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Contemporary societies are besotted with the 'body', its size, shape and 'health'. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are contemporary social trends and attitudes towards the 'body' reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers and health professionals influence young people's experiences of their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or merely another form of regulation and social control?
Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of (post) modern day attitudes toward obesity, health, childhood and the mainstream science and business interests that promote narrow body centred ways of thinking. Includes: * A critical history of notions of body, identity and health in schools. * Analysis of the 'obesity epidemic', eating disorders and the influence of nurtured body image in racism, sexism, homophobia and body elitism in schools.
Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and
healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and
earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly,
exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and
attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools,
in the teaching of Physical Education and Health? How do teachers
and health professionals influence young people's experiences of
their own and others' bodies? Is health education liberating or
merely another form of regulation and social control? Drawing
together some of the latest research on the body and schooling,
Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique
of (post) modern-day attitudes toward obesity, health, childhood
and the mainstream science and business interests that promote
narrow body-centred ways of thinking. Includes: * A critical
history of notions of body, identity and health in schools. *
Analysis of the 'obesity epidemic', eating disorders * Analysis of
the influence of nurtured body image in racism, sexism, homophobia
and body elitism in schools.
The book is in two parts. Part One explores key Christian belief
about the Bible and why it matters; encourages effective use and
application of the Bible in different cultural and social contexts;
teaches on right and wrong use of the Bible; models different
possible ways of approaching and using the Bible with integrity;
encourages readers to take the Bible as a whole and build a
biblical worldview. Part Two, 'Using the Bible' illustrates
examples of applied Bible use in different contexts with
contributions from a variety of authors.
THE volume relates to the part of the county lying north-west of
Cambridge and includes the histories of twenty-seven parishes
forming the hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth. The
area is bounded on the south by the road to St. Neots, on the east
by the river Cam, and on the north by the Great Ouse or Old West
River; it falls into two distinct physical landscapes, the land in
the south sloping gently from a ridge and that in the north forming
an extension of the fenlands of the Isle of Ely. Two distinct
settlement patterns reflect the geographical division. The villages
on the higher ground were mainly devoted to arable farming. Some of
the smaller parishes there came into or remained in the hands of a
single landowner between the early 16th and the mid 17th century,
and each parish tended to be dominated by its principal landowner
and the Church of England; population rose steadily in the earlier
19th century but fell sharply from the 1870s. Along the fen edge
the parishes were mostly larger and included extensive meadow and
pasture created on former marshland; numerous smallholders could
support themselves out of the resources of the fens, grazing sheep
on the commons, fishing, fowling, and cutting peat, and in the 17th
century the villagers combined to resist the attempts of new lay
lords to restore seigneurial rights and to inclose large tracts of
commons. Religious dissent was strong. From the 1870s the
establishment of orchards and market gardens and the growth of the
Chivers jam factory at Histon enabled the villages to maintain or
increase their population. The south-east corner of the area was
particularly affected by the urban and academic expansion of
Cambridge in the late 19th and the 20th century; several parishes
were largely built up, Chesterton became fully suburban, and
research organizations were established.
North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and
productive as Robert W. Jenson. A truly ecumenical thinker, Jenson
consistently demonstrates the way that the church's confession of
the triune God of scripture restructures Christian thinking.
Jenson's work on the nature of theology has focused on the category
of "promise": a way with language that opens up new possibilities.
At the heart of Jenson's theology of the gospel is the conviction
that, in Christ, God discloses a word of pure promise to us,
enabling new patterns of life. Just as the gospel opens up new ways
of living, good theology unfolds into new interpretations and
articulations. Engaging Jenson's work across vital areas, this
volume lays out the contours and key contributions of Jenson's
thought for modern Christology, theological interpretation of
Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity in light of the recent
Trinitarian revival, and ecumenical theological relations. This
volume gathers together essays by some of contemporary theology's
most capable thinkers, such as Oliver Crisp, Stephen Holmes, Joseph
Mangina, Peter Leithart, Telford Work, Eugene Rogers, R. Kendall
Soulen, and Peter Ochs, to examine the ways in which Jenson's own
theology functions as "promise," enabling further theological
visions and articulations.
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