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Global Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Global Community

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Global security cannot be achieved until people view the world as a global community. Until such time, differences will continue to be perceived as threatening. These perceived “threats” are the primary threat to global security. This volume proposes methods for minimizing the “us versus them” mentality so that we can build a sense of global community.

Enlarging the Tent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Enlarging the Tent

On 25th May, 2020, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer. Storms of outrage and protests spread globally. Many learned about the Black Lives Matter movement, and perhaps the most honest conversation began on racism's causes, the tools that engineer and sustain it -- and how best to dismantle it. In late 2020, teacher, community development worker and freelance writer Jonathan Doering approached Nim Njuguna, a retired Baptist minister and former Quaker prison chaplain involved in social justice and mental health issues, seeking an interview on the current situation. Nim offered a project of co-interviews, both participants developing their thoughts on racism and right responses. These dialogues between willing novice and seasoned activist offer possible ways forward whilst the worksheets encourage allies to delve into their thoughts, feelings, and responses to this major challenge of our time.

Beyond Perestroika
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Beyond Perestroika

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book investigates rapid societal change in Russia during the early 1990s. The story of the anthropologist (author) and the people he studied reveals cultural similarities and differences between them. Russians and Latvians taught the author about the Soviet Union, its people, and its cultures. Formal axiology provides a novel way to access their changing values.

The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements and creation of thriving communities of Friends in the Global South to the large-scale post–World War I humanitarian relief efforts of the American Friends Service Committee and Friends Service Council in Britain. The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 explores these developments and the impact they had on the Quaker religion and on the broader world. Chapters examine the changes taking place within the denomination at the time, including separations, particularly in...

Postethnophilosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Postethnophilosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-04
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.

Social Justice, Poverty and Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Social Justice, Poverty and Race

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A clear understanding of social justice requires complex rather than simple answers. It requires comfort with ambiguity rather than absolute answers. This is counter to viewing right versus wrong, just vs. unjust, or good vs. evil as dichotomies. This book provides many examples of where and how to begin to view these as continuums rather than dichotomies.

Social Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Social Justice

Give your readers a truly global review of social justice and equality. Readers will learn from a variety of international perspectives. Across four chapters, readers will explore social justice's relationship to economic inequality, minorities, gender, and the global community. Compelling essays expose information that readers should know, such as whether economic growth in India and China as exacerbated inequality. Essay sources include the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Amnesty International, and the Jubilee Debt Campaign. Essayists include Deepankar Basu, Mohamed S. Ben Aissa, Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong, and Algernon Austin.

Personality Disorders and States of Aloneness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Personality Disorders and States of Aloneness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book is the second volume of an interdisciplinary study, chiefly one of philosophy and psychology, which concerns personality, especially the abnormal in terms of states of aloneness, primarily that of the negative emotional isolation customarily known as loneliness. Other states of aloneness investigated include solitude, reclusiveness, seclusion, desolation, isolation, and what the author terms “aloneliness,” “alonism,” “lonism,” and “lonerism.” Insofar as this study most explicitly focuses on abnormal personalities, it employs the general and specific definitions of personality aberrations as formulated by the American Psychiatric Association in its latest edition of ...

Early Quakers and their Theological Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Early Quakers and their Theological Thought

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Quaker Women, 1800–1920
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Quaker Women, 1800–1920

This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century. New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women nav...