1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460920903321

Titolo

The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present / / edited by Mark Vessey [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Boca Raton, Florida ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4426-6043-0

1-4426-5949-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Green College thematic lecture series

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Nationalism

Nationalism - Bible teaching

Nationalism - Religious aspects

Religion and state

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction The Bible in the West: A Peoples' History? / Vessey, Mark -- Part One. Biblical Possessions -- 2. Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine / Akenson, Donald Harman -- 3. Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) / Matar, Nabil I. -- 4. Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible / Levitt, Laura S. -- 5. Recalling the Nation's Terrain: Narrative, Territory, and Canon (Commentary on Part One) / Daum, Robert A. -- Part Two. Confounding Narratives -- 6. Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great, and the Exegesis of Empire / Maier, Harry O. -- 7. Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought / Pollmann, Karla -- 8. 'The Ends of the Earth': The Bible, Bibles, and the Other in Early Medieval Europe / Wood, Ian -- 9. Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) / Vessey, Mark -- Part Three. Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern



Ironies -- 10. The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 / Goddard, Peter A. -- 11. Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites, and Indians / Donaldson, Laura E. -- 12. Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples / Weaver, Jace -- 13. Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) / Maier, Harry O. -- 14. Epilogue 'Paradise Highway': Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices / Betcher, Sharon V. -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western - and particularly European and North American - assumptions about the nature and meaning of the nation.Part of the Green College Lecture Series, this wide-ranging collection moves from the earliest Pauline and Rabbinic exegesis through Christian imperial and missionary narratives of the late Roman, medieval, and early modern periods to the entangled identity politics of 'mainstream' nineteenth-and twentieth-century North America. Taken together, the essays show that, while theories of globalization, postmodernism, and postcolonialism have all offered critiques of identity politics and the nation-state, the global present remains heavily informed by biblical-historical intuitions of nationhood.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910877632303321

Titolo

Bacterial stress responses [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gisela Storz and Regine Hengge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : ASM Press, c2011

ISBN

1-68367-121-X

1-283-03443-3

9786613034434

1-55581-684-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (524 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HenggeRegine

StorzGisela

Disciplina

571.2/93

579.3

Soggetti

Adaptation (Physiology)

Microorganisms - Physiology

Stress (Physiology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES; 1. Structure and Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks; 2. Architecture and Dynamics of Transcriptional Networks; 3. Regulation by Alternative Sigma Factors; 4. The Role of Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems in Bacterial Stress Responses; 5. Roles of mRNA Stability, Translational Regulation, and Small RNAs in Stress Response Regulation; 6 Role of Proteolysis and Chaperones in Stress Response and Regulation; II. SPECIES STRESS RESPONSES; 7. Cellular Response to Heat Shock and Cold Shock

8. Envelope Stress9. Osmotic Stress; 10 Sensing and Responding to Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species; 11. Global Responses of Bacteria to Oxygen Deprivation; 12. Sensing Metals: the Versatility of Fur; 13. The DNA Damage Response; III. GENERAL STRESS RESPONSES; 14. The Stringent Response; 15. The General Stress Response in Gram-Negative Bacteria; 16. The General Stress Response in Alphaproteobacteria; 17. General Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis



and Related Gram-Positive Bacteria; 18. Resistance of Bacterial Spores; 19. Protection against Foreign DNA

20. More than Just a Quorum: Integration of Stress and Other Environmental Cues in Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Signaling21. Biofilms; 22. Persister Bacteria; IV. PATHOGENIC RESPONSES; 23. Bacterial Responses to the Host Cell; 24. Phase Variation; V. BACTERIA THRIVING IN STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENTS; 25. Metamicrobiology: Analyzing Microbial Behavior at the Community Level; 26. Life at te Extremes of Temperature; 27. Comparative Genomics of Stress Response Systems in Deinococcus Bacteria; VI. APPLICATIONS OF STRESS RESPONSE STUDIES

28. Redox Mechanisms and Reactive Oxygen Species in Antibiotic Action and Resistance29. Applications of Stress Response Studies: Biofuel Production; 30. Microbial Bioremediation of Chemical Pollutants: How Bacteria Cope with Multi-Stress Environmental Scenarios; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of Bacterial Stress Responses incorporates and reviews the vast number of new findings that have greatly advanced the understanding of bacterial stress responses in the decade since the publication of the first edition. Readers will discover how this improved understanding not only enhances our knowledge of all cellular regulation at the molecular level, but also provides new ammunition in the fight against pathogens and helps optimize the use of bacteria in biotechnology.