Anna Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9058-2897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception
Theorizing Social Movement Practices
This essay contributes to the systematic and expansive exploration of social movement practices by looking more closely at symbolic and instrumental practices, on the one hand, and works of mercy and structural transformation practices, on the other. The categories we have discussed, while far from perfect, provide valuable tools to understand social movement practices and thus movements in general. We argue that attention to practices can streng…
A Desire to Learn: Native-American Experiences in Lutheran Colleges, 1945-1955
Between 1945 and 1955, nine Native-American students of the Oneida, Ho-Chunk, and Ojibwe tribes attended Lutheran colleges with the support of Reverend Ernest Sihler, Superintendent of the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Indian Mission. Four of the students graduated with bachelor's degrees and two went on to attain PhDs. Regardless of their graduation status, all the students demonstrated educational resilience during their time as undergraduates. …
Religion and the Possibility of a Materialist Environmental Ethic
In Thinking Like a Mall, Steven Vogel proposes an environmental philosophy “after nature,” meaning one that rejects the division of the world into wild and humanized spaces. This division is false because environments are always constructed by people, who are enmeshed in landscapes and ecological processes. The opposition between wild and humanized parallels the religious division between sacred and profane, according to Vogel. He believes this d…
Old Comedy Revived: Lucian’s Fisherman and Double Indictment
Lucian of Samosata is the Imperial-era author who most closely associates himself with the ribald and satiric humor of Old Comedy. In two of his dialogues, Fisherman and Double Indictment, Lucian takes up Old Comedy’s status as a problematic genre, imagining that a satiric character, who is all but explicitly an authorial cipher, has been brought up on trial for comically debasing philosophy and must defend his use of comedy. Here, through scenar…
A Menandrian Interlude: Alciphron and Old Comedy in Epistolary Form
Alciphron’s collection of 123 fictional letters recreate in miniature the world of Menandrian New Comedy. Three of these letters, however, involve a basic scenario that is reminiscent of Clouds: disputes between a father and son and, in one case, a hetaira and her lover, regarding the corrupting influence of philosophers. Language borrowed directly from Aristophanes’s play further cements this connection. In this context, Old Comedy is subsumed i…
Lucian’s Prolaliai and the Dynamics of Competition
Like the well-known dialogues discussed in the previous chapter, Lucian’s prolaliai, or sophistic prologues, underscore the satirist’s profound engagement with Old Comedy. Despite their obvious differences in form and context, three of these prolaliai—You are a Literary Prometheus, Zeuxis or Antiochus, and Heracles—mimic the agonistic and rhetorical strategies of an Aristophanic parabasis. Of particular interest is the degree to which the comic p…
Old Comedy Transformed: Libanius and the Fourth Century
The fourth century witnessed significant changes in how Old Comedy was read and understood. Not the least significant factor responsible for these changes was the shrinking of the corpus of plays that were readily available. A reference to Old Comedy emerges, then, in a surprising way in Libanius’s Life: the young sophist is struck by lightning while reading Aristophanes’s Acharnians. By referencing Aristophanes’s play in this scene, Libanius dra…
Problem Animals
Nonhuman animals play various roles in environmental ethics, often as charismatic symbols of wilderness or active participants in the natural dramas we seek to preserve. Sometimes, however, nonhuman animals do not fit into—and may even threaten—the “nature” that we value. There are two especially problematic animals: white-tailed deer and feral cats. Together, these creatures shine light on a number of important issues in environmental ethics, in…
Lilian Calles Barger. The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology “explores how the first generation of liberation theologians built their ideas and recast the relationship between politics and religion” (5). Lilian Calles Barger’s focus is on the ways that liberation theologians understood and transformed the relationship between religion and politics. This goal reflects, and reinforces, her very broad definition of liberation theology far b…
Laughter on the fringes the reception of old comedy in the imperial Greek world: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World
This work examines the reception of Athenian Old Comedy by Greek writers of the imperial era. It explores how the major authors of this period (Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Alciphron, and Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate rivalries, and provide a model for autobiographical writing
Pushing Forty: The Platonic Significance of References to Age in Lucian's Double Indictment and Hermotimus
Opening on Olympus and concluding with two trials involving ‘the Syrian’ (an obvious Lucianic persona), Lucian's Double Indictment (= Bis Acc. ) presents a fantastical scenario that draws on Old Comic, Platonic and biographical models. In the first of the Syrian's two trials, a personified Rhetoric accuses the Syrian of abandoning her, his legitimate wife, for his lover, Dialogue. Dialogue, in turn, accuses the Syrian of hubris , asserting that t…
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The Lynn White Thesis at Fifty
How and why do religion and spirituality motivate individuals and collectivities in contemporary Asia to engage in environmental action? This question is at the heart of Religion and Ecological Crisis: Responses from Asia . Across nine chapters, the book examines a wide range of environmental initiatives, ranging from agroecology, waste recycling and dietary change, to a broader cultivation of ecological values and ethics. With case studies from …
Gretel van Wieren: Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration
Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Introduction: Animals and Nature2. Animals in Environmental Perspective3. Animal Ethics4. Wild Animals5. Domesticated Animals6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground8. Being AnimalNotesBibliographyIndex
