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Proactive or Reactive Chaplaincy
Authors: Allan Anne , Macritchie Iain
Published: March 2015

In November of 2003 a more proactive approach to Chaplaincy was instigated in a Renal Unit. Rather than wait for referrals, the Chaplain visited round the unit, asking patients about their experience of renal care and dialysis. The result was a hugely increased number of patients and staff involved in spiritual care, and a greater awareness on the part of the staff of the work of the Chaplaincy Team. This article is an examination of the process whereby Chaplaincy became an integral part of the care given on this unit and reports the results of a survey of staff regarding this process. This also contributes to current debate about the professionalizing of Chaplaincy and the allocation of spiritual care resources.
BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND TODAY
Authors: Foggie Janet
Published: March 2015

This article examines the place of CPE in Scotland today, what is available for practitioners wishing to study CPE and what that education involves. It also discusses the voluntary nature of CPE in Scotland and the difference between CPE and clinical supervision
MY AREA OR YOUR AREA?
Authors: Avgoustidis Adamantios
Published: March 2015

In this presentation, we are called to draw up an outline of the spiritual dimensions of healthcare focusing on the differences between psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, priests and chaplains. Some basic questions, which need to be answered, are why we still face so many major problems in the relationships between some of the basic healthcare specialists, including chaplains. Given though, modern therapy and healthcare are multidisciplinary tasks by definition. What is the role of spiritual care in health care? Why are the tensions often sharply visible in the assumptions that chaplains, psychologists and psychiatrists have about each other? We will try to answer these questions by following a spiral ascension which starts from history and moves to recent definitions and the framing of each discipline. From these tensions and assumptions we will move to the boundaries of chaplaincy and the chaplain's identity. Here, some unconscious conflicts of the chaplains will be discussed. Finally, we attempt to formulate some conclusions and proposals on the discussed issues.
WHAT DO PEOPLE TALK TO CHAPLAINS ABOUT?
Authors: Aldridge Anne , Fraser Derek , Morrison Kevin
Published: March 2015

An inpatient stay in an acute hospital setting often causes distress, confusion and in many cases the desire to explore existential issues. For health care chaplains there is no debate about the efficacy of the role they play in these existential explorations however there is an increasing need to provide evidence-based research to verify this. As a profession chaplaincy is well versed in anecdote but it needs to move beyond that to evidence of a more robust kind. This research project was an in-depth review of the dialogues held with thirty-four different adults in an acute hospital over a period of three months in 2007 to determine what people talk to chaplains about. The project involved 12 different chaplains having an encounter with a patient and then writing it up as a verbatim. At the same time a literature search was carried out to determine any other research projects of a similar nature. The texts of the encounters were analysed by two chaplains independently – they determined themes raised in the discussions and manually scored these according to the frequency of their occurrence. Results were then compared and areas of discrepancy discussed. Qualitative software was used to verify the findings. The results showed that con-versations appeared to fit into four main topics: spiritual themes; life stories; hospital experiences and emotional expression.
RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEES AND ETHICAL CODES
Authors: Atherton Iain
Published: March 2015

In this paper Iain raises important issues about how the process of applying for ethical permission should be viewed as more than a bureaucratic exercise. Hospital chaplains can take advantage of their personal experience and expertise to engage fully with the process and to help develop thinking around ethical issues. Whilst every author in this edition has probably had some kind of irritation around applying for and receiving NHS ethical approval for research, the reality is that doing research ethically and ethical research remains a challenge, one which healthcare chaplains are well placed to meet. The research ethics committee should be seen as a resource with which to engage and a help in refining the proposal.
Healthcare Chaplaincy in Scotland
Authors: Fraser Derek
Published: March 2015

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Who Do You Say I Am?
Authors: Simpson Jim
Published: March 2015

Personal reflection is offered first, as a tool for catharsis; second, as a story which may expand current practice; and finally, as a response to the proposed national structure for reflective practice.
Love, Professionalism and Supervision
Authors: Nelson Georgina
Published: March 2015

The author reflects upon two brief scenarios describing examples of encounters with patients.
Co-Ordination of Bereavement Care
Authors: Wimpenny Peter , Pretty Caroline , Russell Andrew , Fraser Alan
Published: March 2015

The authors argues that someone, such as a bereavement co-ordinator, who can connect all the people and the processes involved in bereavement care, will improve health outcomes for bereaved relatives and carers and ensure that the current disjointed provision of bereavement care is ameliorated.
Wayne E. Oates Institute Uses Internet Technology to Expand the Dialogue
Authors: Hollon Vicki
Published: March 2015

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CHAPLAIN AS PATIENT
Authors: Hendrie Yvonne
Published: March 2015

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THROUGH MY FATHER’S EYES
Authors: Barcroft Ian
Published: March 2015

