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Uranium and uranyl luminescence in agate/chalcedony
Authors: Götze Jens , Gaft Michael , Möckel Robert
Published: September 2015

A systematic investigation of agates from different occurrences in Europe, Northern and Southern America reveals that macrocrystalline quartz and chalcedony within them have an unusually high uranium content. Whereas agates may contain >70 ppm of U, quartz from magmatic and metamorphic rocks as well as pegmatite quartz commonly exhibit U concentrations at sub-ppm levels. Spatially resolved trace-element analyses by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry show that the distribution of U within the agate samples is heterogeneous and coincides with the structural banding. The results indicate that U is incorporated into agate as uranyl ions. These ions, which are bound to the silica surface, are interpreted to originate from the parallel accumulation of Si and U by alteration processes of surrounding host rocks during agate formation.

The uranyl ion is the cause of greenish photoluminescence (PL) in agate, which can only be excited by short wavelengths (<300 nm). The green PL is due to the electron transition from an excited to a ground state of the uranyl ion and is shown by a typical emission line at ∼500 nm accompanied by several equidistant lines. These are due to the harmonic vibration of oxygen atoms along the uranyl axis. Luminescence can be detected in samples with a U content down to the 1 ppm level.
“Pricking in Virgil”: Early Modern Prophetic Phronesis and the Sortes Virgilianae
Authors: Usher Penelope Meyers
Published: September 2015

This essay explores the early modern reemergence of the sortes Virgilianae, a practice that involves opening a bound copy of Virgil (often with a pin) and finding prophecy in the verse upon which the seeker lands. Examining the accounts of the sortes in antiquity and in the Renaissance, as well as Renaissance writings that explicitly propose the sortes as a mode of reading, this essay argues that the practice, while oracular and prophetic, is linked to a mode of Renaissance pragmatic reading, which is concerned with (figurative) cutting, excerpting, and reaffixing textual fragments in new contexts. The practice presents a tension between assigning the prophetic book agency over the fate of the reader and the reader actively mining (and interpreting) the text for knowledge to be extracted and applied to life. The sortes Virgilianae thus involves both phronetic reading and a prophetic book that directs its own cutting.
Continuity in Training Primary School Students and Fifth- and Sixth-Graders on How to Solve Mathematical Problems
Authors: Бурлакова  , Burlakova T. , Целищева  , Tselishcheva Irina
Published: September 2015

The paper considers how to sustain continuity in teaching Mathematics at primary school and further to Fifth- and Sixth-grade students. As the

authors’ educational experience proves, to achieve the above goal it is necessary and useful to help students to develop skills for problem solving

situations, given that such training should be provided form the very beginning, i.e., from the first grade. Specified are the techniques and methods

of stage-by-stage operation with problem solving situations, which results in both more successful development of students’ skills in problems

solving and boosting their intellectual activities. This also helps to improve the students’ skills to learn.
Teaching the “Basics of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” Course at a Primary School
Authors: Виноградова  , Vinogradova Natalya
Published: September 2015

The paper covers the actual issue concerning mastering the “Basics of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” course by the fourth-grade students

of a primary school, in terms of both the emphasis on understanding the goals of learning, the curriculum contents and methods for teaching the

said course and on the ways to arrange the learning process itself. Also provided are the answers on specific questions, put forward by practicing

teachers and methodologists.
Acquaintance of Junior Schoolchildren and Preschool Children with the Book Decoration Art as a Perspective Direction of their Aesthetic Development
Authors: Зымалева  , Zymaleva L.
Published: September 2015

Possibilities for development of junior schoolchildren and preschool children in the course of their acquaintance with the book design art in the

frames of additional education are revealed in this paper. The author provides the main content of teaching which allows children to understand

the book editions’ design art development history, to remember the terms connected with bibliographic data, external elements of the book design.

Subjects of schoolchildren’ practical works are characterized
Analysis of alcohol dependence in indigenous peoples in Northern Siberia.
Authors: Savchenko Michail , Bokhan Nikolay , Plotnikov Evgenii
Published: September 2015

Aim of the study

This work considers a statistical and clinical analysis of overall morbidity, characteristics of alcohol dependence and alcohol psychosis of indigenous population in North Siberia (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, major gas producing region of Russia, characterized by extreme natural conditions).

Subject or material and methods

The basic indices, which characterize the dynamics of alcohol dependence and alcohol psychosis in indigenous people of the North Siberia, are identified. As indicators of comparison, the mean age of the onset of alcohol drinking, duration of the first stage of alcoholism, alcohol tolerance, the mean age of the appearance of drinking bouts, the mean age of first and the total number of hospitalizations, and the duration of remission and variants of intoxication were used.

Results

A more malignant course and main traits of alcohol dependence of indigenous peoples in northern Siberia, according to all investigated parameters and a 147% increase in the number patients with psychoses under monitoring of addiction specialists over the period from 2002 to 2012 were revealed.

