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Seven Deadly Sins - A Very Partial List (Paperback): Aviad Kleinberg Seven Deadly Sins - A Very Partial List (Paperback)
Aviad Kleinberg; Translated by Susan Emanuel
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps the most influential of these was drawn up by the Church in late antiquity: the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, anger, lust, and greed are not forbidden acts but the passions that lead us into temptation. Aviad Kleinberg, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Israel, examines the arts of sinning and of finger pointing. What is wrong with a little sloth? Where would haute cuisine be without gluttony? Where would we all be without our parents' lust? Has anger really gone out of style in the West? Can consumer culture survive without envy and greed? And with all humility, why shouldn't we be proud? With intellectual insight and deadpan humor, Kleinberg deftly guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Each chapter weaves the past into the present and examines unchanging human passions and the deep cultural shifts in the way we make sense of them. Seven Deadly Sins is a compassionate, original, and witty look at the stuff that makes us human.

Jahrtausendwende - Das Informationszeitalter. Wirtschaft. Gesellschaft. Kultur. Band 3 (German, Hardcover, 2nd 2. Aufl. 2017... Jahrtausendwende - Das Informationszeitalter. Wirtschaft. Gesellschaft. Kultur. Band 3 (German, Hardcover, 2nd 2. Aufl. 2017 ed.)
Manuel Castells
R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conflict on Mount Lebanon - The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory (Hardcover): Makram Rabah Conflict on Mount Lebanon - The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory (Hardcover)
Makram Rabah
R2,751 R2,377 Discovery Miles 23 770 Save R374 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus 'the War of the Mountain' in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history. He challenges the idea that these group identities were constructed by their respective centres of power within the Maronite and Druze community, providing an alternative to the prevailing meta-narrative. Telling the stories of the many people who took part in these events, or who simply suffered as a consequence, helps to expose the intrinsic motives which led to this conflict and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Lebanese historical scholarship.

Populations as Brands - Marketing National Resources for Global Data Markets (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Aaro Tupasela Populations as Brands - Marketing National Resources for Global Data Markets (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Aaro Tupasela
R3,308 Discovery Miles 33 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Populations as Brands Aaro Tupasela extends the fields of critical data studies and nation branding into the realm of state controlled biobanking and healthcare data. Using examples from two Nordic countries - Denmark and Finland - he explores how these countries have begun to market and brand their resources using methods and practices drawn from the commercial sector. Tupasela identifies changes during the past ten years that suggest that state collected and maintained resources have become the object of valuation practices. Tupasela argues that this phenomenon constitutes a novel form of nation branding in which relations between the states, individuals and the private sector are re-aligned. The author locates the historical underpinnings of population branding in the field of medical genetics starting in the early 1960s but transforming significantly during the 2010s into a professional marketing activity undertaken at multiple levels and sites. In studying this recent phenomenon, Tupasela provides examples of how marketing material has become increasingly professional and targeted towards a broader audience, including the public. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of critical data studies and nation branding, as well as students of science and technology studies, sociology and marketing.

Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation - On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022):... Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation - On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Dieter Reicher; Contributions by Barbara Mennell, Stephen Mennell; Edited by Adrian Jitschin, Arjan Post, …
R1,950 Discovery Miles 19 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies. The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences. Together they touch upon not only the well-known criticism of Eurocentrism and a developmental perspective but also what could be considered the core of Elias's work: the concept of civilisation. In a foreword, Dieter Reicher and Adrian Jitschin have endeavoured to explain and break down the relations of Elias's African experience to the rest of his work and biography. They also clarified some misleading interpretations of Elias's time in Africa. Finally, Arjan Post has uncovered the previously unknown fascinating story of Elias' encounter with Malcolm X in an epilogue.

