Christopher Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | MARSH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7523-2995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bestselling ballads and the Bible in England, c .1560–1700
This article reconsiders the relationship between ballads and Bibles in England during the early modern period. It concentrates on the religious ballads within a group of 120 songs that have recently been identified as particularly successful. These cheap publications suggest that English people, right through into the eighteenth century, were notably interested in songs that connected with the vernacular Bible. This challenges several long-estab…
Protestant Martyrs in Three Best-Selling English Ballads, c. 1540–1710
This article examines three highly successful English broadside-ballads about Protestant martyrs of the mid-sixteenth century and seeks to explain their evident popularity. It argues that ballads were very important in encouraging people to think about martyrs and identify as Protestants, and that the highlighted examples have been either overlooked or underestimated by scholars. The songs also shed new light on commonplace religious tastes and p…
Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877
Prior to the publication of Ryan Hall’s Beneath the Backbone of the World, scholars and students interested in the history of the Blackfoot and the fur trade between 1720 and 1870 needed to consult the important works of many authors: John Ewers, Hugh Dempsey, David Wishart, John Milloy, Lesley Wischmann, and Ted Binnema. Employing crisp prose and engaging vignettes, Hall crafts a coherent and interesting story of how the Blackfoot “survived, suf…
Sleeping trees and sleep-related behaviours of the siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) in a tropical lowland rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia
Sleeping tree selection and related behaviours of a family group and a solitary female siamang ( Symphalangus syndactylus ) were investigated over a 5-month period in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. We performed all day follows, sleeping tree surveys and forest plot enumerations in the field. We tested whether: (1) physical characteristics of sleeping trees and the surrounding trees, together with siamang behaviours, supported selection based on pre…
Influences of Forest Structure on the Density and Habitat Preference of Two Sympatric Gibbons (Symphalangus syndactylus and Hylobates lar)
Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England
Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822, by Oskar Cox Jensen
In this lively and engaging study, Oskar Cox Jensen surveys and analyses a neglected corpus of approximately 400 songs that circulated in England before, during and after the Napoleonic Wars. These songs, according to the author, have been seriously neglected by scholars, particularly but not only in their musical dimensions. This is a book about the experience of singing and, fittingly, it is accompanied by sixty-two recordings, easily accessibl…
The Woman to the Plow; And the Man to the Hen-Roost: Wives, Husbands and Best-Selling Ballads in Seventeenth-Century England
This paper investigates the representation of marital relations in some of the most successful broadside ballads published in seventeenth-century England. It explains the manner in which these have been selected as part of a funded research project, and it proceeds to question an existing historiographical emphasis on ballads in which marriages were portrayed as under threat due to a combination of wifely failings (scolding, adultery, violence) a…
The Guitar in Tudor England: A Social and Musical History
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Sarah F. Williams, Damnable practices: Witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads
Sarah F. Williams, Damnable practices: witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads." The Seventeenth Century, 31(1), pp. 112–113
Toward a Strategy for Engaging a Resurgent Russia on Democracy, Human Rights, and Religious Liberty
The promotion of democracy, human rights, and religious liberty is a worthy cause. This is especially the case when a country has been identified as one of “Particular Concern.”1 However, when the
The Desecularization of Conflict: The Role of Religion in Russia's Confrontation with Chechnya, 1785–Today
The post-Soviet Chechen independence movement was not an Islamic jihad, nor did religion play any significant role in the formation of the movement in its early stages of development. The grievance
Best-Selling Ballads and their Pictures in Seventeenth-Century England
This article examines the woodcut pictures that appeared on best-selling ballads published in London during the seventeenth century. One hundred and twenty-five of the period’s top ballads are identified using a range of criteria and a selection of these publications is then studied in multiple editions. It is argued that the dismissive attitude to the pictures that has often been adopted by scholars is urgently in need of revision. The woodcut p…
The Two Pluralisms Under the Third Rome
The Blazing Torch”: New Light on English Balladry as a Multi-Media Matrix
This paper investigates the inter-twining histories of two highly successful broadside ballads during the seventeenth century. Neither has been systematically studied before. A set of cultural relationships is opened for consideration by these songs: first, between the two ballads, which are different in several ways but set to the same tune; second, between the selected songs and other ballads on comparable themes; and third, between different e…
Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings
Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings. Patricia Fumerton, ed. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 421; MRTS Texts for Teaching 6. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xxiii + 336 pp. + 2 audio CDs. $95. - Volume 68 Issue 3
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia , edited by Jarrett Zigon
The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth
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Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival, and Revival
Lucidly and engagingly written, Christopher Marsh's book is a landmark contribution to the growing literature on secularization and desecularization in the modern world. Previous studies have typically focused on a single country or religious movement, while there has been precious little comparative, cross-national and cross-civilizational research. Yet, without comparative research, it is impossible to theorize desecularization and detect its b…
