Antiquity And Social Reform

Author : Dawn Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443823081

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Antiquity and Social Reform by Dawn Hutchinson Pdf

Although religious innovation in America has historically been the norm rather than the exception, mainstream Americans have often viewed new religious movements with suspicion and occasionally with outright alarm. The question motivating many studies of new religious movements has been “why would someone join these religions?” In Antiquity and Social Reform, Dawn Hutchinson offers at least one answer to this often repeated query. She argues that followers of new religious movements in the 1960s–1980s, specifically the Unification Church, Feminist Wicca and the Nation of Yahweh, considered these religions to be legitimate because they offered members a personal religious experience, a connection to an ancient tradition, and agency in improving their world. Utilizing an historical approach, Antiquity and Social Reform considers the conversion narratives of adherents and primary literature of the formative years of these movements, which demonstrates that the religious experiences of the adherents, and a resonance with the goals of these religions, propelled members into social action.

Author : Henry Stead,Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472584274

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Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform by Henry Stead,Edith Hall Pdf

Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers, revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the upper classes and inherently reactionary, were consistently inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic elite. The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the 'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art, poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion, women's rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations and workers' education), as well as political affiliations and agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party). The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the history of British Classics some of the subject's ideological complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is badly needed in the current debates over the future of the discipline. Contributors include specialists in English Literature, History, Classics and Art.

Author : William Bowden,Adam Gutteridge,Carlos Machado
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047407607

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Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1 by William Bowden,Adam Gutteridge,Carlos Machado Pdf

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the social and political structures of the late antique period and the ways in which they are manifested in the archaeological and textual record.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392083

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Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity brings together scientific, archaeological and historical evidence on the interplay of social change and environmental phenomena at the end of Antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages, ca. 300-800 AD.

Author : Wolfram Brandes,Helmut Reimitz,Jack Tannous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3465045505

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Legal Pluralism and Social Change in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Wolfram Brandes,Helmut Reimitz,Jack Tannous Pdf

Throughout his career, Professor John Haldon has been a hinge between different academic cultures, methods, and disciplines. A true scholar of Byzantine society, he has combined meticulous work on texts and material evidence with a holistic approach to social history that has connected the study of the Byzantine world to new methodological perspectives and ever wider horizons for comparison with other political systems and structures across the European and Islamic worlds, from late ancient to early modern times. Based on a conference organized at the Center for Collaborative History of Princeton University in 2018, this book takes stock of Haldon's approach by focusing on the history of law and legal culture in the transformation of the Roman world.

Author : Peter N. Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199567331

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Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian by Peter N. Bell Pdf

Social Conflict in the Age of Justinian explores a range of often violent conflicts across the whole empire during AD 527-565. These conflicts were reflected at the ideological level and lead to intense persecution of intellectuals and Pagans as an ever more robust Christian ideological hegemony was established.

Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191553783

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Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity by Ralph W. Mathisen Pdf

The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority, such as local and 'vulgar' law, barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the interrelationship between legal innovations and social change, for the very process of creating new law and new authority either resulted from or caused changes in the society in which it occurred. The studies in this volume discuss interactions between legal theory and practice, the Greek east and the Roman west, secular and ecclesiastical, Roman and barbarian, male and female, and Christian and non-Christian (including pagans, Jews, and Zoroastrians).

Author : Rajendra Kumar Saxena
Publisher : New Delhi : Trimurti Publications
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046366558

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Social Reforms by Rajendra Kumar Saxena Pdf

On the origin, prevalence, and decline of the Hindu customs of infanticide and suttee (voluntary self-immolation) by the widow of the deceased on his funeral pyre; study with reference to Rajasthan.

Author : Josef Lössl,Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118968109

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A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity by Josef Lössl,Nicholas J. Baker-Brian Pdf

A comprehensive review of the development, geographic spread, and cultural influence of religion in Late Antiquity A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of religion in Late Antiquity. This historical era spanned from the second century to the eighth century of the Common Era. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Companion explores the evolution and development of religion and the role various religions played in the cultural, political, and social transformations of the late antique period. The authors examine the theories and methods used in the study of religion during this period, consider the most notable historical developments, and reveal how religions spread geographically. The authors also review the major religious traditions that emerged in Late Antiquity and include reflections on the interaction of these religions within their particular societies and cultures. This important Companion: Brings together in one volume the work of a notable team of international scholars Explores the principal geographical divisions of the late antique world Offers a deep examination of the predominant religions of Late Antiquity Examines established views in the scholarly assessment of the religions of Late Antiquity Includes information on the current trends in late-antique scholarship on religion Written for scholars and students of religion, A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity offers a comprehensive survey of religion and the influence religion played in the culture, politics, and social change during the late antique period.

