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Broken Words

Author	: Jonathan Dudley
Publisher	: Crown
Release Date	: 2011-04-05
ISBN 10	: 9780307720795
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book Broken Words written by Jonathan Dudley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim? Growing up as an evangelical Christian, Jonathan Dudley was taught that faith was defined by the total rejection of abortion, homosexuality, evolution, and environmentalism. But once he had begun studying biology and ethics, his views began to change and he soon realized that what he had been told about the Bible – and those four big issues – may have been misconstrued. Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics assesses the scientific and cultural factors leading evangelicals to certain stances on each issue, shows where they went wrong, and critically challenges the scriptural, ethical, and biological arguments issued by those leaders today. In Broken Words, Dudley applies the Bible and biology to challenge the fixed political dogmas of the religious right. Evangelicals are confronted for the first time from within their ranks on the extent to which faith has been corrupted by conservative politics, cultural prejudice and naive anti-intellectualism. A re-ordering of American Christianity is underway – and this book is an essential part of the conversation.

Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality [3 volumes]

Author	: Paul Hedges
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2014-09-09
ISBN 10	: 9781440803420
Pages	: 971 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book Controversies in Contemporary Religion: Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality [3 volumes] written by Paul Hedges and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious or spiritual beliefs underpin many controversies and conflicts in the contemporary world. Written by a range of scholarly contributors, this three-volume set provides contextual background information and detailed explanations of religious controversies across the globe. • Provides detailed coverage of a broad range of religious controversies and issues in a single resource • Offers analysis and context from authorities in their fields that goes beyond the often simplified presentations of religious controversies in modern media • Supplies insight into key religious issues that underpin international current events, enabling readers a greater understanding of the root causes of the acrimony and contention regarding seemingly secular issues

The Moderate Imagination

Author	: Yoav Fromer
Publisher	: University Press of Kansas
Release Date	: 2020-05-07
ISBN 10	: 9780700629527
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (295 users)

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Download or read book The Moderate Imagination written by Yoav Fromer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about how this could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an unlikely source: the fiction of John Updike. Though commonly viewed as an East Coast chronicler of suburban angst, the gifted writer (in fact a native of the quintessential Rust Belt state, Pennsylvania) was also an ardent man of ideas, political ideas—whose fiction, Fromer tells us, should be read not merely as a reflection of the postwar era but rather as a critical investigation into the liberal culture that helped define it. Several generations of Americans since the 1960s have increasingly felt “left behind.” In Updike’s early work, Fromer finds a fictional map of the failures of liberalism that might explain these grievances. The Moderate Imagination also taps previously unknown archival materials and unread works from his college years at Harvard to offer a clearer view of the author’s acute political thought and ideas. Updike’s prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans decades before conservatives sought to exploit them. In his writing, he traced liberalism’s historic decline to its own philosophical contradictions rather than to only commonly cited external circumstances like the Vietnam War, racial strife, economic recession, and conservative backlash. A subtle reinterpretation of John Updike’s legacy, Fromer’s work complicates and enriches our understanding of one of the twentieth century’s great American writers—even as the book deftly demonstrates what literature can teach us about politics and history.

Virtues as Integral to Science Education

Author	: Wayne Melville
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-08-25
ISBN 10	: 9781000175813
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (758 users)

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Download or read book Virtues as Integral to Science Education written by Wayne Melville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating the re-emergence of intellectual, moral, and civic virtues in the practice and teaching of science, this text challenges the increasing professionalization of science; questions the view of scientific knowledge as objective; and highlights the relationship between democracy and science. Written by a range of experts in science, the history of science, education and philosophy, the text establishes the historical relationship between natural philosophy and the Aristotelian virtues before moving to the challenges that the relationship faces, with the emergence, and increasing hegemony, brought about by the professionalization of science. Exploring how virtues relate to citizenship, technology, and politics, the chapters in this work illustrate the ways in which virtues are integral to understanding the values and limitations of science, and its role in informing democratic engagement. The text also demonstrates how the guiding virtues of scientific inquiry can be communicated in the classroom to the benefit of both individuals and wider societies. Scholars in the fields of Philosophy of Science, Ethics and Philosophy of Education, as well as Science Education, will find this book to be highly useful.

