Download or read book Shaping Our Struggles written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analysing a range of materials that testify to the wide spectrum of women's experiences in Nigeria, this groundbreaking collection seeks to draw attention to neglected aspects of women's lives in Nigerian society as a whole. Exploring the historical, developmental and socio-cultural experiences of women across Nigeria's cultures, it reappraises their role as historical actors and helps to facilitate a more encompassing view of their place in society and their still underestimated contribution to social development.
Download or read book The Evangelicals written by Frances FitzGerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award * National Book Award Finalist * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 This “epic history” (The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America—from the Puritan era to the 2016 election. “We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review). The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country. During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, first North versus South, and then, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists, such as Pat Robertson, had formed the Christian right. Protesting abortion and gay rights, they led the South into the Republican Party, and for thirty-five years they were the sole voice of evangelicals to be heard nationally. Eventually a younger generation proposed a broader agenda of issues, such as climate change, gender equality, and immigration reform. Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent of the American population, but they are no longer monolithic in their politics. They range from Tea Party supporters to social reformers. Still, with the decline of religious faith generally, FitzGerald suggests that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they are to survive. “A well-written, thought-provoking, and deeply researched history that is impressive for its scope and level of detail” (The Wall Street Journal). Her “brilliant book could not have been more timely, more well-researched, more well-written, or more necessary” (The American Scholar).
Download or read book Let God Use You to Solve Your PROBLEMS written by Edward D. Andrews and published by Christian Publishing House. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world fraught with challenges and uncertainty, faith remains our most enduring beacon of hope. "Let God Use You to Solve Your Problems: God Will Instruct You and Teach You in the Way You Should Go" offers a unique exploration of how a steadfast reliance on God's wisdom, coupled with an active role in our own spiritual development, can serve as a roadmap to navigating life's complexities. This book provides an enlightening journey into a deeper understanding of God's role in our lives, not as a miracle worker performing supernatural acts on demand, but as a divine guide illuminating our path through the teachings of Scripture and personal experiences. It shows how, by letting go and trusting in God, we can find the strength, courage, and wisdom to confront and overcome our problems. The author, a conservative Bible scholar, encourages readers to actively engage with their faith, teaching how God instructs us through His Word, life experiences, and our own spiritual growth. Throughout the chapters, readers will learn the art of biblical discernment, nurturing spiritual growth, embracing patience in God's timing, and turning trials into triumphs through God's guidance. This book ultimately underscores the importance of personal responsibility in a faithful Christian life. It provides a nuanced and balanced understanding of faith that inspires action and involvement in our communities, allowing us to serve God and others while becoming reflections of God's love. “Let God Use You to Solve Your Problems” is more than a book; it's a spiritual guide for those seeking to blend trust in divine wisdom with personal initiative, creating a life that is not just endured but lived fully and meaningfully in God's light.
Download or read book The Crucibles That Shape Us written by Gayle D. Beebe and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life's biggest setbacks and disasters can actually be essential passageways in our relationship with God and opportunities to grow in leadership. In this illuminating guidebook, Gayle D. Beebe identifies seven crucibles—powerful catalysts for transformation—that, when embraced, shape us on our journey and become a bedrock for a better, richer faith.
Download or read book Environmentalism and Economic Justice written by Laura Pulido and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological causes are championed not only by lobbyists or hikers. While mainstream environmentalism is usually characterized by well-financed, highly structured organizations operating on a national scale, campaigns for environmental justice are often fought by poor or minority communities. Environmentalism and Economic Justice is one of the first books devoted to Chicano environmental issues and is a study of U.S. environmentalism in transition as seen through the contributions of people of color. It elucidates the various forces driving and shaping two important examples of environmental organizing: the 1965-71 pesticide campaign of the United Farm Workers and a grazing conflict between a Hispano cooperative and mainstream environmentalists in northern New Mexico. The UFW example is one of workers highly marginalized by racism, whose struggle--as much for identity as for a union contract--resulted in boycotts of produce at the national level. The case of the grazing cooperative Ganados del Valle, which sought access to land set aside for elk hunting, represents a subaltern group fighting the elitism of natural resource policy in an effort to pursue a pastoral lifestyle. In both instances Pulido details the ways in which racism and economic subordination create subaltern communities, and shows how these groups use available resources to mobilize and improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions. Environmentalism and Economic Justice reveals that the environmental struggles of Chicano communities do not fit the mold of mainstream environmentalism, as they combine economic, identity, and quality-of-life issues. Examination of the forces that create and shape these grassroots movements clearly demonstrates that environmentalism needs to be sensitive to local issues, economically empowering, and respectful of ethnic and cultural diversity.
