Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520943063
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Boundless Faith
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520943063
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520943063
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Inhuman Nature
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 0692299300
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Collection of essays examining the ways in which humanity is enmeshed in its surroundings.
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 0692299300
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Collection of essays examining the ways in which humanity is enmeshed in its surroundings.
The Ghosts in Shakespeare
Author: Louis William Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Julius Caesar
Author: Richard Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230213308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Julius Caesar: A New Casebook provides students and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to twenty-first century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230213308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Julius Caesar: A New Casebook provides students and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to twenty-first century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
What Belongs to Caesar?
Author: Donald Kaufman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597525405
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Even before American soldiers were involved in fighting in the war in Vietnam, someone observed that the United States government was spending money Òlike a drunken sailor. The years since then have substantiated the truth of that observation. The exorbitant cost of war production and the fantastic waste involved in military spending has prompted more and more citizens to inquire as to just what tax funds are being spent on. Disgruntled taxpayers discover that wars and taxes invariably go together. When governments engage in wars, they immediately levy taxes on the citizens to pay for them. This pattern of taxation is firmly grounded in historical experience. In an effort to see the parallels between our times and earlier times, the author begins his study of the war tax problem by taking a brief look at the history of taxation (both ancient and modern). With this background for perspective he moves on to examine several biblical passages like ÒRender to Caesar . . ., which are often used to justify an absolute, unquestioning obedience to governmental demands. Here is a Òhang-up that frequently paralyzes Christian social concern into helpless indifference. A third section of the book explores three basic arguments against the voluntary payment of war taxes. The appeal and power of these arguments are then demonstrated by reviewing only a few of the ways in which people have attempted to resolve this painful ethical dilemma. The author makes a strong case for a more radical Christian application of what it means to be a conscientious objector to war. He claims that those who are willing to refuse the government their Òwarm bodies but nevertheless volunteer (however reluctantly) their Òcold cash for war taxes, are failing to make the choice of discipleship where it counts. Instead, the Christian must find in his commitment to God the kind of courage which enables him to say a decisive No! to the unreasonable demands of government, regardless of the consequences to his own life. Nothing less than this will be adequate to confront the evil and potential destructiveness of our giant Òmilitary-industrial complex.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597525405
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Even before American soldiers were involved in fighting in the war in Vietnam, someone observed that the United States government was spending money Òlike a drunken sailor. The years since then have substantiated the truth of that observation. The exorbitant cost of war production and the fantastic waste involved in military spending has prompted more and more citizens to inquire as to just what tax funds are being spent on. Disgruntled taxpayers discover that wars and taxes invariably go together. When governments engage in wars, they immediately levy taxes on the citizens to pay for them. This pattern of taxation is firmly grounded in historical experience. In an effort to see the parallels between our times and earlier times, the author begins his study of the war tax problem by taking a brief look at the history of taxation (both ancient and modern). With this background for perspective he moves on to examine several biblical passages like ÒRender to Caesar . . ., which are often used to justify an absolute, unquestioning obedience to governmental demands. Here is a Òhang-up that frequently paralyzes Christian social concern into helpless indifference. A third section of the book explores three basic arguments against the voluntary payment of war taxes. The appeal and power of these arguments are then demonstrated by reviewing only a few of the ways in which people have attempted to resolve this painful ethical dilemma. The author makes a strong case for a more radical Christian application of what it means to be a conscientious objector to war. He claims that those who are willing to refuse the government their Òwarm bodies but nevertheless volunteer (however reluctantly) their Òcold cash for war taxes, are failing to make the choice of discipleship where it counts. Instead, the Christian must find in his commitment to God the kind of courage which enables him to say a decisive No! to the unreasonable demands of government, regardless of the consequences to his own life. Nothing less than this will be adequate to confront the evil and potential destructiveness of our giant Òmilitary-industrial complex.
The G.H.O.S.T. Project
Author: Robert A Bolduc
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641380055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Scott Hardy is a quantum physicist ahead of his time. He theorized that ghosts were manifestations of alternate universes, and he spent most of his life proving those universes are real, and we can travel to them. When he asked the government for funding, they took his project away from him. Twenty years later, the government thought they solved the critical problem of keeping matter from Earth permanent in other universes. An exploratory mission was sent to another universe and is now trapped there. After the exploration team left, the project discovered that matter from Earth will eventually dissolve and be absorbed by other universes. Time is running out for the explorers, so the project turns to Scott Hardy for help to get the people back before they die. Hardy reluctantly agrees to help, but when he arrives at the secret base where the government runs his project, attempts are made on his life. It seems the project isn't exactly secret, and someone wants it to fail. Can Hardy help the project team get their people home before their time runs out?