Discussion

Differences between indigenous people and new-comers related with specific metabolic features of natives are the background for progredient alcohol dependence. Easy access to alcohol last decades threatens to health indigenous people of the North.

Conclusions

More severe course of alcoholism among indigenous population of North of Siberia leads to the destruction of traditional lifestyles and reduction of the indigenous population in the northern territories of the Russian Federation.
Masculinity, femininity, self-appeal, strategies of self-presentation and styles of interpersonal functioning in transsexual women
Authors: Mandal Eugenia , Jakubowski Tomasz
Published: September 2015

Aim of the study

The aim of the study was to explore potential differences in gender identity and styles of interpersonal functioning between transsexual and non-transsexual women.

Subject or material and methods

The studied group consisted of 32 adult transwomen, and the control group consisted 32 adult biological women. The following tests were used: the Bem Sex Role Inventory (Polish version, Kuczyńska, 1992) , Scale of Self Appeal (Mandal, Zalewska, 2010), the Interpersonal Styles Scale (Stanik, 1998), and the Strategies of Self-Presentation Questionnaire (Mandal, Zalewska, 2010).

Results

The transsexual women scored higher on the femininity scale than the non-transsexual women. The same situation occurred in the case of the use of the maintaining-overprotective style, submissive-dependent style and conformism scales.
While the non-transsexual women scored higher in the directive-autocratic style, aggressive-sadistic style, competitive-narcissistic style, partner attractiveness and self-promotion scales.
However, statistically significant differences between the groups did not occur in masculinity, adonization, interpersonal attractiveness, appreciation of the partner, self-depreciation, the withdrawing-masochistic style, the rebellious-suspicious style, self-acceptance/complacency, pessimism/helplessness/cry for help, lie, the friendly-cooperative style and the resourcefulness/realism/autonomy scales.

Discussion

The study revealed that transsexual women experience themselves and the surrounding world more in accord to the stereotype of what is feminine than non-transsexual women. Such was the case with the way they function interpersonally. Styles that they employ to a higher degree usually do not contain components of dominance and the need for autonomy but rather the need for affiliation and considerateness.

Conclusions

Transwomen function more in accordance with the stereotype of femininity than biological women.
An Interdisciplinary Team Approach of Dynamic Psychiatry. Theory and practice at Menterschwaige Hospital
Authors: Ammon Maria , Burbiel Ilse
Published: September 2015

The integrative model for person-centred clinical care in Dynamic Psychiatry comprises interdisciplinary features and approaches: The central integrative aspect is the holistic view of a person as a unique human being, influenced by the dynamics of the surrounding groups. The authors present the theoretical conception of human development and the therapeutic conceptions and intervention methods of Dynamic Psychiatry as a person-centred clinical care concept. This concept is turned into reality at the Dynamic Psychiatric hospital Menterschwaige in Munich.
The hospital Menterschwaige bases its multi-dimensional psychiatric-psychotherapeutic work on the analytic group-dynamics and thus follows systemic principles. This means that staff as well as patients of the hospital are daily challenged with interdisciplinary demands.
Based on theoretical considerations about the necessary preconditions of such an interdisciplinary team approach in person-centred clinical care its implementation will be discussed. The realisation of this approach takes place through group-dynamic and self-reflective processes within various groups of the clinical system, for instance, in the regular group dynamic sessions of the team. By means of a case study it will be discussed what essential significance this self-reflective work has for a successful person centred treatment of seriously mentally disordered patients.

"One of the key elements of person centred psychiatry
and medicine is the cultivation of relationships at all levels.
These include relationships between the clinician,
the patient and the family, as well as collaboration among
the various health professionals involved.
The latter refers to the team approach".

Juan Mezzich
Meditation and psychosis. A trigger or a cure?
Authors: Dyga Krzysztof , Stupak Radosław
Published: September 2015

The article is a review and an analysis of studies concerning usage of meditation techniques in psychiatry and psychotherapy. A brief history and characteristic of meditation is presented, with emphasis on mindfulness meditation, which is a variation most widely used for health reasons. On the other hand, potential „side effects” of meditational practices are also brought into attention. The authors focus mostly on meditation's links to psychosis, describing both conditions in which meditation may cause decompensation, as well as presenting research on the effects o  modified meditation techniques implementation among psychotic patients. In order to better understand the phenomena described the authors interpret meditation's effects using both psychodynamic and cognitive theories. Presented studies suggest that in certain circumstances meditation may trigger psychosis, but they also show that interventions based on mindfulness may play an important clinical role in the alleviation of symptoms during psychotic episodes.
from Westminster
Authors: Leahy Patrick
Published: September 2015

Do party conferences still matter?
Voluntary medical male circumcision: A necessary surgical intervention in curbing HIV/AIDS
Authors: Schenker Inon , Westreich Melvyn
Published: September 2015

