Search Results - "secularism"

Israeli television : global contexts, local visions /

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Human diversity in education : an integrative approach / by Cushner, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Education in a changing society -- Multicultural education : historical and theoretical perspectives -- Culture and the culture-learning process -- Classrooms and schools as cultural crossroads -- Intercultural development : considering the growth of self and others -- Creating classrooms that address race and ethnicity -- The classroom as a global community : nationality and region -- Developing learning communities : language and learning style -- Religious pluralism in secular classrooms -- Developing a collaborative classroom : gender and sexual orientation -- Creating inclusive classrooms : the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension -- Creating developmentally appropriate classrooms : the importance of age and developmental status -- Improving schools for all children : the role of social class and social status in teaching and learning.…”

Liberal faith essays in honor of Philip Quinn /

Table of Contents: “…Griffiths -- Part III: Political philosophy -- Moral foundations of liberal democracy, secular reasons, and liberal neutrality toward the good / Robert Audi -- Egalitarianism without equality? …”
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The Insistence of Art : Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Strokes of Wit: Theorizing Beauty in Baroque Italy -- 9. Goya: Secularization and the Aesthetics of Belief.…”
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The politics of religion in Soviet-occupied Germany the case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 / by Brennan, Sean (Sean Philip), 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The brown dictatorship before the red: the German churches under national socialism -- The question of the CDU and the churches during the period of the "antifascist transformation, "1945-1947 -- The Volkscongress movement and the end of the CDU's political independence, December 1946 -October1949 -- "Unity schools are secular schools": the struggle over religious education in the secondary schools of Berlin Brandenburg -- The competition between socialist and religious youth and women's organizations in Berlin-Brandenburg -- The conflict over charitable activity by the evangelical and Catholic churches in Berlin-Brandenburg -- "Christianity and Marxism are not in opposition": the propaganda offensive in East Germany concerning "religious freedom" under communism -- The Allied Religious Affairs Committee and the impossibility of a united religious policy for Germany.…”
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Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics : Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era / by Maoz, Zeev, Henderson, Errol Anthony

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Hizmet means service : perspectives on an alternative path within Islam /

Table of Contents: “…Bernard -- The sacred and the secular in the Hizmet movement / Ihsan Yilmaz -- Political implications of the Hizmet movement / Carter Harrington -- Duelling narratives : the Gulenists of the Hizmet movement / R. …”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

Table of Contents: “…Mortality salience: intimations of the corporeally finite; 3. Cases; Part II. The Secular 'Isms': 4. Fascism; 5. Communism; Part III. …”
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Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America /

Table of Contents: “…The construction of a secular Jewish identity / S. Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. …”
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From Spinoza to Lévinas hermeneutical, ethical and political issues in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy / by Levy, Zeev

Table of Contents: “…On some political implications of Emmanuel Lévinas philosophy -- Lévinas reflections on state, revolution and utopia from a Jewish perspective -- Lévinas on secularization in modern society -- Lévinas on death and hope.…”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Canon and heresy : Blake's intertextuality -- Untying Blake's secular scripture -- Early texts : "the eye altering alters all" -- (Infinite) absolute negativity : the brief epics -- C. …”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture.…”
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Criticism of religion on Marxism and theology, II / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson -- Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia -- Sidestepping religion -- Magic and fantasy -- Feuerbach versus Marx -- The politics of fantasy -- Apocalyptic -- By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion -- The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Tactics -- A reformer's zeal -- Betraying the spirit -- A little church history -- Anti-clericalism -- Christian communism -- Consumption versus production -- Completing Cristian communism -- Freedom of conscience -- The enticements of Karl Kautsky -- Text, history, context -- The slipperiness of sacred texts -- The Bible as a cultural product -- Reconstructing economic history -- Differentiation and slaves -- Slaves and other modes of production -- The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction -- Transitions -- Christian communism -- The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva -- Flushing out Marx -- Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother -- The apostle, both ways -- Other-than-human love -- Crucifying the pathologies -- Collectives -- The fables of Alain Badiou -- Banishing the one -- Theology and the event -- A generic procedure of religion? …”
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Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / by Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Table of Contents: “…-- The "making" of Vasil Levski -- A banner for all causes : appropriating the hero -- Contesting the hero -- The literary and visual hypostases of the hero -- From hero for all to dissident and back -- The national hero as secular saint : the canonization of Levski -- The split or how a bicephalous organism functions -- The canonization and its implications -- Levski and the Bulgarian Church : memory and narration -- The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus -- Commemoration, ritual and the sacred -- Heroes and saints : the dialectics of reincarnation.…”
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The boldness of a halakhist an analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein The Arukh Hashulhan : a collection of social-anthropological essays / by Fishbane, Simcha

Table of Contents: “…Epstein's adjudicative process as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- In any case there are no sinful thoughts : the role and status of women in Jewish law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- The audacity of a religious adjudicator : Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and modernity -- Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven : halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan Oreh Hayyim, sections 560 and 576:8 -- Secular studies are the supplement of Torah studies : Kol Ben Levi : the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein : the first sermon -- Recurrent themes in the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein -- Social reality or the written word : minhag as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan.…”
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Race and political theology

Table of Contents: “…Walker -- The enemy's two bodies (political theology too) / Gil Anidjar -- The double mark of the male Muslim : eracing Othello / Daniel Boyarin -- Between sacred and secular : Michael Walzer's exodus story / Bonnie Honig -- The state between race and religion : a conversation / Martin Land and Jonathan Boyarin -- From political theology to vernacular prophecy : rethinking redemption / George Shulman.…”
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Early Bourbon Spanish America politics and society in a forgotten era (1700-1759) /

Table of Contents: “…Eissa-Barroso -- From Peru to the Jacobite court: the multiple spaces of social mobility during the transition from Habsburg to Bourbon rule / Nuria Sala i Vila -- The global politics of the transatlantic slave trade during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715 / Aaron Alejandro Olivas -- Jorge de Villalonga's entourage: political networking and administrative reform in Santa Fe (1717-1723) / Ainara Vazquez Varela -- Trade control, law and flexibility: merchants and crown interests in Panama, 1700-1750 / Silvia Espelt Bombin -- "The Indians long for change": the secularization of regular parishes in New Spain, 1749-1755 / Christoph Rosenmuller.…”
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Corporate capital structures in the United States

Table of Contents: “…Secular patterns in the financing of U.S. corporations / Robert A. …”
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Higher Education in 2040 : A Global Approach / by Zwaan, Bert van der, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient problems and modern dilemmas -- The idea of a university -- A history of secularization and democratization -- Grappling with change -- Rising costs, selection and governments in retreat -- On size, bureaucracy and distrust -- The successes and failures of the entrepreneurial university -- Under the spell of production and quality -- pt. 2. …”
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