Dr Scott Lash's Books

Sociology of Postmodernism

By: Dr Scott Lash

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sociology of Postmodernism

By: Dr Scott Lash

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317858522

ISBN 13

9781317858522

The Art of Living Foundation

Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

By: Dr Stephen Jacobs

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Art of Living Foundation

Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

By: Dr Stephen Jacobs

The Hindu-derived meditation movement, The Art of Living (AOL) founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore, has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries. Stephen Jacobs presents the first comprehensive study of AOL as an important transnational movement and an alternative global spirituality. Exploring the nature and characteristics of spirituality in the contemporary global context, Jacobs considers whether alternative spiritualities are primarily concerned with individual wellbeing and can simply be regarded as another consumer product.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472412680

ISBN 13

9781472412683

Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred

Representation and Change

By: Dr Elizabeth Poole,Dr Teemu Taira,Professor Kim Knott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred

Representation and Change

By: Dr Elizabeth Poole,Dr Teemu Taira,Professor Kim Knott

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on analysis of mainstream media, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors draw on research conducted in the 1980s and 2008–10 to examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values, and to consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the press and television, and present in all types of coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages with global debates about religion and media.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472406338

ISBN 13

9781472406330

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

By: Dr Barry Sandywell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dictionary of Visual Discourse

A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms

By: Dr Barry Sandywell

This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundations and motivations of current theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today. It also offers insight into the philosophical frameworks which underpin the field of visual culture. A central theme that runs throughout the entries is the task of moving away from a narrow understanding of visuality inherited from traditional philosophy toward a richer cultural and multi-sensorial philosophy of concrete experience. The dictionary incorporates intertextual links that encourage readers to explore connections between major themes, theories and key figures in the field. In addition the author's introduction provides a comprehensive and critical introduction which documents the significance of the visual turn in contemporary theory and culture. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and further reading list. As both a substantive academic contribution to this growing field and a useful reference tool, this book offers a theoretical introduction to the many languages of visual discourse. It will be essential reading for graduate students and scholars in visual studies, the sociology of visual culture, cultural and media studies, philosophy, art history and theory, design, film and communication studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1019

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409486621

ISBN 13

9781409486626

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe

A Feminist Perspective

By: Dr Ulrike M Vieten

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe

A Feminist Perspective

By: Dr Ulrike M Vieten

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn. Exploring the work of prominent scholars of new cosmopolitanism in Britain and Germany, including Held, Habermas, Beck and Bhabha, it delivers a timely intervention into current debates on globalisation, Europeanisation and social processes of transformation in and beyond specific national societies. A rigorous examination of the emancipatory potential of current debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in Europe, this book will be of interest to sociologist and political scientists working on questions of identity, inclusion, citizenship, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and gender.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409495515

ISBN 13

9781409495512

Sensing Disaster

Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania

By: Dr. Matthew Lauer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sensing Disaster

Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania

By: Dr. Matthew Lauer

In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster’s outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanding the causes and consequences of calamity, the unintended effects of humanitarian recovery and mitigation efforts, and the nature of local knowledge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

291

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520392086

ISBN 13

9780520392083

Organizations

A Systems Approach

By: Prof Dr Stefan Kühl

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Organizations

A Systems Approach

By: Prof Dr Stefan Kühl

From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples’ lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them. In Organizations Stefan Kühl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities that wield such strong influence in our society? What makes them tick? What are our options for intervening, either from within or without? This book explains how organizations function by examining their three central features: their purposes or goals, their hierarchies, and their memberships. The author presents the three aspects of organizations - the display, formal, and informal aspects, explaining them in metaphorical terms as façades, machines, and games. Acknowledging that the seminal systems theory developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann is not easily accessible, Professor Kühl presents Luhmann’s organizational concept in a succinct and user-friendly form that will be readily grasped by a practitioner audience and provides new insights in this ambitious theory.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

205

Publisher

Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472413431

ISBN 13

9781472413437

Food Pedagogies

By: Dr Elaine Swan,Dr Rick Flowers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Food Pedagogies