Download or read book Africana Methodology written by James L. Conyer, Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. The necessity of interpretive Afrocentric research is relevant to position agency and to locate Africana studies in place, space, and time. This study will provide readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and social science essays that describe and evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective. Paradoxically, the collection presents measurable and qualitative research, in order to flush out a global Pan–Africanist consciousness.
Download or read book Igbo Women in the Diaspora and Community Development in Southeastern Nigeria written by Sussie U. Aham-Okoro and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Migration and Development in Africa: Igbo Women in the Diaspora and Community Development in Southeastern Nigeria provides a unique approach to the study of the role of Igbo women in the diaspora to community development in Igboland. Utilizing primary sources, specifically, migration stories of women and the groups they form in the United States and other parts of the world, the book highlights the dynamism in the zeal to give back to their communities of origin in Igboland. The book seeks to affirm the propensity of Igbo women to evolve through personal efforts and formation of social groups to extend humanitarian services to underprivileged individuals and societies in Igboland. Through several community development programs, they have provided needed medical and educational supplies, hospital equipment, supplies and sponsored several medical missions in different parts of the Igboland. This book further counters the previously understudied role of women in development. Through a comprehensive documentation of the various programs and projects completed by the groups and individual charities, readers and policy makers will be inspired to appreciate the efforts of the various groups and extend needed support and assistance to the groups. The findings in the book reveal the increasing shift from the brain drain concept to brain circulation and networking within the Igbo women community. They are positively utilizing the skills and resources acquired from their host communities to engage in the development processes through remittances and social development projects. The study reinforces the trends and ideas that the improvement of African societies may well depend on the contributions of Africans outside the continent, especially women.
Download or read book Moral Engines written by Cheryl Mattingly and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?
Download or read book Struggles for the Human written by Lara Montesinos Coleman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism’s deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities’ lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of redefining human rights away from abstract universals and contextualizing them within concrete struggles for justice, Coleman reveals the transformative potential of human rights and invites readers to question and reshape dominant legal and ethical narratives.
Download or read book At War with Words written by Mirjana N. Dedaic and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new era of global conflict involving non-state actors, At War with Words offers a provocative perspective on the role of language in the genesis, conduct and consequence of mass violence. Sociolinguistics meets political science and communication studies in order to examine interdependence between armed conflict and language. As phenomena attributed only to humans, both armed conflict and language are visible on two axes: language as war discourse, and language as a social policy subject to change by the victorious. In this unique volume, internationally known contributors provide original data and new insights that illuminate roles of text and talk in creating identities of enemies, justifications for violence, and accompanying propaganda. Incorporating contexts from around the world, this collection's topics range from a radio talk show hosts' inflammatory rhetoric to the semantic poverty of the lexicon of mass destruction. The first eight chapters discuss war texts. How does language serve as a vehicle to incite, justify, and resolve an armed conflict? Case studies from the US to China, and from Austria to Ghana detail such a progression to, through, and from war. The book's second part reflects the understanding of language as a symbol of power achieved by a victorious side in war. Five chapters discuss cases from Okinawa, Croatia, Cyprus, Palau, and Northern Ireland. Edited by a sociolinguist and a political scientist, At War with Words includes chapters by Michael Billig, Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak and a dozen other prominent linguists and communications scholars. This book will be of interest to linguists, media scholars and political scientists, but is also accessible to any reader interested in language and war. Teachers will find particular chapters useful as course material in discourse analysis, language policy, war and peace studies, conflict resolution, mass communication, and other related disciplines.
