Transforming Bodies

Author : Mariecke van den Berg,Lieke Schrijvers,Jelle Wiering,Anne-Marie Korte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000195811

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Transforming Bodies and Religions by Mariecke van den Berg,Lieke Schrijvers,Jelle Wiering,Anne-Marie Korte Pdf

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on ‘transforming bodies’: bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe. It explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion that underpin embodied transformations. Using post-secularist, postcolonial and gender/queer perspectives, it aims to gain a better understanding of the orchestrations and effects of larger social transitions related to religion. This volume is the outcome of the intensive collaboration of the authors, who for years have been meeting regularly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss themes related to religion and ‘the challenge of difference’, with an added afterword by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations; the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life. Doing so, it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary religion and the body. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology, and Philosophy.

Author : Carmen Maret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sex role
ISBN : MSU:31293027362163

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Transforming Bodies by Carmen Maret Pdf

Author : H. Steinhoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137493798

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Transforming Bodies by H. Steinhoff Pdf

At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.

Author : Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558617001

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Transforming Japan by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow Pdf

A volume of essays by Japan’s leading female scholars and activists exploring their country’s recent progressive cultural shift. When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, and sexuality. Now more than ever, the Japanese myth of a homogenous population living within traditional gender roles is being challenged. The LGBTQ population is coming out of the closet, ever-present minorities are mobilizing for change, single mothers are a growing population, and women are becoming political leaders. In Transforming Japan, Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow has gathered the most comprehensive collection of essays written by Japanese educators and researchers on the ways in which present-day Japan confronts issues of gender, sexuality, race, discrimination, power, and human rights.

Author : Rebecca Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317571452

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Transforming Images by Rebecca Coleman Pdf

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores the crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for transformation and in making possible, or not, the materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions: which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of inequality? Drawing on the recent ‘turns’ to affect and emotion and to understanding life in terms of vitality, intensity and ‘liveness’ in social and cultural theory, the book develops a framework for understanding images as felt and lived out. Analysing different screens across popular culture – the screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans and government health campaigns – it traces how images of self-transformation bring the future into the present and affectively ‘draw in’ some bodies more than others. Transforming Images will be of interest to students and scholars working in sociology, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies.

Author : Ruthanna Hooke
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898696462

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Transforming Preaching by Ruthanna Hooke Pdf

At once “travel guide” and vision for the future, the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze our present plight, point to the seeds of change already at work transforming the church, and outline a positive new way forward. What kinds of churches are most ready for transformation? What are the essential tools? What will give us strength, direction, and purpose to the journey? Each volume of the series will: Explain why a changed vision is essential Give robust theological and biblical foundations Offer a guide to best practices and positive trends in churches large and small. Describe the necessary tools for change Imagine how transformation will look Preaching is one of the more “transformable” aspects of the church’s life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever today, and provides essential models and spiritual practices in order to transform both the creators of preaching and its listeners as both participate in sermons.

Author : Trevor H. Levere
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801866098

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Transforming Matter by Trevor H. Levere Pdf

Transforming Matter provides an accessible and clearly written introduction to the history of chemistry, telling the story of how the discipline has developed over the years.

Author : Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415924928

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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia by Esther Ngan-ling Chow Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : William Ayers
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807757918

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Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students by William Ayers Pdf

Chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain a university-school-community partnership designed to address public education's failure to meet the needs of students of colour, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the barriers, mistakes, challenges, and successes that emerged in their community-based partnership.

Author : Vic Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134198207

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Transforming Masculinities by Vic Seidler Pdf

Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, there is a diversity of theoretical traditions. It draws on a variety of examples, and explores new directions in the complexities of diverse male identities and emotional lives across different histories, cultures and traditions. This book: considers the experiences of different generations explores connections between masculinity and drugs investigates men and masculinities in a post-9/11 world considers new ways of thinking about male violence recognizes the importance of culture and provides spaces to explore different class, ‘race’ and ethnic masculinities. Written in a practical, versatile manner by an established author in this field, it points to new directions in thinking, and makes essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the fields of sociology, gender studies, politics, philosophy and psychology.