Adapted from a presentation to a Chaplaincy Training Day, November 1999
CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION (CPE)
Authors: Wagstaff Alison
Published: March 2015

Report on a course of study undertaken on sabbatical: August – September, 1999
MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY OF PERSONHOOD IN PALLIATIVE CARE
Authors: Nelson Georgina
Published: March 2015

The integrity of personhood refers to the wholeness or intactness of the self in all its diverse aspects. Life threatening illness can compromise the intactness of the self in many ways, four of which are examined here ; the resultant suffering can be understood as spiritual pain, since spirituality and the integration of the self are closely connected. The needs of persons faced with the threat of dis-integration of the self are examined, and it is suggested that such needs may be best met by carers in four ways :- by Seeing, Listening, Loving , Respecting the Mystery. To do this requires not so much professional expertise as a way of being, a quality of presence which depends upon who we really are, as persons.
The Sorrows of Young Men - Exploring their increasing risk of suicide. eds. Morton A., Francis J.ISBN 1 870126 43 2. Occasional Paper No. 45, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, New College, University of Edinburgh/ My Sweet Lover Suicide. Terry K.
Authors: McKie Andrew
Published: March 2015

Two publications on the issue of suicide
Palliative Care
Authors: Beuken George
Published: March 2015

In the second of his articles, the author focuses on pastoral practice within the Roman Catholic community. Such practice involves a right use of the sacrament of anointing, as part of whole person care; a holistic response to a situation of total pain in a palliative setting. Carers need the personal and theological maturity to respond to the untidiness of life and the complexities of offering care without a subtle exercise of power. The aim is to offer love without preconditions, thus making Christ present to the sufferer. Such care is a calling for both clergy and laity, and must be theologically based in an understanding of the Church as the sacrament of Christ.
Healthcare Chaplaincy
Authors: Hendrie Yvonne
Published: March 2015

The Christian church as traditionally constituted is facing grave decline. For many, the church is an inhospitable place in which to voice questions and to express pain. Do hospital chaplains have a role to play in creating a church in which people feel more able to express the varieties of their spiritual journey? The author suggests three ways in which chaplains might take their work to church: - by enabling more meaningful and varied forms of worship; by sharing their experience of honestly meeting people where they are; by encouraging a sense of ‘sacred space’.
PREPARATION FOR PROVIDING SPIRITUAL CARE
Authors: Kelly Ewan
Published: March 2015

Spiritual care has become recognised as part of the holistic care offered collaboratively by health care professionals (HCPs), family and friends in hospitals and in the community to patients and their significant others. This article seeks to explore, from the perspective of a hospital chaplain working in an acute hospital setting, several issues which need to be considered by HCPs prior to offering spiritual care to others. These include HCPs having a degree of insight into their own personal story as well as questions about what they understand the nature of spirituality, spiritual need and the assessment of spiritual need to be. This article is based on the premise that in offering spiritual care to others we have to develop an ongoing awareness of who we are and what our needs are, as well as the needs of the other.
Spiritual Care in N.H.S.Scotland
Authors: Short David
Published: March 2015

A retired hospital physician considers the practical implications of the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) Guidelines on Spiritual Care in the NHS Scotland. Whilst welcoming the move toward the recovery of a spiritual dimension in health care, and the recognition of the specialist role of hospital chaplains, he expresses two concerns. The first is the danger of too superficial and ill-defined an attitude to the spiritual need of patients. The other is whether the rank and file of healthcare workers will be prepared to give time to this additional burden, or feel equipped to do so.
Palliative Care
Authors: Beuken George
Published: March 2015

In the last of his four part exploration of a theological foundation for palliative care, the author, writing from a Roman Catholic perspective, considers the place of the local Christian community in the holistic care of the sick. The Christian community plays a vital role in such care, and needs to be equipped to fulfil this calling by the establishment of pastoral care teams. The ‘body of Christ’ cares for its members, and such care extends beyond the care of the terminally ill to encompass the care of the bereaved. Through such attention to emotional and spiritual need, the Christian community bears witness to the continuing compassion of Christ.
Orere Source
Authors: Brown W.
Published: March 2015

The abstracts are held in the database of The Orere Source. It currently contains over 17,500 abstracts from the pastoral care literature and healthcare literature which has implications for the continuing education of chaplains.
ARE PSYCHIATRIC PRECONCEPTIONS AGAINST PASTORAL CARE SCIENTIFICALLY APPROVED?
Authors: Avgoustidis Adamantios
Published: March 2015

Clergy and psychiatrists should be natural allies in mental health care. Yet mutual misunderstandings and negative preconceptions remain to be overcome. This article explores some of these misunderstandings and preconceptions as they operate in the field of psychiatry, and suggests ways in which they might be broken down.
CONFERENCE ART AND CARTOON CREATIVE IMAGING
Authors: Levison Chris
Published: March 2015

