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Author : Richard Symanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020643675
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439171226
Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Author : John Gravino
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515380866
"Religion poisons everything." So say Christopher Hitchens and the entire cast of New Atheists. Thus, if you want to make the world a better place, the New Atheists would recommend getting rid of religion. But John Gravino disagrees. In The Immoral Landscape, John Gravino argues that the real problem with the world is not religion; it is human nature. And the problem with our human nature is located in our minds. The key to making the world a better place, therefore, depends on the healing of the human mind. But how exactly do we go about the important business of healing our minds? The world of science has been amazingly successful in so many areas, but the one glaring exception to the nearly flawless track record of the sciences is in the study of mental disorder. While science has been able to find cures for so many physical diseases, a cure for mental illness has proven elusive. John Gravino offers an explanation. Science is unable to cure the mind because the mind is a fundamentally different organism. The human mind is spiritual, not physical; and thus, it obeys the spiritual laws of the universe. If you want to make the world a better place, John Gravino argues that getting rid of religion-the true source of the spiritual laws of the universe-is the worst thing you can do. In The Immoral Landscape, John Gravino presents his case, based on empirical evidence, that the only thing that can save the world is true religion because only true religion has the power to heal the human mind. And what is that true religion? It is true Christianity, of course! This book is a real game-changer for sure. It will knock you out! You can follow John Gravino online at newwalden.org.
Author : John R. Gold,George Revill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317877523
This is a key text on the very topical themes of power, defence and space. Landscapes of Defence is an exciting collection of theoretical and empirical material from very well known contributors, desiged to help students understand how landscapes of defence fit in with some of the broader concepts of space, power and place to which they are introduced in the 1st year. The book is split into four sections, and each section contains an introduction placing the subsequent chapters in context. There is also a comprehensive introduction and afterword to tie the book's broad themes together. 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates in urban and cultural geography will be the key market for this title, as well as strong secondary market in departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Law and Planning.
Author : Kerrie Handasyde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350181496
This book shows how creative writing gives voice to the drama and nuance of religious experience in a way that is rarely captured by sermons, reports, and the minutes of church meetings. The author explores the history of religious Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through a variety of literary responses to landscape, from both men and women, lay and ordained. The book explores transnational themes, along with themes of migration and travel across the Australian continent. The author gives insight into the literature of Protestant Dissent, concerned as it is with travel, belonging, and the intersection of national and religious identity. Much of the writing is situated on the road: a soldier returning from the Great War, a child on a lone adventure, a night-time journey through urban slums; all of these are in some way dependent on the theme of “walking with Jesus” as the Holy Land travelogues make explicit. God in the Landscape draws the links between landscape, literature, and spirituality with imagination and insight and is an important contribution to the historical study of religion and the environment.
Author : Adam Jaworski,Crispin Thurlow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441145727
Semiotic Landscapes is an exciting addition to the study of linguistic landscapes. It looks at how landscape generates meaning and combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and ever increasing mediatization. The editors look at: the textual/discursive construction of place; the use of space as a semiotic resource; the extent to which these processes are shaped by wider economic and political re-orderings of post-industrial or advanced capitalism; changing patterns of human mobility and transnational flows of ideas and images. The collection demonstrates the way written discourse interacts with all other discursive modalities: visual images, nonverbal communication, architecture and the built environment. From the red light districts of Switzerland to the transgressive public art of graffiti, all landscape can be seen to generate meaning. Semiotic Landscapes looks at how and why, and places this meaning generation in an interdisciplinary and thoroughly modern cross-section of global trends.
Author : Sheila Margaret Benn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110867268
Author : Maria Castro Varela,Barış Ülker
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783847415862
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.
Author : Gerry Turcotte
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9052014884
This is a pioneering work published here for the first time in its complete form. At a time when Gothic studies still concentrated on traditional European and American Gothic, the author laid the foundations for the exploration of how Gothic conventions were transported and transformed in places remote from Europe. Through a detailed reading of 19th- and 20th-century examples of Canadian and Australian Gothic fiction, this work demonstrates the transformative potential of a once much-maligned mode in what were arguably neglected national literatures.
Author : Jacky Bowring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317366942
Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.
Author : Anne-Christine Hornborg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317096214
This book seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi'kmaq culture hero Kluskap serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. In order not to depict Mi'kmaq culture as timeless, two important periods in its history are examined. Within the first period, between 1850 and 1930, Hornborg explores historical evidence of the ontology, epistemology, and ethics - jointly labelled animism - that stem from a premodern Mi'kmaq hunting subsistence. New ways of discussing animism and shamanism are here richly exemplified. The second study situates the culture hero in the modern world of the 1990s, when allusions to Mi'kmaq tradition and to Kluskap played an important role in the struggle against a planned superquarry on Cape Breton. This study discusses the eco-cosmology that has been formulated by modern reserve inhabitants which could be labelled a 'sacred ecology'. Focusing on how the Mi'kmaq are rebuilding their traditions and environmental relations in interaction with modern society, Hornborg illustrates how environmental groups, pan-Indianism, and education play an important role, but so does reserve life. By anchoring their engagement in reserve life the Mi'kmaq traditionalists have, to a large extent, been able to confront both external and internal doubts about their authenticity.
Author : Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525560982
The instant New York Times bestseller “Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works—the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky tackles all the major arguments for free will and takes them out, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos and complexity science and quantum physics, as well as touching ground on some of the wilder shores of philosophy. He shows us that the history of medicine is in no small part the history of learning that fewer and fewer things are somebody’s “fault”; for example, for centuries we thought seizures were a sign of demonic possession. Yet, as he acknowledges, it’s very hard, and at times impossible, to uncouple from our zeal to judge others and to judge ourselves. Sapolsky applies the new understanding of life beyond free will to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. By the end, Sapolsky argues that while living our daily lives recognizing that we have no free will is going to be monumentally difficult, doing so is not going to result in anarchy, pointlessness, and existential malaise. Instead, it will make for a much more humane world.
Author : Dean Whittington PhD
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524665234
Psychologically Informed Environments outlines the problems inherent in working with marginal populations, (such as the homeless). The analysis considers the issue of masculinities, and how these are erased within current academic discourses. The key issue is around how emotional recovery is generated using therapeutic techniques based on praxis. It also explores how organisations can be reconfigured to initiate emotional recovery and so stop people moving around the perpetual treadmill. This needs to be undertaken by grounding the client in the present, working on past traumas, those which shape the current lifestyle, whilst thinking about a sustainable future to move into. This involves the therapist moving into the bath of steel the client inhabits. The book sets out to explore some of the problems arising from past interventions and situating a move to an emotional recovery, by rethinking current practices. It raises considerable questions around training, research and the style of the current set of interventions being undertaken. All should be appraised on whether they generate emotional recovery. This can be viewed by the use of case histories to depict the work undertaken and requires the use of phenomenological methods to detail the work.
Author : Moritz Ege,Johannes Moser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000175721
This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life? Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities, the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups, taking up cases studies about environmental protection, co-housing schemes, political protest, heritage preservation, participatory planning, collaborative art production, and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit, political and programmatic. Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Alex Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107169661
This book explores the relationship between literary politics and the politics of place in fin-de-siècle travel and place-based literature.
