This brief review explores Randall Balmer’s recent work, Solemn Reverence: The Separation of Church and State in American Life. In this capsule history of church/state separation, Balmer deftly and succinctly illustrates the centrality of religious freedom to the story of America. Seeking to respond to American evangelical trends toward Christian…[Read more]

This review explores the arguments of Joshua Mauldin in his new volume Barth, Bonhoeffer, & Modern Politics. In this work, Mauldin turns to history, and the writings of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in search of helpful examples to which society can turn in an era when the modern democratic project appears perpetually to be teetering upon a…[Read more]

In June 2019, in the case of American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the United States Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a World War I memorial cross could remain on public land without violating the Establishment Clause. The Court sought to produce a ruling focusing specifically on the historical context and motivations for construction of…[Read more]

A look at the brief history of this band from central Wisconsin in the 1880’s

This conference paper presents a new analysis of Martin Luther’s treatise “The Judgment of Martin Luther on Monastic Vows”. This treatise has long been interpreted as Luther’s utter rejection of monasticism. However, upon closer inspection we find that Luther’s treatise is not simply a reactionary writing dealing solely with his utter conte…[Read more]

The economic system is the cornerstone of social development. Its economic system has remained at the root of the progressive development of human civilization. A country, society or caste; Social, political and cultural upliftment is mainly based on the progress of its economic resources and facilities. In a country without these facilities,…[Read more]

The dual curriculum model ubiquitous to Orthodox Jewish day schools in North America typically bifurcates into religious (Judaic) studies and general studies. While most classes generally fit into one of those two halves of the curriculum, some classes are not intuitively categorized as wholly belonging to one part over the other. One of those…[Read more]

En este artículo presentamos una primera aproximación a un conjunto de textos hasta ahora desconocidos del músico y musicólogo catalán exiliado Baltasar Samper, responsable, desde 1947 y hasta su muerte, de dirigir los trabajos etnomusicológicos de la Sección de Investigaciones Musicales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes mexicano. Con esto q…[Read more]

How could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? “With God, for fatherland and humanity?” is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in demGlas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from N.Nekrasov`s 1861 Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) – audio

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in dem Glas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from the poem Korobeiniki Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) by N.Nekrasov`s 1861 – sheetmusic

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – Christmas Merry Go Round
– great organ – audio

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – – Christmas Merry Go Round – great organ – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.
– said from Sicilian origin, not confirmed nor verified

BB 37 – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – 2010, 2nd. ed. – audio

BB 37 – Präludium Tochter Zion – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.

Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]

This study explores Jamaican popular music’s changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]

This paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]

The Father of Modern India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar