Beyond A House Divided

Author : Carl Anderson
Publisher : Image
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307887740

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If you follow politics or the news, America is a country of culture wars and great divides, a partisan place of red states and blue states, of us against them. From pundits to politicians it seems that anyone with an audience sees a polarized country - a country at war with itself. In a radical departure from this "conventional wisdom," Carl Anderson explores what the talking heads have missed: an overwhelming American consensus on many of the country's seemingly most divisive issues. If the debates are shrill in public, he says, there is a quiet consensus in private - one that America's institutions ignore at their peril. From health care, to the role of religion in America, to abortion, to the importance of traditional ethics in business and society, Anderson uses fresh polling data and keen insight in BEYOND A HOUSE DIVIDED to show that a surprising consensus has emerged despite these debates. He sheds light on what's been missing in the public and political debates of the last several years: the consensus that isn't hard to find if you know where to look. For Anderson, allowing polar opposites to drive the discussion has made the resolution of contentious issues impossible. Instead, he says, we should look to the consensus among Americans as the best prospect for a beneficial conclusion.

Author : Wei Zhao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000786750

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Home Beyond the House by Wei Zhao Pdf

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in the twenty-first century under the influences of national policies such as "Building a New Socialist Countryside" enacted in 2006 and "Rural Revitalization" announced in 2018. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, building surveys, archival research, and over 600 photographs taken by residents along with their life stories, this book uncovers the meanings of home from rural residents’ perspectives, who belong to a social group that is underrepresented in scholarship and underserved in modern China. In other words, this study empowers rural residents by giving them voice. This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: The meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle.

Author : Isaac Arten,William Glass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498224475

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A House Divided by Isaac Arten,William Glass Pdf

It is hardly noteworthy in contemporary discourse when the phrase, "We'll just have to agree to disagree" actually means, "We plan never to speak to each other again." For members of Episcopal and other Anglican churches, however, the Anglican tradition's identity as a via media demands forthright engagement with difficult topics by Christians committed to remaining in prayerful relationship with each other. In the spring of 2013, Duke Divinity School's Anglican Episcopal House of Studies began a series of "fierce conversations" designed to expose seminary students to the profound and painful reality of ecclesial divisions in North American Anglicanism (revolving around issues of human sexuality, scriptural authority and interpretive practices, and church leadership) while cultivating skills for leading congregations to worship, pray, and serve in ways that contribute over time to the full, visible reconciliation of Episcopalians and other Anglicans in North America. This book presents this year of conversations as a way of inviting congregations to take up the challenge and joy of "fierce conversations" in their own common life.

Author : Joowon Park
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520384248

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Belonging in a House Divided by Joowon Park Pdf

Belonging in a House Divided chronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, postwar citizenship, and ethnic boundary making. Through extensive ethnographic research, Joowon Park documents the emergence of cultural differences and tensions between Koreans from the North and South, as well as new transnational kinship practices that connect family members across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As a South Korean citizen raised outside the peninsula and later drafted into the military, Park weaves in autoethnographic accounts of his own experience in the army to provide an empathetic and vivid analysis of the multiple overlapping layers of violence that shape the embodied experiences of belonging. He asks readers to consider why North Korean resettlement in South Korea is a difficult process, despite a shared goal of reunification and the absence of a language barrier. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in anthropology, migration, and the politics of humanitarianism.

Author : Noah S. Friedland
Publisher : Noah Friedland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449976798

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Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Israel with his family as a child, Geller fled the Jewish State after a deadly incident that occurred during his service in the Israeli army. Ten years into his self imposed exile, Geller's younger brother is killed in the line of duty, so he reluctantly returns to Israel to attend the funeral. Once back, Geller is forced to confront his broken family and a life and country he thought he had left behind for good. Colored by his own military experiences, he begins to question the circumstances of his brother's death. Aided by a mysterious source, a childhood friend, an old flame, and his brother's girlfriend, a fiery young redhead, he slowly uncovers the truth - a path that embroils him in a deadly clandestine chess game between two opposing forces - each fighting for what they believe is the very soul of the Jewish state. A fast-paced, character-driven thriller, A House Divided provides an authentic, first-hand look into Israeli society and its legendary military. Unlike many other books in this genre, which have focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict, this work examines the long-term effects of almost one hundred years of conflict on a nation deeply divided on how best to define its future. It also explores how a wounded family, whose bonds have been weakened by distance and time, copes with adversity and loss. Hadassah Magazine: "Friedland has written a good story that shows an intimate knowledge of the military, the landscape of Israel and the effect of the ongoing conflict on the country's citizens."

