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Over the past fifty years Brazil's evangelical community has
increased from five to twenty-five percent of the population. This
volume's authors use statistical overview, historical narrative,
personal anecdote, social-scientific analysis, and theological
inquiry to map out this emerging landscape. The book's thematic
center pivots on the question of how Brazilian evangelicals are
exerting their presence and effecting change in the public life of
the nation. Rather than fixing its focus on the interior life of
Brazilian evangelicals and their congregations, the book's
attention is directed toward social expression: the ways in which
Brazilian evangelicals are present and active in the common life of
the nation.
Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the
developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely
to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever
before. Narratives of Loneliness tackles some of the most pressing
issues related to loneliness, showing that whilst recent policies
on social integration, community building and volunteering may go
some way to giving an illusion of not being alone, ultimately, they
offer a rhetoric of togetherness that may be more seductive than
ameliorative, as the condition and experience of loneliness is far
more complex than commonly perceived. Containing thought-provoking
contributions from researchers and commentators in several
countries, this important work challenges us to rethink some of the
burning issues of our day with specific reference to the causes and
consequences of loneliness. Topics include the loneliness and
mental health of military personnel, loneliness and social media,
loneliness and sexuality, urban loneliness, and the experiences of
transnational movement and adopted children. This book therefore
makes an overdue multidisciplinary contribution to the emerging
debate about how best to deal with loneliness in a world that
combines greater and faster connectedness on the one hand with more
intensely experienced isolation on the other. Since Emile Durkheim
first claimed that the structure of society could have a strong
bearing on psychological health in the 1890s, researchers in a
range of disciplines have explored the probable impact of social
context on mental health and wellbeing. Interdisciplinary in
approach, Narratives of Loneliness will therefore be of great
interest to academics, postgraduate students and researchers in
social sciences, the arts, psychology and psychiatry.
Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the
developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely
to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever
before. Narratives of Loneliness tackles some of the most pressing
issues related to loneliness, showing that whilst recent policies
on social integration, community building and volunteering may go
some way to giving an illusion of not being alone, ultimately, they
offer a rhetoric of togetherness that may be more seductive than
ameliorative, as the condition and experience of loneliness is far
more complex than commonly perceived. Containing thought-provoking
contributions from researchers and commentators in several
countries, this important work challenges us to rethink some of the
burning issues of our day with specific reference to the causes and
consequences of loneliness. Topics include the loneliness and
mental health of military personnel, loneliness and social media,
loneliness and sexuality, urban loneliness, and the experiences of
transnational movement and adopted children. This book therefore
makes an overdue multidisciplinary contribution to the emerging
debate about how best to deal with loneliness in a world that
combines greater and faster connectedness on the one hand with more
intensely experienced isolation on the other. Since Emile Durkheim
first claimed that the structure of society could have a strong
bearing on psychological health in the 1890s, researchers in a
range of disciplines have explored the probable impact of social
context on mental health and wellbeing. Interdisciplinary in
approach, Narratives of Loneliness will therefore be of great
interest to academics, postgraduate students and researchers in
social sciences, the arts, psychology and psychiatry.
Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of
Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History
(1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European
theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's
contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric
Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and
strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a
curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that
exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These
topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.
This Handbook is designed to help cooperative education and
internship professionals and employers design, carry out, and
disseminate quality research and evaluation studies of work-based
education. It offers examples of current, leading-edge studies
about work-based education, but with a practical twist: The chapter
authors frame their studies within a specific key research design
issue, including finding a starting point and a theoretical
framework; fitting research into one's busy practitioner workload;
deciding on particular data-gathering methods and an overall
methodological approach; integrating qualitative and quantitative
methodologies; and disseminating results. Also addressed are
questions and concerns that are relevant throughout the course of a
research project: the use of theory in research; the role and
relationship of program assessment to research; and ethical
considerations in research. By combining descriptions of exemplary
research and evaluation studies with practical advice from top
researchers in the field, this volume is a useful tool for
educators and employers who are designing and carrying out their
own studies, as well as a resource for what current research is
discovering and affirming about the field itself. Educators from
other fields, such as study abroad and service-learning will also
find this book an indispensable reference in conducting research on
experiential learning and teaching.