Non verbal communication has a long tradition. Pictures can display emotion, argument, describe feelings and point out things which are true or false, in a unique way. Cartoons in particular are accessible and invite reaction and understanding, have the ability to enthral and a lightness of touch. In this article the author explores the use of art for meaning, clarity and faith communities giving examples and comments on examples of cartoon creative imaging by Graham Ogilvie: graphic artist for a national conference A Seamless Transition: Spirituality in NHSScotland (NHSScotland 2003).
Bereavement assessment in palliative care
Authors: Carmichael Marie
Published: March 2015

Bereavement care is well established as an essential element of palliative care. However, whether or not there is value in risk assessment tools to predict bereavement outcomes is open to debate. Members of multidisciplinary palliative care teams and nurses in particular are encouraged to provide high quality physical, psychological, social and spiritual care to patients and their families/carers, care that should include bereavement care. This article offers an analysis of traditional and contemporary bereavement theory, considers the use of a risk assessment tool to enable health professionals to make decisions as to whether an individuals may be at risk of a complicated bereavement.
Therapeutic Role of Spirituality in Psychotherapy
Authors: Griffith James
Published: March 2015

Should the secular psychotherapist be prepared to explore a client's spiritual life? Psychotherapists since Freud have traditionally been suspicious of spirituality and religion as at once unscientific and psychologically harmful. More recently, spirituality has come to be viewed more positively as an often necessary component of psychotherapy. Acknowledgement of the spiritual facilitates a therapeutic alliance, builds resilience through spiritual resources and mobilizes relational support from spiritual communities. Psychotherapists need to learn how to listen and question in such a way that clients 'can comfortably reveal their spiritual lives. Such conversations draw both therapist and client into a dialogue between persons, which has the potential to 're-humanize the professional.'
Reflection on an audit
Authors: Lehair Christiane
Published: March 2015

This article describes how a process of audit can be used to clarify the perceptions healthcare professionals hold regarding spiritual car and, how they understand and practice it. The audit process was used to identify training needs and devise a programme of spiritual care. Alongside the detailed results of the audit the author, new the process of audit, gives a frank personal reflection on the experience gained and encourages readers not to be daunted by the process. The Editors.
Orere Source
Authors: Brown W.
Published: March 2015

Orere Source additions and personal reflection.
New Religions and the New Zealand Census
Authors: Lewis James , Baumann Andreas
Published: March 2015

From the very beginning of NRM studies, researchers were focused on understanding who joined new religions and why. By the 1980s, we had reached a consensus profile of young, educated converts who joined primarily via social networks. However, by the twenty-first century, the situation on the ground had changed, in part because of the rising age and greater diversity of recruits to alternative religions and in part because of changes resulting from changes such as the emergence of the Internet as a new environment for non-traditional religions. The present article examines data from the New Zealand census to demonstrate the point that the earlier profile of members of non-traditional reached in the 1970s and 1980s has been superseded, and, further, that it is no longer possible to discuss NRM members “in general,” as a class demographically distinct from members of other religious organizations.
Religiosity Rejected
Authors: Lockwood Renee
Published: March 2015

As the descendant of Werner Erhard's 1970s Human Potential group est (Erhard Seminars Training), Landmark Education has continuously denied being a religious organization. Despite ample discourse on the religious nature of the group within popular online and print media, a conspicuous void within academia - particularly within Religious Studies - speaks volumes. Rarely are the boundaries of what constitutes a ‘religion’ expanded in order to explore those groups that, though not understood to be ‘religious’ in a traditional sense, clearly contribute to contemporary 'spiritual' life. And yet, that Landmark Education is perceived as being somehow religious demands deeper analysis. This article highlights the problematics of 'religion' within late Western modernity as illustrated by the contention surrounding the religious status of both Scientology and Transcendental Meditation. A discussion of Landmark Education is offered in light of these issues, along with a dissection of the religio-spiritual dimensions of the organisation and its primary product, the Landmark Forum. Incorporating several eastern spiritual practices, the highly emotional nature of the Landmark Forum’s weekend training is such as to create Durkheimian notions of 'religious effervescence', altering pre-existing belief systems and producing a sense of the sacred collective. Group-specific language contributes to this, whilst simultaneously shrouding Landmark Education in mystery and esotericism. The Forum is replete with stories of miracles, healings, and salvation apposite for a modern western paradigm. Indeed, the sacred pervades the training, manifested in the form of the Self, capable of altering the very nature of the world and representing the 'ultimate concern'.
Global and Solitary
Authors: Lewis Sarah
Published: March 2015

This article examines the way in which the Unification Church has promoted dialogue, particularly interreligious dialogue, and the role of dialogue in the theology of the Unification Church. It notes, however, that although dialogue with other religions is essential to fulfil the theology of the movement, it is the theology of the movement that makes successful interreligious dialogue impossible. The Unification Church claims a new Messiah for Christianity and this paper argues that this presents one of the most significant barriers to dialogue with, for example, the World Council of Churches. The paper also argues that the Unification Church has successfully found common ground outside religious belief on which to engage in dialogue with those outside of the movement. It concludes with an assessment of how more formal interreligious dialogue may be possible with the Unification Church in the future.
Desacralizing Salvation in Straight Edge Christianity and Holistic Spirituality
Authors: Abraham Ibrahim Bahige , Stewart Francis
Published: March 2015

Drawing on fieldwork in the punk scenes of the UK, USA and Australia, this article critically examines Christianity and holistic spirituality within punk’s Straight Edge subculture, a movement rejecting alcohol, drugs, and casual sex. Focusing on conceptualizations of salvation within Straight Edge Christianity and Straight Edge holistic spirituality, this article engages Heelas and Woodhead’s notion of the “subjectivization’”of contemporary religious identities to compare and contrast these forms of new religious practice. Straight Edge Christianity and Straight Edge holistic spirituality are shown to demonstrate the double movement of the ‘desacralization’ of religion in late modernity. Straight Edge Christianity illustrates the emergence of religion in traditionally secular cultural spaces, while Straight Edge holistic spirituality illustrates a movement away from the transcendent and supernatural, towards the location of salvation within wholly material concerns and therapeutic practices.
Sites of Contention
Authors: Gokee Cameron , De León Jason
Published: March 2015

Recognizing that archaeologies of the contemporary past are inherently political, this paper examines the ways in which the definition and classification of sites plays into archaeological praxis in the US-Mexico borderlands of southern Arizona. Fundamentally, our classification of contemporary archaeological sites seeks to organize spatial and material data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) as a methodological step in creating knowledge about processes and experiences of undocumented migration across the Sonoran Desert. At the same time, we acknowledge that our classification exists within a highly contentious field of political discourse surrounding Latin American immigration into the United States. Insofar as naming and describing diverse types of sites helps to shape the objects of this discourse, we suggest that classification may further aid critique and political action.
Minimal-Counterintuitiveness Revisited
Authors: Porubanova-Norquist Michaela , Shaw Daniel Joel , Xygalatas Dimitris
Published: March 2015

Many religious ideas have attributes that violate our expectations about the state of the natural world. It has been argued that minimal counter-intuitiveness (MCI), defined as a mild violation of innate (ontological) expectations, makes such ideas memorable and prone to cultural transmission. Empirical studies have examined memory for concepts that violate innate ontological expectations; however memorability of ideas that defy cultural or learned expectations have been (with few exceptions) overlooked. In our study, we compared memory for ideas that violate intuitive ontologies, learned expectations, and everyday, intuitive ideas. We discuss the mnemonic advantage of minimally counterintuitive ideas in terms of a combination of associative strength and bizarreness.
Relics of the Prophet and Practices of His Veneration in Medieval Cairo
Authors: Abdulfattah Iman R
Published: March 2015

The acquisition, trade and confiscation of relics of the Prophet Muhammad during the Medieval period is well documented in the primary sources. Such relics, from the impression of his feet in stone to artifacts believed to be his personal possessions, are prominently displayed in Egypt. The purpose of this article is to examine the history of footprints and other relics of the Prophet Muhammad associated with three buildings in Cairo that date to the Mamluk period: Ribat al-Athar (707 AH/1307 CE); the Funerary Complex of Qaytbay (877–879 AH/1472–1474 CE); and the Funerary Complex of al-Ghuri (908–911 AH/1503–1505 CE). The functions associated with these buildings vary, yet in all cases the main purpose of the foundation is to commemorate a deceased person and/or the relics of the Prophet. Although the Prophet never traveled to Egypt during his lifetime, the presence of his footprints and other effects in Cairo raises several questions. First, how and when did these artifacts arrive in Cairo? Second, does their arrival several centuries after the Prophet’s death, and subsequent collecting and displaying, raise questions of intent and motivation? Third, were there specific events that precipitated their arrival during the Mamluk period? Finally, what, if any, is the significance of the placement of Prophet’s relics in these buildings?
Production and Distribution of Geometrical-Painted (HMGP) and Plain Hand-Made Wares of the Mamluk Period
Authors: Gabrieli R. Smadar , Ben-Shlomo David , Walker Bethany J.
Published: March 2015

A program of petrographic analysis of Mamluk-period Hand-Made Geometrically Painted Ware (HMGP), supplemented by hand-made plain vessels and cooking pots, was undertaken as an offshoot of a wider study of the hand-made pottery industries of the 12th–16th centuries in Bil?d al-Sh?m. The aims of the wider project were to establish a chronological framework for the development of HMGP, and to examine issues of production and distribution and their socio-economic implications. Methodological and practical considerations restricted the research area to northern Israel, with control groups from Jerusalem and Hisban. The petrographic analysis of 152 vessels identified three major petrographic groups, and eight minor ones. The results suggest that hand-made plain wares and HMGP were manufactured by multiple industries; that HMGP itself cannot be viewed as a single industry, or even as having a uniform production mode; and that both plain and decorated hand-made pottery are often products of a specialized craft, with regional and likely intra-regional distribution.

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List of samples and their archaeological details, with petrographic attribution
Investigating Social Complexity through Regional Survey
Authors: Diacopoulos Lita
Published: March 2015

This article explores the role of social complexity as both an agent and a marker in the development of early societies, and considers how this complexity may be manifested in archaeological data obtained through regional surface survey. The study focuses primarily on the Bronze Age data of the Canadian Palaipaphos Survey Project (CPSP), carried out between 1979 and 1991 in a broad area of 636 sq km of southwestern Cyprus. The approach adopted in this study is a â€˜second-generationâ€™ interpretation of the survey data collected by the CPSP in an attempt to evaluate some of the current theoretical models pertaining to Bronze Age settlement patterns and social complexity in Cyprus.
Athens and Jerusalem in the Third Millennium
Authors: Joffe Alexander H.
Published: March 2015

This paper sets out a systematic approach to using comparative methods in the archaeological study of complex societies. Three scales of comparison are indicated—micro, meso, and macro—corresponding roughly to the site, regional/cultural, and historical/evolutionary levels. While there is obvious overlap, each level has appropriate sets of methods and expectations, and each needs to be integrated in a sequential or hierarchical fashion. Examples of these levels are taken from early third millennium Greece and the Levant. A larger goal is to illustrate how comparison of superficially similar pre- and proto-historic cultures may aid in the study of dramatically different historic societies.
Trade and the Origins of Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Authors: Runnels Curtis , Van Andel Tjeerd H.
Published: March 2015

Trade and social stratification appeared more or less simultaneously in different parts of the Eastern Mediterranean prior to the advent of agriculture-based village economies. This formulation places trade at the head of a list of factors that favored the adoption and dispersal of agriculture, and contrasts with previous views that regarded the development of complex societies as the consequence of the chance innovation or evolution of agriculture. The evolution of complex societies was instead the cause of agricultural origins. Trade among Eastern Mediterranean societies provided the incentives for experimentation with domesticates to produce surplus wealth for trade or to support craftsmen who produced commodities for trade.
Pottery Production in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
Authors: Frankel David
Published: March 2015

Two alternative models for pottery production and distribution have been developed for prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus. One favours commercial trade in pottery produced by specialists, the other a smaller-scale domestic industry. This paper develops a formal strategy for addressing this issue as well as the associated question of the source of vessels found in tombs. Problems in applying the approach are discussed, using a number of examples. The implications of each model for our understanding of the overall structure of society arc also considered.
Archaeology and Imperialism
Authors: Alcock Susan E.
Published: March 2015

The study of imperial systems has been an important growth area in archaeological research in recent years. One aspect that has received attention in a variety of settings is the territorial reorganisation frequently associated with political incorporation. The paper reviews a number of general archaeological and historical patterns of imperial consolidation and outlines some underlying factors, before moving on to consider their applicability in a well-documented case study, that of Achaia (the Roman province of Greece). Direct Roman intervention in the distribution of central places and the location of political boundaries is examined, together with local-level adaptions to incorporation within a larger and more demanding imperial system. Despite the long history of archaeological research in Greece (and indeed the eastern Roman empire as a whole) to make a more significant contribution to expansion and control in empires.
Black Athena: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?
Authors: Hall Jonathan
Published: March 2015

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Systems of Exchange and Organization of Production in Neolithic Greece
Authors: Perles Catherine
Published: March 2015

Neolithic exchange systems are currently approached either from the standpoint of production and distribution of a specific trade item, or by an overview of all goods known to circulate in a given archaeological context. I argue that neither approach is sufficient,and that one must ultimately analyse and compare systematically all parameters of the production, site consumption and regional distribution of each category of goods. In the context of the Greek Neolithic, this clearly reveals the co-existence of three distinct systems of production and distribution, which can be interpreted in different socioeconomic terms. The first system is mainly economic in purpose and concerns utilitarian goods, widely distributed geographically and socially. The second corresponds mainly to inter-group alliances and involves goods of high stylistic visibility and social function; it has a much more restricted geographic scope. The third is the well known trade in 'prestige goods', which is wide ranging but limited in terms of social access. The results shed new light on the socio-economic organization of Greek Neolithic societies, but also on their regional contrasts, since it can be shown that each main region participates deferentially in each production and exchange system.
To Kill a Cemetery
Authors: Papadopoulos John K.
Published: March 2015