A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order
Journal Article A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order Get access A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 456pp. $27.99. Christopher Marsh Christopher Marsh Baylor UniversityWaco, Texas [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Vo…
Religion After Atheism
Piety and persuasion in Elizabethan England: The Church of England meets the Family of Love
The hidden form of capital: Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress
"The Hidden Form of Capital presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. The idea that societies have economic cultures as well as aesthetic, literary, and artistic cultures is well-embedded in a number of major studies attempting to identify the origins of national wealth and progress. This book provides an original contribution to the debate, by discussing the relationship bet…
Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660
Paul Whitfield White begins this stimulating book with an account of the staging of the hit play Mucedorus at Witney (Oxfordshire) in 1652. It is an episode to which he returns at several points. The players were a troupe from the nearby parish of Stanton Harcourt and their performance might never have come to our notice but for the fact that several hundred audience members crowded into an upstairs chamber at the White Hart inn, causing the floo…
Chinese Views on Church and State
China's process of religious liberalization has certainly seen its share of ups and downs over the past three decades, with strong state reaction to groups such as the Falun Gong and the continued persecution of the house-church movement. It is, however, beyond dispute that the system as a whole has been greatly liberalized during China's period of gaige kaifang (reform and opening). Whereas meeting as a group of believers to read the Bible was a…
Negotiating Russian Federalism: A Simulation for Comparative Politics
While the use of simulations in the international relations classroom has proliferated over the past decade, this pedagogical tool has been largely neglected in the comparative politics classroom. Simulations in comparative politics can be a useful component in teaching students about the diversity within foreign countries and the dynamic of domestic policymaking. We describe here an informative and easy–to–run simulation on Russian federalism wh…
Social capital and democracy in Russia
The two basic objectives of this study are to determine whether or not Russia has stocks of social capital upon which to draw as it seeks to democratize, and to examine the nature of the relationship between social capital and democracy in Russia. I present both qualitative and quantitative evidence that social capital exists in many parts of Russia. After a quantitative analysis of social capital and democratization, which identifies a strong po…
Order and Place in England, 1580–1640: The View from the Pew
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The Political Geography of Russia's 2004 Presidential Election
Three political scientists analyze the electoral geography of the 2004 Russian presidential election with a focus on the ethnic and regional dimensions of support for Vladimir Putin. In an effort to determine the extent to which patterns from previous elections persisted into the 2004 election, the authors examine a range of possible correlates, including support for Putin in 2000, a series of economic performance and civil society indicators, an…
The state of freedom in Russia: A regional analysis of freedom of religion, media and markets1
‘Man is born free, but dies in chains.’ There is nothing more false than this remarkable assertion ... . Rousseau really wanted to say: Man must be free; or: Man is created to be free; and the eterna
Sacred Space in England, 1560–1640: The View from the Pew
This article employs evidence relating to church seating between 1560 and 1640 in order to argue that English people experienced the interior of their parish church as a setting of profound significance. It seeks to augment the rather secular interpretative framework within which social and economic historians have tended to consider the importance of church seating. Such seating mattered to people not only because of their preoccupation with soc…
The Blazing Torch”: New Light on English Balladry as a Multi-Media Matrix
This paper investigates the inter-twining histories of two highly successful broadside ballads during the seventeenth century. Neither has been systematically studied before. A set of cultural relationships is opened for consideration by these songs: first, between the two ballads, which are different in several ways but set to the same tune; second, between the selected songs and other ballads on comparable themes; and third, between different e…
Russian Orthodox Christians and Their Orientation toward Church and State
Journal Article Russian Orthodox Christians and Their Orientation toward Church and State Get access Christopher Marsh Christopher Marsh associate professor of political science and church-state studies Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 47, Issue 3, Summer 2005, Pages 545–561, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/47.3.545 Published: 01 July 2005
Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present
1The Queen's University of Belfast Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present DermotCavanaghTimKirk AldershotAshgate 2000210£45
The Civic, Economic, and Political Consequences of Pentecostalism in Russia and Ukraine
Explaining regional economic policies in China: Interest Groups, Institutions, and Identities
What explains variation in investment climates across China's provinces and urban autonomous regions? Three main explanations are considered: variation in the character and size of economic interest groups, in central government policies, and in pre-communist provincial identities and traditions. There is statistical and anecdotal support for the interest group and provincial identity factors. On the other hand, there is little evidence that vari…
Influences of Forest Structure on the Density and Habitat Preference of Two Sympatric Gibbons (Symphalangus syndactylus and Hylobates lar)
