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In conjunction with this interest in historicizing infant salvation and damnation, polemicists even noted the circumcision — or lack thereof — of crucial historical figures at the moment of transition from the Old to the New Law.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

In fact, in A Subtler Magick, Joshi gives us his specific complaints aside from objecting to the style of the story -- Gilman is something of a Poe-character, and there are indeed a few lapses that Joshi catches with exaggerated disdain, which uniformly circle around this 'historicizing' material.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

The abstraction of the Sezession in Vienna, Mackintosh in Glasgow, or Art Deco in America, especially when they were linked, often quite successfully, to more historicizing tendencies such as Byzantine revival or neo-Gothicism, suggest crucial approaches for successful stylistic simplification in an age of high building costs and scarce craftsmen.

The Other Modern: An Introduction 2009

It's surely a feat of Zionist historicizing that otherwise intelligent and moral people in the West continuously affirm the "right of Israel to exist as the Jewish state."

Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010

As for the Levitical commandments typically cited as prohibiting homosexuality, the Hebrew is not as clear as some claim, and the historicizing rationales typically proposed for the injunctions - e.g., keeping up the birth rate, avoiding Canaanite practices -- lack foundation.

The Bible and Sexuality 2011

It's through art history that we see what contemporary art can only suggest: how art over time promotes cultural codes, and as part of its historicizing and status-raising functions--the very functions that make art attractive to the affluent and powerful--art normalizes and perpetuates the specific conventions for a society's arrangement of sex and gender relations and the objects accorded them by the requisites of the dominant homosocial order.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

It's surely a feat of Zionist historicizing that otherwise intelligent and moral people in the West continuously affirm the "right of Israel to exist as the Jewish state."

Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010

It's through art history that we see what contemporary art can only suggest: how art over time promotes cultural codes, and as part of its historicizing and status-raising functions--the very functions that make art attractive to the affluent and powerful--art normalizes and perpetuates the specific conventions for a society's arrangement of sex and gender relations and the objects accorded them by the requisites of the dominant homosocial order.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

It's surely a feat of Zionist historicizing that otherwise intelligent and moral people in the West continuously affirm the "right of Israel to exist as the Jewish state."

Ahmed Moor: Israel's Jewish Character Is Subject for Debate Ahmed Moor 2010

I read elsewhere today that "institutional historicizing almost inevitably excises the spirit of the original millieu it's trying to document"

Rumblings of Change: The Future's So Loud, I Gotta Wear Earplugs BikeSnobNYC 2010