Download or read book A Book Review of A Mirror For Our Times by Paul Weller written by Sardar Imran Hussain Bali and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Review from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1.67, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, course: Religious Violence, language: English, abstract: An elaborate book review of "A Mirror For Our Times: 'The Rushdie Affair' and the Future of Multiculturalism" by Paul Weller.
Download or read book A Mirror For Our Times written by Paul Weller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26th September 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of The Satanic Verses controversy - a controversy that in many ways became paradigmatic for the following two decades. Taking as its starting-point the opening two years of the controversy, Paul Weller uses the events and arguments of those years as a lens through which to view what later developed, both in relation to the controversy itself, but also its wider entails, and the incidents and issues through which aspects of the original controversy were reprised. The anniversary of the controversy presents a good opportunity to review the incidents, issues and debates of the time in some historical perspective, while also connecting them with subsequent incidents that have reprised some of the key themes, such as the 'cartoons' controversy, the terror attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, and the killing of the Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh. The book holds up a mirror for our times that will be of interest to academics, politicians, students, and religious believers, as well as to all who are engaged with the twenty-first century challenges posed by living with radical difference, freedom of expression, and mutual respect, with exploring the relationship between religion and secularity, and with overcoming the threats posed by religiously informed violence.
Download or read book Islam and Controversy written by A. Mondal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within multicultural societies.
Download or read book The New Atheist Novel written by Arthur Bradley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major examination of the New Atheism as a literary phenomenon.
Download or read book Postcolonial Literature and Challenges for the New Millennium written by Lucienne Loh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoretical underpinnings and political motivations of postcolonial studies in the new millennium. Colonial legacies, especially in terms of structuring exploitative capitalist relations between countries and regions are shown to persist in postcolonial nations in the form of ‘global civil wars’ and systemic environmental waste. Chinese authoritarianism and the Indian picturesque represent less familiar forms of neo-colonialism. These essays not only engage with established writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai; they also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Download or read book Religious Offence and Human Rights written by Lorenz Langer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.
Download or read book Religious Literacy Law and History written by Alberto Melloni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy and its effects on the social and political milieu through the framing of the historical, institutional, religious, social, juridical and educational conditions within which it arises. Divided into four parts, in the first one, One literacy, more literacies?, the book defines the basic concepts underpinning the question of religious illiteracy in Europe. Part II, Understanding illiteracies, debating disciplines?, highlights the theological, philosophical, historical and political roots of the phenomenon, looking at the main nodes that are both the reasons religious illiteracy is widespread and the starting points for literacy strategies. Part III, Building literacy, shaping alphabets, examines the mix of knowledge and competences acquired about religion and from religion at school as well as through the media, with a critical perspective on what could be done both in the schools and for the improvement of journalists’ religious literacy. Part IV, Views and experiences, presents the reader with the opportunity to learn from three different case studies: religious literacy in the media, religious illiteracy and European Islam, and a Jewish approach to religious literacy. Building on existing literature, the volume takes a scientific approach which is enriched by interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives, and deep entrenchment in historical methodology.
Download or read book The Muslim World Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Melancholia of Class written by Cynthia Cruz and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affects culture and our mental health and what we can do about it -- calling not for assimilation, but for annihilation. To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and culture, leaving our working-class origins behind, or total annihilation. In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how this choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers — including Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis, Jason Molina, Barbara Loden, and many more — and the resultant Freudian melancholia that ensues when the working-class subject leaves their origins to “become someone,” only to find that they lose themselves in the process. Part memoir, part cultural theory, and part polemic, The Melancholia of Class shows us how we can resist assimilation, uplifting and carrying our working-class origins and communities with us, as we break the barriers of the middle-class world. There are so many of us, all of us waiting. If we came together, who knows what we could do.
Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mirror in Time written by Debbie Isbell and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lou-Anne Dolan and Josie McAllister are best friends and have been since they were eleven years old. Now in her twenties, Lou-Anne, recently divorced, lives in California and is pouring her time and energy into a new career. Josie, and her brother, Paul, are the closest thing to family that Lou-Anne has. Josie, also in her twenties and ever creative, owns her own jewelry and craft store in Belfast, Maine. Her business is successful and her love life is looking up! Josie recently came to the realization she was falling in love with the soldier she had been dating, Scott. Both girls long for their annual vacations together. This year Josie has the opportunity to travel to Arizona on business which provides perfect time for a week-long adventure together. Happiest together, Josie and Lou-Anne venture down to Tombstone, Arizona to get a taste of the Old West in the Town Too Tough to Die. Both girls fall instantly in love with Tombstone; with the history, antiques and reported ghost sightings. Neither could predict how a simple afternoon of sightseeing in the Bird Cage Saloon Museum would drastically change their lives forever. Josie disappears from modern day Tombstone, leaving Lou-Anne desperate to find her friend. Josie struggles with the realization she has somehow traveled back in time and must eventually come to terms with her new surroundings. As a reader will be reminded, as you travel the journey with Josie and Lou-Anne, that often times we are too busy in life to see what is really important. We must often slow down, stop, or back up to allow what is important to be forefront in our lives. It is during Lou-Anne and Paul's search for Josie that they realize what is truly important. During Josie's journey and unsuccessful attempts to return to her own time she finds herself falling in love with an 1880's rancher, Braeden Weller, who had been kind and helpful from the moment he found her crumpled on the floor. You will smile at the loving friendship between Josie and Lou-Anne. You will feel deeply for Lou-Anne and Paul as they come to terms with the loss of Josie. You will smile as Josie's life falls into place in an era she did not belong. You will see, as the story comes to an end, how on rare occasion, fate mercifully steps in and brings each of us to exactly where we need to be.
Download or read book New York Times Book Review and Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Times Literary Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bradbury Chronicles written by Sam Weller and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For Bradbury fans, THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES is essential. . . . [A]n engaging, often fascinating tale.” — New York Times Book Review “A fascinating look at a man’s work -- and the incredible evolution of an alien subgenre.” — Chicago Tribune “A highly readable story . . . informative, enjoyable, and inspiring.” — School Library Journal