Download or read book THE WALK TO BECOMING CHRIST LIKE written by Leon Thomas Perkins , Victoria A. Per and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been a overwhelming blessing in my life for fi ve years. On 11//2007 ,I almost died ,and thanks to God and my angels it was the most peaceful time of my life. As the doctors and nurses worry about me as they did tests after tests to save my heart. So with pills and a pacemaker I was saved by God to do these books. It is a series of seven, and this is number two to series seven. God weighed on my heart to do this book series, and as I rest in the hospital bed I study and learned that a Christian walk to becoming Christ like is easier we all think it is. Our walk to becoming Christ like isn’t that hard, and we don’t need to this entire crazy act’s, ONLY LIVE IN LOVE AND WALK THE WALK TO CHRIST! My fi rst book was titled THE WALK TO BECOMING CHRIST LIKE subtitle THE THIRTY-TWO STAGES. It was a list of ever step Jesus did on this world ,as he walk his own walk of the fl esh. So then God taught me that my, and everyone’s Christian walk is like Jesus walk! Then each moment of our walk to becoming Christ like is 100% like and simpler to our Lords fl eshly walk two thousand years ago. That is how easier our walk is, like it was for Jesus. YES THERE WILL BE ATTACK, AND TROUBLES, AND PAIN IN THAT WALK TO CHRIST, BUT TO BE CHRISTIAN IS LOVE AND A GIFT GETTING EASY AND FREE! So after reading the foundation fi rst book THE WALK TO BECOMING CHRIST LIKE subtitle THE THIRTY-TWO STAGES. God is ready me to write book two of the series to keep helping you children of God. THE WALK TO BECOMING CHRIST LIKE subtitle WHAT AFFECTS OUR WALK book keeps up with the walk to Christ, and what affects it, or blesses it. As one section is the evil twin sister’s that is out to kill that walk to Christ ,and the book helps to stop them, as teaches how to manages the other subjects. I am sorry for the grammar problems; I am a 60% holy hillbilly that was a brat in school, when he should be enjoying English than science and math. Plus, being a poor disable 50 old man, I try 1000% to be a shape God tool to get these words into your hand children of God! So enjoy and be blessed!! THE WALK TO CHRIST ISN’T HARD, IT IS LIFE THAT’S IS HARD!! Thanks from a holy want to be writer doing God’s plans O’ Lord greatly bless these loving readers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Download or read book Women s Work written by Chris Crisman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautiful book that provides genuine encouragement and inspiration. Vivid portrait photography and accompanying essays declare that all work is women's work.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In this stunning collection, award-winning photographer Chris Crisman documents the women who pioneered work in fields that have long been considered the provinces of men—with accompanying interviews on how these inspiring women have always paved their own ways. Today, young girls are told they can do—and be—anything they want when they grow up. Yet the unique challenges that women face in the workplace, whether in the boardroom or the barnyard, have never been more publicly discussed and scrutinized. With Women’s Work, Crisman pairs his award-winning, striking portrait photography of women on the job with poignant, powerful interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have told them no. Through their stories, we see not only the ins and outs of their daily work, but the emotional and physical labors of the jobs they love. Women’s Work is a necessary snapshot of how far we’ve come and where we’re heading next—their stories are an inspiration as well as a call to action for future generations of women at work. Women’s Work features more than sixty beautiful photographs, including Alison Goldblum, contractor; Anna Valer Clark, ranch owner; Ayah Bdeir, CEO of littleBits; Beth Beverly, taxidermist; Carla Hall, blacksmith; Cherise Van Hooser, funeral director; Jordan Ainsworth, gold miner; Magen Lowe, correctional officer; Mindy Gabriel, firefighter; Nancy Poli, pig farmer; Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, Founders of Georgetown Cupcake; Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential biographer; Sophi Davis, cowgirl; Abingdon Welch, pilot; Christy Wilhelmi, beekeeper; Connie Chang, chemical engineer; Danielle Perez, comedienne; Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo; Lisa Calvo, oyster farmer; Mia Anstine, outdoor guide; Meejin Yoon, architect; Yoky Matsuoka, a tech VP at Google; and many more.