By: Dr Elaine Swan,Dr Rick Flowers

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated with a range of empirical studies, this edited and interdisciplinary volume - the first book on food pedagogies - develops innovative and theoretical perspectives to problematize the practices of teaching and learning about food. While many different pedagogues - policy makers, churches, activists, health educators, schools, tourist agencies, chefs - think we do not know enough about food and what to do with it, the aims, effects and politics of these pedagogies has been much less studied. Drawing on a range of international studies, diverse contexts, genres and different methods, this book provides new sites of investigation and lines of inquiry. As a result of its broad ranging critical evaluation of ‘food as classroom’ and ‘food as teacher’, it provides theoretical resources for opening up the concept of pedagogy, and assessing the moralities and politics of teaching and learning about food in the classroom and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472408357

ISBN 13

9781472408358

Mediating Faiths

Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century

By: Dr Guy Redden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mediating Faiths

Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century

By: Dr Guy Redden

Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. They raise fundamental questions concerning new media and religious expression, religious youth cultures, the links between spirituality, personal development and consumer culture, and contemporary intersections of religion, identity and politics. Together the chapters demonstrate how belief in the superempirical is negotiated relative to secular concerns in the twenty-first century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409481336

ISBN 13

9781409481331

Culture and the Public Sphere

By: Jim McGuigan,Dr Jim Mcguigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Culture and the Public Sphere

By: Jim McGuigan,Dr Jim Mcguigan

Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain, the United States and Australia, he looks at: * The rise of market reasoning in arts administration * Urban regeneration and the arts * Heritage tourism * Race, identity and cultural citizenship * Censorship and moral regulation * The role of computer-mediated communication in democratic discourse

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134830939

ISBN 13

9781134830930

Rethinking Equality

The Challenge of Equal Citizenship

By: Dr. Chris Armstrong

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rethinking Equality

The Challenge of Equal Citizenship

By: Dr. Chris Armstrong

This text provides an account of the important contemporary egalitarian theories. It relates egalitarian theories to contemporary political practice, assessing them with the impact of neoliberalism on welfare states, and the shift from 'social' to 'active' forms of citizenship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0719069254

ISBN 13

9780719069253

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

By: Dr Pete Dale

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

By: Dr Pete Dale

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is contingent upon a spontaneous will to liberty (anyone can do it - in theory). How valid, though, is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment? Exploring theories from Derrida and Marx, Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground examines the cultural history and politics of punk. In its political resistance, punk bears an ideological relationship to the folk movement, but punk's faith in novelty and spontaneous liberty distinguish it from folk: where punk's traditions, from the 1970s onwards, have tended to search for an anarchistic 'new-sense', folk singers have more often been socialist/Marxist traditionalists, especially during the 1950s and 60s. Detailed case studies show the continuities and differences between four micro-traditions of punk: anarcho-punk, cutie/'C86', riot grrrl and math rock, thus surveying UK and US punk-related scenes of the 1980s, 1990s and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

411

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

140945665X

ISBN 13

9781409456650

Biodivinity and Biodiversity

The Limits to Religious Environmentalism

By: Dr Emma Tomalin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Biodivinity and Biodiversity

The Limits to Religious Environmentalism

By: Dr Emma Tomalin

This book is concerned with the argument that religious traditions are inherently environmentally friendly. Yet in a developing country such as India, the majority of people cannot afford to put the 'Earth first' regardless of the extent to which this idea can be supported by their religious traditions. Does this mean that the linking of religion and environmental concerns is a strategy more suited to contexts where people have a level of material security that enables them to think and act like environmentalists? This question is approached through a series of case studies from Britain and India. The book concludes that there is a tension between the 'romantic' ecological discourse common among many western activists and scholars, and a more pragmatic approach, which is often found in India. The adoption of environmental causes by the Hindu Right in India makes it difficult to distinguish genuine concern for the environment from the broader politics surrounding the idea of a Hindu rashtra (nation). This raises a further level of analysis, which has not been provided in other studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

