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Practicing and Preaching Quakerism: Creating a Religion of Peace on a Slavery‐Era Plantation
(University of Illinois PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-03)
A meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”) formed in the British Virgin Islands in the 1740s offers a window onto broader practices of religion making. Equality, simplicity, and peace form a basis for Quaker ...
Unmasking Nation/Rewriting Home: Gendered Narratives of the Partition and its Aftermath
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., 2012-09)
Why Do Languages Change? by R. Larry Trask
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012-09)
The Economics of Misbehavior, Love, and Marriage Contract Enforcement
(1989-02)
Individuals allocate time between production of goods shared by family members and goods consumed only by the individual. Individuals are inclined to misbehave by giving less time to production of shared goods than is ...
A Preliminary Time Series Analysis of Church Activity in Colonial Woodbury, Connecticut
(Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1989-12)
We examine a small part of the substantial detailed data on church activity for colonial Woodbury, Connecticut. Time series regression analysis suggests that religious activity in Woodbury, as reflected in new church ...
A Case of Problematic Diffusion
(Sage Publications, 1994)
Sex determination techniques have diffused rapidly in India, and are being used to detect female fetuses and subsequently to abort them. This technology has spread rapidly because it imparts knowledge that is of great value ...
Religion, Afterlife, and Property Rights in the High Middle Ages
(University of South Carolina, 1989)
Religion serves a number of important functions, one of which is to provide an alternative to the state and to the local community in enforcing particular social behavior. As the nature of the state's power, of the influence ...
Knowledge and Power in Adult Education: Beyond Freire and Habermas
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The incorporation of work by Freire and Habermas into adult education theory has contributed to the development of concepts such as "communicative competence" and "transformative education." This contribution has generated ...
The Churching of Colonial Connecticut: A Case Study
(Religious Research Association, Inc., 1999-12)
The market model of religion asserts in part that clergy respond to incentives. For eighteenth-century European established churches, clergy income was independent of church membership and so clergy tended not to behave ...
An OPEC in Fantasyland? The NAB Television Code as Cartel (revised)
(1986-10)
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that its Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. Had the case, which was settled by consent decree in ...