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	American Christian Academy - Phoenix Christian Private School
		American Christian Academy (ACA) is training students to live solely by God’s word.
		It is important that American Christian Academy coincides directly with Spirit Life Church.
		The purpose of American Christian Academy is to provide a superior education in a strong Christian environment.
	www.americanchristianacademy.org (376 words)

	Exhibitions \| 2002 \| Robin Bernat: American Pastoral
		Despite or because of Zalik’s death and Bernat’s ongoing guilt and bereavement, American Pastoral is an ingenuous and agile expression of faith.
		American Pastoral is divided into five parts whose subtitles reflect Bernat’s literary and musical influences: Tender Buttons is the title of a text by Gertrude Stein which Bernat reads in whispers in two separate recordings edited together and dubbed over images of fireworks.
		In one American Pastoral scene, linens blowing in the breeze on a rural clothesline, grass burnt by the sun, light pulsating, all seem to signify an ethereal presence or a vision.
	www.kemperart.org /exhibits/CatalogEssays/bernatrobin.asp (1178 words)

	American Studies
		American studies is an interdisciplinary major that focuses upon life and culture in the United States, past and present, using the resources, techniques, and approaches of a variety of disciplines.
		Students majoring in American studies plan, with faculty advisors, a program of study that reflects their interests in American society and culture: history, the arts, music, literature, government, economics, social structures, sociology and anthropology, institutions, education, and philosophy and religion.
		The course focuses on the cultural themes of agrarian paradise, the geopolitics of land use, sentimental glorifications of the past, the image of the American farmer, and the transformation of the American pastoral landscape.
	www.skidmore.edu /catalog/2005-06/american_studies.htm (4429 words)

	American Pastoral - The World and I Magazine
		And then the loss of the daughter, the fourth American generation, a daughter on the run who was to have been the perfected image of himself as he had been the perfected image of his father, and his father the perfected image of his father's father...
		The daughter who transports him out of the longed-for American pastoral and into everything that is its antithesis and its enemy, into the fury, the violence, and the desperation of the counterpastoral--into the indigenous American berserk.
		History, American history, the stuff you read about in books and study in school, had made its way out to tranquil, untrafficked Old Rimrock, New Jersey, to countryside where it had not put in an appearance that was notable since Washington's army twice wintered in the highlands adjacent to Morristown.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1997/october/ar4.cfm (2418 words)

	'American Pastoral' by Philip Roth
		The pastoral is one of the oldest literary forms, invented over and over since it first appeared in ancient Greece.
		The title, "American Pastoral," seems a natural, even if the setting is postwar Newark, N.J. This is Philip Roth's back yard, fictionally and autobiographically, the birthplace of both the novelist and his alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, the priapic hero of five other novels.
		She is "the daughter who transports him out of the longed-for American pastoral and into everything that is its antithesis and its enemy, into the fury, the violence, and the desperation of the counterpastoral - into the indigenous America berserk."
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19970427review6.asp (746 words)

	American Pastoral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, an all-around good guy whose life is ruined by the "indigenous American berzerk".
		The framing device employed in American Pastoral is a 45th high school reunion attended by frequent Roth alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman.
		Levov's "pastoral" life implodes in a devastating act of violence that changes everything.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Pastoral (829 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: American Pastoral
		American Pastoral is Roth's struggle with that apparent anomaly.
		Is the whole American success story of generations moving from immigrant poverty to the precincts of the gentry a sick delusion?
		American Pastoral is finally more impassioned dialogue with readers than totally convincing story.
	www.bookpage.com /9705bp/fiction/americanpastoral.html (401 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		Now along comes "American Pastoral," a novel about three generations of family life and, in particular, the rupture between a father and daughter that embodies the social upheaval of the '60s.
		"American Pastoral" successfully shoulders its weighty public theme of American optimism undone by a propensity for the extreme.
		She goes into hiding for 25 years, during which time the Swede is tortured, first by not knowing how she is, and then by knowing all too well the madness that has consumed her life.
	www.salon.com /april97/sneaks/sneak970425.html (528 words)

	Boston Review \| Paul Gediman reviews Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
		Both books use baseball as an admission ticket into the American experience; both feature homicides as turning points in the lives of their protagonists; both deal at some length with the blight of once-vibrant urban neighborhoods; and both address the effects of the counterculture.
		American Pastoral is the story of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a third-generation American Jew from Newark, New Jersey, whose life initially embodies the American dream but deteriorates into the story of Job without the happy ending.
		American Pastoral never addresses the extent to which those who rejected the image of America as well-mowed Old Rimrock struggled to articulate an alternate vision--descriptive or prescriptive--of American order.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR22.5/gediman.html (3153 words)

