Category: Religious Studies (Page 32 of 41)

New Titles Tuesday, January 16

January 13, 2018 / scbrouwer

Here is a selection of the 26 print and electronic books added to the collection in the past week. Clikc on a title for more information. TWU login may be required

BUSINESS

The Oxford handbook of management theorists / edited by Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner. he Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists examines and evaluates the contributions that seminal figures, past and present, have made to the theory of management by providing in-depth, up-to-date, and detailed scholarly analysis of their ideas and influence. Chapters by leading management and management history scholars explore the origins of each thinker or school of thought and their ideas, and discuss the significance and influence in a broader framework. The Handbook contextualises each theorist and their theories, analysing their actions,interactions, and re-actions to contemporary events and to each other.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

De bestiis marinis, or, The beasts of the sea / by Georg Wilhelm Stellar ; translated by Walter Miller and Jennie Emerson Miller ; transcribed and edited by Paul Royster. Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or “sea bear” (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). This English translation originally appeared in 1899. A brief bibliography, links to online works and sites, and illustrations have been added by the present editor.

Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout: the making of a sensible environmentalist / Patrick Moore. Dr. Patrick Moore’s engaging firsthand account of his many years spent as the ultimate Greenpeace insider, a co-founder and leader in the organization’s top committee. Moore explains why, 15 years after co-founding it, he left Greenpeace to establish a more sensible, science-based approach to environmentalism. From energy independence to climate change, genetic engineering to aquaculture, Moore sheds new light on some of the most controversial subjects in the news today.

Global warming and population responses among Great Plains birds / Paul A. Johnsgard. Based on an analysis of 47 years (1967–2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts, evidence for population changes and shifts in early-winter ranges of nearly 150 species of birds in the Great Plains states is summarized. Over this 47-year period there has been a progressive winter warming trend regionally, and associated ecological changes, influencing the early winter regional abundance and geographic distributions of many birds. The great majority these changes have involved northward shifts in early winter distributions.

HISTORY

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: the age of social catastrophe / Robert Gellately. A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945 — from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.

The Oxford handbook of the Ancien Régime / edited by William Doyle. An international team of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. .In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Regime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Regime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.

We survived: at last I speak / Léon Malmed. This is Malmed’s true story of his and his sister Rachel’s escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their courageous and heroic French neighbors volunteered to watch their children until they returned. Henri and Suzanne Ribouleau, gave the children a home and family and sheltered them through subsequent roundups, threats, air raids, and the war’s privations. Leon bares his soul in this narrative of love and courage, set against a backdrop of tragedy, fear, injustice, prejudice, and the greatest moral outrage of the modern era. It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil.

LINGUISTICS

The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork / edited by Nicholas Thieberger. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the sub-fields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. They consider the application of new technological approaches to recording and documentation, but never lose sight of the crucial relationship between subject and researcher. The book is timely: an increased awareness of dying languages and vanishing dialects has stimulated the impetus for recording them as well as the funds required to do so. The handbook is an indispensable source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural work.

MUSIC

Syntagma musicum.II, De organographia parts III-V, with index / Michael Praetorius ; translated and edited by Quentin Faulkner. Praetorius’s three-volume Syntagma musicum (Musical Encyclopedia) belongs to the last years of his life. Volume II, De organographia (1619, in German) deals with musical instruments, in particular with the organ.This work includes a precise description of ancient and modern organs, their manual and pedal keyboards, bellows, stoplists, and various kinds of stops, as well as how to tune regals and harpsichords easily and precisely; and what to consider when accepting a [newly‑built] organ, together with an appended detailed table . This edition shows the German original on the left and the English translation on the facing right-hand pages.

Musica mechanica organoedi / Musical mechanics for the organist / by Jacob Adlung ; edited for publication by Johann Lorenz Albrecht ; with commentary by Johann Friedrich Agricola ; English translation by Quentin Faulkner. This is the first English translation of Musica mechanica organoedi, originally published in Berlin in 1768. Its author Jacob Adlung (1699-1762) was a musician and scholar and organist at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt. The Musica mechanica organoedi focuses primarily on the organ, from the perspective of the information an organist might need to know about the instrument.

