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Care of Souls, Care of Polis

Toward a Political Pastoral Theology

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Care of Souls, Care of Polis

Toward a Political Pastoral Theology

By: Ryan LaMothe

In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift. This is one such book. LaMothe develops a political pastoral theology that is used to examine critically political, economic, and societal structures and practices. In the first part of the book, LaMothe argues that care and pastoral care are political concepts, which, along with the notion of justice, can be used as a hermeneutical framework to assess macropolitical and macroeconomic realities. Included in this section is the notion of civil and redemptive discourse, necessary for the survival and flourishing of persons and polis. The last section of the book examines U.S. Empire, capitalism, class, classism, and other pressing political issues using the hermeneutical lens of care.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498205216

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Becoming Alive

Psychoanalysis and Vitality

By: Ryan Lamothe

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Becoming Alive

Psychoanalysis and Vitality

By: Ryan Lamothe

What does it mean to be and feel alive and real? How do we become and be alive together? Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real, as well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together. Becoming Alive proffers a psychoanalytic theory of experiences of being alive, acknowledging that analyst and patient, indeed, each of us, are caught up in the larger drama and mystery of being alive. Focusing on the challenge in any psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate the relation between culture, community, and the individual, LaMothe's theory provides a bridge between the three, arguing that organizations of experiences of being alive are inextricably yoked to cultural stories, rituals, and practices. Enlivened by clinical illustrations and examples drawn from wider culture, Becoming Alive brings together psychoanalytic developmental perspectives, infant-parent research, semiotics, and philosophy in providing a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic description of subjective and intersubjective experiences of being alive.

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Routledge

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1135479380

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9781135479381

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age

The Fierce Urgency of Now

By: Ryan LaMothe

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A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age

The Fierce Urgency of Now

By: Ryan LaMothe

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse. Presented in two parts, the book first uses a psychoanalytic approach to interrogate political-economic realities and their impact on shaping Western political selves in the Anthropocene age. Ryan LaMothe identifies core illusions of the Western psyche and how they shape behavior and relations, as well as how they are implicated in various emotional responses to climate change like eco-mourning and eco-denial. Topics such as political dwelling, sovereignty, political violence and change, climate obstacles such as capitalism, nationalism, and imperialism, and the problem of hope are explored using psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives. LaMothe then considers the role of psychoanalysis in the public-political realm, as well as how a psychoanalytic political perspective invites reforming the education and practice of psychoanalysis. A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age will be thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in the politics of climate change.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000952851

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9781000952858

Pastoral Reflections on Global Citizenship

Framing the Political in Terms of Care, Faith, and Community

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Pastoral Reflections on Global Citizenship

Framing the Political in Terms of Care, Faith, and Community

By: Ryan LaMothe

This book explores the growing awareness, brought on by the recent explosion of communication technology, that all human beings are citizens of the world. Ryan LaMothe argues that this awareness comes with an urgent need to address political issues, systems, and structures at local, state, and international levels that harm human beings and our one habitat. Through the lens of pastoral theology, LaMothe analyzes the concepts of care, faith, power, and community as they are related to addressing local and global problems linked to neoliberal capitalism, racism and classism.

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Lexington Books

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1498551378

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Care of Souls, Care of Polis

Toward a Political Pastoral Theology

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Toward a Political Pastoral Theology

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1498205224

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Heresies of the Heart

Developing Emotional Wisdom

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Heresies of the Heart

Developing Emotional Wisdom

By: Ryan LaMothe

This book depicts heresies of the heart from the perspective of emotional intelligence, emotional wisdom, reverence, and holiness, offering readers ways to understand emotionally healthy relationships and revitalizing faith.

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Paulist Press

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1587685590

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A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age

The Fierce Urgency of Now

By: Ryan LaMothe

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

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The Coming Jesus and the Anthropocene

By: Ryan LaMothe

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The Coming Jesus and the Anthropocene

By: Ryan LaMothe

Melting glaciers and icecaps, massive forest fires, enormous storms, extensive and prolonged flooding, and desertification of large tracts of land are realities we currently face and will continue to struggle with as a result of climate change. Our climate crisis invites, if not demands, a critical evaluation of our political, religious, economic, and cultural narratives and rituals that give rise to our ways of relating to one another, to other species, and to planet Earth. This book argues that the climate emergency exposes deep problematic roots of Western religious and political paradigms and apparatuses that undergird ideas of and methods for human flourishing. In particular, Western religious and political philosophies have produced and maintained a radical rift between human beings and other species, as well as beliefs about human dominion over other species and the earth. These ideas and practices are responsible for the colonization of Nature and for climate change. Understanding these sources invites a radical reimaging of our religious ideas and practices. Specifically, this book proposes a coming Jesus—a form of life that traverses the rift, while denying human and divine dominion for the sake of recognizing and respecting the singularities and flourishing of all species.

