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This study reviews the many different bases for wanting to preserve
the environment. By seeing how protagonists approach the same
situation from different assumptions, some of the origins of
environmental conflict may be established, and ways of resolving
conflict can be identified. There are two major issues in
environmental ethics: The first asks whether the problems can be
solved within current approaches, or require instead lifestyle
changes for the whole of western civilization. The second issue
concerns why the environment should be valued. This review
identifies a series in increasingly stronger valuations that can be
identified as: Hedonistic - we protect the environment because we
like it; Utilitarian - the environment is valuable to us;
Consequentialist - we want to preserve things for other people -
now or future; Intrinsic - The environment has virtue in its own
right; and, Extrinsic - we value the environment because it is of
consequence to some thing else - theistic (a God). Thirdly, these
insights are used to explore potential ways of resolving
environmental conflicts, notably by the recovery of democratic
decision making at the right scale: local, national or even global.
A shared biblical past has long imbued the Holy Land with special
authority as well as a mythic character that has made the region
not only the spiritual home for Muslims, Christians, and Jews, but
also a source of a living sacred history that informs contemporary
realities and religious identities. This book explores the Holy
Land as a critical site in which early modern Catholics sought
spiritual and political legitimacy during a period of profound and
disruptive change. The Ottoman conquest of the region, the division
of the Western Church, Catholic reform, the integration of the
Mediterranean into global trading networks, and the emergence of
new imperial rivalries transformed the Custody of the Holy Land,
the venerable Catholic institution that had overseen Western
pilgrimage since 1342, into a site of intense intra-Christian
conflict by 1517. This contestation underscored the Holy Land's
importance as a frontier and center of an embattled Catholic
tradition.
In the global knowledge economy, intellectual property rights - and
the innovations they are meant to spur - are important determinants
of progress. But what does this mean for the nations of Africa? One
view is that strong IP protection can facilitate innovation in
African settings. Others say that existing IP systems are simply
not suited to the realities of Africa. This book, based on case
studies and evidence collected across nine countries in Africa
sheds new light on the complex relationships between innovation and
intellectual property. It covers findings across many sites of
innovation and creativity, including music, leather goods,
textiles, cocoal, coffee, auto parts, traditional medicine, book
publishing, biofuels and university research, and presents a
picture in which innovators share a common appreciation for
collaboration and openness.
While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people
lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely
unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major
influence on our opportunities. In this accessible book, leading
political theorist Chris Armstrong engagingly examines the key
moral and political questions raised by this stark global divide.
Why, as a citizen of a relatively wealthy country, should you care
if others have to make do with less? Do we have a moral duty to try
to rectify this state of affairs? What does 'global justice' mean
anyway - and why does it matter? Could we make our world a more
just one even if we tried? Can you as an individual make a
difference? This book powerfully demonstrates that global justice
is something we should all be concerned about, and sketches a
series of reforms that would make our divided world a fairer one.
It will be essential introductory reading for students of global
justice, activists and concerned citizens.
Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a
cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a
period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume
that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained
cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was
only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the
eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom
of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern
Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see
beyond modern caricatures of the medieval church to the animating
Christian spirit of that age. He believes today's church could
learn a number of lessons from medieval faith, such as how the
gospel speaks to ordinary, embodied human life in this world.
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians explores key ideas, figures,
and movements from the Middle Ages in conversation with C. S. Lewis
and other thinkers, helping contemporary Christians discover
authentic faith and renewal in a forgotten age.
While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people
lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely
unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major
influence on our opportunities. In this accessible book, leading
political theorist Chris Armstrong engagingly examines the key
moral and political questions raised by this stark global divide.
Why, as a citizen of a relatively wealthy country, should you care
if others have to make do with less? Do we have a moral duty to try
to rectify this state of affairs? What does 'global justice' mean
anyway - and why does it matter? Could we make our world a more
just one even if we tried? Can you as an individual make a
difference? This book powerfully demonstrates that global justice
is something we should all be concerned about, and sketches a
series of reforms that would make our divided world a fairer one.
It will be essential introductory reading for students of global
justice, activists and concerned citizens.
A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the
contentious Wars of Religion (1562-1594). In this paperback reissue
of The Politics of Piety, author Megan Armstrong situates the
Franciscan order at the heart of the religious and political
conflicts of the late sixteenth century to show how a medieval
charismatic religious tradition became an engine of political
change. The friars used their redoubtable skills as preachers,
intellectual training at the University of Paris, and personal and
professional connections with other Catholic reformers and patrons
to successfully galvanize popular opposition to the spread of
Protestantism throughout the sixteenth century. By 1589, the friars
used these same strategies on behalf of the Catholic League to try
to prevent thesuccession of the Protestant heir presumptive, Henry
of Navarre, to the French throne. This book contributes to our
understanding of religion as a formative political impulse
throughout the sixteenth century by linking the long-term political
activism of the friars to the emergence of the French monarchy of
the seventeenth century. Megan C. Armstrong is Associate Professor
of History at McMaster University.
Canadian-born George "Moon" Gibson (1880-1967) grew up playing
baseball on the sandlots around London, Ontario, before going on to
star with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. In an era
known for tough, defensive catchers, Gibson was an ironman and set
records for endurance. He helped the Pirates defeat Ty Cobb and the
Detroit Tigers to win their first World Series in 1909. Gibson
built a reputation as a smart player and had a knack for helping
develop young pitchers. He played with and against some of the
biggest names in the game and counted Cobb, Honus Wagner and John
McGraw among his friends. Post-career he held numerous coaching and
managing roles in New York, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Washington and
Chicago. This first biography of Gibson covers the career of one of
Canada's greatest ball players and the last Canadian to manage
full-time in the Major Leagues.
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