140947819X

ISBN 13

9781409478195

The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Wedding Present

Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

By: Dr Louise Purbrick

In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Focusing on gift-giving in Britain from 1945 to the present, comparative context is provided by material from North America and Europe. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, the book makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption. It also re-evaluates consumption theory as well as examining the methodology of recent studies in consumption and domesticity, pressing for a more rigorous approach to the use of case studies. By considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood, The Wedding Present tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities. Thus, the book argues, consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social formation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

224

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472440242

ISBN 13

9781472440242

Journalism, Ethics and Society

By: Dr David Berry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Journalism, Ethics and Society

By: Dr David Berry

Journalism, Ethics and Society provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of debates within media ethics in relation to the purpose of news and journalism for society. It assesses how the meaning of news and journalism is central to a discourse in ethics and further evaluates the continuing role of liberalism in helping to define both theory and practice. Its timely and topical analysis focuses on two of the most central concepts within media ethics and journalistic practice: the US based Public Journalism 'movement' and European Union media policies. It provides new ways of thinking about media ethics and will be of interest to students and researchers working within the field of media, cultural studies and journalism, as well as scholars of philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

140949151X

ISBN 13

9781409491514

Mission by the People

Re-Discovering the Dynamic Missiology of Tom Allan and his Scottish Contemporaries

By: Dr. Alexander C. Forsyth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mission by the People

Re-Discovering the Dynamic Missiology of Tom Allan and his Scottish Contemporaries

By: Dr. Alexander C. Forsyth

How is Christianity to express itself in the public forum within Western nations? This book seeks answers through a historical retrieval of the dynamic mission in post-war Scotland of Tom Allan and his contemporaries: the Iona Community; the Gorbals Group Ministry inspired by the East Harlem Protestant Parish; and Robert Mackie, Ian Fraser and Scottish Churches House. Allan's missiology focused upon the apostolate of the laity: allowing ordinary people to express their faith in word and deed in a full contextualization of Christianity to seek a missionary parish of constant witness and service. The book examines his work in parish ministry, nationally as leader of the Tell Scotland Movement, and internationally with the WCC; and the rich sources and context of his missiology. Key questions are asked about tensions caused by the role of the church, and the effect of the Billy Graham "All Scotland Crusade," which Allan instigated, on the rapid decline in Christian adherence from the late fifties. His work is placed alongside his contemporaries, who took bold steps beyond those of Allan to relocate faith to the rhythms of the streets. Utilizing present day missiology as a lens, their inspiration leads to derivations and principles, offered as guideposts for Christian mission now.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498232701

ISBN 13

9781498232708

Cultural Populism

By: Jim McGuigan,Dr Jim Mcguigan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cultural Populism

By: Jim McGuigan,Dr Jim Mcguigan

First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people’s pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression. Through detailed consideration of the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and ‘the Birmingham School’, John Fiske, youth subcultural analysis, popular television study, and issues generally concerned with public communication (including advertising, arts and broadcasting policies, children’s television, tabloid journalism, feminism and pornography, the Rushdie affair, and the collapse of communism), Jim McGuigan sets out a distinctive case for recovering critical analysis of popular culture in a rapidly changing, conflict-ridden world. The book is an accessible introduction to past and present debates for undergraduate students, and it poses some challenging theses for postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

433

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134924100

ISBN 13

9781134924103

Researching the Visual

Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry

By: Michael Emmison,Dr Philip D Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Researching the Visual

Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry

By: Michael Emmison,Dr Philip D Smith

`The book has a solid practical feel to it, and although it deals philosophically with leading theorists such as Foucault, Goffman, Bourdieu and Hall it grounds the practice of visual research into everyday use... Weaved cleverly throughout are numerous practical exercises which draw together the theoretical concepts and give them a grounded rational element. This book is a valuable research tool and I would anticipate that many researchers will find it a worthwhile addition to their armoury' - Mental Health Care Providing a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of visual research, this book reviews the contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847876374

ISBN 13

9781847876379

Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914

By: Dr Simon Sleight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870–1914