An Israeli surgeon and a Global Health Specialist working in Africa address some of the persistent myths surrounding this practice.
Mr Slop FRCS’ lost registration
Authors: Slop
Published: September 2015

Navigating the sea of new regulation drives our scribe to drink like a sailor.
Simulation-based learning improves the accuracy of thyroid fine needle aspiration
Authors: Ansell J , Egan RJ , Varma M , Trefor R , Beamish AJ , Goddard S , Stechman MJ , Scott-Coombes D
Published: September 2015

Introducing the UK’s first thyroid FNA training course.
Literary Performance in the Imperial Schoolroom as Historical Reënactment: The Evidence of the Colloquia , Scholia to Canonical Works, and Scholia to the Techne of Dionysius Thrax
Authors: Mitchell Jack
Published: September 2015

Literary performance in the form of expressive reading aloud was central to Greco-Roman cultural transmission; scholars have described its role both in education and in ancient scholarship. Noting parallels in the terminology, objectives, and criteria for literary performance among the Techne Grammatike of Dionysius Thrax, scholia to canonical works, the Colloquia , and the scholia to the Techne , I argue that the scholia to canonical works reflect a performance culture in the Imperial period that included the ancient schoolroom, and that the dynamics of literary performance in the ancient schoolroom may therefore help to solve the question of whether references to performance style and audience response in the scholia to canonical works were intended to guide real performances or, instead, they were meant simply describe an ideal performance by The Poet. I conclude that this is a false distinction for the schoolroom setting, since student performances were strongly conditioned by ideas of the historical origins of genre.
Promētheia (“Forethought”) Until Plato
Authors: Moore Christopher
Published: September 2015

Starting in Archilochus and ending in Plato’s Protagoras , this article reconstructs the meaning of promētheia and the related verb and adjective. Both the word’s relation with the god Prometheus and its etymology are uncertain, and dictionary definitions, treating it as meaning either “forethought” or “due regard, caution,” are imprecise. On the basis of the several dozen uses of promētheia (and its relatives) in archaic and Classical Greek, I argue that exercising promētheia means deciding on what bases to act—in other words, discerning what is practically important. Promētheia is related to sōphrosunē and aidōs ; is called for in contexts of ignorance about the future; and was a natural choice when Plato sought a term meaning “rational reflection.”
Bearing Razors and Swords: Paracomedy in Euripides’ Orestes
Authors: Jendza Craig
Published: September 2015

In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen , Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae , and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ paracomic response. I argue that the escape plot from Helen , in which Menelaus and Helen flee with “sword-bearing” men (ξιφηφόρος), was co-opted in Thesmophoriazusae , when Aristophanes staged Euripides escaping with a man described as “being a razor-bearer” (ξυροφορέω). Furthermore, I suggest that Euripides re-appropriates this parody by escalating the quantity of sword-bearing men in Orestes , suggesting a dynamic poetic rivalry between Aristophanes and Euripides. Additionally, I delineate a methodology for evaluating instances of paracomedy.
Popular Authority in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
Authors: Lush Brian V.
Published: September 2015

Iphigenia in Aulis ( IA ) raises important doubts about popular authority by dramatizing the Achaean army’s imposition of parthenic sacrifice. The numerous vacillations of the elites represented in IA ’s dialogue provide an axis along which the distribution of power in Aulis can be assessed, and the play’s many reversals serve to highlight their lack of agency and their forced participation in troubling ritual violence. In the context of this dramatic formulation of power, the play’s aristocratic personae must either yield grudgingly to the army’s demands or, like Iphigenia, construct a new political subjectivity that affirms and is complicit in the army’s assertion of power.
Still in the Blood: Gendered Histories of Race, Law, and Science in Day v. Apoliona
Authors: Arvin Maile
Published: September 2015

This essay examines the construction of the “Part-Hawaiian” in early twentieth-century eugenic science and law, as well as the legal legacies of that construction for Native Hawaiians today. The article focuses on the Day v. Apoliona case (2005–10), in which five Native Hawaiian men sued the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for failing to enforce a strict blood quantum policy that defines “native Hawaiians” as being “of not less than one-half part blood.” Drawing on Native feminist and critical ethnic studies frameworks, the essay advances a critical reading of the Day plaintiffs’ actions that positions the case within the histories of race and settler colonialism in the Pacific. It questions both why these men “called the law” on their own community as they sought to enforce a divisive legal definition and what it means that the law denied the plaintiffs’ claims but also stopping short of ending the 50 percent blood quantum definition.
“We Will Be Comparable to the Indian Peoples”: Recognizing Likeness between Native Hawaiians and American Indians, 1834–1923
Authors: Chang David A.
Published: September 2015

