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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The end of Christendom, where the Christian story was known and the
church was central, invites Christians in western culture to
embrace marginality and discover fresh ways of being church and
engaging in mission. While the transition from modernity to
postmodernity has received a huge amount of attention, the shift
from Christendom to post-Christendom has not yet been fully
explored. This book is an introduction; a journey into the past, an
interpretation of the present and an invitation to ask what
following Jesus might mean in the strange new world of
post-Christendom. Drawing on insights from the early Christians,
dissident movements and the world church, this book challenges
conventional ways of thinking. For those who dare to imagine new
ways of following Jesus on the margins, it invites a realistic and
hopeful response to challenges and opportunities awaiting us in the
21st century.
Multi-voiced Church argues strongly and persuasively for churches
in which everyone is important for the well-being and growth of the
community. The New Testament indicates that the early churches were
multi-voiced, participative and expectant that the Holy Spirit
would speak through all members of the community. First-generation
renewal movements have typically been multi-voiced, recovering this
New Testament characteristic. But institutionalization (often
accompanied by clericalization) has persistently reduced such
diversity of participation and resulted in many aspects of church
life becoming mono-voiced or restricted to only a few voices.
How will the western church negotiate the demise of Christendom?
Can it rediscover its primary calling, recover its authentic ethos
and regain its nerve?If churches are to thrive or even survive
disturbing questions need to be confronted and answered. In
conversation with Christians who have left the church and with
those who are experimenting with fresh expressions of church,
Stuart Murray explores both the emerging and inherited church
scenes and makes proposals for the development of a way of being
church suitable for a post-denominational, post-commitment and
post-Christendom era. With chapters on mission, community and
worship, Church After Christendom offers a vision of church life
that is healthy, sustainable, liberating, peaceful and missional.
A critical assessment of church planting strategies and practices,
offering a biblical, theological and historical foundation for this
component of mission. Attention is given to the postmodern and
post-Christendom context for contemporary church planting. This is
really a book on ecclesiology and mission from an Anabaptist
perspective, using church planting as a way in to a range of
issues.
Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the
cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and
disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination
of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from
different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the
complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and
championing user participation, to a commitment to new forms of
critical writing. In/Disciplines explores the connections between
the two disciplines in detail. It presents a series of provocations
about how they interact, the forms their practice take, and their
strengths and weaknesses as working methods. With a focus on life
stories that give accounts of health and disability experiences, it
mixes creative and critical writing in an accessible manner aimed
at a wide audience in both Medical Humanities and Disability
Studies, and across new humanities more widely. The book asserts
that both disciplines need to evaluate and challenge core
assumptions if they are to remain critically relevant in the
evolving study of social and cultural understanding of health and
disability.
Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the
cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and
disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination
of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from
different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the
complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and
championing user participation, to a commitment to new forms of
critical writing. In/Disciplines explores the connections between
the two disciplines in detail. It presents a series of provocations
about how they interact, the forms their practice take, and their
strengths and weaknesses as working methods. With a focus on life
stories that give accounts of health and disability experiences, it
mixes creative and critical writing in an accessible manner aimed
at a wide audience in both Medical Humanities and Disability
Studies, and across new humanities more widely. The book asserts
that both disciplines need to evaluate and challenge core
assumptions if they are to remain critically relevant in the
evolving study of social and cultural understanding of health and
disability.
Bringing together theory and public health practice, this
interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of
nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM
practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical
research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes
queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists
such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among
others. While the collection contributes to current research in
gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context
of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public
health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will
be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate
students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies,
sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as
practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and
psychology.
This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in
international relations and diplomacy. Sports diplomacy has
previously been defined as an old but under-studied aspect of the
estranged relations between peoples, nations and states. These
days, it is better understood as the conscious, strategic and
ongoing use of sport, sportspeople and sporting events by state and
non-state actors to advance policy, trade, development, education,
image, reputation, brand, and people-to-people links. In order to
better understand the many occasions where sport and diplomacy
overlap, this book presents four new, inter-disciplinary and
theoretical categories of sports diplomacy: traditional, 'new',
sport-as-diplomacy, and sports anti-diplomacy. These categories are
further validated by a large number of case studies, ranging from
the Ancient Olympiad to the recent appearance of esoteric,
government sports diplomacy strategies, and beyond, to the
activities of non-state sporting actors such as F.C. Barcelona,
Colin Kaepernick and the digital world of e-sports. As a result,
the landscape of sports diplomacy becomes clearer, as do the
pitfalls and limitations of using sport as a diplomatic tool. This
book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy, foreign
policy, sports studies, and International Relations in general.
