Society, manners and politics in the United States;

Tr. of Lettres sur l'Amerique du Nord.

Night scenes in the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Joint commission on marginal readings in the Bible to the General convention of 1901.

Mode of access: Internet.

Home life in the Bible.

Mode of access: Internet.

Government and politics in the United States : problems in American democracy /

Map on lining-paper at end.

Narrative of a journey round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible lands, in 1850 and 1851.

Trans. of Voyage autour de la mer Morte.

Eastern Christianity and politics in the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of Eastern Christian churches in Europe, the Middle East, America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it examines both Orthodox and Oriental churches from the end of the Cold War up to the present day. The book offers a unique insight into the myriad church-state relations in Eastern Christianity and tackles contemporary concerns, opportunities and challenges, such as religious revival after the fall of communism; churches and democracy; relations between Orthodox, Catholic and Greek Catholic churches; religious education and monastic life; the size and structure of congregations; and the impact of migration, secularisation and globalisation on Eastern Christianity in the twenty-first century.

Domestic Politics in the Dominican Republic after the Earthquake in Haiti

Despite historical tensions between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Dominicans appear to have put aside their resentment in favor of supporting Haitians after the earthquake that devastated the neighbor nation in January 2010. Over the past several months, there has been unprecedented cooperation between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, with little evidence of a negative impact on domestic politics in the Dominican Republic. In fact, the high ratings of President Leonel Fern��ndez and the results of the May Parliamentary elections may suggest that how the Fern��ndez administration handled the Haitian crisis did not have a negative impact on citizens��� perception. However, the issue of Haitian immigration remains very sensitive in the Dominican Republic, and has the potential to become the major concern on the domestic political front. As of June 2010, the Haitian crisis seemed to have little or no impact on Dominican politics, as the following points indicate: The May 16, 2010 Parliamentary elections increased President Fern��ndez political party to 31 out of 32 Senate seats, and 105 out of 183 Chamber of Deputies seats; this is a total increase of 18 seats from the previous term. Polls indicate that President Fern��ndez has a 54 percent approval rating. Polls also indicate that Haiti is not among the most pressing issues of concern to Dominican citizens. Instead, 65 percent of the population identifies drug trafficking and corruption as the greatest concerns. The immigration debate will remain the major consideration in domestic politics in the Dominican Republic; 62.4 percent of Dominicans polled think that the military should be strengthened along the DR-Haitian border.

Gender and politics in the devolved assemblies

The devolution of powers from Westminster to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales led to much speculation about the creation of a new political era that would herald new ways of 'doing politics'. It was thought that the new institutions would provide a more inclusive, less combative culture that aimed to include a greater proportion of women members. With the 'new' institutions now over ten years old, linguistic research into the participation of men and women on the debate floor shows that they participate more equally and that improvements have been made in relation to the extent that women feel included. However, the devolved institutions retain some of the adversarial features associated with Westminster, and women are still subject to the burden of gendered stereotypical judgements and expectations that may affect their performance and inclusion within them.

'Robes on Tight Ropes: The Judicialisation of Politics in Nigeria'

This account of judicialised politics in the Nigerian transition experience examines the regulation of the judiciary of the political space, through the resolution of intergovernmental contestations in a dysfunctional federation. It analyses the judicialisation of elite power disputes which have resonance for due process and the rule of law in particular and governance in general. A study of the role of the judiciary in stabilising the country, itself a pivot in the West Africa region in particular and Africa in general, is important. This is especially in view of its classification as a ���weak state,��� despite its enormous human and natural resources. The analyses here suggest the Supreme Court has taken a strategic position in the task of democratic institutional building and the reinstitution of the rule of law in the country. This strategic measure has received the acclaim of the public. However, the account also discloses that the judiciary, in the course of its numerous interventions, has been drawn into overly political disputes that overreach its jurisprudential preferences. Of even more significance, it demonstrates that the judiciary is itself still challenged by institutional dysfunctions constituting part of the legacies of the authoritarian era. The situation leads back to the need for closer scrutiny of the judicial function in transitional societies.

The autobiographical you: letters in the gendered politics of the labour movement.

In this article, I consider the importance of epistolary narratives in the interface of autobiography and politics. In doing this, I read the letters of Fannia Mary Cohn, a Jewish immigrant worker, trade union activist and ardent labour organizer in the garment industry in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century. Cohn was a prolific writer and political activist and left a rich body of labour literature, but never wrote an autobiography or a diary or journal. It is in her letters to her comrades and friends in the labour movement that short autobiographical stories erupt and it is on such stories across her correspondence that this article focuses. The analysis is informed by Hannah Arendt���s theorization of narratives in their interrelation with politics and history. Drawing on a rich body of feminist literature around the relational self, what I argue is that an Arendtian reading of epistolary narratives is a useful analytical tool in understanding gendered politics in the diverse histories of the labour movement.

Impossible Identification : Contemporary Art, Politics and the Palestinians in Israel

Quel est le sens donn�� �� l���art par la minorit�� palestinienne d���Isra��l dans un contexte o�� l�����tat se d��finit uniquement en termes ethno-nationaux et religieux ? Les ��crits sur l���art en contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux ont tendance �� consid��rer l���art comme une ressource de revendication identitaire face �� une situation de domination. Autrement dit, l���art est souvent pr��sent�� comme un acte politique de reconnaissance �� travers l���affirmation d���une contre-identit��. Suite �� un travail intensif de terrain ethnographique dans la r��gion, cette recherche d��montre que pour les artistes palestiniens en Isra��l, l���aspect politique de l���art ne vient pas de sa capacit�� �� exprimer des revendications identitaires. �� travers l���observation des pratiques et l���analyse des discours des artistes, elle remet en question la relation pr��sum��e entre l'art et l'identit��. Plus concr��tement, elle analyse les pratiques d���un groupe d���artistes issus d���une minorit�� nationale indig��ne dont le travail artistique constitue une interruption des r��gimes spatiotemporels d'identification. L���aspect politique du travail des artistes palestiniens en Isra��l s���exprime �� travers un processus de d��sidentification, un refus de r��duire l���art �� des cat��gories identitaires dominantes. Les ��uvres de ces artistes permettent l���expression d���une rupture esth��tique, manifestant un �� ayant lieu �� politique qui se trouve entre l'art et le non-art. Il s���agit d���un espace qui permet la rupture de l���ordre sensible de la soci��t�� isra��lienne �� travers l���affirmation et la v��rification d���une ��galit�� qui existe d��j��.

The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion. This cogent analysis unravels the nature of the connection, disconnection, and attempted reconnection between religion and politics in the West. In a comparison of Western Europe and North America, Christianity and Islam, Joppke advances far-reaching theoretical, historical, and comparative-political arguments. With respect to theory, it is argued that only a ���substantive��� concept of religion, as pertaining to the existence of supra-human powers, opens up the possibility of a historical-comparative perspective on religion. At the level of history, secularization is shown to be the distinct outcome of Latin Christianity itself. And at the level of comparative politics, the Christian Right in America which has attacked the ���wall of separation��� between religion and state and Islam in Europe with the controversial insistence on sharia law and other ���illiberal��� claims from some quarters are taken to be counterpart incarnations of public religion and challenges to the secular state. This clearly argued, sweeping book will provide an invaluable framework for approaching an array of critical issues at the intersection of religion, law and politics for advanced students and researchers across the social sciences and legal studies, as well as for the interested public.