This article identifies nineteenth-century Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) thought about American Indians as an important element in the development of the contemporary Hawaiian sense of Kānaka as part of a broader world of Indigenous people in resistance to colonialism. A Kanaka recognition of Hawaiians’ own likeness to American Indians emerged from a series of overlapping shifts in the representation of Indians in Hawaiian-language texts. Since the 1820s, American missionaries had portrayed Indians to Kānaka as ignorant and savage, examples of why Kānaka must embrace the missionary message of Christian “civilization.” By the 1850s, as Hawaiian voices appeared more frequently in the press, and as Kānaka and American Indians came into direct social contact through diasporic laboring regimes, depictions of Indians became somewhat more sympathetic, a warning sign of the dangers that colonialism posed. By the end of the century—in the context of struggle against annexation to the United States—Kānaka were depicting American Indians as “what we have perhaps become like.” Over time, that sense of likeness would prove potent in the making of the broader category of the Indigenous.
Ke Ao a me Ka Pō: Postmillennial Thought and Native Hawaiian Foreign Mission Work
Authors: Cook Kealani
Published: September 2015

Between 1852 and 1900, several hundred Native Hawaiians engage in mission work in Micronesia and the Marquesas. Through the postmillennial worldview brought by their New England “makua” (parents), foreign mission work allowed them to support the expansion of Christ’s kingdom while pushing back against the paternalism and racism of American missionaries in Hawai’i and in the field. If the most important measure of a people came from their dedication to expanding Christ’s kingdom, the Hawaiians could claim full equality with the Americans and Europeans through their commitment to mission work. Yet an examination of Hawaiian missionary interactions with and treatment of other islanders provides a stark counterpoint to this somewhat celebratory account of Hawaiian religious agency. The same rigid theological division of the world and eagerness to expand Christ’s kingdom also led to and justified their denunciation and even persecution of the islanders they worked among.
Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders Are Not Asian Americans, and All Pacific Islanders Are Not Hawaiian
Authors: Hall Lisa Kahaleole
Published: September 2015

The combining and often conflating of the existence and issues of two very different pan-national and pan-ethnic categories—”Asian American” and “Pacific Islander”—through the appellations Asian/Pacific Islander, API, Asian Pacific American, APA , AAPI, and so forth, in US public policy, mass media, and social activism circles has been both vexed and contested by Hawaiian activists for more than fifty years. Beyond the data distortion that affects all Pacific Islanders in the United States through the use of this term, its use also functions to make conceptually invisible the specificity of Hawaiian transnational indigenous alliances, a settler colonial analysis of Hawai’i where Asians are a substantial part of the settler population, and ongoing movements for Hawaiian sovereignty. This essay explores the historical origins of this conflation, the persistence of the use of these combination terms by Asian Americans and other non–Pacific Islanders, and key consequences of this that continue to be resisted by Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders in the United States.
“Strangers in Our Own Land”: John Kneubuhl, Modern Drama, and Hawai‘i Five-O
Authors: Orr Stanley
Published: September 2015

Widely acclaimed a foundational Oceanic playwright, Samoan American dramatist John Kneubuhl also wrote dozens of television scripts for programs such as The Fugitive and The Wild Wild West . As with his stage-dramas, many of these teleplays represent a masterful orchestration of diverse cultural traditions—an aesthetic nowhere more clear than in “Strangers in Our Own Land” (1968). In this early episode of Hawaii Five-O , Kneubuhl looks to his past as a playwright-cum-screenwriter and anticipates his future as Oceania’s foremost postcolonial dramatist. I argue that “Strangers in Our Own Land” reads as an adaptation of The Adding Machine (1923), the famous expression-ist play written by Elmer Rice, with whom Kneubuhl studied at Yale in the 1940s. Alluding to The Adding Machine , Kneubuhl offers a version of the play in which the anomic Mr. Zero becomes Benny Kalua (Simon Oakland), a native Hawaiian nightclub owner driven to murder by his participation in Honolulu’s exploitative tourist industry. “Strangers in Our Own Land” also evokes Kneubuhl’s earlier stage and screen works as well as intertexts such as John Dominis Holt’s “On Being Hawaiian” (1964). This small-screen drama should therefore be understood as a pivotal text that exemplifies the formal and thematic unity of Kneubuhl’s literary oeuvre.
“Ah just cant quit thinking”: Modernist Narrative Voice in Faulkner and Ellison
Authors: Chase Greg
Published: September 2015

This article contends that Invisible Man registers Ellison’s indebtedness to, but also revision of, Faulkner’s modernist experiments with narrative voice. On the one hand, Ellison emulates distinctively Faulknerian techniques for representing the consciousness of an alienated subject. On the other hand, Invisible Man reworks and expands upon Faulkner’s representational strategies by consistently articulating the thought process of a reflective black individual. In order to highlight Ellison’s engagement with Faulknerian narrative voice, this essay devotes sustained attention to “Pantaloon in Black,” arguing that the short story constitutes Faulkner’s most ambitious attempt to capture black interiority. This examination of “Pantaloon” clarifies Ellison’s project, as Faulkner’s imaginative shortcomings in portraying Rider are precisely those that Ellison’s novel seeks to redress.
Race Conservation and Imperial Sovereignty in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio
Authors: Hebard Andrew
Published: September 2015

