Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs. Different theories deal with different aspects of human religiosity - some focus on religious beliefs, while others focus on religious actions, and still others on the origin of religious ideas. While these theories might share a similar focus, there is plenty of disagreement in the explanations they offer. This volume examines the diversity of new scientific theories of religion, by outlining the logical and causal relationships between these enterprises. Are they truly in competition, as their proponents sometimes suggest, or are they complementary and mutually illuminating accounts of religious belief and practice? Cognitive science has gained much from an interdisciplinary focus on mental function, and this volume explores the benefits that can be gained from a similar approach to the scientific study of religion.

Religious belief, once in the domain of the humanities, has found a new home in the sciences. Promising new developments in the study of religion by cognitive scientists and evolutionary theorists put forward empirical hypotheses regarding the origin, spread, and character of religious beliefs. Different theories deal with different aspects of human religiosity - some focus on religious beliefs, while others focus on religious actions, and still others on the origin of religious ideas. While these theories might share a similar focus, there is plenty of disagreement in the explanations they offer. This volume examines the diversity of new scientific theories of religion, by outlining the logical and causal relationships between these enterprises. Are they truly in competition, as their proponents sometimes suggest, or are they complementary and mutually illuminating accounts of religious belief and practice? Cognitive science has gained much from an interdisciplinary focus on mental function, and this volume explores the benefits that can be gained from a similar approach to the scientific study of religion.

The polemics Pablo Neruda was involved in from the 1930s on are legendary, but not even the ferocity of those attacks would lead one to believe that today, a half a century after his death, he would still be on trial. In this consistent and emphatic book, the great Nerudian critic Hernan Loyola addresses Neruda's sins: the machista, the fableteller, the rapist, the bad husband, the bad father, the plagiarist, the insolent one, the abandoner, the Stalinist and the bourgeois. Loyola's objective is to review and discuss with the greatest amount of intellectual honesty that he can humanly muster as an admiring literary critic and with deep sympathy for his unforgettable friend the most tenacious and disseminated accusations attributed to Pablo Neruda. All told, this book is an impressive biographical and poetic interpretation of the most salient aspects of the Nobel Laureate's life.

The chapbook documents readings and talks from the first annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival, which was held in April, 2009 (Organizers: Buket Aydemir, Pelin Bali, Mehmet C. Ozturk & Birgul Tuzlali). The chapbook is a cooperative publication by scholars, poets, and members of the NC literary community that celebrates the work and influence of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. The chapbook includes commentary by NC Poet Laureate Katherine Stripling Byer, and articles on Nazim Hikmet's life and poetry by Greg Dawes (NC State University) and Erdag Goknar, (Duke University). Eight winning poems and two honorable mentions from the poetry competition are also included, representing the work of poets Judy Light Ayyildiz, Katherine Barnes, Jeffery Beam, David Need, Pamela Richardson, Christopher Salerno, Tony Tost, Chris Vitiello, Guney Acipayamli and Mimi Herman. For information on the festival visit: http: //www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org

Con estos ensayos de los mas nombrados criticos de la obra de Pablo Neruda aqui reunidos, este libro pretende rindirle homenaje al gran critico de la obra del Premio Nobel chileno, Hernan Loyola. Algunos de ellos--los de Pedro Lastra, Jaime Concha, Patricia Poblete Alday, Claudio Rojas y Mario Valdovinos--se dedican a subrayar su importancia capital como docente en Chile o bien su enorme contribucion a los estudios nerudianos al mismo tiempo que destacan el lado personal: su aguda inteligencia, su generosidad, su humor, su ojo para el detalle, su calor humano, su heterodoxia en cuanto a lo academico, entre otras cosas. Los otros son estudios dedicados a la obra y sus alrededores. Abordan tales temas como la dialectica de la tierra y el cielo (Alain Sicard), el amor y la muerte en poesia nerudiana (Selena Millares), la correspondencia entre Dario Puccini y Neruda (Gabriele Morelli), las narraciones fantasticas del poeta (Dario Oses), el entrecruce de narrativas sobre un mismo impostor escritas por Pio Baroja, Jorge Luis Borges y Neruda (Luis Inigo-Madrigal) y la nocion de la democracia que tiene el vate en su etapa anarquista y vanguardista (Greg Dawes). Asi, si bien se trata de rendirle un homenaje al mayor conocedor de la obra de Neruda en el mundo, Hernan Loyola, tambien se quiere aportar nuevas lecturas de la obra del poeta chileno.