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This study analyzes government's use of the Selective Service System's revocation of draft exemptions and deferments to punish outspoken critics of the Vietnam war. The author traces the development of a Selective Service scheme to deny draft‐eligible protesters their draft exemptions and deferments to punish their opposition to the war. The U.S. Supreme Court in Oestereich v. Selective Service System and subsequent cases denied the Selective Service System the authority to use punitive reclassification and quick induction to punish Vietnam war and draft protesters. In Oestereich, a local draft board revoked a divinity student's statutory exemption to the draft in an overt attempt to punish his symbolic speech, returning his draft card to protest the Vietnam war, and the Supreme Court held that the draft board's reclassification of Oestereich was a clearly lawless attempt to silence dissent.

A review of case law dealing with the identification of rape victims reveals both ongoing tensions among court, press, and victims, and continuing constitutional concerns. This study finds that public records laws that shield identities of rape victims shift the burden to public officials to protect the victims, and some victims have successfully sued when their names were inadvertently released to the press. This has had a chilling effect on officials. Because the legal avenues recommended by advocates of the protection of rape victim identities face constitutional and practical obstacles, the decision of whether to publish names or not seems—for now—to be left up to the press.

Electronic database searching opens new avenues for newspaper research. One strategy for evaluating quality of newspapers is to compare newspapers for spelling, grammar and style errors. An electronic database search was utilized to evaluate the editing precision of 58 news organizations and their ratings were compared to their Pulitzer Prize records. A non-linear relationship was found. Winning a small number of Pulitzers correlates positively with editing precision, but the effect diminishes rapidly with additional Pulitzer Prizes.

Snobbery is a more serious matter than some may think: the arguments around Brexit and Trump show that accusations of snobbery have become part of political discourse and public sentiment, building social divisions and reflecting deeper issues of class inequality. Social class is not simply about wealth, health and life-chances but also about everyday social experience, such as being included or excluded. As social inequality grows, snobbery is becoming ever more pertinent. This book takes a fresh and engaging look at this key issue, drawing on literature, popular culture and autobiography as well as sociology and history. David Morgan explores the complex history and different varieties of snobbery as well as its all-pervasive character to reveal why, despite claims about the openness of our society, it is still a matter of public concern

Morgan builds on his previous work to offer a systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. He gives an accessibly written theoretical overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions.

Vision and embodiment -- The body in question -- Ways of seeing -- Icon and interface -- Matter of the heart: touching and seeing -- The look of sympathy: feeling and seeing -- The enchantment of media: hearing and seeing -- At the cusp of invisibility: visions, dreams, and images

Introduction: The matter of belief? / by David Morgan -- Theory -- Body and mind : material for a never-ending intellectual odyssey / Jojada Verrips -- Object theory : toward an intersubjective, mediated, and dynamic theory of religion / Gordon Lynch -- Materiality, social analysis, and the study of religions / David Morgan -- Sensation -- Tactility and transcendence : epistemologies of touch in African arts and spiritualities / Mary Nooter Roberts -- The feeling of Buddhahood, or guess who's coming to dinner : body, belief, and the practice of Chod / Laura Harrington -- Things -- Tempering the tyranny of the already : re-signification and the migration of images / Allen F. Roberts -- Out of this world : the materiality of the beyond / Jeremy Biles -- The material culture of Japanese domesticity / Inge Daniels -- Spaces -- Staging baroque worship in Brazil / Jens Baumgarten -- Form, function, and failure in postwar Protestant Christian education building / Gretchen T. Buggeln -- Materializing ancestor spirits : name tablets, portraits, and tombs in Korea / Insoo Cho -- Performance -- Clothing as embodied experience of belief / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- Dressing the Kaba from Cairo : the aesthetics of pilgrimage to Mecca / Richard McGregor -- Performing statues / Jon P. Mitchell

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a series of mystical visions of Christ. Under the leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1800, the devotion was taken around the world in the course of the nineteenth century. Wherever it went, the devotion took the shape of an evolving visual culture. Even during Alacoque's lifetime, imagery was a fundamental part of practicing the devotion. The Sacred Heart of Jesus traces the unfolding visual biography of the Sacred Heart, showing how imagery and visual practice document the history of the devotion and the remarkable range of its evolution. - Devotie aan het Heilige Hart van Jezus is al vanaf het eerste ontstaan controversieel. De Franse non Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (1647-1690) begon met deze Heilige-Hart-verering na een opeenvolging van openbaringen van Christus te hebben gehad. Jezuïeten, spirituele goeroes en priesters tot op de dag van vandaag maken deze verering tot het centrum van hun theologische studie en beleving. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is een uitgebreide visuele biografie van het Heilige Hart. Het laat de opmerkelijke evolutie van dit fenomeen zien, maar ook hoe beeldende kunst en rituelen deze geschiedenis documenteren.

Aesthetics / Birgit Meyer and Jojada Verrips -- Audiences / Stewart M. Hoover -- Circulation / Johanna Sumiala -- Community / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Culture / Angela Zito -- Economy / David Chidester -- Image / David Morgan -- Media / Peter Horsfield -- Narrative / Jolyon Mitchell -- Practice / Pamela E. Klassen -- Public / Joyce Smith -- Religion / Sarah M. Pike -- Soundscape / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Technology / Jeremy Stolow -- Text / Isabel Hofmeyr