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"Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows readers how to study what has come to be termed 'material religion' the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material world"--

Inhalt: Dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea -- Piney lights -- Dungeons and dragons and gaslights -- Lard lights and the pigpen archipelago -- Lucifer matches and the global violence of phosphorus -- Rock oil, civil war, and industrial slavery interrupted.

This is a largely theoretical essay that, in conversation with Graham Harman's energetic view of objects and Ben Lerner's idiosyncratic theory of poetry, articulates the basic tenets of a "flat aesthetics" and then moves on to tease out this aesthetics' ramifications in terms of form, reading thereof, and politics. When the object's ontological dignity is acknowledged, as flat ontology does, and further, when literature too is dealt with as an object whose "intransitive" objecthood is recognized, literary form, Moraru argues, no longer reflects an elsewhere, a beyond, or other transcendent place, meaning, or design. Instead, this form deflects clarifying light "prismatically," illuminating other objects, the bigger ensembles into which they are arranged, as well as the potential for new arrangements and worlds. Drawing from Lerner's Hatred of Poetry, the article's closing segment explains how this potentiality is already embedded in form qua object and sprouts dialectically from the limits within which literary forms inherently coalesce.

Part I. Stalin's Script for Anti-Americanism -- 1. The Anti-American Campaign, 1945-1953 -- American Sources of Information and Soviet Interest in the Enemy -- Soviet-American Cultural Encounters in Late Stalinism -- Part II. Khrushchev and the Discourse of Peaceful Coexistence -- From Anti-Americanism to Peaceful Coexistence -- The Paradoxes of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-1957 -- The Possibilities of Peaceful Coexistence, 1958-1959

'Enemy Number One' tells the story of Soviet propaganda and ideology toward the United States during the early Cold War. From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence, this work covers Soviet efforts to control available information about the United States and to influence the development of Soviet-American cultural relations until official cultural exchanges were realized between the two countries

A framework is presented within which one can study how variation in the policy decision process may influence variation in policy outcome. This framework may work best if the units of analysis are not entire countries but specific issues. These issues can be compared both within & among countries. Focus is on energy issues from 1973 to the present in the US & 6 European countries. Two dimensions are examined relative to policy outcome: the extents to which the demands of various societal groups are fulfilled, & to which the outcome is challenged by further actions. For the decision process, a large number of decision paths are distinguished. For the development of the theory it is assumed that decisionmakers try to maximize the values of office seeking, policy goals, & system maintenance, & to minimize the time they invest in a particular decision process. 5 Figures, 8 References. AA.

At head of title: The University of North Carolina. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vol. 1-17 published under the direction of the North Carolina Historical Society; vol. 18-22 under the direction of the Department of History and Government of the University of North Carolina; vol. 23- under the direction of the Departments of History and Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.