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The Splendor of His Music

The Adventures of Two Americans in Post-Soviet Ukraine

By: Diane McMurrin

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The Splendor of His Music

The Adventures of Two Americans in Post-Soviet Ukraine

By: Diane McMurrin

It began innocently enough for Diane McMurrin, her husband, Roger, and their teenage son, Matthew: A five-week vacation to Ukraine shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. But while there, Roger, a church music director, organized a performance of Handel's Messiah. The Ukrainian audience and singers--most of whom were atheists--had never heard the classic work before. Sacred music, with a message of hope and salvation, had been forbidden while atheism and Communism reigned in Eastern Europe.

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1579211143

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9781579211141

Religion and Psychology

Mapping the Terrain

By: Diane Jonte-Pace,William B. Parsons

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Religion and Psychology

Mapping the Terrain

By: Diane Jonte-Pace,William B. Parsons

Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed are: * The Psychology-Theology Dialogue * The Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue * Psychology, Religion and Gender Studies * Psychology "as" Religion * Social Scientific Approaches to the Psychology of Religion * The Empirical Approach * International Perspectives

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364

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Routledge

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1134625340

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Reckoning

The Ends of War in Guatemala

By: Diane M. Nelson

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Reckoning

The Ends of War in Guatemala

By: Diane M. Nelson

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each said to have “two faces.” Drawing on more than twenty years of research in Guatemala, Nelson explores how postwar struggles to reckon with traumatic experience illuminate the assumptions of identity more generally. Nelson brings together stories of human rights activism, Mayan identity struggles, coerced participation in massacres, and popular entertainment—including traditional dances, horror films, and carnivals—with analyses of mass-grave exhumations, official apologies, and reparations. She discusses the stereotype of the Two-Faced Indian as colonial discourse revivified by anti-guerrilla counterinsurgency and by the claims of duplicity leveled against the Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and she explores how duplicity may in turn function as a survival strategy for some. Nelson examines suspicions that state power is also two-faced, from the left’s fears of a clandestine para-state behind the democratic façade, to the right’s conviction that NGOs threaten Guatemalan sovereignty. Her comparison of antimalaria and antisubversive campaigns suggests biopolitical ways that the state is two-faced, simultaneously giving and taking life. Reckoning is a view from the ground up of how Guatemalans are finding creative ways forward, turning ledger books, technoscience, and even gory horror movies into tools for making sense of violence, loss, and the future.

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Duke University Press

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0822389401

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9780822389408

Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

The radical potential of human rights

By: Radhika Balakrishnan,James Heintz,Diane Elson

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Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

The radical potential of human rights

By: Radhika Balakrishnan,James Heintz,Diane Elson

The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, widespread joblessness and precarious employment, burgeoning inequality, and large-scale environmental threats. This message was brought home forcibly by the 2008 global economic crisis. Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice shows how human rights have the potential to transform economic thinking and policy-making with far-reaching consequences for social justice. The authors make the case for a new normative and analytical framework, based on a broader range of objectives which have the potential to increase the substantive freedoms and choices people enjoy in the course of their lives and not on not upon narrow goals such as the growth of gross domestic product. The book covers a range of issues including inequality, fiscal and monetary policy, international development assistance, financial markets, globalization, and economic instability. This new approach allows for a complex interaction between individual rights, collective rights and collective action, as well as encompassing a legal framework which offers formal mechanisms through which unjust policy can be protested. This highly original and accessible book will be essential reading for human rights advocates, economists, policy-makers and those working on questions of social justice.

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167

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Routledge

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1317572122

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The Splendor of His Music

The Adventures of Two Americans in Post-Soviet Ukraine

By: Diane McMurrin

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The Splendor of His Music

The Splendor of His Music

Religion and Psychology

Religion and Psychology

Reckoning

Reckoning

Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice

The Splendor of His Music

The Splendor of His Music

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