When Weak Nations Use Strong States: The Unintended Consequences of Intervention in the Balkans
In the years that have passed since NATO forcibly compelled Yugoslavia to withdraw its military and police forces from Kosovo and the province was placed under U. N. guardianship, the Kosovo crisis of 1999 has been examined from a variety of angles. Although many insightful analyses have documented the horrific and deplorable events that led up to the crisis, one important factor that has received relatively short shrift is the way in which the U…
Best-Selling Ballads and their Pictures in Seventeenth-Century England
This article examines the woodcut pictures that appeared on best-selling ballads published in London during the seventeenth century. One hundred and twenty-five of the period’s top ballads are identified using a range of criteria and a selection of these publications is then studied in multiple editions. It is argued that the dismissive attitude to the pictures that has often been adopted by scholars is urgently in need of revision. The woodcut p…
Religion After Atheism
Chinese Views on Church and State
China's process of religious liberalization has certainly seen its share of ups and downs over the past three decades, with strong state reaction to groups such as the Falun Gong and the continued persecution of the house-church movement. It is, however, beyond dispute that the system as a whole has been greatly liberalized during China's period of gaige kaifang (reform and opening). Whereas meeting as a group of believers to read the Bible was a…
Minimum Wages and Social Welfare Expenditures: Substitutes or complements
Are minimum wage policies substitutes for or complements to expenditure oriented social welfare policies? We address this research question from a cross national perspective through the utilization of OECD data. We find that countries with high levels of expenditure on traditional social welfare policies are decidedly less likely to have any type of minimum wage policy than lower spending nations. However, we also find that there is a strong corr…
The Religious Dimension of Post-Communist “Ethnic” Conflict
Common religious, cultural, and ethnic bonds can hold communities together, while differences along these same lines often lead to calls for national independence, complicate nation building, and confound inter-communal peacemaking efforts. In particular, when religious differences exist between groups in conflict there is a marked tendency for such differences to become emphasized. This is not to say that religion is the root cause of all intern…
Learning from your comrade’s mistakes: The impact of the Soviet past on China’s future
While the Soviet Union imploded in the midst of its attempt to reform itself, more than a decade later China stands as a testament to the resilience of Communist rule. I suggest that one reason China has been able to stave off a regime collapse is that Chinese leaders have sought to learn from the collapse of the Soviet Union and are seeking to adjust their policies to buttress their political power. I present evidence in support of this position…
Ethnicity, modernization, and regime support in Russia's regions under Yeltsin
Throughout the 1990s, Russia's regions exhibited patterns of political behavior related to their ethnic status and levels of socio‐economic development. The ethnic regions tended to support the Yeltsin regime while tending to lag behind the rest of the country in levels of development and inclination to undergo economic reforms. Using quantitative analysis, we analyse the complex interrelationship of ethnicity, socio‐economic development, and reg…
A Gracelesse, and Audacious Companie’? the Family of Love in the parish of Balsham, 1550–1630
The doctrine and membership of the Family of Love in England remain something of a mystery, despite extensive recent work. Why should such an apparently small group have been the specific subject of a royal proclamation? Between June 1575 and November 1580 the sect was referred to a dozen times in Privy Council correspondence, and was clearly the object of considerable anxiety. The Bishops of London, Norwich, Exeter, Ely, Winchester, Lincoln, Sal…
Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England: Holding Their Peace
This book examines the history of US foreign policy since the Vietnam War. It focuses on four themes: the legacy of Vietnam; the ending and aftermath of the Cold War; the debate over American international decline; and the frequently undemocratic conduct of US foreign policy. The book considers alternative explanations for the Cold War's end. It evaluates the foreign policy leadership of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton and assesses pr…
Realigning Lithuanian foreign relations
Ethnicity, modernization, and regime support in Russia's regions under Yeltsin
Throughout the 1990s, Russia's regions exhibited patterns of political behavior related to their ethnic status and levels of socio‐economic development. The ethnic regions tended to support the Yeltsin regime while tending to lag behind the rest of the country in levels of development and inclination to undergo economic reforms. Using quantitative analysis, we analyse the complex interrelationship of ethnicity, socio‐economic development, and reg…
Social capital and democracy in Russia
The two basic objectives of this study are to determine whether or not Russia has stocks of social capital upon which to draw as it seeks to democratize, and to examine the nature of the relationship between social capital and democracy in Russia. I present both qualitative and quantitative evidence that social capital exists in many parts of Russia. After a quantitative analysis of social capital and democratization, which identifies a strong po…
Negotiating Russian Federalism: A Simulation for Comparative Politics
While the use of simulations in the international relations classroom has proliferated over the past decade, this pedagogical tool has been largely neglected in the comparative politics classroom. Simulations in comparative politics can be a useful component in teaching students about the diversity within foreign countries and the dynamic of domestic policymaking. We describe here an informative and easy–to–run simulation on Russian federalism wh…
Sacred Space in England, 1560–1640: The View from the Pew
