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R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896
No full textResponse letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, March 23, 1896
No full textLetter from R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, spelled Weirman by R. Williams), daughter of Benjamin Lundy, concerning Williams' plan to visit Mrs. Wierman to take photographs for a forthcoming article on the life and times of Lundy, to be published in a Chicago newspaper. Williams describes previous visits to Wierman, and makes notes of the resources, publications and repositories he has used in compiling his study of Lundy thus far. He also makes requests of Mrs. Wierman for a sketch of recollections about life with her father and her own involvement in the abolition movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, September 9, 1895
No full textShort note from Lundy biographer R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, "Wiederman") concerning Williams' proposed return visits to Wierman's home in Clear Creek, Illinois. Williams explains that he had intended to visit with a "Col. Plumb"; but Plumb is elderly and had fallen ill. Williams proposes hoping to visit solo in months to come, and asks after the dates of the local Friends Quarterly Meeting. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Debate: Donald Trump and fascism studies
No full textSince coming to prominence, Donald Trump’s politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate ‘Donald Trump and Fascism Studies’ we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within fascism studies, to offer thoughts on how to consider the complex relationship between fascism, the politics of Donald Trump, and the wider maga movement. Contributors to this debat are: Mattias Gardell, Ruth Wodak, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, David Renton, Nigel Copsey, Raul Cârstocea, Maria Bucur, Brian Hughes, and Roger Griffin.</p
Debate: Donald Trump and fascism studies
No full textSince coming to prominence, Donald Trump’s politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate ‘Donald Trump and Fascism Studies’ we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within fascism studies, to offer thoughts on how to consider the complex relationship between fascism, the politics of Donald Trump, and the wider maga movement. Contributors to this debat are: Mattias Gardell, Ruth Wodak, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, David Renton, Nigel Copsey, Raul Cârstocea, Maria Bucur, Brian Hughes, and Roger Griffin.</p
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, March 26, 1973
No full textBenjamin E. Mays and others at an APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet. Written on verso: APCUG Higher Education Awards Banquet, Stouffer's Atlanta [?], 7 p.m. March 26, 1973, L to R: President Waights Henry, Lagrange College, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Mayor Sam Massell. Benjamin E. Mays attends APUCG High Education Banquet
After storytelling: Walter Benjamin meets J. R. R. Tolkien in fairy-stories
No full textEste artigo faz um estudo comparativo entre o conceito de “contos de fadas” do filólogo inglês J.R.R. Tolkien e a noção de “narrativa” do crítico alemão Walter Benjamin, demonstrando uma relação de afinidade entre as duas ideias. Para tanto, são empregados dois textos como núcleo da reflexão: a conferência Sobre contos de fadas, de Tolkien, e o texto clássico de Benjamin intitulado O Narrador. A partir da análise das semelhanças e diferenças entre os contos de fadas e a narrativa, com enfoque na associação entre literatura fantástica e público infantil, na capacidade dessas histórias de aconselhar e em sua relação com as ideias de mito e natureza, foi possível determinar quanto esses termos se sobrepõem, muito embora os autores nunca tenham dialogado em vida. No fim das contas, ao contrário do que Benjamin afirmava em seu texto, a forma de comunicação engendrada pela figura dos narradores não desapareceu século XX adentro, mas experimentou uma renovação literária no trabalho de autores como Tolkien, que preservaram características da narrativa nos contos de fadas contemporâneos.This article consists of a comparative study between the English philologist J. R. R. Tolkien’s concept of “fairy-story” and the notion of “storytelling” employed by the German critic Walter Benjamin, demonstrating the degree of affinity between them. To do so, two articles constitute the core discussion: Tolkien’s conference On Fairy-Stories and Benjamin’s classic essay titled The Storyteller. From the analysis of similarities and differences between fairy-stories and storytelling — focusing on the association between fantastic literature and young readers, on the capacity of such stories to provide one with counsel and their relationship with the concepts of myth and nature — it was possible to determine how much these terms overlap, even though there is no evidence that either author influenced each other’s work. Therefore, it is demonstrated that contrary to what Benjamin claimed in his article, the form of communication contrived by the storyteller did not disappear in the 20th century, but experienced a literary renewal in the hands of authors like Tolkien, who preserved some characteristics of storytelling in contemporary fairy-stories
Data and model code for article "Wildflower phenological escape differs by continent and spring temperature"
No full textThis dataset contains seven spreadsheets and one R script. The spreadsheet "NC_Lee_etal_data.xls" contains the master data file associated with the article "Wildflower phenological escape differs by continent and spring temperature", along with a metadata sheet that describes the column names. The other six spreadsheets contain the continent (EA = East Asia, ENA = Eastern North America, and EU = Europe) x lifeform (forbs or trees) specific datasets used in the supplementary models containing spatial autocorrelation terms.
The script contains annotated example code to run the models used in the final analysis.
Questions about the code or analysis should be directed to the lead author (Benjamin R Lee)
An Awakening in Sweden: Contemporary Discourses of Swedish Cultural and National Identity
No full textThis thesis is an ethnographic study that examines contemporary discourses of cultural and national identity in Sweden. Fieldwork for this study consisted of interviews with fourteen Swedish individuals and participant observation in several locations in Sweden. Relying on insights from scholarship concerning the ethnographic study of Sweden, the study of the Nordic social welfare states, and studies of race, nationalism, and cultural identity, this thesis describes the historical, political, and social factors that influence how Swedish people form perceptions of cultural and national identity. Taking inspiration from Allan Pred’s theory of “the unspeakable”, this thesis develops a theoretical framework based on three sociolinguistic registers: the spoken, the unspoken, and the unspeakable. Using this framework, as well as theories on nostalgia, Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined communities, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of distinction and taste, this thesis analyses situations and concepts that articulate common Swedish themes of belonging, inclusion, and exclusion. The conclusions of this study offer insights into the contemporary discourses surrounding who is a Swede, and what it means to be recognized and accepted as a Swede in Swedish society
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