... aesthetics of persuasion , I address the question of how aesthetics is relevant to broader modalities of binding and politics of belonging—paying attention to Jacques Rancière's “distribution of the sensible.” Taking Pentecostalism as a prominent representative of global Christianity, I seek not only...

... of Christianity we see when we say that we see Christianity. We contend that, hardly the return of the repressed that it is often made out to be, the so-called turn to Christianity currently underway within the humanities and social sciences rather belongs to a much longer history of rearticulating Christianity...

... British evangelicals (who had their own, distinct reverence for Paul) used numbers and statistics to imagine what we might understand today as a “global Christianity.” © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Matthew Engelke Number and the Imagination of Global Christianity; or, Mediation and Immediacy...

...Saurabh Dube 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Saurabh Dube Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity A few years ago, while working on missionary records kept at a small repository in Missouri...

...John R. Staude Christianity and History: Essays by E. Harris Harbison . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1964 . Pp. vii , 292 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 406 The South Atlantic Quarterly it was in the Continental Congress, to which he...

...James Cannon, III Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Japanese Indigenous Christianity James Cannon III Duke University Indigenous churches in Japan have progressed more rap­ idly and to a further degree than those of any other section of the non-Christian world. Hence...

...Kenneth W. Clark Judaism and Christianity . By Parkes James . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1948 . Pp. 222 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 485 obscured by the variety of uses to which Koestler puts the term. That the self...

...James D. Bloom F. O. Matthiessen: Christian Socialist as Critic . By Stern Frederick C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1981 . Pp. ix , 281 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 102 The South Atlantic Quarterly events and the decline...

...Adam Fairclough Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Second Reconstruction, 1957 1973 Adam Fairclough By any orthodox standard, the Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ ence was an unusual organization. Run, as Andrew Young put...

...Melani McAlister 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Melani McAlister Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Fundamentalism’s New World Order...

...J. M. Armistead The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England . By Morris David B. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1972 . Pp. ix , 260 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 616 The South Atlantic...

... addition to a long neglected field. OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ETHEL WOLFSKILL HEDLIN Southern Africa in Perspective: Essays in Regional Politics. Edited by Christian P. Potholm and Richard Dale. New York: The Free Press, 1972. Pp. xiii, 418. This is an unusual and welcome volume. It focuses upon the Southern...

...John R. Wilson Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Dickens and Christian Mystery John R. Wilson In four novels central to his art Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend Dickens displays a preoccupation with self-salvation. Obsessed with the themes...

...James K. Weekly Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Christian Democracy in Chile Ideology and Economic Development James K. Weekly The outcome of the economic development and social reform pro­ gram which is now in progress in Chile promises to have profound implications...

...Richard W. Van Fossen Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises . By Battenhouse Roy W. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1969 . Pp. 466 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly The book is good to read...

... and recalling that brilliant biographical evocation and another winner of the prize, Tyler Dennett s volume of twenty-five years ago on John Hay. INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. FERRELL God, Man, and Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in Paradise Lost, Pilgrim s Progress, and the Great Theologians...

...Roy W. Battenhouse Hippolyta’s View: Some Christian Aspects of Shakespeare’s Plays . By Bryant J. A. Jr. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1961 . Pp. ix , 240 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly period of six...

...Richard Harter Fogle American Literature and Christian Doctrine . By Stewart Randall . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1958 . Pp. xiii , 155 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 134 The South Atlantic Quarterly Emily Dickinson s letters...

...Daniel Bedinger Lucas Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 Stonewall Jackson: The Christian Warrior Daniel Bedinger Lucas Author of The Tand Where We Were Dreaming [The Quarterly is fortunate in obtaining for publication a lecture on Stonewall Jackson by the late Judge Daniel Bed­...

...William Kenneth Boyd Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 The Christian Persecutions and Roman Jurisprudence By William Kenneth Boyd The persecution which the Christians of the first two centuries suffered at the hand of the Roman government is one of those problems which has...