	Sarah Burns: Pastoral Inventions - Print
		In Pastoral Inventions, Sarah Burns proposes a new interpretation of American pastoral landscapes and depictions of rural life.
		Challenging earlier views of the meaning of agrarian themes, her vivid portrayal of nineteenth-century American art, culture, and society argues that these pastoral images, which bore little resemblance to the reality of rural life, performed an important but little-recognized role in support of urban, capitalist, and middle-class cultural dominance in American society.
		At first reflecting a nostalgia for the past as well as an indictment of the evils of city life, pastoral images at mid-century implicitly reinforced Northern ideology, while images of the noble yeoman evolved into humorous portrayals of American farmers as bumpkins and peasants in support of the intellectual and cultural advantages of urban centers.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/589_reg_print.html (421 words)

	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		The study, which is based on a survey of more than 35,000 American adults, estimates that nearly 92 percent of American adults say they believe in God or a universal spirit.
		The findings also point to the fact that Americans take religion seriously, that faith is a very important part of their lives and that many of them attend religious services regularly and pray daily.
		The mission of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is to support the ministry of bishops with an emphasis on evangelization, by which the bishops exercise in a communal and collegial manner certain pastoral functions entrusted to them by the Lord Jesus of sanctifying, teaching, and governing.
	www.usccb.org (954 words)

	American Pastoral
		The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Philip Roth's American Pastoral.
		As Swede Levov watches in bewilderment everything he treasures, everything so industriously created by his family over the course of three generations, is blown up by an angry girl's bomb.
		American Pastoral is a wrenching and cathartic piece of work.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/pastoral (838 words)

	Interrogatory on NRO
		ichael Barone is co-author of The Almanac of American Politics 2002, which debuts this summer, and author of The New Americans.
		One change in American life that I didn't anticipate 30 years ago — and just about no one else did, either — was the large-scale Hispanic and Asian immigration that started up in the late 1960s and has accelerated ever since.
		I think you can see from previous Almanacs — this might be a project for a grad student somewhere — that I have been fairly alert to the emergence of large immigrant populations in states and districts, and to the potential political effects of those movements.
	www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/interrogatory061401.shtml (878 words)

	Dog Primer: Books: American Pastoral (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But, in Pastoral, the reader is put through a zillion permutations of possible dialogs between the Swede and a psychoanalyst, and between his daughter Merry and a psychoanalyst, but absent the psychoanalyst: Roth is our psychoanalyst.
		I loved the plot against american because it was more character based than philosophizing about about the historical context of the times.
		American Pastoral is often very "boring." It pulls you along at such a pace that you're always on the verge of putting it down, until some morsel of action or realization excites you on.
	www.dogprimer.com /shop/1-1000-0375701427-American_Pastoral.html (1965 words)

	American Pastoral
		As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century’s promises of prosperity, civic order and domestic bliss.
		Roth’s protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock.
		An overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk.
	www.mdc.edu /KENDALL/jl/americanpastoral.htm (261 words)

	Pastoral - hzqk.com Info About Pastoral (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy is a theologically CPSP is unique among the national pastoral training and certifying organizations.
		Pastoral Poetry is a literary work dealing with the lives of shepherds or rural The characters in pastoral poetry are often used as vehicles for the
		Pastoral poetry is highly conventionalized; it presents an idealized rather than realistic Common topics of pastoral poetry include love and seduction;
	hzqk.com /hzqk/pastoral.html (532 words)

	American Pastoral. - book reviews Christian Century - Find Articles
		So much apple-pie achievement is really not something Zuckerman finds interesting--until he learns that at age 16 Merry exploded her father's life by setting off a bomb in the local general store and post office in protest against the Vietnam war, killing the family doctor and then vanishing from her parents' lives.
		The impossibility of achieving the American dream of the '50s and the sense of betrayal during the Watergate years may not be compelling themes for younger readers.
		But American Pastoral is engaging not only because Swede appeals to our nostalgia for earlier, seemingly simpler times, but also because Roth uses his story to examine the failures of American idealism in public life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n36_v114/ai_20175663 (682 words)

	The Ten Best Business Novels — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
		By The American From the January/February 2007 Issue
		We presented our list of the Ten Best Business Movies in the November/December issue of The American.
		Foreign governments are investing large sums of money in American companies.
	american.com /archive/2007/january-february-magazine-contents/0116-the-ten-best-business-novels (505 words)

