Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper provides an alternative account of John Calvin's political thought, arguing that the aesthetic dimension of his thought, rather than some form of anxiety, is the source of the worldly activism associated with him.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: To open a small window on the Reformation’s significant but stunted impact on the formation of the modern self, this chapter will 1) highlight Calvin’s individualist modifications to Thomistic theology, 2) reveal the political implications of these innovations for the English Puritan movement of the seventeenth century, and 3) expose the broad consonance of Locke’s individualism with Calvin’s, while also noting the points of departure that decisively (and intentionally) undermine evangelical self-understanding.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Abstract
This textual analysis considers the 2000 Benetton Death Row advertising campaign and the 1995 Calvin Klein Jeans campaign as sites of cultural production, concentrating on the receptive disparities between “local” and “global.” We consider how each campaign is articulated within the prestige press: The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and The Washington Post, comparing the campaigns on the basis of local or global origin and within an historical context. Placing the media frames in correspondence with the respective social and political conditions, we examine the ideological articulations embedded within mediated discourse. Our study also attempts to understand how hegemony, as communicated through media, influences perception and reception of local cultural production and messages of a foreign “other.”