This essay examines Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899) with respect to the concept of “race conservation” and debates about U.S. sovereignty in the Philippines, and demonstrates that the novel reproduced the political forms of late nineteenth-century imperial sovereignty. Exploring the relation between biopower and sovereignty, the essay argues that Griggs imagined institutions that would protect racialized populations in the United States without directly confronting U.S. sovereignty. Finally, the essay considers the unconventional form of Griggs’s novel and argues that it deliberately flattens distinctions between romance and realism, simultaneously appropriating imperialist institutional forms and undermining the aesthetic forms that conventionalized imperial violence.
Performing Recognition: El castigo sin venganza and the Politics of the “Literal” Translation
Authors: Maitland Sarah
Published: September 2015

In Lope’s Ferrara, honour is a function of public perception. The Duke has been betrayed but cannot seek justice without making his betrayal public, destroying his reputation and shattering his legitimacy to rule. Only by seeking revenge in private can he keep his honour intact. In this “politics of recognition,” personal identity and public perception are so intertwined that the Duke’s every action is mediated by the critical regime to which he is subject. When translating the play for performance in English, translators enact a similar politics: each perceives different phenomena worthy of a fresh approach, and each imputes different meanings to what is perceived; this critical gaze directs the course a translation takes. Through the illuminating discourse of the politics of recognition, and using the author’s experience of providing a “literal” translation for the Theatre Royal Bath, it argues for a renewed understanding of the critical dimension of literal translation, as a series of tactical moves and strategic decisions, taken on a private level in the service of public performance.
Adapting La dama boba and The Taming of the Shrew for a Foreign Audience
Authors: Gatta Carla Della
Published: September 2015

Laurence Boswell’s 2013 production of Lope’s The Lady Boba in three cities in the United Kingdom paralleled a traveling production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew to various countries throughout Europe by the British theatre company, Propeller, that same year. With thematic similarities yet antithetical stage histories, these two productions illuminate how repertory and repertoire function to make plays less foreign to audiences from another culture. This article focuses on the layers of translation for the stage that are facilitated through aligning the plays with recent stagings in each country. Ultimately, negotiating these dramaturgical elements allows for a constant re-invocation of theatricality that suspends mimetic depictions of problematic gender dynamics in The Lady Boba and The Taming of the Shrew .
Adapting History: Bandello, Lope de Vega, Lord Byron, and Donizetti
Authors: Larson Donald R.
Published: September 2015

In May, 1425, Niccolò III d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara, discovered that his wife, Parisina, and his bastard son, Ugo, were carrying on an incestuous affair. Concerned for his own reputation and that of the land over which he ruled, Niccolò enacted swift retribution: he ordered the young lovers to be arrested and then had them publicly beheaded. In the years following, news of what had transpired in Ferrara spread throughout Italy, and eventually reached other European countries as well, inspiring over time a number of fictitious re-creations of the shocking events. One of these is Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza ; other appropriations of the historical record include a short story by Matteo Bandello, a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and an opera by Gaetano Donizetti. The basic contours of the story in each of these retellings are roughly similar, but there are significant differences among them in how the principal characters in the four works are portrayed, in how the action is developed, and in the thematic concerns that the works display. Some of these differences reflect the generic competences of each of the texts; others have to do with the interests and values of their creators and of their audiences. In the present study, I examine some of the most important variations that may be noted among the four adaptations of Ferrarese history, placing each insofar as possible in its own context of time and place.
The Confessional and Ex-Catholic Priests in Nineteenth-Century Protestant America
Authors: Carey Patrick W.
Published: September 2015

Auricular confession became a major source of contention between U.S. Catholics and Protestants in the nineteenth century. The theological battle over the sacrament of penance stemmed from the Protestant Reformation and, to some extent, reflected the theological pluralism of the pre-Council of Trent era with regard to the necessity of auricular confession and the meaning and form of absolution. In the nineteenth century, however, much of the Protestant polemic against auricular confession focused on the practice’s allegedly evil moral and social consequences. By the 1830s the confessional itself came to be seen as a den of sexual exploitation and perversion and a threat to husbands, the family, and the stability of American society. Several former Catholic priests took advantage of this polemical situation and became exponents of the obscene charges, making confession itself the key to understanding the believed Catholic perversion of Christianity. Their popular public lectures across the country and their widely-distributed publications on the subject appeared credible because of their prior experiences in the Catholic Church and their inner knowledge of confessional practices. These ex-priests, turned Protestant, reinforced the anti-Catholic, Protestant crusade that emphasized the Catholic tradition’s supposedly salacious elements.
Protestant Hermeneutics as the “Infidel Principle” in Disguise: Bishop John B. Purcell’s Case Against Sola Scriptura in His Debate with Alexander Campbell
Authors: Miller Herbert D.
Published: September 2015

