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The Promiscuity Of Print: John Clare’S ‘Don Juan’ And The Culture Of Romantic Celebrity, Jason N. Goldsmith Jan 2006

The Promiscuity Of Print: John Clare’S ‘Don Juan’ And The Culture Of Romantic Celebrity, Jason N. Goldsmith

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This essay offers a new reading of John Clare's "Don Juan," a hard-hitting and deliberately vulgar denunciation of English society and letters. In his extended Byronic performance, Clare harnesses Byron's famed sexual appetite and strong Romantic irony to dramatic effect, defiantly redeploying the machinery of literary celebrity that had produced him as "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet." Tracing Clare's imaginative and textual investments in prostitutes and boxers, figures located at the margins of London's criminal underworld, I show how the compulsive misogyny of "Don Juan" and its obscene sexual punning form part of a concerted, if not entirely coherent, response to …

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Whether It’S Coins, Fringe, Or Just Stuff That’S Sparkly': Aesthetics And Utility In A Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Troupe’S Costumes, Jeana Jorgensen Jan 2006

Whether It’S Coins, Fringe, Or Just Stuff That’S Sparkly': Aesthetics And Utility In A Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Troupe’S Costumes, Jeana Jorgensen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

As both a scholar and a belly dancer, I believe that belly dance is recognizable on aesthetic grounds. In addition to the movements that belly dancers typically perform—muscle isolations, undulations, graceful hand motions and turns, and lots of hip work—belly dancers wear costumes that are visually identifiable as belly dance costumes. While this description may seem tautological, there are recognizable standards both in the public sphere and among dancers for what constitutes the belly dance image—or images, as belly dance is a diverse phenomenon that encompasses teaching, learning, performing, watching, socializing, and costuming.

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Hulme Among The Progressives, Lee Garver Jan 2006

Hulme Among The Progressives, Lee Garver

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Dr. Lee Garver's contribution to: Comentale, Edward P., and Andrzej Gąsiorek. T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.

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Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Selected And Edited By Paul Valliere, Paul Valliere Jan 2006

Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Selected And Edited By Paul Valliere, Paul Valliere

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Vladimir Soloviev was the first modern Orthodox thinker to give systematic attention to the problem ofreligion and Iaw. Philosophy of law in Russia predated Soloviev, but its pioneers did not deal directly with religion.

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Introduction To The Modern Orthodox Tradition, Paul Valliere Jan 2006

Introduction To The Modern Orthodox Tradition, Paul Valliere

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In her study of the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Joan Hussey begins with a caveat: "In the present state of our knowledge a book on the Byzantine Church must necessarily be in the nature of an interim report since much pioneer work remains to be done." The same must be said about the attempt to present the "teachings" of modern Orthodoxy concerning law, society, and politics.

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Singing Of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, And Satnami-Christian Music In Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman Jan 2006

Singing Of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, And Satnami-Christian Music In Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This paper explores the Indianization of Christianity in late colonial Chhattisgarh, India, with special reference to a Salnami-Christian catechist and composer, Blind Simon Patros.

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The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 2006

The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Although the author concedes that much criticism from the left alleging ulterior imperialist motives of missions for “humanitarian intervention” is valid; nevertheless, the author argues that it would be wrong to rule out the concept of humanitarian intervention, even when conducted by imperialist powers for imperialist motives. The concept of “rescue” remains a valid humanitarian concept, and a logical foundation for solidarity with populations who find themselves under assault and defenseless. The author considers various regulative principles that may guide more careful thinking about humanitarian intervention.

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La Construcción Del Espacio Urbano En La Poesía Social De Gabriel Aresti: Bilbao Ante La Modernidad, Irune Del Rio Gabiola Jan 2006

La Construcción Del Espacio Urbano En La Poesía Social De Gabriel Aresti: Bilbao Ante La Modernidad, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This essay focuses on the construction of urban space through Gabriel Aresti's poetry during Franco's dictatorship. On the one hand, Aresti emphasizes the social injustices in the city between the new Basque bourgeoisie and the Castilian and rural Basque immigrants. On the other hand, the poet wants to retrieve Basque language and tradition as a reaction to a progressive cultural loss due to the presence of 'españolidad' and to urban changes. Therefore, this conflict generates the subjective and specific experience of a space that needs to negotiate cultural and social heterogeneity while articulating 'Basquism' and integrating the 'other'.