This article employs evidence relating to church seating between 1560 and 1640 in order to argue that English people experienced the interior of their parish church as a setting of profound significance. It seeks to augment the rather secular interpretative framework within which social and economic historians have tended to consider the importance of church seating. Such seating mattered to people not only because of their preoccupation with soc…
Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present
1The Queen's University of Belfast Subversion and Scurrility: Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present DermotCavanaghTimKirk AldershotAshgate 2000210£45
Explaining regional economic policies in China: Interest Groups, Institutions, and Identities
What explains variation in investment climates across China's provinces and urban autonomous regions? Three main explanations are considered: variation in the character and size of economic interest groups, in central government policies, and in pre-communist provincial identities and traditions. There is statistical and anecdotal support for the interest group and provincial identity factors. On the other hand, there is little evidence that vari…
When Weak Nations Use Strong States: The Unintended Consequences of Intervention in the Balkans
In the years that have passed since NATO forcibly compelled Yugoslavia to withdraw its military and police forces from Kosovo and the province was placed under U. N. guardianship, the Kosovo crisis of 1999 has been examined from a variety of angles. Although many insightful analyses have documented the horrific and deplorable events that led up to the crisis, one important factor that has received relatively short shrift is the way in which the U…
Learning from your comrade’s mistakes: The impact of the Soviet past on China’s future
While the Soviet Union imploded in the midst of its attempt to reform itself, more than a decade later China stands as a testament to the resilience of Communist rule. I suggest that one reason China has been able to stave off a regime collapse is that Chinese leaders have sought to learn from the collapse of the Soviet Union and are seeking to adjust their policies to buttress their political power. I present evidence in support of this position…
The Political Geography of Russia's 2004 Presidential Election
Three political scientists analyze the electoral geography of the 2004 Russian presidential election with a focus on the ethnic and regional dimensions of support for Vladimir Putin. In an effort to determine the extent to which patterns from previous elections persisted into the 2004 election, the authors examine a range of possible correlates, including support for Putin in 2000, a series of economic performance and civil society indicators, an…
The state of freedom in Russia: A regional analysis of freedom of religion, media and markets1
‘Man is born free, but dies in chains.’ There is nothing more false than this remarkable assertion ... . Rousseau really wanted to say: Man must be free; or: Man is created to be free; and the eterna
Order and Place in England, 1580–1640: The View from the Pew
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Russian Orthodox Christians and Their Orientation toward Church and State
Journal Article Russian Orthodox Christians and Their Orientation toward Church and State Get access Christopher Marsh Christopher Marsh associate professor of political science and church-state studies Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 47, Issue 3, Summer 2005, Pages 545–561, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/47.3.545 Published: 01 July 2005
Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture
This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significan…
Orthodox christianity and market transition in Russia
Minimum Wages and Social Welfare Expenditures: Substitutes or complements
Are minimum wage policies substitutes for or complements to expenditure oriented social welfare policies? We address this research question from a cross national perspective through the utilization of OECD data. We find that countries with high levels of expenditure on traditional social welfare policies are decidedly less likely to have any type of minimum wage policy than lower spending nations. However, we also find that there is a strong corr…
Religion, Culture, and Conflict in the “Other” Christendom
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The Religious Dimension of Post-Communist “Ethnic” Conflict
Common religious, cultural, and ethnic bonds can hold communities together, while differences along these same lines often lead to calls for national independence, complicate nation building, and confound inter-communal peacemaking efforts. In particular, when religious differences exist between groups in conflict there is a marked tendency for such differences to become emphasized. This is not to say that religion is the root cause of all intern…
New Cold War, New Nato, and New States in a Desecularizing Eastern Europe
A combination of factors has led to the deterioration of the Russia-U.S. relationship, most notably U.S. military operations along the southern border of Russia's “near abroad” (especially Afghanistan), the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe, andcriticism of Russian domestic politics. Despite the rhetoric about a “new Cold War” however, Russia and Eastern Europe today are worlds apart from where they were in the 1980s. With new presidents in b…
Notes on Church-State Affairs
On November 29, Lydia Suleimanova, a seventy-one-year-old Jehovah's Witness in northern Azerbaijan, claimed to have been harassed and repeatedly beaten by the local police in what has become a pattern of widespread harassment against Protestant and also increasingly Muslim believers. On December 10, an eight-story “house” church was shut down by Chinese authorities. This closing of what might be China's first “mega-church” relates to the failure …
The Civic, Economic, and Political Consequences of Pentecostalism in Russia and Ukraine
Piety and persuasion in Elizabethan England: The Church of England meets the Family of Love
The hidden form of capital: Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress
"The Hidden Form of Capital presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. The idea that societies have economic cultures as well as aesthetic, literary, and artistic cultures is well-embedded in a number of major studies attempting to identify the origins of national wealth and progress. This book provides an original contribution to the debate, by discussing the relationship bet…
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