Reimagining Global Abortion Politics

Author	: Bloomer, Fiona
Publisher	: Policy Press
Release Date	: 2020-06-10
ISBN 10	: 9781447340454
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (44 users)

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Download or read book Reimagining Global Abortion Politics written by Bloomer, Fiona and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the contemporary issues in abortion politics globally? What factors explain variations in access to abortion between and within different countries? This text provides a transnationally-focused, interdisciplinary analysis of trends in abortion politics using case studies from around the Global North and South. It considers how societal influences, such as religion, nationalism and culture, impact abortion law and access. It explores the impact of international human rights norms, the increasing displacement of people due to conflict and crisis and the role of activists on law reform and access. The book concludes by considering the future of abortion politics through the more holistic lens of reproductive justice. Utilising a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a major contribution to the knowledge base on abortion politics globally. It provides an accessible, informative and engaging text for academics, policy makers and readers interested in abortion politics.

People of the Screen

Author	: John Dyer
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2022-10
ISBN 10	: 9780197636350
Pages	: 273 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (363 users)

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Download or read book People of the Screen written by John Dyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the history of Bible software and app development, showing the unique and powerful role evangelical entrepreneurs and coders have played in shaping its functionality and how their choices in turn shape the reading habits of millions of people around the world. Though evangelicals are sometimes seen as those who retreat from or reject societal change, this book argues that evangelicals are adept at appropriating new technology-including early computers, the internet, mobile apps, and virtual reality experiences-in service of what they see as their mission in the world. In addition to historical research, this book includes interviews with developers at three of the largest Bible software companies and field work with digital and print Bible readers in several church. This creates a comprehensive look at the interconnected ecosystem of publishers, developers, pastors, institutions, and software companies both within and outside of evangelicalism, and demonstrates how it affects the way churchgoers read and interpret the Bible"--

The Rhetoric of Resistance to Prison Education

Author	: Adam Key
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-11-29
ISBN 10	: 9781000538502
Pages	: 106 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (385 users)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Resistance to Prison Education written by Adam Key and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education. Positioning prison college programs as the best method to truly reduce recidivism, the book shows how the public – and by extension politicians – remain largely opposed to public funding for these programs, and how prisoners face internal resistance from their fellow inmates when pursuing higher education. Utilizing methods including critical rhetorical history, media analysis, and autoethnography, the author explores and critiques the discourses which inhibit prison education. Cultural discourses, echoed through media portrayal of prisoners, produce criminals as both subhuman and always-already a threat to the public. This book highlights the history of rhetorical opposition to prison education; closely analyzes how convictism, prejudicial and discriminatory bias against prisoners, blocks education access and feeds the prison-industrial-complex an ever-recycled supply of free prison labor; and discusses the implications of prison education for understanding and contesting cultural discourses of criminality. This book will be an important reference for scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in the fields of Rhetoric, Criminal justice, and Sociology, as well as Media and Communication studies more generally, Politics, and Education studies.

The Power Worshippers

Author	: Katherine Stewart
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2020-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9781635573459
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (734 users)

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Download or read book The Power Worshippers written by Katherine Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right's rise to political power. For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power. She follows the money that fuels this movement, tracing much of it to a cadre of super-wealthy, ultraconservative donors and family foundations. She shows that today's Christian nationalism is the fruit of a longstanding antidemocratic, reactionary strain of American thought that draws on some of the most troubling episodes in America's past. It forms common cause with a globe-spanning movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy and replace it with nationalist, theocratic and autocratic forms of government around the world. Religious nationalism is far more organized and better funded than most people realize. It seeks to control all aspects of government and society. Its successes have been stunning, and its influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals. The Power Worshippers is a brilliantly reported book of warning and a wake-up call. Stewart's probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms.

