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The American Political Animal

has invited one political animal to take root inside—the bed bug, the bad-tempered badger, the porcupine, the hobo spider spewing poison through mouthparts shaped like boxing gloves. Or the honey bee

The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois

the Saints from Illinois—and ultimately the United States. Relying on political theory and philosophy and his deep knowledge of politics in frontier Illinois, Simeone unpacks the paradox of a developing ... history of the Latter-day Saint experience in Nauvoo, Illinois, religious persecution and expulsion that is often rehearsed. In seven dense chapters, James Simeone, professor of political science at

“To Moderate and Unify” The Role That Latter-day Saint Citizen-Rhetors Can Play in Healing American Political Discourse

. Oaks stressed the importance of the rule of law and the best ways to participate as citizens in political processes. Although he focused on the United States, President Oaks reassured his global audience

Good Government Begins with Self-Government

select government officials. The exams tested not only scholars’ abilities in history, philosophy, government, and literature, but also—in theory at least—their personal cultivation of moral virtues such ... European political thinkers, including Voltaire, admired China’s system for using meritocratic criteria, as opposed to aristocratic birth, to select government officials.2 The exams tested not only scholars

Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom By Spender McBride

political history and an associate managing historian of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, firmly situates the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within antebellum contexts. In ... political, legal, and economic responses to a culture that had failed them and, in doing so, underscores the unsettled nature of democracy in antebellum America. Similarly, McBride’s study challenges popular

The Blood of the Canaanites

. Ian Shaw (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 172. 2. K. S. B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C. (Copenhagen: University of ... , and so establishing an incontrovertible chronology for Abraham’s life based on information from the Book of Abraham is not much more feasible beyond this. 3. Ryholt, Political Situation in Egypt during

The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America

other words, they defined it in preventive terms. And among Americans in the 1830s, per- haps the most poignant political discussion concerned the freedom to not be forcibly removed from the land on which ... was created, reflected a political philosophy that both drew from and appropriated America’s democratic tradition. “Whereas in all bodies laws are necessary for the permanent Safety and well being of

THE PEOPLE OF ONDO KINGDOM AND THEIR CULTURE: A HISTORICAL SURVEY AND POLITICAL UNDERPINNING

historical links of the Ondos in Ondo Kingdom including their culture, settlement, influences and socio-political organizations which stand them unique. The research deemed searchlights into its organized

Women of Faith Speak Up and Speak Out The Genesis and Philosophical Underpinnings of Mormon Women for Ethical Government

States, I found myself growing increasingly alarmed during the 2016 U.S. election cycle as I watched the great rifts in our political landscape widen and deepen, abetted by the divisive and often vitriolic ... to our concern about what was happening in the wider political world. On January 25, 2017, shortly after the above email exchange with Melissa, I announced to my Segullah sisters that I would be

PHILOSOPHY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SPHERE

all levels of government in the Russian Federation. According to the author, the concept of project management is based on the philosophy of scientific and technological, and intellectual breakthrough ... STRATEGIC PROJECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY The concept of project management is based on the philosophy of scientific and technological

PHILOSOPHY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SPHERE

all levels of government in the Russian Federation. According to the author, the concept of project management is based on the philosophy of scientific and technological, and intellectual breakthrough ... STRATEGIC PROJECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY The concept of project management is based on the philosophy of scientific and technological

Human Sacrifice

transgressing religious or political boundaries and norms, sometimes done in a ritualistic or ceremonial manner. There is, in the words of one Egyptologist, “indisputable evidence for the practice of human ... , including foreigners who were seen as a threat to Egyptian political and social order.10 From this evidence, we can conclude that Egyptian “human sacrifice” during Abraham’s lifetime was more or less “ritual

On Being a Disciple of Hope

I am a political scientist, which means that I study patterns in politics. Most of the patterns in politics that I study are patterns of sexism. I work to accurately measure and carefully describe ... Being a Disciple of Hope Jessica Robinson Preece I Most of the patterns in politics that I study are patterns of sexism. am a political scientist, which means that I study patterns in politics. I work

Potiphar's Hill

.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 160–61, emphasis in original; compare Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988), throughout, but

FAIRY TALE AS ONE OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL DIS-COURSE

Political fiction has a long history, dating back as far as Aristophanes and Plato. Being concerned with the themes like criticism of the contemporary ruling power, their policies, unjustness and ... problems. Political fiction has been used by authors such as Jonathan Swift, Thomas More, George Orwell and many others. Fairy tales, at first glance intended for children, convey a wide range of

Shulem, One of the King's Principal Waiters

,” 44. 6. Gee, “Shulem,” 384, quoting K. S. B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1880–1550 B.C. (Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern

HUMOUR AND IRONY IN MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Political discourse has recently been the center of attention of many academics as well as laymen, which is explained by the strenuous international situation in the world. According to Critical

HUMOUR AND IRONY IN MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Political discourse has recently been the center of attention of many academics as well as laymen, which is explained by the strenuous international situation in the world. According to Critical

HUMOUR AND IRONY IN MODERN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Political discourse has recently been the center of attention of many academics as well as laymen, which is explained by the strenuous international situation in the world. According to Critical

Isis the Pharaoh

thus to the political aspect of [the king’s] divine nature; her role as mother of Horus and sister-wife of Osiris binds her even more closely into the Egyptian kingship, in which the living King Horus