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Review Article On Ben Witherington Iii, The Acts Of The Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, William Kurz

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Secrets Of Creation In 2 (Slavonic) Enoch, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Leadership And Ministry In The Church-As-Family, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Francis Bacon Takes On The Ghouls: The "First Principles" Of Religious Freedom, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

John Witte, Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment:
Essential Rights and Liberties
Westview Press 2000

From the Review

This is a great time for students of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and of what Professor John Witte calls the American "experiment" with religious freedom. We've been blessed these past few years with an in-print seminar - an upper-division offering, team-taught by faculty heavyweights - on this experiment, its products and prospects, and the values that have shaped it. Our teachers and texts have included, to name just a few, Professor Steven Smith's Foreordained Failure: The Constitutional Quest for a …

"I Am No Mean Player Myself": Games And Recreation In Irish Mythology, Julie Lynn Perenchio

Masters Theses

Superhuman heroics in myth certainly succeed in capturing our immediate attention, but it takes a more human touch of talent and fallibility to make heroes personally appealing to readers. In Irish mythology, immortals and humans engage in a marvelous variety of recreational activities, and show universally-felt emotions and tendencies, like competitive spirits, creativity, and tenacity. Far from being idle entertainment, play makes significant impacts on the lives of Irish heroes, individually, socially, and culturally. For example, chess games, even between complete strangers, can cause the upheaval of one's lifestyle and test not only the intellectual powers of players, but also …

Victorian Philosophies Of Useless Work Versus Work For The Mind: Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris, And Marx, Marlaina Easton

Masters Theses

In my Thesis, I will investigate the dominant perceptions of work that spanned the Victorian Period. One of the most important authors of criticism dealing with work in the early part of the Victorian Period was Thomas Carlyle (1845). John Ruskin then became a counterpoint to Carlyle throughout the middle of the century (1862). And although he agreed with much of what Carlyle said, he brings new notions of work to the Victorian Period. William Morris then offered a completely different point of view on the issue of work at the latter part of the Victorian Period (1885). I will …

Delight, Subversion And Truth In The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Talking Birds, Terri Benson Blair

Masters Theses

Geoffrey Chaucer mentions birds over 240 times throughout The Canterbury Tales (Tatlock and Kennedy). This frequent allusion to birds is significant, especially since three of his twenty-four tales are actually about birds. What makes these three tales particularly fascinating is that their bird protagonists have the gift of speech. This study examines Chaucer's use of bird imagery in The Canterbury Tales, in particular, his use of talking birds in "The Squire's Tale," "The Nun's Priest's Tale" and "The Manciple's Tale." My theory is that Chaucer uses bird imagery and talking birds to question the sovereign power of the fourteenth-century …

Critical Fantasies: Structure Of Chinese Folk Tales, Saihanjula He

Masters Theses

Folk tales provide a unique source of information for cultural studies. They come from the people. Springing from the people's imagination in a social context, they carry historical truths, stir up political undercurrents, and reveal social facts that official history books will not and cannot tell. In a time when writing was a privileged form of expression, the oral folk tale popularly communicated the injustices committed by the upper class, and gave the powerless voices of their own. Common themes of folk tales all reflect, to various degrees, the people's desires to rise above environmental, cultural, social and class constraints …

Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter

Masters Theses

Early in Gary Snyder's life, he lived a rootless existence in pursuance of gaining spiritual satisfaction through a more harmonious relationship with nature. This rootlessness that dominated this period of Snyder's life originated in Snyder's European ancestors lifestyle, which valued exploiting the natural world for a profit. Through exposure to Chinese landscape paintings, Snyder found Buddhism and began to practice it as a means to reconcile his own humanity with the natural world, which his cultural heritage has alienated himself from. Through Buddhism, Snyder realizes the importance of reuniting humanity with the natural world.

Upon gaining this knowledge, Snyder assumes …

"Retracing Our Steps": Storytelling, Time, And Traditional Referentiality In Mama Day And Absalom, Absalom!, Christine Ann Roth

Masters Theses

Gloria Naylor and William Faulkner turn to the history and tradition of oral storytelling in their novels. Mama Day and Absalom, Absalom! especially present the concepts and techniques of the storytelling act. The complexities of the audience-performer dynamic and non-linear time in an oral storytelling event create obstacles for the teller (the writer) and confuse the role of the audience (the readers). Writers create the role of listening audience for the readers, changing the accepted rules of the readers by asking them to become participants. In Mama Day and Absalom, Absalom!, Naylor and Faulkner create connections between audience …

"Merciless Indian Savages" And The Declaration Of Independence: Native Americans Translate The Ecunnaunuxulgee Document, John R. Wunder

American Indian Law Review

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Introductory Information And Introduction, Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

