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Reviewed by: The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Ethan Shagan Rose Luminiello The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment BY ETHAN SHAGAN Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiv + 385 pages. Hardback: $35.00/£30.00. ISBN: 9780691174747. The Birth of Modern Belief is a triumphant re-examination of what we mean by "belief." In this book Ethan Shagan takes his readers on an erudite journey through intellectual history, into diverse histories of philosophy, theology, and social power through most of human history. Starting with the European Middle Ages and the collective belief in the Catholic Church, Shagan traces how belief as a concept shifted, and why these shifts were related to various forms of social and religious inclusion and exclusion. The author follows the development of belief through its Early Modern and Reformation iterations as multiple belief systems. He argues that redefining the category of belief by defining the "unbeliever" opened up the category of belief to dissent and disagreement, both acceptable and unacceptable. Shagan explains this as a new mode of belief in which "Catholics disciplined populations to believe, Protestants learned how to [End Page 171] discipline unbelievers"—the Catholics, he argues, tightened control of belief by relying on their authority, while Reformation Protestants continued to tighten definitions of true belief and policing those who did not have it (124–25). Just as he has offered a new understanding of the Reformation through the lens of belief, Shagan also proffers a reframing of the Enlightenment project of rationalizing belief as a period wherein belief became "a second-order commitment to the autonomous judgment of the believing subject," a model which overthrew the confessional project of belief (247). This book is written in such an engaging, relaxed, and truly masterful manner that it is hard to believe that you have come to modern belief and the end of the book so quickly, despite the vast amount of historical knowledge imparted to the reader since the introduction. Modern belief, Shagan argues, owes its heritage to the Enlightenment as he framed it. It is the state of society in which all individually held beliefs are equal. Modern belief, broadly speaking, has not disappeared with secularism but rather abounded, and burst beyond the boundaries of religion to encompass belief in such things as government, nature, science, and beyond. In the Birth of Modern Belief Shagan provides a nuanced historical account of the philosophical and theological developments of belief in which it has been simultaneously a category of inclusion and exclusion, reason, and faith. Although some scholars have taken issue with Shagan's use of the traditional division of history into periods comprised of the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Enlightenment, and Modernity, his evaluation of the development of intellectual thought, rather, reinforces the appropriateness of these divisions. The author has offered historians and scholars in many disciplines a new way to understand how belief and belonging are intrinsically tied together throughout European history and how the process of either justifying one's belonging or excluding others has been done through intellectual exercises and theological belief. The thread Shagan traces through centuries of intellectual thought ultimately delivers a new framework to understand not only our historical antecedents, but the ways in which we engage with belonging today. This book, for example, would greatly enhance studies of political allegiance and partisanship by providing an understanding of how people come to "believe in" politicians in the first place, and what that means for communal belonging. For Newman scholars, The Birth of Modern Belief offers a significant contribution to Newman's intellectual negotiations of and writings on his own belief. Shagan posits, for example, that the Enlightenment effect on belief was the emphasis on the individual's ability to judge what should be believed through a value system of probabilities and historical belief. Particularly around his conversion, this was exactly the process in which Newman engaged. In the Apologia Pro Vita Sua, for example, Newman appealed to reason to explain his belief in Catholicism and claimed that the world may judge truth and virtue, and...

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In the current era, the feature reduction is an essential part of the classification algorithms, methodologies and algorithms. When a set of features is extracted from a text document, then these features collectively make a huge, large volume high dimensional data set and contain large space and long time to be processed each time. This challenge requires a new text classification forum which can find the solution to remedy it. In this paper, a Fuzzy Similarity based Concept Mining Model Using Feature Clustering (FSCMM-FC) is proposed which capably categorizes various seen and known text documents into different predefined and mutually exclusive categories groups by keeping the data (or feature set dimension) very low. The paper also discusses a case study of 4 text documents to analyze the proposed system. The analysis shows that the system provides 70–75 % improved results; thereby increasing the system performance drastically.

There has been speculation in the literature about a link between fluoxetine use and suicidal behavior. The authors of this study hypothesized that there is no elevation in risk of suicidal behavior associated with use of fluoxetine. The data come from the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Depression Study, a prospective, naturalistic follow-up of persons who presented for treatment of affective disorders. The analyses included data on 643 subjects who were followed up after fluoxetine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December 1987 for the treatment of depression. Nearly 30% (N = 185) of the study group was treated with fluoxetine at some point during the follow-up period. Relative to the other subjects, those who were subsequently treated with fluoxetine had onset of affective illness at a younger age and, after intake into the study and before 1988, had elevated rates of suicide attempts before fluoxetine treatment. A mixed-effects survival analysis that incorporated treatment exposure time, multiple treatment trials, and multiple suicide attempts per subject showed that relative to no treatment, use of fluoxetine and use of other somatic antidepressants were associated with nonsignificant reductions in the likelihood of suicide attempts or completions. Severity of psychopathology was strongly associated with elevated risk, and each suicide attempt after intake into the Collaborative Depression Study was associated with a marginally significant increase in risk of suicidal behavior. The results do not support the speculation that fluoxetine increases the risk of suicide. Rather, there was a nonsignificant reduction in risk of suicidal behavior among patients treated with fluoxetine, even though those subjects were more severely ill before treatment with fluoxetine.

The factors that determine progression of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN) to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are unknown. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor, suggesting polymorphism at loci that encode carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes such as glutathione S-transferase (GSTT1, GSTM1) and cytochrome P450 (CYP2D6) may determine susceptibility to these cancers. We have studied the frequency of the null genotype at the theta class GSTT1 locus in women with low-grade CIN, high-grade CIN and SCC. The control group comprised women with normal cervical pathology suffering menorrhagia. We found the frequency of GSTT1 null in the control and case groups was not significantly different, though frequency distributions of combinations of the genotype with smoking in mutually exclusive groups in the high-grade CIN group and the other case groups were significantly different. Interactive effects of GSTT1 null with the GSTM1 null and CYP2D6 EM genotypes, and cigarette smoking were also studied by comparing the multinomial frequency distributions of these factors over mutually exclusive categories. These showed no significant differences between the controls and SCC or low-grade CIN. Frequency distributions in high-grade CIN, however, were significantly different to the controls, and both SCC and low-grade CIN; frequency distributions of GSTT1 null with smoking and CYP2D6 EM, individually and in combination, were significantly different. However, inspection of our data does not indicate that GSTT1 null is a major factor mediating risk. Thus, comparison of chi 2 values for the differences between frequency distributions in high-grade CIN and other groups shows that values for combinations of GSTT1 null with other factors are lower than those for equivalent combinations with smoking and CYP2D6 EM. Interestingly, the combination GSTT1 null/GSTM1 null did not appear to influence susceptibility to CIN or SCC.