On January 13, 1837, Bishop John B. Purcell (1800-1883) walked into a small Baptist church a block south of his cathedral in Cincinnati. Surrounded by a crowd of onlookers, he met one of the Ohio Valley’s up-and-coming Protestant leaders for a weeklong debate on Catholicism. His opponent was Alexander Campbell (1788-1866), one of the intellectual architects of the American-born restoration movement known as the Disciples of Christ. In the debate, Purcell leveraged against the anti-Catholic sentiment in Cincinnati to accomplish two goals of “pastoral apologetics.” First, he claimed the effects of Protestant hermeneutics were identical to the inherent agnosticism of Deism, or what Purcell called the “infidel principle.” Against this backdrop, Purcell pursued his second goal: he presented Catholicism as the sound religious alternative to the ecclesial dead-end of Protestantism. Purcell’s participation in the debate was an expression of “Enlightenment Catholicism,” and an attempt to show the Catholic Church in the nineteenth century welcomed the opportunity to simultaneously defend the Church and open itself to critical investigation.
Lessons Learned from the Evolution of an Academic Community Partnership: Creating “Patient Voices”
Authors: Chambers Meghan K. , Ireland Anna , D’Aniello Rona , Lipnicki Stephanie , Glick Myron , Tumiel-Berhalter Laurene
Published: September 2015

The Problem : Long-term partners received federal funding to develop the Patient Voices Network, a partnership of safety-net family practices and their patients to develop health improvement strategies. The scope and structure of the newly funded grant presented unexpected challenges that threatened the future of the partnership. Purpose of Article : To present a case study of the evolution of an existing partnership and offer lessons learned along with recommendations for future partnerships. Key Points : Federal funding formalized the partnership in a way that required looking at it through a new lens. Leadership, programmatic, personnel, and financial challenges emerged. Short-term and long-term strategies were applied to address evolving needs. Conclusions : This case study demonstrates how federal funding raises the bar for academic–community partnerships and how challenges can be worked through, particularly if the partnership embraces the key principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Recommendations have been applied successfully to future initiatives.
Building Capacity in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships Through a Focus on Process and Multiculturalism
Authors: Corbie-Smith Giselle , Bryant Angela R. , Walker Deborah J. , Blumenthal Connie , Council Barbara , Courtney Dana , Adimora Ada
Published: September 2015

Background : In health research, investigators and funders are emphasizing the importance of collaboration between communities and academic institutions to achieve health equity. Although the principles underlying community–academic partnered research have been well-articulated, the processes by which partnerships integrate these principles when working across cultural differences are not as well described. Objectives : We present how Project GRACE (Growing, Reaching, Advocating for Change and Empowerment) integrated participatory research principles with the process of building individual and partnership capacity. Methods : We worked with Vigorous Interventions In Ongoing Natural Settings (VISIONS) Inc., a process consultant and training organization, to develop a capacity building model. We present the conceptual framework and multicultural process of change (MPOC) that was used to build individual and partnership capacity to address health disparities. Conclusions : The process and capacity building model provides a common language, approach, and toolset to understand differences and the dynamics of inequity. These tools can be used by other partnerships in the conduct of research to achieve health equity.
Practical Tips for Establishing Partnerships With Academic Researchers: A Resource Guide for Community-Based Organizations
Authors: Darling Margaret , Gonzalez Florencia , Graves Kristi , Sheppard Vanessa B. , Hurtado-de-Mendoza Alejandra , Leventhal Kara-Grace , Caicedo Larisa
Published: September 2015

Background : Research exists on strategies for successful conduct of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Unfortunately, few published resources are available to advise community-based organizations (CBOs) on preparation for and engagement in CBPR. Objectives : We aimed to create a resource for CBOs that describes how an organization can prepare for and participate in CBPR. Methods : We used a case study approach of one CBO with a decade-long history of collaboration with academic researchers. We identified lessons learned through a retrospective review of organizational records and the documentation of experiences by CBO leadership and research partners. The findings were then labeled according to CBPR Partnership Readiness Model dimensions. Lessons Learned : The review of CBO documents and key informant interviews yielded ten practical tips to increase organizational readiness for and engagement in CBPR. Conclusions : By understanding the best practices for organizational readiness for and participation in CPBR, CBOs will be better equipped to actively participate in community–academic partnerships.
Developing a Community-Based Tailored Exercise Program for People With Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
Authors: Hoffmann Kamden D. , Walnoha Adrienne , Sloan Jennifer , Buddadhumaruk Praewpannarai , Huang Hsin-Hui , Borrebach Jeffrey , Cluss Patricia A. , Burke Jessica G.
Published: September 2015

