The Congregation TriumphantPillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners, by AmmermanNancy Tatom. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2005. 343 pp. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 0520243110.Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions, by LichtermanPaul. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 331 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 0691096503.A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church, by MartiGerardo. Bloomington, IN: The University of Indiana Press, 2005. 239 pp. $39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0253344824.Religion and Family in a Changing Society, by EdgellPenny. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 210 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 0691086753.A Church of Our Own: Disestablishment and Diversity in American Religion, by WarnerR. Stephen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 320 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0813536235.America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity, by WuthnowRobert. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 448 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 0691119767.

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Andrew Greeley
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Peter Mason

[First paragraph]Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology. DJELAL KADIR. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiv + 256 pp. (Cloth US$ 30.00)The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. VALERIE IJ. FLINT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xx + 233 pp. (Cloth US$ 30.00)Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America. EVIATAR ZERUBAVEL. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xiv + 164 pp. (Cloth US$ 17.00)Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters. O.R. DATHORNE. Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. x + 241 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95)Three of the books under review were published in 1992, and each of them approaches the significance of Columbus's landfall 500 years earlier in a different way. What they have in common, as their titles and subtitles indicate, is that they all purport to be about a mental framework - an "imaginative landscape" (Flint), a "mental discovery" (Zerubavel), "Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology" (Kadir), or "imagining the world" (Dathorne).The 1992 commemoration led to a flood of books on Columbus and on the discovery of America. Now that the commotion has died down, it becomes easier to separate the wheat from the chaff, to distinguish between occasional publications hastily put together for the occasion, and solid contributions to scholarship which, while never immune to their own times, may be expected to retain a value that is more than temporary.


2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 900-901 ◽  

The 104th Annual Meeting in Boston explored the differentiation of ideas, people, institutions, and nations to discuss “Categories & the Politics of Global Inequalities.” Program cochairs Jane Junn of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Ed Keller of the University of California, Los Angeles, organized all panels and plenary sessions by working closely with the Program Committee, a team of 56 members drawn from the Organized Sections.


1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Daymon W. Thatch ◽  
William L. Park

Rutgers University was chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766. It was the eighth institution of higher education founded in Colonial America prior to the Revolutionary War. From its modest beginning in the New Brunswick area the University has grown to eight separately organized undergraduate colleges in three areas of the State, with a wide range of offerings in liberal and applied arts and sciences.


1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 197-207
Author(s):  
Roscoe R. Hill

John Lloyd Stephens was a remarkable man in his day and probably would have been remarkable at any time in American history. Lawyer, politician, traveler, author, diplomat and entrepreneur, he made his contribution to American life. Because of the heritage which he left, now as the centenary of his death approaches, the presses of two leading American universities have enriched their list of titles with books relating to Stephens. Rutgers University Press, located in Stephens’ native state, has brought out a new edition of Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, & Yucatan (New Brunswick, 1949. 2 vols., Pp. xx, 346; xiv, 340. Illus., map.) under the able editorship of Richard L. Predmore. In the West, the University of Oklahoma Press has offered to the reading public Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of Central America and Yucatan (Norman, 1948. Pp. xviii, 324., illus.), a delightful biography by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen.


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