The Primordial Challenge

Author : John F. Stack
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011639641

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The Primordial Challenge by John F. Stack Pdf

Ethnicity plays a vital role in contemporary world politics. This collection of essays documents the international dimensions of ethnic identity by examining the interaction between ethnicity and the actions of modern nation-states in a variety of global, regional, and urban settings throughout the world. The editor, John F. Stack, Jr., provocatively argues that the dynamics of ethnicity in the contemporary world are best examined from the perspective of primordial attachments--those givens of social existence based on family ties, race, custom, language, religion, and region. This perspective is disputed by a number of the contributors who see ethnicity as the result of instrumental forces--state building, socioeconomic class, modernization, political development, and the transformation of the global political economy.

Author : Dermot Anthony Nestor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567012975

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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity by Dermot Anthony Nestor Pdf

It presents a vision of Israel as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity; a perspective on the world rather than an entity in it. >

Author : Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956578986

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Challenge of Culture in Africa by Bernard Nsokika Fonlon Pdf

This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA - Cameroon Cultural Review - under the title 'Idea of Culture'. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which the modern African cultural structure should be raised; the soil into which the new seed should be sown; the stem into which the new scion should be grafted; the sap that should enliven the entire organism. This culture, the object of imperialist mockery and rejected, needs rehabilitation. However, such rehabilitation of African culture cannot be a mere archaeological enterprise. It will not answer to dig up the past and live it as it was. Not only is African culture not without its imperfections, times change and African culture must adapt itself, at every turn, to the changing times. In restoring African culture, it is imperative to steer clear of two extremes: on the one hand, the imperialist arrogance which declared everything African as only fit for the scrap-heap and the dust-bin, and, on the other hand, the overly enthusiastic and rather naive tendency to laud every aspect of African culture as if it were the quintessence of human achievement.

Author : Lui Hebron,John F. Stack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313028090

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The Ethnic Entanglement by Lui Hebron,John F. Stack Pdf

The ongoing reconstruction of world politics following the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European variants of communism have seemingly unleashed the power of ethnicity with a vengeance. Stack, Hebron, and their contributors explore the concept of ethnicity in international relations, seeking to address this most destabilizing, yet ubiquitous dimension of the emerging new world order. As a central force in international politics, ethnicity and ethnonational movements raise two fundamental questions about the nature of power and politics in contemporary international relations. First, what is the relationship between ethnicity and conflict within, across, and among states? Second, what role does ethnicity play in exacerbating conflicts which result in the intervention by external forces, both state and nonstate, manifested by increasing levels of violence and spillover instability, as exemplified by the Middle East, the Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia? This book is designed to provide scholars of international relations with a compelling approach to the study of ethnicity. The study of ethnic nationalism is a growing area of scholarly inquiry not fully appreciated. Thus, this collection is designed to fill a void in the literature and, as such, will be of interest to students, scholars, and policy makers involved with issues of ethnicity and world politics.

Author : Suhas Pereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : India
ISBN : 9783643853059

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The Challenges of Vatican II for an Authentic Indian Catholic Church by Suhas Pereira Pdf

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134797059

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The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia by David Brown Pdf

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

Author : William Greenway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725270459

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Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age by William Greenway Pdf

Our global community desperately needs overt awakening to an age of reason and faith. Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age meets this need by interpreting faith not in terms of belief in propositions but in terms of living surrender to having been seized by agape for every Face, including one's own. Virtually all faith traditions, from Buddhism to Humanism to Wiccan, are rooted in agape and therefore share considerable spiritual and ethical common ground (a truth long veiled). In contrast to ethically feckless secular rationality--over which a devastating, global social Darwinism currently runs roughshod--faith qua living surrender to agape grounds moral realism, awakens us to love for all creatures, and inspires struggles for justice. Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Christian spirituality, Greenway engages, on the one hand, intellectuals like Stanley Hauerwas, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jeffery Stout, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams, and, on the other, contemporary debates over consciousness, free will, evil, and metaethics. He details the character of secular rationality's devastating scission from moral reality and clarifies the promise of understanding faith and spirituality in terms of agape.

Author : Simon F. Oliai
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761865162

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Challenging the Absolute by Simon F. Oliai Pdf

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern technology has visibly overcome the physical barriers that had long condemned the majority of men to relative isolation from one another. Yet, our world is also one in which the illusion of a lost “original” cultural or religious identity, grounded by a metaphysical absolute, pits men against one another. A physically more accessible world has thus become an increasingly fundamentalist one. In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai analyzes the conceptual underpinnings of this paradox and argues that, unless the “European” affirmation of man’s finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves, to echo Nietzsche, of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.