Download or read book Reflective Journeys written by G. Kassabgi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kassabgi is a contemporary writer/philosopher following in the footsteps of Stefan Zweig, Kahlil Gibran, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Born in Northern Italy, George now lives in Winchester Massachusetts with his wife Maria and three sons: George-Emil, Nicholas and Louis. A sequel to the author's previous collection entitled 'Methuselah', Reflective Journeys 'Architeuthis' is an exploration of philosophical concepts and reflections on life all around us. Continue a journey of thought and introspection unlike any before. Immerse yourself in this collection of writings organized in three sections: Life, Death, and Source. Reframe and restructure your inquisitiveness to emerge with new questions and new meaning. The struggle of your time will come Sitting in your lap, staring at you in silence It haunts your sleep and wrestles your thoughts Daring to shape you it waits, patiently restless - 'Embrace' The giant squid 'Architeuthis', an animal that transcends our science and technology, drawing fear and fascination, curiosity and bewilderment. Architeuthis reminds us that nature, and its life forms, remain full of important questions, full of mystery. Life directly in front of us, in the depths of our consciousness, calls out for exploration. This is the precious gift of this oceanic creature, in the context of mankind and its quests: a reminder of the wonders that surround us and the fundamental questions that prevail. For more on Reflective Journeys, please visit our web site at: http: //www.ugik.com
Download or read book The Life of Service written by James Isaac Vance and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laws Harsh As Tigers written by Lucy E. Salyer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established fundamental principles that continue to dominate immigration law today and make it unique among branches of American law. By establishing the centrality of the Chinese to immigration policy, Salyer also integrates the history of Asian immigrants on the West Coast with that of European immigrants in the East. Salyer demonstrates that Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans mounted sophisticated and often-successful legal challenges to the enforcement of exclusionary immigration policies. Ironically, their persistent litigation contributed to the development of legal doctrines that gave the Bureau of Immigration increasing power to counteract resistance. Indeed, by 1924, immigration law had begun to diverge from constitutional norms, and the Bureau of Immigration had emerged as an exceptionally powerful organization, free from many of the constraints imposed upon other government agencies.
Download or read book Through Trials To Triumph written by Ady Rugeruza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad things happen to all people but we often ask why good people suffer and the wicked prosper. This is a very complex subject to which Ady tries to give some clarity. In this book "Through Trials To Triumph" he discusses the issue from a Biblical perspective and helps the reader to understand why trials happen to all of us. This book shows that life is a journey full of ups and downs. What we often perceive as a bad situation can be an opportunity for change and growth, but the key is "attitude and faith." How people deal with life's trials depends on what attitude they have. God does not cause bad things to happen to us, but he allows them in our lives, and stands ready to help us through difficult times.
Download or read book Fear Not For He Is with Us written by Brenda Carlisle Porter and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very powerful book. Your whole outlook on life can be changed. You will love reading testimonies that the Lord has performed and also the powerful words of healing will become reality to you as you read it. Regardless of what your past or future holds, it is a healing and spiritual adventure. There will be emotional moments as you walk through this book. I am sharing my testimonies of my life before and after cancer. Each day I get to write a new page, I write prayers straight from my heart. My life is a story of blessings the Lord has given me. Christ has made a difference in my life, and for what He has done for me, I want to witness for Him. When I was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors did not give me hope. It is natural for you to find yourself looking for all sources of hope. You want signs from the Lord. You always pray and ask for healing, but as a human being, you still have fear of the unknown. You always want it in your timing, but you have to wait for the Lord's timing. Just know that you have to keep your faith and go to the Lord with everything. Let go and let God. Reading this book will give you peace of mind, knowing that the Lord is in control, and He is your ultimate source of hope. I really feel like this book will encourage and empower you to take charge of your life while you are going through life's challenges. Whether you are fighting a battle or not, this book will give you faith, hope, and courage. It can help you and your children grow spiritually and become more secure as a family. Help me to spread the good news. Tell your friends about this book so they will be blessed by reading it. It is a blessing to me to have written this, and I know it will be a blessing to you to read this. Please contact the author at [email protected]
