An overview of the political, cultural, religious, social, and economic, background to the world of the gospels based on archaeological, historical, and textual studies.     The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It Its People, Customs, and Religion by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-89243-182-2 Liquori Publications One Liquori Drive Liquori, Missouri 63057 (314) 464-2500...

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From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders, English and Spanish alike, took the limited European practice of coerced labor and transformed it into a brutal slavery unlike any that had existed in Europe. This story traces the system of language and logic, religion and society, that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as “others” who merited no human s...

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From the Albigensian Crusade to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, we see how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the dehumanization of groups they have defined into dissent.     Demons by Definition Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent BERKELEY INSIGHTS INLINGUISTICS AND SENIOTICS (35) by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-8204-3928-2 Peter Lang Publishing www.peterlangusa.com...

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This is a look back into years as diverse as the structured privileges of Yale and Paris in the 1950s, to the chaos of Berkeley in the 1960s and 70s from the singular vantage point of contemporary life in the former Soviet Union.  It is a personal view, a story, of a life that still surprises by the extent to which privilege can set the stage for creativity.     The Story of an Accidental Outsider Making Sense of Forty Years as a Pries...

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The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It
Books / July 4, 2018

An overview of the political, cultural, religious, social, and economic, background to the world of the gospels based on archaeological, historical, and textual studies.     The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It Its People, Customs, and Religion by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-89243-182-2 Liquori Publications One Liquori Drive Liquori, Missouri 63057 (314) 464-2500...

How America’s First Settlers Invented Chattel Slavery
Books / July 4, 2018

From New England and Virginia to New Spain and the current Southwest, North America’s founding householders, English and Spanish alike, took the limited European practice of coerced labor and transformed it into a brutal slavery unlike any that had existed in Europe. This story traces the system of language and logic, religion and society, that allowed the settlers to see both Native Americans and Africans as “others” who merited ...

Demons by Definition
Books / July 4, 2018

From the Albigensian Crusade to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, we see how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the dehumanization of groups they have defined into dissent.     Demons by Definition Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent BERKELEY INSIGHTS INLINGUISTICS AND SENIOTICS (35) by David K. O’Rourke ISBN 0-8204-3928-2 Peter Lang Publishing www.peterlan...

The Story of an Accidental Outsider
Books / July 4, 2018

This is a look back into years as diverse as the structured privileges of Yale and Paris in the 1950s, to the chaos of Berkeley in the 1960s and 70s from the singular vantage point of contemporary life in the former Soviet Union.  It is a personal view, a story, of a life that still surprises by the extent to which privilege can set the stage for creativity.     The Story of an Accidental Outsider Making Sense of Forty Years ...