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Book Voices of Authority

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  • Author : Nicholas Langrishe Alleym Lash
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2005-01-12
  • ISBN : 172521301X
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Voices of Authority written by Nicholas Langrishe Alleym Lash and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violence Against Negative Voices

Download or read book Violence Against Negative Voices written by Pastor (Mrs) Shade Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence against negative voices is a book released by the Holy Spirit to enable the reader invoke the fire of vengeance upon stubborn pursuers. The author has given us a brilliant expose on the power of the voices, the mystery of the spoken word and the yardsticks for discerning the difference between negative and positive voices. Thoroughly researched, exhaustive and offered in an easy to read format, Violence Against Negative Voice is a must read for readers who are ready to silence every voice emanating from the kingdom of darkness. The prayer points are explosive, the subject is handled with compassion and the reader is carried along through the use of practical illustrations. With this book in your hands, victory is sure.

Book Vital Voices

Download or read book Vital Voices written by Alyse Nelson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women around the world are leading powerful change Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families, and the preservation of equal human rights. Yet globally, women remain the most consistently under-utilized resource. Vital Voices calls for and makes possible transformative leadership around the world. In Vital Voices, CEO Alyse Nelson shares the stories of remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital Voices was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15 years, Vital Voices has brought together women who want to enable others to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters of democracy. They equip women with management and business development skills to expand their enterprises and create jobs in their communities. Their voices, stories, and hard-earned lessons—shared here for the first time—are deeply authentic and truly vital. Features interviews and first-person accounts of global leaders, such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize-winning Burmese pro-democracy leader, as well as business leaders Draws on the work of the Vital Voices, the organization founded by Hillary Clinton in 1997 as a government initiative that transformed into a leading non-profit, which enables a network of 10,000 emerging women leaders in politics, human rights, and economic development in 127 countries. These women have gone on to mentor and train more than 500,000 Focuses on the key elements of the Vital Voices five-step model of transformational leadership, including how to find a voice, lead with purpose, cross lines that divide, and more Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, Vital Voices introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping our world.

Book Voices of Authority

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  • Author : Nicholas Lash
  • Publisher : Patmos Press (WV)
  • Release : 1976-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780915762033
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Voices of Authority written by Nicholas Lash and published by Patmos Press (WV). This book was released on 1976-10-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authority has always been a crucial issue for the Church, but never more than today. The author looks at every side of it, coming to see it less as a separate problem than a dimension of all the rest. Authority, he says, seems at first a 'clatter of contradictory voices'; his humane and balanced study enables us to do more than merely live with them, but rather to discover in them some aspect of the voice of truth.

Book Her Voices

Download or read book Her Voices written by Fabio B. Dasilva and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her Voices is a compilation of intriguing studies that explore some of the key issues and understandings that have become focal points of feminist discourse in recent times. This work examines subordination, marginalization and even the outright suppression of 'Her' voices by the linquistic, philosophical and other symbolic structures of a patriarchal and phallocratic society. Contents: Preface, Fabio B. Dasliva and Matthew Kanjirathinkal; Introduction: Her Voices: Toward a Feminist Social Theory, Fabio B. Dasilva, Matthew Kanjirathinkal and Kerry Rockquemore; Woman's Voice and the Discourse of Rape: An Analysis of Three Texts, Vasilkie Demos; No Man's Land: Definitions of 'Women Space' in Diana Rivers' Feminist Utopian Novels, Andrew James Cognard-Black; Visibility and the 'Speculum of Woman': What If He Went Back Into the Cave and Found Instead of Children, A Crone?, Mary Jeanne Larrabee; Tactile Sociality, Cynthia Willett; Queering the Phallus, Debra B. Bergoffen; Women in Dark Times: Rahel Varnhagen, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Me, Bat-Ami Bar On; Marxist Voices in Feminism, Frances Kominkiewicz; Women as Laborer and Product: A Marxist Analysis of Sexuality and Pornography in Late Capitalism, Michelle Y. Janning; Feminism and the Problem of Georges Batille, Ken Itzkowitz.

Book Georgia Voices

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  • Author : Spencer Bidwell King
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010-06-01
  • ISBN : 0820335401
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Georgia Voices written by Spencer Bidwell King and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1966, this documentary history examines the history of Georgia from the first appearance of Spanish explorers to the hardships of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Through the accounts of those who experienced the events firsthand, Spencer Bidwell King Jr. allows the reader to experience colonialism, Revolution, and statehood. Within these distinctive eras, King discusses society, education, religion, literature, and the economic and cultural pursuits of the people. He combines extensive quotes from primary sources with historical information to create a continuous narrative. By using the voices of Georgians, King reveals the state's unique character and individuality.

