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This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first
century is evolving in a significantly different way to the
twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and
technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into
question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this
century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual
values have returned to the centre of public life, especially
public policy, governance, and social identity. Rapidly
diversifying urban locations are the best places to witness the
emergence of new spaces in which religions and spiritual traditions
are creating both new alliances but also bifurcations with secular
sectors. "Postsecular Cities" examines how the built environment
reflects these trends. Recognizing that the 'turn to the
postsecular' is a contested and multifaceted trend, the authors
offer a vigorous, open but structured dialogue between theory and
practice, but even more excitingly, between the disciplines of
human geography and theology. Both disciplines reflect on this
powerful but enigmatic force shaping our urban humanity. This
unique volume offers the first insight into these interdisciplinary
and challenging debates. The relationship between religion and
politics is both fascinating and challenging, and recent years have
seen substantial changes in the way this relationship is studied.
Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished,
idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in
Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the
continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of
society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice,
Constantinople and Vienna and excelled as a specialist in the
delicate art of pastel. He became renowned for the uncanny realism
of his portraits as well as the beauty of his drawings, while also
experimenting with watercolour, oil painting, printmaking and
enamels. In Britain he enjoyed notoriety because of his exotic
persona, and received commissions from royalty, aristocrats, grand
tourists and celebrities. LIOTARD: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century
Europe plots the career and practice and reputation of an
extraordinary artist who deserves to be better known. This new
study throws light on the wider cultural environment he navigated,
illuminating connected themes, including fashion history,
orientalism and the promotion and display of portraits in the
public and private spheres of Enlightenment Europe.
Drawing together for the first time theorists from a range of
disciplines and commitments, this interdisciplinary collection
offers a reckoning of this New Labour decade. On seeking office and
in coming to power, New Labour presented its vision for Britain in
moral terms. During the course of the New Labour administration,
further moral themes have been introduced: responsibility and
respect, the merits of local government and self-governance, and
the moral imperative to confront threats of 'terror' from abroad.
This moral agenda, with its apparently religious roots, has been
much noted, but not much discussed.The political phenomenon of New
Labour requires the disciplines of theology and ethics, as well as
social theory and politics, to be properly understood and assessed.
Drawing together for the first time theorists from a range of
disciplines and commitments, this interdisciplinary collection
offers a reckoning of this New Labour decade. As such, it has four
central research questions: What is the nature of this
remoralising? What are its sources? How effective has it been and
what difference has this moral discourse made? What can be learned
from Blairism about the relationship between faith, morals and
governance?In recent years the study of the nature and function of
religion with respect to politics has seen enormous changes. This
important series provides a range of books devoted to furthering
this study, and aimed at those studying and researching in this
area across both disciplines.Titles in this series look
specifically at the relationship between religion and political
culture. Drawing upon a broad range of religious perspectives the
series is open for studies of historical as well as current
phenomena in political culture. It seeks not only to inform but to
provoke debate at a time when religion is gaining increasing
prominence in the public realm.
This book examines the language of the European Union's response to
the threat of terrorism. Since its re-emergence in the wake of the
September 11 attacks, the 'fight against terrorism' has come to
represent a priority area of action for the EU. Drawing on
interpretive approaches to international relations, the book
outlines a discourse theory of identity and counter-terrorism
policy, showing how the 'fight against terrorism' structures the
EU's response through the prism of identity, drawing our attention
to the various 'others' that have come to form the target of
counter-terrorism policy. Through an extensive analysis of the
wider societal impact of the 'fight against terrorism' discourse,
the various ways in which this policy is contributing to the
'securitisation' of social and political life within Europe are
revealed. -- .
This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging
geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly
to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how
caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being,
equality, solidarity and respect for difference may be imagined and
practiced. Drawing on recent geographic theory to recalibrate ideas
of the postsecular public sphere, the authors develop the case for
postsecularity as a condition of being that is characterised by
practices of receptive generosity, rapprochement between religious
and secular ethics, and a hopeful re-enchantment and re-shaping of
desire towards common life. The authors highlight the contested
formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the
emergence of postsecularity within this process as an
ethically-attuned politics which changes relations between religion
and secularity and animates novel, hopeful imaginations,
subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives to neoliberal norms. The
spaces and subjectivities of emergent postsecularity are examined
through a series of innovative case studies, including food banks,
drug and alcohol treatment, refugee humanitarian activism in
Calais, homeless participatory art projects, community responses to
the Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand, amongst others. The
book also traces the global conditions for postsecularity beyond
the Western and predominantly Christian-secular nexus of
engagement. This is a valuable resource for students in several
academic disciplines, including geography, sociology, politics,
religious studies, international development and anthropology. It
will be of great interest to secular and faith-based practitioners
working in religion, spirituality, politics or more widely in
public policy, urban planning and community development.
