This paper compares the politics of a failed religious movement to ban alcohol advertising in the 1950s with the politics of a more secular, and partially successful, movement to regulate alcohol marketing in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the contexts of the two marketing control movements were quite different, the continuities were equally striking. Both employed arguments about youth, social ...

rt is eternal, Alfons Mucha maintained, so it could never be merely “nouveau” (1). Contradicting those who saw him as part of a larger art movement, he insisted that his work was his alone. He followed his own creative impulses, was inspired by Czech folk traditions, and sought the spiritual in art. Yet, his palette so expressed the aesthetics of art nouveau that the movement was dubbed le styl...

there might be diverse modern schools of reform in any religion. this paper categorizes modern hindu and muslim religious thinkers into three groups based on their traditionalist and modernistic concerns. first group are those with futuristic modern thoughts who give more weight to the future and attempt to make old religions compatible to the modern world and present modern religion deserving ...

The metaphysical movement was a loosely arranged philosophical and religious movement. It initially emerged dwillg the 1830s from Emerson's transcenden· talism but its cornerstone was splritualism from which spread a variety of sects • . This paper will explore D.D. Palmer's activity in both spiritualism and an impor· tant offshoot called Theosophy .It will examine how Palmer's involvement prob...