	1998 Pulitzer Prizes-FICTION, Works
		American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall--of a strong confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder.
		For the Swede is not allowed to stay forever blissful inside the beloved hundred-and-seventy-year-old stone farmhouse, in rural Old Rimrock, where he lives with his pretty wife--the college sweetheart who was Miss New Jersey of 1949--and the lively, precocious daughter who is the apple of his eye.
		American Pastoral presents a vivid portrait of how the innocence of Swede Levov is swept away by the times--of how everything industriously created by his family in America over three generations is left in a shambles by the explosion of a bomb in his own bucolic backyard.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1998/fiction/works (331 words)

	The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is not an individual failing, but one common to all the major institutions of American society: governments, political parties, corporations, the media, schools, churches, and trade unions.
		Then these outbreaks are invariably treated, not as a social phenomenon, but as a police problem, to be handled by installing metal detectors, more police, more surveillance cameras, and enlisting the population as collaborators to inform on those with a supposed propensity to violence.
		This is a question posed by Philip Roth in his provocative novel American Pastoral, which tells the story of a family ruined by a teenage daughter's dreadful and unexpected act of violence.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/colo-a27.shtml (1634 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Surviving the Pastoral and Ethical Breach of Pat Robertson
		While the American public has grown somewhat desensitized by those of the theocratic and fanatical religious right, the Robertson episode breached the generally unspoken code of pastoral conduct within the American pastoral community.
		Despite the fact that Robertson could theologically and pastorally benefit from a refresher course on the Ten Commandments, it is his breach of the code of conduct I believe will have a much longer impact on the American pastoral community.
		Thirdly, I would call upon the American pastoral community to call our colleagues to a higher ethical and moral standards and not be timid when we see colleagues breaching those standards.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-9-12/32208.html (895 words)

	American Pastoral movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		The adaptation of Philip Roth's book follows the pair torn apart by the actions of their anti-war daughter, to be played by Evan Rachel Wood, who blows up a post office and accidently kills a doctor before going on the run.
		American dream until his daughter becomes a terrorist bomber.
		This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of American Pastoral and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/a/americanpastoral.htm (389 words)

	American Pastoral \| Metropolis Magazine \| August/September 1999
		There are certain artifacts of the American imagination that seem, uncannily, to anticipate the future--not by predicting its shape but by remaining open to its possibilities.
		It is testimony to how brilliantly the park succeeds that most of the millions of people who use it each year don't recognize it as a work of art at all.
		At a time when the United States was still an overwhelmingly rural nation, he foresaw the scale and density of its cities, and he understood what it would take to make them livable.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0899/au99ame.htm (1335 words)

	Amazon.com: American Pastoral: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete.
		In the novel as a representative of the past, the hero's father rants about American having strayed from her "path", whilst his idealistic daughter, representative of the future, acts to give reality to her beliefs by disowning her mother and her family and becoming a "terrorist" and murderer.
		AMERICAN PASTORAL may be described as a novel of ideas, but to me the characters are so vivid and memorable, and the narrative so strong, that such a description amounts to a disservice.
	www.amazon.com /American-Pastoral-Philip-Roth/dp/0375701427 (2475 words)

	The American Association of Pastoral Counselors (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is seeking a Pastoral Care and Counseling Professor to join a nationally recognized program in Marriage and Family Therapy.
		Send letter of interest and cv by July 6, 2005 to: Search Committee, Danielsen Institute, 185 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, or to cellis@bu.edu.
		Executive Director — The Lutheran Counseling Center, a faith-based pastoral counseling center located in the Metropolitan NY area, with an annual budget of over $1 million seeks an Executive Director to be responsible for overall management and administration of a successful community based counseling center.
	www.aapc.org /jobs.htm (445 words)

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	Asian Pastors Poised for Leadership, Church Growth - Christian Reformed Church
		Del Rosario is an ordained ministry associate and founding pastor of Living Faith Fellowship in Hayward, California.
		The group’s stated goal is to “support each other to grow in pastoral excellence so that we can collectively prepare well for the future of Asian churches in the CRC.” Pastor del Rosario is convinced that this goal is being realized.
		It has become a safe haven for the pastors who make up its membership, a place to experience the joy of prayer, mutual support and fellowship.
	www.crcna.org /pages/stories_asian_pastors.cfm (663 words)

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