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent
limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological
assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from
an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a
commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and
culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial
and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory
is a victim of its own success, not least because of the
institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that
these insights no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the
field should address beyond its general commitments. Yet the
renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides
an important opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical
value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and
oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what
postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars
articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores
ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory
might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility,
performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the
shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to
contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform,
postcommunism, and the economic rise of Asia. Finally, they address
the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from
postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary
directions (management studies, international relations, disaster
studies), overlooked locations and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar
Germany, the commons), and the necessity of materialist analysis
for understanding both the contemporary world and world literary
systems.
This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of
understanding its role in shaping foreign policy. Recent events,
including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of
spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have
demonstrated that secrecy endures as a crucial, yet overlooked,
aspect of international diplomacy. The book brings together
different research programmes and views on secret diplomacy and
integrates them into a coherent analytical framework, thereby
filling an important gap in the literature. The aim is to
stimulate, generate and direct the further development of
theoretical understandings of secret diplomacy by highlighting
'gaps' in existing bodies of knowledge. To this end, the volume is
structured around three distinct themes: concepts, contexts and
cases. The first section elaborates on the different meanings and
manifestations of the concept; the second part examines basic
contexts that underpin the practice of secret diplomacy; while the
third section presents a series of empirical cases of particular
relevance for contemporary diplomatic practice. While the
fundamental conditions diplomacy seeks to overcome - alienation,
estrangement and separation - are imbued with distrust and secrecy,
this volume highlights that, if anything, secret diplomacy is a
vital, if misunderstood and unfairly criticised, aspect of
diplomacy. This book will be of much interest to students of
diplomacy, intelligence studies, foreign policy and IR in general.
Bringing together theory and public health practice, this
interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of
nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM
practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical
research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes
queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists
such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among
others. While the collection contributes to current research in
gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context
of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public
health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will
be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate
students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies,
sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as
practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and
psychology.
Innovations in Family Therapy for Eating Disorders brings together
the voices of the most-esteemed, international experts to present
conceptual advances, preliminary data, and patient perspectives on
family-based treatments for eating disorders. This innovative
volume is based partly on a special issue of Eating Disorders: The
Journal of Treatment and Prevention and includes a section on the
needs of carers and couples, "Tales from the Trenches," and
qualitative studies of patient, parent, and carer experiences.
Cutting edge and practical, this compendium will appeal to
clinicians and researchers involved in the treatment of eating
disorders.
Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in
health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice
implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the
notion of care itself and its connection to practice. Organised
around the themes of culture as a restraint on caregiving in
different social contexts and situations, innovative methods in
healthcare, and the way in which culture works to position care as
part of a rhetorical approach to dependency, responsibility, and
justice, The Ethics of Care presents case studies examining
institutional responses to end-of-life issues, the notion of
informed consent, biomedicine, indigenous rights and
postcolonialism in care and theoretical approaches to the concept
of care. Offering discussions from a variety of disciplinary
approaches, including sociology, communication, and social theory,
as well as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and deconstruction, this
book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with
interests in healthcare, medicine, justice and the question of how
we think about care as a notion and social form, and how this is
related to practice.
This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of
understanding its role in shaping foreign policy. Recent events,
including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of
spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have
demonstrated that secrecy endures as a crucial, yet overlooked,
aspect of international diplomacy. The book brings together
different research programmes and views on secret diplomacy and
integrates them into a coherent analytical framework, thereby
filling an important gap in the literature. The aim is to
stimulate, generate and direct the further development of
theoretical understandings of secret diplomacy by highlighting
'gaps' in existing bodies of knowledge. To this end, the volume is
structured around three distinct themes: concepts, contexts and
cases. The first section elaborates on the different meanings and
manifestations of the concept; the second part examines basic
contexts that underpin the practice of secret diplomacy; while the
third section presents a series of empirical cases of particular
relevance for contemporary diplomatic practice. While the
fundamental conditions diplomacy seeks to overcome - alienation,
estrangement and separation - are imbued with distrust and secrecy,
this volume highlights that, if anything, secret diplomacy is a
vital, if misunderstood and unfairly criticised, aspect of
diplomacy. This book will be of much interest to students of
diplomacy, intelligence studies, foreign policy and IR in general.
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent
limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological
assumptions of its dominant formations, and emerging from an
investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment
to its basic premise; namely the conception of particular cultural
and literary articulations in relation to larger structures of
colonial and imperial domination as a way of putting the "theory
"back in postcolonial theory. To a certain extent, postcolonial
theory is a victim of its own success, in part from the
institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled: now that
they no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field s work
should be beyond these general commitments, or what its
practitioners should be debating. The renewal of popular
anti-imperial energies across the globe provides a rare opportunity
to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial
as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm.
This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory "can"
say through the work of scholars articulating what it still
"cannot" or "will not" say. It explores ideas that a more
aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to
address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and
literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of
current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political
developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the
economic rise of East Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary,
geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial
studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions
(management studies, theories of the state), overlooked places and
perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the environmentalism of
the poor), and the necessity of materialist analysis for
understanding both world and world literary systems."
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