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Referring to possible conflicts between TNCs and sovereign state , Panic points out that the differences in their respective preoccupations arise from their different responsibilities . Using the electronic archive with the same name as the class , we 'll explore the story of Stowe 's story as a cultural phenomenon , as a site on which the nation has defined and redefined many of its central preoccupations , from religion to race and gender to the meaning of slavery . Not least of the surprises in store for the reader will be the extent to which religious groups , who throughout this period made a point of distinguishing themselves from each other with singular ferocity , continued , in fact , to be drawn together by the mute force of common intellectual preoccupations and , even when they fought most fiercely ( by attacking the cult sites of their rivals ) , by the oceanic weight of shared notions of the sacred . Though my reasons for taking up sociology of religion in particular were somewhat more complicated , decoding the Protestant smile was one of my early preoccupations . Like The Spider 's Stratagem , a subtle anatomy of Italy 's fascist past , but here the playful Borgesian time-traveling is replaced by a more personal drive which heralds the Oedipal preoccupations that haunt Bertolucci 's later work .