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“The Business of the Earth” Edward Thomas and Ecocentrism
Authors: Longley Edna 
Published: November 2023

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Modernism and Marxism fetishize the city, but in different ways. The one neglects “nature poetry” as having refused a cognitive and aesthetic revolution; the other criticizes “pastoral” as repressing the exploitation not only of urban workers in the present but of rural workers in the past. For example, the unreal city of American poetic modernism-cosmopolitan London or Paris refracted through “the simultaneity of the ambient”-does not meet the political demands that Raymond Williams (in The Country and the City) sees cities as making on the literary imagination. To Williams, T. S. Eliot’s urban impressions appear “as relentless and as conventional as pastoral... neo-urban imagery, of the same literary kind as the isolated neo-pastoral ... [mediating] a general despair in the isolated observer!’ Ultimately he diagnoses a continuing, and perhaps necessary, conflict between modernist urban myth making (best represented by the related but disconnected consciousness streams of Ulysses) and the collectivist “social ideas and movements” also produced by the modern city. This dialectical model, with its 1930s aura, still excludes most twentieth-century rural writing in the British Isles. Although Williams finds among the texts of that tradition occasional resistance to an “elegiac, neo-pastoral mode;’ nonetheless “[t]he underlying pattern is ... clear. A critique of a whole dimension of modern life, and with it many necessary general questions, was expressed but also reduced to a convention, which took the form of a detailed version of a part-imagined, part-observed rural England ... [a] strange formation in which observation, myth, record and half history are ... deeply entwined.’2
The Āśrama System
Authors: Olivelle Patrick 
Published: November 2023

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The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism-- =a’srama and var.na-- =a’srama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the =a’srama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throug hout, he argues that the = a’srama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.
Architecture for A New World
Authors: Kostof Spiro , Castillo Greg , Tobias Richard 
Published: November 2023

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The history of modern architecture has come to mean two rather different things . If we take "modern" to cover a period of time stretching down to our present day, the history of modern architecture is an account of the major events, ideas, and people ·that shaped the built environment during this period. But "modern" has also been made to stand for something more specific-an attitude toward the built environment, a contemporary style of design thought to be unique and proper to our age. As such, it developed its own exclusive history. We speak of the Modern Movement in reference to a formalist, functional, and moral streak in the architecture of the last one hundred years, and we reach back as far as the eighteenth century to pluck instances and names that foreshadow it. For this version of the history of modern architecture, much that has happened since 1800 is irrelevant, reactionary, or perverse.
Good News
Authors: Christians Clifford G , Ferre John P , Fackler P Mark 
Published: November 2023

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Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrisically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science--together with a longer tradition in theological inquiry--insist that community, mutuality, and relationship are fundamental to a full concept of personhood. The authors argue that “persons-in-community” provides a more defensible grounding for journalists’ professional moral decison-making in crucial areas such as truthtelling, privacy, organizational culture, and balanced coverage. With numerous examples drawn from life as well as from theory, this book will interest journalists, editors, and professionals in media management as well as students and scholars of media ethics, reporting, and media law.
Civic Transformation
Authors: Christians Clifford G , Ferre John P , Fackler P Mark 
Published: November 2023

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The little-known history of the black antebellum press is now coming to light with the publication of manuscripts, correspondence, and speeches from those editors and fugitives who make up the opposite side of the “great editors” story. Samuel Ringgold Ward, the second son of slave parents who escaped the South in 1820, founded the True American in 1847, and two years later, the Impartial Citizen in Syracuse, New York. He was a Congregationalist minister and popular speaker for the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society when he joined a plot in 1851 to rescue a fugitive slave from the custody of federal officers. That foiled attempt to obstruct formal justice led to his own flight to Canada, where he published the Provincial Freeman, and he later toured England raising funds for the abolitionist cause. In Canada in 1851, Ward urged readers of Henry Bibb’s Voice of the Fugitive to a “universal agitation, by the press and the tongue, in church and at the polls” to “rid our beloved adopted country of this infernal curse,” slavery.
Revelation, Redemption, and Response
Authors: Butin Philip Walker 
Published: November 2023

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How does John Calvin understand and depict the relationship of God with humanity? Until this study, the most influential readings of Calvin have tended to assume a dialectical divine-human opposition as fundamental to his thought. In this fresh consideration of Calvin’s Christian vision his consistent and pervasive appeal to the Trinity in understanding the divine-human relationship is delineated and imaginatively rendered. Tracing the trinitarian theme in its many dimensions throughout the reformer’s work, Philip Butin offers a revised look at the vital role of the Trinity in Calvin’s thought, in the process recovering Calvin as a significant historical source for contemporary trinitarian theological reflection.
Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Authors: Marsh Charles 
Published: November 2023