The story of the civil rights movement is well-known, popularized
by both the media and the academy. Yet the version of the story
recounted time and again by both history books and PBS
documentaries is a simplified one, reduced to an inspirational but
ultimately facile narrative framed around Dr. King, the Kennedys,
and the redemptive days of Montgomery and Memphis, in which black
individuals become the rescued survivors. This story renders the
mass of black people invisible, refusing to take seriously everyday
people whose years of persistent struggle often made the big events
possible.Time Longer than Rope unearths the ordinary roots of
extraordinary change, demonstrating the depth and breadth of black
oppositional spirit and activity that preceded the civil rights
movement. The diversity of activism covered by this collection
extends from tenant farmers' labor reform campaign in the 1919
Elaine, Arkansas massacre to Harry T. Moore's leadership of a
movement that registered 100,000 black Floridians years before
Montgomery, and from women's participation in the Garvey movement
to the changing meaning of the Lincoln Memorial. Concentrating on
activist efforts in the South, key themes emerge, including the
under appreciated importance of historical memory and community
building, the divisive impact of class and sexism, and the shifting
interplay between individual initiative and structural
constraints.More than simply illuminating a hitherto marginalized
fragment of American history, Time Longer than Rope provides a
crucial pre-history of the modern civil rights movement. In the
process, it alters our entire understanding of African American
activism and the very meaning of civil rights.
This "Handbook" is designed to help cooperative education and
internship professionals and employers design, carry out, and
disseminate quality research and evaluation studies of work-based
education. It offers examples of current, leading-edge studies
about work-based education, but with a practical twist: The chapter
authors frame their studies within a specific key research design
issue, including finding a starting point and a theoretical
framework; fitting research into one's busy practitioner workload;
deciding on particular data-gathering methods and an overall
methodological approach; integrating qualitative and quantitative
methodologies; and disseminating results. Also addressed are
questions and concerns that are relevant throughout the course of a
research project: the use of theory in research; the role and
relationship of program assessment to research; and ethical
considerations in research.
By combining descriptions of exemplary research and evaluation
studies with practical advice from top researchers in the field,
this volume is a useful tool for educators and employers who are
designing and carrying out their own studies, as well as a resource
for what current research is discovering and affirming about the
field itself. Educators from other fields, such as study abroad and
service-learning will also find this book an indispensable
reference in conducting research on experiential learning and
teaching.
This book outlines many of the techniques involved in materials
development and characterization for photoelectrochemical (PEC) -
for example, proper metrics for describing material performance,
how to assemble testing cells and prepare materials for assessment
of their properties, and how to perform the experimental
measurements needed to achieve reliable results towards better
scientific understanding. For each technique, proper procedure,
benefits, limitations, and data interpretation are discussed.
Consolidating this information in a short, accessible, and easy to
read reference guide will allow researchers to more rapidly immerse
themselves into PEC research and also better compare their results
against those of other researchers to better advance materials
development. This book serves as a "how-to" guide for researchers
engaged in or interested in engaging in the field of
photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting. PEC water splitting is
a rapidly growing field of research in which the goal is to develop
materials which can absorb the energy from sunlight to drive
electrochemical hydrogen production from the splitting of water.
The substantial complexity in the scientific understanding and
experimental protocols needed to sufficiently pursue accurate and
reliable materials development means that a large need exists to
consolidate and standardize the most common methods utilized by
researchers in this field.