This book examines the language of the European Union's response to
the threat of terrorism. Since its re-emergence in the wake of the
September 11 attacks, the 'fight against terrorism' has come to
represent a priority area of action for the EU. Drawing on
interpretive approaches to international relations, the book
outlines a discourse theory of identity and counter-terrorism
policy, showing how the 'fight against terrorism' structures the
EU's response through the prism of identity, drawing our attention
to the various 'others' that have come to form the target of
counter-terrorism policy. Through an extensive analysis of the
wider societal impact of the 'fight against terrorism' discourse,
the various ways in which this policy is contributing to the
'securitisation' of social and political life within Europe are
revealed. -- .
This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging
geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly
to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how
caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being,
equality, solidarity and respect for difference may be imagined and
practiced. Drawing on recent geographic theory to recalibrate ideas
of the postsecular public sphere, the authors develop the case for
postsecularity as a condition of being that is characterised by
practices of receptive generosity, rapprochement between religious
and secular ethics, and a hopeful re-enchantment and re-shaping of
desire towards common life. The authors highlight the contested
formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the
emergence of postsecularity within this process as an
ethically-attuned politics which changes relations between religion
and secularity and animates novel, hopeful imaginations,
subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives to neoliberal norms. The
spaces and subjectivities of emergent postsecularity are examined
through a series of innovative case studies, including food banks,
drug and alcohol treatment, refugee humanitarian activism in
Calais, homeless participatory art projects, community responses to
the Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand, amongst others. The
book also traces the global conditions for postsecularity beyond
the Western and predominantly Christian-secular nexus of
engagement. This is a valuable resource for students in several
academic disciplines, including geography, sociology, politics,
religious studies, international development and anthropology. It
will be of great interest to secular and faith-based practitioners
working in religion, spirituality, politics or more widely in
public policy, urban planning and community development.
A Philosophy of Christian Materialism offers a new religious
engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary
analysis and empirical examples, developing what the authors call a
Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with
contemporary Philosophy of Religion. The book argues that the
current discourse on public religion is inadequate in addressing
the issues now to be faced, including: material religious practice
in the sphere of education; the growth of alternative political
movements and the developing awareness of environmental concerns
and urban social justice. Key concepts that support this strategic
analysis are: entangled fidelities (the form of a materialist
religious practice); the possibility of a relational Christian
realism (including new developments in how we interpret key
categories of doctrine including God and creation, salvation and
humanity), and the post-secular public sphere (including the
emerging phenomenon of postsecular rapprochement - namely the
coming together of both religious and secular actors in
methodologies and politics of pragmatism as well as ethical
discourse for the sake of the public commons). Co-authored by
theologians in both the USA and the UK, this book represents an
exciting contribution to philosophy and practice of religion on
both sides of the Atlantic and aspires to be sufficiently
interdisciplinary to also appeal to readerships engaged in the
study of modern political and social trends.
This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent
counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several
countries. Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK
'Prevent' strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly
criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices
from disciplines including sociology, political science,
criminology and International Relations are brought together to
address issues across the global roll-out of counter-radicalisation
agendas. In so doing, the book critically interrogates: (i) the
connections between counter-radicalisation and other governmental
programmes and priorities relating to integration and community
cohesion; (ii) the questionable dependence of
counter-radicalisation initiatives on discourses and assumptions
about race, risk and vulnerability to extremism; and, (iii) the
limitations of existing counter-radicalisation machineries for
addressing relatively new types of extremism including amongst
'right-wing' activists. Through examining these questions, the book
draws on a range of contemporary case studies spanning from
counter-radicalisation in the UK, Germany and Denmark, through to
detailed analyses of specific preventative initiatives in Australia
and the United States. Conceptually, the chapters engage with a
range of critical approaches, including discourse theory,
autoethnography and governmentality. This book will be of much
interest to students of radicalisation, critical terrorism studies,
counter-terrorism, sociology, security studies and IR in general.