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1666758876

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Pastoral Reflections on Global Citizenship

Framing the Political in Terms of Care, Faith, and Community

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Framing the Political in Terms of Care, Faith, and Community

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Missing Us

Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community

By: Ryan LaMothe

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Missing Us

Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community

By: Ryan LaMothe

A foundational premise in this book is that the question and struggle of the 21st century for people in Western societies is one of community. To be relevant and helpful, psychological and, in particular, psychoanalytic theories must consider this question and struggle. This unique and valuable book seeks to reframe psychoanalytic theory and practice in terms of community and experiences of communion.

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Jason Aronson Incorporated

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0765708809

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9780765708809

A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era

Thinking and Being Otherwise

By: Ryan LaMothe

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A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era

Thinking and Being Otherwise

By: Ryan LaMothe

Given the fierce urgency of now, this important book confronts and addresses key problems and questions of political theology with the aim of proposing a radical political theology for the Anthropocene Age. LaMothe invites readers to think and be otherwise in living lives in common with all other human beings and other-than-human beings that dwell on this one earth.

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1725253569

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9781725253568

Stir the Pot

The History of Cajun Cuisine

By: Marcelle Bienvenu,Carl A. Brasseaux,Ryan A. Brasseaux

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Stir the Pot

The History of Cajun Cuisine

By: Marcelle Bienvenu,Carl A. Brasseaux,Ryan A. Brasseaux

Despite the increased popularity of Cajun foods such as gumbo, crawfish etouffee, and boudin, relatively little is known about the history of this cuisine. Stir the Pot explores its origins, its evolution from a seventeenth-century French settlement in Nova Scotia to the explosion of Cajun food onto the American dining scene over the past few decades. The authors debunk the myths surrounding Cajun food - foremost that its staples are closely guarded relics of the Cajuns' early days in Louisiana - and explain how local dishes and culinary traditions have come to embody Cajun cuisine both at home and throughout the world." -- from the publisher.

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Hippocrene Books

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0781811201

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9780781811200

Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

By: Ryan Gingeras

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Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey

By: Ryan Gingeras

Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and heroin trafficking. As an industry at the centre of the Ottoman Empire's long transition into the modern Turkish Republic, as important as the silk road had been in earlier centuries, the modern rise of the opium and heroin trade helped to solidify and complicate long-standing relationships between state officials and criminal syndicates. Such relationships produced not only ongoing patterns of corruption, but helped fuel and enable repeated acts of state violence. Drawing upon new archival sources from the United States and Turkey, including declassified documents from the Prime Minister's Archives of the Republic of Turkey and the Central Intelligence Agency, Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey provides a critical window into how a handful of criminal syndicates played supporting roles in the making of national security politics in the contemporary Turkey. The rise of the 'Turkish mafia', from its origins in the late Ottoman period to its role in the 'deep state' revealed by the so-called Susurluk and Ergenekon scandals, is a story that mirrors troubling elements in the republic's establishment and emphasizes the transnational and comparative significance of narcotics and gangs in the country's past.

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Oxford University Press

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0192526219

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9780192526212

The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating

By: Ryan Stevens

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The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating

By: Ryan Stevens

How much do you know about Canada's most exciting winter sport? The Almanac of Canadian Figure Skating is a comprehensive book crammed with fascinating facts and figures, many of which you simply can't find online. This compelling reference book includes: - Biographies of hundreds of skaters, coaches, choreographers, judges and builders... including many incredible people you have never even heard of. - Detailed records of Canadian figure skating competitions dating back to the 19th century, including complete results of the Canadian Championships from the early 20th century to the present day. - Intriguing facts and figures about the governance and growth of Canada's most exciting winter sport. If you love Canadian figure skating, you will be fascinated by the information in this book!

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Ryan Stevens

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1738768279

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9781738768271

Organizational Moral Learning

A Communication Approach

By: Ryan S. Bisel

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Organizational Moral Learning

A Communication Approach

By: Ryan S. Bisel

Winner of two National Communication Association awards: Communication Ethics Division's 2018 Single-Author Book of the Year Award Organizational Communication Division's 2018 Outstanding Book of the Year Award Extensive work in psychology and neuroscience reveals that individuals are born with moral intuitions, and this volume capitalizes on that recent insight to provide a new perspective on how to lead organizational ethics. Organizational Moral Learning presents communication-based recommendations for managers and leaders to encourage authentic moral dialogue at work so that these discussions can be used to update work practices vigilantly as organizations strive for ethical excellence. Organizational ethics are crucial to individual, organizational, national, and even global well-being, and this work leads a revolution in thinking about how to manage organizational ethics. Written accessibly for students and practitioners alike, this book provides a leading-edge look at organizational ethics based on science and research applicable to a worldwide audience.

