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Building upon previous research on student attitudes to Christianity, an instrument that assesses the perceptions on four Attitude to Christianity dimensions (viz., Attitude to Prayer, God, and Jesus; Attitude to the Bible; Attitude to Christian Practice; and Attitude to Social Justice) was developed. A sample of 1,317 students in Australian Catholic high schools was used to validate this instrument. Comparisons of attitudes to Christianity between students in Catholic boys', girls', and coeducational schools and between students of different age and gender illustrated the usefulness of these four scales.     

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This article reports on a comparison of the views of teachers in Italy and the United Kingdom on their profession in relation to other professions. Common constructs about their profession are discussed for each national group, followed by a commentary on the similarities and differences between the groups related to their embedding culture. For example, both groups perceive teachers as having much in common with social workers and the clergy in terms of high demand for emotional involvement and creativity, while both express concern over low income for effort conjoined with erosion of professional autonomy. This latter concern is more pronounced in the data from Italy, reflecting the more centralized control of curriculum, a policy only currently being initiated in the United Kingdom

Although we are sympathetic to the reservations of Yorke (1987) about their utility in the study of teachers' thinking (as noted in Pope [1981] and Denicolo [1985]), we found the grid procedure to be a useful vehicle for exploring the issues in this study. Thus we have avoided treating the grid data in an essentially positivistic manner and did use notes made during the conversations that occurred during grid completion to shed light on the personal meaning to the participant of the words used to denote each construct. Within this article the details of personal meanings of each participant are omitted, although the analysis and discussion took account of these, since our particular goal here is to present the group data for the two countries.

The focus had been on the teachers' constructs regarding the teaching profession. The same data could be used to illuminate their views on any of the professions discussed in the study. In addition to developing insights into teachers' thinking about their profession, the study helped to strengthen the developing spirit of international collaboration in research in teacher education from the perspective of personal construct psychology.     

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Jewish Life in Modern Times. By Israel Cohen. N. Y., Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914. pp. xiii + 374. Reviewed by G. A. Feingold.

The psychological methods of testing intelligence. By William Stern. Translated from the German by Guy Montrose Whipple. Baltimore, Warwick and York, 1914. pp. x + 160. Reviewed by Florence Mateer.     

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Ruth Bowyer. The Lowenfeld World Technique, Studies in Personality. Elmsford, N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1970, 223 pages, $4.00 flexi-cover, $6.50 hardcover. Reviewed by Eleanore Kay

Gerald Caplan. The Theory and Practice of Mental Health Consultation. New York: BasicBooks, 1970,416 pages, $10.00. Reviewed by Thomas T. Bellino, Ph.D.     

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R. D. Laing & A. Esterson. Sanity, Madness and the Family (2nd edition). New York: Basic Books, 1971, $6.95. Reviewed by A. I. Rabin

B. Von Haller Gilmer. Psychology. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, 512 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by Eric C. Theiner, Ph.D.

Jean Piaget. Structuralism. New York: Basic Books, 1970, 153 pages, $5.95. Reviewed by Dale L. Johnson, Ph.D.

Lynette Shaw and Herbert Sichel. Accident Proneness: Research in the Occurrence, Causation and Prevention of Road Accidents. New York: Pergammon Press, 1971, 476 pages, $16.00. Reviewed by Louise Bates Ames

Ulf Kragh & Gudmund Smith, (Eds.). Percept-Genetic Analysis. Lund: Gleerups, 1970, 408 pages, 85:80 kroms, (or $17.68). Reviewed by Juris G. Draguns     

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Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics
Stephen Frosh, The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory
Dennis Chong, Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society
Zsolt Enyedi and Ferenc Erös, Authoritarianism and Prejudice: Central European Perspectives
Stephanie Riger, Transforming Psychology: Gender in Theory and Practice
V. M. Bekhterev, Suggestion and Its Role in Social Life
Ian Glynn, An Anatomy of Thought: The Origins and Machinery of the Mind
David O. Sears, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo (eds.), Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism in America
Philip A. Klinkner with Rogers M. Smith, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America     

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George E. Marcus, W. Russell Newman, and Michael MacKuen, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment
Micha Popper, Hypnotic Leadership:Leaders, Followers, and the Loss of Self
James W. Davis, Jr., Threats and Promises: The Pursuit of International Influence
Mark R. Warren, Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy
Tali Mendelberg, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality     