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Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer is certain to inspire a new consideration of Bonhoeffer’s place in contemporary theology. In this groundbreaking study, Charles Marsh offers a new way of reading the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a Christian theologian who was executed for his role in the resistance against Hitler and the Nazis. Focusing on Bonhoeffer’s substantial philosophical interests, Marsh examines his work in the context of the German philosophical tradition, from Kant through Hegel to Heidegger. With an eye on the contemporary debate about the sources of the self, Marsh argues that Bonhoeffer’s description of human identity offers a compelling alternative to post-Kantian conceptions of selfhood. By evaluating Bonhoeffer’s writings against the background of modern German philosophy, Marsh shows that Bonhoeffer, while working within the boundaries of Barth’s theology, provides both a powerful critique and an innovative redescription of the tradition of transcendental subjectivity. Attentive to past scholarly endeavors as well as to recent conversations in critical theory, philosophical hermeneutics, and systematic theology, this fresh and original study of Bonhoeffer will undoubtedly provoke important discussion not only in the theological academy and the church, but also in the broader forums of intellectual life.
Introduction: Beyond Power Politics
Authors: Johnston Douglas 
Published: November 2023

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As the twentieth century draws to a close, one is struck by the degree to which the relative calm in the West during the four decades of the Cold War contrasts with the all but unprecedented brutality of the preceding 50 years. Clearly, the sobering constraints on geopolitical adventurism imposed by the advent of nuclear deterrence represented a major watershed in the relations of nations. Now a watershed of a different sort is emerging: the composition of conflict itself is changing.
Religious Imagination and the Body
Authors: Cooey Paula M 
Published: November 2023

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In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge than men. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a different perspective on the significance of the body in the context of religious life and practice. Building on the pathbreaking work of Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain, Cooey looks at a wide range of evidence, from the Argentine prison narrative of Alicia Partnoy, to the novels of Toni Morrison and the paintings of Frida Kahlo. Drawing on current social theory and critique, cognitive psychology, contemporary fiction and art, and women’s accounts of religious experience, Cooey relates the reality of sentience to the social construction of reality. Beginning with an examination of the female body as a metaphor for alternative knowledge, she considers the significance of physical pain and pleasure to the religious imagination, and the relations between sentience, sensuality, and female subjectivity. Cooey succeeds in bringing forward a sophisticated new understanding of the religious importance of the body, at the same time laying the foundations of a feminist theory of religion.
“Have You Ever Prayed to Saint Jude?”: Reflections on Fieldwork in Catholic Chicago
Authors: Orsi Robert A 
Published: November 2023

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I am sitting toward the back of the church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in South Chicago, watching clusters of people arrive for the night’s novena service in honor of Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of hopeless cases and lost causes, whose national shrine is housed there. The people coming into the warm glow of the church’s electric candles from the darkened, already chilly October streets are wearing windbreakers emblazoned with the names of local unions, fraternal organizations, sports teams, and police and fire auxiliaries over old sweaters. One young woman sports a white quilted sateen bomber jacket with the words “Club Flamingo” arching across her shoulders above the bird itself, silhouetted against a blazing hot-pink tropical sun.
Exploring The Domain Of Accident Law
Authors: Dewees Don , Duff David , Trebilcock Michael 
Published: November 2023

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In the mid 1980s, there was a crisis in the availability, affordability, and adequacy of liability insurance in the United States and Canada. Mass tort claims such as the asbestos, DES, and Agent Orange litigation generated widespread public attention, and the tort system came to assume a heightened prominence in American life. While some scholars debate whether or not any such crisis still exists, there has been an increasing political, judicial and academic questioning of the goals and future of the tort system. Exploring the Domain of Tort Law reviews the evidence on the efficacy of the tort system and its alternatives. By looking at empirical evidence in five major categories of accidents--automobile, medical malpractice, product-related accidents, environmental injuries, and workplace injuries--the authors evaluate the degree to which the tort system conforms to three normative goals: deterrence, corrective justice, and distributive justice. In each case, the authors review the deterrence and compensatory properties of the tort system, and then review parallel bodies of evidence on regulatory, penal, and compensatory alternatives. Most of the academic literature on the tort system has traditionally been doctrinal or, in recent years, highly theoretical. Very little of this literature provides an in-depth consideration of how the system works, and whether or not there are any feasible alternatives. Exploring the Domain of Tort Law contributes valuable new evidence to the tort law reform debate. It will be of interest to academic lawyers and economists, policy analysts, policy professionals in government and research organizations, and all those affected by tort law reform.
Breaking the abortion Deadlock
Authors: McDonagh Eileen L 
Published: November 2023

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This book attempts to reframe abortion rights by focusing not on a woman’s right to choose abortion, but rather on a woman’s right to consent to pregnancy. Drawing on legal, medical, and philosophical definitions of pregnancy, it disaggregates the consent to sexual intercourse from the consent to pregnancy and argues that men and women have equal right to bodily integrity, which is defined as the freedom from non consensual bodily intrusion. The work provides the grounds for a woman’s right to an abortion and state funding of abortions.
The De Malo of Thomas Aquinas
Authors:   Regan
Published: November 2023

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The De Malo represents some of St. Thomas Aquinas’ most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. Together with the second part of the Summa Theologiae, it is one of his most sustained contributions to moral philosophy and theology. Aquinas examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its variety, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. This edition offers the Leonine Commission’s authoritative edition of the Latin text with a new, clear, and readable English translation by Richard Regan with an extensive introduction and notes by Brian Davies.
Love and Theft
Authors: Lott Eric 
Published: November 2023