By: Dr Simon Sleight

Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ‘perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ‘Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those institutional sites so often assessed by historians of childhood, he ranges across the outdoor city to chart the relationship between a discourse about youth, youthful experience and the shaping of new urban spaces. Play, street work, consumerism, courtship, gang-related activities and public parades are examined using a plethora of historical sources to reveal a hitherto hidden layer of city life. Capturing the voices of young people as well as those of their parents, Sleight alerts us to the ways in which young people shaped the emergent metropolis by appropriating space and attempting to impress upon the city their own desires. Here a dynamic youth culture flourished well before the discovery of the ‘teenager’ in the mid-twentieth century; here young people and the city grew up together.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

474

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472402898

ISBN 13

9781472402899

Expressions of Identity

Space, Performance, Politics

By: Dr Kevin Hetherington

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Expressions of Identity

Space, Performance, Politics

By: Dr Kevin Hetherington

This innovative book sets out to question what we understand by the term new social movements'. By examining a range of issues associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles, the author challenges those who treat new social movements as instances of wider social change while often ignoring their more local' and dispersed' importance. This book questions what it means to adopt an identity that is organised around issues of expressivism - and offers a series of non-reductionist ways of looking at identity politics. Hetherington analyzes expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity and the occasion'. This important work shows how the significance of identity politics are at once local, plural, situated and topologically complex.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

194

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

144622791X

ISBN 13

9781446227916

The Therapeutic Cloning Debate

Global Science and Journalism in the Public Sphere

By: Dr Eric A. Jensen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Therapeutic Cloning Debate

Global Science and Journalism in the Public Sphere

By: Dr Eric A. Jensen

Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies. With specific reference to the US and the UK, together with attention to the important role played by nations in Southeast Asia, this book sheds light on media representations of scientific developments, the unrealistic hype that can surround them, the influence of religion and the potentially harmful imposition of journalistic and nationalist values on the scientific field.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

247

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409429822

ISBN 13

9781409429821

Collectivistic Religions

Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity

By: Dr Slavica Jakelic

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Collectivistic Religions

Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity

By: Dr Slavica Jakelic

Collectivistic Religions draws upon empirical studies of Christianity in Europe to address questions of religion and collective identity, religion and nationalism, religion and public life, and religion and conflict. It moves beyond the attempts to tackle such questions in terms of 'choice' and 'religious nationalism' by introducing the notion of 'collectivistic religions' to contemporary debates surrounding public religions. Using a comparison of several case studies, this book challenges the modernist bias in understanding of collectivistic religions as reducible to national identities. A significant contribution to both the study of religious change in contemporary Europe and the theoretical debates that surround religion and secularization, it will be of key interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, religious studies, and geography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409492494

ISBN 13

9781409492498

The Future of Political Theology

Religious and Theological Perspectives

By: Aakash Singh,Mika Luoma-aho,Dr Péter Losonczi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Future of Political Theology

Religious and Theological Perspectives

By: Aakash Singh,Mika Luoma-aho,Dr Péter Losonczi

Recent shifts in the contemporary cultural, political, and religious landscape are engendering intensive attention concerning political theology. New trends and traditional ideas equally colour these movements. Given that a medley of recent books and articles have exhaustively treated both the history and the current resurgence of political theology, we now find ourselves faced with the task of reinventing and redefining the future of political theology. This book presents a rich overview of fresh, contemporary theoretical approaches uniquely prioritizing the prospects of the future of political theology, but also making room for significant interventions from philosophy and political theory. Including prominent essays on Judaic, Islamic, Buddhist and Christian perspectives, this book balances elements from post-modern theology with more classical as well as anti-post-modern approaches.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1409481727

ISBN 13

9781409481720

Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples

By: Dr Matteo Soranzo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples

By: Dr Matteo Soranzo

Using five case studies set in fifteenth-century Naples, Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples investigates how early modern poets used poetry to negotiate their cultural identity in a field of options and possibilities. Presented in chronological order, the analyses focus on the reciprocal relations among Giovanni Pontano, Jacopo Sannazaro, and other poets writing in neo-Latin and the vernacular during the twilight of the Aragonese domination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472413555