Background : People with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) are at a greater risk of medical issues compared with the general population. Exercise has a positive effect on physical and mental health outcomes among this population in community settings. Objectives : To describe community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods used to tailor an exercise program among people with SPMI, demonstrate its impact, and present lessons learned for future research. Methods : The partnership developed a project to explore the feasibility of implementing a physical activity program at a community agency among clients with SPMI. Lessons Learned : Data showed improved trends in mood, social support, and physical and mental health outcomes. Facilitators and barriers must be carefully considered for recruitment and retention. Conclusions : A gender-specific, group-based, tailored exercise intervention developed through collaboration with a community agency serving people with SPMI using CBPR methods is feasible.
Challenges of Data Dissemination Efforts Within a Community-Based Participatory Project About Persistent Racial Disparities in Excess Weight
Authors: Garnett Bernice R. , Wendel Josefine , Banks Chandra , Goodridge Ardeene , Harding Richard , Harris Robin , Hacker Karen , Chomitz Virginia R.
Published: September 2015

Background : Despite universal environmental and policy-focused initiatives that resulted in declines in obesity among children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, disparities persist among racial/ethnic groups. In response, a community coalition formed the Healthy Eating and Living Project (HELP), to investigate and disseminate findings regarding disparities in excess weight among Cambridge Black youth (ages 6–14), with the aim of facilitating reciprocal learning and community mobilization to ultimately increase community engagement and inform prevention efforts. Objectives : This paper details the theoretical framework, methods, and results of disseminating HELP findings to various sectors of the Cambridge Black/African American (Black) community. Methods : First, using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, the HELP coalition analyzed existing data and conducted qualitative studies with Cambridge Black families to better understand the sociocultural and familial determinants of excess weight. We then developed presentation and print materials and used different dissemination approaches. We solicited feedback to inform the dissemination process and mobilization of obesity prevention efforts. Results : We disseminated information through six community groups (parents, students, pastors, men’s health group, community leaders, and a health coalition), email lists, and websites. Reciprocal learning among and between HELP and community members yielded data presentation challenges, as well as prevention effort ideas and barriers. Conclusion : Dissemination of local health data should be considered both as a strategy to increase community engagement and as an intervention to promote collective efficacy and community change. Careful attention should be dedicated to the language used when communicating racial disparities in excess weight to various community groups.
Lived Witness
Authors: Budde Mitzi J.
Published: September 2015

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This essay explores moral decision-making, moral witness/advocacy, and moral teaching/formation, framed in terms of receptive ecumenism as a mandate for Christians to live out the faith together in visible witness. The context is the bilateral and multilateral ecumenical dialogues, of which the recent U.S. Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue document, Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment , is an exemplar. Global, regional, and local examples of current ecumenical efforts around ethical decision-making, advocacy, and action are provided in each of the three areas. Eight challenges to the work of ecumenical dialogue on moral matters are identified. Finally, six characteristics of morally serious ecumenical communities are described.
Contraception’s Authority: An Anglican’s Liturgical and Synodical Thought Experiment in Light of ARCUSA’s “Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment”
Authors: Olver Matthew S. C.
Published: September 2015

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“Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment,” the 2014 agreed statement from the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S., claims that the typical assessment that these traditions have well-established, opposing teachings will not do justice to the complementary ways we teach. Contraception is used as an example of a contentious moral matter about which it is assumed Anglicans and Catholics have settled, opposing teaching. The agreed statement bases this claim on differences in the structure and exercise of authority between the communions. This essay has three goals: (1) It expands the summary of Anglican ecclesiology in the document, clarifying the extent of the ecclesiological differences between Anglicanism (especially the Episcopal Church) and Catholicism on teaching about moral matters. (2) It offers one recognizably Anglican approach to reasoning theologically about the moral complexities of contraception, by an Episcopalian, liturgically and synodically. (3) It explains why Episcopalians “could hold and teach” that the statement’s judgments are “more consonant with Scripture and moral truth, if that were their judgment.”
Imagining Mutual Christian Theological Identity: From Apologia to Dialogic Theologizing
Authors: Ezigbo Victor
Published: September 2015

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In response to the quest for a globally shared Christian theological identity that has gained considerable currency in the wake of the discourse between “world Christianity” and “contextual theology,” it has become customary for Christian institutions to bring theologians from different contexts to work together on a theological project with the aim of exchanging ideas and sometimes criticisms. The primary question with which this essay is concerned is: In what way can contextual theologies contribute to the formation of a shared Christian theological identity in the present era of world Christianity? I argue that it is by bringing contextual theologies into dialogic communication tailored toward developing in common “theological materials,” some of which can be used to construct Christian theological identity. Such communication requires dialogic theologizing that is governed by four interrelated principles: the “fragmentary-mentality” principle, the “more presence of contextual theologies” principle, the “other-referential” principle, and the “global issue” principle.
Lolita Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Amplifying Preadolescent Girls’ Voices in Conversations about Sexualization, Objectification, and Performativity
Authors: McGladrey Margaret L.
Published: September 2015