Aussenseiter - Zur Soziologie abweichenden Verhaltens (German, Hardcover, 3. Aufl. 2019): Howard S. Becker Aussenseiter - Zur Soziologie abweichenden Verhaltens (German, Hardcover, 3. Aufl. 2019)
Howard S. Becker
R1,887 Discovery Miles 18 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Der Mensch mit abweichendem Verhalten ist ein Mensch, auf den diese Bezeichnung erfolgreich angewandt worden ist; abweichendes Verhalten ist Verhalten, das Menschen als solches bezeichnen": Es ist einer der klassischen Satze der Devianzsoziologie in einem der Klassiker des Feldes. Howard S. Becker betont fernab von alten und simplistischen Fragen danach, "warum Menschen Regeln brechen", welche Situationen und welche Prozesse dazu fuhren, dass Menschen in Positionen geraten, in denen sie als "Regelbrecher" betitelt werden, wie sie mit diesen Positionen umgehen und sich auch gegen diese wehren. "Aussenseiter" erschien erstmals 1963 in New York und wurde 1981 bei S. Fischer in deutscher UEbersetzung publiziert. Seit den fruhen neunziger Jahren vergriffen, liegt seit 2014 eine von Michael Dellwing uberarbeitete Version vor. In der nun neuesten Auflage enthalt der Band zudem zwei neue Kapitel von Howard Becker, in denen er die Geschichte seiner Forschung reflektiert.

The Way We Were - Catholic Ireland Since 1922 (Hardcover): Mary Kenny The Way We Were - Catholic Ireland Since 1922 (Hardcover)
Mary Kenny
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (Hardcover, New): Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Tariq Modood Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (Hardcover, New)
Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Tariq Modood; Foreword by Charles Taylor
R1,826 Discovery Miles 18 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Islamist attacks of 9/11, the Danish cartoon affair and rioting by Muslim youths in France are just some of the events that have caused the 'Muslim question' to become a key issue of public debate in many western democracies. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship argues that the Muslim case raises important questions about how we understand western secularism and respond to new religious claims in multicultural democracies. The contributors challenge prevailing assumptions about the history and practice of western secularism and recover the pragmatism behind liberal principles in negotiating new conditions. By situating the Muslim experience in relation to western secularism and liberal democratic practice, and through examining a variety of national contexts (including Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, the United States, Australia and India), this book extends thinking about our contemporary condition and considers the broader significance for multicultural liberal democracies.

Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice - The Beatles and Beyond (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Phillip McIntyre, Paul Thompson Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice - The Beatles and Beyond (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Phillip McIntyre, Paul Thompson
R3,100 Discovery Miles 31 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney's work through the lens of the systems model of creativity developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and combines this with the research work of Pierre Bourdieu. This systems approach is built around the basic structures of idiosyncratic agents, like McCartney himself, and the choices he has made as a creative individual. It also locates his work within social fields and cultural domains, all crucial aspects of the creative system that McCartney continues to be immersed in. Using this tripartite system, the book includes analysis of McCartney's creative collaborations with musicians, producers, artists and filmmakers and provides a critical analysis of the Romantic myth which forms a central tenet of popular music. This engaging work will have interdisciplinary appeal to students and scholars of the psychology of creativity, popular music, sociology and cultural studies.

Dinge zum Sprechen bringen (German, Hardcover): No Contributor Dinge zum Sprechen bringen (German, Hardcover)
No Contributor
R2,949 Discovery Miles 29 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Football Fans and Social Spacing - Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Ian Woolsey Football Fans and Social Spacing - Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Ian Woolsey
R3,069 Discovery Miles 30 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters' attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has undergone a remarkable process of transformation during the last 30 years. Advance surveillance techniques, all seater-stadia, rising ticket prices, and a growing intolerance to expressive modes of fandom have all transformed the experience of watching the professional game. Through these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football, are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman, particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral 'spacings' as a social production. Ian Woolsey's powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not only extends Bauman's focus on the 'politics' of power in public space to include a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological account of a football world. The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sociology of leisure, sociology of sport, criminology, and cultural studies.

Organizing Jainism in India and England (Hardcover): Marcus Banks Organizing Jainism in India and England (Hardcover)
Marcus Banks
R1,956 Discovery Miles 19 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and -a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among Jains in the Indian state of Gujarat and a migrant Gujarati Jain group in Leicester, England, Marcus Banks aims to provide an understanding of contemporary Jain identity through an examination of their social and religious organizations. The first part of the book describes the array of religious and caste organizations found among Jains in the Indian city of Jamnagar and how Jains from Jamnagar and elsewhere in Gujarat migrated to East Africa, transforming their organizations in the process. The second part looks at the new forms of organization that have developed among the Jains who came to Leicester from East Africa and the part these have played in changing perceptions of Jainism itself. Throughout the book Dr Banks plays special attention to the use and transformation of urban space by religious and other groups, and he concludes with comments on the definition of religion and religious identity. This is one of the first book-length studies of the Jains as a migrant group overseas, where they are studied in their own right rather than simply as an ethnic minority. It will be valuable both for its documentation of a small but influential population and for its direct comparison of aspects of communal and religious organization in India and the UK.

