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Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture

By: Jessica Decou

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Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture

By: Jessica Decou

This book offers a critical analysis and reinterpretation of Karl Barth's theology of culture—the least studied aspect of his work—revealing his significance for contemporary work in theology of culture by applying his approach to the study of popular culture and entertainment. Grounding the study in Barth's eschatology, which proves more amenable to secular culture than other models, DeCou shows that Barth's approach recognized that the freedom of theology is qualified by the freedom of the Word and the freedom of secular culture. Barth therefore offers a "middle way" for evaluating and analyzing culture and religious forms. This book thus opens up a new avenue of interpretation of Barth and applies the insights of Barth's theology in fresh ways to the structures of contemporary culture and its products.

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Fortress Press

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1451465475

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Semantic Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval

By: Winfried Gödert,Jessica Hubrich,Matthias Nagelschmidt

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Semantic Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval

By: Winfried Gödert,Jessica Hubrich,Matthias Nagelschmidt

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal knowledge representation and reasoning. The methodologies included combine the specifics of indexing languages, Web representation languages and intersystem relations, and explain their contribution to search functionalities in information retrieval scenarios. An example oriented discussion, considering aspects of conceptual and semantic interoperability in processes of subject querying and knowledge exploration is provided. The book is relevant to information scientists, knowledge workers and indexers. It provides a suitable combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications.

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308

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110329700

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9783110329704

Violence in the Military

By: Monty T. Baker,Alyssa R. Ojeda,Hannah Pressley,Jessica Blalock,Riki Ann Martinez,Brian A. Moore,Vincent B. Van Hasselt

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Violence in the Military

By: Monty T. Baker,Alyssa R. Ojeda,Hannah Pressley,Jessica Blalock,Riki Ann Martinez,Brian A. Moore,Vincent B. Van Hasselt

This brief highlights issues relating to military service members’ expression of violence outside of the military due to the constant readiness for or the exposure to organized violence. It investigates how service members are affected by these experiences, considering both the exacerbation of aggressive traits and the impact it has on mental health. The chapters address the following types of non-combat related violence: Suicide and Self-Harm in the Military Military Sexual Violence: Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Hazing Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Among Military Populations Violent Criminal Behavior in the Military The volume also reviews the contributing factors to the perpetration of violence, including personality traits (i.e., aggression), the military life cycle, interpersonal dynamics, and mental health. It ultimately poses future directions to mitigate risk factors for non-combat related violence. This brief is ideal for military leaders, military psychologists, and mental health providers of service members and veterans.

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Springer Nature

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3031268830

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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender

Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West

By: Jessica Smith Rolston

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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender

Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West

By: Jessica Smith Rolston

Though mining is an infamously masculine industry, women make up 20 percent of all production crews in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin—the largest coal-producing region in the United States. How do these women fit into a working culture supposedly hostile to females? This is what anthropologist Jessica Smith Rolston, herself a onetime mine worker and the daughter of a miner, set out to discover. Her answers, based on years of participant-observation in four mines and extensive interviews with miners, managers, engineers, and the families of mine employees, offer a rich and surprising view of the working “families” that miners construct. In this picture, gender roles are not nearly as straightforward—or as straitened—as stereotypes suggest. Gender is far from the primary concern of coworkers in crews. Far more important, Rolston finds, is protecting the safety of the entire crew and finding a way to treat each other well despite the stresses of their jobs. These miners share the burden of rotating shift work—continually switching between twelve-hour day and night shifts—which deprives them of the daily rhythms of a typical home, from morning breakfasts to bedtime stories. Rolston identifies the mine workers’ response to these shared challenges as a new sort of constructed kinship that both challenges and reproduces gender roles in their everyday working and family lives. Crews’ expectations for coworkers to treat one another like family and to adopt an “agricultural” work ethic tend to minimize gender differences. And yet, these differences remain tenacious in the equation of masculinity with technical expertise, and of femininity with household responsibilities. For Rolston, such lingering areas of inequality highlight the importance of structural constraints that flout a common impulse among men and women to neutralize the significance of gender, at home and in the workplace. At a time when the Appalachian region continues to dominate discussion of mining culture, this book provides a very different and unexpected view—of how miners live and work together, and of how their lives and work reconfigure ideas of gender and kinship.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813563690

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Arctic Sustainability Research

Past, Present and Future

By: Andrey N. Petrov,Shauna BurnSilver,F. Stuart Chapin III,Gail Fondahl,Jessica K. Graybill,Kathrin Keil,Annika E. Nilsson,Rudolf Riedlsperger,Peter Schweitzer

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Arctic Sustainability Research

Past, Present and Future

By: Andrey N. Petrov,Shauna BurnSilver,F. Stuart Chapin III,Gail Fondahl,Jessica K. Graybill,Kathrin Keil,Annika E. Nilsson,Rudolf Riedlsperger,Peter Schweitzer

The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. This book offers key insights into the history, current state of knowledge and the future of sustainability, and sustainable development, research in the Arctic. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, i

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Taylor & Francis

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1351614630

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Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture

By: Jessica Decou

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