Religious leaders and experts engage in an open and concise discussion of the of the slow progress of Christian growth in Russia. Editor Niels C. Nielsen Jr. has colleted an enlightening discussion of current and past challanges of the Russian Chrisitan movement.
Fundamentalism is widely feared and its influence is growing in many of the major world faiths. Arising in reaction against modernism, fundamentalism affirms a pre-Enlightenment paradigm in a post-Enlightenment era. The author supports a prediction that fundamentalists will continue to have power in a variety of religions. But their characteristic ahistorical, absolutistic, view will limit their outreach.
Fundamentalism is widely feared and its influence is growing in many of the major world faiths. Arising in reaction against modernism, fundamentalism affirms a pre-Enlightenment paradigm in a post-Enlightenment era. The author supports a prediction that fundamentalists will continue to have power in a variety of religions. But their characteristic ahistorical, absolutistic, view will limit their outreach.
Election 2008 turned out to be a watershed contests, looking to crucial decisions of policy change about the war in Iraq, the international economy, global warming, social security and immigration. God in the Obama Era is written for general readers and is designed to help give objectivity and perspective on debated issues. Its approach is narrative and chronological, not dogmatic. Its premise is that the contemporary presidency stands in a longer historical tradition, which conditions both philosophical, and value judgments. A scholar, who has written in both the history and philosophy of religion, the author is interested in the long term moral values and religious symbols that motivate both voters and public officials. Of course, he is not so naïve as to suppose that truth is always on one side of the election divide. Clearly, the U. S. Constitution guarantees both freedom of worship and the non-establishment of religion. But faith convictions remain a powerful ideological force in American politics.
Specialists from Europe and the US investigate the current and changing role of religion in post-communist Russia. Drawing upon Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic points of view, they examine the Russian religious attitudes, activities and institutions, and explore the ways in which religion will significantly impact emerging social and political questions there. The volume should be of use to scholars of Russian politics, society, and religion and for anyone interested in the emerging culture of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Presidential Election 2012--a crucial watershed in United States history----will set the course for economics and domestic politics as well as international relations in the next four years. Who will the winner be? Two Harvard trained lawyers: the former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, (JD MBA cum laude) 1975, Republican, and the incumbent President, Barack Obama, (JD magna cum laude) 1991, Democrat, will face off against each other in a national contest. PACs on either sides are investing enormous energy, time, and funds in a quest for victory. How do present challenges, national and international, relate to our nation's historical past, as well as to earlier presidential election campaigns? Will the nation's economy recover and prosper? What of United States and China relations, of conflict in the Muslim world? How would past presidents, Washington, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Wilson, Truman and Lyndon Johnson view present crises--in a world of atomic weapons and the internet. What of the struggle for democracy and human rights. The book's author, Professor Niels C. Nielsen (Philosophy and Religion), emeritus at Rice University, invokes the historian, H. G. Wells' Time Machine. What if such an imagined device could take us back into the past and forward in the future? We need to know our place in history--to appraise its opportunities and perils. What if we could communicate with a visitor from another planet or galaxy. What could we learn about democracy, cosmology and warcraft? Religious faith lives on and its sidewinds will influence election results--as a Mormon faces off against a United Church of Christ Congregationalist. What have our candidates as well as former presidents believed about ethics, God and human destiny? What can President Obama or Governor Romney do to deliver prosperity at home and abroad? What went wrong and precipitated the Great Recession? Democracy and pledges made in the heat of campaign and electioneering may be all too soon forgotten. But American citizens, indeed, the world will have to live with the winner's policies about global warming, immigration, education and hydrogen weapons.
Through interviews with a selection of the most qualified and well-reputed Northern European researchers, Understanding Learning and Motivation in Youth explores, and offers a range of solutions to, one of the central problems in modern education: motivation for learning. The way that teaching is currently delivered to students aged 11–19 often does not support positive learning; the ongoing encouragement to produce as much competence as possible at the lowest possible costs elicits critical conditions for learning processes, endangering not only the motivation of students, but also the engagement and motivation of teachers themselves. This book examines how this can be handled in practice by teachers and educators, drawing on the perspectives of carefully selected experts to provide an introduction to the debates surrounding neoliberal education, as well as a means to counteract the damages in their everyday teaching and activities. With an original and accessible format and a unique insight into the thoughts of a select group of academics, Understanding Learning and Motivation is essential reading for students, researchers and academics studying the effects of neoliberal education, as well as practicing teachers and educational leaders who are attempting to combat the problem.
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