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The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of
America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves.
Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S.
have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that
provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few
larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places
that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and
until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities
will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a
tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial
production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufacturer or a
green energy plant hardly solves every problem. The new jobs will
not be unionized and thus will not pay nearly as much as the
positions lost. The competition among localities for high-tech and
knowledge economy firms is intense. Decaying towns with poor
schools and few amenities are hardly in a good position to attract
the "creative-class" workers they need. Getting to the point where
they can lure such companies will require extensive retooling, not
just economically but in terms of their built environment, cultural
character, political economy, and demographic mix. Such changes
often run counter to the historical currents that defined these
places as factory towns. After the Factory examines the fate of
industrial small cities from a variety of angles. It includes
essays from a variety of disciplines that consider the sources and
character of economic growth in small cities. They delve into the
history of industrial small cities, explore the strategies that
some have adopted, and propose new tacks for these communities as
they struggle to move forward in the twenty-first century.
Together, they constitute a unique look at an important and
understudied dimension of urban studies and globalization.
Contrary to popular thought, New Age spirituality did not suddenly
appear in American life in the 1970s and '80s. In American Feminism
and the Birth of New Age Spirituality, Catherine Tumber
demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a
century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New
Thought.' Based largely on research in popular journals, self-help
manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American
Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality explores the
contours of the New Thought movement. Through the lives of
well-known figures such as Mary Baker Eddy, Madame Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky, and Edward Bellamy as well as through more obscure, but
more representative 'New Thoughters' such as Abby Morton Diaz, Emma
Curtis Hopkins, Ursula Gestefeld, Lilian Whiting, Sarah Farmer, and
Elizabeth Towne, Tumber examines the historical conditions that
gave rise to New Thought. She pays close attention to the ways in
which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to
emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth
century--progressive politics, the Social Gospel, humanist
psychotherapy, bohemian subculture, and mass market journalism.
American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality questions
the value of the new age movement--then and now--to the pursuit of
women's rights and democratic renewal.
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of
America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves.
Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S.
have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that
provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few
larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places
that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and
until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities
will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a
tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial
production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufacturer or a
green energy plant hardly solves every problem. The new jobs will
not be unionized and thus will not pay nearly as much as the
positions lost. The competition among localities for high-tech and
knowledge economy firms is intense. Decaying towns with poor
schools and few amenities are hardly in a good position to attract
the "creative-class" workers they need. Getting to the point where
they can lure such companies will require extensive retooling, not
just economically but in terms of their built environment, cultural
character, political economy, and demographic mix. Such changes
often run counter to the historical currents that defined these
places as factory towns. After the Factory examines the fate of
industrial small cities from a variety of angles. It includes
essays from a variety of disciplines that consider the sources and
character of economic growth in small cities. They delve into the
history of industrial small cities, explore the strategies that
some have adopted, and propose new tacks for these communities as
they struggle to move forward in the twenty-first century.
Together, they constitute a unique look at an important and
understudied dimension of urban studies and globalization.
Contrary to popular thought, New Age spirituality did not suddenly
appear in American life in the 1970s and '80s. In American Feminism
and the Birth of New Age Spirituality, Catherine Tumber
demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a
century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New
Thought.' Based largely on research in popular journals, self-help
manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American
Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality explores the
contours of the New Thought movement. Through the lives of
well-known figures such as Mary Baker Eddy, Madame Helena Petrovna
Blavatsky, and Edward Bellamy as well as through more obscure, but
more representative 'New Thoughters' such as Abby Morton Diaz, Emma
Curtis Hopkins, Ursula Gestefeld, Lilian Whiting, Sarah Farmer, and
Elizabeth Towne, Tumber examines the historical conditions that
gave rise to New Thought. She pays close attention to the ways in
which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to
emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth
century--progressive politics, the Social Gospel, humanist
psychotherapy, bohemian subculture, and mass market journalism.
American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality questions
the value of the new age movement--then and now--to the pursuit of
women's rights and democratic renewal.
This is the landmark publication of the early writings of this
pioneering voice for social justice. The ""Papers of Howard
Washington Thurman"" is a four-volume, chronologically arranged
documentary edition spanning the long and productive career of the
Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the
history of intellectual and religious life in the
mid-twentieth-century United States. The first to lead a delegation
of African Americans to meet personally with Mahatma Gandhi, in
1936, Thurman later became one of the principal architects of the
modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Martin
Luther King, Jr. In 1953 ""Life"" magazine named Thurman as one of
the twelve greatest preachers of the century. The four volumes of
this collection, culled from more than 58,000 documents from public
and private sources, will feature more than 850 selections of
Thurman's sermons, letters, essays, and other writings - many
published here for the first time. Each volume will open with an
editorial statement, followed by an introductory essay to guide the
reader through the dominant themes in Thurman's thought: his
understanding of spirituality and social transformations, his
creative ecclesiology, and his conception of civic character and
the national democratic experiment. Precise annotations to each
document illumine Thurman's personal, professional, and
intellectual development and place the texts into their historical
context. The volumes are further augmented with detailed
chronologies and representative illustrations. Volume I (June 1918
- March 1936) documents Thurman's early years in his native
Daytona, Florida, his formal education and his leadership in the
student movement, and his years at Howard University as a professor
of philosophy and religion and dean of Rankin Chapel as well as his
historic trip to India and meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1936. The
texts, images, and editorial commentary presented here reveal the
early development of the vision that drove Thurman's career as an
educator, theologian, minister, and advocate for social justice and
informed the twenty-three books that he began publishing in the
mid-1940s. This volume provides rich insights into Thurman's
thinking and spiritual growth and offers a window onto the
landscape of the defining issues, events, movements, institutions,
and individuals that shaped his formative years. The texts
presented here make for compelling reading, as Thurman's dialogue
with the world of public theology is the story of a nation that was
taking stock of its political and religious heritage. The historic
publication of his collected papers will make an invaluable
contribution not only to American intellectual history and to the
history of religion, but to 'America in Search of a Soul', as
Thurman titled one of his sermons. This documentary edition is made
possible through the efforts of the Howard Thurman Papers Project,
a division of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in
Atlanta. This project is funded through support from the Lilly
Endowment, Inc.; the Henry Luce Foundation; the Pew Charitable
Trusts, Inc.; and the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
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