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Managing Delays
Authors: Lass Andrew
Published: November 2023

In a book that has quickly become a best-seller in modern management theory, Peter Senge points to the importance of incorporating the phenomenon of delays into the analysis of organizational behavior: Delays-”when the effect of one variable on another takes time”1-are, together with reinforcing and balancing feedbacks and limiting conditions, the basic components of the systems analysis advocated by Senge. Any organization or, for simplicity’s sake, any task that involves goal-oriented action, can be described as a series of mutually interdependent activities or, more exactly, feedback loops.
Staff Preparation for Automation
Authors: Śliwińska Maria
Published: November 2023

The library staff’s preparation for automation is an important and complicated issue. Although I could simply have asserted that the library staff was not prepared for automation, I decided to investigate this issue, with the aid of a questionnaire I sent to all Polish libraries that were introducing integrated library software (VTLS, Horizon, Aleph, Tinlib),1 and another questionnaire that went to librarians who had been educated at library schools. In response, I received 39 completed questionnaires from libraries, and 227 from librarians. Before discussing the responses, I will provide some background data.
Divine Immanence The Ideological Context of Liberal Protestant Devotionalism
Authors: Ostrander Rick
Published: November 2023

To understand why prayer became problematic for liberal Protestants in the early twentieth century, an excursion into the intellectual universe of classic liberalism is necessary. The prayer-gauge debate of the late nineteenth cetury had proceeded on the basis of a traditional Christian cosmology, one that posited a personal God who created the universe and remained separate from it. This cosmology was expressed by Charles Hodge in his Systematic Theology, which appeared concurrently with the prayer-gauge debate. “Prayer,” Hodge had said, “takes a great deal for granted.” Among other things, it assumed a personal God “independent from the world” who listened to the prayers of his children and sometimes adjusted the natural order of the world in answer to prayer. This Christian God could operate “without second causes as well as with them, or against them.” Conscientious theologians such as Hodge preferred the term “special providence” to miracle, since the latter term was reserved for the biblical epoch. But by whatever term, the effect was the same: God, Christians believed, supernaturally altered the state of the universe in answer to prayer. As the turn-of-the-century Chautaucqua lecturer William Kinsley explained, an answer to prayer required that God “interfere by stepping outside his general providence, in which the evil and the good are served alike, to confer especial favors.”
Gang Characteristics
Authors: Chin Ko-lin
Published: November 2023

Few empirical studies on Chinese gangs exist. Consequently, we know little about the social background of Chinese gang members, the social processes of and reasons for their joining and leaving Chinatown gangs, the structure of the gangs, the levels of gang cohesion, and the nature of the relationship between the gangs and community organizations. This chapter sheds some light on the characteristics and social dynamics of Chinese gang members and their organizations.
The Gang as an Enterprise
Authors: Chin Ko-lin
Published: November 2023

Gangs in the late 1980s and early 1990s have been described by researchers as corporations or enterprises formed by young people who are primarily interested in making money (M. Sullivan, 1989; Taylor, 1990; Padilla, 1992). Unlike the neighborhood gangs observed by A. Cohen (1955) and W. Miller (1958), modern era gangs appear to be made up of predominantly utilitarian-oriented, individualistic young people determined to promote their financial well-being through gang participation (Jankowski, 1991). In order to operate efficiently, the structure, norms, values, and recruiting practices of contemporary gangs are relatively similar to those of legitimate business establishments.
“Trust No Man”
Authors: Kennedy J Gerald
Published: November 2023

Despite obvious differences in their spheres of achievement—not to mention differences of racial self-identification, education, and ideology—both Edgar Allan Poe and Frederick Douglass grew to manhood in the upper South and for about two years (ca. April 1831-March 183 3) inhabited the same Baltimore neighborhood, only a few blocks from each other. For the record, Poe lived with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, in “Mechanics Row” on Wilks Street, a short walk from 37 Philpot Street, where young Fred Bailey—as Douglass was then called—lived with the Hugh Auld family. The Aulds, in fact, attended a Methodist Episcopal church on Wilks Street (figure 9.1). Whether or not Poe and Douglass ever crossed paths in the Fell’s Point area, their lives present surprising parallels. As orphans who never knew their fathers and who became separated from their mothers in early childhood, both experienced rejection by surrogate father figures, endured privation, and savored public notice as compensation for early humiliations.
The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany
Authors: Rummel Erika
Published: November 2023

This book deals with the impact of the Reformation debate in Germany on the most prominent intellectual movement of the time: humanism. Although it is true that humanism influenced the course of the Reformation, says Erika Rummel, the dynamics of the relationship are better described by saying that humanism was co-opted, perhaps even exploited, in the religious debate.
The Nicodemism of Men of Letters
Authors: Rummel Erika
Published: November 2023

