This paper discusses the scholarly volume, "I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent: The Feminization of American Hymnody, 1870-1920" (June Hadden Hobbs). The book is a multilayered representation and reflection of both a particular textual community and of that community's cultural notions of gender and power. The volume uses a rhetorical…

Discusses the writings of Homer W. Smith, a physiologist who wrote novels, histories of religion, textbooks, and a book on the kidney for the general reader. Smith's writing skills remind students that biologists are as multidimensional as the rest of the population. Smith shows that all parts of life are interrelated as they enrich and shed light…

Considers "The Culture of Disbelief" (Stephen Carter) and "Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief" (Nel Noddings) and how to incorporate religious issues in public school education in light of the persistent religiosity of Americans, a current discomfort with religious issues in public forums, and strong emerging conflicts whose effects are…