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641380055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Scott Hardy is a quantum physicist ahead of his time. He theorized that ghosts were manifestations of alternate universes, and he spent most of his life proving those universes are real, and we can travel to them. When he asked the government for funding, they took his project away from him. Twenty years later, the government thought they solved the critical problem of keeping matter from Earth permanent in other universes. An exploratory mission was sent to another universe and is now trapped there. After the exploration team left, the project discovered that matter from Earth will eventually dissolve and be absorbed by other universes. Time is running out for the explorers, so the project turns to Scott Hardy for help to get the people back before they die. Hardy reluctantly agrees to help, but when he arrives at the secret base where the government runs his project, attempts are made on his life. It seems the project isn't exactly secret, and someone wants it to fail. Can Hardy help the project team get their people home before their time runs out?
Shakespeare After All
Author: Marjorie Garber
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307490815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307490815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.
Julius Caesar on Stage in England and America, 1599-1973
Author: John Ripley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052122781X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Professor Ripley, in this 1980 study of Julius Caesar, offers one of the most detailed stage histories ever attempted, focusing upon aspects both of English and American staging from 1599 to 1973. His primary sources include promptbooks and groundplans, letters, diaries and reviews. He approaches the play from four different angles: he examines the texts used in all major productions, and makes valuable deductions about the taste and sensibility of an age from cuts, alterations, additions and redistribution of parts. He explains in detail the staging of the play at various points in time, and demonstrates how sets and costumes, bits of business, handling of crowd scenes and lighting affected its business. He reconstructs performances of the four main roles by the greater and lesser lights of each period. Finally, he comments on the way in which the theories of critics and, in modern times, directors' ideas have influenced understanding of the play.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052122781X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Professor Ripley, in this 1980 study of Julius Caesar, offers one of the most detailed stage histories ever attempted, focusing upon aspects both of English and American staging from 1599 to 1973. His primary sources include promptbooks and groundplans, letters, diaries and reviews. He approaches the play from four different angles: he examines the texts used in all major productions, and makes valuable deductions about the taste and sensibility of an age from cuts, alterations, additions and redistribution of parts. He explains in detail the staging of the play at various points in time, and demonstrates how sets and costumes, bits of business, handling of crowd scenes and lighting affected its business. He reconstructs performances of the four main roles by the greater and lesser lights of each period. Finally, he comments on the way in which the theories of critics and, in modern times, directors' ideas have influenced understanding of the play.
Dreams, Sleep, and Shakespeare’s Genres
Author: Claude Fretz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030135195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early modern physiological, religious, and political understandings of dreams and sleep in order to reshape conventions of dramatic genre, and to experiment with dream-inspired plots. The book discusses the significance of dreams and sleep in early modern culture, and explores the dramatic opportunities that this offered to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It also offers new insights into how Shakespeare adapted earlier literary models of dreams and sleep – including those found in classical drama, in medieval dream visions, and in native English dramatic traditions. The book appeals to academics, students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of literature, drama, and cultural history, as well as to general readers interested in Shakespeare’s works and their cultural context.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030135195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book explores how Shakespeare uses images of dreams and sleep to define his dramatic worlds. Surveying Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, histories, and late plays, it argues that Shakespeare systematically exploits early modern physiological, religious, and political understandings of dreams and sleep in order to reshape conventions of dramatic genre, and to experiment with dream-inspired plots. The book discusses the significance of dreams and sleep in early modern culture, and explores the dramatic opportunities that this offered to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It also offers new insights into how Shakespeare adapted earlier literary models of dreams and sleep – including those found in classical drama, in medieval dream visions, and in native English dramatic traditions. The book appeals to academics, students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of literature, drama, and cultural history, as well as to general readers interested in Shakespeare’s works and their cultural context.
Godfather and the Ghost
Author: Raffaele J. Bibbo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438948476
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
It was the year 2003 and the fictional story of "Don" Luigi Castellini was born. He resided in his mansion, "The Robert Treat Paine Estate," with his bodyguard and chauffeur, "Killer." The Godfather approached the ripe old age of 70 and just couldn't deal with reality vs. fantasy. Because the Godfather was experiencing financial difficulty, the stress of everyday living caused him to relive his life through terrifying nightmares on a regular basis. He reached out to his "family" in an attempt to solve his financial problems, and somewhere along the way, he met the Ghost of Antonio Giacomo, a former member of his grandfather's "family." Their relationship evolved into a partnership that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438948476
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
It was the year 2003 and the fictional story of "Don" Luigi Castellini was born. He resided in his mansion, "The Robert Treat Paine Estate," with his bodyguard and chauffeur, "Killer." The Godfather approached the ripe old age of 70 and just couldn't deal with reality vs. fantasy. Because the Godfather was experiencing financial difficulty, the stress of everyday living caused him to relive his life through terrifying nightmares on a regular basis. He reached out to his "family" in an attempt to solve his financial problems, and somewhere along the way, he met the Ghost of Antonio Giacomo, a former member of his grandfather's "family." Their relationship evolved into a partnership that will leave you on the edge of your seat.