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"Pretty much like the rest of the country, only more so." This quip
from Wallace Stegner well-represents the Pacific region's religious
culture. California, Nevada, and Hawaii emerged more recently, more
quickly and with more diversity and fluidity than the other United
States. Although influenced by Mexican Catholicism, Native
Traditions, Asian Religions, and Euro-American Christianity, no
religious tradition dominates, and a secular ethos usually reigns.
But this very religious indifference makes California and the rest
of the region open to all sorts of missionary movements and
religious innovations. New organizational forms, new spiritual
therapies, and new religious hybrids all compete for residents'
attention along with secular ways for making meaning. With all
these options, residents of the region mix, match, and move between
religious identities more than other Americans. Without ignoring
its diversity, Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region
highlights the key aspects of the region's fluctuating religions
and its spirituality's impact on political life.
The United States is founded upon the principles of freedom of
religion, although it has been difficult at times to understand and
apply those principles. Phillip Hammond argues that the
Constitution assumes a radical religious liberty, which protects
the convictions of individual Americans, whether or not those
convictions are explicitly religious. This book is an excellent
guide to the church-state debate of today, and deepens that
discussion by examining the root cause of disagreement about what
freedom of religion means in America.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
Data Engineering has become a necessary and critical activity for
business, engineering, and scientific organizations as the move to
service oriented architecture and web services moves into full
swing. Notably, the US Department of Defense is mandating that all
of its agencies and contractors assume a defining presence on the
Net-centric Global Information Grid. This book provides the first
practical approach to data engineering and modeling, which supports
interoperabililty with consumers of the data in a service- oriented
architectures (SOAs). Although XML (eXtensible Modeling Language)
is the lingua franca for such interoperability, it is not
sufficient on its own. The approach in this book addresses critical
objectives such as creating a single representation for multiple
applications, designing models capable of supporting dynamic
processes, and harmonizing legacy data models for web-based
co-existence. The approach is based on the System Entity Structure
(SES) which is a well-defined structure, methodology, and practical
tool with all of the functionality of UML (Unified Modeling
Language) and few of the drawbacks. The SES originated in the
formal representation of hierarchical simulation models. So it
provides an axiomatic formalism that enables automating the
development of XML dtds and schemas, composition and decomposition
of large data models, and analysis of commonality among structures.
Zeigler and Hammond include a range of features to benefit their
readers. Natural language, graphical and XML forms of SES
specification are employed to allow mapping of legacy meta-data.
Real world examples and case studies provide insight into data
engineering and test evaluation in various application domains.
Comparative information is provided on concepts of ontologies,
modeling and simulation, introductory linguistic background, and
support options enable programmers to work with advanced tools in
the area. The website of the Arizona Center for Integrative
Modeling and Simulation, co-founded by Zeigler in 2001, provides
links to downloadable software to accompany the book.
* The only practical guide to integrating XML and web services in
data engineering
* Introduces linguistic levels of interoperability for effective
information exchange
* Covers the interoperability standards mandated by national and
international agencies
* Complements Zeigler's classic THEORY OF MODELING AND SIMULATION
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