Download or read book Precast concrete piles written by FIB – International Federation for Structural Concrete and published by FIB - International Federation for Structural Concrete. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This technical report covers all aspects of the uses of precast concrete piles - design, manufacture, transport, handling, pitching and driving. Both reinforced and prestressed concrete piles are dealt with and attention is paid to the use of both plan piles and those with enlarged toes. Although the report is a translation of parts of a set of three volumes prodduced in the Netherlands, those parts reproduced are internationally applicable. Special sections deal with the effects of pile driving on adjacent buildings and theor occupants - both as regards vibration and noise.

Download or read book Religious Confession Privilege and the Common Law written by A. Keith Thompson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does religious confession privilege exist at common law? Most evidence law texts answer ‘no’. This analysis shows that most of the cases relied upon for the ‘no religious confession privilege conclusion’ are not authority for that conclusion. The origin of the privilege in the canon law in the first millennium AD is traced and its reception into common law is documented. Proof that religious confession privilege continues unbroken at common law through to the present day is of obvious importance in jurisdictions where there is no relevant statute. A correct understanding of the common law extant before statutes were passed will influence whether those statutes are broadly or narrowly interpreted. The book also brings the reader up to date on the state of religious confession privilege in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Download or read book Religious Freedom in the Liberal State written by Rex Ahdar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rex Ahdar and Ian Leigh present a critique of how religious freedom should be understood in liberal legal systems, based on historical and contemporary controversies.

Download or read book Secularism Secularity written by Barry Alexander Kosmin and published by ISSSC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religious Schools and Discrimination Law written by Greg Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appropriate regulation of the employment decisions of religious schools is an issue of great importance considering the impact that religious schools can have on the wellbeing of many individuals. Religious schools often play a central role in the lives of religious communities by providing religious education and formation to religious adherents, allowing religious adherents to fulfill spiritual and charitable obligations, and acting as a community centre for the religious community to socialise together and meet to discuss issues of mutual concern. They can also make an important contribution to the common good by developing desirable character traits in their students, employees and others involved with the school. Religious schools, however, also have the capacity to harm many individuals in the community by promoting a range of controversial theological and ethical beliefs, and denying individuals the opportunity to be included within religious schools as employees and students. The potential for religious schools to both help and harm members of the community is increasing due to the long term rise in the popularity of religious schools in Australia.The aim of this book is to assess the merits of different approaches to regulating the ability of religious schools to make employment decisions based on an employee's compatibility with the school's religion. The particular focus is on the merits of the general exception approach adopted under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) that allows religious schools to make employment decisions on grounds that would otherwise be prohibited under the Act. The merits of the general exception approach are considered in relation to two alternative approaches: the inherent requirement test and the opt-in model. The inherent requirement test allows religious schools to make employment decisions on the basis of a person's compatibility with the school's religion for employment positions where a religious component is an inherent requirement. The opt-in model involves a registration process that allows religious schools to adapt the protections provided under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) to the needs of each religious school.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Secularism written by Phil Zuckerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism. National borders and traditional religions cannot keep people in tidy boxes as political struggles, doctrinal divergences, and demographic trends are sweeping across regions and entire continents. And secularity is increasing in society, with a growing number of people in many regions having no religious affiliation or lacking interest in religion. Simultaneously, there is a resurgence of religious participation in the politics of many countries. How might these diverse phenomena be better understood? Long-reigning theories about the pace of secularization and ideal church-state relations are under invigorated scrutiny by scholars studying secularism with new questions, better data, and fresh perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Secularism offers a wide-ranging and in-depth examination of this global conversation, bringing together the views of an international collection of prominent experts in their respective fields. This is the essential volume for comprehending the core issues and methodological approaches to the demographics and sociology of secularity; the history and variety of political secularisms; the comparison of constitutional secularisms across many countries from America to Asia; the key problems now convulsing church-state relations; the intersections of liberalism, multiculturalism, and religion; the latest psychological research into secular lives and lifestyles; and the naturalistic and humanistic worldviews available to nonreligious people.

Download or read book The Post secular in Question written by Philip Gorski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--book jacket.

Download or read book From Violence to Peace written by Alex Deagon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the literature on jurisprudence and theology by arguing for the role of a theoretically robust Christian theology in a legal community dominated by secular and liberal ideology. It is not a doctrinal or empirical analysis, but a theoretical exposition of the way in which modern law has contingently drifted from its theological origins. As a result, the legal system and the ideal of individual and communal relationship it envisages is characterised by antagonism and alienation, or more broadly, violence. The book contends that the way to restore a legal community of peace is to return to a Christian theology which is informed by Trinitarian thinking or the notion of unity in diversity, and reunites faith with reason. Returning reason to its ground in being allows peaceful persuasion by the revelation of God's perfect being through the Trinity and Incarnation, which models and enables the peaceful coexistence of difference through self-sacrificing love. This in turn produces the law of love – to love your neighbour as yourself. Since love does no wrong to a neighbour, a legal community operating by the law of love can fulfil the obligations of law by going beyond merely what is required by law and love individuals as part of a community.

Download or read book Religious Commitment and Secular Reason written by Robert Audi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age--violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. This book describes the essential commitments of free democracy, explains how religious and secular moral considerations can be integrated to facilitate cooperation in a world of religious pluralism, and proposes ideals of civic virtue that express the mutual respect on which democracy depends.

Download or read book Beyond Secular Order written by John Milbank and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Secular Order is the first of a two-volume work that expands upon renowned theologian John Milbank’s innovative attempt to understand both theology and modern thought begun in his previously published classic text Theology and Social Theory. Continues Milbank’s innovative attempt to understand both theology and modern thought begun in Theology and Social Theory – considered a classic work in the development of systematic theology Authored by one of the world’s most influential and highly regarded contemporary theologians Draws on a sweep of ideas and thinkers to argue that modern secularism is a form of Christian heresy that developed from the Middle Ages and can only be overcome by a renewed account of Christendom Shows how this heresy can be transformed into a richer blend of religion, modernity and politics Reveals how there is a fundamental homology between modern ideas about ontology and knowledge and modern ideas about political action, expressed in both theory and practice

Download or read book From Wattle Daub to Concrete Steel written by Henry J. Cowan and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wattle & Daub to Concrete & Steel is the first history of building techniques in Australia, from the primitive buildings of the early colonies to today's high-tech construction methods. From Wattle & Daub to Concrete & Steel is essential reading for engineers, architects, builders and planners - indeed anyone interested in the heritage of Australia's buildings.

Download or read book Typology Study written by Lesley Alves and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Awareness of What is Missing written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter today in different forms of religious and ideological fundamentalism. Habermas argues that in order to engage in this dialogue, two conditions must be met: religion must accept the authority of secular reason as the fallible results of the sciences and the universalistic egalitarianism in law and morality; and conversely, secular reason must not set itself up as the judge concerning truths of faith. This argument was developed in part as a reaction to the conception of the relation between faith and reason formulated by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2006 Regensburg address. In 2007 Habermas conducted a debate, under the title ‘An Awareness of What Is Missing', with philosophers from the Jesuit School for Philosophy in Munich. This volume includes Habermas's essay, the contributions of his interlocutors and Habermas's reply to them. It will be indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand one of the most urgent and intractable issues of our time.

Download or read book The Outer Circle written by David Beardsell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division Inc., Williamstown, Victoria

Download or read book A Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines written by Andrew Ure and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Download or read book A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE written by Augusto Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: