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Mb 780 Cross-Cultural Christian Discipling, A. H. Mathias Zahniser

Syllabi

Common Readings: The books can be purchased at the bookstore. The articles (marked *) will be found in the packet for this course obtainable at the bookstore. *Courson, Jim 1998 “Deepening the Bonds of Christian Community: Applying Rite of Passage Structure to the Discipling Process in Taiwan.” Missiology: An International Review. 26:301-313. Eliade, Mircea 1959 The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. *Finn, Thomas M. 1989 “Ritual Process and the Survival of Early Christianity: A Study of the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus.” Journal of Ritual Studies. 3:69-89. *Roach, …

The Disintegration Of Modern Culture. Nietzsche And The Information Age, Edgar Landgraf

German Faculty Publications

The article revisits Nietzsche’s provocative claim that the Enlightenment’s emphasis on education and open exchange of information promotes rather than prevents the “loss of meaning” from a media studies and systems theoretical perspective. Nietzsche in fact ties what he understands as modern culture’s disintegration to information-processing modes of modern society, that is, as effects of the modern educational system and the mass media (at his time, the printing press). The article argues that while Nietzsche is an astute observer of modernity, his call for a return to a more authentic culture (with its daunting political implications) is indicative of Nietzsche’s …

Choran Community: The Aesthetics Of Encounter In Literary And Photographic Modernism, Emily M. Hinnov

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines novels, photographs, and phototexts by British and American artists published between the world wars in order to argue that these works re-envision community through a narrative aesthetic, which I term the choran moment, that communicates the possibility of genuinely empathetic understanding between self and other. My study of literary and photographic modernism is based upon these modern artists' awareness of an ever-present, organic community allied in common knowledge of the interconnection among humanity offered through convergence with and respect for difference. These choran moments of correlation are key to the aesthetics and therefore the politics of modernist …

The Taxonomic And Systematic Relationships Of Several Salt Marsh Fucus Taxa (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae) Within The Gulf Of Maine And Ireland Examined Using Microsatellite Markers, Aaron L. Wallace

Doctoral Dissertations

The present thesis utilizes microsatellite markers to examine genetic affinities between several salt marsh Fucus ecads in order to ascertain their relationships with attached parental species. Chapter I provides an introduction to the genus Fucus and discusses morphological plasticity, systematic difficulties, and studies of hybridization between different Fucus species.

Chapter II describes my development of microsatellite markers for Fucus. Four polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to determine the origin of a dwarf muscoides-like Fucus from the Brave Boat Harbor (ME) salt marsh. Similar forms were originally described in Europe, and appear to be derived from F. vesiculosus L. However, my …

"Invidiam Viam Aut Faciam": "I Will Find A Way Or Make One" The Poetic Practice Of Political Counsel In The Courts Of Elizabeth I And James I, Andrea L. Harkness

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study I argue that at least four poets: three aristocrats from the Sidney family---Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Mary Wroth---with a history of service to Tudor monarchs, and one non-aristocratic writer, Aemilia Lanyer, who claimed to be a poetical descendant of a Sidney, responded to the efforts of Elizabeth I and James I to restrict the power of the aristocracy by claiming a right to offer counsel to their monarch. Though no one of them could claim a position from which to offer direct counsel, they each exploited the Petrarchan discourse of love to assert an …

Indians And Immigrants: Survivance Stories Of Literacies, Joyce Rain Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This project stems from my mixedblood heritage and from a community of mixedblood scholars. In this text, I relate stories of the early colonization of Southern New England, of the zones of contact between whites (primarily English) and Indians (primarily Massachusett or Wampanoag). I offer perspectives on competing views of literacy and explored texts translated from Massachusett Algonquin to see how Indians used writing to enact rhetorics of survivance which challenged the prevailing assumptions of the dominant culture. Within these texts we see how Indians continued to define themselves in …

Book Review: Folk Furniture Of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites And Ukrainians, Ervin Beck

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Folk Furniture makes a fine coffee-table book, with its oversize format and more than one hundred gorgeous color photographs by James A. Chambers. Leafing through it is a visual feast, with otherwise humble pieces of furniture dignified by dramatic lighting that discloses the texture, line, and form of historic everyday household items. But the book is an important contribution to material cultural studies, since it not only places furniture in its cultural context but also "reads" furniture like a "text" to discover how it expresses the history, psychology, and ideology of the people who made and used it.

