Oxford University Press

Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. Such practices most often received attention when they came into conflict with biomedical practice. During the 1990s, however, the American cultural landscape changed dramatically and religious healing became a commonplace feature of our society. The essays in this...

Is Walter Scott to blame for the limitations of modern Scotland? In  Possible Scotlands, Caroline McCracken-Flesher argues that Scott used his position as popular author to negotiate a national identity for his homeland. The variety of Scott's tales suggest not a Scotland receding into the past, but one energetically alive in the past and future of...

Spiritual Empowerment, Benevolence, and the Experience of God's LoveDrawing on an extensive survey of 1,200 Christian men and women across the United States, as well as 120 in-depth interviews, Matthew T. Lee, Margaret M. Poloma, and Stephen G. Post offer a deeper and more nuanced study of religion and benevolence, finding that it is the experience...

This book is the first full-length study of two key magazines published in Britain before the First World War:    Rhythm and the     Blue Review, which were edited by and featured authors including John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and D.H. Lawrence. It brings a fresh and challenging perspective to the ongoing reappraisal of modernism....

A text for graduates and researchers in computational neuroscience and stochastic systems, concentrating on the intersection between stochastic dynamics and neuroscience, through the presentation of a series of self-contained chapters on major aspects of noise and neuroscience, each written by an expert in their particular field....

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