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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas...
The Ogoki River Guides
Emergent Leadership among the Northern Ojibwa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The Ogoki River Guides describes the prolonged struggle that members of a small native community in northern Ontario have undertaken in their attempt to establish a viable local economy. The leaders of Collins, the community in which the events of the book take place, have made a concerted effort...
Technonatures
Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves...
The End(s) of Community
History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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Between the Judge and the Executioner: Revisiting the Silent Foundations of Hegel’s Moral Point of View
Joshua Ben David Nichols
The second chapter of this section shifts the focus to the role of execution in the transition from abstract right to morality in Hegel’s Philosophy...
Brought to Light
Contemporary Freemasonry, Meaning, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial—thrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions tend...
Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls
Embodied Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent in sexual theologies, are given privilege here in the articulation of a normative theology.
Applying...
Struggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico
Themes and Theories about Social Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Struggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico examines Canadian and Mexican communities engaged in collective action to address problems related to the context of aggressive capitalism, which favours economic freedom of the powerful over the needs of people and the planet. The book’s several case examples...
Africa’s Deadliest Conflict
Media Coverage of the Humanitarian Disaster in the Congo and the United Nations Response, 1997–2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Africa’s Deadliest Conflict deals with the complex intersection of the legacy of post-colonial history—a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions—and changing norms of international intervention associated with the idea of human security and the responsibility to protect (R2P). It attempts to...
Eat Local, Taste Global
How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
local food movement and food sovereignty are hot topics
authors are critical of the corporate food regime and mainstream agricultural practices,
critical of farmers' markets and community shared agriculture programs for not being inclusive enough in terms of poorer, ethnic, and non-white groups, and...
The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within...
Committed to the Sane Asylum
Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health...
Teaching as Scholarship
Preparing Students for Professional Practice in Community Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores ways to engage students in the classroom. It draws on the principles of rigorous scholarship and focuses on interactive learning between the class and the professor and among the students. Each contributor addresses the need to connect...
Digital Diversity
Youth, Equity, and Information Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly affected by changes such as the proliferation of computers in schools and elsewhere, and the...
Skeletons in the Closet
A Sociological Analysis of Family Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and subject is broken down. All of the...