An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words - A Lexical and Semantic Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Adrian Tien, Lorna Carson,... An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words - A Lexical and Semantic Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Adrian Tien, Lorna Carson, Ning Jiang
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.

Creative Families - Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Jana Mikats, Susanne... Creative Families - Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Jana Mikats, Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, Libora Oates-Indruchova
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This edited collection brings together two strands of current discussions in gender research through the concept of creativity. First, it addresses creativity in the context of the family, by exploring changing and newly emergent family forms and ways of creating and maintaining intimate relationships. Creativity here is understood not as just "newness or originality," but as that which, in the words of Eisler and Montouri (2007), "supports, nurtures, and actualizes life by increasing the number of choices open to individuals and communities." One aim of this book, therefore, is to investigate the social, collaborative, and creative interactions in contemporary family and kin formations in Europe. Second, the volume examines how new media and technologies are entering and shaping everyday family lives. Technological transformations and adaptions have not only enabled the creation of new forms of families and ways of family living, but also challenged the established constellations of gender and family arrangements. The present volume addresses these issues from multiple perspectives and in different contexts, and explores the involvement of different actors. By problematizing the creativity of becoming and "doing" family and kinship, the authors acknowledge the increasing fluidity of gender identities, the evolving diversity of relationships, and the permeation of technology into daily life.

Displacing the Divine - The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction (Hardcover, New): Douglas Alan Walrath Displacing the Divine - The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Douglas Alan Walrath
R2,092 Discovery Miles 20 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God.

From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. "Displacing the Divine" offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.

Science under Siege - Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Rudi... Science under Siege - Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Rudi Laermans
R3,312 Discovery Miles 33 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Identifying scientism as religion's secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universally binding truth claims, be they religiously or scientifically informed. Approaching the issue from a cultural-sociological perspective and building on theories from the sociology of religion, the volume unearths the cultural mechanisms that account for the headwind faced by contemporary science. The empirical contributions highlight how the field of academic science has lost much of its former authority vis-a-vis competing social realms; how political and religious worldviews define particular research findings as favorites while dismissing others; and how much of today's distrust of science is directed against scientific institutions and academic scientists rather than against science per se.

Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance - A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Paperback, 1st... Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance - A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz, Pilar Cuder Dominguez
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History. Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project "Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies") funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by "ERDF A way of making Europe."

Emerging Sports as Social Movements - Disc Golf and the Rise of an Unknown Sport (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Joshua Woods Emerging Sports as Social Movements - Disc Golf and the Rise of an Unknown Sport (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Joshua Woods
R3,083 Discovery Miles 30 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume examines the rise of an emerging sport as a grassroots effort (or "new social movement"), arguing that the growth of non-normative sports movements occurs through two social processes: one driven primarily by product development, commercialization, and consumption, and another that relies upon public resources and grassroots efforts. Through the lens of disc golf, informed by the author's experience both playing and researching the sport, Joshua Woods here explores how non-normative sports development depends on the consistency of insider culture and ideology, as well as on how the movement navigates a broad field of market competition, government regulation, community characteristics, public opinion, traditional media, social media and technological change. Throughout, the author probes why some sports grow faster than others, examining cultural tendencies toward sport, individual choices to participate, and the various institutional forces at play.

Holy Envy - Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone (Paperback): Maeera Shreiber Holy Envy - Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone (Paperback)
Maeera Shreiber
R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post-World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations. We read each other's scriptures and openly discuss differences as well as similarities. Yet many such encounters have become rote and predictable. Powerful emotions stirred up by these conversations are often dismissed or ignored. Demonstrating how such emotions as shame, envy, and desire can inform these encounters, Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone charts a new way of thinking about interreligious relations. Moreover, by focusing on modern and contemporary writers (novelists and poets) who traffic in the volatile space between Judaism and Christianity, the book calls attention to the creative implications of these intense encounters. While recognizing a long-overdue need to address a fundamentally Christian narrative underwriting twentieth century American verse, Holy Envy does more than represent Christianity as an aesthetically coercive force, or as an adversarial other. For the book also suggests how literature can excavate an alternative interreligious space, at once risky and generative. In bringing together recent accounts of Jewish Christian relations, affect theory, and poetics, Holy Envy offers new ways into difficult and urgent, conversations about interreligious encounters. Holy Envy is sure to engage readers who are interested in literature, religion, and, above all, interfaith dialogue.

