Religion
Books featured in the May 2009 issue of Book Marks focus on the papers of FDR refugee adviser James G. McDonald, a history of criminal justice in China, a diary kept by a Russian merchant around the year 1800, a biography of Muslim mystic Baba Rexheb, essays on surface decoration in African art, the concept of glamour in the 20th century, the importance of sensibility in defining a young American nation, folk performance art in Turkey, and concepts of race and nation in Brazil and the U.S.
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Candy Gunther Brown, an associate professor in the Indiana University Bloomington Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a $150,000 grant to pursue research on divine healing practices and their involvement in globalization.
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The March 2009 issue of Book Marks features books about the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran, the late style of composer Claude Debussy, the use of irony in the Hebrew Bible, developments in civil and criminal law on child maltreatment, and the roles of Muslims in Western politics.
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National Public Radio national correspondent Jamie Tarabay will keynote a half-day workshop about Islam and Muslim practices for journalists and media professionals on March 27 in Bloomington, presented by Voices and Visions -- a consortium of six Title VI National Resource Centers at IU, funded by the Social Science Research Council.
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Voices and Visions, a consortium of six Title VI National Resource Centers at IU, led by the Center for the Study of Global Change, is being recognized for its efforts to counter misperceptions and improve understanding about the second most practiced religion in the world.
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Rachel Carson is best known for Silent Spring, her 1962 book that changed Americans' thinking about the dangers of chemicals and inspired the environmental movement. Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge, co-edited by Lisa H. Sideris, assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington, examines the contested influence of Silent Spring along with Carson's earlier work, such as The Sea Around Us and her posthumously published The Sense of Wonder.
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