Book Radical Christian Voices and Practice

Download or read book Radical Christian Voices and Practice written by Zoë Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the margins of the biblical canon and on the boundaries of what are traditionally called 'mainstream' Christian communities there have been throughout history writings and movements which have been at odds with the received wisdom and the consensus of establishment opinion. If one listens carefully, these dissident voices are reflected in the Bible itself-whether in the radical calls for social change from the Hebrew Bible prophets, with Jesus the apocalyptic prophet who also demanded social and economic justice for his oppressed people, or perhaps from the apocalyptic tradition's millenarian visions. The use of the Bible has been fertile ground throughout Christian history for prophetic calls for radical change within society as a whole and the church in particular. The essays contained in this volume examine aspects of this radical tradition, its doctrine, hermeneutics, pedagogy, and social action. They offer a sustained development of the theme of the Bible and its reception and appropriation in the context of radical practices, and an exposition of the imaginative possibilities of radical engagement with the Bible in inclusive social contexts. Part 1 treats New Testament texts directly-the Lukan writings, Paul and the Book of Revelation; Part 2 explores some examples of reception history and of radical appropriation of the Bible in history and literature; Part 3 addresses contemporary issues in liberation theology and public theology. This book is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Christopher Rowland, the Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford.

Book Tormented Voices

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  • Author : Thomas N. Bisson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780674895287
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Tormented Voices written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasants of remote history rarely speak to us in their own voices, but Thomas Bisson's engagement with the records of several hundred twelfth-century rural Catalonians enables us to hear these voices. Bisson describes these peasants socially and culturally, showing how their experience figured in a wider crisis of power during the twelfth century.

Book Coaching Leaders  Leverage the Power of Your Inner Voices to Become a Leader

Download or read book Coaching Leaders Leverage the Power of Your Inner Voices to Become a Leader written by Laura Fierro Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel Antonio Hernández Pérez has a reputation in the German car plant in Mexico where he is production manager. He is known as "the Fireman", as he sweats his way from one production problem to the next. Always the last to leave, he'll be found at the plant even at weekends, wrestling with one problem after another. To promote in the company he requires the assistance of a professional coach to help him focus on results, become a better team player, deliver presentations, learn how to say no, and solve problems in flexible and efficient ways. The strategies Miguel needs for getting there, along with his thinking, are part of the Inner Voices coaching method, which is based on the metaphor of the "Inner Team". Join Miguel in his journey and see examples of executive coaching in action. By doing so, you'll equip yourself with tools to face any challenge in a competitive workplace. Look inside yourself, gain greater awareness and enhance your performance as you read Coaching Leaders.

Book Many Voices One Song

Download or read book Many Voices One Song written by Ted J. Rau and published by Institute for Peaceable Communities, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Voices One Song is a detailed manual for implementing sociocracy, an egalitarian form of governance also known as dynamic governance. The book includes step-by-step descriptions for structuring organizations, making decisions by consent, and generating feedback. The content is illustrated by diagrams, examples and stories from the field.

Book Saintly Women

Download or read book Saintly Women written by Nancy Nienhuis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for centuries to justify or minimize violence against women. The authors recover historical and especially medieval narratives whose protagonists endure violence that is framed by religious texts or arguments. The medieval theological themes that redeem battering in saints’ lives—suffering, obedience, ownership and power—continue today in most religious traditions. This insightful book emphasizes Christian history and theology, but the authors signal contributions from interfaith studies to efforts against partner violence. Examining medieval attitudes and themes sharpens the readers’ understanding of contemporary violence against women. Analyzing both historical and contemporary narratives from a religious perspective grounds the unique approach of Nienhuis and Kienzle, one that forges a new path in grappling with partner violence. Medieval and contemporary narratives alike demonstrate that women in abusive relationships feel the burden of religious beliefs that enjoin wives to endure suffering and to maintain stable marriages. Religious leaders have reminded women of wives’ responsibility for obedience to husbands, even in the face of abuse. In some narratives, however, women create safe places for themselves. Moreover, some exemplary communities call upon religious belief to support their opposition to violence. Such models of historical resistance reveal precedents for response through intervention or protection.