Islam and Turks in Belgium - Communities and Associations (Hardcover, 2020 ed.): Mehmet Orhan Islam and Turks in Belgium - Communities and Associations (Hardcover, 2020 ed.)
Mehmet Orhan
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders, Islam and Turks in Belgium examines the interdependence between Muslim community and association. With a focus on social groups, religious structures and circles within Turkish populations, this book demonstrates how communal and associative movements operate through a combination of relationships of proximity and distance. Proximity is a way in which Muslim organisations establish religious, social, and cultural ties with communities. Distance, on the other hand, takes into account social, historical, and political elements from abroad, and refers to the relationship with the Muslim world more broadly. As this reciprocal web of relations gives rise to Islamic mobilisations, it leads to the emergence or persistence of different figures of authority within associations and communities who articulate traditional, charismatic, and bureaucratic legitimacies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of religion, migration, race, ethnicity and Islamic studies.

Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spatantiken Religionskulturen (German, Hardcover): Peter Gemeinhardt, Katharina Heyden Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spatantiken Religionskulturen (German, Hardcover)
Peter Gemeinhardt, Katharina Heyden
R4,710 Discovery Miles 47 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. Terminologies, practices, and reflections related to holiness are explored in the context of their particular religious frames of reference.

Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Mohammed Hashas Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Mohammed Hashas
R3,102 Discovery Miles 31 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi'a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.

Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces - Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021):... Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces - Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Susan C. Pearce, Eugenia Sojka
R3,329 Discovery Miles 33 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest cultures, new Russian fiction, Polish memory of Jewish heritage, ethnic nationalisms, revival of minority cultures, and loss of state support for museums. From a comparison of gender constructions in 30 national constitutions to an exploration of a cross-national artistic collaborative, this insightful book illuminates how the region's denizens are swimming in changing tides of transnational cultures, resulting in new hybridities and innovations. Arguing for a decolonization of the region and for the significance of culture, the book appeals to a wide, interdisciplinary readership interested in cultural change, post-communist societies, and globalization.

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex - The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Paperback): Lila Corwin Berman The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex - The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Paperback)
Lila Corwin Berman
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish to the non-Jewish, and modest donations to vast endowments. Yet, as Lila Corwin Berman illuminates in The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex, the history of American Jewish philanthropy reveals the far more complicated reality of changing and uneasy relationships among philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism. With a fresh eye and lucid prose, and relying on previously untapped sources, Berman shows that from its nineteenth-century roots to its apex in the late twentieth century, the American Jewish philanthropic complex tied Jewish institutions to the American state. The government's regulatory efforts-most importantly, tax policies-situated philanthropy at the core of its experiments to maintain the public good without trammeling on the private freedoms of individuals. Jewish philanthropic institutions and leaders gained financial strength, political influence, and state protections within this framework. However, over time, the vast inequalities in resource distribution that marked American state policy became inseparable from philanthropic practice. By the turn of the millennium, Jewish philanthropic institutions reflected the state's growing investment in capitalism against democratic interests. But well before that, Jewish philanthropy had already entered into a tight relationship with the governing forces of American life, reinforcing and even transforming the nation's laws and policies. The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex uncovers how capitalism and private interests came to command authority over the public good, in Jewish life and beyond.

Der Kulturbund in Der Sbz Und in Der Ddr - Eine Ostdeutsche Kulturvereinigung Im Wandel Der Zeit Zwischen 1945 Und 1990... Der Kulturbund in Der Sbz Und in Der Ddr - Eine Ostdeutsche Kulturvereinigung Im Wandel Der Zeit Zwischen 1945 Und 1990 (German, Hardcover, 1. Aufl. 2019 ed.)
Andreas Zimmer
R3,705 Discovery Miles 37 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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