The Politics of Consolation by Christina Simko
- Title : The Politics of Consolation
- Author : Christina Simko
- Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN Code : 0199381798
- Pages : 304
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What meaning can be found in calamity and suffering? This question is in some sense perennial, reverberating through the canons of theology, philosophy, and literature. Today, The Politics of Consolation reveals, it is also a significant part of American political leadership. Faced with uncertainty, shock, or despair, Americans frequently look to political leaders for symbolic and existential guidance, for narratives that bring meaning to the confrontation with suffering, loss, and finitude. Politicians, in turn, increasingly recognize consolation as a cultural expectation, and they often work hard to fulfill it. The events of September 11, 2001 raised these questions of meaning powerfully. How were Americans to make sense of the violence that unfolded on that sunny Tuesday morning? This book examines how political leaders drew upon a long tradition of consolation discourse in their effort to interpret September 11, arguing that the day's events were mediated through memories of past suffering in decisive ways. It then traces how the struggle to define the meaning of September 11 has continued in foreign policy discourse, commemorative ceremonies, and the contentious redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan.
Agents of God by Jeffrey Guhin
- Title : Agents of God
- Author : Jeffrey Guhin
- Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN Code : 0190244747
- Pages : 296
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"In Agents of God, sociologist Jeffrey Guhin describes his year and a half spent in two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools in the New York City area. At first, these four schools could not seem more different, yet they are linked by much: these are all schools with conservative thoughts on gender and sexuality, with a hostility to the theory of evolution, and with a deep suspicion of secularism. And they are all also hopeful that America will be a place in which their children can excel, even if they also fear the nation's many temptations might lead their children astray. Guhin shows how these school communities use boundaries of politics, gender, and sexuality to distinguish themselves from the outside world, both in school online. Within these boundaries, these communities have developed "external authorities" like Science, Scripture, and Prayer, each of which are felt and experienced as real powers with the ability to make commands and coerce action. Think how someone can describe Science as showing something, or the Bible itself as making a command. By offloading coercion to these external authorities, leaders in these schools are able to maintain a commitment to religious freedom while simultaneously reproducing their moral commitments in their students. Drawing on extensive classroom observation, community participation, and hundreds of interviews with students, teachers, and staff, this book makes an original contribution to religious studies, sociology, and education"--
Humanities by N.A
- Title : Humanities
- Author : N.A
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by N.A
- Title : The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
- Author : N.A
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The Nature of the Beasts by Ian Jared Miller
- Title : The Nature of the Beasts
- Author : Ian Jared Miller
- Publisher : University of California Press
- ISBN Code : 0520377524
- Pages : 352
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society by James Greenaway
- Title : Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society
- Author : James Greenaway
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- ISBN Code : 1793611017
- Pages : 258
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This book explores the interrelation of human dignity, education, and political society, and discusses why liberal education is best suited to dignified personal and political life. It sets out what is perennially important about such an education, tracks its development historically, and presents relevant contemporary issues.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by N.A
- Title : The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
- Author : N.A
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The Sunday School Journal by N.A
- Title : The Sunday School Journal
- Author : N.A
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Printed Books
- Title : Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
- Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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The Examiner by N.A
- Title : The Examiner
- Author : N.A
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Catalogue of Printed Books by N.A
- Title : Catalogue of Printed Books
- Author : N.A
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Saturday Review by N.A
- Title : Saturday Review
- Author : N.A
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The Athenæum by N.A
- Title : The Athenæum
- Author : N.A
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The Athenaeum by James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
- Title : The Athenaeum
- Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
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The Key to Theosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
- Title : The Key to Theosophy
- Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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- Pages : 370
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“The” Athenaeum by N.A
- Title : “The” Athenaeum
- Author : N.A
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The Round Table by N.A
- Title : The Round Table
- Author : N.A
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The Illustrated London News by N.A
- Title : The Illustrated London News
- Author : N.A
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The Encyclopædic Dictionary by Robert Hunter
- Title : The Encyclopædic Dictionary
- Author : Robert Hunter
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary by Robert Hunter
- Title : The Encyclopaedic Dictionary
- Author : Robert Hunter
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Campbell's Illustrated Weekly by N.A
- Title : Campbell's Illustrated Weekly
- Author : N.A
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary by N.A
- Title : The Encyclopaedic Dictionary
- Author : N.A
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Waverley Magazine by N.A
- Title : Waverley Magazine
- Author : N.A
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Lloyd's Encyclopædic dictionary by Robert Hunter
- Title : Lloyd's Encyclopædic dictionary
- Author : Robert Hunter
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- Pages : N.A
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Religious and Theological Abstracts by N.A
- Title : Religious and Theological Abstracts
- Author : N.A
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History and September 11th by Joanne Jay Meyerowitz
- Title : History and September 11th
- Author : Joanne Jay Meyerowitz
- Publisher : Temple University Press
- ISBN Code : 9781592132034
- Pages : 273
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Locating the historical roots of the September 11th attacks
Sociological Abstracts by N.A
- Title : Sociological Abstracts
- Author : N.A
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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Calyx by N.A
- Title : Calyx
- Author : N.A
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The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Title : The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti
- Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Publisher : Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
- ISBN Code :
- Pages : 272
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This volume covers talks given in New Zealand, Ojai, New York, S. America and Mexico. Krishnamurti begins by stating "what we call problems are merely symptoms, which increase and multiply because we do not tackle the whole life as one but divide it as economic, social or religious problems. .. Now it is my intention to show that so long as we deal with these problems apart, separately, we but increase the misunderstanding, and therefore the conflict, and thereby the suffering and the pain ..."
Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar by N.A
- Title : Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar
- Author : N.A
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The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press by N.A
- Title : The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
- Author : N.A
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Christianity in the Middle East by Anthony O'Mahony
- Title : Christianity in the Middle East
- Author : Anthony O'Mahony
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- Pages : 538
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This wide-ranging collection of papers describes aspects of the modern history and theology of Christianity in the Middle East .
Guide to Reprints by Albert James Diaz
- Title : Guide to Reprints
- Author : Albert James Diaz
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The Book Review Digest by N.A
- Title : The Book Review Digest
- Author : N.A
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The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index by N.A
- Title : The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
- Author : N.A
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The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review by N.A
- Title : The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
- Author : N.A
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The American Hispanist by N.A
- Title : The American Hispanist
- Author : N.A
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Vergilius by N.A
- Title : Vergilius
- Author : N.A
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The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis by Michael Parrish
- Title : The 1968 Czechoslovak Crisis
- Author : Michael Parrish
- Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : American Bibliographical Center
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- Pages : 41
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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica by N.A
- Title : The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Author : N.A
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- Pages : 948
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