Tiny You

Author	: Jennifer L. Holland
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2020-04-07
ISBN 10	: 9780520968479
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (684 users)

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Download or read book Tiny You written by Jennifer L. Holland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion. While Americans have rapidly changed their minds about sex education, pornography, arts funding, gay teachers, and ultimately gay marriage, opposition to legalized abortion has only grown. As other socially conservative movements have lost young activists, the pro-life movement has successfully recruited more young people to its cause. Jennifer L. Holland explores why abortion dominates conservative politics like no other cultural issue. Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states since the 1960s—turning to the fetal pins passed around church services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the fetus dolls given to children in school—she argues that activists made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives. Holland ultimately demonstrates that the success of the pro-life movement lies in the borrowed logic and emotional power of leftist activism.

Lawful Abuse

Author	: Robert Flynn
Publisher	: Wings Press
Release Date	: 2013-02
ISBN 10	: 9781609402778
Pages	: 233 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book Lawful Abuse written by Robert Flynn and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful indictment of America's abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of corporations, this account exposes the child labor, indentured servitude, and child slavery aspects that are undeniable parts of American history. Arguing that, in the wake of the election of Ronald Reagan, legislation began to support corporations at the expense of the American people, this book demonstrates how this nation's intellectual capital was squandered. Discussing how deregulation and lax enforcement caused unnecessary deaths to workers in many fields, this work argues that the number of deaths and disabilities to fetuses, babies, and children will only increase until voters decide to stop the destruction of America and its children.

Monstrous Fictions

Author	: Carl J. Rasmussen
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2016-09-14
ISBN 10	: 9780739193600
Pages	: 198 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (936 users)

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Download or read book Monstrous Fictions written by Carl J. Rasmussen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that an ethics of individual conscience and virtue is incommensurate with Calvin’s doctrine and shows that for Calvin, Christians are bound in conscience to obey secular government. He further argues that a shared understanding of Calvin and a broader ecumenism could be a path out of culture war.

Reflections on Bioethics

Author	: Jose Antonio Morales-Gonzalez
Publisher	: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date	: 2018-06-27
ISBN 10	: 9781789232189
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (321 users)

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Download or read book Reflections on Bioethics written by Jose Antonio Morales-Gonzalez and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Reflections on Bioethics is an effort that brings together works grouped into five sections: "Bioethics and Health", "Bioethics and Education", "Bioethics and Technology", "Bioethics in the Use of Experimental Animals",and "Selected Topics of Bioethics". In each of these sections, the fundamental concepts of bioethics and their relationship with each of these branches of knowledge are covered. The purpose is to give the reader a specific document of topics, it is not intended to be a treaty because the study of any of the five sections is very broad. However, this is an effort that manages to combine in interdisciplinary subjects that are fundamental for professionals of all fields of knowledge.

Biblical Truths

Author	: Dale B. Martin
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2017-02-21
ISBN 10	: 9780300227918
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book Biblical Truths written by Dale B. Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading biblical scholar’s landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confessions of the Christian church? What does the Bible mean and how do we verify biblical truths? In this groundbreaking book, a leading biblical scholar urges readers to be more creative interpreters of biblical texts, mapping out an alternative way of reading that is not first and foremost about understanding what those texts would have meant for the original authors and readers. Limiting our study to the ancient meaning of the text, he argues, has produced either bad history, or bad theology, or both. One cannot derive robustly orthodox Christian doctrine or theology from a mere “historical” interpretation of the Bible. Martin offers instead theological readings of the New Testament that are faithful to Christian orthodoxy as generally understood, but without attempting a “foundationalist” understanding of the meaning of the text. His provocative and ambitious book demonstrates how theology and scripture can remain vital in the twenty-first century.

Thinking Like a Planet

Author	: J. Baird Callicott
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2014
ISBN 10	: 9780199324897
Pages	: 402 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (248 users)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a Planet written by J. Baird Callicott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach. Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little hope that anything will be done in the face of its "perfect moral storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself, and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory by exploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the environmental movement gathered strength.