Review Of Native North American Armor, Shields, And Fortifications By David E. Jones, Robert Fields

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David Jones's purpose is to fill the curious gap in studies of the armor used in raids and warfare by the Native peoples of North America. Lacking iron and steel technology, Native Americans constructed their armor of "wood and bone (hard armor), leather (soft armor), and combinations of hard and soft materials."

The need for armor, Jones states in his introduction, preceded European contact, since "warfare was endemic among the North American Indians." He goes on to maintain that the superiority of European technology made Indian defeat inevitable, despite whatever improvements in armor production Indians might have made. "If Native …

Csusb Viewbook (2005-2006) [Small Format], California State University, San Bernardino

CSUSB Viewbooks

No abstract provided.

Culture By Law: Backlash As Jurisprudence, Francisco Valdes

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Anorexia Nervosa. Emphasis On Its Medical Complications, Abdulhameed A. Al-Habeeb, Naseem A. Qureshi

Neurosciences

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a well-recognized heterogeneous psychiatric disorder, associated with high morbidity and mortality with several medical complications. Besides a brief review, this paper also reports on a single female patient with AN. Eating disorders are reported to be slightly more common among western cultures, but developing countries are not immune to eating disorders. This patient showed both the psychopathology of abnormal eating behavior and serious physical complications and despite all possible treatment interventions, she ultimately died. We discuss different aspects of AN including the importance of constant social support from key relatives.

Locatization Of Human Herpesvirus 8 In Human Sperms By In Situ Pcr, Omar Bagasra, Deepa Patel, Lisa Bobroski, Jamil A. Abbasi, Alex U. Bagasra, Hasna Baidouri, Twaina Harris, Albert El-Roeiy, Zsolt Lengvarszky, Homayoon Farzadegan, Charles Wood

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Objectives: Defining the mechanism of infection with human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) or Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is an important clinical issue. HHV-8 has been linked to Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) development in HIV-1-infected individuals, and KS develops in 40% of those infected with both viruses. A series of epidemiological data suggest that sexual transmission is one of the routes of transmission for HHV-8. In our studies, we sought to assess the cellular reservoirs of HHV-8 DNA in the semen of HIV-1-infected men and the potential role of HHV-8 infected spermatozoa in horizontal transmission. Design and methods: A nested polymerase chain reaction …

Winter Commencement, December 18, 2005, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Winter 2005, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Neotrusteeship In Afghanistan, Melanie Kawano

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Afghanistan is currently under the tentative rule of an international administration, or neotrusteeship, thereby restricting its national sovereignty. However, self-determination and nonintervention have never been persistent features of Afghanistan. Foreign interventions, invasions and great power showdowns on its territory have made a truly autonomous Afghan state a shortlived phenomenon. The outcome at each stage of Afghan history has been an unstable state that seems to invite even more external involvement.

Latcrit Introduction: Methods, Reginald Oh

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Limit Horizons & (And) Critique: Seductions And Perils Of The Nation, Tayyab Mahmud

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory And Some Reflections On Methods, Imani Perry

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Book Review [Race, Rights And Reparation: Law And The Japanese American Internment], Santa Clara Law Review

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Michael Kagan

Scholarly Works

There is a frequent critique of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ protection role, which goes like this: as UNHCR has grown as a humanitarian aid delivery agency, law and human rights have lost currency. In Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism, Guglielmo Verdirame and Barbara Harrell-Bond (with Zachary Lomo and Hannah Garry) take this as a starting point from which to reach a far more searing conclusion: UNHCR itself directly violates the human rights of the people it is supposed to protect. Detailed, direct and at times passionate, this book should be required reading for anyone who wants to …