By the mid-1520s many who had been enthusiastic about Luther at first had sober second thoughts when they saw the social and political upheaval caused by his selfdeclared followers. The reformers were widely held responsible for the tumultuous state of affairs in the Empire, but individual analyses of the cause-and-effect relationship range from sophisticated to simplistic, from ideological to mundane.
The Anthology in Jewish Literature: An Introduction
Authors: Stem David
Published: November 2023

From the Talmud to the latest collection of contemporary American Jewish writers in your local bookstore window, the anthology has been a pervasive, ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature throughout its history. The anthology may also be its oldest literary genre - if, that is, one accepts the documentary hypothesis, according to which the Pentateuch is a collection from different literary sources. Even if one does not accept the thesis, it is clear that many biblical books either are themselves collections, such as the books of Psalms or Proverbs, or tend to exhibit what might be called the “anthological habit”-that is, the tendency of gathering together discrete, sometimes conflicting retellings of stories or traditions (e.g., the two versions of the creation of woman, or analogous lists of unrelated commandments and miscellaneous laws) and preserving them side by side as though there were no difference, conflict, or ambiguity between them.
Wisdom and the Anthological Temper
Authors: Kugel James
Published: November 2023

There existed in ancient Israel a particular notion, “wisdom,” which uniquely favored the anthology genre; the biblical books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes present the clearest examples of the anthological character of wisdom within the Jewish canon. Indeed, wisdom was an international pursuit, and wisdom anthologies are found elsewhere as well in the ancient Near East, constituting among the oldest surviving literary texts from that region. Before examining how these anthologies emerged in Israel, however, it will be necessary to explain what it is about wisdom that is inherently anthological.
Melville
Authors: Versluis Arthur
Published: November 2023

Without doubt, Herman Melville remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the American Renaissance. Not surprisingly, then, whereas most of the authors whose work we are considering have a fairly clear relationship to various esoteric traditions, for the most part this cannot be said of Melville’s work, still subject as it is to often wildly varying interpretations by literary scholars. Clearly, as one surveys Melville’s writings, one finds in them some direct allusions to esoteric traditions. In his fiction, in his poems, and in his letters, we find Melville alluding or referring to such traditions as Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Neoplatonism, and perhaps most notably of all, Gnosticism. But what can we conclude about Melville’s attitudes toward these esoteric traditions? Does he endorse, doubt, fear, or draw upon them? Has he any certain attitudes at all toward any of them? To answer questions like these, we must delve into Melville’s various works with each of these particular traditions in mind.
Whitman
Authors: Versluis Arthur
Published: November 2023

Walt Whitman, author of Leaves of Grass, deliberately set out to be the quintessential American poet. As we have seen, however, to be a nineteenth-century American intellectual was to draw upon the traditions of the world, and Whitman was no exception to this tendency. Indeed, as the inclusive poet par excellence, he illustrates it better than anyone except Emerson. Like Emerson, Whitman incorporated Asian religious traditions, especially Hinduism, into his writings and, like Emerson, he was indebted to prior Western esoteric traditions. But Whitman’s personality was of a very different character from that of Emerson or, for that matter, anyone else in the American Renaissance. More than anyone else of the time, Whitman represented an antinomian, world­embracing mysticism of a kind that had a fair ni:imber of European manifestations, but was in Whitman made particularly American.
Minting New Gospels
Authors: Akenson Donald Harman
Published: November 2023

if the search for previously unknown (or known, but (unappreciated) documents that take us directly into the world where Yeshua of Nazareth and Saul of Tarsus lived has to be judged fruitless (as yet), there is another angle of attack open to Questors for the historical Yeshua. Many of the Questors believe that they can get back into the world of later Second Temple Judahism by detecting within documents that are demonstrably post-70 ce core texts that are earlier. The task is deceptively simple: if there are no extant pre-70 texts, then build some and sell them. Here the mental agility of the scholars is impressive and the suasive intensity that is invested in promoting some of these texts is quite remarkable. We will examine two examples of this activity at its weakest, and then we will turn to the one that really counts, namely “Q.”
The Function of the Landscape of Ceremony
Authors: Nelson Robert M
Published: November 2023

Critics of silko’s Novel, like those treating House Made of Dawn and The Death of Jim Loney ( and those who treat regionalist works in general), are quick to show how the special quality of thought-the “vision”-of a “satellite culture”1 operates to endow certain places with specialness. My contention here is that, in the relationship between vision and place, shaping can and does operate in the reciprocal direction as well: vision can, and in these works demonstrably does, grow out of place, so that place, in the sense of a physical landscape, provides a reader a referent that allows verification or confirmation of the accuracy of the vision.
Tirukkovaiyār Downstream into God
Authors: Shulman David
Published: November 2023

