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This volume reviews the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. The essays cover a wide range of materials and question traditional understandings of material culture in Ephesos.

The n-word inAdventures of Huckleberry Finnis a significant contribution to Twain's message, as digital analysis reveals, leading us to understand Twain's methods and targets as somewhat different from what many critics assume, exposing the racism in otherwise “kind” people.

This research aimed to examine the effects of visiting exhibitions and participating in the activities offered by science centers on raising the interest of second level students of primary education in science and improving their academic achievements. Thirty one 8th grade students chosen randomly from primary schools participated in the research carried out in the Feza Gursey Science Center (FGBM) in Ankara in November 2005. The \"Single Group Pre Test-Post Test Model\" was used in the research. The data was obtained through an \"interest scale\" and an \"academic achievement test\" prepared by the researcher. Descriptive statistics, One-Way ANOVA, and Simple Linear Regression Analysis were utilized in data analysis. Study results showed that the exhibitions and activities carried out in FGBM brought about a permanent increase in the 8th grade students' interest in science and thus improved their academic achievement. In terms of predicting the interest scores of the students in the experimental group, the relationship between the interest scores and academic achievement scores was examined and it was observed that there was not a meaningful relationship between academic achievement and the interest scores of the students. Within this context, it is very important to develop museum training programs associated with the primary education curriculum and taking learning theories and teaching methods into consideration. Furthermore, it is necessary to repeat planned visits at sufficient intervals on a regular basis. (Contains 5 tables and 2 endnotes.)

[...]the third assertion claims that prosecular political and state actors endeavor to privatize religion while conservative parties including the Muslim-conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) want to \"passively\" protect the freedom of public religion while avoiding state promotion of any particular religion. [...]it contends that despite their suppression of facets of Islam that were deemed to be backwards, superstitious, or proancient regime (the Ottoman state that the republic replaced), actor intentions that shaped Turkish secularism included those that sought to reform Islam and promote it for nation-building, public morality, and bolstering state legitimacy.

Just one extra year of schooling makes someone 10% less likely to attend a church, mosque or temple, pray alone or describe himself as religious, concludes a paper published on October 6th that looks at the relationship between religiosity and the length of time spent in school. Its uses changes in the compulsory school-leaving age in 11 European countries between 1960 and 1985 to tease out the impact of time spent in school on belief and practice among respondents to the European Social Survey, a long-running research project.

The aim in this cast study of the Turkish village of Sakarya was to focus on how the social changes it has undergone have affected its social structure, & how the social structure has affected the social-psychological make-up of the community. A questionnaire was administered in interview form, in 1969-70, to all adult M's (N=79). Social structural variables were (a) household type, (b) rank or economic status, which was determined by 5 village judges, & (c) cooperative participation. Social-psychological variables were of 2 types: subjective evaluations of social position, which included indices of Optimism & Security; & variables related to \"individual modernity,\" wit indices of educational aspiration, mass media exposure, family permissiveness, liberalism to women, religious strictness, superstitious beliefs, & superstitious practices. A differentiation appeared among the variables related to individual modernity. \"Thus, while modernity in the areas of education & mass media exposure was associated with higher ES, & younger age for reasons of availability, changes in familial attitudes were found to rest largely on feelings of pessimism & insecurity about the village caused by structural changes in the economy & household composition. It was cooperative participation which had wider implications for a more integrated individual modernity, & implied in addition a significantly more secular & nonsuperstitious outlook.\" There are 2 types of modernizing influences which have produced distinct & only partially interconnected cresults: influences having their source in increased mobility & Ur exposure, & influences stemming more directly from structural changes in the village. The measures of strict SE background were of limited use in predicting attitudes, \"while broader orientations such as cooperative participation, security & optimism involving more complex determinants of group affiliation or cognitive orientation had a more direct bearing on attitudes.\" 4 Tables. H. Dorian.