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Joel, Micah and Habakkuk - these ancient prophets have urgent
relevance for a church and a world living at the beginning of a new
millennium. They emphasise the life-or-death importance of
listening to what God has to say, in times of disaster,
disobedience and destruction. Joel, facing the bleakness of
national disaster, anticipates a future outpouring of God's Spirit.
Micah declares that God's punishment for wickedness is certain and
thorough, but that he will preserve a faithful remnant. Facing
imminent destruction of the city, the land and the people, Habakkuk
is sure that God's hidden purposes are being worked out. The
prophets stood in the market-place, powerfully applying their
message from God. David Prior believes that, like them, the church
today is to take its values into the market-place into the church.
Only this stand will bring hope rather than despair to a society
under God's judgment.
In this fresh and gripping exposition, David Prior writes first of
all as a pastor. His conviction is that 1 Corinthians is uniquely a
tract for our times. His aim is that churches will recognise the
problems and tensions inherent in being God's people in the
increasingly urban world today, and not be ignorant of the true
spirituality that is the work of the Holy Spirit. He wishes for
each of them as a body to grow to express the total lordship of
Christ. For Paul, he points out, Corinth as a strategic test case:
if the gospel of Christ could change lives there, it could do so
anywhere. He saw in the Corinthian believers the rich resources for
Christian ministry and mission that are present in every local
church.
This volume examines the historical connections between the United
States' Reconstruction and the country's emergence as a
geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes
at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed,
inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as
an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the
diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism,
and imperialism. In 1935, the great African American intellectual
W. E. B. Du Bois argued in his Black Reconstruction in America that
these two historical moments were intimately related. In
particular, Du Bois averred that the nation's betrayal of the
South's fledgling interracial democracy in the 1870s put
reactionaries in charge of a country on the verge of global power,
with world-historical implications. Working with the same
chronological and geographical parameters, the contributors here
take up targeted case studies, tracing the biographical,
ideological, and thematic linkages that stretch across the
postbellum and imperial moments. With an Introduction, eleven
chapters, and an Afterword, this volume offers multiple
perspectives based on original primary source research. The
resulting composite picture points to a host of countervailing
continuities and changes. The contributors examine topics as
diverse as diplomatic relations with Spain, the changing views of
radical abolitionists, African American missionaries in the
Caribbean, and the ambiguities of turn-of-the century political
cartoons. Collectively, the volume unsettles familiar assumptions
about how we should understand the late nineteenth-century United
States, conventionally framed as the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era. It also advances transnational approaches to understanding
America's Reconstruction and the search for the ideological
currents shaping American power abroad.
Many of the recent reforms in public services in the UK have been
driven by the image of the 'responsible citizen' - the service user
who does not only have rights to receive services but also has
responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes. In this way,
citizens' everyday conduct is shaped by governmental action, yet
there is much evidence that both front-line staff in public
services and the people who use them can sometimes act in ways that
modify, disrupt or negate intended policy outcomes. "Subversive
citizens" presents a highly original examination of how official
policy objectives can be 'subverted' through the actions of staff
and users. It discusses the role of public policy in the creation
of 'good citizenship', such as making appropriate choices about
what to eat and how much to save, to being an active participant in
the local community. It also examines how the roles of service
delivery staff have changed substantially, and how theories of
'power' and 'agency' are useful in analysing the engagement between
public policies (and those employed to deliver them) and the
citizens at whom they are targeted. The idea of subversive
citizenship is explored through theoretical and empirical analyses
by a range of prominent social researchers and will be of interest
to students of social policy, sociology, criminology, politics and
related disciplines, as well as policy makers involved in public
services.
As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history,
Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship.
Historians have studied the period's racial views, political
maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about
woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and
their former masters. Yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has
attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially
the South, thereby neglecting important transnational linkages.
This volume, the first of its kind, will examine Reconstruction's
global connections and contexts in ways that, while honoring the
field's accomplishments, move it beyond its southern focus. The
volume will bring together prominent and emerging scholars to
showcase the deepening interplay between scholarships on
Reconstruction and on America's place in world history. Through
these essays, Reconstruction in a Globalizing World will engage two
dynamic fields of study to the benefit of them both. By
demonstrating that the South and the eastern United States were
connected to other parts of the globe in complex and important
ways, the volume will challenge scholars of Reconstruction to look
outwards. Likewise, examining these same connections will compel
transnationally-minded scholars to reconsider Reconstruction as a
pivotal era in the shaping of the United States' relations with the
rest of the world.
Where is God in times of disaster? How can God allow suffering?
What are God's people to do about moral decay in society? While
people throughout the ages have long pondered these questions,
three of the minor prophets--Joel, Micah and Habakkuk--provide
insights to these perennial problems. The people of Joel's day were
devastated by a locust plague, which Joel said warned of the coming
Day of the Lord. Micah rebuked a culture of corruption and moral
evil. Habakkuk cried out to the Lord on account of a society bent
on violence. All three point to a transcendent God who gives hope
in times of uncertainty. David Prior's passage-by-passage
exposition of these three books provides careful study and measured
insight and application for today's church.
