Diaries Of Dissension

Author : Tommy Rodriguez
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781475919349

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Diaries of Dissension by Tommy Rodriguez Pdf

Have you ever questioned the premise of your religious faith? Tommy Rodriguez certainly has. In fact, he is no stranger to questioning conventional wisdom. Having spent most of his adult life contemplating over such things, Rodriguez learned a thing or two about his religion that eventually sent him spiraling down a path of dissension and doubt. His first book entitled, Diaries of Dissension, proposes the question is religion a legitimate source of truth? Rodriguez embarks on a self-illuminating quest to answer this question, plus many more. Years of scientific research have led Rodriguez to value the importance of skeptical inquiry. Written for the non-specialist, this book seeks to propagate a public understanding for science education. In doing so, Rodriguez pursues the ambitious task of taking on the tenets of religion in order to resolve humanitys most profound questions, while invoking a few surprising twists that Rodriguez foresees as an inescapable predicament to religious faith.

Author : Elisabeth Fischer,Xenia von Tippelskirch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000391367

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Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent by Elisabeth Fischer,Xenia von Tippelskirch Pdf

In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.

Author : Ann Snitow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375678

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The Feminism of Uncertainty by Ann Snitow Pdf

The Feminism of Uncertainty brings together Ann Snitow’s passionate, provocative dispatches from forty years on the front lines of feminist activism and thought. In such celebrated pieces as "A Gender Diary"—which confronts feminism’s need to embrace, while dismantling, the category of "woman"—Snitow is a virtuoso of paradox. Freely mixing genres in vibrant prose, she considers Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and Dorothy Dinnerstein and offers self-reflexive accounts of her own organizing, writing, and teaching. Her pieces on international activism, sexuality, motherhood, and the waywardness of political memory all engage feminism’s impossible contradictions—and its utopian hopes.

Author : Thomas Summerhill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252029763

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Harvest of Dissent by Thomas Summerhill Pdf

With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance to the emergence of capitalist market agriculture. Taking the long view, Harvest of Dissent brings together the events of nearly a century of agrarian radicalism in central New York, giving Summerhill the ability to understand everything from the Anti-Rent movement to the Grange movement as part of a whole.Based on exceptionally thorough primary research, Summerhill convincingly demonstrates how protracted and contingent the process of drawing farmers into capitalist markets actually was, and the ways farmers selectively and creatively resisted it. Rather than characterizing farmer political insurgencies as episodic responses to discrete crises (as they are often portrayed), Harvest of Dissent argues that agrarianism played a constant role in the major political, economic, and social transformations that marked the emergence of modern America.Thomas Summerhill is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. He coedited Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context.

Author : Jeremy Prestholdt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190092641

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Icons of Dissent by Jeremy Prestholdt Pdf

The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.

Author : Brock Millman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135305062

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Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain by Brock Millman Pdf

The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918, with a greater level in reserve.

Author : Jonathan Bolton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674064836

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Worlds of Dissent by Jonathan Bolton Pdf

Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.

Author : Harini Amarasuriya,Tobias Kelly,Sidharthan Maunaguru,Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic,Jonathan Spencer
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787357778

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The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives by Harini Amarasuriya,Tobias Kelly,Sidharthan Maunaguru,Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic,Jonathan Spencer Pdf

The Intimate Life of Dissent examines the meanings and implications of public acts of dissent, drawing on examples from ethnography and history. Acts of dissent are never simply just about abstract principles, but also come at great personal risk to both the dissidents and to those close to them. Dissent is, therefore, embedded in deep, complex and sometimes contradictory intimate relations. This book puts acts of high principle back into the personal relations out of which they emerge and take effect, raising new questions about the relationship between intimacy and political commitment. It does so through an introduction and eight individual chapters, drawing on examples including Sri Lankan leftists, Soviet dissidents, Tibetan exiles, Kurdish prisoners, British pacifists, Indonesian student activists and Jewish peace activists.

Author : Stephen D. Solomon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466879393

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Revolutionary Dissent by Stephen D. Solomon Pdf

When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America.

Author : Ronald K. L. Collins,David M. Skover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521767194

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On Dissent by Ronald K. L. Collins,David M. Skover Pdf

America values dissent. It tolerates, encourages, and protects it. But what is this thing we value? That is a question never asked. "Dissent" is treated as a known fact. For all that has been said about dissent - in books, articles, judicial opinions, and popular culture - it is remarkable that no one has devoted much, if any, ink to explaining what dissent is. No one has attempted to sketch its philosophical, linguistic, legal, or cultural meanings or usages. There is a need to develop some clarity about this phenomenon we call dissent, for not every difference of opinion, symbolic gesture, public activity in opposition to government policy, incitement to direct action, revolutionary effort, or political assassination need be tagged dissent. In essence, we have no conceptual yardstick. It is just that measure of meaning that On Dissent offers.

Author : Sharon Achinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521818044

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Literature and Dissent in Milton's England by Sharon Achinstein Pdf

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Author : Nigel Fletcher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003825098

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Institutionalised Dissent by Nigel Fletcher Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of a peculiar but now firmly established British institution— the Official Opposition— tracking its development since 1935. Despite its inherent importance to the conduct of politics and government, the Official Opposition as an institution remains poorly understood. The concept of ‘Loyal Opposition’ has become so entrenched in the Westminster parliamentary model that it is now taken for granted that the principal challengers to the government of the day are given significant official recognition by the state. Political dissent has become institutionalised and legitimised. Using previously unpublished archive material and candid interviews with former Leaders of the Opposition and their staff, the book examines the constraints and dilemmas facing the Official Opposition. Detailing the way successive opposition leaders have organised their staff and Shadow Cabinets, it highlights the practical difficulties they face in holding the government to account and preparing for government. The study concludes by arguing that the role of the Official Opposition is vital but ill- defined, that the inadequacy of its resources has impacted on its effectiveness, and that there are potentially serious challenges to it as a model. The book will be of key interest to scholars of British politics, British history, parliamentary and legislative studies, and government and democracy more generally.

Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp,Julie Roy Jeffrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199585489

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Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 by Elizabeth J. Clapp,Julie Roy Jeffrey Pdf

This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions.

Author : L. Underwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137364500

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Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England by L. Underwood Pdf

This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity.

Author : Joseph Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020185173

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The Rise of the Old Dissent, Exemplified in the Life of Oliver Heywood by Joseph Hunter Pdf