...two Moral, Purposeful, and Healthful The World of Child’s Play, Bodybuilding, and Nation-­Building at the American Circus janet m. davis In 1847 the American Sunday-­School Union tried to scare chil- dren away from the circus with its new novel, Slim...

... This chapter explores how television and scandal magazines of the 1950s competed and converged through their use of stars whose personas had been established by the film industry. The recyclings of Maureen O’Hara through the moral biography of This Is Your Life and the scandalous gossip of a...

... had to strike in public in order to keep a job or physically survive sometimes masked an alternative culture of self-assertion that could be found in the black church, pool halls, and barber shops, and on street corners. I The 1950s The Genesis of Moral...

... The 1970s and 1980s were a time of trying to apply moral reasoning to the activities of business and government. This chapter is about capitalism with an ethic, the opportunity to work with Cummins Engine Company and its chairman J. Irwin Miller, who was described by Martin Luther King Jr. as...

... efforts that surprised the world. There is also an examination of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the American role in helping to build a new South Africa. IV The 1990s Moral Lessons from South Africa chapter 11...

...3 OF CHARROS AND JAGUARS The Moral and Social Cosmos of Lucha Libre his chapter looks at lucha libre as a cultural perfor- Tmance. Wrestlers consider themselves athletes, and their activity a sport. However, they also...

...Chapter 5 Constructing Entrepreneurship: The Moral Meaning of Money n the early post-socialist period, narratives were not only used I to reconstruct existing occupations, such as that of cadres or intellectuals. They were also the tool...

... four ‘‘Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil’’ On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toil Agrarian fields are spaces of both grim necessity and hopeful possibility...

... Introduction WHY THE RETURN TO ETHICS? WHY NOW? i 1 Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben DEBATING MORAL EDUCATION An Introduction The past two decades have witnessed a substantial turn, or more precisely a return, to ethics in the...

... 2 Julie A. Reuben THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF MORAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ‘‘New England’s First Fruits a pamphlet published in England in 1643, proudly portrayed Harvard College, leaving no doubt that its central mission was religious and...

... 6 Elizabeth V. Spelman ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MORAL BADGES A Few Worries The notion of a turn to ethics in higher education should not mislead us. We shouldn’t allow it to obscure either earlier as- sumptions about the centrality of moral education to the univer...

... 8 Lawrence Blum MULTICULTURALISM AND MORAL EDUCATION The early and middle 1990s saw an outpouring of public and sometimes scholarly concern about the rise of multiculturalism in American colleges and universities.∞ The furor has died down somewhat since...

... 14 J. Donald Moon THE POSSIBILITY OF MORAL EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY TODAY Both students and faculty today tend to be skeptical about the possibility of moral education. Indeed, one sometimes suspects that there is little consensus about the objectives of...

... responsibilities of individuals who are conceptualized as a community. eBay and craigslist also make related claims about sexual free- dom and institute community morals and rules. Craig Newmark, the site’s developer, heard about a woman arranging sexual encounters through craigs- list and argued that the...

... Chapter 5 WARTIME RUMORS AND MORAL TRUTHS TOO MUCH RADIO KABI War, violence, displacement, and political persecution in Acholi- land have very much set the framework within which action and coping are possible...

...I want us to keep in mind at least two audiences for our work. There are, first of all, the students, for whom studying [social] movements ought to be a moral enterprise. This is a field rich with the stories about human possibility, about moments of transcen- dence, about the times when ordinary...

...Moral Education in the Modern University Address to the Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 8 November 1996 Colleges and universities assert that we are engaged in educat- ing leaders for our nation...

... Nancy Ries ‘‘Honest Bandits’’ and ‘‘Warped People Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay In the 1980s, we started with pluralism, and ended with banditism. —Vitalii Tsepliaev, ‘‘Onward, to the Triumph of Capitalism Perestroika (1986–1991) was an era of fervent...

... III Writer in Residence 1·Moral Turpitude 101 In the beginning, the Dean said, “No problem, he’s artistic, et- cetera. Forget it, he’s tenured,” when a student reported to him that Lucchesi had begun the Fall semester by telling his semi- nar in classic American...

... practicing Christian?” Laughing hard, the Dean embraces Lucchesi and says, “I am so sorry, because I just love your artistic orientation.” 2·Advanced Moral Turpitude I’ve been tempted by the Succulent Devils of Sloth to write my secrets in public print: the literary disgrace of our time...