To speak of self-transformation is to assume some notion of self, even perhaps an economy of selves, part-selves, or parts of self. In India, the problem is perhaps complicated by the lack of any terms even minimally analogous to the Western ones: the metaphysical self, ātman, is almost by definition not the personal self that might be subject to transformation.’ Dravidian lacks any such lexeme, unless we wish to resort to various permutations of reflexive forms or to adapted Sanskrit usages. And yet Indian literature of all periods abounds in cases of extreme and even multiple transformations of something we might call a “self.” In some cases these shifts and transformations may in fact be said to be or to constitute this self.
Pot Pourri: Whistlings of an Idler
Authors: Cambaceres Eugenio , Dillman Lisa , Ludmer Josefina
Published: November 2023

Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Émile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. This gereation theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own, stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the evolution of the cosmopolitan metropolis. A rich dandy narrates Pot Pourri, relating a story of marriage and adultery during the carnival celebrations. The volume editor, Josefina Ludmer, describes the dandy as an ambiguous protagonist who acts both as a reflection and a critic of the liberal state. As a new addition to the already-acclaimed Library of Latin America, Pot Pourri should find its rightful place with the ever-growing audience for Latin American literature.
The Many Faces of Profession Alism in Divorce Practice
Authors: Mather Lynn , McEwen Craig A , Maiman Richard J
Published: November 2023

Divorce lawyers vary in their understandings of professionalism in divorce practice. Some of these differences are shaped by the nature of their practices. Some derive from individual variations in character and values, while others are rooted in gender roles, age, and experience, and still others in the organization of their law firms. Specialists often understand their roles in divorce cases differently than do general practice lawyers. Unlike sole practitioners who do divorce work, lawyers employed by law firms face demands to be attentive to the interests of partners and to firm policies. Attorneys whose clients have few resources find themselves pressed to structure and limit their time in ways that lawyers with well-to-do clients do not. Women appear somewhat more likely than men to see special personal meaning in divorce practice.
Constructing Professional Meaning and Identity in the Practice of Divorce Law
Authors: Mather Lynn , McEwen Craig A , Maiman Richard J
Published: November 2023

Divorce law practice does not offer up easily the idealized rewards of professional work. Indeed, some lawyers never find them at all. The ideology of professionalism promoted by the organized bar provides a framework and reference point for lawyers to imagine and interpret their own careers (Nelson and Trubek 1992b: 22). It sets out a series of tacit promises about the rewards of a career in law. These rewards include the intrinsic satisfaction to be derived from autonomy, from mastering and applying a complex body of knowledge, and from serving the public, as well as the extrinsic rewards of public esteem, comfortable income, and collegial respect.1 These promises of professional rewards—implicitly supported by much of the scholarly writing on professions2—collide, however, with the stark realities of divorce practice. Even lawyers’ income in family law ranks the lowest of all legal specialties.3 Divorce lawyers thus find that a central challenge of their day-to-day work is to shape it—to the degree they can—to provide themselves with meaningful rewards in relation to their own personal standards and with reference to the communities of practice to which they belong.
Ellison’s Invisible Man
Authors: Callahan John F
Published: November 2023

Ralph Waldo Ellison was no stranger to what he called “our national library,” the Library of Congress. In 1964, more than a decade after publication of Invisible Man, he brought his middle name out of hibernation at the library’s Jefferson Building, where an elegant room, looking out on the Capitol, now bears his name and houses his most cherished books. His talk that evening was called “Hidden Name and Complex Fate.” In my mind’s eye I see him then, almost fifteen years before I knew him, speaking in a confident, steady voice that would rise a little at first, as it did when he was nervous or impatient, and, after he relaxed, settle into a southwestern drawl. I can see him— dreamy, boyish, wistful, intense, and stubborn, by turns—as his warm, defiant, brown eyes flashed up from his manuscript to individual faces in the hall.... “[Ralph Waldo] Emerson’s name was quite familiar to Negroes in Oklahoma during those days when World War I was brewing,” Ellison remembered on that evening thirty-five years ago, “and adults, eager to show off their knowledge of literary figures, and obviously amused by the joke implicit in such a small brown nubbin of a boy carrying around such a heavy moniker, would invariably repeat my first two names and then, to my great annoyance, they’d add ‘Emerson’.” Unlike the invisible protagonist of his eponymous novel, who allows his name to be changed by others, Ellison merely “reduced the ‘Waldo’ to a simple and,” he hoped, “mysterious ‘W’.” Trying to have it both ways, Ellison told his audience at the Library of Congress that he “did not destroy that troublesome middle name of mine; I only suppressed it.”
Impeaching the President
Authors: Sunstein Cass R
Published: November 2023

In a well-functioning democracy, impeachment of high officials is likely to be exceedingly rare even if the constitution provides for it. In the United States and England, for example, impeachment turns out to be irrelevant to almost all of constitutional life. But the questions raised by the impeachment power, or by any other provisions governing the removal of high officials from office, are nonetheless extremely important. Their importance lies partly in what they say about a system of checks and balances, or the separation of powers. Despite its infrequent use, impeachment provisions carry large lessons about the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy; and they tell us a great deal about other constitutional provisions with much greater daily importance, such as bicameralism in the legislature and the power of the president to veto legislation, subject to a two-thirds vote to override.
Homosexuality and the Constitution
Authors: Sunstein Cass R
Published: November 2023