A Philosophy of Christian Materialism offers a new religious
engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary
analysis and empirical examples, developing what the authors call a
Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with
contemporary Philosophy of Religion. The book argues that the
current discourse on public religion is inadequate in addressing
the issues now to be faced, including: material religious practice
in the sphere of education; the growth of alternative political
movements and the developing awareness of environmental concerns
and urban social justice. Key concepts that support this strategic
analysis are: entangled fidelities (the form of a materialist
religious practice); the possibility of a relational Christian
realism (including new developments in how we interpret key
categories of doctrine including God and creation, salvation and
humanity), and the post-secular public sphere (including the
emerging phenomenon of postsecular rapprochement - namely the
coming together of both religious and secular actors in
methodologies and politics of pragmatism as well as ethical
discourse for the sake of the public commons). Co-authored by
theologians in both the USA and the UK, this book represents an
exciting contribution to philosophy and practice of religion on
both sides of the Atlantic and aspires to be sufficiently
interdisciplinary to also appeal to readerships engaged in the
study of modern political and social trends.
This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent
counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several
countries. Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK
'Prevent' strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly
criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices
from disciplines including sociology, political science,
criminology and International Relations are brought together to
address issues across the global roll-out of counter-radicalisation
agendas. In so doing, the book critically interrogates: (i) the
connections between counter-radicalisation and other governmental
programmes and priorities relating to integration and community
cohesion; (ii) the questionable dependence of
counter-radicalisation initiatives on discourses and assumptions
about race, risk and vulnerability to extremism; and, (iii) the
limitations of existing counter-radicalisation machineries for
addressing relatively new types of extremism including amongst
'right-wing' activists. Through examining these questions, the book
draws on a range of contemporary case studies spanning from
counter-radicalisation in the UK, Germany and Denmark, through to
detailed analyses of specific preventative initiatives in Australia
and the United States. Conceptually, the chapters engage with a
range of critical approaches, including discourse theory,
autoethnography and governmentality. This book will be of much
interest to students of radicalisation, critical terrorism studies,
counter-terrorism, sociology, security studies and IR in general.
Shakespeare's plays were the product of his culture and reflect the
daily life of Elizabethans. This book examines the religious
background of his works and helps students use his plays to
understand religion in Elizabethan England. The initial chapters
survey the role of religion in Shakespeare's world. The volume then
looks at religion in his plays and how productions from different
periods have addressed the religious issues of his drama. A chapter
then overviews criticism on Shakespeare and religion, while a
selection of primary documents illuminates his religious milieu.
Students often find the Elizabethan world fascinating yet
challenging. The same can be said of Shakespeare's plays, which
reflect the daily life and concerns of Elizabethan England and grew
out of his milieu. Written for students, this book illuminates the
religious life of Elizabethan England, promotes a greater
understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and uses Shakespeare's works
to examine Early Modern religious culture. The volume begins with a
quick overview of the origins of Elizabethan religious traditions,
followed by a more detailed consideration of the chief religious
beliefs and concerns of Shakespeare's world. It then discusses the
role of religion in Shakespeare's plays. This is followed by a look
at how various productions have interpreted his religious concerns.
A review of criticism on Shakespeare and religion follows, along
with a selection of primary documents related to religion in his
world. A glossary defines key terms and concepts, and a
bibliography cites print and electronic resources for further
study. Literature students will welcome this book as a guide to
Shakespeare's plays, while history students will value it for using
his plays to examine religion in the Early Modern era.
Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and
often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of
some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range
of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and
the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact
of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon
contemporary counterterrorism - where the neoliberal era frames
counter-terrorism within an endless war against political
uncertainty. Others resist the notion that a separation ever
existed between neoliberalism and counter-terrorism. These
contributions explore how counterterrorism is already itself an
exercise of neoliberalism which practices a form of 'Class War on
Terror'. Finally, other contributors investigate the representation
of terrorism within contemporary cultural products such as video
games, in order to explore the perpetuation of neoliberal and
statist agendas. In doing all of this, the book situates post-9/11
counter-terrorism discourse and practice within much-needed
historical contexts, including the evolution of capitalism and the
state. Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to
readers within the fields of International Relations, Security
Studies, Terrorism Studies, and beyond. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Terrorism.
Prints and drawings have been keenly collected in Europe since at
least the early sixteenth century. Relatively modest in price, they
offered artists, amateurs and collectors of a systematic turn of
mind the opportunity to put together holdings with a wide
representation of different hands, schools and types of subject.
Prints and drawings are traditionally treated separately, but their
collecting is shown here to raise many interrelated issues.
Employing a wide range of methodologies, the essays in this volume
offer a number of innovative investigations into the collecting,
perception, classication and display of works on paper.
Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and
often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of
some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range
of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and
the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact
of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon
contemporary counterterrorism - where the neoliberal era frames
counter-terrorism within an endless war against political
uncertainty. Others resist the notion that a separation ever
existed between neoliberalism and counter-terrorism. These
contributions explore how counterterrorism is already itself an
exercise of neoliberalism which practices a form of 'Class War on
Terror'. Finally, other contributors investigate the representation
of terrorism within contemporary cultural products such as video
games, in order to explore the perpetuation of neoliberal and
statist agendas. In doing all of this, the book situates post-9/11
counter-terrorism discourse and practice within much-needed
historical contexts, including the evolution of capitalism and the
state. Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to
readers within the fields of International Relations, Security
Studies, Terrorism Studies, and beyond. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Terrorism.
This book--the sixth volume in "The Great Cultural Eras of the
Western World" series--provides information on more than 400
individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual
and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural
figures--those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the
scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to
secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known
painters, and contributors to art and music.
As the momentum of the Renaissance peaked in 1600, the Western
World was poised to move from the Early Modern to the Modern Era.
The Thirty Years War ended in 1648 and religion was no longer a
cause for military conflict. Europe grew more secularized.
Organized scientific research led to groundbreaking discoveries,
such as the earth's magnetic field, Kepler's first two laws of
motion, and the slide rule. In the arts, Baroque painting, music,
and literature evolved. A new Europe was emerging. This book is a
useful basic reference for students and laymen, with entries
specifically designed for ready reference.
The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 1873) is one of
the most celebrated paintings of the nineteenth century. It was
acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2017. In this new
book, the first to focus in detail on this iconic picture,
Christopher Baker explores its complex and fascinating history. He
places Landseer's work in the context of the artist's meteoric
career, considers the circumstances of its high-profile commission
and its extraordinary subsequent reputation. When so much Victorian
art fell out of fashion, Landseer's Monarch took on a new role as
marketing image, bringing it global recognition. It also inspired
the work of many other artists, ranging from Sir Bernard Partridge
and Ronald Searle to Sir Peter Blake and Peter Saville. Today the
picture has an intriguing status, being seen by some as a splendid
celebration of Scotland's natural wonders and by others as an
archaic trophy. This publication will make a significant
contribution to the debates that it continues to stimulate. The
painting will tour to four Scottish venues in late 2017 and early
2018 (Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, 6 October - 19 November
2017; Perth Museum and Art Gallery, 25 November 2017 - 14 January
2018; Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, 20 January - 11 March 2018;
Kirkcudbright Galleries, 25 March - 12 May 2018).
Prints and drawings have been keenly collected in Europe since at
least the early sixteenth century. Relatively modest in price, they
offered artists, amateurs and collectors of a systematic turn of
mind the opportunity to put together holdings with a wide
representation of different hands, schools and types of subject.
Prints and drawings are traditionally treated separately, but their
collecting is shown here to raise many interrelated issues.
Employing a wide range of methodologies, the essays in this volume
offer a number of innovative investigations into the collecting,
perception, classication and display of works on paper.
The essays in this book were originally published together as a
special issue of the Journal of Modern Asian Studies, released in
July 1981. They are reprinted here in their entirety. The essays
are concerned with the ways in which Britain's imperial connection
with India impinged upon the political, economic and social
development of the subcontinent in the first half of the twentieth
century.
The need to reimagine religion and belief is precipitated by their
greater visibility in public life. Meanwhile, social policy
responses often see them from a problem-based, rather than an
asset-based, approach. However, with growing diversity of religion
and belief in every sector comes the potential for new dialogues
across previously impermeable policy and disciplinary silos. This
volume brings together leading international authors to critically
consider these challenges within legal and policy frameworks,
including security and cohesion, welfare, law, health and social
care, inequality, cohesion, extremism, migration and abuse. It
challenges policy makers to re-imagine religion and belief as an
integral part of public life that contains resources, practices,
forms of knowledge and experience that are essential to a coherent
policy approach to diversity, enhanced democracy and participation.
This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first
century is evolving in a significantly different way to the
twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and
technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into
question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this
century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual
values have returned to the centre of public life, especially
public policy, governance, and social identity. Rapidly
diversifying urban locations are the best places to witness the
emergence of new spaces in which religions and spiritual traditions
are creating both new alliances but also bifurcations with secular
sectors. "Postsecular Cities" examines how the built environment
reflects these trends. Recognizing that the 'turn to the
postsecular' is a contested and multifaceted trend, the authors
offer a vigorous, open but structured dialogue between theory and
practice, but even more excitingly, between the disciplines of
human geography and theology. Both disciplines reflect on this
powerful but enigmatic force shaping our urban humanity. This
unique volume offers the first insight into these interdisciplinary
and challenging debates. The relationship between religion and
politics is both fascinating and challenging, and recent years have
seen substantial changes in the way this relationship is studied.
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