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Book An Uncertain Tradition

Download or read book An Uncertain Tradition written by David Kenney and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning

Download or read book Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning written by Timothy Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many benefits and freedoms, and its mounting social challenges and psycho-emotional impacts. Over time the character of consciousness has shifted in concert with societal trends. The experienced world has become more nuanced, fragmented, and uncertain, as well as increasingly personal and intimate, reshaping social relationships. Chapters analyze the interdependence of language, mind, intimacy, the self, and culture, arguing that as the coevolution of these five factors produced the modern world, many features of contemporary culture have become disruptive to security of being. The book explores the importance to the vital sense of self in constructing relationships based in mutual recognition of moral and intellectual equality between partners. Rich with examples from everyday experience, this text offers profound insights for those interested in sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, communication, history, and culture.

Book Community Development in an Uncertain World

Download or read book Community Development in an Uncertain World written by Jim Ife and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.

Book An Uncertain Tradition American Secretaries of State in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book An Uncertain Tradition American Secretaries of State in the Twentieth Century written by Norman A. Graebner and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Reason in an Uncertain World

Download or read book Reason in an Uncertain World written by Malcolm Keating and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reason in an Uncertain World is a guide to critical thinking with an ancient Indian philosophical tradition that took logic as seriously as it did meditation, ethics, and personal cultivation. The book explains how this tradition, known as Nyāya, brings together ways of knowing with ways of living and relieving suffering. For the Nyāya philosophers, knowing and reflecting on our knowing is an individual and communal practice. It involves vigorous debate as well as trusting reliable testifiers, seeing with our own eyes as well as drawing complex inferences about the unseen.

Book An Uncertain Tradition  Etc   A Reduced Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1961

Download or read book An Uncertain Tradition Etc A Reduced Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1961 written by Norman Arthur GRAEBNER and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Uncertain Center

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  • Author : Arthur C. McGill
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 1498236332
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book The Uncertain Center written by Arthur C. McGill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur McGill did not write very much, but what he did write is as theologically suggestive and startling today as it was when it was written in the 1960s and 1970s. He was not well known during his lifetime, but those who cared about the work of theology knew Arthur McGill. Writing during the ascendency of the "Death of God" theologies, McGill's words have a freshness that the more widely known theological writing of that time has lost. McGill wrote only two short books during his life, and just a handful of scattered essays, often published in obscure places. We are fortunate that Kent Dunnington has collected and introduced those essays here. The essays reveal a theologian with an uncanny and intrepid resolve to make theological claims illumine and unsettle our lives. As Stanley Hauerwas writes in his afterword to the collection, "To read McGill is to discover a way to do theology without fear. God knows from where he came, but McGill, as the chapters in this welcome and important book demonstrate, had the ability to make theology do work so that we might better negotiate the imponderable reality we call 'our life.'"

Book Minority Religions and Uncertainty

Download or read book Minority Religions and Uncertainty written by Matthew Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions are at their core about creating certainty. But what happens when groups lose control of their destiny? Whether it leads to violence, or to nonviolent innovations, as found in minority religions following the death of their founders or leaders, uncertainty and insecurity can lead to great change in the mission and even teachings of religious groups. This book brings together an international range of contributors to explore the uncertainty faced by new and minority religious movements as well as non-religious fringe groups. The groups considered in the book span a range of religious traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam), old and new spiritual formations such as esotericism, New Age and organized new religious movements, as well as non-religious movements including the straight edge movement and the British Union of Fascists. The chapters deal with a variety of contexts, from the UK and US, to Japan and Egypt, with others discussing global movements. While all the authors deal with twentieth- and twenty-first-century movements and issues, several focus explicitly on historical cases or change over time. This wide-ranging, yet cohesive volume will be of great interest to scholars of minority religious movements and non-religious fringe groups working across religious studies, sociology and social psychology.

Book The Uncertain Mind

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  • Author : Richard M. Sorrentino
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1135064334
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Uncertain Mind written by Richard M. Sorrentino and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented), others are more likely to avoid uncertainty, preferring the familiar or the known (certainty-oriented). They go on to examine the implications of an uncertainty orientation for understanding processes of self-knowledge, social cognition and attitude change, achievement, motivation and performance, interpersonal and group processes, and issues relating to physical and psychological health concerns. Research is discussed which links this uncertainty orientation to each of these issues, raising important practical and theoretical questions for each. The book also considers possible implications for people of both orientations of living in times that may be characterized as being uncertain.

Book The Invention of Tradition

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  • Author : Eric Hobsbawm
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-07-31
  • ISBN : 9780521437738
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Invention of Tradition written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.

Book Uncertain Refuge

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  • Author : Elizabeth Allen
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-10-22
  • ISBN : 0812253442
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Uncertain Refuge written by Elizabeth Allen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of sanctuary seeking in the literature of medieval England between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries"--

Book An Uncertain Tradition  American Secretaries of State in the 20th Century

Download or read book An Uncertain Tradition American Secretaries of State in the 20th Century written by Norman Arthur Graebner and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trust  Risk and Uncertainty

Download or read book Trust Risk and Uncertainty written by S. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society' debate and on the themes of 'trust', 'uncertainty' and 'ambivalence'. Where much of the work within these crucial debates in the social sciences has been theory-based and theory-driven, Trust, Risk and Uncertainty combines theoretical sophistication with empirical analysis and research in the fields of philosophy, education, social policy, government, health and social care, sociology, and media and cultural studies.

Book Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain Future

Download or read book Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain Future written by German Germanovich Diligenskiĭ and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia on the Threshold of an Uncertain Future

Book Weathering uncertainty

Download or read book Weathering uncertainty written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This UNESCO report looks into the damaging effects of climate change on Indigenous cultures. When considering climate change, indigenous peoples and marginalized populations warrant particular attention. Impacts on their territories and communities are anticipated to be both early and severe due to their location in vulnerable environments, including small islands, high-altitude zones, desert margins and the circumpolar Arctic. Indeed, climate change poses a direct threat to many indigenous societies due to their continuing reliance upon resource-based livelihoods. Heightened exposure to negative impacts, however, is not the only reason for specific attention and concern. As many indigenous societies are socially and culturally distinct from mainstream society, decisions, policies and actions undertaken by the majority, even if well-intended, may prove inadequate, ill-adapted, and even inappropriate. There is therefore a need to understand the specific vulnerabilities, concerns, adaptation capacities and longer-term aspirations of indigenous peoples and marginalized communities throughout the world. Indigenous and traditional knowledge contribute to this broader understanding.

Book Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing

Download or read book Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing written by Andrew Dienstfrey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 2.5 Working Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing, WoCoUQ 2011, held in Boulder, CO, USA, in August 2011. The 24 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: UQ need: risk, policy, and decision making, UQ theory, UQ tools, UQ practice, and hot topics. The papers are followed by the records of the discussions between the participants and the speaker.

Book Ecology  Uncertainty and Policy

Download or read book Ecology Uncertainty and Policy written by John Handmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad and comprehensive exploration of the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability for undergraduates.The urgent quest for more sustainable patterns of development has placed new and difficult demands on both scientists and policy makers as they seek to establish more informed and effective policy processes and management regimes in the the face of pervasive uncertainty. Written by an international group of authors from a range of disciplines - ecology, geography, law, policy analysis and others - the chapters explore issues of scientific legitimacy, public participation, non-governmental organisations, inter-sectoral communication and pragmatic public policy across a wide range of ecosystem management contexts.