Search Results - "Secularity"

How women saved the city by Spain, Daphne

Table of Contents: “…Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New york City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Bboston, Chicago, and New York City.…”
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How women saved the city by Spain, Daphne

Table of Contents: “…Voluntary vernacular -- Why cities needed saving -- Sacred and secular organizational ideologies -- Voluntary associations with an urban presence -- New york City headquarters, smaller city branches -- Boston, the cradle of redemptive places -- Men build Chicago's skyline, women redeem the city -- How women saved the city -- Appendix A : literature review -- Appendix B : organizational charters -- Appendix C : addresses of redemptive places for Bboston, Chicago, and New York City.…”
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Social change, resistance and social practices

Table of Contents: “…Canales and Israel Montiel Armas -- The global structuring of gender, race, and class : conceptual sites of its dynamics and resistance in the Philippine experience / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern -- Dismantling the defensive wall of the colonized : the veil and the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools / Mohammad A. …”
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Social change, resistance and social practices

Table of Contents: “…Canales and Israel Montiel Armas -- The global structuring of gender, race, and class : conceptual sites of its dynamics and resistance in the Philippine experience / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern -- Dismantling the defensive wall of the colonized : the veil and the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools / Mohammad A. …”
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The mythic forest, the green man and the spirit of nature the re-emergence of the spirit of nature from ancient times into modern society / by Varner, Gary R.

Table of Contents: “…-- The green man in myth -- A discussion of the validity of the green man myth -- The green man and the church -- The secular image of the green man -- What's in a name? …”
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A companion to Marsilius of Padua

Table of Contents: “…Courtenay -- Medicine and the body politic in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis -- Marsilius of Padua's principles of secular politics -- Marsilius of Padua on church and state / Bettina Koch -- The spirituality of the church: scripture, salvation, and sacraments / Michael J. …”
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The mythic forest, the green man and the spirit of nature the re-emergence of the spirit of nature from ancient times into modern society / by Varner, Gary R.

Table of Contents: “…-- The green man in myth -- A discussion of the validity of the green man myth -- The green man and the church -- The secular image of the green man -- What's in a name? …”
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A companion to Marsilius of Padua

Table of Contents: “…Courtenay -- Medicine and the body politic in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis -- Marsilius of Padua's principles of secular politics -- Marsilius of Padua on church and state / Bettina Koch -- The spirituality of the church: scripture, salvation, and sacraments / Michael J. …”
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Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / by Scheman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.…”
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Person and society in American thought a study in Christian humanism / by Murphy, Cornelius F.

Table of Contents: “…Freedom, grace, and nature -- Renaissance and reformation -- A New England revival -- The lingering sense of sin -- Self and society -- Individualism and fellowship -- Personal integrity and general chaos -- The religion of social solidarity -- Pragmatism and idealism -- The affirmation of practical life -- The search for a higher power -- Multiplicity and unity -- From beloved community to mass society -- The transformation of sin and redemption -- The primacy of social experience -- The equalization of life -- Toward a new Christian humanism -- Religion and democracy -- Rethinking human nature -- Societies secular and sacred.…”
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Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / by Scheman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.…”
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Person and society in American thought a study in Christian humanism / by Murphy, Cornelius F.

Table of Contents: “…Freedom, grace, and nature -- Renaissance and reformation -- A New England revival -- The lingering sense of sin -- Self and society -- Individualism and fellowship -- Personal integrity and general chaos -- The religion of social solidarity -- Pragmatism and idealism -- The affirmation of practical life -- The search for a higher power -- Multiplicity and unity -- From beloved community to mass society -- The transformation of sin and redemption -- The primacy of social experience -- The equalization of life -- Toward a new Christian humanism -- Religion and democracy -- Rethinking human nature -- Societies secular and sacred.…”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion.…”
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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion.…”
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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How happy to call oneself a Turk provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity / by Brockett, Gavin D.

Table of Contents: “…Imagining the secular nation : Mustafa Kemal and the creation of modern Turkey -- Narrating the nation : print culture and the nationalist historical narrative -- Provincial newspapers and the emergence of a national print culture -- Religious print media and the national print culture -- Muslim Turks against Russian communists : the Turkish nation in the emerging Cold War world -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mehmed the Conqueror : negotiating a national historical narrative -- Religious reactionaries or Muslim Turks? …”
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Islam and the making of the nation : Kartosuwiryo and political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia / by Formichi, Chiara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : new perspectives on political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia -- Planting the seeds : Java, the nationalist movement and Kartosuwiryo in the 1920s -- Political Islam in changing times : Sarekat Islam and Masyumi under the Dutch and Japanese occupations (1930-1945) -- Religious resistance and secular politics : laying the foundations of the Indonesian state (1945-1947) -- Building the Islamic state : from ideal to reality (1947-1949) -- The 'War of the Roses' : the Islamic state and the Pancasila Republic (1949-1962) -- From rebellion to martyrdom? …”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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