Living With Nature Cherishing Language

Author : Justyna Olko,Cynthia Radding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031387395

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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language by Justyna Olko,Cynthia Radding Pdf

This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.

Author : Ruth Cigman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474278843

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Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning by Ruth Cigman Pdf

What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing goods for ourselves, but by cherishing other people and guiding them towards lives of cherishing. We cherish objects too – the planet, my grandfather's watch – and practices like music-making to which we are personally drawn. In this work of 'populated philosophy' (copiously illustrated by literary and 'real life' examples), a cherishing life is presented as hard and irreducibly individual. The idea of cherishing, says the author, points towards intimate, unreasonable layers of the ethical life, as well as the deepening of wisdom and connection. It also points towards incomparable satisfactions, reminding us who we are and who we want to be.

Author : Mary Low
Publisher : Wild Goose Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1901557715

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Cherish the Earth by Mary Low Pdf

From space it is all too easy to see our increasingly negative impact upon the carefully balanced living system that is our planet. This collection of readings, poems, theology and liturgy is intended to help us start loving nature for what it is and not what we can get out of it.

Author : Peter Midmore,Richard J. Moore-Colyer
Publisher : Institute of Welsh Affairs
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1904773060

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Cherished Heartland by Peter Midmore,Richard J. Moore-Colyer Pdf

Author : Yuval Lurie
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042035171

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Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit by Yuval Lurie Pdf

Provides a new understanding of Wittgenstein's discourse as an edifyng philosophy of culture, pursued through self-reflection. Investigates the conceptual underpinnings of culture, revealing them as shared expressive spiritual forms of life.

Author : Charles Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018791480

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The Cherished Spring: an Address to the Rev. D. J. Evans on His Entrance to the Pulpit of the Old Meeting, Stroud, Gloucestershire by Charles Wills Pdf

Author : Maria Giulia Marini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319947273

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Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine by Maria Giulia Marini Pdf

This book explains how narrative medicine can improve evidence based medicine (EBM), making it more effective and efficient, giving patients better quality of life and offering more satisfaction to all health care providers. It discusses not only the disease experienced by the person who is ill, but also focuses on the context and the culture, and investigates how narrative medicine can make other disciplines around the globe more applicable, less manipulative, and more “scientific”. Only by integrating the narrative aspects, can EBM become more effective and efficient, with fewer uncured patients, more satisfied patients with a better quality of life, and satisfaction for all health care providers. Every chapter is divided into two main sections: the first presents the latest research in the field, with comments and interviews with experts, while the second section provides a list of practical exercises and tasks. The book is intended for anyone with an interest in caring for and curing patients: all care providers of care, physicians, general practitioners, specialists nurses, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, providers of aid, healthcare managers, scientific societies, academics and researchers.

Author : Jenell Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780271096278

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Every Living Thing by Jenell Johnson Pdf

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters. Jenell Johnson studies arguments on behalf of life—not just of the human or animal variety, but all life. She considers, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s fight for water, deep ecologists’ Earth First! activism, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and astrophysicists’ positions on Martian microbes. What she reveals is that this advocacy—vital advocacy—expands our view of what counts as life and shows us what it would mean for the moral standing of human life to be extended to life itself. Including short interviews with celebrated ecological writer Dorion Sagan, former NASA Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley, and leading figure in Indigenous and environmental studies Kyle Whyte, Every Living Thing provides a capacious view of life in the natural world. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in biodiversity, bioethics, and the environment.

Author : Kari Marie Norgaard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262515856

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Living in Denial by Kari Marie Norgaard Pdf

An analysis of why people with knowledge about climate change often fail to translate that knowledge into action. Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of "Bygdaby," the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2000-2001. In 2000-2001 the first snowfall came to Bygdaby two months later than usual; ice fishing was impossible; and the ski industry had to invest substantially in artificial snow-making. Stories in local and national newspapers linked the warm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residents did not write letters to the editor, pressure politicians, or cut down on use of fossil fuels. Norgaard attributes this lack of response to the phenomenon of socially organized denial, by which information about climate science is known in the abstract but disconnected from political, social, and private life, and sees this as emblematic of how citizens of industrialized countries are responding to global warming. Norgaard finds that for the highly educated and politically savvy residents of Bygdaby, global warming was both common knowledge and unimaginable. Norgaard traces this denial through multiple levels, from emotions to cultural norms to political economy. Her report from Bygdaby, supplemented by comparisons throughout the book to the United States, tells a larger story behind our paralysis in the face of today's alarming predictions from climate scientists.

