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For scholars seeking to undertake consequential research in
service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) at a time when
there is widening interest in and increasing acceptance of research
in this field as a primary area of scholarship, this book provides
accounts by preeminent scholars about the trajectories of their
research, their methodologies, lessons learned along the way, as
well as their views about the future direction of the field.The
contributors to this volume represent a range of disciplines and
fields including education, history, organizational leadership,
political science, philanthropic studies, psychology, and public
health, as well as both qualitative and quantitative traditions,
and offer models of scholarly learning that contribute to a
knowledge base that can guide practice and further the broader
public purposes of the academy. They articulate how they view their
research on SLCE as having broader purposes that matter to them
personally as well as professionally and illustrate how the "why"
and "to what end" of their research can evolve as a program of
research develops and matures across time. They identify key
choices they made in terms of inquiry and methodology, describe
both successes and challenges in establishing and navigating a SLCE
research agenda across their careers, and share lessons learned
from their research journey to advance the field both domestically
and abroad. Emerging from these narratives is a theme of practical
wisdom that arises through the learning of researchers, students
and communities as they engage with complex social contexts.
This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical
and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis
morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies
for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.
This book is a state-of-the-art review of the physical, chemical
and mineralogical properties of anthropogenic soils, their genesis
morphology and classification, geocultural setting, and strategies
for reclamation, revitalization, use and management.
For scholars seeking to undertake consequential research in
service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) at a time when
there is widening interest in and increasing acceptance of research
in this field as a primary area of scholarship, this book provides
accounts by preeminent scholars about the trajectories of their
research, their methodologies, lessons learned along the way, as
well as their views about the future direction of the field.The
contributors to this volume represent a range of disciplines and
fields including education, history, organizational leadership,
political science, philanthropic studies, psychology, and public
health, as well as both qualitative and quantitative traditions,
and offer models of scholarly learning that contribute to a
knowledge base that can guide practice and further the broader
public purposes of the academy. They articulate how they view their
research on SLCE as having broader purposes that matter to them
personally as well as professionally and illustrate how the "why"
and "to what end" of their research can evolve as a program of
research develops and matures across time. They identify key
choices they made in terms of inquiry and methodology, describe
both successes and challenges in establishing and navigating a SLCE
research agenda across their careers, and share lessons learned
from their research journey to advance the field both domestically
and abroad. Emerging from these narratives is a theme of practical
wisdom that arises through the learning of researchers, students
and communities as they engage with complex social contexts.
Between Worlds Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism J. H.
Chajes "An exciting, persuasive, and well-written study and another
key addition to a subject central to early modern
religions."--"Jewish Quarterly Review" "Chajes's excellent new book
. . . succeeds in demystifying the subject of Jewish spirit (i.e.,
"dybbuk") possession by placing it within a broader cross-cultural
and historical context, a s sophisticated methodological approach
he calls a 'historical anthropology of spirit possession.' . . .
His work is both a history and a phenomenology of Jewish spirit
possession during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries."--"Choice" "This is a major contribution, not only to
early modern Jewish studies but to the subject of spirit possession
broadly conceived in the Christian world."--Edward Peters,
University of Pennsylvania After a nearly two-thousand-year
interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the
great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age
of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to
proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near
East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both
benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most
characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society.
Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers
this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been
paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology,
Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of
possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed
by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders. Seeking to
understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full
complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework--chiefly
the doctrine of reincarnation--while exploring its relation to
contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit
possession as a form of religious expression open to--and even
dominated by--women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women
in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he
examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of
spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost
stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the
turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and
poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the
first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious
landscape, as quotidian as it was portentous: the nexus of the
living and the dead. J. H. Chajes teaches Jewish history at the
University of Haifa. Jewish Culture and Contexts 2003 288 pages 6 x
9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3724-5 Cloth $55.00s 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-2170-1
Paper $24.95s 16.50 World Rights Religion Short copy: Adopting a
comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers a strain of
Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. "Between
Worlds" provides fascinating descriptions of cases of possession as
well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic
exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.
The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is the law enforcement and
security organization of the U.S. Department of State. As such, it
is responsible for many law enforcement and security related issues
within the Department of State. One of these issues is to provide
security to American embassies, consulates, their staffs, and other
designated American interests overseas. This thesis examined the
strategy used by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to provide
security for American civilian interests overseas and whether this
strategy remains relevant in the current threat environment. The
examination was divided into three areas: (1) the current
operational environment; (2) current DS operations; and (3) trends
influencing future DS security operations. The current operational
environment revealed a continuing threat to American civilian
interests overseas. The review of current DS operations illustrated
an organization attempting to address the current threats, but
involved in a seemingly never ending threat, counter-threat
escalation with those that wish to do harm to American civilian
interests overseas. Finally, the review of future trends revealed
DS will continue to expand its role as the Department of State
becomes involved in more non-permissive environments and
humanitarian crises.
This scientific investigation highlights the relationship between
visual stimulus sinusoidal spatial frequency, force-feedback (FF)
square, triangle, and sinusoidal wave driven vibrational
periodicities, and their association with the visible light
spectrum colors red, orange, yellow green, blue indigo, and violet.
A customized FF joystick program presented randomly ordered .01,
.015, .03, .045, and .09 seconds-per-cycle period FF vibrations
while soliciting participant color-choice. Each vibration was
randomly presented 10 times across 50 trials. Analyses indicate
significant but differing color-association preferences for square,
triangle, and sine waveform driven vibrations.
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