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Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola Jan 2006

Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This review article covers two new volumes of scholarship dedicated to the comparative study of the Americas: Patrick Imbert's Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines (Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004) and the edited volume by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz, Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004). The latter volume is the revised and updated book form version of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002): ). These books represent a new wave of innovative …

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Censorship And Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders, And The Attack On Bhandarkar Institute, Adheesh Sathaye Jan 2006

Censorship And Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders, And The Attack On Bhandarkar Institute, Adheesh Sathaye

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

On January 5, 2004, the Bhandarkar Institute, a large Sanskrit manuscript library in Pune, was vandalized because of its involvement in James Laine's controversial study of the Maharashtrian king Shivaji. While most of the manuscripts escaped damage, less fortunate was the academic project of South Asian studies, which now faces some serious questions. if our intellectual pursuits should result in the destruction of the very materials we study, or injury to those who help us to study them, are they worth conducting at all? Or might they be conducted in such a way as to avoid violent reaction? As groundwork …

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Listening To The Snake; Or, On Having A Spine, Jeffrey J. Kripal Jan 2006

Listening To The Snake; Or, On Having A Spine, Jeffrey J. Kripal

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The western prohibition of reflection on what we call today "religion" begins not with a banned scholarly monograph or a taunted academic, but with a myth about a transgressive desire for mature moral knowledge and a subsequent sexual emotion, namely, Adam and Even's shameful sense of being naked after accepting the serpent's gift of the knowledge of good and evil. Elsewhere, I have explored some of the ways that western religions thought has sexualized this foundational myth in order to take up this gnosis as my own and explore the problems and promises of sexual desire, gender difference, sexual orientation, …

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Table Of Contents Jan 2006

Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Table of contents for Volume 19.

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Book Reviews Table Of Contents Jan 2006

Book Reviews Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of the book reviews available in this issue.

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Organization Information Jan 2006

Organization Information

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Information about the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.

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Introductory Information And Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky Jan 2006

Introductory Information And Introduction, Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Introductory information, including the editorial policy and editorial advisory board, and the editor's introduction to the issue.

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Scholarship On Religion And Communities Of Faith, Gerald James Larson Jan 2006

Scholarship On Religion And Communities Of Faith, Gerald James Larson

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

When I was asked to participate in this panel, two comments came to mind that, in my view, are pertinent for my own thinking regarding the issue of "Scholarship on Religion and Communities of Faith."

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The Catholic Case: The Index Of Prohibited Books, Daniel P. Sheridan Jan 2006

The Catholic Case: The Index Of Prohibited Books, Daniel P. Sheridan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Sometimes it takes a while for the word to get out, or for it to get in. It has been said that, in India in 1948 as the British were leaving, there were villages that had not yet heard that they had arrived. Similarly, there may be villages in Tibet that have not yet heard that the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959. Deep in Siberia in the mid 1930's, there were communities of Old Believers who did not know of the October Revolution in 1917. Googooling the words, "Index of Prohibited Books," resulted in more than a million references. …

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Singing Of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, "Dalit" Religious Identity, And "Satnami"-Christian Music In Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman Jan 2006

Singing Of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, "Dalit" Religious Identity, And "Satnami"-Christian Music In Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Christianity in every context -- whether western or nonwestern, contemporary or ancient -- emerges as a composite entity, combining elements of the religions and cultures that predate it with aspects of the Christian faith, in whatever form it arrives. There is, of course, nothing distinctly Christian about this process, for just as the expansion of Christianity into India involved the Indianization of Christianity, so too did the growth of Hinduism in Bali entail the Balinization of Hinduism. Other religions follow a similar pattern when they cross cultural boundaries.

