Search Results - "secularism"

Contemporary spiritualities : enchanted worlds of nature, wellbeing and mystery in Italy / by Palmisano, Stefania, Pannofino, Nicola

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Demodiversity : towards post-abyssal democracies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Boaventura de Sousa Santos and José Manuel Mendes -- A new vision for Europe : learning from the Global South / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Should Europe learn from Indian secularism? / Rajeev Bhargava -- Democracy and democratization in Africa : interrogating paradigms and practices / Issa Shivji -- This world cut into two / Richard Pithouse -- For a politics of revolutionary love / Houria Bouteldja -- Andine micropolitics : elementary forms of daily insurgency / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- Politics after the defeat of politics : post-democracy, post-politics and populism / Juan Carlos Monedero -- "Carry their rights, their own way" : Dalit struggle for equality / José Manuel Mendes -- The Passe Livre movement in Brazil and the sociology of possibilities / João Alexandre Peschanski -- Another democracy is possible : learnings and lessons for a radical democracy based, the political experience of Chéran, Mexico / Orlando Aragón Andrade -- Aymara Andine democracy : Taypi and deliberative diversity towards intercultural democracy / Mara Bicas.…”
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A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler / by Tucker, Irene

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The perspective of the acting person essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…: on the difference between secular and Christian humanism -- Norm-ethics, moral rationality, and the virtues : what's wrong with consequentialism? …”
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Juan Bautista Plaza and musical nationalism in Venezuela by Labonville, Marie Elizabeth, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings; first compositions; vocational indecision; first writings on music (1898-1920) ; Rome; plans for musical renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923) ; Paid to compose : the chapel mastership (1923-1948) ; The educator, part 1 (1923-1928) ; The early secular and nationalist compositions (1924-1929) ; The nascent journalist (1925-1928) ; The founding of the Orfeón Lamas, and Plaza's creative response (1927-1963) ; Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (1930-1957) ; The mature journalist; writings on nationalism in music (1929-1948) ; The principal nationalist compositions with instruments (1930-1956) ; The educator, part 2 (1930-1941) ; The musicological pioneer (1936-1964) ; Plaza as the subject of reportage ; The later non-nationalist compositions (1930s-1963) ; The educator, part 3 (1942-1962) ; Retirement : final thoughts on education and culture (1962-1964) ; Plaza in retrospect.…”
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Deus in machina religion, technology, and the things in between /

Table of Contents: “…disability, film, and the Jewish question / Faye Ginsburg -- Thinking about Melville, religion, and machines that think / John Lardas Modern -- Amazing stories : how science fiction sacralizes the secular / Peter Pels -- Virtual vodou, actual practice : transfiguring the technological / Alexandra Boutros -- TV St. …”
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The Holocaust and historical methodology

Table of Contents: “…The Holocaust and historical methodology / Dan Stone -- A world without Jews: interpreting the Holocaust / Alon Confino -- Holocaust historiography and cultural history / Dan Stone -- The invisible crime: Nazi politics of memory and postwar representations of the Holocaust / Dirk Rupnow -- The history of the Jews in the ghettos: a cultural perspective / Amos Goldberg -- National Socialism, Holocaust, and ecology / Boaz Neumann -- Bearing witness: theological roots of a new secular morality / Samuel Moyn -- Transcending history? …”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

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Shalom/salaam/peace a liberation theology of hope / by Hammond, Constance A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the particular to the global and back to the project -- The land of Israel/Palestine -- Jerusalem -- The ownership of land -- The theology of the land -- Generations of God gifting the land -- Conquering in the name of God -- One God : three faiths -- The Word of God -- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian perspective -- Scripture from a Muslim perspective -- Scripture from a Jewish perspective -- A timeline from 1840-1967 -- The land and population in modern day Israel/Palestine -- Settlers and settlements -- Zionism : secular and religious -- Politics, wars and new beginnings -- Peacemakers : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim -- The wall, the fence, the barrier -- The law ancient, the reality today -- Exodus -- Peacemakers versus disturbers of the peace -- Liberation theology and Vatican II -- Economic development and developing revolutions -- Founders of liberation theology -- Leaders and martyrs of the revolution -- Martyrs of liberation theology -- Base Christian communities (communidades de base) -- Liberation theology in North America -- Liberation theology : Jewish and Islamic -- Liberation theology : Palestinian Christian -- Palestinian resistance groups -- The peacemakers in Israel/Palestine -- Israeli Jewish peace groups -- Palestinian Christian and Muslim peace groups -- International peace groups -- Tragedy behind the theology.…”
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Jewish Bible theology perspectives and case studies /

