Category: University Faculty
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The Making of Violence: Motives, Means, and Masculinity
Mary Jane Chaffee[1] “By self and violent hands” (Macbeth 5.9.36) With those words[2] Malcom describes Lady Macbeth’s supposed suicide, which functions on the dramatic level as a satisfying if bleak end to her mayhem and Macbeth’s ambition. But I would argue that the phrase “self and violent hands”—conjoining the important elements of self and violence—rounds…
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The Cotton Grove Resolutions
Joe Early, Jr., One of the more important meetings in Southern Baptist history took place at the Cotton Grove Baptist Church in the west Tennessee town of Cotton Grove on June 24, 1851. The meeting was called by James Robinson Graves who was serving as the editor of the Tennessee Baptist. As a result of…
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Sleeping Among the Natives The Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Pachgatoch
John R. Burch, Jr., PhD From 1734 to 1782, few missionary groups had as much success in attracting Native Americans to Christianity as the Reformed Unitas Fratrum, popularly known as the Moravians. Their success was achieved by their effective efforts to relate to the suffering of native peoples and living among them, which was viewed…
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From the Editor
Within these covers of The Campbellsville Review’s seventh issue, there is a variety of writing that reflects the intellectual interests of the Campbellsville University community. There are articles on history, science, literary commentary, a social issue, and music history; creative works that include a short story and poems, and a book review. Every contributor has…
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Published Works By Faculty and Staff (2015-2016)
During the past two years, members of Campbellsville University’s faculty have authored and co-authored many published books, articles, stories, and reviews. A listing of these publications follows. Lisa Allen Creating culturally relevant teachers: Influences from a Mayan primary school in Belize. The Online Journal of Counseling and Education 4, no. 6 (2015): 90-110. Special educator…
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HYMN TUNES OF RALPH MANUEL
Abstract Claudiane Florencio Soares de Barros, M.A. Campbellsville University Chairperson: Dr. M. Wesley Roberts The purpose of this study has been to create a reference source of information regarding the hymn tunes of Ralph Manuel (b. 1951) for practical and scholarly use. Manuel served as a music missionary in northeastern Brazil for twenty-four years and…
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Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile.
By Nia Parson. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. 248 pp., $24.95 List; $9.99 eBook) Book Review by Kimberly Mathis Pitts In Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile, anthropologist Nia Parson examines the role of the state in the quotidian violence of a post-Pinochet Chile through the life histories of three women…
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Jane Eyre’s Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity
By Abigail Heiniger. (New York: Routledge, 2016. 186 pp. $149.95) A Review by Justy Engle Jane Eyre has been transformed into silent films, feature films, radio dramas and theatre productions, and has inspired a wide selection of literature that both refigures and continues the original tale. The most recent feature film adaptation (2011) stars Mia…