This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia’s Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington. The book starts out by examining historical and sociological work on bohemia, and then provides a detailed history of greater Philadelphia and the Fishtown/Kensington region. After analyzing the ways in which Fishtown/Kensington’s artistic community maintains continuity with bohemian tradition, it demonstrates that this community has decoupled traditional bohemian practices from their anti-bourgeois foundation. The book also demonstrates that this community helped generate and maintains overlapping membership with a larger community of hipsters. It concludes by defining the area's artistic community as an artistic bohemian lifestyle community, and argues that the artistic activities and cultural practices exhibited by the community are not unique, and have significant implications for urban artistic policy, and for post-industrial urban society.
Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas. This book’s analysis of Philadelphia baristas employed within specialty coffee shops suggests that the existing literature on the relationship between neoliberalism and urban subcultures needs to be amended. The subcultural participants discussed within previous studies lived intensely subcultural lives that were ultimately diminished due to processes of gentrification and displacement. The subcultural lives of the baristas investigated by the authors were greatly diminished from the very beginning. Neoliberal policies, and structures of class, race, gender, and gentrification intersected with their employment in ways that diminished their ability to establish lives that constitute a full-fledged subcultural alternative. The book presents a new theoretical perspective that could aid researchers who study urban subcultures. It also discusses the implications of its analysis for urban policy. This book is an essential update on previous scholarship pertaining to urban subcultures. It also contributes to existing literatures on baristas, hipsters, gentrification, and service sector employment within the city. It is suitable for students and scholars in Urban Sociology, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Sociology of Work.
For the millions upon millions of displaced Christians in this world, Disorganized Christianity is the gavel of justice with the power of redemption for our souls. I will, throughout this book, substitute the phrase organized religion in place of Disorganized Christianity. Organized religion will refer to the faith of Christianity in its many forms, but does not include in any way the Jewish faith, the Muslim faith, Buddhist faith or any other non-Christian faith. We all can be spiritual without being part of "the church," no matter what organized religion says. After a disagreement with the pastor of my local church, I decided to reread the Bible, with the sole purpose to find enough valid reasons to not have to settle with organized religion's damnation of my soul. My Why! for writing Disorganized Christianity is to give others, from the strongest charismatic church leader to the most gullible, but sincerely spiritual; "want to be saved from hell" individual, enough biblical common sense and correct spiritual answers to withstand organized religion's condemnation for anyone who disagrees with their dogma. Some simple and exact beliefs organized religion has about an apple, a whale, three wise men at Jesus' birth, why Noah was the best man God could have chosen to repopulate the earth after the great flood, the treatment of women, slaves/Blacks and homosexuals, and many other false organized religion dogmas will be exposed in this book. Disorganized Christianity will also address some lesser-known events like angels having sex with Eve's daughters, what could be the origin of the anti-Christ's number 666, that Eve NEVER sinned in the Garden of Eden, and the fact Jesus CANNOT BE the Messiah. After writing Disorganized Christianity, I now say, "I STILL BELIEVE IN GOD, but I still do not know who he is, or she is, or they are, or we are." However, I do know that God is not what the fallible Bible and the moneychangers of organized religion are selling.
1166 concepts primarily from English-language articles, books, reviews, and histories published through 1979. Includes plant and animal biology; excludes, for the most part, human and behavioral biology. Each entry gives concept and relevant authoritative citations. Many cross references.
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