The United States of America today are home to one of the most religious societies in the world; it certainly is the most religious western democracy. Despite increasing secularisation and ever more abandoned pews in modern Europe, it defies the sociologist theory that modernisation and secularisation necessarily go hand in hand. And for the past [...]

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Electronic publishing, or e-publishing, emerged into the open from the depths of corporate and university archives as part of the late 1990s “dot com” hysteria. Reminiscent of fears that television would bring about the end of the newspaper business, or the Internet the end of television, some dreaded the advent of e-publishing as the new [...]

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