Contents: Part I: General Perspectives on Loss, Trauma, Coping and Positive Impacts of Loss. From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events. The Other Side of Trauma: Towards a Psychology of Appreciation. Bereavement. Helping Victims of Loss and Trauma: A Social Psychological Perspective. Victim Thinking. The Ranking of Personal Grief: Death and Comparative Loss. Parallel Selves as Ending of the Grief Work. Rational Suicide. Part 2: Loss and Trauma Associated with Specific Populations. The Role of Perceived Control in Coping with the Losses Associated with Chronic Illness. Coping as a "Reality Construction": On the Role of Attentive, Comparative, and Interpretive Processes in Coping with Cancer. Loss, Adjustment, and Growth after Cancer: Lessons from Patients' children. The Few Gains and Many Losses for Those Stigmatized by Psychiatric Disorders. The Human Costs of Organizational Downsizing: The "Irrational" Effects of The Justice Motive on Managers, Dismissed Workers, and Survivors. Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: kers, and Survivors. Transcending A Lifetime of Losses: Grief and Loss. On Being Homeless and Mentally Ill: A Multitude of Losses and the Possibility of Recovery. Part 3: Loss and Trauma Associated with Close Relationships. Loss, Resources, and Resiliency in Close Interpersonal Relationships. Negotiating Terminal Illness: Communication, Collusion, and Coalition in Caregiving. Caregiver Loss and Quality of Care Provided: Pre-Illness Relationship Makes a Difference. Adjusting to Infertility. Widowhood in Later-Life. The Loss of Loved Ones: the Impact of Relationship Infidelity. Unyielding custody disputes: Tempering Loss and Courting disaster. Cognitive Interdependence and the Experience of Relationship Loss. Part 4: Conclusion. Commentary on Field of Loss and Trauma and Chapters.
Cape Town is vibrant, industrious, creative and entertaining. It
has the sophistication and attraction of a world-class city, set in
an environment of legendary beauty. But it is also riddled with
contradictions and inequities, scarred by a past that left society
fragmented and alienated many of its residents. Now it is seeking a
new, inclusive identity that will embrace and celebrate the diverse
mix of people that gives the city character and life. In this
title, the many faces of Cape Town are revealed, faces that will
engage visitors and no doubt surprise locals who thought they knew
their city. Through the text and photographs, experience Cape Town,
a people's city, uncovered.
Readers and critics who warmed to the fine intelligence of his
debut collection will be astonished and delighted to see how much
Eric Miller has matured as a poet in the six years since "Song of
the Vulgar Starling" first appeared in 1999. In the beautifully
constructed and perceptive poems of his new collection, "In the
Scaffolding," Miller moves fluidly from one delight to another.
Fatherhood and the imagined world of the infant, the overabundant
complexity of Nature, the mind's endless curiosity, and the inner
life of birds are just some of the topics that fall under the lens
of this versatile and vibrant poet.
Governor General's Award nominee Lynn Davies says that Miller's
work shows "how words can move us into the process of recognition."
With his long, floating rhapsodic sentences and exquisite
metaphorical structures, Miller has often been compared with the
great Romantic poet Shelley. Certainly few writers today can match
his gifts for expressive language and surprising poetic
rhythms.
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Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals
centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch
poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the
Well, in 1686. This is the first full translation of Brongersma's
extant work. An artist as versatile, eloquent, and daring as her
English contemporary Aphra Behn, Brongersma dedicated more than
thirty impassioned poems to her beloved, Elisabeth Joly, and
experimented with pastoral verse in West Frisian. Famed, too, for
her part in a pioneering excavation at the ancient monument in
Borger, Brongersma celebrated this experience in strong verse.
Evoking Ovid, Petrarch, Dutch theatre, and French opera, the poet
brought to life a lost world of gifted, surprising, charming women
and men - Joly, her own family, her friends, her patrons, and her
supporters - as well as figures from history and mythology.