This is far from clear. For one thing, sexual orientation is not highly visible; it can be readily concealed. For another, gays and lesbians, as a group, do not rank systematically below heterosexuals along multiple dimensions of social welfare. It cannot be said, for example, that gays and lesbians are poorer, less employed, and more subject to criminal violence than hetero-sexuals (though hate crimes against homosexuals are not uncommon). On the other hand, homosexuals do face discrimination in many arenas, and they are often subject to humiliation, in a way that produces damage to self-respect and is also associated with barriers to political inﬂuence. The most sensible conclusion is that even though gays and lesbians do not entirely qualify as a lower caste, the anticaste principle raises serious questions about discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The Land Looks After Us
Authors: Martin Joel W
Published: November 2023

Native Americans practice some of America’s most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through interactions with European conquerors and missionaries, and on to the modern-day rebirth of ancient rites and beliefs. The book depicts the major cornerstones of American Indian history and religion--the vast movements for pan-Indian renewal, the formation of the Native American Church in 1919, the passage of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act of 1990, and key political actions involving sacred sites in the 1980s and ‘90s. Martin explores the close links between religion and Native American culture and history. Legendary chiefs like Osceola and Tecumseh led their tribes in resistance movements against the European invaders, inspired by prophets like the Shawnee Tenskwatawa and the Mohawk Coocoochee. Catharine Brown, herself a convert, founded a school for Cherokee women and converted dozens of her people to Christianity. Their stories, along with those of dozens of other men and women--from noblewarriors to celebrated authors--are masterfully woven into this vivid, wide-ranging survey of Native American history and religion.
The S.O.B.’s
Authors: Yarbrough Tinsley E
Published: November 2023

Waties Waring’s ancestors were early arrivals in South Carolina. Charleston was founded in 1670 along a coastal peninsula between what are now the Ashley and Cooper rivers. Thirteen years later, the year of Charleston’s incorporation, Benjamin Waring, the founder of Waties Waring’s family in South Carolina, settled on 700 acres of land along the Ashley River and soon became a man of some prominence. In 1693 he was a member of the colonial assembly from Berkeley County; in 1703 and 1711 he served as commissioner of taxes for the north side of the Ashley. His sons Thomas, Benjamin, and Richard also held public offices. William Waties, the first of Waties Waring’s maternal Welsh ancestors to migrate to South Carolina, settled on 250 acres of coastal land in 1694.

The Civil War had had a devastating effect on the fortunes of many South Carolinians, including the Waring and Waties families. By the time of Waties’ birth on July 27, 1880, however, Charleston’s economic recovery was proceeding rapidly. The use of phosphate fertilizer had restored area agricultural production, and in 1882, the state agricultural society held a major exhibition in Charleston to advertise state progress in agriculture since the war. Earlier that year, the U.S. Electric Illumination Co. of Charleston began providing electric lighting for the city, though for a number of years the service would remain largely a novelty item. With a population of more than 52,000, Charleston was by far the state’s largest city as well as its major port, rail, and trade center.
The Divorce
Authors: Yarbrough Tinsley E
Published: November 2023

The small Charleston courtroom over which Judge Waring would preside the same courtroom in which he had earlier argued cases for the government as assistant U.S. attorney-was located on the second floor of the city post office. A profile of southern progress, written for the New York Times in 1920, complained that the post office department had “committed a crime by erecting [the] nondescript granite building” at the corner of Meeting and Broad streets. In the graceful architecture of Charleston, the federal building was something of an eyesore. But it offered Judge Waring the advantage of convenience. Like St. Michael’s church, situated across Meeting Street from the post office, Judge Waring’s chambers were less than a block from his home. Waties Waring would serve ten years in the courtroom at the corner of Meeting and Broad. During his tenure, the higher courts would affirm his decisions forty-six times, reverse him on ten occasions, modify and affirm one decision, affirm and reverse in part in two cases, and dismiss two cases as prematurely decided-a reasonably good record for a federal judge. Waring held court primarily in Charleston, but sat a few days twice a year in Orangeburg to clear that division’s generally sparse calendar; presided twice a year for several solid weeks of litigation in Florence, a busy rail point and center of the state’s Pee Dee River agricultural area; and often went to Columbia to hear cases as well.
Rejoining the Union
Authors: Yarbrough Tinsley E
Published: November 2023

By his own account, Waties Waring embraced southern racial traditions through most of his adult life. As Charleston corporation counsel, he had made certain that the Army use of Stoney Field would be limited to white soldiers. His other activities in behalf of the city apparently were also entirely compatible with southern customs. As an active member and officer of South Carolina’s white Democratic party, he was closely associated with “Cotton Ed” Smith, the state’s leading racist demagogue of the period; when Smith died, he praised the senator’s “long and honorable” career. Against such a backdrop, it is hardly surprising that many white South Carolinians saw his civil rights decisions and attacks on the South as products of spite against a society unwilling to accept his second wife rather than as a reflection of principle. ·