Author : Max Beer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Communism
ISBN : UVA:X002763303

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Social Struggles in Antiquity by Max Beer Pdf

Author : Ian C Jarvie,Jesus Zamora-Bonilla
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446209714

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The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences by Ian C Jarvie,Jesus Zamora-Bonilla Pdf

- what is the relationship between the social sciences and the natural sciences? - where do today′s dominant approaches to doing social science come from? - what are the main fissures and debates in contemporary social scientific thought? - how are we to make sense of seemingly contrasting approaches to how social scientists find out about the world and justify their claims to have knowledge of it? In this exciting handbook, Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla have put together a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the main philosophical currents and traditions at work in the social sciences today. Starting with the history of social scientific thought, this handbook sets out to explore that core fundamentals of social science practice, from issues of ontology and epistemology to issues of practical method. Along the way it investigates such notions as paradigm, empiricism, postmodernism, naturalism, language, agency, power, culture, and causality. Bringing together in one volume leading authorities in the field from around the world, this book will be a must-have for any serious scholar or student of the social sciences.

Author : Gal Gerson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791484791

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Margins of Disorder by Gal Gerson Pdf

British liberalism in the period between 1870 and 1930 was a product of an era known for its intellectual crisis. During the late nineteenth century, the cohesion of reason and enlightenment was questioned in fields ranging from psychology, sociology, philosophy, biology, philology, and archaeology. In Margins of Disorder Gal Gerson considers the ways in which progressive Edwardian liberals such as Leonard Hobhouse, John Hobson, and Graham Wallas attempted to address the shift in their period's culture. New liberalism advocated government planning and expanded state services from liberal, rather than socialist, premises, and saw the sense of belonging to a community as a distinct, right-constituting human good. Gerson examines the concepts of mind, society, nature, and culture devised by new liberals over the course of several decades, and argues in favor of viewing them as a coherent stance, relevant to today's debates about the relations between market and welfare, justice and community.

Author : Matthew Gabriele,James T. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429950414

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Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Matthew Gabriele,James T. Palmer Pdf

Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures of reform to influence major transformations in the medieval world. Bringing together a wealth of knowledge from academics in Britain, Europe and the USA this book offers the latest scholarship in apocalypse studies. It consolidates a paradigm shift, away from seeing apocalypse as a radical force for a suppressed minority, and towards a fuller understanding of apocalypse as a mainstream cultural force in history. Together, the chapters and case studies capture and contextualise the variety of ideas present across Europe in the Middle Ages and set out points for further comparative study of apocalypse across time and space. Offering new perspectives on what ideas of ‘reform’ and ‘apocalypse’ meant in Medieval Europe, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides students with the ideal introduction to the study of apocalypse during this period.

Author : Laura Jansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350174771

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Anne Carson: Antiquity by Laura Jansen Pdf

From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson's engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically-oriented oeuvre, which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile as a classicist. In this role, Carson unfailingly refuses to conform to the established conventions and situated practices of her discipline, in favour of a mode of reading classical literature that allows for interpretative and creative freedom. From a multi-praxis, cross-disciplinary perspective, the volume explores the erudite indiscipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision, and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. Anne Carson/Antiquity collects twenty essays by poets, translators, artists, practitioners and scholars. It offers the first collective study of the author's classicism, while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde, multifaceted readings of the classical past.

Author : Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317069485

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Reforming the Church before Modernity by Christopher M. Bellitto Pdf

Reforming the Church before Modernity considers the question of ecclesial reform from late antiquity to the 17th century, and tackles this complex question from primarily cultural perspectives, rather than the more usual institutional approaches. The common themes are social change, centres and peripheries of change, monasticism, and intellectuals and their relationship to reform. This innovative approach opens up the question of how religious reform took place and challenges existing ecclesiological models that remains too focussed on structures in a manner artificial for pre-modern Europe. Several chapters specifically take issue with the problem of what constitutes reform, reformations, and historians' notions of the periodization of reform, while in others the relationship between personal transformation and its broader social, political or ecclesial context emerges as a significant dynamic. Presenting essays from a distinguished international cast of scholars, the book makes an important contribution to the debates over ecclesiology and religious reform stimulated by the anniversary of Vatican II.