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A table for one: a critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although…
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- 9781526116352
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- viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
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- 306.8153 LAH t
Religious fundamentalism in the age of pandemic
The multidisciplinary anthology Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic provides deep insights concerning the current impact of Covid-19 on various religious groups and believers around the world. Based on contributions of well-known scholars in the field of Religious Fundamentalism, the contributors offer about a window into the origins of religious fundamentalism and the development o…
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- 9783839454855
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- 276 p.
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- Religionswissenschaft, 21
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- 200 REL r
Creating learning spaces : experiences from educational fields
What can we learn from a teacher's journal about working with challenging youth? Why does the Training Room Program in German schools impede the development of an empowering learning culture? What experiences transpire during a train trip to the sea with an unruly crew of school boys? Or: what happens when children plan a trip on their own? Anyone who has accumulated experiences in teaching fac…
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- 9783839448878
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- 171 p.
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- Bildungsforschung, 1
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- 371.1024 BRO c
The challenges of religious literacy : the case of Finland
This open access book presents religious literacy as the main explanatory factor when dealing with certain ethnic groups that attract stereotypes which gloss over other personal factors such as age, class, gender and cultural differences. It discusses freedom of religion, and the Christian revival movement. It examines religious literacy and religious diversity in multi-faith schools. It looks …
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- 9783030475765
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- xi, 84p. : ill.
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- 200.94897 CHA c
Icelandic folklore and the cultural memory of religious change
This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterod…
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- 9781641893763
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- VII, 162 p.
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- Borderlines,
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- 398 BRY i
The power of standards : hybrid authority and the globalisation of services
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arg…
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- 9781108759038
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- x, 258p. : ill.
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- 658.562 GRA p
The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific …
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and …
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- 9781108687584
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- xv, 313p. : ill.
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- 304.8095209034 LU m
Global history with Chinese characteristics : autocratic states along the sil…
This open access book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered commerce, consumption and socioeconomic networks between China and Europe through a particular case study: Macau, connecting with South China, and Marseille in Mediterranean Europe from 1680 to 1800. How did foreign merchant networks and trans‐national com…
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- 9789811578656
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- xxxv, 244p. : ill.
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- 330.95103 PER g
Popular music and public diplomacy : transnational and transdisciplinary pers…
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop. This volume illuminates the…
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- 9783839443583
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- 328 p.
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- 306.4842 POP p
Cow care in Hindu animal ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- 9783030284084
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- xxx, 269p. : ill.
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- 179.3 VAL c
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