The purpose of this article is to set out the history of scholarship on the graves of the Athenian Kerameikos and, from there, to review critically the two most recent offerings on the subject by Morris (1987) and Whitley (1991). Both of these works focus on the Athenian Early Iron Age, the earlier part of which is generally referred to as the 'Dark Age', and both are concerned with changes in the structure and symbolism observed in the archaeological record and how these changes relate to the rise of the Greek polis. The review concentrates on a number of key issues, particularly method, chronology and the artificial construction of a 'Dark Age'. The latter is more fully addressed in the final section of this paper.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement Variability
Authors: Kuijit Ian
Published: March 2015

Despite considerable archaeological research, it is only since the mid-1980s that sites dating to the foraging/farming transition, generally known as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period (PPNA) (ca. 10,500/10,300 - 9,300 BP), have been identified in Jordan. This under-representation of PPNA sites in the archaeological record is both a function of the relative archaeological visibility of PPNA material culture compared to that of other periods (including the type of architectural remains, small site size, and the largely non-diagnostic character of PPNA chipped stone assemblages, and the specific historical conditions of field surveys. After reviewing recent research on known PPNA sites, I argue that site location, physical area, architecture, and relative access to trade goods among PPNA communities in the Levant illustrate the existence of a regional site hierarchy, epitomized by large Jordan valley agricultural villages and smaller satellite communities situated in adjacent environmental areas.
Deir el Medina in Hyperreality
Authors: Meskell Lynn
Published: March 2015

This study provides an archaeological re-appraisal of the prevalent view of Deir el Medina. Before embarking on an analysis of the material, several misleading stereotypes pertaining to the village are deconstructed. The paper concentrates on a possible discourse between archaeological and textual data in a few specific areas of village life: architectural analysis, private enterprise, agricultural activity, and gender. The methodology presented here is directed towards a systematic study of ordinary social life, which may be achieved without reverting to the popularist approaches of some previous social studies of Deir el Medina. Whilst Deir el Medina is considered an anomaly by Egyptologists, they have continuously used evidence gleaned from that site to describe daily life; this is a contradiction in terms. This anomalous picture is significantly modified by a more comprehensive archaeological study of the site and its environs. Many everyday aspects of community life at the site can be examined, depending on the level of archaeological analysis chosen. A systematic study of Deir el Medina helps to fill the lacunae in our knowledge of village sites, and proves to be an invaluable source of information concerning ancient Egyptian society. The concept of settlement archaeology, rather than text-based discourse alone, offers a systematic theoretical and methodological framework from which to conduct Egyptian archaeology.
Comments on 'Oxhide Ingots, Recycling and the Mediterranean Metals Trade'
Authors: Hall Mark
Published: March 2015

The article by Budd et al. presents an exciting and interesting interpretation of the lead isotope data for the Late Bronze Age (LBA) Mediterranean metals trade. Their paper provides a useful critique of the approaches used by the Oxford and Smithsonian groups; in addition, they provide new directions for archaeologists and geochemists in which to work. My comments here will be brief since I agree with most of their points.
Lead Isotope Analysis and Oxhide Ingots
Authors: Budd P. , Pollard A.M. , Scaife B. , Thomas Richard
Published: March 2015

We thank the editors of JMA for allowing us to make a few closing remarks on the exchange of opinons (Budd et al., Gale and Stos-Gale, Hall, Sayre et al., Muhly, Pernicka) regarding the interpretation of lead isotope data. There are probably few archaeologists with the time or the inclination to follow every twist and turn of the scientific argument in this or in the earlier discussions in Archaeometry 34 (1992) and 35 (1993). Much of the debate has been technical and highly specialised. Nevertheless, a clear impression prevails that something is amiss with one of science-based archaeology's flagship projects and its promise to deliver definitive provenance for metal artefacts. In fact, lead isotope analysis (LIA) has an extremely important role to play in the study of provenance, even if there are local difficulties of interpretation.
The Cutting Edge
Authors: Nakou Georgia
Published: March 2015

Metal has long been awarded a central role in the emergence of complex societies in the Aegean Bronze Age. It is suggested in this paper that the prominent position of metal in the archaeological record of the Early Bronze Age of southern and insular Greece in particular is the manifestation of deliberate social strategies in the past, whose attainment was not so much the invention as the transformation of an existing medium through the imposition of radically different production and deposition mechanisms. The Early Bronze Age use of metal is contrasted with the increasing evidence for patterning in metal use in the later phases of the Aegean Neolithic. Finally, a diachronic model is suggested linking the contrasting modes of production and consumption of metal.
Pots and Peoples in the Egyptian Delta
Authors: Redmount Carol A.
Published: March 2015

