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Politics and Regimes
Av Paul Edward Gottfried, Paul Gottfried
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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The essays grouped together in this volume look from differing angles at the crisis of condence faced by the contemporary state. What we see is the decline of the authority once associated with the Western nation-state as a source of public order and as a defender of cultural identity. Multiplying …
Natural Communions
Religion and Public Life, Volume 40
Inbunden, 2019
2888 kr
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The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to …
Natural Communions
Religion and Public Life, Volume 40
Häftad, 2019
745 kr
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The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to …
Culture and Consumption
Häftad, 2000
545 kr
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This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life, formerly This World, a series on religion and public affairs. This ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays grouped together in Culture and Consumption …
Justice and the Politics of Memory
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Häftad, 2003
530 kr
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Memory is not a mere repository for past events. This was Henri Bergson's fundamental claim about consciousness. In distinguishing our psychic constitution by its sense of the past, Bergson differentiates our perception of time from a process in which one instant merely replaces another. While …
Cultural Landscapes
Religion and Public Life
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Adualism between man and nature has been a persistent feature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body, consciousness and world has tended to obscure the ways in which humans are ecologically part of interconnected systems, some of which …
Culture and Consumption
Inbunden, 2018
1562 kr
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This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life, formerly This World, a series on religion and public affairs. This ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays grouped together in Culture and Consumption …
Faith in Science
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science. There are also very generous funding sources that encourage scientists to demonstrate the reality of purpose in the world. Still, there are organizations offering support to community groups dedicated to …
Faith, War, and Violence
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it …
Humanities and Civic Life
Volume 32
Av Paul Edward Gottfried, Paul Edward Gottfried m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are conducive to self-governance and …
Justice and the Politics of Memory
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Inbunden, 2018
1517 kr
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Memory is not a mere repository for past events. This was Henri Bergson's fundamental claim about consciousness. In distinguishing our psychic constitution by its sense of the past, Bergson differentiates our perception of time from a process in which one instant merely replaces another. While …
Morality and the Literary Imagination
Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an …
Politics in Theology
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious ideals in dramatic ways. These moments question the relationship between religious sentiments and …
Values and Technology
Religion and Public Life
Av James Burk, Gabriel R. Ricci
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization, mocked Rousseau's praise for an original …
Cultural Landscapes
Religion and Public Life
Häftad, 2006
762 kr
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A dualism between man and nature has been a persistentfeature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body, consciousness and world has tended to obscure the ways in which humans are ecologically part of interconnected systems, some of which …
Morality and the Literary Imagination
Volume 36, Religion and Public Life
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Häftad, 2009
876 kr
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In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an …
Values and Technology
Religion and Public Life
Av James Burk, Gabriel R. Ricci
Häftad, 2010
762 kr
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In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization, mocked Rousseau's praise for an original …
Politics in Theology
Häftad, 2012
762 kr
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This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious ideals in dramatic ways. These moments question the relationship between religious sentiments and …
Faith, War, and Violence
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Häftad, 2014
1023 kr
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Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it …
Faith in Science
Av Gabriel R. Ricci, Gabriel R. Ricci
Häftad, 2004
501 kr
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There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science. There are also very generous funding sources that encourage scientists to demonstrate the reality of purpose in the world. Still, there are organizations offering support to community groups dedicated to …
Humanities and Civic Life
Volume 32
Av Paul Edward Gottfried, Paul Edward Gottfried m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
508 kr
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This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are conducive to self-governance and …
Politics and Regimes
Av Paul Edward Gottfried, Paul Gottfried
Häftad, 1997
439 kr
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The essays grouped together in this volume look from differing angles at the crisis of condence faced by the contemporary state. What we see is the decline of the authority once associated with the Western nation-state as a source of public order and as a defender of cultural identity. Multiplying …
