This fascinating book takes readers inside the world of faith-based progressive community organizing, one of the largest and most effective social justice movements in the United States.
First published in 1957, reissuing the second edition of 1966 here, British Philosophy in the Mid-Century provides an authoritative review of some of the outstanding developments in British philosophy at the time.
Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Themen Tod und Sterben und spezialisiert sich dabei auf den Umgang mit diesen Themen in der Schule.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,3, Hochschule für Philosophie München (ING - Institut für naturwissenschaftliche Grenzfragen), Veranstaltung: Aktuelle Forschungsansätze in der Natur- und Technikphilosophie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese akademische Arbeit untersucht die vielfältigen Facetten des Zeitbegriffs und dessen Bedeutung in unterschiedlichen Kontexten.
A social-developmental psychologist and a social anthropologist describe what is known and what needs to be investigated concerning the development of race and color concepts in young children.
Borden reveals the ways in which many mainstream Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through interpretation and amendment to alter the meaning of the U.
The author argues that Foucaults archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics.
Armstrong suggests that Jamess perspective is essentially phenomenological that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists.
Taking an exploratory rather than a dogmatic approach to the problem, this book pulls together materials bearing on casual inference that are widely scattered in the philosophical, statistical, and social science literature.
Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism.
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: good, University of Leipzig, language: English, abstract: James Arthur Baldwin was born to Emma Berdis Jones and an unknown father on August 2, 1924, in New York City.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Ethik, Note: 2,0, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Theoretische Philosophie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit bietet eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Kants zentralem erkenntnistheoretischen Werk "Kritik der reinen Vernunft", mit besonderem Fokus auf die transzendentale Ästhetik.
In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
This second edition of Business Ethics and Ethical Business has all the virtues of the first edition as well as additions and revisions throughout, and three new chapters-one on AI and two on environmental ethics and sustainability.
This volume presents up-to-date insights into the ethical theories of Aristotle's followers, beginning with his colleagues Theophrastus and Eudemus and covering a broad range of figures, topics and applications up to the Imperial Roman period.
This handbook explores the history, culture, and social challenges of Japan's Burakumin through the multifaceted scholarship of current Buraku Studies.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Ethik, Note: 1,0, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Montaignes Verständnis der Gewohnheit im Spannungsfeld zwischen ethischer Prägung und kritischer Distanz zu untersuchen.
In this unique philosophical critique of modern Western civilization, Adams argues that contemporary culture is deranged by false assumptions about the human mind.
In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates Jamess debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work.
Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies.
In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.
In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.
From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system.
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment.
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia.
This volume examines the similarities between the Indian and Latin American philosophical traditions while also highlighting how these similarities have materialized differently in the Indian or in the Latin American context.
Using the concept of classical republicanism in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society.
The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world.
In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work.
Imaginatively retrieves the ancient Christian tradition of the spiritual senses to explore how we sense and make sense of God and God's world, and resource Christian communities today Helps Christians contemplate and feel the presence of Christ in a turbulent world where God sometimes feels absentExpertly links the ancient spiritual senses with contemporary concerns from social invisibility to racism Early and medieval Christianity developed a varied spiritual senses tradition to describe the grace-filled capacity to pierce the thin crystal membrane that separates the sensible world from the divine.
A lyrical and spiritually profound eight-day retreat through the Bible's poetic allegory of divine love, the Song of Songs Presents short passages from the Song of Songs (NRSV) and a 300-500 word reflection, specially designed according to the time of dayForeword by Michael Burrows, the Bishop of Limerick (Church of Ireland) This attractive little book offers an eight-day retreat through the Bible's poetic allegory of divine love, the Song of Songs.
