This book is an examination of a religion in flux — one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America and to the broader pathways of religious change. More ...

Margaret Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English Literature, has published a book, Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education (Palgrave Macmillan, April 17, 2007). According to the publisher, this book "reads Milton's Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton's characters enter the action in late adolescence, newly independent and eager to test themselves, to discover who they are and their place in the world. The poem charts their progress into moral adulthood." More ...

The Amity Art Foundation of Connecticut has published a book about Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead's etchings. The book, "Robert Bruce Muirhead, Prints, 1969-2006, A Catalogue Raisonne," contains 130 illustrations of his etchings, most done while teaching at Kirkland and Hamilton. It also includes an interview with Muirhead by his colleague, Professor Bill Salzillo; an essay by his artist son and Hamilton alumnus Jake Muirhead '86; and an introduction by John Stewart, the director and founder of the Amity Art Foundation. Stewart is a 1964 Hamilton graduate. The Amity Art Foundation is an organization for the purpose of supporting the art of printmaking and its teaching. More ...

Associate Professor of Philosophy A. Todd Franklin is co-editor, with Jacqueline Scott (Loyola University of Chicago) of Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African American Thought, published by State University of New York Press, which explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought. Franklin also cotnributed an essay to the book, titled "Kindred Spirits: Nietzsche and Locke as progenitors of Axiological Liberation." More ...

From silent films to television programs, Hollywood has employed actors of various ethnicities to represent "Oriental"characters, from Caucasian stars like Loretta Young made up in yellow-face to Korean American pioneer Philip Ahn, whose more than 200 screen performances included roles as sadistic Japanese military officers in World War II movies and a wronged Chinese merchant in the TV show Bonanza. More ...

From Cecil B. DeMille's production of King of Kings in 1927, to Mel Gibson's recent The Passion of the Christ, films that discuss the meaning of Jesus have provoked interest, discussion, and reevaluation on a large scale. Hollywood films that deal with this subject have consistently managed to augment their inherent power by commenting simultaneously on political and cultural matters, and drawing from alternative cultural and mythological sources. The Greatest Story Ever Told, for instance, uses a landscape similar to that of the American West, while The Last Temptation of Christ deals with themes related to modern American notions of sexuality and sin. More ...

What exactly is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco is greener than Houston, or that Vancouver is a green city while Beijing is not? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it produce environmental gains? These questions drive Matthew Kahn's exploration of the relationship between urban growth and sustainable development. More ...