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In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.

Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and,...

Nineteenth-century Canada experienced two other revolutions apart from those of W.L. Mackenzie and Louis Riel: the transition to capitalism, and to responsible government. Union Is Strength argues that these major socio-political changes happened in Ontario without a revolutionary moment because of the intertwined relationship of reformers with capitalists. Examining a small, utopian socialist group named the Children of Peace, Albert Schrauwers traces the emergence of a vibrant democratic culture in the province from the decade before the Rebellions of 1837.

Schrauwers shows...

Synthetische Biologie ist ein neuer Wissenschaftszweig, der grosse Hoffnungen auf Fortschritte in der Medizin, in der Landwirtschaft und in den Energie-, Ernahrungs- und Gesundheitswirtsschaftszweigen weckt. Zurzeit ist die Forschung so weit, dass man - wenn auch noch recht primitiv - neues Leben erschaffen kann.

Obwohl molekulare Genetik kein Alltagsthema ist, wird sie hier so dargestellt, dass ein breites Publikum sie leicht verstehen kann. Es wird erzahlt, wie das Erbgut, die DNA, entschlusselt wurde und wie man sie heute synthetisch produzieren kann. Dabei werden die Risiken und...

The To Pamona, the people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, exhibit the effects of a complicated history of colonial contact. In this anthropological study, Albert Schrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona.

Schrauwers reveals how a unique discourse on religion in the Netherlands was exported to its colony, Indonesia. The missionaries fostered a religious nationalism that ultimately transformed the region's cultural and political identity over the course of the subsequent century. The role of the...