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Preaching Death

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Lucy BregmanProfessor Lucy Bregman of the Temple University Religion Department is the author of Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons (Baylor University Press, 2011). She uses collections of funeral sermons and manuals for practicing clergy as a lens through which to illuminate changing notions of death in American society. On Thursday, July 5, 2012 she stopped by my office to talk about her book. At the end of this fascinating interview, she strongly recommends that an interested scholar write a similar book on changes in notions of love and marriage using collections of marriage and wedding sermons and related clergy manuals. Perhaps a doctoral student looking for a good topic will do so.

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FREE! Foreign Service Institute language courses

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A colleague just brought to my attention that the language courses used by the US to train foreign service workers are now free online (FSI Language Courses).

As stated on its web site:
“These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.”

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Translation Movement

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Great discussion of the 9th Translation Movement in Baghdad in which much of Greek knowledge was translated into Arabic. It’s a story of Arabs, Greeks, Persians; Muslims, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and pagans; philosophy, medicine, mathematics, astrology/astronomy, optics; Galen, Aristotle, Euclid; Al Kindi, Averroes, and Avicena. A menagerie of scholarship, a feast of knowledge, a heartwarming story of international cooperation. Go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20081002.shtml. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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“Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public. It helps create history-centered schools, organizes seminars and programs for educators, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsors lectures by eminent historians, and administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state through its partnership with Preserve America. The Institute also awards the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington Book Prizes, and offers fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection.” Some great offerings on this web site: Document of the Week // Past Documents // Treasures of the Collection // Recommended Resources // Podcasts ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Creation Museum

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A Year Later, Creation Museum Claiming Big Crowds

“LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah’s Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.”

Here’s the Creation Museum web site. Here’s the Exhibits page.

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Revelation Radio Network

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I’ve been listening to a bunch of fundamentalist Christian podcasts of late. This is food for thought for many in our country, though it might seem a bit distant at Temple University. You can learn about how the Book of Daniel presaged the split in the Alexandrian empire and the rise of the first Anti-Christ, Antiochus, and how Antiochus presaged the coming of the next Anti-Christ during the Tribulation (whether you believe in the pre-Trib or post-Trib rapture). I also listened to someone explain how you need to go back to Adam and Eve to fully understand the essence of the Anti-Christ.  She has evidently spent her life searching for the Anti-Christ.

Have a listen:
http://www.revelationsradionetwork.com/.

“Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Church of God”

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A piece on Democracy Now on Palin’s church and religious views. Listen to it or read the transcript.

Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Church of God

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