Science and Religion in Elizabethan England.

The Virgin Knight: Spenser’s Embodiment of Duality in Elizabethan England

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...

Science and religion.

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Certainly no one in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, could have guessed that one of their own born that year would someday receive global praise for his undisputed genius, meriting recently the coveted title “person of the century” (Time magazine). Likewise, international fame was probably not what Albert Einstein himself anticipated in 1895 when he failed the entrance exam for the Federal Polytechnical I...

Religion, science and markets.

in 2001, a food scandal raged through­ out indonesia. the indonesian ulemas council (Mui; Jakarta, indonesia) accused a Japanese company of using pork products in the production of the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSg), and demanded that the indonesian govern­ ment take appropriate action. it was a serious accusation: if true, the company would have violated halal rules, which forbid ...

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