Brongersma expressed a powerful sentiment of solidarity with her
sex. Her interest in women's lives, their pleasures, plights, and
priorities, inflected the baroque profusion of genres she so
captivatingly adopted. Eric Miller's facing-page translations of
every piece that Brongersma published are themselves works of art,
adequate to this artist's extraordinary bequest. His introduction
and notes redeem Brongersma from three centuries of obscurity,
survey relevant scholarship, and develop original insights into the
poet's inspirations, physical surroundings, sources, and
connections.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT ETC. GUY: "Eric Miller's stories have
more than once made me spit coffee from my nose from laughing. His
humor ranges from subtle and self-effacing, to ribald. He writes
what many of us think but don't dare say." -Jeffrey Bergeron/Biff
America, author of Steep, Deep and Dyslexic and columnist for
Backcountry Magazine and the Summit Daily News "Eric Miller's
parental observations are amusing and provocative. He stumbles
through his role as a husband and father to two teenage daughters,
but manages to press on." -Marne Larsen, Editor, Growing Up Chico
Magazine "Eric Miller is an aging athlete that has more luck
figuring out what's happening on a hockey rink than in the minds of
his wife and teenage daughters." -Q. Bryce Randle, Editor, Hockey
Player Magazine "Eric Miller, former North State Voices columnist
and Etc. Guy blogger, has the knack of observingdaily, mundane,
events and spinning theminto amusing stories.Hecan be edgy, but
mostguys are." -David Little, Editor, Chico Enterprise-Record Visit
www.etcguy.com for more information"
After the death of a loved one... ...how do you laugh again? ...how
do you love again? ...how do you live life again? ...how do you
navigate the journey of grief? ...how do you reclaim the dreams you
once had? Before the death of a loved one... ...how do you prepare?
...how do you help others going through grief? You start by picking
up this book. Why? Am I an expert in all things grief and grieving?
Hardly - far from it. Sure, I'm a Bachelor's Degree prepared nurse
practicing in pediatric oncology - caring for cancer kids - who has
had the privilege of helping more than one family through the
grieving process. But more than that, I am a father who held his
young son as he took his last breath. Little did I know that that
last breath would usher in my first step on my personal journey of
grief, a journey that continues today. Perhaps you are undertaking
that journey right now, even as you read these sentences. Perhaps
you know someone who is on this journey. Or maybe you have not yet
experienced grief, and are reading this text simply because you are
curious why some guy would actually encourage you to yell at God.
No matter where you stand in relation to grief, I invite you to
stop standing and start walking - take that first step with me. In
this book you will be given a front-row seat, a raw and intimate
look into the thoughts, feelings, pains and joys of a father and
mother as they live out a ten-day span that begins with an innocent
late summer walk and ends with a son's dying breath. You will see
in action what one of our son's doctors described as "faith, hope
and love" that "affected doctors, nurses and secretaries in a
profound way." It is a story of hope and encouragement in the midst
of darkness and despair. Interspersed throughout this story will be
various lessons that I have learned along my now decade-long
journey. These lessons will discuss powerful topics including
dreams, forgiveness, miracles, and questioning God. I even give you
permission to laugh at me along the way, as you might find humorous
stories from my childhood illustrating these lessons (you'll be in
awe of the time I came up with the world's most ingenious plan to
find out if a fifth-grade crush liked me back). Be ready to cry. Be
ready to laugh. This book is not a 10- or 20-step grief recovery
plan. I will not tell you how to "get over" your loved one or how
to "get past" the grief. Instead I am passionate about showing you
how to embrace your grief, and more importantly how to embrace life
again after someone you loved dearly no longer shares that life
with you. So will you come with me? Don't worry - I brought the
Kleenex.