PHILOSOPHY

The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe / editors of compilation, Professor Desmond M. Clarke, University College, Cork, and Professor Catherine Wilson, University of Aberdeen. Twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic,mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The Handbook surveys a number of the most important developments in the philosophy of the period, as these are expounded both in texts that have since become very familiar and in other philosophical texts that are undeservedly less well-known. It also reaches beyond the philosophy to make evident the fluidity of the boundary with science, and to consider the impact on philosophy of historical and political events – explorations, revolutions and reforms, inventions and discoveries. Thus it not only offers a guide to the most important areas of recent research, but also offers some new questions for historians of philosophy to pursue and to have indicated areas that are ripe for further exploration.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

A dictionary of Asian Christianity / edited by Scott Sunquist ; associate editors, David Wu Chu Sing and John Chew Hiang Chea. Describing Christianity as it exists in the region from Pakistan to Japan and from Mongolia to Indonesia, this volume’s 1,260 signed articles include biographies of important Asian church leaders as well as reliable, up-to-date information on the political, cultural, and religious movements that have shaped the Christian faith in this part of the world. Maps, cross-references, and bibliographies enhance the dictionary’s usefulness for teachers, students, and general readers interested in global Christianity.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Oxford handbook of gender in organizations / edited by Savita Kumra, Ruth Simpson, and Ronald J. Burke. The Oxford Handbook of Gender Organizations is a comprehensive analysis of thinking and research on gender in organizations with original contributions from key international scholars in the field. In Bringing together a broad range of research and thinking on gender in organizations across a number of disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual perspectives, the Handbook provides a comprehensive view of both contemporary thinking and future research directions.

The Oxford handbook of sociology and organization studies: classical foundations / edited by Paul S. Adler. The aim of this handbook is to re-assert the importance of classical sociology to the future of Organization Studies. Alongside several thematic chapters, the volume includes chapters on each of nearly two dozen major European and American theorists. Each of these chapters addresses the ideas and their context, the impact of these ideas on the field of Organization Studies, and the potential future research these ideas might inspire.

New Titles Tuesday, January 9

January 9, 2018 / scbrouwer

Just 3 print items were added to the collection over the Christmas break. Click on the title for more information.

Atlas of global Christianity, 1910-2010 /editors, Todd M. Johnson, Kenneth R. Ross ; managing editor, Sandra S.K. Lee. The Atlas of Global Christianity is a thorough visual reference of the changing status of global Christianity over the 100 years since the epoch-making ‘Edinburgh 1910’ World Missionary Conference. It is the first scholarly atlas to depict the 20th century shift of Christianity from the Global North to the Global South. Contextual information on world issues and world religions is included. The atlas is ecumenical in that it covers every Christian tradition. This is the first atlas to incorporate historical essays on Christianity 1910-2010 by scholars from each region of the world. Included is a CD that contains all maps and graphs ready for classroom use.

Feminism and theatre /Sue-Ellen Case; with a foreword by Elaine Aston. This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Foreword by Elaine Aston who examines the context in which Case’s book was written, the influence it has had, subsequent developments in the field and the continued importance of the work.

King and Messiah as Son of God: divine, human, and angelic Messianic figures in biblical and related literature /Adela Yarbro Collins & John J. Collins. Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called “the Son of God” precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus as preexistent, personified Wisdom, or a heavenly being in the New Testament canon. However, the titles Jesus is given are historical titles tracing back to Egyptian New Kingdom ideology. Therefore the title “Son of God” is likely solely messianic and not literal. King and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning both Testaments and informed by ancient Near Eastern literature and Jewish noncanonical literature.

New Titles Tuesday, December 19

December 19, 2017 / scbrouwer

Eleven eBooks were added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information. TWU login may be required.

