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Rethinking the Human (Paperback)
J. Michelle Molina, Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett, Donald K Swearer
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In our globalized world, differing conceptions of human nature
and human values raise questions as to whether universal and
partisan claims and perspectives can be reconciled, whether
interreligious and intercultural conversations can help build human
community, and whether a pluralistic ethos can transcend
uncompromising notions as to what is true, good, and just. In this
volume, world-class scholars from religious studies, the
humanities, and the social sciences explore what it means to be
human through a multiplicity of lives in time and place as
different as fourth-century BCE China and the world of an Alzheimer
patient today. Refusing the binary, these essays go beyond
description to theories of aging and acceptance, ethics in
caregiving, and the role of ritual in healing the inevitable divide
between the human and the ideal.
Despite ongoing efforts to find alternatives, oil is still one of
the most critical-and valuable-commodities on earth. This
two-volume set provides extensive background information on key
topics relating to oil, profiles countries that are major producers
and consumers of oil, and examines relevant political issues. Aside
from air and water, oil is perhaps the most valuable natural
resource. Oil supplies the tremendous energy needs of the modern
world. What exactly is "oil," where does it come from, how does it
get consumed, and who is using it? This encyclopedia provides clear
answers to these questions and more, offering students entries on
the fundamentals of the oil industry and profiles of the countries
that play a major role in oil production and consumption. Volume 1
presents topical entries on critical concepts, key terms, major oil
spills and disasters, and important organizations and individuals
relating to the oil industry. Entries define terms such as "barrel"
and "reserve," cover incidents such as the BP oil spill, and
explain the significance of organizations such as OPEC. The second
volume spotlights specific countries that are major producers,
consumers, exporters, and importers of oil, from the United States
to Russia to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela. Each profile shows readers
the importance of oil in that country through a brief background
history, data on its oil usage or production, information about
major trading partners, and an explanation of political issues.
Offers a complete resource that covers basic concepts relating to
the oil industry as well as major incidents such as various oil
spills and the specifics of the oil industry in key countries
Includes sidebars throughout the encyclopedia that present
interesting information to supplement the main text as well as
images, maps, and charts that provide additional meaning and
context Serves as an essential reference for students of social
studies, geography, current events, political science, and
environmental science
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of
the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the
struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic
missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in
Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through the 1760s, the book
treats Jesuit techniques of self-formation, namely spiritual
exercises and confessional practices, and the relationships between
spiritual directors and their subjects. Catholics on both sides of
the Atlantic were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of
self and, in the process, fueled the global Catholic missionary
movement. Molina historicizes Jesuit meditation and narrative
self-reflection as modes of self-formation that would ultimately
contribute to a new understanding of religion as something private
and personal, thereby overturning long-held concepts of personhood,
time, space, and social reality. To Overcome Oneself demonstrates
that it was through embodied processes that humans have come to
experience themselves as split into mind and body. Notwithstanding
the self-congratulatory role assigned to "consciousness" in the
Western intellectual tradition, early moderns did not think
themselves into thinking selves. Rather, "the self" was forged from
embodied efforts to transcend self. Yet despite a discourse that
situates self as interior, the actual fuel for continued
self-transformation required an object-cum-subject - someone else
to transform. Two constant questions throughout the book are: Why
does the effort to know and transcend self require so many others?
And what can we learn about the inherent intersubjectivity of
missionary colonialism?
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