Description: In Glimpses of Another Land, Eric Miller takes the
reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our
times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides,
Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of
sharpened vision that redirects movement. An age featuring 9/11 as
its defining moment surely requires probing reflection and
judgment. Here Eric Miller, with an alert eye and keen voice,
provides both. Endorsements: ""Eric Miller is one of the most
thoughtful and graceful writers today--a combination of
intelligence, humility, and faithful insight. I try to read
everything he writes. What a gift to have so many of his essays
collected in one place "" --Mark Galli, senior managing editor of
Christianity Today ""Whether he writes about the Amish, popular
Christian music, or the Pittsburgh Steelers, Eric Miller's prose
sings with grace, passion, wit, Pennsylvania patriotism, and,
suffusing it all, a sense of hope. His is an America of neighbors,
faith, and peace, not vacuous pop culture and political cant. In
the tradition of Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry, Eric Miller
illumines for us a way back home."" --Bill Kauffman, author of
Ain't My America ""It's fitting that Eric Miller begins this book
by talking about hope and longing. Grounded in a specific time and
place, clear-eyed about our troubles, these essays offer bright
glimpses of another land."" --John Wilson, editor of Books &
Culture ""Eric Miller is quickly becoming one of the best
evangelical cultural critics at work among us today. Always timely,
never trendy, usually salty, never cynical, his essays have a
winsome way of delighting us in the good, drawing us out of
ourselves in longing for a better, more humane and divine mode of
living in the world . . . May his tribe increase and find a way of
loving the rest of us in. May they help us keep our hope alive.""
--Douglas A. Sweeney, author of The American Evangelical Story
""These essays invite a new generation to appreciate an older
legacy of post-partisan political hope. Here is a voice that echoes
with Burke, Chesterton, Berry, and above all, Christopher Lasch.
Miller's pointed insights and intimate prose are invitations to
both reflection and delight."" --James K. A. Smith, author of The
Devil Reads Derrida ""Eric Miller is my favorite Christian cultural
critic. I have been absorbing his writings for over a decade, and
they never fail to inspire me with hope for something better,
something real. If you haven't read him, you must. These essays
will challenge you to think differently about what it means to be a
human being in this world."" --John Fea, author of The Way of
Improvement Leads Home About the Contributor(s): Eric Miller is
Professor of American History at Geneva College in Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life
of Christopher Lasch (2010) and coeditor of Confessing History:
Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation
(2010).
At the end of his landmark 1994 book, The Soul of the American
University, historian George Marsden asserted that religious faith
does indeed have a place in today's academia. Marsden's contention
sparked a heated debate on the role of religious faith and
intellectual scholarship in academic journals and in the mainstream
media. The contributors to Confessing History: Explorations in
Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation expand the discussion
about religion's role in education and culture and examine what the
relationship between faith and learning means for the academy
today. The contributors to Confessing History ask how the vocation
of historian affects those who are also followers of Christ. What
implications do Christian faith and practice have for living out
one's calling as an historian? And to what extent does one's
calling as a Christian disciple speak to the nature, quality, or
goals of one's work as scholar, teacher, adviser, writer, community
member, or social commentator? Written from several different
theological and professional points of view, the essays collected
in this volume explore the vocation of the historian and its place
in both the personal and professional lives of Christian disciples.
The collapse of Zaire brought with it the invading armies of eight
African states, along with an unknown number of paramilitary
groups. Due to the complexity of the conflict International
Relations (IR) theory has attempted to explain the cause of the
conflict as a war of resources, anarchy, neo-imperialism, a failure
of international institutions or the constructive nature of parties
involved in the conflict. Instead this monograph utilizes
neorealism to explain the cause of continuation of conflict in the
Congo. Beginning with the Rwandan Genocide which led to the
Rwandan-Congolese security dilemma intern causing the First and
Second Congo Wars, and was followed by proxy warfare between the
two states. The inability of the United Nations peacekeeping
mission to address the security dilemma or strengthen the state
capacity of the Congo to impose its sovereignty over its territory
explains the continuation of conflict in eastern Congo. A better
understanding of the security dilemma posed by non-state actors and
its effects on the interaction with states can aid in understanding
of other conflicts that have not be resolved by international
interventions.
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