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Practicing Discipleship

Lived Theologies of Nonviolence in Conversation with the Doctrine of the United Methodist Church

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson

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Practicing Discipleship

Lived Theologies of Nonviolence in Conversation with the Doctrine of the United Methodist Church

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson

Despite a plurality of doctrinal statements on war, peace, and nonviolence, some United Methodists sustain a commitment to nonviolence. Through qualitative research, Practicing Discipleship draws out lived theologies of nonviolence in order to understand how nonviolent United Methodists define, ground, and practice nonviolence, and to give that voice opportunity to challenge church doctrine and thereby the wider church. An analysis of statements from the Book of Disciplines and the Book of Resolutions reveals the plurality of Methodist teachings on moral issues related to war and peace. While such plurality is indicative of the inclusive tradition of United Methodism, Johnson shows that it also causes confusion, thus hindering the vitality and authority of the church's witness. This study's qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with twelve nonviolent United Methodists reveals a lived theology rooted in Scripture and theological reflection: it points particularly to a christocentrism that posits nonviolence as central to Christ's teachings and example. While study participants affirm the tradition of openness in the United Methodist Church, they also call for more tangible and extensive support for and education about nonviolence as a faithful option for Christians. Through amicable and constructive practical-theological dialogue, doctrinal plurality, and ecclesial openness are affirmed as appropriate and possible only within the context of the church's profound commitment to serious discipleship, which includes transformation toward nonviolence. Implications of this interaction include developing and adopting a more truthful conception of a nonviolent ethics, moving toward broadly conceived Christian formation in nonviolence, and fostering ongoing ecclesial dialogue about difficult moral issues of war, peace, and nonviolence.

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1498274765

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Faithful Witness in a Fractured World

Models for an Authentic Christian Life

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson,Michael T. Snarr

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Faithful Witness in a Fractured World

Models for an Authentic Christian Life

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson,Michael T. Snarr

Christians have always looked to models within the Christian faith to guide their lives. At a time when the church is more identifiable by ugly partisan politics--what we call "crappy Christianity"--than by compassionate neighbor love, this book highlights the lives and work of seven individuals who are pursuing their Christian calling in humility and profound love for and service to others, this book highlights the lives and work of seven individuals who are pursuing their Christian calling in humility and profound love for and service to others. Their commitments have led to vocations in working with homeless women, employing refugees, lobbying on Capitol Hill for environmental protection, healing trauma in urban communities, peacemaking in Israel-Palestine, advocating for immigrants, and walking alongside people in addiction recovery. Their individual and collective witness offer compelling examples of authentic Christian life, which is marked in part by active, embodied faith in pursuit of the common good; a broad and inclusive love for all people; rightly ordered political identities and loyalties; and a commitment to work toward holistic redemption of both people and the systems that constitute our life together. In contrast to much of contemporary American Christianity, these models of faith demonstrate that Christians should focus much more on what we are for rather than what we are against.

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104

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532653166

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9781532653162

Bargaining for Brooklyn

Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

By: Nicole P. Marwell

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Bargaining for Brooklyn

Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

By: Nicole P. Marwell

When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs—private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwork at eight CBOs in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Nicole P. Marwell discovered that the complex and contentious relationships these groups form with larger economic and political institutions outside the neighborhood have a huge and unexamined impact on the lives of the poor. Most studies of urban poverty focus on individuals or families, but Bargaining for Brooklyn widens the lens, examining the organizations whose actions and decisions collectively drive urban life.

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302

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University of Chicago Press

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0226509087

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9780226509082

Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Contingent Valuation

An Experimental Evaluation of Accuracy

By: William H. Desvousges,F. Reed Johnson,Richard W. Dunford,Kevin J. Boyle,Sara P. Hudson,K. Nicole Wilson

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Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Contingent Valuation

An Experimental Evaluation of Accuracy

By: William H. Desvousges,F. Reed Johnson,Richard W. Dunford,Kevin J. Boyle,Sara P. Hudson,K. Nicole Wilson

This second edition of Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Conjoint Valuation is essentially a reprint of a 1992 monograph that has been in steady demand since its original appearance. The RTI Press edition, which is intended to meet continued inquiries and requests for the monograph, contains a Foreword and a Preface to the second edition that put the original work into historical perspective. These studies of ways to value stated preferences, as applied then to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, continue to be a timely and still-rigorous examination of such methods; even with the passage of time and statistical advances from the past two decades, the conclusions and insights as to whether and how these techniques might still be employed in valuing use or nonuse losses from similar events remain valid.