LINGUSTICS

Language of the snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the language order of premodern India /Andrew Ollett. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kāvya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.

POLITICAL STUDIES

Outcasts of empire: Japan’s rule on Taiwan’s “savage border,” 1874–1945 /Paul D. Barclay. Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down all Chinese walls” in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s “savage border” during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of “long nineteenth century” global transformations. Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant “allies” marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.

Taiwan and China: fitful embrace /edited by Lowell Dittmer. Contributors to this volume focus on three aspects of the evolving quandary: nationalistic identity, social economy, and political strategy.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

A church in the wilds [electronic resource]: the remarkable story of the establishment of the South American mission amongst the hitherto savage and intractable natives of the Paraguayan Chaco /Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb. This is a further account by Grubb of his missionary work among the native tribes of Paraguay.

The givenness of desire: concrete subjectivity and the natural desire to see God /Randall S. Rosenberg. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s “concrete subjectivity.” Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural.

The missionary genius of the Bible [electronic resource] /by Vernon F. Storr, M.A., canon of Westminster; examining chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury This book of missionary theology is an expanded version of a paper, The Missionary Message of the Gospels, originally presented at a Missionary conference at Hertfordshire in 1924.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Child’s play: multi-sensory histories of children and childhood in Japan /edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations–some from Japan’s early-modern past–are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.

Citizen outsider: children of North African immigrants in France /Jean Beaman. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.

URBAN DESIGN

Building green: environmental architects and the struggle for sustainability in Mumbai /Anne Rademacher. Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India’s first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book’s focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future.

New Titles Tuesday, December 12

December 12, 2017 / scbrouwer

Here is a sample of the eleven items added to the collection in the past week. Click on a title for more information; TWU login may be required.

Education for children with disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: developing a sense of belonging /Margarita Schiemer. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal characteristics of Ethiopia that influence the education of children with disabilities. The book presents findings drawn from interviews with, and participant observation of the schoolchildren, family members, teachers and other “experts”, and places these findings in a cultural-historical context. The multidimensional approach taken allows for, on the one hand, the provision of a historical grounding of the book, explaining the main historical junctures and their implications for education, and the discussion of the role of culture and society as barriers and facilitators of education. On the other hand, it gives the book a more personal angle, allowing the reader to gain insight into what it means to feel like a family, develop a sense of belonging, and trying to move toward educational equity.

An inconvenient sequel: truth to power : your action handbook to learn the science, find your voice, and help solve the climate crisis /Al Gore. The companion to Vice President Al Gore’s documentary video, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and delivers hope through groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Gore brings together cutting-edge research from top scientists around the world; approximately 200 photographs and illustrations to visually articulate the subject matter; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness (and with humor, too) that the fact of global climate change is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be assuredly disastrous if left unchecked. The book also offers a comprehensive how-to guide on exactly how we can change the course of fate. With concrete, actionable advice on topics ranging from how to run for office to how to talk to your children about climate change, An Inconvenient Sequel will empower you to make a difference–and lets you know how exactly to do it. This book captures that same essence and is a must-have for everyone who cares deeply about our planet.

The Livingstone of South America [electronic resource]: the life & adventures of W. Barbrooke Grubb among the wild tribes of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, the Falkland Islands & Tierra del Fuego /by R. J. Hunt ; with a foreword by Herbert Gibson & an appreciation by H. T. Morrey-Jones. The life and work of William Barbrooke Grubb [1865-1930] despite appearing in the standard mission dictionaries seems to be relatively unknown.

Placing empire: travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan /Kate McDonald. Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the place of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. In so doing, it illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance.

Rivers of the Anthropocene /edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck. This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines–from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy–this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene.

Searching for sharing: heritage and multimedia in Africa /edited by Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin. Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new e-resources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies.

A table for one: critical reading of singlehood, gender and time /Kinneret Lahad. A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural resources – including web columns, blogs, expert advice columns, popular clichés, advertisements and references from television episodes – this book sketches the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time in Israel.

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