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401

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Routledge

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1317312511

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9781317312512

Canadian Content

Culture and the Quest for Nationhood

By: Ryan Edwardson

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Canadian Content

Culture and the Quest for Nationhood

By: Ryan Edwardson

A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores ways in which nationhood was defined and pursued through cultural means in Canada throughout the last century. As a framework for the study, Ryan Edwardson distinguishes between three phases of Canadianization: support for the arts and cultured mass media during the colony-to-nation transition; the 'new nationalist' empowerment of multi-brow culture and the call for state intervention in the mid-1960s and 1970s; and the 'cultural industrialism' initiated by the federal government under Pierre Trudeau in 1968. Examining each phase in its turn, Canadian Content looks at Canada as an ongoing postcolonial process of not one but a series of radically different nationhoods, each with its own valued but tentative set of cultural criteria for orchestrating and implementing a Canadian national experience. Considering the relationship between culture and national identity, this study offers an idea of what it means to be Canadian, and suggests just how adaptable, problematic, and ongoing the pursuit of nationhood can be.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692421

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9781442692428

Oz and the Musical

Performing the American Fairy Tale

By: Ryan Bunch

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Oz and the Musical

Performing the American Fairy Tale

By: Ryan Bunch

The Wizard is a lovable humbug, an artful salesman who gives his customers something to believe in, even if the thing is known to be pretend. Playing a role, he presents Dorothy's friends with talismans of brains, heart and courage and takes pride in showing them how he accomplished his illusions. Why do Dorothy's friends put their faith in the Wizard's abilities to grant their requests even after he has shown them that he has only been putting on a show? Perhaps his virtuoso performances inspire their own, and ours too. His humbug guides the philosophy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the theatrical style of the first Oz musical, the extravaganza of 1902, with implications for "American" performance and participation"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190843136

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COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

By: J. Michael Ryan,Serena Nanda

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COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities

By: J. Michael Ryan,Serena Nanda

COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities examines the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, communities, and countries, a fact seldom acknowledged and often suppressed or invisible. Taking a global approach, this book demonstrates how the impact of the pandemic has differed as a result of social inequalities, such as economic development, social class, race and ethnicity, sex and gener, age, and access to health care and education. Economic inequality between and within nations has significantly contributed to the chances of individuals contracting and dying from the virus. Developing nations with weak health care systems, workers whose jobs cannot be performed remotely, the differences between those with and without access to soap and water to wash their hands, or the ability to practice physical distancing also account for the unequal impact of the virus. Racial and ethnic minorities experience higher death rates from the virus, which has also unequally affected indigenous peoples and urban and foreign migrants around the world. Inequality is also embedded in national and international responses to the pandemic, as giving and receiving aid is often impacted by inequalities of demographic and national power and influence, resulting in national and global competition rather than the collaboration needed to end the pandemic. Along with the other titles in Routledge’s COVID-19 Pandemic series, this book represents a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to what many believe to be the greatest threat to global ways of being in more than a century. COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities is therefore indispensable for academics, researchers, and students as well as activists and policy makers interested in understanding the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and eradicating the inequalities it has exacerbated.

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1000537269

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The War for Ukraine

Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire

By: Mick Ryan

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The War for Ukraine

Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire

By: Mick Ryan

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military’s strategy and the nimbleness with which it can adapt to unforeseen circumstances are the two most important factors in deciding victory or defeat. The War for Ukraine analyzes the war through these twin lenses of strategy and adaptation, detailing how each army has succeeded or failed to plan for and adapt to this twenty-first century war. Author Mick Ryan examines the foundations of Ukrainian and Russian strategy for their ongoing war, looking back over several decades to reveal how both sides have evolved their military strategy and force structure. Each has undertaken institutional-level reforms of their military and national security enterprises in the decade leading up to this war. But because the emergent behavior of military forces after fighting begins cannot be fully predicted, these prewar reforms only constitute a starting point for adaptation during the war. Part I of the book covers the role of strategic leadership, with a focus on evolution of strategy since February 2022. From there, the second part of the book delves into how the Ukrainians and Russians have adapted their tactics, organizations, operational approaches, and strategic foundations for war-making throughout the conflict. Central to this discussion are the ways that, regardless of cutting-edge technology, human elements have remained a crucial deciding factor in Ukraine. Ryan shows how good leadership allows a nation to navigate the ambiguity and uncertainty of conflict, while poor leadership leaves it vulnerable to surprises. Likewise, The War for Ukraine offers case studies of the importance of an institution’s ability to nurture and reward human learning as it relates to combat. The book provides strategists, policymakers, and military leaders with a basis from which to plan for constant adaption in military organizations. General readers of contemporary global conflict will also find The War for Ukraine of great interest.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682479536

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9781682479537

Best of New Orleans

By: Ryan Ver Berkmoes

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Best of New Orleans

By: Ryan Ver Berkmoes

The new series name says it all: the BEST city experiences for short-trip visitors. - Full-colour throughout and contemporary design- Easy to use gatefold maps-the ultimate pocket guide- Choice eating, entertainment and shopping venues " ... delivers hip-but-not-too-hip tips on the usual diversions, plus comprehensive listings ... also includes handy foldout maps ... "-Newsweek

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