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People, Christopher Jones Arthur family
No full textChristopher Jones Arthur family, outside their home. Back row, from left: Mary Jane Arthur Bulloch (Mollie), John Taylor Bulloch, Sarah Jones, Christopher Jones Arthur, William Arthur Jones, Isaac C. Nelson, Sarah Arthur Nelson. Standing center: Caroline Jones, Effie Jones, Jared Franklin Jones. Sitting center: Marian Arthur (Sherrat's mother), Ann Elizabeth Perry Arthur, Jennie Condie Arthur, (3 wives of C.J. Arthur). Children front row: ?, Ruth, Caroline, Nelson, and Jetta Bulloch
The Flight from the Liberal Party: Liberals who joined Labour, 1914-31
No full textFrom 1914 to 1931, many of those previously active
in Liberal politics defected to Labour. Why did so many Liberals switch their political allegiance
(‘almost like changing one’s religion’, as one
Liberal MP observed) and abandon their party, which had been in office, or coalition government, from 1906 to 1922, to enlist with the fledgling
Labour Party? And how far, if at all, did their presence influence Labour’s development during a
key period of political realignment in British
politics? Professor John Shepherd examines the histor
Christopher Jones Arthur and family; Cedar City, Iron County, Utah
No full textChristopher Jones Arthur and family outside of their home; Identifications: Mary Jane Arthur Bulloch, unidentified, John Taylor Bulloch, Maria Arthur, unidentified Nelson, Sarah Jones, Caroline Jones, Ann Elizabeth Perry Arthur, unidentified Nelson, Christopher Jones Arthur, Effie Jones, Jetta Bulloch, William Arthur Jones, Jared Franklin Jones, Jennie Condie Arthur, baby, Isaac C. Nelson, Sarah Arthur Nelson; Cedar City, Iron County, UtahPhotograph
Defense Mechanisms, Gender, and Adaptiveness in Emerging Personality Disorders in Adolescent Outpatients
No full textThe present study focused on demographic and personality differences in the use of 30 defense mechanisms in adolescents with personality psychopathology and explored the hierarchical organization of personality traits based on the adaptiveness of defensive functioning. A total of 102 self-referred adolescent outpatients were interviewed and assessed on defense mechanisms and personality traits using the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales and the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure 200 for Adolescents, respectively. Age and gender differences were found throughout the hierarchy. Pearson's correlations revealed a hierarchical organization of emerging personality disorders (PDs) in adolescence. More adaptive defenses were clearly associated with healthier personality style, whereas more pathological personality styles such as those with borderline traits were characterized by more rigid and maladaptive defenses. Dissociation was also associated with maladaptive personality types. Identifying the defenses associated with emerging personality disorders may inform the unconscious function of defense mechanisms in specific PDs. The systematic assessment of defense mechanisms might also help therapists to monitor changes during treatment
The role of defense mechanisms in emerging personality disorders in clinical adolescents
No full textBackground: Defensive functioning is related to overall mental functioning and personality traits in adults but only few studies investigated the role of defenses in adolescence. The present study analyzed the use of defense mechanisms in clinical adolescents to test how defensive functioning is related to age, gender, and personality traits.Design: 102 self-referred outpatients were interviewed using the Clinical Diagnostic Interview (CDI). Defense mechanisms and personality profile were assessed using the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale (DMRS) and the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200 for Adolescence (SWAP-200-A) respectively.Findings: Multivariate analysis of variance showed significant age and gender differences in clinical adolescents; while younger teenagers used more immature defenses, older adolescents scored significantly higher in high-neurotic and mature defenses. Girls showed higher use of minor image distortion and neurotic defenses, whereas boys recurred more frequently to obsessional level defenses. Neither age nor gender differences were found for narcissistic defense level. Significant correlations between personality disorders and specific defenses were found for all personalities with sufficient base rate, with the exception of paranoid, schizotypal, and schizoid personalities.Conclusions: In line with previous studies we confirmed the hypothesis of an ontogenetic line of development of defense mechanisms. In addition, the present study found that age and gender differences in adolescence are related to the use of specific defenses that contribute to the development of the personality and various psychological capacities. Several clinical implications are linked to the systematic investigation of defense mechanisms in youth, although further studies are required to confirm these findings
The Prepared Piano Music of John Cage: Towards an Understanding of Sounds and Preparations
No full textThe subject for this thesis is the prepared piano music of John Cage with particular attention focussed on the preparations that create the varying sonic pallets in this music. The thesis is divided into six chapters, each chapter fulfilling one of two tasks. Firstly they will provide for pianists an examination of ways in which Cage‟s instructions in the scores for preparing the piano can be interpreted, and it will highlight the difficulties that become apparent (and should be considered) when performing Cage‟s prepared piano music. The second function to be fulfilled will be to musicologists who wish to trace the development of Cage‟s prepared piano music with relation to his later chance determined music.
Chapter one traces the historical and aesthetic influences that were relevant to Cage in the creation of the prepared piano, and places it in an historical context.
Chapter two looks at John Cage‟s compositions for prepared piano and provide a thorough inventory of John Cage‟s prepared piano pieces. Chapter two also examines the possibilities for making suggestions for the recreation of Cage‟s preparations.
Chapter three examines the physical relationships between piano, strings and preparations.
Chapter four analyses the solo prepared piano pieces and highlights the compositional techniques that Cage used in the composition of the prepared piano pieces.
