The politics of neglect: policing, institutionalising, and providing for ‘neglected children’ in late nineteenth-century Queensland (1881-1900)

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2006.33.1.1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Dewi Jones

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Plant Physiology ◽

Marine Algae ◽

Plant Distribution ◽

The Arctic ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Major Study ◽

The Subject ◽

Late Nineteenth

John Lloyd Williams was an authority on the arctic-alpine flora of Snowdonia during the late nineteenth century when plant collecting was at its height, but unlike other botanists and plant collectors he did not fully pursue the fashionable trend of forming a complete herbarium. His diligent plant-hunting in a comparatively little explored part of Snowdonia led to his discovering a new site for the rare Killarney fern (Trichomanes speciosum), a feat which was considered a major achievement at the time. For most part of the nineteenth century plant distribution, classification and forming herbaria, had been paramount in the learning of botany in Britain resulting in little attention being made to other aspects of the subject. However, towards the end of the century many botanists turned their attention to studying plant physiology, a subject which had advanced significantly in German laboratories. Rivalry between botanists working on similar projects became inevitable in the race to be first in print as Lloyd Williams soon realized when undertaking his major study on the cytology of marine algae.

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Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

Cultural History ◽

10.3366/cult.2015.0090 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 113-135

Author(s):

Lucila Mallart

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Built Environment ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Nation Building ◽

Constitutive Relationship ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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