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Author : David Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847284518
"The most creative generation in American History." Martin Scorsese
Author : David N. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578009100
A personal history with 12 American presidents from Roosevelt to Bush.
Author : David N. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847288967
The first half of the 20th Century produced a unique way of talking among the working class that is collected & preserved here.
Author : David N. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105014420
The year is 2120 and Dr.Sydney Spenser, Secretary General of the United Nations, is describing her experience from the Event of 2020 when she was celebrating the new year, her 20th birthday and having just been appointed to the human fertility task force. Her life and all life on Planet Earth were transformed that New Year's Eve.
Author : David N. Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781435706613
The alternative to the "Holy Books."
Author : Johnnella E. Butler,John C. Walter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791498163
Author : Brett J. Esaki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190251437
This book demonstrates how Japanese Americans have developed traditions of complex silences to survive historic moments of racial and religious oppression and how they continue to adapt these traditions today. Brett Esaki offers four case studies of Japanese American art-gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments-and examines how each artistic practice has responded to a historic moment of oppression. He finds that these artistic silences incorporate and convey obfuscated and hybridized religious ideas from Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Shinto, indigenous religions, and contemporary spirituality. While silence is often thought of as the binary opposite and absence of sound, Esaki offers a theory of non-binary silence that articulates how multidimensional silences are formed and how they function. He argues that non-binary silences have allowed Japanese Americans to disguise, adapt, and innovate religious resources in order to negotiate racism and oppressive ideologies from both the United States and Japan. Drawing from the fields of religious studies, ethnic studies, theology, anthropology, art, music, history, and psychoanalysis, this book highlights the ways in which silence has been used to communicate the complex emotions of historical survival, religious experience, and artistic inspiration.
Author : Xiaojing Zhou,Samina Najmi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295802305
This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.
Author : Peter Hart-Brinson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479868094
The generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage—something unimaginable two decades ago—come to feel inevitable to even its staunchest opponents? Drawing on over 95 interviews with two generations of Americans, as well as historical analysis and public opinion data, Peter Hart-Brinson argues that a fundamental shift in our understanding of homosexuality sparked the generational change that fueled gay marriage’s unprecedented rise. Hart-Brinson shows that the LGBTQ movement’s evolution and tactical responses to oppression caused Americans to reimagine what it means to be gay and what gay marriage would mean to society at large. While older generations grew up imagining gays and lesbians in terms of their behavior, younger generations came to understand them in terms of their identity. Over time, as the older generation and their ideas slowly passed away, they were replaced by a new generational culture that brought gay marriage to all fifty states. Through revealing interviews, Hart-Brinson explores how different age groups embrace, resist, and create society’s changing ideas about gay marriage. Religion, race, contact with gay people, and the power of love are all topics that weave in and out of these fascinating accounts, sometimes influencing opinions in surprising ways. The book captures a wide range of voices from diverse social backgrounds at a critical moment in the culture wars, right before the turn of the tide. The story of gay marriage’s rapid ascent offers profound insights about how the continuous remaking of the population through birth and death, mixed with our personal, biographical experiences of our shared history and culture, produces a society that is continually in flux and constantly reinventing itself anew. An intimate portrait of social change with national implications, The Gay Marriage Generation is a significant contribution to our understanding of what causes generational change and how gay marriage became the reality in the United States.
Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141994000
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.
Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190284978
As recently as a few decades ago, most people would have described America as a predominantly Protestant nation. Today, we are home to a colorful mix of religious faiths and practices, from a resurgent Catholic Church and a rapidly growing Islam to all forms of Buddhism and many other non-Christian religions. How did this startling transformation take place? A great many factors contributed to this transformation, writes Amanda Porterfield in this engaging look at religion in contemporary America. Religious activism, disillusionment with American culture stemming from the Vietnam war, the influx of Buddhist ideas, a heightened consciousness of gender, and the vastly broadened awareness of non-Christian religions arising from the growth of religious studies programs--all have served to undermine Protestant hegemony in the United States. But the single most important factor, says Porterfield, was the very success of Protestant ways of thinking: emphasis on the individual's relationship with God, tension between spiritual life and religious institutions, egalitarian ideas about spiritual life, and belief in the practical benefits of spirituality. Distrust of religious institutions, for instance, helped fuel a religious counterculture--the tendency to define spiritual truth against the dangers or inadequacies of the surrounding culture--and Protestantism's pragmatic view of spirituality played into the tendency to see the main function of religion as therapeutic. For anyone interested in how and why the American religious landscape has been so dramatically altered in the last forty years, The Transformation of Religion in America offers a coherent and persuasive analysis.
Author : Theda Skocpol,Vanessa Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190633660
In this penetrating new study, Skocpol of Harvard University, one of today's leading political scientists, and co-author Williamson go beyond the inevitable photos of protesters in tricorn hats and knee breeches to provide a nuanced portrait of the Tea Party. What they find is sometimes surprising.
Author : Roy M. Oswald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566996839
Today's rapid, deep, and pervasive changes in North American culture present myriad challenges for faith communities now and in the years ahead. Oswald explores the use of rituals as spiritually healing practices for the home, congregation, and broader community. He teaches congregational leaders how individuals and groups can use familiar new rituals to name, evaluate, live out, celebrate, and grow through change.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Judges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029340440
Author : Mark G. Press
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477295823
Missiologists and mission-oriented folks have been invited to reflect on topics that touch on the transforming power of Gods Spirit. This series of essays has been produced as one way of celebrating the fascinating, missional career of Dr. Eugene Bunkowske, long-time missionary to Africa, long-time linguist and Bible translator, long-time seminary professor, life-long sharer of the Good News of Jesus the Christ. This volume offers plenty of meat to engage the serious student of missions but also a number of gems that will enlighten any Christian with a commitment to outreach or an interest in the churchs mission. Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod readers will be especially interested in some of the pieces, though any student of Sacred Scripture will benefit from many of the essays.