Occasionally, a fortuitous combination of archaeological discovery, preserved inscriptional data and historical evidence enables scholars to correlate a particular population group with a specific material culture and a precise, or relatively precise, ethnicity. Such is the case with the Hyksos, a once enigmatic people belonging to a period of Egyptian history still generally considered a dark age. Archaeological work in Egypt's eastern Delta has established beyond doubt that the ethnic origins of the Hyksos lie in Middle Bronze Age Syria-Palestine. A key element of Hyksos material culture, the pottery, appears to be a highly sensitive indicator of Hyksos cultural development. This paper focuses on the hybrid character of Hyksos culture as expressed in the Hyksos ceramic corpus excavated at Tell el-Maskhuta and its implications for Hyksos ethnicity.
The Manufacture of Cockle Shell Beads at Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, Greece: A Case of Craft Specialization?
Authors: Miller Michele A.
Published: March 2015

This paper closely examines the process of manufacture of a largely disregarded class of social objects - personal ornaments. Specifically, the manufacture from marine mollusc shell of one distinct type of disc bead based on the archaeological remains from Franchthi Cave is described in detail, supplemented by ethnographic and experimental evidence. The results of this study establish criteria which may be applied to the production of diverse ornaments of various materials and from sites of many regions and dates. Several current models of craft specialization are compared in the following discussion. In light of these models, the evidence for the manufacture of shell beads at Franchthi Cave is re-examined and the possibility that this constituted a specialized craft production is evaluated.
Editor’s Introduction
Authors: Taylor Bron
Published: March 2015

Despite signi?cant progress in the development of the religion and nature ?eld, there is still far too little data available to evaluate conclusively hypotheses regarding the ‘greening of religion’, regardless of whether the traditions in focus are large or small, longstanding or recently emerging. The ?eld needs to move beyond anecdotal information and wishful thinking and develop a much more complex and robust, mixed methods social science to explore the religious dimensions of the quest for environmental sustainability and conservation. Only then will we be able to assess more accurately whether it is possible for such phenomena to contribute strongly to efforts to create a more equitable and environmentally sustainable world. Scholars interested in pursuing historically and empirically such questions are invited to contact JSRNC editors in order to establish a task force to pursue these questions.
The Origins of Aesthetic and Spiritual Values in Children's Experience of Nature
Authors: Van Wieren Gretel , Kellert Stephen R.
Published: March 2015

We conducted a limited exploratory study of the origins of children’s aesthetic and spiritual values in their experience of the natural world. We relied on a mix of research methods, including in-depth interviews, drawings, diaries, and observational studies of children, as well as conversations with parents about their children and their own childhood. Even though con?dent conclusions cannot be drawn from this study given the relatively small sample size, a number of preliminary results emerged that suggest the role of nature in the development of children’s aesthetic and spiritual values. These included children’s articulation of an aesthetic sense of beauty, pattern and order, wonder and discovery; and the expression of such spiritual attributes as feelings of solace and peacefulness, commonality and connection, happiness and feeling at one with and at home in nature, a power greater than oneself, and a sense of divine presence or mystery.
The Strange History of British Archaeoastronomy
Authors: Hutton Ronald
Published: March 2015

Between 1965 and 1985, British archaeologists found themselves obliged to study the skies as well as the evidence beneath the earth. The sciences of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics bore down on the study of prehistoric monuments as never before, and a series of impressive books and conferences explored the alignments and proportions of ancient ceremonial sites. A quarter of a century later, all this excitement has arguably evaporated. The four different disciplines have largely separated again, and prehistory has been handed back to the excavators. Why have things should have fallen out in this way. Were solid gains in knowledge made during the period in which archaeoastronomy was fashionable? Or was it all just moonshine?
Giotto’s Sky
Authors: Gunzburg Darrelyn
Published: March 2015

Giotto’s frescos in the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, were painted across three registers. The upper register contains celestial astronomical imagery that few scholars have been able fully to understand. Using two sections of this upper register as case studies, I reconstructed the skies over Padua in the medieval period using astronomical and astrological software, together with the knowledge of poetic astronomy and naked eye astronomy. This approach showed that, rather than being simple decorations, these images are instead reflective of the constellations that dictated the seasons and the cycle of the year as seen over Padua c. 1309. Furthermore, they reveal a night sky that was populated with a constellational iconography that, I argue, was part of an ensouled cosmology.
The Man Who Walked Through Signs
Authors: King Robert W
Published: March 2015

The concept of a depth dimension in nature is developed in Robert S. Corrington’s systematic extension of Peirce’s pragmatic metaphysics. To discern or experience the depth dimension of nature is to recognize the sublime power of nature naturing and of the powerful productivity of nature evidenced in its product, nature natured. The potency of nature naturing is evident, for example, in the geological formations of the Grand Canyon and in The Man Who Walked Through Time (1967), Colin Fletcher’s narration of a two-month solo trek into the depths of the Grand Canyon. In Corrington’s words, ‘A potency is an unconscious momentum within the heart of nature naturing that moves outward into the world of orders by ejecting some kind of orderly sign or system from its hidden depths’. Fletcher’s pilgrimage narrated a growing attunement to these ‘hidden depths’ and serves as an empirical, inductive account articulating the potencies of Ecstatic Naturalism.
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Authors: Drew Georgina , Gurung Ashok
Published: March 2015