This volume examines the historical connections between the United
States' Reconstruction and the country's emergence as a
geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes
at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed,
inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as
an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the
diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism,
and imperialism. In 1935, the great African American intellectual
W. E. B. Du Bois argued in his Black Reconstruction in America that
these two historical moments were intimately related. In
particular, Du Bois averred that the nation's betrayal of the
South's fledgling interracial democracy in the 1870s put
reactionaries in charge of a country on the verge of global power,
with world-historical implications. Working with the same
chronological and geographical parameters, the contributors here
take up targeted case studies, tracing the biographical,
ideological, and thematic linkages that stretch across the
postbellum and imperial moments. With an Introduction, eleven
chapters, and an Afterword, this volume offers multiple
perspectives based on original primary source research. The
resulting composite picture points to a host of countervailing
continuities and changes. The contributors examine topics as
diverse as diplomatic relations with Spain, the changing views of
radical abolitionists, African American missionaries in the
Caribbean, and the ambiguities of turn-of-the century political
cartoons. Collectively, the volume unsettles familiar assumptions
about how we should understand the late nineteenth-century United
States, conventionally framed as the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era. It also advances transnational approaches to understanding
America's Reconstruction and the search for the ideological
currents shaping American power abroad.
Joel, Micah and Habakkuk - these ancient prophets have urgent
relevance for a church and a world living at the beginning of a new
millennium. They emphasise the life-or-death importance of
listening to what God has to say, in times of disaster,
disobedience and destruction. Joel, facing the bleakness of
national disaster, anticipates a future outpouring of God's Spirit.
Micah declares that God's punishment for wickedness is certain and
thorough, but that he will preserve a faithful remnant. Facing
imminent destruction of the city, the land and the people, Habakkuk
is sure that God's hidden purposes are being worked out. The
prophets stood in the market-place, powerfully applying their
message from God. David Prior believes that, like them, the church
today is to take its values into the market-place into the church.
Only this stand will bring hope rather than despair to a society
under God's judgment.
This text analyzes the themes and professional issues surrounding
citizenship. It is designed to equip managers with the knowledge
and skills required to address areas such as community involvement
and local democracy and participation - subjects which lie at the
heart of public sector management in the 1990s, particularly with
the advent of unitary authorities.;The book covers such topics as
accountability, citizen's rights, performance standards, efficiency
reforms, the Citizen's Charter, and how rights are balanced by
responsibilities. A detailed examination of the interrelation
between these elements is provided, together with an evaluation of
the emerging model.
Between Freedom and Progress recovers and analyses the global
imaginings of Reconstruction's partisans, those who struggled over
and with Reconstruction, as they vied with one another to define
the nature of their country after the Civil War. The remarkable
technological and commercial transformations of the mid-nineteenth
century, in particular, steam engines, telegraphs, and an expanded
commercial printing capacity, created a constant stream of news,
description, and storytelling from across and beyond the nation.
Reconstruction's partisans contended with each other to make sense
of this information, motivated by intense political antagonism
combined with a shared but contested set of ideas about freedom and
progress. As writers, lecturers, editors, travelers, moral
reformers, racists, abolitionists, politicians, suffragists,
soldiers, and diplomats, Reconstruction's partisans made competing
claims about their place in the world. Understanding how, why, and
when they did so helps ground our understanding of Reconstruction,
itself a mysterious, transatlantic term, in its own intellectual
context. Three factors proved pivotal to the making of
Reconstruction's world. First, from 1865 to the early 1870s, the
interconnected issues of how to remake the Union and how to remake
the South exerted a powerful hold on federal politics, defining the
partisan landscape and inspiring rival arguments about what was
possible and what was good. The daunting nature of these issues
created a sense of crisis across the political spectrum, with
political discourse ranging in tone from combative to euphoric to
apocalyptic. Second, though domestic in nature, these issues were
refracted through two broadly held beliefs: that the causes of
freedom and progress defined history and that distinctive peoples
with their own characters composed the world's population. These
beliefs produced a disposition to think of developments from across
and beyond the United States as essentially relatable to each
other, encouraging an intellectual style that favoured wide-ranging
comparisons. Third, far from being confined to the elite, this mode
of thinking and arguing about the world lived and breathed in
public texts that were produced and consumed on a weekly and daily
basis. This commercialised and politicised world of mass publishing
was highly unequal in structure and content, but it was also
impressively vibrant and popular. Together, these three factors
made the world of Reconstruction a global landscape of information,
argumentation, and imagination that derived much of its vigor from
domestic political battles.
Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging
from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in
the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms
of the things that it is understood to have left behind: a space
between music, fine art, and performance. The Oxford Handbook of
Sound Art surveys the practices, politics, and emerging frameworks
of thought that now define this previously amorphous area of study.
Throughout the Handbook, artists and thinkers explore the uses of
sound in contemporary arts practice. Imbued with global
perspectives, chapters are organized in six overarching themes of
Space, Time, Things, Fabric, Senses and Relationality. Each theme
represents a key area of development in the visual arts and music
during the second half of the twentieth century from which sound
art emerged. By offering a set of thematic frameworks through which
to understand these themes, this Handbook situates constellations
of disparate thought and practice into recognized centers of
activity.
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