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Embodying "Bhakti Rasa" In Bharata Natyam: An Indian-Christian Interpretation Of "Gayatri" Mantra Through Dance, Katherine C. Zubko Jan 2006

Embodying "Bhakti Rasa" In Bharata Natyam: An Indian-Christian Interpretation Of "Gayatri" Mantra Through Dance, Katherine C. Zubko

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

As the five female dancers from the Indian-Christian fine art college of Kalai Kaviri encircle the South Indian brass lamp, or vilakku, awakening it to life with the flames from their own individual votives, the beginning melody of a song cues the women to stretch out their arms in preparation to rise from their seated positions and dance. As they raise their arms in unison, the light glinting off their bangles and gold threaded costumes, the Sanskrit words Om Bhur Bhuvah Svah signal the invocatory phrase of the popular Gayatri mantra chanted daily by many Hindus all over the …

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Viewpoint: Dialogues Within Dialogue And Conversations Barely Begun, Corinne Dempsey Jan 2006

Viewpoint: Dialogues Within Dialogue And Conversations Barely Begun, Corinne Dempsey

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

My interest in Hindu-Christian studies stems from adventures with two religious traditions that are, in a manner of speaking, "out of place": popular Christian practice in a predominantly Hindu south Indian setting and a Hindu temple within the Christian context of rural upstate New York. In some ways these two Hindu-Christian settings could not be more different. The Kerala Christians with whom I worked claim an ancient and lofty heritage while the upstate New York temple, established in 1998 in a refurbished barn and led by a maverick guru, represents a definitive break from orthopraxy.

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Reports & News, Eliza Kent Jan 2006

Reports & News, Eliza Kent

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Reports and news relevant to the Society.

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Book Review: "Genealogy Of The South Indian Deities", Francis X. Clooney Jan 2006

Book Review: "Genealogy Of The South Indian Deities", Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Genealogy of the South Indian Deities: An English Translation of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary by Daniel Jeyaraj.

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Book Review: "German Exploration Of Indian Society", Anand Amaladass Jan 2006

Book Review: "German Exploration Of Indian Society", Anand Amaladass

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of German Exploration of Indian Society: Ziegenbalg's "Malabarian Heathenism" by Daniel Jeyaraj.

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Book Review: "The Cave Of The Heart: The Life Of Swami Abhishiktananda", Edward T. Ulrich Jan 2006

Book Review: "The Cave Of The Heart: The Life Of Swami Abhishiktananda", Edward T. Ulrich

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of The Cave of the Heart: The Life of Swami Abhishiktananda by Shirley du Boulay.

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Book Review: "Gurus In America", Bradley Malkovsky Jan 2006

Book Review: "Gurus In America", Bradley Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Gurus in America edited by Thomas A. Forsthoefel and Cynthia Ann Humes.

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Meeting Information Jan 2006

Meeting Information

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Information about the Society's next meeting.

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Book Review: "Gandhi's Pilgrimage Of Faith: From Darkness To Light", Reid B. Locklin Jan 2006

Book Review: "Gandhi's Pilgrimage Of Faith: From Darkness To Light", Reid B. Locklin

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Gandhi's Pilgrimage of Faith: From Darkness to Light by Uma Majmudar.

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Book Reviews: "Christianity With An Asian Face," "In Our Own Tongues," And "Being Religious Interreligiously", Reid B. Locklin Jan 2006

Book Reviews: "Christianity With An Asian Face," "In Our Own Tongues," And "Being Religious Interreligiously", Reid B. Locklin

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Peter C. Phan's Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making, In Our Own Tongues: Perspectives from Asian on Mission and Inculturation, and Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue.

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Recent Articles Of Interest Jan 2006

Recent Articles Of Interest

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of recent articles of interest to the Society.

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Replacing The Patient: The Fiction Of Prosthetics In Medical Practice, Laura L. Behling Mar 2005

Replacing The Patient: The Fiction Of Prosthetics In Medical Practice, Laura L. Behling

Scholarship and Professional Work of the Associate Provosts

The invention of computer simulations used for practicing surgical maneuvers in a video game-like format has an ancestry in the artificial limbs of history and is reflected, grotesquely, in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Man That Was Used Up ". The nineteenth century worked to ensure that the incomplete body did indeed retain a sense of self by creating prostheses to mimic corporeal wholeness. Our present-day technology seems intent on doing precisely the opposite, deliberately fragmenting the body and challenging our understanding of the body and the prosthetic.

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