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T&T Clark Handbook of Public Theology introduces the various philosophical and theological positions and approaches in the emerging discourse of public theology. Distinguishing public theology from political theology, as well as from liberation theology, this book clarifies central terms like 'public sphere', 'the secular', and 'post-secularity' in order to highlight the specific characteristics of public theology. Its particular focus lies on the ways in which much of public theology has established itself as a contextual theology in politically secular societies, aiming to continue the apologetical tradition in this specific context. Depending on what is regarded as the most pressing challenge for the reasonable defence of the Christian hope in liberal democracies, public theologians have focused on (social) ethics, ecclesiology, or Soteriology, with the aim to strengthen the virtues needed for democratic citizenship. Here, attention is being paid to Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox perspectives. The volume further illustrates the characteristics of the discourse by introducing the ways in which public theologians have responded to concrete challenges arising in the spheres of politics, economics, ecology, sports, culture, and religion. To highlight the international scope of the public theological discourse, the volume concludes with a summarizing overview of public theological debates in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and Latin America.

This work is a contemporary chronicle of the Cold War and offers an analysis of policy and rhetoric of the United States and Soviet Union during the 1980s.

Michael R. Stead introduces the books of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi in light of the latest biblical scholarship. Over the past four decades, there has been an explosion of interest in the postexilic prophets and their role within the Book of the Twelve, which has coincided with paradigm shifts in biblical studies generally. This study guide integrates insights from both historio-critical and literary approaches to examine the authorship, form, structure, and composition of these texts. In particular, this guide explores how the intertextual connections with other scriptures help to shape their meaning. It includes a concise section-by-section overview that highlights key interpretive issues and guides readers in their approach to the text.

How many times have you experienced a musical that was fabulous or just didn't work at all, but you had no idea how to communicate why? How do you differentiate between a flaw in the performance portrayal of a character to a structural flaw in the musical itself? How do you analyse musical theatre songs that are so subjective in its very nature? Is there even a common link of analysis between musicals from the Golden Age and musicals from the present day? Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through the Agesanswers these questions and gives students of musical theatre the tools they need to understand and articulate how musicals work. At the heart of any musical lie its music and lyrics, yet it is this area that is least understood. This book offers a brand new terminology of analysis that gets to the core of what holds a musical together: the libretto, music, and lyrics. Through identifying methods of lyric and musical analysis and applying these to ten different musicals throughout history, students are able to ask questions such as: whydoes this song sound this way?; whatis thislyric doing to identify character purpose?; and how is a character communicating this feeling to an audience?From classroom analysis through to practical application, this text guides readers through a structured approach to understanding, disseminating and more importantly, articulating how a musical works. A perfect tool for students of musical theatre, its practical benefits of understanding the form, and realizing that it can be applied to any age musical, will benefit any theatre personin helping articulate all of those abstract feelings that are inherent in this art form. It offers a roadmap to the musical's innermost DNA.

Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti, which remained unpublished in his own lifetime, now appears for the first time in English. Me-ti counselled against 'constructing too complete images of the world'. For this work of fragments and episodes, Brecht accumulated anecdotes, poems, personal stories and assessments of contemporary politics. Given its controversial nature, he sought a disguise, using the name of a Chinese contemporary of Socrates, known today as Mozi. Stimulated by his humorous aphoristic style and social focus, as well as an engrained Chinese awareness of the flow of things, Brecht developed a practical, philosophical, anti-systematic ethics, discussing Marxist dialectics, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, the Moscow trials, and the theories behind current events, while warning how ideology makes people the 'servants of priests'.Me-ti is central to an understanding of Brecht's critical reflections on Marxist dialectics and his commitment to change and the non-eternal, the philosophy which informs much of his writing and his most famous plays, such as The Good Person of Szechwan. Readers will find themselves both fascinated and beguiled by the reflections and wisdom it offers. First published in German in 1965 and now translated and edited by Antony Tatlow, Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things provides readers with a much-anticipated accessible edition of this important work. It features a substantial introduction to the concerns of the work, its genesis and context - both within Brecht's own writing and within the wider social and political history, and provides an original selection and organisation of texts. Extensive notes illuminate the work and provide commentary on related works from Brecht's oeuvre.

This book focuses on the work of Miriam Toews, which gives voice to generations of Mennonite women who have been silenced as part of the official Mennonite story. Rita Dirks argues that through exposing the violence Mennonite women experience from within their own communities, Toews problematizes the Mennonite tradition of proclaimed pacifism.

This book explores the influence of classical Greek and Latin literature on the early settlers and residents of the Tidewater area of Virginia, such as Ovid translator George Sandys, William Strachey (survivor of the shipwreck which inspired The Tempest), Indian Trader William Byrd II, and Thomas Jefferson.

