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This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins,
ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion
and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. The chapters
examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text
and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the
parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War.
The volume covers a wide chronological period, and the contributors
investigate relationships between religion and conflict from the
seventh to eighteenth centuries ranging from Byzantium to
post-conquest Mexico. Religious expressions of conflict at a
localised level are explored, including the use of language in
legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours and the
use of religion to legitimise the spiritual value of violence,
rationalising the enforcement of social rules. The collection also
examines spatial expressions of religious conflict both within
urban environments and through travel and pilgrimage. With both
written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal
resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and
researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal,
cultural, or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern
worlds.
This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins,
ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion
and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. The chapters
examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text
and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the
parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War.
The volume covers a wide chronological period, and the contributors
investigate relationships between religion and conflict from the
seventh to eighteenth centuries ranging from Byzantium to
post-conquest Mexico. Religious expressions of conflict at a
localised level are explored, including the use of language in
legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours and the
use of religion to legitimise the spiritual value of violence,
rationalising the enforcement of social rules. The collection also
examines spatial expressions of religious conflict both within
urban environments and through travel and pilgrimage. With both
written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal
resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and
researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal,
cultural, or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern
worlds.
The idea that our society is ageing is a popular source of gloomy
predictions for the future. We see today's youth struggling in
their mature years to pay for the masses of geriatric baby boomers
whose productive years lie far behind. Australia's New Aged shows
that this belief is part reality and part myth. While there will be
an increase in the proportion of aged people in the next 20 years,
this is a temporary phenomenon and it is likely that tomorrow's
elderly will quite differently from their parents. Australia's New
Aged examines public policy for the aged in the context of an
increasingly vocal and active elderly population and cutbacks to
health and welfare spending. The authors argue that policy makers
have become trapped in a 'social problem' approach to ageing that
assumes the elderly are a homogeneous, disadvantaged group with
common interests. They examine a range of cases and identify
negative consequences of inappropriate assumptions in terms of
structural blindness and brutality. They show that this approach is
no longer viable and argue that both policy makers and the aged
care industry will need to be more sensitive to diversity and more
flexible than ever before. Australia's New Aged is essential
reading for students, policy makers and anyone working with the
aged. John McCallum is Professor of Public Health and Dean of the
Faculty of Health at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
and co-editor of Grey Policy (1990). Karin Geiselhart is a
journalist previously employed by the Office for the Status of
Women in Canberra.
The Protestant Reformation of 1560 is widely acknowledged as being
a watershed moment in Scottish history. However, whilst the
antecedents of the reform movement have been widely explored, the
actual process of establishing a reformed church in the parishes in
the decades following 1560 has been largely ignored. This book
helps remedy the situation by examining the foundation of the
reformed church and the impact of Protestant discipline in the
parishes of Fife. In early modern Scotland, Fife was both a
distinct and important region, containing a preponderance of
coastal burghs as well as St Andrews, the ecclesiastical capital of
medieval Scotland. It also contained many rural and inland
parishes, making it an ideal case study for analysing the course of
religious reform in diverse communities. Nevertheless, the focus is
on the Reformation, rather than on the county, and the book
consistently places Fife's experience in the wider Scottish,
British and European context. Based on a wide range of
under-utilised sources, especially kirk session minutes, the
study's focus is on the grass-roots religious life of the parish,
rather than the more familiar themes of church politics and
theology. It evaluates the success of the reformers in affecting
both institutional and ideological change, and provides a detailed
account of the workings of the reformed church, and its impact on
ordinary people. In so doing it addresses important questions
regarding the timescale and geographical patterns of reform, and
how such dramatic religious change succeeded and endured without
violence, or indeed, widespread opposition.
The idea that our society is ageing is a popular source of gloomy
predictions for the future. We see today's youth struggling in
their mature years to pay for the masses of geriatric baby boomers
whose productive years lie far behind.Australia's New Aged shows
that this belief is part reality and part myth. While there will be
an increase in the proportion of aged people in the next 20 years,
this is a temporary phenomenon and it is likely that tomorrow's
elderly will quite differently from their parents.Australia's New
Aged examines public policy for the aged in the context of an
increasingly vocal and active elderly population and cutbacks to
health and welfare spending. The authors argue that policy makers
have become trapped in a 'social problem' approach to ageing that
assumes the elderly are a homogeneous, disadvantaged group with
common interests. They examine a range of cases and identify
negative consequences of inappropriate assumptions in terms of
structural blindness and brutality. They show that this approach is
no longer viable and argue that both policy makers and the aged
care industry will need to be more sensitive to diversity and more
flexible than ever before.Australia's New Aged is essential reading
for students, policy makers and anyone working with the aged. John
McCallum is Professor of Public Health and Dean of the Faculty of
Health at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur and co-editor
of Grey Policy (1990). Karin Geiselhart is a journalist previously
employed by the Office for the Status of Women in Canberra.