Among certain of Judge Waring’s contemporaries, however, there is doubt as to how deeply committed he was to the southern cause of white supremacism. “I don’t think that Waties was a flaming liberal at any time in his life,” D. A. Brockinton, Jr., has remarked; “but I don’t think he was a super-Confederate either.” Some of the evidence offered by white Charlestonians to establish his Confederate credentials, moreover, was ambiguous at best. Gus Tamsberg recalled, for example, that once, during a barbershop conversation following Waring’s appointment to the bench, the discussion turned to a state trial then under way against taxi drivers accused of lynching a black charged with killing another driver. “Well, mark my word,”
The False God of Gradualism
Authors: Yarbrough Tinsley E
Published: November 2023

The Lawyers Guild’s Roosevelt Award was only one of many conferred on Judge Waring in the wake of his white primary rulings. Not surprisingly, black organizations were especially appreciative of his efforts. In 1949 alone, the black-owned Chicago Defender named him, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and President Truman, to its 1948 “honor roll of democracy”; the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association cited his “impressive contributions to the advancement of Negroes”; Color magazine named him to its 1948 “Jury of Democracy”; and in the spring, the North and South Carolina chapters of Omega Psi Phi, a black fraternity, honored him at a mass public meeting in Charleston’s Morris Street Baptist Church. In late January, moreover, eight civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP, and Freedom House, presented him with an award of merit for “important contributions to civil rights” in a ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

Judge Waring was unable to attend the Carnegie Hall ceremonies, and Anne Warren accepted her father’s award in his behalf. At the affair, Anne and Stanley were mildly irritated to discover that the judge was the only truly prominent figure, in their eyes, being honored, with other awards going to the Yale and Harvard football teams for electing a black captain and manager, an Amherst fraternity that had initiated a black member, a clergyman whose parish children had sent trees to Israel, and even the writers on the “Superman” radio show for humanitarian plot themes.
Introduction
Authors: Newman Judie
Published: November 2023

When Nadine Gordrmer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991, she also achieved the unimaginable; she got the African National Congress (ANC), led by Nelson Mandela, and the South African government to agree. Both Prime Minister F. W. de Klerk and the ANC issued official statements congratulating her. De Klerk claimed the prize as also an honor for South Africa and described Gordimer as one of his “countrymen.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared himself “over the moon for Nadine,” while Andre Brink, her fellow South African novelist, saw the prize as the coming of age of South African writing. Gordimer was the seventh woman to win the prize and the first South African.
Waiting for Revolution
Authors: O’Brien Conor Cruise
Published: November 2023

Nadine Gordimer, like many of the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century, lives in two worlds at the same time. She lives, as the Russians did, in a police state, and she also lives, as they did, in the wider culture of the West, receiving the reflections of the kinds of freedom that the West has enjoyed over two centuries or more. But it is more than a question of living under a police state. A whole analogous social structure is involved. Whites in South Africa, in relation to blacks, have much in common with the nobility in tsarist Russia in relation to the serfs. Turgenev and Tolstoy rejected serfdom but were nonetheless themselves distinctive products of a leisured serf-owning society. South African whites constitute an aristocracy of pigmentation, and even if they do not want to belong to it, they still do belong. A great writer in South Africa-and I believe Nadine Gordimer is a great writer-is living and working in a culture that is closer to nineteenth-century Russia than it is to the contemporary West.
Introductory note to 1949a
Authors: Gudel Kurt , Feferman Solomon , Dawson John W , Kleene Stephen C , Moore Gregory H , Solovay Robert M , Heijenoort Jean van
Published: November 2023

This paper, written for a collection intended to honor and to dis cuss the work of Einstein, appears to be the only published piece by Gudel that deals with philosophical issues not directly concerned with mathematics. In it Gudel argues, on the basis of the very interesting cosmological solutions of Einstein’s general-relativistic field equations obtained by him (1949), that those philosophers are right who have denied the “objectivity of change”.
The Style of the Troubled Conscience
Authors: Cixous Hélène
Published: November 2023

The Almost Complete Bodily Transposition of a retreat sermon, which breaks in upon Stephen’s consciousness with its images of stereotyped terror, is a forerunner of episodes in Ulysses: the style is that of objective reality in order to mark its strangeness to—and difference from—the subject. By using a piece of completely foreign prose, Joyce suppresses the central awareness of Stephen’s consciousness for the length of the sermon. This on the one hand gives Hell a much more autonomous (and thus more concrete) existence, and on the other confers upon this horrible world enough strength of its own for it to invade Stephen’s consciousness and cause bewilderment and alienation. Joyce would cheerfully mock that vulnerability, which he shared with Stephen. He once wrote the following limerick in a letter to Ezra Pound (9 April 1917):
Thrilled by His Touch
Authors: Valente Joseph
Published: November 2023

