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This volume deals with the ways in which religious Faith was communicated and adapted during the late medieval period and after, and with the ways in which spirituality, culture, written texts and gender interacted during the same period. Drawing on texts like the Book of Margery Kempe, popular prayers, romances and devotions, well-known devout practices, mystical and visionary writing, and devout representations like the Arma Christi, the book addresses the ways in which these both informed and were informed by attitudes towards Faith and Belief which continue today. Subjects include: the development of religious attitudes; devotion to Christ's blood; the influence of mysticism on literary texts; Chaucer's feminism; Eastern sources; and the transmission of medieval spirituality into the New World.
Demonstrates the impact of the widening wealth gap on the health and well-being of the world's poor.
Acute Melancholia and Other Essays deploys spirited and progressive approaches to the study of Christian mysticism and the philosophy of religion. Ideal for novices and experienced scholars alike, the volume makes a forceful case for thinking about religion as both belief and practice, in which traditions marked by change are passed down through generations, laying the groundwork for their own critique. Through a provocative integration of medieval sources and texts by Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Talal Asad, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, this book redefines what it means to engage critically with history and those embedded within it.
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der Medienalltag von Kindern und Jugendlichen hat sich im Zeitalter der Multimedialisierung stark verändert. Film und Fernsehen, von Soziologen gern auch als Leitmedien bezeichnet, erfuhren in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung. Die scheinbar unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten, die das Fernsehen bietet, verändern auch unsere gesellschaftlichen Strukturen. So ent- bzw. verführt die unterhaltungsorientierte Vielfalt des Fernsehens nicht nur erwachsene Zuschauer in den Bann gestalteter Wirklichkeiten, sondern auch Kinder werden schon frühzeitig, noch bevor sie Lesen lernen, mit dem Medium Fernsehen sozialisiert. Die neuen Medien haben ihre Spure...
Sarah Blake is thirty-eight and on the verge of divorce. Empty and directionless, she's a far cry from the smart, beautiful cheerleader whose life was once so full of promise. As she nervously awaits the scheduled reunion with her high school friends, she thinks back to twenty years earlier when it all went wrong . . . The year is 1995, the summer before their senior year. Sarah's life is perfect. Until a childhood friend reenters her life and threatens to change everything. Torn between old friends and new, Sarah finds herself caught in the crossfire, triggering a cascade of events that culminates into a single moment. A moment that changes their lives forever. Interlaced with the highs and lows of a coming-of-age summer, Sarah's Fall is a powerful story of obsessive jealousy, questionable loyalties, shocking consequences, and one woman's lifelong struggle to overcome an unspeakable event.
If the future is accessible, as Alisa Grishman—one of 55 million Americans categorized as having a disability—writes in this book’s cover image, then we must stop making or constructing people as disabled and impaired. In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body. Each dimension has played a part in defining people as disabled and impaired in terms of employment, healthcare, education, and social and political roles. Because impairment and disability have been constructed along all three of these bodies, unmaking disability and making the future accessible will require restructuring Western institutions, including capitalism, changing how social roles are assigned, and transforming our deepest beliefs about impairment and disability to reconstruct people as capable. Ultimately, Maybee suggests, unmaking disability will require remaking our world.
Vols. for 1956- include a separately paged section: Directory of organizations, associations and institutions.
Metabolic syndrome is a dangerous combination of cardiovascular risk factors that correlate with each other and can increase cardio and cerebrovascular events. The incidence of metabolic syndrome often parallels that of obesity and type 2 diabetes. It is widespread; in the United States, more than 40% of people over the age of 50 have metabolic syndrome. The diagnosis of metabolic syndrome is based on the coexistence of at least three risk factors including waist circumference greater than 102 cm in men or 88 cm in women, systolic blood pressure greater than 130 mmHg and diastolic greater than 85 mmHg, HDL cholesterol less than 40 mg/dl in men or 50 mg/dl in women, triglyceridemia higher than 150 mg/dl and finally fasting glycaemia higher than 110 mg/dl.