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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.
Introduction: Black Textuality and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Authors: Tate Claudia 
Published: November 2023

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Perhaps the ideal approach to the work of literature would be one allowing for insight into the deepest psychological motives of the writer at the same time that it examined all external sociological factors operating within a given milieu. For while objectively a social reality, the work of art is, in its genesis, a projection of a deeply personal process, and any approach that ignores the personal at the e pense of the social is necessarily incomplete.
The Gifting God
Authors: Webb Stephen H 
Published: November 2023

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Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this renewed interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of generosity, and then developing a theological framework for it. He contends that in many ways society has become suspicious of charity and generosity. This cynicism has led to quick and easy judgments, that, in turn, have led to a new orthodoxy with its own troubling consequences. Webb believes that we need to recover the generosity that our culture obscures behind this monologue on self-interest, and that theology, as a form of critical thought, can play a helpful role. Throughout the book, Webb argues for a theory of giving that is other-oriented without being self-negating. He maintains that the generosity of God’s grace, properly understood, can reorient our own idea of the gift and must be correlated to our own practices of exchange and reciprocity.
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Authors: Garfield Jay L 
Published: November 2023

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Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Dennet, Chomsky, Searle, Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre.
Examination of Self and Entities
Authors: Garfield Jay L 
Published: November 2023

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If the self were the aggregates, It would have arising and ceasing (as properties). If it were different from the aggregates, It would not have the characteristics of the aggregates. If there were no self, Where would the self’s (properties) be? From the pacification of the self and what belongs to it, One abstains from grasping onto “I” and “mine.” One who does not grasp onto “I” and “mine,” That one does not exist. One who does not grasp onto “I” and “mine,” He does not perceive.
The Churches and Germany’s “Peaceful Revolution” of 1989-90
Authors: Everett William Johnson 
Published: November 2023

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In 1989 the citizens of the German Democratic Republic overthrew the Communist regime in a “peaceful revolution.” The churches, especially the churches of the Federation of Evangelical Churches,played a leading role in this remarkable “turning point” (Wende), as it was popularly called. Although the effort by reformers to build up a new democratic re public in the GDR was buried in the unification with the Federal Republic in the West, the experiences, questions, and perspectives at work in this process remain crucial for our understanding of the dynamics that can emerge in the involvement of religious organizations in the struggles for new publics and new constitutions.
Taking Heaven by Storm
Authors: Wigger John H 
Published: November 2023

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Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. In Taking Heaven by Storm, John H. Wigger seeks to explain this remarkable expansion, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American life. Early Methodism was neither bland nor predictable; rather, it was a volatile and innovative movement, both driven and constrained by the hopes and fears of the ordinary Americans who constituted its core. Methodism’s style, tone, and agenda worked their way deep into the fabric of American life, Wigger argues, influencing all other mass religious movements that would follow, as well as many facets of American life not directly connected to the church. Wigger examines American Methodism from a variety of angles, focusing in turn on the circuit riders who relentlessly pushed the Methodist movement forward, the critical role of women and African Americans within the movement, the enthusiastic nature of Methodist worship, and the unique community structure of early American Methodism. Under Methodism’s influence, American evangelism became far more enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, and lay oriented--characteristics that continue to shape and define popular religion today.
The Soul of Development
Authors: Sherman Amy L 
Published: November 2023

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Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashed over the influence of religion and culture on a society's (or an individual's) economic prospects. Today, many wonder whether the "explosion" of Protestantism in Latin America will effect a similar wave of growth and democratization. In this book, Sherman compiles the results of her field study and national survey of 1000 rural Guatemalan households. She offers persuasive evidence that, in Guatemala and throughout the region, religious world-views significantly influence economic life. Sherman explains how the change in attitude and behaviour that accompanies conversion from animism to a Biblically orthodox world-view has improved the domestic welfare and economic status of many families. Further, she asserts that this new attitude, sympathetic to democratic-capitalism, has created a "moral cultural soil" in which freedom, personal empowerment, an enhanced status for women, and a desire to get ahead can be nurtured.
Sparks Amidst the Ashes
Authors: Sherwin Byron L 
Published: November 2023

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For hundreds of years, Poland served as the epicenter of Jewish life. As a result of the Holocaust, though, Poland has become a “Jewish Atlantis”. Yet the majority of Jews in the world today have their genealogical roots in the historical lands of Poland. In this book, Sherwin demonstrates how the unprecedented works of intellect and spirit produced during the Jewish “Golden Age” in Poland can provide contemporary Jews with the spiritual and intellectual resources required to ensure Jewish continuity in the present and future. Sherwin introduces us to the vast range of mystical speculation, evocative stories, Talmudic dialectics, theological ideas, and social realities that were muted by the destruction of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Sherwin critiques the tendency among contemporary Jews to disregard the precious legacy bequeathed by Polish Jewry, and presents a plan for re-creating Jewish life after the Holocaust that draws from the wisdom of the spiritual magnates and from the communal experience that characterized Jewish life in Poland. Sherwin concludes with a controversial proposal for the future of Polish-Jewish relations.