Author : Anna M. Agathangelou,L.H.M. Ling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135979942

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Transforming World Politics by Anna M. Agathangelou,L.H.M. Ling Pdf

This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. These projects offer few options for emancipation; consequently, many feel they have little choice but to retaliate against violence with more violence. The authors of this pioneering work articulate worldism as an alternative approach to world politics. It intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches with Greek and Chinese theories of politics, broadly defined. The authors contend that contemporary world politics cannot be understood outside the legacies of these multiple worlds, including axes of power configured by gender, race, class, and nationality, which are themselves linked to earlier histories of colonizations and their contemporary formations. With fiction and poetry as exploratory methods, the authors build on their ‘multiple worlds’ approach to consider different sites of world politics, arguing that a truly emancipatory understanding of world politics requires more than just a shift in ways of thinking; above all, it requires a shift in ways of being. Transforming World Politics will be of vital interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Political Science, Postcolonial Studies, Social Theory, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, European Union and Mediterranean Studies, and Security Studies.

Author : Mark Withers,Mark Williamson,Martin Reddington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136433788

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Transforming HR by Mark Withers,Mark Williamson,Martin Reddington Pdf

Deliver greater value to your organisation through HR transformation. Transforming HR, Second edition offers robust, practical advice on changing the way human resource management is undertaken, walking you through the transformational process from initial planning to the evaluation of outcomes. Since the first edition of the book many organisations have restructured their HR functions and invested in better HR information systems but with new issues emerging all the time, the journey towards transformation must continue. To support this journey the authors draw on their own experience and insights in this new edition, which features: *Practical tools and approaches to guide planning, implementation and evaluation of transformation strategies aimed at increasing the value of HR’s contribution in organisations *New chapters on HR’s value proposition, Web 2.0 and benefits realisation to demonstrate their critical role in transformation *Cutting edge research on topics such as the use of social media technology by HR, with views and experience from senior practitioners across a broad range of organisations *Fresh thinking on the people agenda to be addressed by progressive HR functions Intended as an inspiring, hands-on guide to planning, implementing and evaluating transformation strategies, Transforming HR, second edition is an essential companion as you work to increase the value of HR in your organisation.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781855844308

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Transforming The Soul: Volume 1 by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

The spiritual-scientific investigator has ... to transform the soul itself into an instrument; then - when his soul is awakened and he can see into a spiritual world - he experiences, on a higher level, a similar great moment as blind people do when, having been operated upon, they look at a world they have not seen before. In a key series of lectures on personal development, Rudolf Steiner explains that the central mission of spiritual science is to enable people to ascend, in full consciousness, to a knowledge of spiritual realities. But given that the means to achieve spiritual perception are now widely available, the danger exists that some individuals will gain access to the spiritual world whilst harbouring impure motives. This can lead to a distorted understanding and vision of that world. Steiner's emphasis, therefore, is on the preparatory steps - the metamorphosis and purification of the human soul - required for achieving true spiritual enlightenment. Life itself teaches and prepares us for progress, and anthroposophy explains and brings this to consciousness. In some of his most lucid lectures, Steiner describes the missions of anger, truth and reverence, the significance of human character, the meaning of asceticism and illness, and the phenomenon of egoism. He also clarifies the differences between Buddhism and Christianity, describes the goal of spiritual science, and makes some esoteric observations about the moon. Throughout the talks Steiner refers to many significant historical figures, including St Augustine, Coleridge, Leonardo da Vinci, Madame Blavatsky, Goethe, Homer, and Shakespeare.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781855841833

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Transforming the Soul by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

9 lectures, Berlin, 9 lectures, Berlin, January-May 1910 (CW 59) A previous edition of this work: Metamorphoses of the Soul: Paths of Experience, vol. 2. In a refreshingly practical series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner speaks about the nature of the human soul and how it can be transformed and lifted to higher consciousness. He considers the spiritual significance of various expressions of human nature--laughing and weeping, sickness and health, error and mental disorder, positivity and negativity, and conscience. Steiner also discusses prayer, mysticism, the purpose of art, and the significance of language. Throughout these talks, he refers to many key historical figures, including Zarathustra, Socrates, Plato, Homer, Wagner, Goethe, Hegel, and Angelus Silesius. These inspiring lectures form the conclusion to Transforming the Soul, vol. 1, but can also be read independently. This volume is a translation of Metamorphosen des Seelenlebens--Pfade der Seelenerlebnisse: Zweiter Teil (GA 59).

Author : Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0895941732

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Transforming Body Image by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson Pdf

Self-acceptance is the foundation for lasting changes. This therapuetic self-help progam guides the reader to such body and self-acceptance, and away from fad diets and dangerous attempts to succomb to the national mania for thinness.