ISBN 13

9781472413550

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory

By: Dr Mark Graham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory

By: Dr Mark Graham

Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and identities that have often constituted a central concern of queer theory and instead exploring the queer elements of contexts in which they are not normally apparent. Engaging with a number of apparently 'non-sexual' topics, including embodiment and fieldwork, regimes of value, gifts and commodities, diversity discourses, biological essentialisms, intersectionality, the philosophy of Bergson and Deleuze, and the representation of heterosexuality in popular culture, this book moves to discuss central concerns of contemporary anthropology, drawing on both the latest anthropological research as well as classic theories.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

140945066X

ISBN 13

9781409450665

The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968

By: Dr Isabelle Doucet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968

By: Dr Isabelle Doucet

Brussels, a complex city with a turbulent architectural and urban past, forms a compelling case for examining the tensions between urban politics, architectural imaginations, society’s needs and desires, and the city’s history and fabric. Inspired by pragmatist-relational philosophies, this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. It studies a series of critical actions and tools, which occurred in Brussels’ architectural and urban culture after 1968. In addition, by showing how pragmatist-relational philosophies can be made relevant for architectural theory, the book opens hopeful potentials for how architectural theory can better contribute to the formulation of a critical agenda for architecture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472437357

ISBN 13

9781472437358

Traditionalism and Modernity

Issues and Perspectives in Sociology and Social Anthropology

By: Dr. A.H.M Zehadul Karim

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Traditionalism and Modernity

Issues and Perspectives in Sociology and Social Anthropology

By: Dr. A.H.M Zehadul Karim

This book has outlined many aspects of traditionalism and modernity, although the topics here are divergent; the consistent part of it is that all of the authors mostly come from the same disciplines of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The main concern is to find out the socio-cultural changes that have occurred due to modernization and development. From that perspective, the book is very useful to understand Sociology and Social Anthropology from diversities based on traditionalism and modernity. It contains eleven articles contributed by a few renowned sociologists and social anthropologists from a number of countries around the world, focusing on diversified issues on traditionalism and modernity. The papers are written on the basis of each author’s expertise in their respective field which are compiled to make them a suitable document in the field of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The book seems to be very useful for the students seeking knowledge on traditionalism and modernity having based in Sociology and Social Anthropology. The concepts of traditionalism and modernity are very important and are related issues in Sociology and Social Anthropology that many theoretical discussions have been carried out in these areas and several theoretical paradigms have been conceptualized in this regard which have been highlighted in the book in the form of descriptive-analytic discussion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published Date

ISBN 10

1482891417

ISBN 13

9781482891416

Bourdieu and Education

Acts of Practical Theory

By: Dr Michael Grenfell,Michael Grenfell,David James

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bourdieu and Education

Acts of Practical Theory

By: Dr Michael Grenfell,Michael Grenfell,David James

This text details the practical applications of Bourdieu's theories in a series of specific pedagogic research studies, showing how his ideas can be put into practice. Language, gender, career decision-making and the experience of higher education students are all covered. Questions are also raised concerning research methodology. The authors examine Bourdieu's interest in the position of the researcher within the research process. Bourdieu's influence is traced in aspects both of theory and practice. Finally, principles, approaches, methods and techniques that may be derived from Bourdieu are suggested, and assessed, for practical use in research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135707510

ISBN 13

9781135707514

From Modernism to Postmodernism

Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern American Fiction

By: Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Modernism to Postmodernism

Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern American Fiction

By: Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.)

Postmodern Studies; American Literature; 20th Century; Cultural Theory; and Aesthetics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

751

Publisher

Rodopi

Published Date

ISBN 10

9042018860

ISBN 13

9789042018860

Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace

By: Dr Ana Cristina Mendes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace

By: Dr Ana Cristina Mendes

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across various creative platforms, not only as a novelist and short story writer, but also as a public intellectual, reviewer, and film critic. Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance at a time when the market is strictly regulated by a few multinational corporations. She contends that marginality should not be construed exclusively as a basis for understanding Rushdie’s work, since a critical grounding in marginality will predictably involve a reproduction of the traditional postcolonial binaries of oppressor/oppressed and colonizer/colonized that the writer subverts. Rather, she seeks to expand existing interpretations of Rushdie’s work, itineraries, and frameworks in order to take into account the actual conditions of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects.

Average ratings

N/A