Moral Infidelity

Author	: Rebecca Warner
Publisher	: Black Rose Writing
Release Date	: 2022-01-11
ISBN 10	: 9781684339334
Pages	: 339 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (393 users)

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Download or read book Moral Infidelity written by Rebecca Warner and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the ingredients are here: murder, mystery, sex, love, politics, good guys, bad guys, and all at a heart-stopping pace. Bravo!" –Rochelle Weinstein, Amazon and USA Today bestselling author "Moral Infidelity is one of the best books I've read in several years. Not only are the characters intriguing and exceptionally well developed, the story line is very thought-provoking, given today's political climate surrounding a woman's right to choose. Fantastic read!" –Linda Thompson, Host of The Authors' Show It is the summer of 1989, and a controversial Supreme Court ruling has opened the door for states to enact stricter abortion laws. Pro-Life Florida Governor Michael Romano, who has built his political platform on morality, is determined to lead the nation in exploiting this first crack in Roe v Wade. But when his extramarital affair results in an unintended pregnancy, Romano is faced with the frightening prospect of losing all that defines his life-a beautiful, loving wife, a brilliant political career, and enormous wealth. Choice takes on a whole new meaning for the governor as he plumbs the depths of his conscience and weighs his ever-narrowing options. The choice he must make will test the strength of his moral fiber to its limits... but will it lead to his salvation, or his ruin?

English Teaching and Evangelical Mission

Author	: Bill Johnston
Publisher	: Multilingual Matters
Release Date	: 2017-01-25
ISBN 10	: 9781783097098
Pages	: 106 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (97 users)

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Download or read book English Teaching and Evangelical Mission written by Bill Johnston and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about the place of mission work in English Language Teaching continue to rage, and yet full-length studies of what really happens at the intersection of ELT and evangelical Christianity are rare. In this book, Johnston conducts a detailed ethnography of an evangelical language school in Poland, looking at its Bible-based curriculum, and analyzing interaction in classes for adults. He also explores the idea of ‘relationship’ in the context of the school and its mission activity, and more broadly the cultural encounter between North American evangelicalism and Polish Catholicism. The book comprises an in-depth examination of a key issue facing TEFL in the 21st century, and will be of interest to all practitioners and scholars in the field, whatever their position on this topic.

American Cults

Author	: Jim Willis
Publisher	: Visible Ink Press
Release Date	: 2023-03-07
ISBN 10	: 9781578598267
Pages	: 405 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (982 users)

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Download or read book American Cults written by Jim Willis and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has spawned hundreds of cults. Charismatic leaders periodically burst into the news for the most awful of reasons. We are awash with stories of brainwashed members’ struggles to leave. Meet the messianic leaders, see the indoctrination and manipulation, look at their beliefs, and read the stories of some of America’s most notorious, eccentric, and unusual cults! From false religions and offshoots of traditional religions to political, financial, sexual, and hate groups, American Cults: Cabals, Corruption, and Charismatic Leaders looks at 40 groups and leaders, including their histories, deceits, manipulations, and twisted ideologies. Some rely on systems of obedience, submission, and dependency. More than a few have mystifying beliefs. Others are dark and murderous. You’ll encounter curious, bizarre, and sometimes upsetting stories of … Charming, manipulative, and exploitative leaders—Jim Jones, Jim Baker, David Berg, David Koresh, and many, many others. The breakaways from traditional religions—Father Divine and the Peace Mission, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Westboro Baptist Church, the Gospel of Prosperity, and many more. Political, Ponzi, metaphysical, and science schemes—the cult of the scientific method, pyramid schemes, political cults, the Unification Church, and much more. Aliens, extraterrestrials, and the cosmos—Church of Scientology, Raëlians and Heaven’s Gate, to name a few. End-times and doomsday cults—rapture beliefs, Edgar Cayce, the Ant Hill Kids and more. Racial, radical, and social media cults—QAnon, Ku Klux Klan, Oath Keepers, Antifa, and others. Sex, perversity, and submission—NXIVM, Sullivanians, Rajneesh, and many more. American Cults looks at why America is such a fertile ground for cults, how some people got caught in their webs, and how some managed to escape! With more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography provides sources for further exploration, and an extensive index adds to its usefulness.