Guest Post by David N. Livingstone It’s Monday afternoon. Robin Noonan at Johns Hopkins University Press has asked me if I’d like to write a guest blog post about a book I recently published with the Press titled Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Encounters with Evolution. And I’ve now a few…
Guest post by D. Rose Elder The media typically portray Amish characters as either disapproving, humorless, and colorless adults rigidly humming a solemn hymn to keep worldly thoughts at bay or conflicted, cocky, out-of-control rumspringa adolescents listening to ear-splitting rock and testing all the limits of decency. Of course, TV and the movies are by…
Guest post by D. Rose Elder The media typically portray Amish characters as either disapproving, humorless, and colorless adults rigidly humming a solemn hymn to keep worldly thoughts at bay or conflicted, cocky, out-of-control rumspringa adolescents listening to ear-splitting rock and testing all the limits of decency. Of course, TV and the movies are by…
Our occasional summer Friday series on the blog, The Press Reads, features short excerpts from recent JHUP books to whet your appetite and inspire timely additions to your summer reading list. In advance of Shark Week, we dive into Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess's Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide. Gene Helfman is a professor…
Guest post by Jerry Griswold “The Great Y.A. Debate of 2014” has become so pervasive that the New York Times Book Review provided a summary of the controversy in late June. In one corner is Ruth Graham and a few supporters. Grown tired of girlfriends keen on young-adult fiction (The Hunger Games, The Fault of…