In His Letters And Essays, Joyce alludes repeatedly to the homoerotic activities supposedly rife in English or Anglo-Saxon boarding schools and implicit in their representative social and athletic customs. In the process, he not only displays a familiarity with the burgeoning scientia sexualis of his day, he flaunts a facility with the subcultural argot, dropping arcane phrases like “captain of fifty’s regime” in the manner of a cognoscente (SL 136). Yet he does so by way of disclaiming any and all knowledge or awareness of such things. The dynamic that Freud called denegation, admitting to consciousness by way of a qualifying refusal, is instinct in virtually every one of these references.
“Goodbye Ireland I’m Going to Gort”
Authors: Howes Marjorie
Published: November 2023

Geography Has Always Had an important place in Irish political thinking, whether in British arguments for the inevitability of colonization, republican patriotism, unionism, moderate or militant nationalism. As Oliver MacDonagh has observed, “In one sense, the Irish problem has persisted because of the power of geographical images over men’s minds” (States of Mind, 15). Irish studies shares with postcolonial studies an interest in the multifarious transactions between material and symbolic geographies that enable this wide range of discourses. My epi-graphs organize the problematic of defining or narrating the na-tion around the confusions and complexities of place that arise from such transactions. Homi Bhabha claims that the nation is “a ubiquitous and obscure form of living the locality of culture” (“DissemiNation,” 292) that can only be defined through a poten-tially endless recitation of what it is distinct from, yet related to.
Born American
Authors: Spiro Peter J
Published: November 2023

Most american citizens have come to their status unthinkingly. For most, it’s not something that has to be studied for; there’s no application process; it’s nothing by way of an achievement. They acquire citizenship by accident of birthplace. If you’re born in U.S. territory, you are a U.S. citizen, no other questions asked. It doesn’t matter who your parents are or why they are here. They may be here illegally, or for a year or two on business, or even here only for the purpose of giving birth to you; in any case, you will enjoy birthright citizenship, yours to keep on a guaranteedfor-life basis.
American Defined
Authors: Spiro Peter J
Published: November 2023

Behind all citizenship talk lurks a premise that the state is the natural unit of community. In most cases, this premise is unthinking. When a speaker addresses a proposition to citizens, there is an unstated assumption that the appropriate audience is the group of members in the state, and that the audience is in fact composed of such individuals. On both counts these assumptions are increasingly untenable. “Citizens” almost always intends an audience that includes noncitizens; to the extent that it does, some community other than the state is implicated. The observation applies to all rhetorical appeals invoking the term, political and otherwise. The “citizenry” becomes an obscure proposition, and the polity’s foundations are put into play.
What Can’t Be Left Out
Authors: Wheeler Brannon M
Published: November 2023

Over the past ten years or so, I have struggled with issues of how to conceptualize and teach Islam, especially “the introductory course” within the context of the academic study of religion and the larger context of a liberal arts curriculum. My concerns have ranged from having too much material to cover in a single semester or quarter, to not having adequate textbooks or English translations of certain key texts. But my overriding concern has been, and continues to be, how to integrate teaching about Islam into the liberal arts curriculum through the study of religion. My interest in combining Islamic Studies and the study of religion is as a means to further this integration of Islam and the liberal arts.
The Wedding of Zein: Islam through a Modern Novel
Authors: Sells Michael A
Published: November 2023

The novels and stories of tayeb salih are among the more widely read works of fiction within the Arabic-speaking world. They are also among the more internationally influential works of modern Arabic literature.
Matter and Actuality in Aquinas
Authors: Hughes Christopher
Published: November 2023

Aquinas often describes matter as a being in potentiality (ens in potentia) or as a being that is or exists in potentiality (est in potentia). He also often describes matter as a being in potentiality alone, or as a being that exists only in potentiality.
The Erotic Word
Authors: Carr David M
Published: November 2023

Historically, the Bible has been used to drive a wedge between the spirit and the body. In this provocative book, David Carr argues that it can-and should-do just the opposite. Sexuality and spirituality, Carr contends, are intricately interwoven: when one is improverished, the other is warped. As a result, the journey toward God and the life-long engagement with our own sexual embodiment are inseparable. Humans, the Bible tells us, both male and female, were created in God's image, and eros-a fundamental longing for connection that finds abstract good in the pleasure we derive from the stimulation of the senses-is a central component of that image. The Bible, particularly the Hebrew Bible, affirms erotic passion, both eros between humans and eros between God and humans. In a sweeping examination of the sexual rules of the Bible, Carr asserts that Biblical "family values" are a far cry from anything promoted as such in contemporary politics. He concludes that passionate love-our preoccupation therewith and pursuit thereof-is the primary human vocation, that eros is in fact the flavouring of life.
The Eden Garden, Part 2: The Tragic Loss of Connectedness
Authors: Carr David M
Published: November 2023