The latest “girlhood crisis” sparking controversy in academic and popular culture discourse is the premature sexualization of girls’ media and consumer-product environments, which has been termed the “Lolita effect” by media studies scholar M. Gigi Durham (2008). However, the high-profile books about the effect’s repercussions for girls’ healthy physical and emotional development do not include data elicited from preadolescent girls about their interpretations of this archetype; instead, authors base their conclusions on adult-centric assumptions about how this representation of idealized femininity might affect girls. Projecting presumptions about the effects of media sexualization and objectification on adult women onto girls’ lived experiences both underrates the importance of the broad array of meanings that girls ascribe to the imagery of idealized femininity and inappropriately equates a specific type of objectification (sexualization) with all manners of treating the body as an object to control and manage. This article addresses the theoretical and methodological limitations of conflating sexualization with objectification in the context of preadolescent girls’ performances of archetypal femininities, arguing that the assemblage of consumer purchases and grooming techniques that produces the Lolita effect’s image is also required to fashion other archetypes of idealized young femininity that permeate media constructions of neoliberal American girlhood. Drawing from Erving Goffman’s (1959) framework for dramaturgical analysis of social behavior and recent ethnographic studies with preadolescent girls, the article argues that the key determinant of the gender scripts that girls employ in fashioning their subjectivities may be their perceived audience for their performances of femininity, which for preadolescent girls includes not only boys, but also their female peers.
“Up Against the Wall Miss America”: Women’s Liberation and Miss Black America in Atlantic City, 1968
Authors: Welch Georgia Paige
Published: September 2015

The women’s liberation movement’s demonstration against the 1968 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, widely canonized as the first major action of the second-wave radical feminist movement, coincided with an event more often forgotten: the first Miss Black America contest. Women’s liberation denounced the oppressive beauty standards of pageants, while, a few blocks away, African American activists and entrepreneurs staged an alternative pageant to champion the beauty of Black women and protest racial exclusion in the Miss America Pageant. This article uses the convergence and incongruity of these two political public performances to reconsider the dominant story of the women’s liberation movement’s protest as told by journalists, second-wave feminists, and historians. Their story, by neglecting the trenchant influence of racial politics and Black activists at play that day, has consolidated the famous protest into a sign of radical feminism’s failure to be a multiracial and intersectional political movement. The article argues that it is only through examining the intersection of women’s liberation, civil rights, and Black Power that we can fully chart the racism that feminism both confronted and reproduced, and recover the diverse work done by women of color in the name of feminism and antiracism.
Women as Political Bodies in the International Speeches of Margaret Sanger
Authors: Stearns A. Elizabeth , Sharp Susan F. , Beutel Ann M.
Published: September 2015

The speeches of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger have received scant attention. This article examines the contraceptive rhetoric in Sanger’s speeches to international and US audiences. Drawing from scholarship on epistemic communities and the politicization of women’s bodies, it uses rhetorical analysis to identify the thematic elements of these speeches. It finds that Sanger’s rhetoric in her internationally delivered speeches mostly located the act of contraception at national and international levels, rather than at individual or family levels. Additionally, Sanger’s contraceptive rhetoric in the United States created bodies in search of creative fulfillment, while her non-US rhetoric worked largely to construct bodies in pursuit of civic responsibility. The epistemic community backing Sanger privileged and legitimized her rhetoric, helping to construct women—especially women outside the United States—as nationalistic entities and global citizens through whom the successful adoption of contraception equated with a better nation and a more peaceful world. The article underscores how rhetoric, backed by an epistemic community, operates as a powerful tool for constructing gendered political and civic bodies.
Speaking Bodies: Listening for Mary Gove Nichols (1810–84)
Authors: Martell Colleen
Published: September 2015

Nineteenth-century American author, holistic health practitioner, and women’s rights advocate Mary Gove Nichols was well known in her own time, founding utopian communities, establishing and writing for health journals, giving lectures, and generally causing a stir by wearing pants and preaching Free Love. Yet, her work is largely unknown to twenty-first-century readers. This article argues that Gove Nichols’s fiction and nonfiction, including her autobiographical novel Mary Lyndon (1855), deserve renewed critical attention because of the significance of her philosophy of embodiment for twenty-first-century feminist scholarship. Although Gove Nichols argues that bodies are socially constructed, she does not dismiss bodies in her methods of liberating women from oppression. On the contrary, bodies form the basis of her activism: she argues that in order to reform society, one must look not only to intellectual and spiritual health, but also to the material health of those who live in it. In this way, her work heralds the twenty-first-century feminist theoretical turn toward a new materialism that argues for the resilient and creative potential of bodies in social justice movements. An analysis of Gove Nichols’s water-cure-inspired narrative strategies reveals how literature provides a way of thinking about bodies that is essential for theory.