Chapter five looks at the reasoning for performer choice in relation to ambiguity discussed in chapter three
Chapter six explores the six movement work The Perilous Night, and uses it as a case study to identify and explain all of the issues discussed within this thesis
"Historian of the spirit": an introduction to the life and ideas of Christopher H. Dawson, 1889-1970
No full textWhat follows is an intellectual biography of the English Catholic historian Christopher Henry Dawson (1889-1970). If there is one overarching thesis to this dissertation, it is that Dawson's place within the history of Britain and the United States and within the historical academy in general has been hitherto underappreciated as a result of unfair categorization of his work by critics, and equally unhelpful credulous assessments imd subsequent politicization of his scholarship by overzealous admirers. Even though his perspectives will probably never be completely embraced by the historical academy due to current trends in historiography, it is hoped that this dissertation will demonstrate that Dawson’s scholarship is deserving of study because of the breadth of his intellectual and practical activity in Britain during the twentieth century, and his groundbreaking role in identifying the importance of culture and religious belief to historiography. The introduction includes a review of the most important secondary literature about Dawson that will be used throughout the work. The main text of the dissertation develops chronologically, and is in eight parts, each part representing a distinct phase of Dawson's life. Part Chie (1889-1914) examines the formative years of his childhood, his education, his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, and how his experiences formed the basis for his opinions about history, religion, and world around him. Part Two (1915-1929) explores the schools of thought that shaped Dawson’s ideas as a young scholar, and the ideas expressed in his first two books. Part Three (1930-1934) represents the most active time of Dawson's career, and the period during which he became a widely read Catholic intellectual and historian of Europe. Part Four (1935-1939) examines Dawson's commentaries on European political movements during the 1930ร. Part Five (1940-1945) discusses Dawson's role as the vice-president of die wartime ecumenical movement 'The Sword of the Spirit', as well as his book written at the height of the Movement's success. Part Six (1946-1952) covers Dawson's ideas from his Gifford Lectures, and his interest in American Catholicism. Part Seven (1953-1962) covers Dawson's vision for American Catholics and education, and his position at Harvard University, which he held from 1958 until a series of strokes forced him to retire, and return to England in 1962. Part Eight (1963-1970) briefly discussed the events of the last years of his life. The conclusion serves as a summary of his contribution and legacy as a major twentieth-century intellectual
'Radical Orthodoxy' and debating the foundations of the legal protection of religious liberty
No full textThis thesis examines the rationale for religious liberty in England and Wales. Currently, United Kingdom religious liberty literature shows very little sustained interrogation of the topic. Authors are likely to assume religious liberty is, most notably, a species of personal autonomy. This fails to explain why we should care about religious liberty and deepens religion’s privatisation, its separation from politics or public life. Drawing from a theological sensibility known as Radical Orthodoxy (RO), this thesis criticises current assumptions and argues that religious liberty discourse should be re-envisioned. The Introduction and Chapter One explore the current problems facing religious liberty discourse and map rationales given by prominent authors. Chapter Two argues that the main problem is that current discourse is shaped by a secularisation narrative: the differentiation of religious and secular spheres. Chapter Three relates the RO argument that this differentiation is underpinned by three themes, all of which have theological components: the rise of secular order as the protection of individual rights; the invention of private religion in modernity; and the contemporary shift to 'authenticity' or diffuse individual experiences as the hallmark of religion. Chapter Four contends that these three themes are echoed in religious liberty discourse and jurisprudence, leaving us with the question of why religious liberty matters. Chapters Five and Six explore the RO-influenced alternative, in theory and with reference to common questions in religious liberty discourse: the relationship between an individual claimant and the group; the reality of plural religious traditions; and the tension between sexual orientation non-discrimination and religious liberty. On the RO-influenced account, religious liberty concerns, against sphere differentiation, a commitment to the flourishing of multiple groups contributing to desirable social ends, understood ultimately as participating in the life of 'charity', the love of God and of others. This encapsulates two themes, both rooted in the Christian tradition: judgement against politics (as reflected in the secular order), and transformation of society along social pluralist lines. These two themes, the thesis argues, better explain why religious liberty matters
Rethinking Demonic Possession: The impact of the debates about the John Darrel case on later demonological thought, with particular reference to John Deacon and John Walker
No full textThe controversy that led to the conviction of the Puritan exorcist John
Darrel for fraud in 1599 has mainly been viewed by historians in the context of
the struggle between Puritans and the Church of England. Darrel’s activities
have been seen as Puritan propaganda, whilst the authorities’ reaction has been
seen as part of their campaign against Puritanism. Their clamp down on
Darrel’s activities has also been seen as contributing towards increasing
scepticism towards demonic possession in early modern England, especially in
cases involving witchcraft.
This thesis argues that the Darrel controversy cannot be read solely as a
manifestation of the Puritan/establishment conflict, as it will demonstrate how
the controversy was actually part of the broader re-assessment of the role of the
supernatural in the contemporary world following the Reformation, and that
anti-Catholicism, in particular hostility towards the Catholic rite of exorcism,
played a significant role in informing sceptical attitudes towards demonic
possession.
Focussing upon the work of the Puritan preachers John Deacon and John
Walker, it will also challenge the Puritan/establishment dichotomy over
possession. Their work denied the possibility of possession in their own time by
drawing on and elaborating existing medical, natural philosophical and
theological arguments, particularly the doctrine of the cessation of miracles.
Their work was significant because it was the first work that systematically
explored the intricacies of the phenomenon of possession, and it offered an
alternative way of thinking about demonic affliction, namely the category of
obsession. Writings that appeared following the Darrel controversy demonstrate
an awareness of Deacon and Walker’s arguments, and also reveal how the idea
of obsession was absorbed into broader demonological thought, thus
highlighting how Deacon and Walker’s work was much more significant than
has previously been thought
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