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This text provides an accessible account of the social construction
of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews) and
secondary data. Four nations are examined: the UK, US, South Africa
and Jamaica. The author maintains how little attention has
traditionally been given to theorizing multiracial identity in the
context of white supremacist thought and practice. This concise,
wide-ranging, contentious and well referenced study provides
students of identity politics and miscegenation with an insightful
read. The book also contains a glossary.
The common goal of the contributors is to illuminate sexuality as a crucial site of conflict and dissent both within and between religious traditions. Thus, we have a collection of ten essays on themes emerging from the social scientific study of religion and sexuality in an array of cultural contexts. Together the essays examine four themes: 1) fecundism as an ideology of reproduction, 2) sexual identity and the life cycle, 3) binary sexual categories, and 4) relations of power and domination.
The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and
problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions
have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of
these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for
universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of
human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete
manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and
scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint
and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights
regime needs to survive and flourish. This volume provides
authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and
indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and
origins of "human rights, " and offers insight into the major human
rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities.
These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience,
choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and
self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of
religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement
of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace,
orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and
Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for
understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges
faced by the world's religions.
Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together
writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the
Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian
traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as
contemporary materials showing how the religions have responded to
the changing conditions and mores of modern life. It reveals the
similarities and differences among the various religions and the
development of ideas and teachings within each tradition.
Selections shed light on each religion's views on a range of
subjects, including sexuality and sexual pleasure, the meaning and
purpose of marriage, the role of betrothal, the status of women,
the place of romance, grounds for divorce, celibacy, and sexual
deviance.
Separate chapters devoted to each religion include introductions
by leading scholars that contextualize the readings. The selections
are drawn from a variety of genres including ritual, legal,
theological, poetic, and mythic texts. The volume contains such
diverse examples as the Zohar on conjugal manners, a contemporary
Episcopalian liturgy for same-sex unions, Qur'anic passages on the
equality of the sexes, the Ka--masu--tra on husbands, wives, and
lovers, Buddhist writings on celibacy, and Confucian teachings on
filial piety.
Contributors include: Michael S. Berger, Emory University;
Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Richmond School of Law; Alan Cole, Lewis and
Clark College; Paul B. Courtright, Emory University; Patricia
Buckley Ebrey, University of Washington; Raja M. El-Habti, Muslim
Women Lawyers for Human Rights; Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory
University; Mark D. Jordan, Emory University
The relationship between religion and human rights is complex and
problematic throughout the world. Most of the world's religions
have been used for violence, repression, and prejudice. Yet each of
these religions can play a crucial role in the modern struggle for
universal human rights. Human rights depend upon the values of
human communities to give them content, coherence, and concrete
manifestation. Religions have constantly provided the sources and
scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint
and regret, and restitution and reconciliation that a human rights
regime needs to survive and flourish. This volume provides
authoritative examinations of the contributions to human rights of
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and
indigenous religions. Each chapter grapples with the concept and
origins of "human rights, " and offers insight into the major human
rights issues that confront religious individuals and communities.
These include core issues of freedom of religious conscience,
choice, exercise, expression, association, morality, and
self-determination. They also include analysis of the roles of
religious ideas and institutions in the cultivation and abridgement
of rights of women, children, and minorities, and rights to peace,
orderly development, and protection of nature and the environment.
With contributions by a score of leading experts, Religion and
Human Rights offers a wealth of knowledge and analysis for
understanding the contributions to human rights and the challenges
faced by the world's religions.
Hospitality is something of a modern paradox. On the one hand,
hospitality connotes a nicety or pleasantry easily undervalued as a
ritual or formality devoid of epistemological or ethical content.
On the other hand, the rise in international conflict and violence,
the decline of civil speech, and the increased hostility toward
immigrants points to the dire need for hospitable responses to
mitigate tensions. Hospitality represents a further paradox for
feminism. Historically, women have been saddled with
disproportionate responsibility for hospitality and have also been
treated as unwelcome guests in so many arenas. For these reasons,
feminists have good reason to be wary of addressing hospitality.
