JOHN MODERN http://www.johnmodern.com Historian. Curator. Vinyl Collector. Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 SPEAK Magazine http://www.johnmodern.com/2012/08/15/speak-magazine/ http://www.johnmodern.com/2012/08/15/speak-magazine/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:25:16 +0000 admin http://www.johnmodern.com/?p=326

“Smells Like Moby-Dick,” SPEAK Magazine, Fall 2000. 

 

 

 

“The Night Before Christmas It’s Always the Same,” SPEAK Magazine, Spring 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 REVIEW: Anthropology Review Database

“A fascinating and complex argument examines evangelical Christianity, phrenology, spiritualism, penology, and even early anthropology …” read on >

 

REVIEW: Michael Warner at The Immanent Frame

“Modern has certainly deepened our understanding of the field, and his book illustrates strikingly how rapidly the analysis of secularity is emerging … read on >”

 

REVIEW: Justine Murison at Common-Place

“historically rich and analytically keen . . . a luminous study of the discursive terrain and affective engagements of secularism in the first half of the nineteenth century … read on >”

 

 

 

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“Happy Me,” 1966

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fall – Eat Y’Self Fitter (1983)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Charles Estienne, De Dissectione Partium Corporis Humani Libri Tres. Wood engraving attributed to Jean Jollat. Paris, France; 1545.

Rene Descartes, The Pineal Gland (1644)

 

Thomas Willis, Cerebri Anatome (1664), illustration by Christopher Wren (yep, that Christopher Wren)

 

Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corpus Fabrica (1543)

Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corpus Fabrica (1543)

The Mystery of the Human Mind, engraving, Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmic Majoris, 1617–1621

Phrenological Bust (L.N. Fowler), c1860

Frontal Cortex Connectivity map (2008), Bruno B. Averback and Moonsang Seo

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A course designed under the auspices of the Young Scholar’s of American Religion Program (2005-2006). Click here for PDF.

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Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. (February 23, 2012)

 

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“My Evangelical Conviction,” RELIGION 42:3 (2102): 439-57

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