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It is contended that the epoch of modernity is distinguished by the prevalence of subjectivity & identity. Insight into identity as liberation & liberation as identity, the dialectical faces of self-reflection & self-consciousness, is a prized aspect of modernity that allows individuals to be the subject of their own representations, & places them on the path to liberation. Perils that can block the transition from objecthood to subjecthood & prevent meaningful identity construction include (1) presenting identities as self-created, self-sufficient, & autonomous; (2) believing that identities are essences & therefore inescapable; (3) construing identities as empirical data; (4) expecting the true nature of an identity to appear in a flash of insight; (5) waiting for a leader to point the way to discovering one's identity; & (6) de- & reterritorializing the self of an identity. It is contended that understanding these pitfalls increases awareness of the entwinement of identity & liberation, as well as the social space in which both occur. J. Lindroth

SPIRITUALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN IMPORTANT DIMENSION OF CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD. IN FACT, FOR MOST OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLES, RELIGION HELPS TO CONSTRUCT THE PUBLIC REALM. MOREOVER, AS THE AUTHORS OF THIS ARTICLE SUBSTANTIATE, SPIRITUALITY EMBODIED IN RELIGION HAS SERVED AS THE FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL DIFFERENCES, RACIAL CONFLICTS, CLASS EXPLOITATION, AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION, ON THE ONE HAND, AS WELL AS FOR THE RESOLUTION AND THE ACHIEVEMNT OF FULL HUMANITY FOR THOSE AT THE BOTTOM OF ALL SOCIETIES, ON THE OTHER HAND. RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY REMAINS BOTH ENDEMIC TO CONTROVERSY AND EMPOWERING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.

Summary In a recent paper Snee and Marquardt [8] considered designs for linear mixture models, where the components are subject to individual lower and/or upper bounds. When the number of components is large their algorithm XVERT yields designs far too extensive for practical purposes.The purpose of this paper is to describe a numerical procedure resulting in a design of fixed size N, which is approximately D‐optimal, and where the components may be subject to linear constraints (f.e. upper or lower bounds). The proposed method is more generally applicable for models linear in the independent variables and the parameters and the convex hull of the experimental region is a polyhedron whose vertices are known.