Progress And Economy: The Clash Of Values Over Oregon's Trojan Nuclear Plant, Gregory Nipper

Dissertations and Theses

From 1976 to 1992 Portland General Electric (PGE) -- a private utility based in Portland, Oregon -- operated the Trojan Nuclear Plant near Rainier, Oregon, on the bank of the Columbia River. Trojan was the first commercial nuclear facility in the Pacific Northwest and was the largest such facility in U.S. history. From its origins, Trojan was the focus of growing conflict over atomic energy facilities and their environmental effects, risks, and costs. This thesis traces the history of Trojan, including the conditions in which PGE decided to build the plant as well as the changing conditions in which the …

Book Reviews, Bill T. Arnold, Mattie Greathouse, Greg Carey, Howard A. Snyder, Joel H. Hunt, Greg Carey, Ruth Anne Reese, Michael Harstad, James Holsinger, Victor H. Matthews, Steven Tsoukalas

The Asbury Journal

The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity

Lang, Bernhard

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002

Reviewed By Bill T. Arnold

A Marginal Jew, vol. 3, Companions and Competitors

Meier, John P

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2001

Reviewed By Mattie Greathouse

The Gospel of Mark: A Soda-Rhetorical Commentary

Witherington, Ill, Ben

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2001

Reviewed By Greg Carey

After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Trans. Doug Scott

Voli, Miroslav

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1998

Reviewed By Howard A. Snyder

The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary …

Countering Kulturkampf Politics Through Critique And Justice Pedagogy, Charles R. Venator Santiago

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Revisiting Outcrits With A Sociological Imagination, Mary Romero

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Analytical And Synthetic Methods For Anatoxins., Janet Crowley

Theses

This thesis is focused on the potent cyanobacterial neurotoxins anatoxin-a (AN), its methyl analogue homoanatoxin-a (HMAN) and their non-toxic dihydro- and epoxydegradation products. In commencing the investigation into this area a literature review was performed in order to identify areas where more research and method development was required (Chapter 1). The review highlighted the fact that although a number of analytical methods had been developed for the analysis of AN, there were few methods for the determination of its potent homologue HMAN and their non-toxic degradation products. As these neurotoxins degrade quickly it is important to monitor their degradation products, …

Flat Feet Broad Mind: Experiencing West African Culture Through Dance, Kathryn Salley Williamson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Imagining Lesbian Legal Theory, Kendall Thomas

Faculty Scholarship

It’s great to be here for this particular occasion to honor the work of Ruthann Robson, from whom I have, over the course of many years, learned so much.

First, I’ve learned from her the critical importance of doing work that is based on and reflects a set of political and ethical commitments to people who live under regimes of domination and inequality. Her scholarship, to me, is a model of engaged adversary scholarship. She has never fallen into the trap, so common to those of us who are professionalized in the legal academy, of thinking that this work does …

First And Second Majors In Baccalaureate Programs Fall Semesters, 1991-2004, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2004-2005 academic year

From Race To Class Struggle: Re-Problematizing Critical Race Theory, E San Juan Jr.

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

The misconstrual of "class" as a theoretical and analytic concept for defining group or individual identity has led, especially during the Cold War period, to its confusion with status, life-style, and other ideological contingencies. This has vitiated the innovative attempt of CRT to link racism and class oppression. We need to reinstate the Marxist category of class derived from the social division of labor that generates antagonistic class relations. Class conflict becomes the key to grasping the totality of social relations of production, as well as the metabolic process of social reproduction in which racism finds its effectivity. This will …

The International Human Right To Culture: Reclamation Of The Cultural Identities Of Indigenous Peoples Under International Law, Marina Hadjioannou

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.