So far we have focused on the yes to eros in Genesis r-2, but the fact is that our world-including sex-is not always good. Many experience repression, not freedom; slavery, not authority; patriarchy, not mutuality. Feeling that things are not the way God meant them to be, humans throughout the ages have looked for an explanation of how creation might have gone wrong.
Marriage to God: Isaiah’s Vineyard and Other Images of Divine-Human Sexuality
Authors: Carr David M
Published: November 2023

We turn now from garden to vineyard, to a vineyard song. In ancient Israel a vineyard is one of the most precious possessions a family can have. It provides refreshing drink during the summer drought and is a place of feasting and rejoicing. Though the vineyard is often associated with gardens in general, it is distinguished from them by two things. The first is that vineyards require sustained care over a period of years. Unlike grain fields, they cannot be left fallow and later seeded. Rather, they must be lovingly terraced, pruned, trained, and protected, much like a sustained erotic re lationship.1 The second major thing that distinguishes a vineyard from many gardens is that such loving cultivation produces something intoxicating: wine.
Other Gardens: Women’s Worlds and Ancient Love Poetry
Authors: Carr David M
Published: November 2023

So far, we have explored a set of perspectives on eras in the Torah and the Prophets, perspectives that focused on the rights of “men” (whether God or human males) and the link of sex and reproduction. The main exception was the garden creation story in Genesis.
“Let Him Rejoice in the Roseate Light!”: Teaching Psychoanalysis and Mysticism
Authors: Parsons William
Published: November 2023

In the present climate of fascination with mystical experience and spirituality, an informed grasp of the resurgent psychoanalytic theory of mysticism has become a desired end for those invested in teaching religion and psychological studies. Of course, the literature on this topic is rich and complex enough to be packaged for pedagogical purposes in diverse ways. What follows, then, is hardly meant to be an exhaustive or comprehensive survey of the variety of pedagogical options afforded by psychoanalytic studies of mysticism. On the contrary, I concentrate on but one instance of psychoanalytic forays into mysticism: Freud’s interpretation of the famous “oceanic feeling.” I do so partly because the latter is the locus classicus of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism. But more, this one text also contains the fundamental keys needed to unlock the historical drift of subsequent psychoanalytic theorizing on mysticism.
What Is to Be Done?
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: November 2023

The thing to be done, of which I shall chiefly speak, is, that the whole American Church, of all denominations, should unitedly come up, not in form, but in fact, to the noble purpose avowed by the Presbyterian Assembly of 1818, to seek the entire abolition of slavery throughout America and throughout Christendom. To this noble course the united voice of Christians in all other countries is urgently calling the American Church. Expressions of this feeling have come from Christians of all denominations in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, in France, in Switzerland, in Germany, in Persia, in the Sandwich Islands, and in China. All seem to be animated by one spirit. They have loved and honoured this American Church. They have rejoiced in the brightness of her rising. Her prosperity and success have been to them as their own, and they have had hopes that God meant to confer inestimable blessings through her upon all nations. The American Church has been to them like the rising of a glorious sun, shedding healing from his wings, dispersing mists and fogs, and bringing songs of birds and voices of cheerful industry, and sounds of gladness, contentment, and peace. But lo ! in this beautiful orb is seen a disastrous spot of dim eclipse, whose gradually widening shadow threatens a total darkness.
Everybody’s Protest Novel
Authors: Baldwin James
Published: November 2023

In uncle tom’s cabin, that cornerstone of American social protest fiction, St. Clare, the kindly master, remarks to his coldly disapproving Yankee cousin, Miss Ophelia, that, so far as he is able to tell, the blacks have been turned over to the devil for the benefit of the whites in this world—however, he adds thoughtfully, it may turn out in the next. Miss Ophelia’s reaction is, at least, vehemently right-minded: “This is perfectly horrible!” she exclaims. “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves!”
Love and Death in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Authors: Fiedler Leslie A
Published: November 2023

The greatest of all novels of sentimental protest is, however, dedicated not to the problem of drink but to that of slavery, though its author was a total abstainer, who would appear at literary luncheons only if promised that no wine would be served. The novel, of course, is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which she read in installments to her children as she composed it in 1851 and 1852. They wept as they listened; and she wept, too, returned to each installment at such a pitch of frenzy that she began after a while to feel as if the volume were being dictated rather than invented. “The Lord himself wrote it!” she insisted later; and if He had, indeed, written and autographed it, it could not have sold better—some 300,000 copies in the very first year of publication, and millions in the following years, perhaps outstripping even The Last of the Mohicans. It is an astonishingly various and complex book, simplified in the folk mind, which has remembered in its place the dramatic version in which Mrs. Stowe had no hand and which she saw, secretly, only once.
“This Promiscuous Housekeeping” Death, Transgression, and Homoeroticism in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Authors: Foreman P Gabrielle
Published: November 2023