Georgina Drew and Ashok Gurung introduce this special issue on Everyday Religion, Sustainable Environments, and New Directions in Himalayan Studies.
From Delocalization to Performances of Japaneseness
Authors: Tonelli Chris
Published: March 2015

This paper examines several trends in Japanese and Japan-related popular music that coincide with the rise and decline of "Gross National Cool," Japan's recent period of heightened foreign consumption of Japanese cultural products. Using two case studies, the music of Utada Hikaru and of Puffy, I argue this period saw Japanese artists shift from attempts to "internationalize" their music to strategies of marked performance of Japaneseness. A third case study examines the role performances of Japaneseness played in the work of the popular American artist Gwen Stefani during this period. Her image at this time involved being constantly flanked by an entourage of her "Harajuku Girls," four women whose visible Asianness served for years to articulate Stefani to the image of Cool Japan. Together, these three case studies explore some of the ways performances of Japaneseness became a strategy for success in transnational popular music between 2000 and 2010.
The Cultural and Gender Politics of Enunciation
Authors: Wheeler Duncan , O'Brien Lucy
Published: March 2015

This conversation between Lucy O’Brien and Duncan Wheeler seeks to establish a dialogue between musicologists and modern-language specialists to interrogate how their respective disciplinary and biographical questions might address a series of overarching themes and questions—sexism and gender-inflected ageism in the music industry; reclaiming silenced female and non Anglophone singer songwriters; the complex and frequently contradictory interrelationships between sex, art and commerce—in order to undertake a common endeavour: decentring a canon that remains disproportionately Anglo American and male.
Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene, eds. 2011. Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World
Authors: Baulch Emma
Published: March 2015

Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene, eds. 2011. Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 381pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4733-0 (pbk)
Ruth Hellier, ed. 2013. Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Authors: Whiteley Sheila
Published: March 2015

Ruth Hellier, ed. 2013. Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 264pp. ISBN 978-0-2520-37245 (pbk)
The Pomegranate Readers' Forum
Authors: Editors The
Published: March 2015

Please contribute to our Readers’ Forum so that we may continue to present this valuable venue for the exchange of ideas.

Letters may be edited to conserve space or to avoid repetition. Writers of published letters will have their subscriptions extended.
The Burning Man Festival: Pre-Apocalypse Party or Postmodern Kingdom of God?
Authors: Pike Sarah M
Published: March 2015

This festival is an important cultural and religious site that exemplifies the migration of religious meaning-making activities out of American temples and churches into other spaces.
Complex and Unpredictable Consequences: Jewish Responses to the Catastrophe of 1096
Authors: Muntean Fritz
Published: March 2015

The long-term effects of these catastrophes derived less from the actual incidents themselves than from what was written about these events by the survivors, immediately afterwards and during the following generation.
Two Souls in One Body: Ethical and Methodological Implications of Studying What You Know
Authors: Reid Sian
Published: March 2015

Frustration with not seeing myself reflected in the literature that purported to discuss 'people like me' propelled me into graduate school in an attempt to give myself the tools to frame the presentation of Neo-paganism differently.
A Response to Brian Hayden’s Article: “An Archaeological Evaluation of the Gimbutas Paradigm”
Authors: Marler Joan
Published: March 2015

Anthropologist Ashley Montagu considers Gimbutas' findings to be as important as Schliemann's excavation of Troy, while others, like Brian Hayden, are highly critical.
Two Reviews of Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld by Susan Greenwood
Authors: Cohen Daniel , Ezzy Douglas
Published: March 2015

M a g i c , W i t c h c r a f t a n d t h e O t h e r w o r l d .

By Susan Greenwood. Berg: Oxford University Press, 2000.

ISBN 1 85973 450 2, Pbk.
The Rose Beyond the Grave
Authors: Johns Evan John
Published: March 2015

The equation of the rose with secrecy goes back to Pagan Roman times, supposedly when Cupid gave a rose to Harpocrates, god of silence, to symbolize concealing the secrets of Venus. Hence early Christians rejected the rose as a decorative motif because of its associations with Roman depravity. Yet the rose crept back in, as in the ‘rose windows’ of many medieval churches, not to mention the rose hip’s utility as an inexpensive and ideally shaped material for making rosary beads--reinforcing its name, which comes from the Virgin Mary’s allegorical ‘crown of roses.’
The Old Religion
Authors: Smoley Richard
Published: March 2015

The theme of this article is a movement that has been called the fastestgrowing religion in the US. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans identify themselves as Witches, Wiccans, and Neopagans. The number has been estimated as anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000, but there are no hard statistics and few formal organizations. Besides, religious prejudice still makes it

expedient for may of today’s Pagans to keep quiet about their preferences.