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Books Reviewed: Richard J. Clifford, The Wisdom Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts) Dianne Bergant, Israel Wisdom Literature: A Liberation–Critical Reading (A Liberation–Critical Reading of the Old Testament) Mark W. Elliott, The Song of Songs and Christology in the Early Church 381–451 (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum) Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation Stephen C. Barton, Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today Malcolm Bull (ed), Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World Introduced and translated by Janice L. Schultz and Edward A. Synan, St Thomas Aquinas: An Exposition of the “On the Hebdomads” of Boethius John Anthony McGuckin, Standing in God’s Holy Fire: The Byzantine Tradition Joan M. Nuth, God’s Lovers in an Age of Anxiety: The Medieval English Mystics Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing Dorothee Soelle, The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition Charles E. Curran, The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States: Three Different Approaches Andrew Davey, Urban Christianity and Global Order: Theological Resources For An Urban Future Stephen R. L. Clark, Biology and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) Franklin H. Littell, Historical Atlas of Christianity George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig (eds), Medieval Monastic Education Paul Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation Michael A. Signer and John van Enghen (eds), Jews and Christians in Twelfth–Century Europe Philip Olleson (ed), The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence 1797–1837 S. M. Waddams, Sexual Slander in Nineteenth–Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815–1855 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Hugh Rice, God and Goodness Nicholas Rescher, Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Method of Science Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black (eds), The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis–Grisez School     

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William James, A Review of the Reviews of The Varieties of Religious Experience
Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology
James R. Nieman and Thomas G. Rogers, Preaching to Every Pew: Cross–Cultural Strategies     

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Conrad Cherry, Betty A. Deberg, and Amanda Porterfield, Chapel Hill, Religion On Campus: What Religion Really Means To Today'sUndergraduates.
Mark R. Warren, Dry Bones Rattling: Community Buil–Ding To Revitalize American Democracy.
Paul A. Bramadat, The Church On The World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group As A Secular University.
Margaret Harris, Organizing God's Work.
William V. D'Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, And Katherine Meyer, American Catholics: Gender, Generation And Commitment.
Marcela Cristi, From Civil To Political Religion: The Intersection Of Culture, Religion, And Politics.
Troy Messenger, Holy Leisure: Recreation And Religion In God's Square Mile.
Stephen Sharot, A Comparative Sociology Of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, And Popular Religion.
Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims And Politics At Glastonbury And Sedona.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Judith A. Sabrosky, From Rationality to Liberation : The Evolution of Feminist Ideology.
Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory . Princeton, N.J.:
Warren P. Fraleigh, Right Actions In Sport : Ethics for Contestants. Champaign, Ill.
W.D.J. Cargill Thompson, The Political Thought of Martin Luther . Brighton, England
Joseph P. DeMarco, The Social Thought of W.E.B. DuBois . Lanham, Maryland
Bruckner, D.J.R., Seymour Chwast, and Steven Heller, Art Against War
Judith Hicks Stiehm (ed.), Women's Views of the Political World of Men . Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.     

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Distorted interpretations and abusive uses of the Ham–Noah curse tale abound. This essay explores five common interpretations. Cohen's overly‐imaginative interpretation links wine, genitalia, and reproduction to accent Noah's potency and Ham's presumed designs on that potency. Nineteenth‐century slave owners used the text to undergird dangerous fantasies of white superiority. Fundamentalists, thinking Ham sodomised his father, inappropriately use the text to condemn modern homoeroticism. Some see Ham as uncontrolled libido. Intra‐biblical connections may suggest that Ham's act was maternal incest. The danger of getting stuck in ancient mythostories calls for a creative critique. Perryman puts Ham on trial in an effort to dismantle racist uses of the text, suggesting that a carnivalesque biblical hermeneutic that mocks the injustices perpetuated by this text may be the most effective way to counter textual abuse.     

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iseminger , gary . The Aesthetic Function of Art .
bermúdez , josé luis and sebastian gardner , eds. Art and Morality .
ritivoi , andreea deciu , ed. Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz .
lewis , peter b ., ed. Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy .
deleuze , gilles . Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation .
fraleigh , sondra . Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion .
mccarren , felicia . Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction .
mcclellan , andrew , ed. Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium .
tilden , scott j ., ed. Architecture for Art: American Art Museums 1938–2008 .
jullien , françois . In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics .     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Handbook of Psychological Testing, by Paul Kline. International Dimensions of Human Resource Management, by Peter J. Dowling, Randall S. Schuler and Denice E. Welch. The Culture Factor: Corporate and International Perspectives, by the Institute of Personnel and Development (research and analysis by Angela Baron and Mike Walters). Leadership in Organizations, by Gary Yukl. Employee Relations in Europe, by Jeff Bridgford and John Stirling. Communication — Rewarding People; The Skill of Responding Positively, by D. Dickson, C. Saunders and M. Stringer. Management Skills: Making the Most of People, by Robin Evenden and Gordon Anderson. Human Resource Management – Issues and Strategies, by Rosemary Harrison.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Successful Selection Interviewing, by Neil Anderson and Vivian Shackleton. Reframing HRM: Power, Ethics and the Subject at Work, by Barbara Townley. Job Relocation – Managing People on the Move, by Anthony Munton, Nick Foster, Yochanan Altman and Linda Greenbury. Personality: The Psychometric View, by P. Kline. Empowering Change. The Role of People Management, by C. Ridgeway and B. Wallace. Care Staff Management: A Practitioner's Guide, by John Clements and Ewa Zarkowska.