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Abstract
The Education of Henry Adams owes its cultural cachet, in part, to Adams' elaboration of a dichotomy that has pitted religion against science and technology. Though Western ideologies of modernity have viewed religion in rather negative terms, the current revival of religiosity in the postist context (post-modern, post-communist, post-colonial, post-human) invites a reconsideration of the role of religious belief, practice and objects/symbols in the current society. This article discusses Henry Adams's dichotomy of the Virgin and the Dynamo, and recontextualizes it from a post-human perspective. It argues that the return of religiosity or spirituality, in its multiple forms, is an ethical stance that signals a cultural need for the feminine values of care, solidarity, affection and affiliation.

The summer of 1940 opened a new chapter in the history of Lithuania. The first Soviet summer events changed the lives of entire generations, dramatically modified the national consciousness, and programmed the loss of lives of hundreds of thousands of Lithuanian citizens. Today, apart from general knowledge, little is known about how the occupation of Lithuania went on in the summer of 1940 in a particular place, on a particular day. How did it change Lithuanian institutions, government agencies, and the military? This article discusses the Sovietization of the Lithuanian army's Siauliai military garrison in the summer of 1940. The article mainly focuses on the heads of the crew change. This article is largely based on yet unpublished sources.