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An Ethical Evaluation of Lethal Functions in Autoregulative Weapons Systems
This book connects two of the most pressing ethical topics of our time: questions of peace and technology, materialized in so-called autonomous weapons systems, which can operate without human control and intervention in real time. The author, however, criticizes the term “autonomy” as too anthropomorphic and therefore misleading. She consequently proposes using the term “autoregulation” in its place. Taking a contingent pacifist stance, this book addresses the question of whether such technological means help or hinder peace processes. The argument is tripartite. First, it is demonstrated that the risk of harm to nonparticipants is very likely to increase. Second, and with respect t...
Gender and Religious Leadership
This volume analyzes historical and recent developments in female religious leadership and the larger issues shaping the scholarly debate at the intersection of gender and religious studies. Jewish activism and scholarship have been crucial in linking theology and gender issues since the early twentieth century. Academic and vocational leadership and training have had significant, concrete impact on religious communal practices and formation across the US and Europe. At the same time, these models provide important avenues of constructive dialogue and comparative ecumenical and interfaith enterprises. This volume investigates those possibilities towards constructive, activist, holistic female ministerial leadership for religious faith communities.
Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York
This present work comprises all of the genealogical records in O'Callaghan's remarkable four-volume Documentary History of the State of New-York and contains a complete index of names, overcoming, for individuals unfamiliar with Dutch or German nomenclature, the confusion caused by variant spellings of family names. Prepared by Roseanne Conway, the index lists about 12,000 inhabitants of colonial New York-Dutch, English, and German.
Religion and Intersex
This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either ‘female’ or ‘male.’ Centered in interviews conducted with German intersex Christians, this book argues that moving from a paradigm of sexual dimorphism to sexual polymorphism will help promote the full humanity and flourishing of intersex people by creating a world where intersex individuals are no longer coerced and/or forced to undergo non-consensual, medically unnecessary treatment, no longer experience human rights violations because of their lack of legal protection, no longer feel inhuman and Other due t...
