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Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

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Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393186

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9781588393180

Religious Freedom at Risk

The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned

By: Melanie Adrian

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Religious Freedom at Risk

The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned

By: Melanie Adrian

This book examines matters of religious freedom in Europe, considers the work of the European Court of Human Rights in this area, explores issues of multiculturalism and secularism in France, of women in Islam, and of Muslims in the West. The work presents legal analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on concepts such as laïcité, submission, equality and the role of the state in public education, amongst others. Through this book, the reader can visit inside a French public school located in a low-income neighborhood just south of Paris and learn about the complex dynamics that led up to the passing of the 2004 law banning Muslim headscarves. The chapters bring to light the actors and cultures within the school that set the stage for the passing of the law and the political philosophy that supports it. School culture and philosophy are compared and contrasted to the thoughts and opinions of the teachers, administrators and students to gage how religious freedom and identity are understood. The book goes on to explore the issue of religious freedom at the European Court of Human Rights. The author argues that the right to religious freedom has been too narrowly understood and is being fenced in by static visions of Islam. This jeopardizes the idea of religious freedom more broadly. By becoming entangled with regional and domestic politics, the Court is neglecting important nuances and is jeopardizing secularism, pluralism and democracy. This is a highly readable and accessible book that will appeal to students and scholars of law, anthropology, religious studies and philosophy of religion. 内容紹介この本はヨーロッパにおける宗教の自由に関する問題を考察したもので、欧州人権裁判所のそれに関する取り組みと、フランスにおける多文化主義、世俗主義、イスラム女性、西洋におけるイスラム教の問題について調査している。その成果として、法的分析、例えば政教分離などの概念に注目した民俗学的実地調査、提案、とりわけ公教育における国家の公平性と役割に注目し、それを示している。この本を通して、読者はフランスのパリ南部の低所得地域にある公立学校の内部事情を知ることができる。そしてイスラム教徒が頭にスカーフをかぶることを禁じた2004年制定の法律が可決されるに至った複雑な作用について学ぶことができる。各章では、法案成立のお膳立てをしてきた学校関係者とその文化、そしてそれを支えた政治哲学について明らかにしている。宗教の自由と独自性が人々にどのくらい理解されているかを計るために、学校文化と哲学を、教員や管理職、学生の考えや意見と比較対比している。この本ではさらに欧州人権裁判所における宗教の自由に関する問題を探求している。宗教の自由に関する権利は十分に理解されておらず、人々はイスラム教についての固定的な見方から抜け出せないため、それが宗教の自由という考えを露骨に危険にさらしている。そして、宗教と国内政治のもつれによって、裁判所は微妙だが重要な差違を軽視し、それにより、世俗主義、多元主義、民主主義が危険にさらされていると著者は述べている。この本は大変読みやすくわかりやすいため、法律、人類学、宗教学、宗教哲学を学ぶ学生や研究者にお勧めしたい本である。

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202

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Springer

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3319214462

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9783319214467

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

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Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588395987

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9781588395986

Understanding Global Health

By: William Markle,Melanie Fisher,Jr. Ray Smego

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Understanding Global Health

By: William Markle,Melanie Fisher,Jr. Ray Smego

The rapidly evolving world of global health and medicine -- in the palm of your hand "The book's 17 multi-authored chapters cover contemporary global public health remarkably well....Overall, it is a superb introductory text for preclinical and public health novices in global health across a wide spectrum of health careers."--Family Medicine Journal "This is a welcome addition to the expanding roster of books on global health. It is well written and provides appropriate background information required to initiate any study program in global health. 3 Stars."--Doody's Review Service Understanding Global Health is the groundbreaking, go-to primer that puts global health and its many challenges into sharp focus like no other text. Written with the nonspecialist in mind, this powerful resource expertly reviews all the core topics that you must know in order to thrive in this decentralized new global health environment. It's all here: unique, authoritative coverage of public health concepts, plus insights into infectious diseases and clinical medicine-everything you need to truly comprehend how global medicine is dramatically affecting today's practice of medicine-and to prepare for your role in it.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071487840

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9780071487849

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