Mary boykin chesnut’s quip, “Stowe did not hit the sorest spot. She made Legree a bachelor,” is to this day one of the most famous one-

line responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Yet it may have been Chesnut who missed the spot, so to speak, for although Harriet Beecher Stowe reserves her discussion of explicit sexual abuse for the gothic plantation of Tom’s third master Legree, illicit relations are evident throughout the novel. The focus of this essay will be the fissures created by the coded and repressed moments of illicit sexuality in the household of a married couple, the Shelbys (Tom and his wife Chloe and thmulatta Eliza’s masters), and the homoerotics displayed at the estate of Tom’s second master, the father of little Eva, Augustine St. Clare.
Freeing the Slaves and Banishing the Blacks
Authors: Ammons Elizabeth
Published: November 2023

UNCLE TOM ’ S CABIN (1852) ends with George and Eliza Harris and their children, plus George’s sister, mother, and half brother, as well as Topsy—all free at last and safely residing in Canada—departing for Liberia as colonists. With Tom dead, a martyr to the system of U.S. slavery that Harriet Beecher Stowe has attacked for almost four hundred pages, the author sends these free blacks “back” to Africa, despite abolitionists’ vehement and wellknown objections to the very idea of African colonization.
Why the United States Will Join the Rest of the World in Abandoning Capital Punishment
Authors: Bright Stephen B
Published: November 2023

The United States will inevitably join other industrialized nations in abandoning the death penalty, just as it has abandoned whipping, the stocks, branding, cutting off appendages, maiming, and other primitive forms of punishment. It remains to be seen how long it will be until the use of the death penalty becomes so infrequent as to be pointless, and it is eventually abandoned. In the meantime, capital punishment is arbitrarily and unfairly imposed, undermines the standing and moral authority of the United States in the community of nations, and diminishes the credibility and legitimacy of the courts within the United States.
In Defense of the Death Penalty
Authors: Cassel Paul G
Published: November 2023

Abolitionist arguments concerning the death penalty, such as the one in the preceding chapters, always seem a bit unsatisfying. Concepts of retribution, deterrence, and just punishment are discussed in the most thoughtful terms, but nowhere do we find a clear discussion of the crimes at issue. In some ways, these discussions are a bit like playing Hamlet without the ghost, reviewing the merits of capital punishment without revealing just what a capital crime is really like and how the victims have been brutalized.
Celebrity
Authors: Ziff Larzer
Published: November 2023

Sam Clemens Began The Decade Of The 1850S As A Helper In The office of his brother Orion’s newspaper, the Western Union. He was fifteen and had been out of school since he was eleven. He ended the decade as an unemployed steamboat pilot, the Civil War having closed down commerce between North and South on the great highway of the Mississippi River.
Translator’s Note
Authors: Kohn Livia
Published: November 2023

The following translation is based on the edition of the text in DZ n25, with supplementary sections from Dunhuang manuscripts and citations in Tang works. The English rendition is based on the original Chinese, but makes occasional use. of Yoshioka’s Japanese translation (1976, 161–219). Readings that were reached particularly with his help and also those that differ significantly from it are indicated in the footnotes. In addition, the earlier partial translation of the text by Florian Reiter (1988; 1998) was examined but not used, since his reading and interpretation differ significantly from mine.
Preface
Authors: Kohn Livia
Published: November 2023

Investigating the great scriptures of the Three Caverns, I have generally drawn up [a survey of] the dignified observances and rules and precepts [contained in them]. Regarding all Daoists, whether male or female, be it their deportment and actions, sitting and rising, sleeping and resting, clothing and vestments, food and drink, lodging and staying, or cells and residences, no activity is not written out in the instructions of the scriptures.
Ritual Vestments
Authors: Kohn Livia
Published: November 2023

The Rules say: All Daoists, whether male or female, each have ritual vestments of the Three Caverns, which come with specific observances and regulations, all described in the fundamental scriptures. Practitioners must wear them according to the regulations of the divine law, as is expounded below.
Illustrations of Ritual Vestments
Authors: Kohn Livia
Published: November 2023

The Rules say: [Ritual] vestments serve as images of virtue and give physical shape to the observances. All Daoists, whether male or female, place them first in their dignified observances, and with them honor and give respect to the divine law and the scriptures. Each must prepare them carefully, entirely in accordance with the fundamental divine law and without any favoritism or fakery. Failure to comply carries a subtraction of 3,600 [days of life].
Annual Purgations
Authors: Kohn Livia
Published: November 2023

The “Rules for Worshiping the Dao according to the Three Caverns” says: The first day of the first month is the purgation of devotion to longevity.

The seventh day of the first month is the purgation to extend spirit.

The eighth day of the second month is the purgation for a plentiful spring. [9b] The eighth day of the fourth month is the purgation to announce summer.