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Islam in a post-secular society
Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to…
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- 9789004325357
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- 356 p.; 22 cm
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- Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Vol. 98
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- 297.63 BYR i
Religion and the individual: belief, practice, and identity
This Special Issue is both experimental and comparative. It appropriates diverse disciplinary idioms from the distinctive fields our authors inhabit to focus on the ever-recurrent theme of the individual and the study of religion. Here the familiar topics of "belief", "practice" and "identity" come into conversation with each other from scholars in anthropology, sociology, African-American hist…
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- 9783038424666
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- vi, 198 p.; 22 cm.
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- 291.175 REL r
Peace and democratic society
Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted …
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- 9781906924416
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- 155 p.; 22 cm.
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- 307 PEA p
Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
This book argues that premodern societies were characterized by the quest for “virtue.” The concept of virtue, complicated and much fought-over, permeated society, encouraging wisdom, courage, and justice, while simultaneously legitimizing social hierarchies based on sex and nationality. By examining pedagogical texts, rituals, performances, and images, this book illuminates the evolution o…
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- 9789048535101
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- 374 p.; 22 cm.
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- 307.72 VIR v
Technology enhanced learning integration into organizations
The study presents a framework of responsible and responsive technology enhanced learning integration into organizations. Applying the theories of integration of innovation in an organization, technology enhanced learning integration criteria groups have been identified and validated in this study in the following sequence: 1) Strategy and management, 2) Information communication technologies a…
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- 9786094671418
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- 304 p.; 22 cm
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- 374 TEC t
Strategies for regenerating the library and information profession
This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the…
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- 9783598441776
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- 415 p.; 23 cm.
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- IFLA Publications : 139
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- 021.2 STR s
Social science libraries. interdisciplinary collections, services, networks
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Se…
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- 9783110232158
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- 138 p.; 23 cm.
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- IFLA Publications : Vol. 144
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- 021.2 SOC s
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