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First published in 1992, this title explores the religious
diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent
narrative and providing the first comparative study and
introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that
the complex distinctive character of South African religious life
has taken shape with a particular, economic, social and political
context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who
have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an
overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and
African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue
will be of great value to students of religious studies, South
African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.
First published in 1992, this title explores the religious
diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent
narrative and providing the first comparative study and
introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that
the complex distinctive character of South African religious life
has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political
context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who
have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an
overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and
African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue
will be of great value to students of religious studies, South
African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.
The new edition of Crew Resource Management reflects advancements
made in the conceptual foundation as well as the methods and
approaches of applying CRM in the aviation industry. Because CRM
training has the practical goal of enhancing flight safety through
more effective flight crew performance, this new edition adapts
itself to fit the users, the task, and operational and regulatory
environments--all of which continually evolve. Each contributor
examines techniques and presents cases that best illustrate CRM
concepts and training. This book discusses the history and research
foundation of CRM and also stresses the importance of making
adaptive changes and advancements. New chapters include: CRM and
Individual Resilience; Flight and Cabin Crew Teamwork: Improving
Safety in Aviation: CRM and Risk Management/Safety Management
Systems; and MRM for Technical Operations. This book provides a
deep understanding of CRM--what it is, how it works, and how to
practically implement an effective program.
Since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the global community has
witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the integration of
Europe, the War on Terror and the Arab Spring, a hot Chinese
economy and a major international recession. Reagan's Legacy in a
World Transformed brings together scholars from diverse disciplines
and persuasions to assess the fortieth president's policies and
their ongoing impact today, and to offer a timely retrospective on
his complex legacy. The authors consider the influence of Reagan's
free-market ideas on economic globalization, showing how
deregulation succeeded in spurring economic expansion. In foreign
policy, Reagan favored significant increases in military spending
("peace through strength") and an assertive agenda abroad. His
break with detente in dealing with the Soviet Union, notably
expressed in his 1982 March of Freedom speech, effectively restored
the early Cold War strategy of rolling back communism. More than
twenty years later, President George W. Bush invoked this speech in
describing his goals in the Middle East-a striking example of how
Reagan's ideas affected the post-9/11 world. In contrast with his
hawkish stance on defense, Reagan's efforts to reduce nuclear
arsenals, negotiated with Mikhail Gorbachev, constitute one of his
enduring contributions to stability. Although Reagan's policies
soared on rhetoric rooted in ideological conviction, the president
engaged in pragmatic internationalism when a multilateral approach
served America's interests. He believed that America had a special
mission as a moral leader and beacon of freedom, a view that
continues to inform U.S. foreign policy.
"Wild Religion" is a wild ride through recent South African history
from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the
football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South AfricaOCOs
political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores
African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the
spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion
has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. "Wild
Religion" analyzes indigenous rituals of purification on Robben
Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national
shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World
Cup. Not always in the national interest, indigenous religion also
appears in the wild religious creativity of prison gangs, the
global spirituality of neo-shamans, the ceremonial display of Zulu
virgins, the ancient Egyptian theosophy in South AfricaOCOs
Parliament, and the new traditionalism of South AfricaOCOs
President Jacob Zuma. Arguing that the sacred is produced through
the religious work of intensive interpretation, formal
ritualization, and intense contestation, Chidester develops
innovative insights for understanding the meaning and power of
religion in a changing society. For anyone interested in religion,
"Wild Religion" uncovers surprising dynamics of sacred space,
violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media, sex, sovereignty, and
the political economy of the sacred.
How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is
that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks
to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and
analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in
Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and
its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa.
In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic
study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have
failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the
power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial
project. In developing a material history of the study of religion,
Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the
persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and
the salience of mediations-imperial, colonial, and indigenous - in
which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies
the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies,
including Friedrich Max Muller's dependence on colonial experts, H.
Rider Haggard's and John Buchan's fictional accounts of African
religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois' studies of African religion. By
reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that
race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of
religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial,
Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of
comparative religious studies.
Is the presidency a position one must learn on the job, or can one
learn from others' experience? No common thread runs through the
list of forty-five presidents; no playbook provides the answers to
all the challenges a president will face. Yet even in the most
unprecedented situations, history can be instructive. Drawn from
the Miller Center's First Year project--which seeks to provide a
historical framework to guide future presidents and their teams in
the crucial first year of a new administration-- Crucible addresses
core questions of governance facing a new president, from
navigating a broken political system to thriving in a changing
media environment. The project's illustrious
participants--including Stephen Skowronek, Alan Taylor, Gary
Gallagher, Sidney M. Milkis, H. W. Brands, William A. Galston, and
Peter Wehner, among many others--explore both opportunities and
challenges in key policy areas, from national security, race, and
immigration to opportunity, mobility, and fiscal policy. Crucible
consolidates the most salient lessons that can be drawn from both
the best and the worst presidencies in American history, as well as
from the many in between, to provide true insight on the most
important issues facing any new president in the first year of
office.
Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about
religious materiality and the material study of religion.
Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories,
social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the
making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is
divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic
categories-animism and sacred, space and time-by situating them in
their material production and testing their analytical viability.
Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power
that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are
most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and
imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of
circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and
diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each
chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities
for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of
religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an
entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by
students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and
history.
Is the presidency a position one must learn on the job, or can one
learn from others' experience? No common thread runs through the
list of forty-five presidents; no playbook provides the answers to
all the challenges a president will face. Yet even in the most
unprecedented situations, history can be instructive. Drawn from
the Miller Center's First Year project-which seeks to provide a
historical framework to guide future presidents and their teams in
the crucial first year of a new administration- Crucible addresses
core questions of governance facing a new president, from
navigating a broken political system to thriving in a changing
media environment. The project's illustrious participants-including
Stephen Skowronek, Alan Taylor, Gary Gallagher, Sidney M. Milkis,
H. W. Brands, William A. Galston, and Peter Wehner, among many
others-explore both opportunities and challenges in key policy
areas, from national security, race, and immigration to
opportunity, mobility, and fiscal policy. Crucible consolidates the
most salient lessons that can be drawn from both the best and the
worst presidencies in American history, as well as from the many in
between, to provide true insight on the most important issues
facing any new president in the first year of office. Contributors:
Douglas A. Blackmon; Hal Brands; H. W. Brands; Robert F. Bruner;
Mary Kate Cary; Jeffrey L. Chidester; Carolyn Dewar; Tom Dohrmann;
Susan J. Douglas; Anita Dunn; Michael Eric Dyson; Jeffrey A. Engel;
Andrew Erdmann; Michele A. Flournoy; Jeffrey Frieden; Gary W.
Gallagher; William A. Galston; Daniel J. Galvin; Stefanie Georgakis
Abbott; David Greenberg; Ryan Harper; Willis Jenkins; Elaine C.
Kamarck; Bruce Katz; Melvyn P. Leffler; Guian McKee; Sidney M.
Milkis; Peter Morton; Michael Nelson; Patrick O'Brien; Margaret
O'Mara; Orlando Patterson; Barbara A. Perry; Andrew Rudalevige;
Marc Selverstone; Jeff Shesol; Stephen Skowronek; Jeremi Suri; Alan
Taylor; Daniel Tichenor; Peter Wehner; Mason B. Williams; Philip
Zelikow.
In At Reagan's Side, Reagan scholars Jeff Chidester and Stephen
Knott compile excerpts from interviews of top Reagan officials.
Through the Miller Center's Ronald Reagan Oral History Project,
Chidester and Knott show readers the life of the "Great
Communicator" through the eyes of both famous and lesser-known
administration insiders like James Baker, Edwin Meese, Peter
Hannaford, Caspar Weinberger, and Joanne Drake. At Reagan's Side
offers unique, behind-the-scenes glimpses into the candidacy and
election of Ronald Reagan, chronicling his run for and subsequent
election to public office as Governor of California, and later, as
President of the United States.
While some laud Ronald Reagan as the president who won the Cold
War, restored morale, and encouraged economic growth, others
criticize him for record national debt and label him as a detached
chief executive. Since he left office in 1989, both scholars and
the public have intensely debated what the Reagan years meant for
the United States and the world. In this important new volume,
editors Paul Kengor and Peter Schweizer bring together original
essays from leading scholars who examine topics as varied as Iran
Contra, abortion, the Cold War, governmental management, and
economic policy. Through critical analysis, these essays seek a
better understanding of Ronald Reagan, his policies, and his
lasting legacy. This balanced and accessible book is ideal for
everyone interested in the American presidency, American
Government, and U.S. political theory.
Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science
is the first formal, systematic, scholarly investigation of
laboratory literature from the perspective of literary studies. Lab
Lit as a new genre has received a lot of public and media attention
due to its compelling presentation of science practitioners and the
relatable explanations of the scientific advancements that have
shaped modern society and will continue to do so. However, the
genre has been largely overlooked by scholars. This book is an
introduction to the world of science for those who up till now have
been immersed primarily in the world of literature. The anthology
contains essays that discuss Lab Lit novels using a variety of
analytical approaches. It also features theoretical essays that
explore the social and literary backgrounds of Lab Lit and help the
reader position the critical pieces within appropriate contexts.
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