Table of Contents: “…Greenspahn -- Constructing the past : the recent history of Jewish biblical theology / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Fighting forms of idolatry : the meaning of an image of Moses in Jewish theology / Asa Kasher -- Jewish conceptions of the human factor in biblical prophecy / Moshe Greenberg -- Biblical destinies : conditional promises / Uriel Simon -- God and human rights in a secular society : a biblical-talmudic perspective / David Novak -- The biblical attitude toward human toil / Amos Frisch -- New Testament and rabbinic views of election / Joel Kaminsky -- Amalek and amalekut : a homiletic lesson / Zev Garber -- Foundations for a Jewish theology of the Hebrew Bible : prophets in dialogue / Marvin A. …”
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Gender, religion, & family law theorizing conflicts between women's rights and cultural traditions /

Table of Contents: “…McClain -- From religious "right" to civil "wrong" : using Israeli tort law to unravel the knots of gender, equality, and Jewish divorce / Susan Weiss -- Flirting with god in western secular courts : mahr in the west / Pascale Fournier -- Muslim family law in South Africa : conflating the right to religion with the privileging of religion? …”
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women’s Rights and Cultural Traditions /

Table of Contents: “…McClain -- From religious "right" to civil "wrong" : using Israeli tort law to unravel the knots of gender, equality, and Jewish divorce / Susan Weiss -- Flirting with god in western secular courts : mahr in the west / Pascale Fournier -- Muslim family law in South Africa : conflating the right to religion with the privileging of religion? …”
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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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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the origin of species in secular (France) and religious (Morocco) contexts -- pt. 3. …”
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Sober, strict, and scriptural collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Calvin: a battle of monuments during the secularization of the French Third Republic / Valentine Zuber -- Calvin in missionary memory and Chinese Protestant identity / Jonathan Seitz -- Calvin and anti-apartheid memory in the Dutch Reformed family of churches in South Africa / Robert Vosloo -- Calvin: a negative boundary marker in American Lutheran self-identity, 1871-1934 / R. …”
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Emerging evidence on vouchers and faith-based providers

Table of Contents: “…Ortega -- Literacy and numeracy in faith-based and government schools in Sierra Leone / Quentin Wodon and Yvonne Ying -- Comparing faith-based and government schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Prospere Backiny-Yetna and Quentin Wodon -- Student achievement in religious and secular secondary schools in Bangladesh / Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar -- Does money matter?…”
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Theology and religious studies in higher education global perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Religious studies versus theology : why I'm still glad that I converted from theology to religious studies / Denise Cush -- Theology and religious studies for a multifaith and secular society / David F. Ford -- Theology and religious studies, or theology versus religious studies? …”
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Confessing history explorations in Christian faith and the historian's vocation /

Table of Contents: “…Cadegan -- Seeing things : knowledge and love in history / Beth Barton Schweiger -- Virtue ethics and historical inquiry : the case of prudence / Thomas Albert Howard -- The "objectivity question" and the historian's vocation / William Katerberg -- Enlightenment history, objectivity, and moral imagination / Michael Kugler -- On assimilating the moral insights of the secular academy / Bradley J. Gundlach -- After monographs : a critique of Christian scholarship as professional practice / Christopher Shannon -- The problems of preaching through history / James B. …”
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity seeing the gods /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theōria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theōroi at Epidauros / Fred Naiden -- Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : patterns of public and private consultation / Michael Arnush -- "Pilgrimage" and Greek religion : sacred and secular in the pagan polis / Scott Scullion -- Down-stream to the cat-goddess : Herodotus on Egyptian pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford -- Philosopher at the festival : Plato's transformation of traditional theōria / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Body in space : visual dynamics in Graeco-Roman healing pilgrimage / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Mucianus and a touch of the miraculous : pilgrimage and tourism in Roman Asia Minor / George Williamson -- Pilgrimage as elite habitus : educated pilgrims in sacred landscape during the Second Sophistic / Marco Galli -- Construction of religious space in Pausanias / William Hutton -- Journey to the end of the world / Andrew Fear -- Pilgrims and ethnographers : in search of the Syrian goddess / J.L. …”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion -- Europe and the Christendom narrative -- From singularization to pluralism -- The secularization theory revisited -- Christian Occident? …”
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