Miscellanies published by the Scottish History Society bring
together critical editions of important and previously unpublished
manuscripts of relevance to Scottish history. As well as providing
transcriptions, the editors introduce and explain the context of
documents which have been neglected or even unknown to historians,
providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and all
those interested in exploring Scottish history through the original
sources. Volume XIV of the Miscellany focuses on the early modern
period, presenting editions of six manuscripts from the late
sixteenth to the mid eighteenth centuries. While ranging widely
over the political, religious, social and environmental history of
the period, there is an emphasis on the writings of the clergy, and
the religious culture of the long post-Reformation period. Several
of the entries shed considerable light, for example, on
evangelicalism in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Together, the documents comprise an essential collection for the
study of early modern Scottish History, and help to illuminate the
body of unpublished sources still waiting to be explored.
A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent
time for religious affairs. From the early percolation of
Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the
controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth
century, the clergy were at the heart of religious change in
Scotland. By exploring their lived experiences, and drawing upon
historical, theological, and literary approaches, the essays here
paint a fresh and vibrant portrait of ministry during the kingdom's
long Reformation. The contributors investigate how clergy, as well
as their families and flocks, experienced and negotiated religious,
social, and political change; through examination of both wider
themes and individual case studies, the chapters emphasise the
flexibility of local decision-making and how ministers and their
families were enmeshed in parish dynamics, while also highlighting
the importance of clerical networks beyond the parish. What emerges
is a ministry that, despite the increasing professionalisation of
the role, maintained a degree of local autonomy and agency. The
volume thus re-focuses attention on the early modern European
ministry, offering a multifaceted and historically attuned
understanding of those who stood at the forefront of Protestant
reform.
John McCallum's new history explores the relationship between 20th
century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The
book focuses on the creative tension sparked by dueling impulses
between nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and between artistic
seriousness and larrikin populism. It explores issues such as the
domineering influence of European high culture, the ongoing
popularity of representational realism, the influence of popular
theatrical forms, the ambivalence (between affection and
aggression) of much Australian humour and satire, and the
interaction between the personal and the political in drama. The
strength of "Belonging" is its comprehensiveness, anyone studying
an Australian play will find an account of it here in the context
of the other works by its author or the time and place in which it
was written. As well as a rundown of the major writers and their
works, and an account of how the minor writers fitted in, the book
also investigates the more obscure plays and writers about whom
little has been written. This authoritative study of Australian
drama gives an account of the relationship between our theatre and
our sense of self while taking into account a broad range of
influences that helped to shape both.
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Terence Young directs this 1950s espionage thriller starring John
McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and Christopher Lee. When the
Swedish scientist Dr. Nils Ahlen (McCallum) discovers a means of
transmuting sound impulses into electrical currents, his invention
inevitably becomes the sought after tool of governments, businesses
and criminals everywhere. When his wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) and
key parts of his invention go missing, Ahlen enlists Inspector
Peterson (Warner) of the local police to help him track them down.
The quest leads them to snowy northern terrain where a showdown
with the abductors beckons...
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This book brings together leading economists to analyze present
economic issues and further debate on the need for sound economic
policies to avoid a crash on a global scale. Subjects covered
include: the US twin deficit, Western European economic
integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy,
the debt burden of the less developed countries, the growing and
deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new
homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, and
the new Europe and Japan. These are the issues at the head of
global disequilibrium in the world economy.
The US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern
Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of
the Less Developed Countries, the growing and deepening
discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous
areas such as the North America free trade area, the new Europe,
and Japan are the issues at the heart of global disequilibrium in
the world economy. This book brings together leading economists to
analyse these issues and further the debate on the need for sound
economic policies to avoid a crash on a global scale.
This book sets out the importance of charity in Scottish
Reformation studies. Based on extensive archival research involving
more than thirty parishes, it sheds new light on the practice of
poor relief in the century following the Reformation. John McCallum
challenges the assumption that charitable activity was weak and
informal in Scotland by uncovering the surviving records of welfare
work carried out by the church. And he skilfully demonstrates that
kirk sessions were key welfare providers in early modern Scotland
and provided effective relief to a range of people who struggled in
poverty. In addition to the analysis of specific parish activities,
readers gain a rare insight into the lives of the poor Scots who
looked to the church for assistance in the early modern era.
This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and
provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual's life and
writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of
emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a
minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical
writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to
explore the emotional world and range of experiences of an
individual, offering the chance for a more rounded analysis of
emotional experiences and language than has ever been offered for
Scotland at the time. This book contributes a crucial new
geographical and cultural context to the expanding world of the
history of emotions in the early modern period.
This book sets out the importance of charity in Scottish
Reformation studies. Based on extensive archival research involving
more than thirty parishes, it sheds new light on the practice of
poor relief in the century following the Reformation. John McCallum
challenges the assumption that charitable activity was weak and
informal in Scotland by uncovering the surviving records of welfare
work carried out by the church. And he skilfully demonstrates that
kirk sessions were key welfare providers in early modern Scotland
and provided effective relief to a range of people who struggled in
poverty. In addition to the analysis of specific parish activities,
readers gain a rare insight into the lives of the poor Scots who
looked to the church for assistance in the early modern era.
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