Author : Osprey Orielle Lake
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771423830

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The Story is in Our Bones by Osprey Orielle Lake Pdf

It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build earth-centered communities for all. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice and deep cultural analyses, and the collective knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world in crisis. Author, activist, and changemaker Osprey Orielle Lake weaves together ecological, mythical, political, and cultural understandings and shares her experiences working with global leaders, systems-thinkers, climate justice activists, and Indigenous Peoples. She seeks to summon a new way of being and thinking in the Anthropocene, which includes transforming the interlocking crises of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and ecocide, to build thriving Earth communities for all. Lake calls forth historical memory of who we are in the Earth's lineage to bring into being the world we keenly long for, at the delicate threshold of great peril or great promise. For anyone grieving our collective loss and wanting to take action, The Story is in Our Bones is a vital guide to remaking our world. This hopeful, engaging, and creatively lyrical work reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides a desperately needed antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.

Author : Francesco Menotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134371815

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Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe by Francesco Menotti Pdf

A survey of the history and current state of research on lake-dwelling in Europe. Timed to mark the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the study of prehistoric lake-dwellers.

Author : Peter Manley Scott,William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470997352

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The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology by Peter Manley Scott,William T. Cavanaugh Pdf

Written by a team of international experts, drawn from various traditions of political theology, this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field. Demonstrates that Christian theology is inherently political and shows how theology impacts on present-day political issues. Considers the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black and pacifist movements. Assesses the contribution of the major political theologians and theological movements. Explores the political aspects of Christian sources such as scripture and liturgy.

Author : William T. Cavanaugh,Peter Manley Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119133735

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Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Theology by William T. Cavanaugh,Peter Manley Scott Pdf

Offers a comprehensive survey and interpretation of contemporary Christian political theology in a newly revised and expanded edition This book presents the latest thinking on the topic of contemporary Christian political theology, with original and constructive essays that represent a range of opinions on various topics. With contributions from expert scholars in the field, it reflects a broad range of methodologies, ecclesial traditions, and geographic and social locations, and provides a sense of the diversity of political theologies. It also addresses the primary resources of the Christian tradition, which theologians draw on when constructing political theologies, and surveys some of the most important figures and movements in political theology. This revised and expanded edition provides the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to this lively and growing area of Christian theology. Organized into five sections, Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, Second Edition addresses the many changes that have occurred over the last 15 years within the field of political theology. It features new essays that address social developments and movements, such as Anglican Social Thought, John Milbank, Anabaptist Political Theologies, African Political Theologies, Postcolonialism, Political Economy, Technology and Virtuality, and Grass-roots Movements. The book also includes a new essay on the reception of Liberation Theology. Offers essays on topics such as the Trinity, atonement, and eschatology Features contributions from leading voices in the field of political theology Includes all-new entries covering fresh developments and movements like the urgency of climate change, virtuality and the digital age, the economic crisis of 2008, the discourse of religion and violence, and new modalities of war Addresses some important social movements from a theological point of view including postmodernism, grass-roots movements, and more Provides both Islamic and Jewish responses to political theology Written for academics and students of political theology, Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, 2nd Edition is an enlightening read that offers a wide range of authoritative essays from some of the most notable scholars in the field.

Author : Rongxing Guo,Uradyn E. Bulag,Michael A. Crang,Thomas Heberer,Eui-Gak Hwang,James A Millward,Morris Rossabi,Gerard A. Postiglione,Chih-yu Shih,Nicholas Tapp,Luc Changlei Guo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662441138

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Multicultural China by Rongxing Guo,Uradyn E. Bulag,Michael A. Crang,Thomas Heberer,Eui-Gak Hwang,James A Millward,Morris Rossabi,Gerard A. Postiglione,Chih-yu Shih,Nicholas Tapp,Luc Changlei Guo Pdf

With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, livelihood, agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, culture, sports, and public health for each of these ethnic groups. This material, which is compiled from a variety of sources, will be of great value to researchers, businesses, government agencies, and news media. In this book, data are presented on an ethnic group-by-ethnic group basis, and the ethnic groups are ordered alphabetically, from the Achang to the Zhuang. Though most of the data are as of 2011 – the latest year when our research was conducted, we also provide some historical data for a few of indicators. This is intended to help readers to conduct time-series comparisons and analyses.

Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1349 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317476962

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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature by Maxim D. Shrayer Pdf

This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown. Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations. The editor of the anthology, Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College, is a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature. The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the author's background, but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal, cultural, and historical circumstances in which the writer worked, and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context. The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture. This handsome two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century, and includes the editor's extensive introduction to the Jewish-Russian literary canon. The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present, and each volume includes a corresponding survey of Jewish-Russian history by John D. Klier of University College, London, as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources.