Download or read book Religion and the Global City written by David Garbin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong – which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.

Download or read book The Illusion of Cultural Identity written by Jean-François Bayart and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the West impose its own definition of human rights and democracy on the rest of the world? Does globalization threaten British, French or other European iedntities? Is African culture compatible with multi-party politics? This text aims to answer these and other questions.

Download or read book Abundant Life written by Ezra Chitando and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often perceived as conservative and rigid, Christian churches have oftentimes been barriers to people's claiming their sexuality. Yet, in their response to the crisis posed by AIDS and HIV, churches have also often challenged harmful cultural practices and surmounted that stereotype. Focusing on sexual and reproductive health rights, especially in African settings, this book seeks to identify and cultivate the positive - indeed liberating - role that churches must play. Bringing the power of religion to bear on the social and religious attitudes that lead to silence, stigma, repression, and even gender violence, the book critically appraises and reappropriates received biblical, pastoral, and theological sources to offer a new vision to those persons most often denied their rights, including women, the young, sexual minorities, and the disabled. Published by the World Council of Churches, the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA) series has proven to be a theological and pastoral wellspring for churches in Africa and beyond. This volume will enlighten and inform church leaders and pastoral caregivers everywhere on how the churches can enable all people to enjoy abundant life. (Series: Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy / EHAIA) Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity, African Studies]

Download or read book Unconfessed written by Yvette Christiansë and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa. Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and—driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime—from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging . . . condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island. Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets and walls. She remembers the day her childhood ended, when slave catchers came — whipping the air and the ground and we were like deer whipped into the smaller and smaller circle of our fear. Sila remembers her masters, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"), who in her will granted Sila her freedom, but Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, destroys the will and with it Sila's life. Sila remembers her children, with joy and with pain, and imagines herself a great bird that could sweep them up in her wings and set them safely on a branch above all harm. Unconfessed is an epic novel that connects the reader to the unimaginable through the force of poetry and a far-reaching imagination.

Download or read book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros written by Galawdewos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "geadl" or hagiography, originally written by Gealawdewos thirty years after the subject's death, in 1672-1673. Translated from multiple manuscripts and versions.

Download or read book The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe written by Tariq Modood and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On multiculturalism

Download or read book Cultural Encounters on China s Ethnic Frontiers written by Stevan Harrell and published by Studies on Ethnic Groups in Ch. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.

Download or read book Cartographies of Diaspora written by Avtar Brah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts. The first three chapters map the emergence of `Asian' as a racialized category in post-war British popular and political discourse and state practices. It documents Asian cultural and political responses paying particular attention to the role of gender and generation. The remaining six chapters analyse the debate on `difference', `diversity' and `diaspora' across different sites, but mainly within feminism, anti-racism, and post-structuralism.

Download or read book The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan written by Frank Dikötter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses of belonging have often been the very foundation of national, identity in East Asia in the twentieth century. As this volume shows, the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories has undergone many transformations in China and Japan, but the attempt to rationalise and rank real and imagined differences between population groups remains wide-spread. In an era of economic globalisation and political depolarisation, racial discrimination has increased in East Asia, affecting the human rights of marginalised groups and collective perceptions of the world order. The historical background and contemporary implications of these potentially explosive issues are addressed.

Download or read book Dworkin written by André Berten and published by Mentis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pour une s miotique du discours litt raire postcolonial d Afrique francophone written by Alpha Ousmane Barry and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plusieurs décennies après l'avènement des indépendances dans les années soixante, quels thèmes mobilisent l'attention des écrivains d'Afrique francophone ? Sur quels modes discursif, argumentatif, rhétorique, énonciatif, pragmatique, se développe le registre de la fiction littéraire ? Ces contributions abordent la problématique de la littérature francophone dans ses dimensions esthétiques aussi bien que dans ses contextes socio-historique et politique.

Download or read book Affirmative Exclusion written by Jean-Loup Amselle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving into the history of France's confrontation with ethnic difference. Amselle analyzes France's relationship to Egypt, Algeria, and Senegal to show how ideas about difference and assimilation played out in French colonial policies and how these same tensions continue to be problematic as France grapples with cultural pluralism.Amselle's book has timely and wide-ranging implications. Arguing against the "liberal communitarian state" as it exists in the United States, Amselle contends that an overemphasis on difference can lead to what he calls "affirmative exclusion"--the flip side of affirmative action. The recognition of a multiplicity of ethnic groups in France, he asserts, creates an environment that fosters racism. "Despite an outward appearance of generosity, supporters of French-style multiculturalism, by promoting 'affirmative action, ' run the risk of creating as many difficulties as there are 'target groups, ' which they have helped identify and hence produce."Calling on theories of racial difference devised by early anthropologists--most notably, Louis Faidherbe--and on the work of political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Amselle makes historical and sociological sense of the debates over multiculturalism and the violence they engender. Toward a French Multiculturalism proposes directions for the future.

Download or read book The New International Relations written by Marie-Claude Smouts and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are international relations as we have known them coming to an end, to be replaced by a global politics in which inter-power rivalry and the exercise of authority are not longer to be defined within national boundaries, and the distinction between states and non-state actors will beome irrelevant?

Download or read book Le n o colonialisme litt raire written by STEEMERS Vivan and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le texte littéraire ne naît pas en apesanteur, selon Edward Saïd. Il se présente dans un contexte historique et social et dépend pour son existence d’instances de pouvoir spécifiques : maisons d’édition, presse, critique, comités de prix littéraires. Ce constat s’impose avec encore plus de force lorsque l’on considère la situation des auteurs africains francophones qui sont presque entièrement tributaires de l’infrastructure éditoriale parisienne et des autres instances légitimantes du pays (anciennement) colonisateur. Cette étude présente le discours éditorial et critique de la première édition de quatre romans africains francophones publiés en métropole pendant les années 1950-1970. En dépit d’un climat politico-social plutôt favorable aux écrivains africains au début des années 1950, la politisation croissante des maisons d’édition au cours de la deuxième moitié de cette décennie n’a pas manqué d’avoir une forte incidence sur la réception des romans de l’époque. Ainsi, le sort du Pauvre Christ de Bomba – roman férocement anticolonial de Mongo Beti – sera très différent, par exemple, de celui de L’Enfant noir de Camara Laye, dont le texte brosse un tableau idyllique de la vie des Guinéens sous la colonisation. De même, deux romans qui voient le jour pendant la première décennie post-indépendance – Les Soleils des indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma et Le Devoir de violence de Yambo Ouologuem – se voient réserver des sorts très divergents. La théorie de la production culturelle de Pierre Bourdieu et celle sur l’esthétique de la réception de Hans Robert Jauss fournissent les outils de l’analyse de la réception de ces quatre romans, qui font désormais partie des classiques de la littérature africaine francophone. Vivan Steemers est maître de conférence à Western Michigan University aux États-Unis. Elle est spécialiste de littérature africaine francophone et de théorie de la traduction. Ils en ont parlé Une recension de l'ouvrage par Georges Pagé dans la revue de l'Académie des sciences d'Outre-mer

Download or read book De la litt rature coloniale la litt rature africaine written by János Riesz and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La littérature africaine en langues européennes est confrontée, depuis ses origines, à une masse de textes issus de la littérature coloniale d'une grande variété tant par les genres et la thématique que par le talent de leurs auteurs. L'évolution de la littérature africaine peut être décrite comme processus de positionnement et d'émancipation face à cette vaste " bibliothèque coloniale ". Nous ne voulons pas nier l'influence des langues et cultures africaines indigènes respectives sur les littératures europhones naissantes. Mais elles sont spécifiques et se rapportent à la langue/culture d'origine de chaque auteur ou groupe d'auteurs, tandis que les clivages par rapport aux littératures européennes parlant de l'Afrique sont communs à des auteurs venant de langues et cultures différentes. Situer les littératures africaines en langues européennes par rapport aux littératures européennes de l'époque coloniale et post coloniale, c'est souligner leur unité : " On se pose en s'opposant ", selon la célèbre formule de Sartre. La langue du colonisateur, enseignée à l'école (ou à l'église ou à l'armée) et intériorisée par des procédés tels que la " récitation " ou la mémorisation, transporte avec elle des conceptions multiformes allant d'une imagerie à un répertoire de savoir populaire, incrusté dans des locutions figées et des métaphores qui ne sont plus perçues comme telles, à une vision du monde qui règle et détermine la vie en société aussi bien que les relations avec autrui, depuis les relations personnelles jusqu'aux rapports de forces entre collectivités : des jalousies individuelles aux rivalités économiques, querelles territoriales jusqu'aux guerres civiles et entre nations.

Download or read book Chinua Achebe ou La pragmatique du discours postcolonial written by Anatole Koffi Molley and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2018 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cet ouvrage propose une "relecture" qui exalte trois catégories discursives où s'expriment des valeurs : d'abord, le discours critique qui permet d'analyser ce qui est dit sur l'Afrique aussi bien par les Africains eux-mêmes que par les Européens ; ensuite, le discours romanesque, qui laisse apparaître le positionnement idéologique de Chinua Achebe ; enfin, la parole des personnages qui montre le mécanisme suivant lequel se construisent des valeurs sociales et identitaires. Un premier résultat auquel il faut s'attendre est celui d'affirmer que les valeurs identitaires, dans le roman achebéen, sont un ensemble de règles ou principes constitués en normes sociales, aspirant à une universalité. Un second résultat consiste à confirmer que la valeur est une donnée abstraite et subjective de notre histoire, qui a pour substrat le langage et dont l'expression s'élabore à travers le discours romanesque de Chinua Achebe selon une échelle tridimensionnelle : linguistique, littéraire et philosophique."--Back cover.

Download or read book Le roman africain francophone post colonial written by Mamadou Kalidou Ba and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La critique littéraire africaine de ces cernières années est unanime sur le fait que la thématique du roman africain francophone est essentiellement centrée sur la question des nouveaux pouvoirs politiques nés des indépendances africaines. A travers un corpus que l'auteur a voulu représentatif de l'Afrique noire francophone - douze romans écrits par sept auteurs de nationalités différentes (Sénégal, Mali, Guinée, Côte-d'Ivoire, République démocratique du Congo, Congo-Brazzaville), ce sont tous les les mécanismes processuels des pouvoirs dictatoriaux tels qu'ils sont dépeints par les romanciers africains post-coloniaux qui sont ici décortiqués.