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

Is Jesus A Hindu? S.C. Vasu And Multiple Madhva Misrepresentations, Deepak Sarma

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Misperceptions and misrepresentations are frequently linked to complicated dynamics between those who are misperceived and those who do the misperceiving. Oftentimes such dynamics are manifestations of underlying social, political, or, in the cases described in this issue of the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin, religious differences. The Hindu and the Christian traditions share a long history of mutual misrepresentations and misperceptions. Many of the authors in this issue of the Bulletin may offer detailed analyses of such misperceptions as they have been described by virtuoso Hindu thinkers such as Ram Mohan Roy, Gandhi-ji, and, in more recent times, BJP activists. In …

Hindu Occidentalism, Tinu Ruparell

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

On a research trip through India one of my goals was to talk to Hindu scholars about their views of Christianity and in particular Hindu-Christian dialogue. Though I visited numerous Universities, Colleges, and maths, I found very few Hindus who took any interest at all in the doctrinal conversation between religions then characteristic of interreligious dialogue. Time and again I was told by these distinguished and erudite academics that they were not interested in Hindu-Christian dialogue. While this may have been due to a failure on my part to ask the right sorts of questions, or simply my bad …

Tributes: Sara Grant, Rscj, Bradley J. Malkovsky

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A tribute to Sara Grant.

Book Review: "Monastic Journey To India", William Cenkner

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Monastic Journey to India by M. Basil Pennington.

Book Review: "Jnaneshvari", Denise Marie Hanusek

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of "Jnaneshvari" by Felix Machado.

Dorothea Lange In Utah, 1936-1938: A Portrait Of Utah's Great Depression, James R. Swensen

Theses and Dissertations

In his 1978 biography of Dorothea Lange, Milton Meltzer appraised Lange's 1936 photography in Utah as nothing more than mundane work done for the benefit of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and not for her own benefit as a photographer. Yet, her work in Utah encapsulates the aspirations, goals, and styles of Lange, and gives insight into her vision as a photographer and representative of the New Deal. Through carefully composed photographs, Lange shows the hardships and hope of life in Utah during the Great Depression.

This thesis investigates Lange's photographs in order to gain a greater understanding of the …

Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Table of contents for volume 13.

Book Reviews Table Of Contents

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of the book reviews available in this volume.

Guest Editor's Introduction: Hindu And Christian Mutual Misperceptions, M. Thomas Thangaraj

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The "other" remains as a mystery and puzzle before one comes to know the "other" in a personal and intimate manner. especially when the "other" is the "religious" other, it is much more puzzling and mysterious. The history of the encounter between Hindus and Christians over several centuries reveals how the "puzzle" and the "mystery" of the other can at times lead to gross misperceptions of the other. Such mutual misperceptions have been some of the stumbling blocks in the path of a healthy, friendly, and mutually enhancing relation between Christians and Hindus. In this issue of the Bulletin, we …

Reverend William Ward And His Legacy For Christian (Mis)Perception Of Hinduism, Brian K. Pennington

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

My assignment for this thematic issue of the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin is to address Christian misperceptions of Hinduism, which I shall do by evaluating the work and legacy of William Ward of Serampore, missionary to Bengal, and author on Hinduism in the early nineteenth century. First, however, I would like to make three preliminary observations about the idea of "Christian misperception".

Conversion And The Courts, Ronald Neufeldt

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Conversion from one religion to another has been a thorny issue throughout the history of the Indian subcontinent. Recently the controversy over conversion has received new life, given a number of events which in effect resulted in a great deal of debate over the place of Christians within the State of India. Perhaps the two most recent controversial events were the gruesome murder of Rev. Staines and his two children in orissa and the visit of the Pope to India.

Reports & News

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

News and reports relevant to the organization and its topics.

Tributes: Wilhelm Halbfass, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A tribute to Wilhelm Halbfass

Book Review: "Swami Vivekananda And The Modernisation Of Hinduism", Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Swami Vivekananda and the Modernisation of Hinduism by William Radice.

Book Reviews, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of His Star in the East by Augustin Sauliere, Disputed Mission: Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century India by Ines G. Zupanov, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America 1542-1773 by Gauvin Bailey, and The Call of the Orient: A Response by Jesuits in the Sixteenth Century by Anthony D'Costa.

Book Review: "Hindu Thought & Carmelite Mysticism", Michael Stoeber

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Hindu Thought & Carmelite Mysticism by Swami Siddheswarananda.

Book Review: "Dharma Of The Twenty-First Century: Theological-Ethical Paradigm Shift", Klaus K. Klostermaier

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Dharma of the Twenty-first Century: Theological-Ethical Paradigm Shift by Somen Das.

Recent Articles Of Interest

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A listing of recent articles of interest.