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Nature and the Environment in Contemporary Religious Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Nature and the Environment in Contemporary Religious Contexts

This collection of essays discusses the human relationship with, and responsibilities toward, the natural environment from the perspective of religions and the social sciences. The chapters examine a variety of conditions that have contributed to the contemporary environmental crisis, including abuse of power, economic greed, industrialization, deforestation, and unplanned waste management. They then discuss concepts from several different religious texts and traditions that promote environmental protection as a sacred moral duty for all humanity. Religious concepts such as dharma (duty toward Mother Earth), tikkun Olam (repair of the world), khalifa (people as deputies of God on earth), amanah (the universe as a trust in human hands), and paticca samuppada (dependent co-arising) are employed to argue that all the components of the biosphere are integral to the cosmos, each piece with its own value and role in the harmony of the whole. The book makes it clear that religions can become more “green” and play a helpful role in raising our ecological consciousness and supporting preservation of the environment into the future.

Media Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Media Governance

The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adaptation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of st...

Blood in the Fields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Blood in the Fields

On March 24, 1980, a sniper shot and killed Archbishop Óscar Romero as he celebrated mass. Today, nearly four decades after his death, the world continues to wrestle with the meaning of his witness. Blood in the Fields: Óscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Land Reform treats Romero’s role in one of the central conflicts that seized El Salvador during his time as archbishop and that plunged the country into civil war immediately after his death: the conflict over the concentration of agricultural land and the exclusion of the majority from access to land to farm. Drawing extensively on historical and archival sources, Blood in the Fields examines how and why Romero advocated for ju...

Lula
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Lula

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-08-20
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

The first – and long-awaited – major biography of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Lula is among the greatest political figures in Brazilian history. The only president in the country with a working-class background, combined with a party that was profoundly original in its roots, he exercised charismatic power and influence in a more lasting way than any other public figure in the republican period. Since 2011, Fernando Morais, one of Brazil's leading writers, has gained direct, frank and frequent access to Lula. To these dozens of hours of testimonies, he has added a reporter's flair and captivating prose to compose a biography that paints a picture in all its grandeur and complexity. In a narrative that makes use of flashforwards and flashbacks to maintain an electrifying pace, Morais goes from Lula's childhood to the annulment of his convictions, in 2021, passing through the new unionism, the ABC strikes, the foundation of the PT and the first election campaign.

Stand Up!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Stand Up!

Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire A society that actively combats racism, treats climate change as a serious threat, and ensures that all people have a living wage and a decent life for themselves and their families is not a progressive pipe dream. Victories are being won every day, all over the country. But they didn't happen just by clicking “donate” on a website. Gordon Whitman says that fundamental change demands forming the kind of face-to-face relationships that have sustained every social movement in history. For two decades, Whitman has been working with PICO National Network to equip tens of thousands to fight racial discrimination and economic...

PERIODISTAS SIN MIEDO VI
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

PERIODISTAS SIN MIEDO VI

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-27
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Es un libro documental con notas de periodistas destacados en el mundo.Con temas de actualidad y ajustado a la realidad,

Socio-Political Dynamics within the Crisis of the Left
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Socio-Political Dynamics within the Crisis of the Left

Has the left turn come to a definite end? What have been the legacies of the left turn and how can they be measured? Who are the key actors shaping the new ‘anti-populist’ discourse and in what sense are they different from the social movements supporting progressive governments? How do these forms of identification relate to the dominant forms of subjectivisation in a globalized neoliberal world? Does the development of a new socio-political dynamic in the region strengthen or undermine the struggles for equality, democracy and more cohesive societies? This collection studies the gestation of the crisis of the left turn consensus dominant in Argentina and Brazil for the past 15 years and the emerging socio-political dynamics developing in this particular context of change. The volume identifies the traditional and emerging actors which have been influential in the socio-political arena for the past six to ten years. It also traces major episodes of protests between 2011-2015 in Brazil and Argentina.

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice presents an alternative approach to sociological research that begins with community engagement and political commitments focused on social justice. The collection includes international case studies of students and faculty partnered with labor unions, farmers and farmworkers, activists Of many stripes, and others who not only use their social science skills to support social justice work, but also recognize how these movements impact our understanding of sociology to begin with.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 13, Special Issue 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 13, Special Issue 2

Contents INTRODUCTION Listening Practices in a Synodal Church: Interim Reflections from a Symposium in Rome Anna Rowlands ORIGINAL ARTICLES Listening across the Américas: Base Ecclesial Communities and Relational Organizing as Listening Practices for a Synodal Church Richard L. Wood Beyond Synodal Listening: Theological Action Research and Cultures of Conversation Clare Watkins French Catholics and Synodality: Spiritual Sensibilities and the Will to Participate or Abstain Yann Raison de Cleuziou Doing Theology by Listening to Marginalized Voices? Methodological Elements from Encountering Indigenous Families in a Northern Canadian Community Julian Paparella Listening a Synodal Church into Be...

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, and the Renewal of the Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, and the Renewal of the Church

Focuses exclusively on Evangelii Gaudium as interpreted from a variety of interdisciplinary and denominational perspectives, with a sharper focus on the ecclesiological as well as the ecumenical potentialities for the reform and renewal of the church contained within this reorientation and reappreciation of the church’s primary mission to evangelization in the modern world.