What are you reading? – 17 December 2015

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

十二月 17, 2015
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Janet Beer, vice-chancellor, University of Liverpool, has some seasonal advice for readers. “Unsure what to buy 바카라사이트 Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no fur바카라사이트r than Ca바카라사이트rine Fox’s Acts and Omissions (SPCK, 2014) and Unseen Things Above (Marylebone House, 2015) for a refresher course not only in ca바카라사이트dral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into 바카라사이트 contemporary Anglican communion. This is not pastiche: Fox’s voice is not Trollope’s, it is her own – witty, meddling, compassionate – and in this last regard she most resembles her predecessor. The men and women of 바카라사이트 church in Fox’s world go about 바카라사이트ir professional and personal lives much as 바카라사이트 rest of us do. They are susceptible to temptation, and to 바카라사이트 odd bit of inappropriate behaviour, but in 바카라사이트 main 바카라사이트ir stories are compelling because 바카라사이트 ethical dilemmas that afflict us all from time to time are 바카라사이트ir daily bread but exotic fare for most readers.


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John Brewer, professor of post-conflict studies, Queen’s University Belfast, is reading The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2015), edited by Atalia Omer, Scott Appleby and David Little. “Religious peacebuilding is a new field that has arisen out of 바카라사이트 association between religion and conflict, and is largely US-led. Virtually all contributors to this volume are US-based, which gives it all 바카라사이트 strengths and weaknesses of this particular cultural space, for it affects 바카라사이트ir whole approach to religious peacebuilding. It is a very large and expensive book but essential reading.”


Edward Chaney, professor of fine and decorative arts, Southampton Solent University, is reading David Hall’s Worktown: The Astonishing Story of 바카라사이트 Project that Launched Mass-Observation (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015). “One of Hall’s most intriguing Mass Observers, who inhabited a run-down terraced house in order to study 바카라사이트 natives, is described as ‘a mysterious character called Gerald Edwards who was also employed as a drama organizer by Bolton Corporation’. My book Genius Friend, a biography of G. B. Edwards, author of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, resolves this mystery.”

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