This book shows the profundity of life for fishing families living in a disaster-strewn world in Japan. Using their own words, the text demonstrates the significance of people¿s attachment to their places and seascapes, their connections with one another, and the importance of autonomy and adaptability, especially post-3.11.

This book explores different ways in which Christians can creatively interpret the sacred writings of other religions and shows how the various Christian beliefs can be re-articulated in the light of interreligious dialogue, including revelation, Christ, the Holy Spirit, church and salvation, the ethics of violence, and ecology.

Croatia is a beautiful country with a rich culture that has profoundly impacted the world. This work contains essays on the different areas of Croatiä s national culture from its leading scholars and artists; their contributions provide a glimpse into Croatiä s fascinating past and present.

This book tells the wonderous story of human cultural evolution-how the natural forces of biological evolution gave way to the co-evolution of genes and a nurturing culture that gave rise to the unique capacity that enabled humans to dominate the Earth.

The European Union is the world's largest donor of developmental aid, with a strong interest in Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the high ambitions of the European policies are not matched by the strategies or activities to reach the desired goals.

This edited volume argues that digital media technologies and platforms are essential for the preservation of Indigenous languages and African epistemologies in modern-day African societies. Contributors also provide a methodology for African researchers, practitioners, and marginalized communities to integrate digital technology into their lives.

This edited volume argues that journalists and other political communicators have allowed antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere to metastasize within the body politic. It not only seeks to identify and explain these press failures but to recommend new ways forward.

This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.

The book is a rare compendium of insightful essays by eminent Indian scholars on the Mahima Cult, its genesis, and its growth. The volume focuses on Bhima Bhoi, the poet-philosopher and the prime interlocutor of the Renegade Faith, who started a revolt from below to champion human rights.

The Statues and Legacies of Combat Athletes in the Americas brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore the layered histories and meanings associated with public monuments to combat athletes from a variety of sporting backgrounds.

On the basis of Pope Francis' support of the legal protection of same-sex civil unions, "new pastoral methods," theological anthropological and ethical methodological developments, this book argues for the organic development of Catholic sexual teaching to recognize the morality and sacramentality of both opposite-sex and same-sex marriage.

This book reflects the political, welfare, and general social attitudes in the Czech Republic, which has 30 years of existence, in European comparison. The contributors address the understanding and evaluations of democracy and attitudes towards migration in pre- and post-COVID-19 times.

Artificial Intelligence in the classroom has generated both interest and controversy. This book explores how AI can be used as a source of inspiration and meaningful instruction in secondary English and provides a starting point for further research and investigation.

Using the example of various representatives of the Frankfurt School, the book works out a normative orientation that is to be understood here as "Critical Humanism". The author argues that Critical Humanism is not a contemplative appropriation of a humanistic culture, but a political practice of critical social research.

Over the last decade and a half, shifting geopolitical setting in Europe renewed the question about Russian military capabilities and strategic intentions. This book explains Russia's balancing behavior and use of military force in Europe and finds timeless principles which explains and even predicts future Russian aggression.

This book scrutinizes the challenges faced by IQACs in Bangladeshi universities, emphasizing the crucial role of quality education for societal progress. Ferdous identifies impediments like autonomy issues and inadequate infrastructure, offering key insights and recommendations to elevate the quality of higher education in the country.

This book discusses the conflicts and crises in the former Soviet space and reconstructs Russia's fragmented approaches on how to deal with them. The case of Georgia, with its violent conflicts between 1991 and 2008, serves as an illustration of Russia's take on conflict management and peacebuilding in the former Soviet space.

This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the age of new materialism. It draws on the key concepts of entanglement and speculation i to highlight literature's timeliness and urgency in the Anthropocene.

This book reengineers the conceptual relationship between nature and politics by crafting the terms of a new philosophy of nature and exploring its consequences for political thought. These consequences include major theoretical reformulations of some indispensable political concepts, including freedom, obligation, and the subject.

Reading the Bible Amid the Environmental Crisis challenges traditional interpretations by intertwining biblical texts with trauma theory, affect theory, ethics, and animal studies. Sébastien Doane invites readers to reimagine discipleship, eschatology, and the Bible's role in addressing the pressing ecological crisis.

"Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who participated in the Cracow ghetto resistance. The author teases out the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice of this family of testimonies"--

This book discusses consciousness using the teachings of Freud, William James, and recent neuroscientists, as well as the narrative techniques that Henry James devised to represent consciousness: ghosts and Free Indirect Discourse. By applying these scientific terms of memory, emotions, and empathy, a new reading of Henry's novels is achieved.

From the author of the star-reviewed Garden State Gangland comes the story of the notorious East Harlem Purple Gang, a group of freelance hitmen who flourished on the Mafiäs payroll and the mediäs front page.