Yet, feminist theory has taken the lead on developing ontological,
epistemological, and ethical approaches to connectedness and
relationality such that addressing hospitality appears to be an
appropriate extrapolation. Feminism and Hospitality is a collection
that negotiates amidst these intriguing paradoxes. Feminism and
Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship is the first
collection of original works to bring a feminist analysis to issues
and theories of personal, political, economic, and artistic
hospitality. Furthermore, because feminist theorists have brought
so much attention to the nature of human relationships, this volume
employs a fresh analysis beyond the tradition in political theory.
The author takes you on her personal journey to fulfill a childhood
dream. One that leads to a redirection of her life, and the
beginning of helping introduce, preserve and promote a rare new
breed of horse - The Gypsy Vanner Horse.
Following up on the overwhelming success of the first volume comes
this second, containing more tales of extreme sex. Sex on the edge
is the theme of this unique collection that goes way beyond silk
and satin, candlelight and lingerie. There is leather in these
stories--and also latex, chains, paddles, whips, and more. If you
thought the first book was hot, wild, and kinky, then be prepared
to be delightfully shocked as Volume 2 goes even more over the top.
Featuring contributions from some of the best erotica writers in
the world--plus stories from brand new authors--here you will savor
such diverse delights as "Her Master's Voice," "Never Say Never,"
"Dancing for Daddy," "Her Favorite Ride," and 22 more. Sit back and
take pleasure as authors like M. Christian (who also edited the
collection), Patrick Califia, Lisabet Sarai, Sage Vivant, and Simon
Sheppard stretch the limits of your erotic imagination. You won't
believe the sensual surprises that lie ahead. From fetish and
master/slave to body mortification and bondage, it's all here and
waiting for your enjoyment . . .
Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it?
Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth
volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation,
terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom and just war
theories rub shoulders with issues of witchcraft, female genital
mutilation circumcision, child marriage, displaced communities and
additional issues besides. This unique collection of topics is both
challenging and inspiring, providing illumination in troubled
times, and forming a sound foundation for future scholarship.
What is heritage in Africa? Who defines and authorises heritage? Is
heritage limited to tangible forms of land, resources and
monuments, or do intangible forms of heritage, such as cultural and
religious heritage, count equally or even more? How is heritage
managed, appropriated, expropriated and commodified by the
government and state, by heritage experts and professionals, and by
religious and ethnic groups in service of cultural and tourism
industries and in the construction of national and other group
identities? How is heritage shaped by Africa’s religious and ethnic
pluralism, its colonial past and its postcolonial trajectories?
Finally, how can heritage serve as a means toward social, cultural
and political development? These are just some of the many issues
and questions addressed in this volume by scholars in law, religion
and related fields.
This reference book studies the script, art, and culture of the
early Arabic Kufic calligraphy. It presents around hundred
historical stone inscriptions, coins, and manuscripts from
early-Islamic Persia. In their book, the primary author and famed
Iranian early Kufic expert and calligrapher, S.M.V. Mousavi
Jazayeri, and his fellow co-authors read and analyze with
meticulous detail the calligraphy, script, and art work of
thirty-seven Kufic gravestone inscriptions, mainly from the Yazd
providence of Iran. The carefully-selected inscriptional sample in
this book illustrates the remarkable power and versatility of this
early script, and the extent of the global role played by it in
shaping societies and cultures of a vast area extending from China
to Spain.
Rebecca has her share of challenges-like living amoung creatures of
the night. On the up side, she is deeply in love with one of them
and wants to deliver him fresh young blood. When Rebecca and
Desmond meet in Seattle, they become obsessed with one another, but
things soon come between the forbidden lovers. Desmond keeps a deep
dark secret from Rebecca, in fear of losing her, and when Rebecca
desires immortality, Desmond denies her of her wishes, she then
betrays him for another and things really start to HEAT up!
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