Author : Hatem A. Azim Jr,Isabelle Demeestere,Fedro A. Peccatori
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030240868

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Fertility Challenges and Solutions in Women with Cancer by Hatem A. Azim Jr,Isabelle Demeestere,Fedro A. Peccatori Pdf

This book, written by global experts in the field, provides a thorough overview on fertility and pregnancy challenges and solutions in women who are being or have been treated for cancer. The book addresses several topics, including pregnancy outcomes after a cancer diagnosis, the impacts of systemic anticancer therapy on fertility, the essentials of fertility preservation approaches in cancer patients, and fertility counseling. This is in addition to controversial topics like the role of ovarian stimulation in breast cancer patients, fertility preservation in cancer patients with BRCA mutation and the evolving role of GnRH analogues. Within this context, key open questions are discussed with reference to the latest evidence. The aim is to provide clinicians with a reliable resource that documents the most up-to-date knowledge on the feasibility and safety of the different approaches to fertility preservation and on the management of female cancer patients who would like to preserve fertility and achieve a pregnancy following their treatment.

Author : John F. Stack
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313247590

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The Primordial Challenge by John F. Stack Pdf

Ethnicity plays a vital role in contemporary world politics. This collection of essays documents the international dimensions of ethnic identity by examining the interaction between ethnicity and the actions of modern nation-states in a variety of global, regional, and urban settings throughout the world. The editor, John F. Stack, Jr., provocatively argues that the dynamics of ethnicity in the contemporary world are best examined from the perspective of primordial attachments--those givens of social existence based on family ties, race, custom, language, religion, and region. This perspective is disputed by a number of the contributors who see ethnicity as the result of instrumental forces--state building, socioeconomic class, modernization, political development, and the transformation of the global political economy.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351307512

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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective by Georgia A. Persons Pdf

Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. Nonetheless, there are disturbing signs of a growing awareness of ethnic differences in all parts of the world the United States included and a concomitant rise in ethnic-based conflicts, many of them extraordinarily violent in nature. Fear, resentment, intoler-ance, and mistreatment of the "other" abound in world news accounts. Not only does this phenomenon pose an interesting juxtaposition to the concept of the emergent glo-bal village, but its emergence in the post-cold war era internationally and the post-civil rights era in the United States raises significant and compelling questions. Why are such conflicts occurring now? How do analysts explain these developments? The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyze manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexi-ties of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Com-parative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, his-torians, and sociologists.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412851121

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Contours of African American Politics by Georgia A. Persons Pdf

Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle for black liberation and empowerment. Hence, the study of African American politics has sought to track, codify, and analyze the struggle that has been mounted, and to understand the historic and changing political status of African Americans within American society. The notion of a post-racial America is one that was birthed by the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. However, another reality is equally compelling: that for some time now, many African American aspirants for elective office have run against race-specific issues, putting individual desires to win office above the conventionally defined collective interests of black folk. Clearly, the Obama presidential election crystallized a complexity of change that had been underway in America prior to his election. Indeed, did the Obama election signal the end of black politics? Does race remain a useful construct for framing the collective interests of African Americans? Volume III of Contours of African American Politics examines all of these questions in an effort to understand the more poignant question of the future of that which we have known as black politics.

Author : United States. Water Program Operations Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010096802

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The Aquatic Environment by United States. Water Program Operations Office Pdf

Author : Glenn R. Chafetz,Michael Spirtas,Benjamin Frankel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714649856

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The Origins of National Interests by Glenn R. Chafetz,Michael Spirtas,Benjamin Frankel Pdf

The concept of "identity" in international relations offers too many vague and imprecise definitions of the concepts that stand at its very core. This text offers clear definitions of the concept of identity and the concepts surrounding the term.

Author : Amos Yong,Mark A. Lamport,Timothy T. N. Lim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666728996

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Uncovering the Pearl by Amos Yong,Mark A. Lamport,Timothy T. N. Lim Pdf

Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the series) moved along various routes to take root in Asia proper. Christianity in Asia is extraordinarily diverse, with very ancient forms of the faith dating to the time of the apostles. The western church will be enlightened by the dynamic, multi-pronged Asian story of Christianity. Asian Christianity is also distinct due to the numerous non-traditional, house, or cell movements found throughout the region. The diversity of Christianity in Asia makes Christians in this region critical for the future of global Christianity.