Making Women’s Suffrage Support an Ethnic Duty: Norwegian American Identity Constructions and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1880-1925
Anna Peterson, Making Women's Suffrage Support an Ethnic Duty: Norwegian American Identity Constructions and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1880-1925, Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Summer 2011), pp. 5-23
Designing Farmland for Multifunctionality
Multifunctionality has become a major objective of European agricultural policy. However, recent research concerning the multifunctionality of agriculture has focused on economic, production or abiotic factors and has paid less attention to biotic, landscape and social aspects. In addition, relationships in the form of trade-offs between different landscape values such as biodiversity, cultural heritage, recreation and aesthetics have been little…
Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices
This chapter draws attention to sacrifice in everyday life through its logic and varieties. It further focuses on the religious sacrifices that demarcate extraordinary from everyday sacrifices and the sacrifices that people accept versus those they are conditioned to make as a responsibility. Religions accept and expect sacrifices; there are numerous examples that illustrate everyday and extraordinary sacrifices in secular experience as well as i…
Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire
Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman creatures, we practice a nonutilitarian morality that makes sacrifice a rational and reasonable choice. Recognizing these everyday ethics, Anna …
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Alternatives, traditions, and diversity in agriculture
Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature
Varieties of Popular Catholicism: A Parish Study
Just as Latin America is stereotyped as a “Catholic” continent, popular Catholicism in the region is stereotyped as a simple, monolithic set of practices and ideas. These images hide the tremendous diversity and also the tensions that characterize popular Catholicism in Latin America. This essay examines some of the varieties of popular Catholicism through the study of a single parish on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador. It focuses on p…
Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
Religion and Society in Latin America: Ambivalence and Advances
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Designing Farmland for Multifunctionality
Multifunctionality has become a major objective of European agricultural policy. However, recent research concerning the multifunctionality of agriculture has focused on economic, production or abiotic factors and has paid less attention to biotic, landscape and social aspects. In addition, relationships in the form of trade-offs between different landscape values such as biodiversity, cultural heritage, recreation and aesthetics have been little…
Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature
Laughter on the fringes the reception of old comedy in the imperial Greek world: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World
This work examines the reception of Athenian Old Comedy by Greek writers of the imperial era. It explores how the major authors of this period (Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Alciphron, and Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate rivalries, and provide a model for autobiographical writing
A Desire to Learn: Native-American Experiences in Lutheran Colleges, 1945-1955
Between 1945 and 1955, nine Native-American students of the Oneida, Ho-Chunk, and Ojibwe tribes attended Lutheran colleges with the support of Reverend Ernest Sihler, Superintendent of the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Indian Mission. Four of the students graduated with bachelor's degrees and two went on to attain PhDs. Regardless of their graduation status, all the students demonstrated educational resilience during their time as undergraduates. …
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua . Roger N. Lancaster
Religion and Society in Latin America: Ambivalence and Advances
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Varieties of Popular Catholicism: A Parish Study
Just as Latin America is stereotyped as a “Catholic” continent, popular Catholicism in the region is stereotyped as a simple, monolithic set of practices and ideas. These images hide the tremendous diversity and also the tensions that characterize popular Catholicism in Latin America. This essay examines some of the varieties of popular Catholicism through the study of a single parish on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador. It focuses on p…
Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Alternatives, traditions, and diversity in agriculture
Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire
Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and nonhuman creatures, we practice a nonutilitarian morality that makes sacrifice a rational and reasonable choice. Recognizing these everyday ethics, Anna …
Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices
This chapter draws attention to sacrifice in everyday life through its logic and varieties. It further focuses on the religious sacrifices that demarcate extraordinary from everyday sacrifices and the sacrifices that people accept versus those they are conditioned to make as a responsibility. Religions accept and expect sacrifices; there are numerous examples that illustrate everyday and extraordinary sacrifices in secular experience as well as i…
Making Women’s Suffrage Support an Ethnic Duty: Norwegian American Identity Constructions and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1880-1925
Anna Peterson, Making Women's Suffrage Support an Ethnic Duty: Norwegian American Identity Constructions and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1880-1925, Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Summer 2011), pp. 5-23
Designing Farmland for Multifunctionality
Multifunctionality has become a major objective of European agricultural policy. However, recent research concerning the multifunctionality of agriculture has focused on economic, production or abiotic factors and has paid less attention to biotic, landscape and social aspects. In addition, relationships in the form of trade-offs between different landscape values such as biodiversity, cultural heritage, recreation and aesthetics have been little…
Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Introduction: Animals and Nature2. Animals in Environmental Perspective3. Animal Ethics4. Wild Animals5. Domesticated Animals6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground8. Being AnimalNotesBibliographyIndex
Gretel van Wieren: Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration
Religion and Ecological Crisis: The Lynn White Thesis at Fifty
How and why do religion and spirituality motivate individuals and collectivities in contemporary Asia to engage in environmental action? This question is at the heart of Religion and Ecological Crisis: Responses from Asia . Across nine chapters, the book examines a wide range of environmental initiatives, ranging from agroecology, waste recycling and dietary change, to a broader cultivation of ecological values and ethics. With case studies from …
Pushing Forty: The Platonic Significance of References to Age in Lucian's Double Indictment and Hermotimus
Opening on Olympus and concluding with two trials involving ‘the Syrian’ (an obvious Lucianic persona), Lucian's Double Indictment (= Bis Acc. ) presents a fantastical scenario that draws on Old Comic, Platonic and biographical models. In the first of the Syrian's two trials, a personified Rhetoric accuses the Syrian of abandoning her, his legitimate wife, for his lover, Dialogue. Dialogue, in turn, accuses the Syrian of hubris , asserting that t…
Old Comedy Revived: Lucian’s Fisherman and Double Indictment
Lucian of Samosata is the Imperial-era author who most closely associates himself with the ribald and satiric humor of Old Comedy. In two of his dialogues, Fisherman and Double Indictment, Lucian takes up Old Comedy’s status as a problematic genre, imagining that a satiric character, who is all but explicitly an authorial cipher, has been brought up on trial for comically debasing philosophy and must defend his use of comedy. Here, through scenar…
A Menandrian Interlude: Alciphron and Old Comedy in Epistolary Form
Alciphron’s collection of 123 fictional letters recreate in miniature the world of Menandrian New Comedy. Three of these letters, however, involve a basic scenario that is reminiscent of Clouds: disputes between a father and son and, in one case, a hetaira and her lover, regarding the corrupting influence of philosophers. Language borrowed directly from Aristophanes’s play further cements this connection. In this context, Old Comedy is subsumed i…
Lucian’s Prolaliai and the Dynamics of Competition
Like the well-known dialogues discussed in the previous chapter, Lucian’s prolaliai, or sophistic prologues, underscore the satirist’s profound engagement with Old Comedy. Despite their obvious differences in form and context, three of these prolaliai—You are a Literary Prometheus, Zeuxis or Antiochus, and Heracles—mimic the agonistic and rhetorical strategies of an Aristophanic parabasis. Of particular interest is the degree to which the comic p…
Old Comedy Transformed: Libanius and the Fourth Century
The fourth century witnessed significant changes in how Old Comedy was read and understood. Not the least significant factor responsible for these changes was the shrinking of the corpus of plays that were readily available. A reference to Old Comedy emerges, then, in a surprising way in Libanius’s Life: the young sophist is struck by lightning while reading Aristophanes’s Acharnians. By referencing Aristophanes’s play in this scene, Libanius dra…
Problem Animals
Nonhuman animals play various roles in environmental ethics, often as charismatic symbols of wilderness or active participants in the natural dramas we seek to preserve. Sometimes, however, nonhuman animals do not fit into—and may even threaten—the “nature” that we value. There are two especially problematic animals: white-tailed deer and feral cats. Together, these creatures shine light on a number of important issues in environmental ethics, in…
Lilian Calles Barger. The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology “explores how the first generation of liberation theologians built their ideas and recast the relationship between politics and religion” (5). Lilian Calles Barger’s focus is on the ways that liberation theologians understood and transformed the relationship between religion and politics. This goal reflects, and reinforces, her very broad definition of liberation theology far b…
Laughter on the fringes the reception of old comedy in the imperial Greek world: The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World
This work examines the reception of Athenian Old Comedy by Greek writers of the imperial era. It explores how the major authors of this period (Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Alciphron, and Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate rivalries, and provide a model for autobiographical writing
Religion and the Possibility of a Materialist Environmental Ethic
In Thinking Like a Mall, Steven Vogel proposes an environmental philosophy “after nature,” meaning one that rejects the division of the world into wild and humanized spaces. This division is false because environments are always constructed by people, who are enmeshed in landscapes and ecological processes. The opposition between wild and humanized parallels the religious division between sacred and profane, according to Vogel. He believes this d…
Theorizing Social Movement Practices
This essay contributes to the systematic and expansive exploration of social movement practices by looking more closely at symbolic and instrumental practices, on the one hand, and works of mercy and structural transformation practices, on the other. The categories we have discussed, while far from perfect, provide valuable tools to understand social movement practices and thus movements in general. We argue that attention to practices can streng…
A Desire to Learn: Native-American Experiences in Lutheran Colleges, 1945-1955
Between 1945 and 1955, nine Native-American students of the Oneida, Ho-Chunk, and Ojibwe tribes attended Lutheran colleges with the support of Reverend Ernest Sihler, Superintendent of the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Indian Mission. Four of the students graduated with bachelor's degrees and two went on to attain PhDs. Regardless of their graduation status, all the students demonstrated educational resilience during their time as undergraduates. …
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