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254

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RTI Press

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193483100X

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9781934831007

Viral Nanoparticles

Tools for Material Science and Biomedicine

By: Nicole F. Steinmetz,Marianne Manchester

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Viral Nanoparticles

Tools for Material Science and Biomedicine

By: Nicole F. Steinmetz,Marianne Manchester

The utilization of viral nanoparticles (VNPs) in nanosciences and nanotechnology has become a popular field of research. This book offers an overview of the applications of VNPs in areas ranging from materials science to biomedicine. It also includes a summary of the many different VNP building blocks.

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Pan Stanford Publishing

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9814267457

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Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic

Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror

By: Nicole C. Dittmer,Sophie Raine

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Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic

Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror

By: Nicole C. Dittmer,Sophie Raine

• Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic uncovers neglected Gothic texts of the nineteenth century which are crucial in understanding working-class popular culture. • The approach of this study of penny dreadfuls is vast and eclectic, ranging from data-driven publication data to close textual analysis of these texts to adaptations of penny fiction. • This title covers a broad range of penny texts, some of which have never before been written on.

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University of Wales Press

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1786839717

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9781786839718

Experiencing Racism

Exploring Discrimination Through the Eyes of College Students

By: Richard A. Seltzer,Nicole E. Johnson

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Experiencing Racism

Exploring Discrimination Through the Eyes of College Students

By: Richard A. Seltzer,Nicole E. Johnson

Experiencing Racism provides a thought-provoking and thorough analysis of how race is lived in America. Collecting essays on personal experiences of race and racism from a wide spectrum of college students, the authors employ existing social science literature and textual analysis to illustrate common themes and departures. The essays and associated analyses capture the impact of racism on its perpetrators and victims, highlighting how individuals choose to cope with racist experiences in their lives. Relevant empirical literature is interwoven throughout the chapters to demonstrate the intersection between existing empirical research and real-life experiences. This book is a depiction of race in America that goes beyond black and white to show how the changing racial contours of America are impacting the ways we view and experience racism."--Page 4 of cover.

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307

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Lexington Books

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0739134310

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Death in Old Mexico

The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation

By: Nicole von Germeten

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Death in Old Mexico

The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation

By: Nicole von Germeten

An evocative history of colonial Mexico's 'crime of the century' and its lasting impact on the new Mexican nation in the nineteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009261525

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Profit and Passion

Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico

By: Nicole von Germeten

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Profit and Passion

Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico

By: Nicole von Germeten

Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation, criminalization, and polarizing politics of modern global transactional sex. The author’s analysis concentrates on the words women spoke in depositions and court appearances and on how their language changed over time, pointing to a broader transformation in the history of sexuality, gender, and the ways in which courts and law enforcement processes affected women.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969707

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Practicing Discipleship

Lived Theologies of Nonviolence in Conversation with the Doctrine of the United Methodist Church

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson

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Lived Theologies of Nonviolence in Conversation with the Doctrine of the United Methodist Church

By: Dr. Nicole L. Johnson

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Practicing Discipleship

Practicing Discipleship

Faithful Witness in a Fractured World

Faithful Witness in a Fractured World

Bargaining for Brooklyn

Bargaining for Brooklyn

Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Contingent Valuation

Measuring Nonuse Damages Using Contingent Valuation

Viral Nanoparticles

Viral Nanoparticles

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic

Experiencing Racism

Experiencing Racism

Death in Old Mexico

Death in Old Mexico

Profit and Passion

Profit and Passion

Practicing Discipleship

Practicing Discipleship

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