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Pentecostalism and Prosperity
The Socio-Economics of the Global Charismatic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
While there are a growing number of researchers who are exploring the political and social aspects of the global Renewal movement, few have provided sustained socio-economic analyses of this phenomenon. The editors and contributors to this volume offer perspectivesin light of the growth of the Renewal movement in the two-thirds world.
Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic
Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Constructing Solidarity offers a critical path toward the transformation of white worldviews, theologies, ethics, and praxis for scholars, activists, religious leaders, and those seeking guidance.
Motherhood and War
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied. This volume expands our understanding by looking at the relationships between mothers and children, and the varied roles both have assumed during periods of armed conflict.
Constructing a Religiously Ideal ',Believer', and ',Woman', in Islam
Neo-traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslims' Methods of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concepts of 'Believer' and 'Muslim Woman' in contemporary Islam
The Art of Civilization
A Bourgeois History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization,...
Teaching Psychology and the Socratic Method
Real Knowledge in a Virtual Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book presents a lively and accessible way to use the ancient figure of Socrates to teach modern psychology that avoids the didactic lecture and sterile textbook. In the online age, is a living teacher even needed? What can college students learn face-to-face from a teacher they cannot learn...
by J. Thelin, R. Trollinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Philanthropy and American Higher Education provides higher education professionals, leaders and scholars with a thoughtful, comprehensive introduction to the scope and development of philanthropy and fund raising as part of the essential life and work of colleges and universities in the United States.
Social Class, Social Action, and Education
The Failure of Progressive Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic progressivism: collaborative and personalist.
by A. Romirowsky, A. Joffe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in the United Nations relief program for Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. Using archival data, oral histories, and biographical accounts, it provides a detailed look at internal decision-making in an early non-governmental organization.
Philanthropy in Black Higher Education
A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Analyzing the circumstances surrounding the creation and development of the Atlanta University System, this book shows how philanthropists' positive involvement created a unique higher educational center for black Americans that exists nowhere else in the nation.
Democracy and Schooling in California
The Legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957.
Schooling in the Age of Austerity
Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This book presents the work of leading hermeneutical theorists alongside emerging thinkers, examining the current state of hermeneutics within the Pentecostal tradition. The volume’s contributors present constructive ideas about the future of hermeneutics at the intersection of theology of the Spirit,...
Towards a Postsecular International Politics
New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the emergence of new patterns of authority, legitimacy and power in the international system.