The World of the Bible—Always Strange, Forever New

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Small
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Productive Author ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections

Abstract Although Markus Barth was a productive author and is known widely through his published written work, he was also, for many decades, a teacher of formative importance for generations of seminary and university students in both the United States and Switzerland. This essay shares personal reflections on Markus Barth’s profile as a biblical and theological educator and thereby introduces readers to something of his influential personal and theological style.

The Influence of American Missionary Women on the World Back Home1

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana L. Robert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Television News ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Missionary Women ◽  
The Church

No churchgoer born before 1960 can forget the childhood thrill of hearing a missionary speak in church. The missionary arrived in native dress to thank the congregation for its support and, after the service, showed slides in the church hall. The audience sat transfixed, imagining what it might be like to eat termites in Africa, or beg on the streets in India, or study the Bible in a refugee camp. The usually mundane Sunday service became exotic and exciting, as the world beyond the United States suddenly seemed real. In an age before round-the-clock television news, and the immigration of Asians and Latin Americans even to small towns in the Midwest, the missionary on furlough was a major link between the world of North American Christians and the rest of the globe.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Religious War

This epilogue examines the central themes of the Bible in the Civil War, including confidence in clear analogies between biblical texts and the war; faith in the war’s redemptive outcome, which, for many in the North, charged the United States with a divine mission in the world; and above all, reverence for the sacred sacrifice of the dead, whose blood had “consecrated” the nation. Through all the death and injury, endless debates over slavery, defenses of secession, and patriotism, the Bible was a constant reference. The American Civil War may not have been “a war of religion,” James McPherson wrote, but we should not forget “the degree to which it was a religious war.” In a similar way, the American Civil War was not primarily a war over the Bible, but it was a biblical war for many Americans.

scholarly journals Astronomy in American Textbooks

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 201-205
Author(s):  
Jay M. Pasachoff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
Junior High ◽  
The United States ◽  
College And University ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

Over the last dozen years, I have written textbooks on a variety of levels, starting with books for university students, proceeding to work with Naomi Pasachoff on books on the junior-high level, and, most recently, working with her and with others on an elementary-school series. I can testify that, in the United States, at least, the world of college and university texts is as different from the world of “el-hi” (elementary-high) texts as night is from day.

Protestant English-Language Bible Publishing and Translation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Gutjahr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Printing Presses

After the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776, the English Royal copyright on the Bible no longer held sway in the newly formed United States. Beginning in 1777, American publishers began to produce English-language Bibles. Over the next two and half centuries, four distinct waves of American Bible publishing moved from the use of hand-powered printing presses to computers to produce billions of copies of the scriptures that have been distributed around the world. This chapter examines the publishing technologies, the distribution methods, and the key social and religious developments that have been critical in shaping the production and distribution of the Protestant Bible in the United States.

scholarly journals Predictors of compliance with COVID-19 related non-pharmaceutical interventions among university students in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252185
Author(s):  
Spencer G. Shumway ◽  
Jonas D. Hopper ◽  
Ethan R. Tolman ◽  
Daniel G. Ferguson ◽  
Gabriella Hubble ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
General Trust ◽  
The World ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

The world is currently dealing with a devastating pandemic. Although growing COVID-19 case numbers, deaths, and hospitalizations are concerning, this spread is particularly alarming in the United States where polarizing opinions, changing policies, and misinformation abound. In particular, American college campuses have been a venue of rampant transmission, with concerning spillover into surrounding, more vulnerable, communities. We surveyed over 600 college students from across the United States and modeled predictors of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions. We identified concern with severity, constitutionalism, news exposure, and religiosity as significant positive correlates with compliance, and general trust in science as a significant negative correlate. To determine how applicable nationwide modeling might be to individual local campuses we also administered this same survey to nearly 600 students at two large universities in Utah County. In this population, concern with severity was the only significant positive correlate with compliance; Additionally, feelings of inconvenience were negatively correlated. The effects of feelings of inconvenience, and news exposure were significantly different between populations. These results suggest that we should focus our efforts on increasing knowledge about the pandemic’s effects on our society and informing about constitutionality amongst college students. However, we also show that nationwide surveys and modeling are informative, but if campuses are to efficiently curb the spread of COVID-19 this coming semester, they would be best served to utilize data collected from their student populations as these might significantly differ from general consensus data.

scholarly journals Preventing the Decline and Fall of America: Messages from the Bible

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hershey H. Friedman ◽  
James Lynch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Biblical Values

Quite a few politicians use pseudo-biblical values to justify their political agenda. The authors feel that many of their values are indeed biblical; they represent core values of ancient empires that have disappeared. If the United States wants to continue as a superpower, it should heed the words of the Bible. This means that concern for the welfare of the stranger,  compassion for the helpless members of society, consideration for workers who have lost their homes, jobs, and savings have to be paramount. It may have taken “brimstone and fire” to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah; but America can be destroyed by greed, selfishness, inequality and injustice. Note how much damage was done to the United States and the world economy by the Great Recession of 2008.

scholarly journals Forty Years After the Islamic Revolution of Iran: An Indonesian Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Dicky Sofjan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The Revolution

Following 40 years of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran, how does Indonesia view Iran then and now? Is the exportation of the Revolution now relevant amid the contemporary political constellation in the Middle East and the world? Does Shia Islam remain to pose a sociopolitical problem today in the largest Muslim nation? In view of the current political standoff with the United States of America, will the system, based on Velayat-e Fagheh (Guardianship of the Jurist), remain strong against all odds? This article explores these questions based on personal reflections, experiential learning and continuous engagement in and with Iran.

Lessons from America

1995 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Andrew Britton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections

In addition to our coverage of the United States as part of the world economy programme, four recent or current projects at the Institute involve comparisons between Britain and America. The main focus is on labour market institutions, productivity, training and education. This note draws on this work, and also on a recent visit to Washington to meet both policy makers and independent economists. It has benefited from discussion with the editorial board, but consists nevertheless of my own personal reflections.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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