican II Catholics; Vatican II: Sources, Achievement, and Unfinished Business; American Catholicism and World Politics: The Second Vatican Council and the Cold War; Moral Theology After Vatican II; Living Our Faith: Ministry in the New Millenium; A Reflection on Vocation in the Light of Vatican II; Faith and Health: What Do We Know?; Biblical Hermeneutics From Vatican II Onward

Explore, Spring 2001: The Commitment To Justice In Jesuit Higher Education, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: The University That Does Justice; The Pursuit of Justice in Public Life; Academic Institutions as Citizens for Justice; American Jesuit Higher Education for Faith and Justice; In their own words: Four conference delegates reflect on educating for justice; Hard Goals

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 1, 2001

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --Telling Latter-day Saint Lives: The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography Newell G. Bringhurst, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --The Free Seekers: Religious Culture in Upstate New York, 1790-1835 Alan Taylor, 44

• --New Sources on Old Friends: The Thomas L. Kane and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection David J. Whittaker, 67

• --The Mormon Gender-Inclusive Image of God Danny L. Jorgensen, 95

• --"Untrumpeted and Unseen": Josephine Spencer, Mormon "Authoress" Kylie Nielson Turley, 127

• --Earning Respect in Wisconsin: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mormons David L. Clark, 165

• --Area Supervision: Administration of the Worldwide Church, 1960-2000 Kahlile Mehr, 192

• --S. Dilworth …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

LETTERS vii

ARTICLES

• --Polygamy and Prostitution: Comparative Morality in Salt Lake City, 1847-1911 Jeffrey D. Nichols, 1

• --"Called by a New Name": Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church Mark A. Scherer, 40

• --Samuel Woolley Taylor: Mormon Maverick Historian Richard H. Cracroft, 64

• --Fish and the Famine of 1855-56 D. Robert Carter, 92

• --"As Ugly as Evil" and "As Wicked as Hell": Gadianton Robbers and the Legend Process among the Mormons W.Paul Reeve, 125

• --The East India Mission of 1851-1856: Crossing the Boundaries of Culture, Religion, and Law R. Lanier Britsch, 150

• --Steel Rails and the Utah Saints Richard O. …

Contributors -- Quaker Religious Thought, Nos. 96, Paul Anderson

Quaker Religious Thought

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Joseph Smith's Cooperstown Bible: The Historical Context Of The Bible Used In The Joseph Smith Translation, Kent P. Jackson

BYU Studies

In 1828, the H. and E. Phinney Company in Cooperstown, New York, published a quarto-size edition of the King James Bible. This is the version that Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, used in his work when he created a new translation of the Bible. Here the author examines Joseph Smith's marked-up copy of the Phinney Bible as an artifact important to Mormonism. Some of Smith's corrections and additions appear in footnotes of the Bible that Mormons use today. The author notes that the Phinney Bible's updated language is more modern than the version …

Scriptural Archeology: Excavating The Presence Of Women In The Torah, Vanessa Tess Sibley

Honors Theses

Women's roles in religious history have been traditionally described in terms of their relation and value to men. The normative religious texts provide an androcentric perspective on the gender relationships within the early community, the growth of Judaism in "Jacob's House" and the monotheistic worship of God. Yet these literary representations omit an entire half of the experience of the Jewish community: the perspective and participation of women. As Judith Plaskow argues extensively in Standing Again at Sinai, women are defined not in her own terms or in her own voice, but by her relationship and value to men through …

Research On Faith And Health: New Appoaches To Old Questions, Thomas G. Plante, Allen C. Sherman

Psychology

Does religious faith influence health? Are religious practices associated with altered risks for morbidity or mortality? Do religious or spiritual individuals tend to enjoy better well-being or mental health across the lifespan? Does spiritual or religious involvement change the way individuals adapt to the demands of chronic illness? This volume brings together some of the leading investigators who have explored these intriguing questions. Though research is in its early phases, the chapters that follow review some of what we have learned and begin to trace the outlines of the many mysteries that remain.

All Suffer The Affliction Of The One: Metaphysical Holism And The Presence Of The Spirit, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

When Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the earth circled the sun and not the 217 other way around, Christian believers faced the difficult prospect of surrendering a long-held belief that had seemingly undeniable support from the biblical text. After all, Joshua reported that the sun, not the earth, stood still; what could this mean if not that the sun orbited the earth? Today, centuries later, believers unanimously hold a heliocentric view of the solar system and are somewhat embarrassed by the ignorance of our pre-Enlightenment brothers and sisters. Ironically, however, such embarrassment masks the possibility that we ourselves may one …

Russia's Other "Mormons": Their Origins And Relationship To The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Eric A. Eliason, Gary Browning

BYU Studies

When Mormon missionaries entered Russia in 1990, they were astonished to hear about "Mormon" settlements already existing in the Samara region. Other evidence of Mormonism appeared: for example, locals used the term "Mormon crosses" to describe a unique style of crucifixes in cemeteries. In this article, the authors delve into the questions of whether or not sects with ties to mainstream Mormonism existed in pre-perestroika Russia or if unrelated groups earned the nickname "Mormon" for living in unusual family arrangements, similar to polygamy. Using data gathered from Latter-day Saint missionaries who served in Russia in the late 1990s as a …

Believing In The Atoning Power Of Christ, Kerry M. Muhlestein

Faculty Publications

The book of Deuteronomy begins with a striking verse: "(There are eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea)" (Deuteronomy 1:2). Because this verse is set within parentheses and seems to relay minutia, it is easily passed over. But a close examination shows it to be one of the most thought-provoking verses in the Old Testament. Identifying two of the sites referred to in the verse makes this clear. Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai. Kadesh-barnea is the place where Moses and the children of Israel camped as they sent men into the promised …

The Green Face Of God: Recovering The Spirit In An Ecocidal Era, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

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"Give It All Up And Follow Your Lord": Mormon Female Religiosity, 1831-1843, Janiece L. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1750s American women have flocked to churches. Women have consistently been the majority in church populations. Religion was the central motivation of the female life experience. Likewise, women comprised a significant portion of the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in its first decade. There exists little historical analysis of the contribution and experience of these women as a whole. As a result of this lack of research some historians have made erroneous assumptions of patriarchal oppression and a lack of commitment on the part of early Mormon women. This project closely examines the …