Author : Vincent Martin
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809135698

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A House Divided by Vincent Martin Pdf

'A House Divided' is a lucid and invaluable study of the separation of Christianity from Judaism in the first century. It traces the historical forces at work in the central issues that led to the disagreements and finally, mutual rejection.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9997507002

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House Divided by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

Author : Teresa Tomeo
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586175610

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Extreme Makeover by Teresa Tomeo Pdf

The author presents research and her perspectives on how the teachings of the Catholic Church both liberate and dignify women.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:968445921

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A House Divided by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

Author : John Corley
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617770326

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'You all right, Mister?' he repeated. 'You sure don't look so good. Where'd you come from? You 'bout scared the wits out of me.' I didn't know exactly where I was, but I knew damned well I was at least in America. The boy's drawl was music to my ears. It confirmed I was in the Deep South, probably southern Florida or maybe Texas, even though the notion was simply too implausible to take seriously. The whole idea staggered me. I needed to get back and tell Margaret what had happened and that it worked beyond her wildest imagination.After accidentally being propelled back in time to 1859 Virginia, retired Green Beret officer John Kelly is pursued by a merciless assassin from the 20th century. Kelly discovers that the America he served for so long has been taken over by an authoritarian and corrupt administration; and that his, and America's survival, is dependent on convincing an American icon to accept his help in the impending Civil War. But Robert E. Lee, a paragon of virtue, has other ideas about that! Kelly is a man of action but also a man capable of introspection. He is accomplished and competent, but he is also subject to insecurities and self doubt. He knows where he wants to go but often wonders about the journey. With America's fate in his hands, will his actions uniteA House Divided?

Author : Vel Hobbs
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594672088

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Restoring and Rebuilding a House Divided by Vel Hobbs Pdf

Author : Richard Orr Curry
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1964-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977513

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A House Divided by Richard Orr Curry Pdf

A thorough investigation of the factors that led to the breakup of the Old Dominion and the emergence of the new state of West Virginia during the Civil War.

Author : Ben McNitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811769747

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A House Divided by Ben McNitt Pdf

Slavery is one of the central, most enduringly significant facts of U.S. history. It loomed like a dark cloud over the country’s birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War. Even today, the country continues to debate its past as it relates to slavery, and the political and geographic contours of human bondage endure into the twenty-first century. In a deeply researched, wide-ranging book, retired journalist Ben McNitt tells the story of how slavery shaped American politics—and indeed the American story—from the Founding until the Civil War. McNitt’s sharp narrative covers people and events that still resonate: Thomas Jefferson, John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, the slave revolts of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown and Harpers Ferry, fire-eating secessionists, and the rise of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. No other single work covers this topic as comprehensively and accessibly.

Author : Mark Miner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477164518

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In the mind of a killer, everything seems normal. In the actions of a killer, everything has a higher reason. In the eyes of a killer, anybody could be next. Matt just wanted a normal, easy life. After ending a relationship with his partner, Matt moves back to his hometown. Albany, Oregon. Matt runs into some old friends and some new friends. But Matts new friends are anything but friendly, theyre dead. The body count builds, the truth comes out, and revenge is justified. But who ends up alive at the end?

Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807826669

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The Enemy's House Divided by Charles de Gaulle Pdf

The observations of young Robert De Gaulle (mostly written from inside a German prison camp during World War I) analyzes the German blunders during the Great War and sets the stage for De Gaulle's ideology and strategy in the next European conflict. (Military History)