Book Royal Voices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mel Evans
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-19
  • ISBN : 1107131219
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Royal Voices written by Mel Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguistic examination of Tudor texts that demonstrates the importance of materiality and language in the construction of royal power.

Book Voices of the Mind

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  • Author : James V. WERTSCH
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674045106
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Voices of the Mind written by James V. WERTSCH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Voices of the Mind, James Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is the cultural tools or mediational means that shape both social and individual processes. In considering how these mediational means--in particular, language--emerge in social history and the role they play in organizing the settings in which human beings are socialized, Wertsch achieves fresh insights into essential areas of human mental functioning that are typically unexplored or misunderstood. Although Wertsch's discussion draws on the work of a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, the writings of two Soviet theorists, L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), are of particular significance. Voices of the Mind breaks new ground in reviewing and integrating some of their major theoretical ideas and in demonstrating how these ideas can be extended to address a series of contemporary issues in psychology and related fields. A case in point is Wertsch's analysis of voice, which exemplifies the collaborative nature of his effort. Although some have viewed abstract linguistic entities, such as isolated words and sentences, as the mechanism shaping human thought, Wertsch turns to Bakhtin, who demonstrated the need to analyze speech in terms of how it appropriates the voices of others in concrete sociocultural settings. These appropriated voices may be those of specific speakers, such as one's parents, or they may take the form of social languages characteristic of a category of speakers, such as an ethnic or national community. Speaking and thinking thus involve the inherent process of ventriloquating through the voices of other socioculturally situated speakers. Voices of the Mind attempts to build upon this theoretical foundation, persuasively arguing for the essential bond between cognition and culture.

Book Speaking with Authority

Download or read book Speaking with Authority written by Mary Catherine Hilkert and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven centuries separate us from the time of Catherine of Siena, the first lay-woman to be named a Doctor of the Church. Yet the twenty-first and the fourteenth centuries have much in common: a church racked by divisions and scandals...a world torn by war and violence and ravaged by disease. But now, as then, God stands ready to raise up women courageous and compassionate enough to speak the truth. Catherine's authority, like that of faithful women in every age, was rooted in her vocation, her wisdom, and her deep compassion. In Speaking with Authority, a revised and expanded version of her Madeleva Lecture, theologian Mary Catherine Hilkert presents Catherine of Siena as a challenge and inspiration for today's women-and men-to take up the struggle to speak the truth of the gospel in the church and in the world. Book jacket.

Book Voices of Resistance

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  • Author : Judy Maloof
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0813182670
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Voices of Resistance written by Judy Maloof and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American women were among those who led the suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their opposition to military dictatorships has galvanized more recent political movements throughout the region. But because of the continuous attempts to silence them, activists have struggled to make their voices heard. At the heart of Voices of Resistance are the testimonies of thirteen women who fought for human rights and social justice in their communities. Some played significant roles in the Cuban Revolution of 1959, while others organized grassroots resistance to the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Though the women share many objectives, they are a diverse group, ranging in age from thirty to eighty and coming from varied ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Cuban and Chilean women Judy Maloof interviewed use the narrative form to reinvent themselves. Maloof includes narratives from a poet, a tobacco worker, a political prisoner, an artist, and a social worker to demonstrate the different faces of their struggle. In the process, these women were able to begin to put together their fragmented lives. Speaking out is both a means for personal liberation and a political act of protest against authoritarian regimes. The bond that these women have is not simply that they have suffered; they share a commitment to resisting violence and confronting inequities at great personal risk.

Book Voices of Revolution  1917

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  • Author : Mark D. Steinberg
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300090161
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Voices of Revolution 1917 written by Mark D. Steinberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With precision and sensitivity, the human story of what the Russian revolution meant to ordinary people is told through the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the people as expressed in their own words.

Book Exit  Voice  and Loyalty

Download or read book Exit Voice and Loyalty written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.” The efficiency of the competitive mechanism, with its total reliance on exit, is questioned for certain important situations. As exit often undercuts voice while being unable to counteract decline, loyalty is seen in the function of retarding exit and of permitting voice to play its proper role. The interplay of the three concepts turns out to illuminate a wide range of economic, social, and political phenomena. As the author states in the preface, “having found my own unifying way of looking at issues as diverse as competition and the two-party system, divorce and the American character, black power and the failure of ‘unhappy’ top officials to resign over Vietnam, I decided to let myself go a little.”