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Reforming the Art of Living

Author : Rico Vitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319052810
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Art of Living written by Rico Vitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent, however, in his famous discussions, both in the Meditations and in the Principles, of one particularly noteworthy source of our doxastic errors—namely, the misuse of one’s will. What is not widely recognized, let alone appreciated and understood, is the relationship between his concern with belief formation and his concern with virtue. In fact, few seem to realize that Descartes regards doxastic errors as moral errors and as sins both because such errors are intrinsically vicious and because they entail notably deleterious social consequences. Reforming the Art of Living seeks to rectify this rather common oversight in two ways. First, it aims to elucidate the nature of Descartes’s account of virtuous belief formation. Second, it aims both (i) to illuminate the social significance of Descartes’s philosophical program as it relates to the understanding and practice not of science, but of religion and (ii) to develop a kind of Leibnizian critique of this aspect of his program. More specifically, it aims to show that Descartes’s project is “dangerous,” insofar as it is subversive not only of traditional Christianity but also of other traditional forms of religion, both in theory and in practice.

Reforming the Art of Dying

Author : Austra Reinis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351905716
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Art of Dying written by Austra Reinis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation led those who embraced Martin Luther's teachings to revise virtually every aspect of their faith and to reorder their daily lives in view of their new beliefs. Nowhere was this more true than with death. By the beginning of the sixteenth century the Medieval Church had established a sophisticated mechanism for dealing with death and its consequences. The Protestant reformers rejected this new mechanism. To fill the resulting gap and to offer comfort to the dying, they produced new liturgies, new church orders, and new handbooks on dying. This study focuses on the earliest of the Protestant handbooks, beginning with Luther's Sermon on Preparing to Die in 1519 and ending with Jakob Otter's Christlich leben vnd sterben in 1528. It explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs even as they transformed them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. It further shows how Luther's colleagues drew not only on his teaching on dying, but also on other writings including his sermons on the sacraments. The study concludes that the assurance of salvation offered in the Protestant handbooks represented a significant departure from traditional teaching on death. By examining the ways in which the themes and teachings of the reformers differed from the late medieval ars moriendi, the book highlights both breaks with tradition and continuities that marked the early Reformation.

Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920

Author : Patricia A. Cunningham
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387422
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 written by Patricia A. Cunningham and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 20th century, and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress. It considers the many advocates for reform and examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Though there was no single overarching dress reform movement, it reveals similarities among the arguments posed by diverse groups of reformers, including especially the equation of reform with an ideal image of improved health. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources in the USA and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature, and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education - the text makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies.

Reforming the Art of Living

Author : Rico Vitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319052823
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Art of Living written by Rico Vitz and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System

Author : Pittaro, Michael
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799868869
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System written by Pittaro, Michael and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The often-tenuous relationship between law enforcement and communities of color, namely African Americans, has grown increasingly strained, and the call for justice has once again ignited the demand for criminal justice reform. Rebuilding the trust between the police and the citizens that they have sworn to protect and serve requires that criminal justice practitioners and educators collaborate with elected officials and commit to an open, ongoing dialogue on the most challenging issues that remain unresolved but demand collective attention and support. Reform measures are not limited to policing policies and practices, but rather extend throughout the criminal justice system. There is no denying that the criminal justice system as we know it is flawed, but not beyond repair. Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System provides in-depth and current research about the criminal justice system around the world, its many inadequacies, and why it urgently needs reformation. Offering a fully fleshed outline of the current system, this book details the newest research and is incredibly important to fully understand the flaws of the criminal justice system across the globe. The goals of this book are to improve and advance the criminal justice system by addressing the glaring weaknesses within the system and discuss potential reforms including decreasing the prison population (decarceration) and improving police/community relations. Highlighting topics that include accountability, community-oriented policing, ethics, and mass incarceration, this book is ideal for law enforcement officers, trainers/educators, government officials, policymakers, correctional officers, court officials, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, sociology, psychology, addictions, mental health, social work, public policy, and public administration.

Reforming Hollywood

Author : William D. Romanowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199942587
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Reforming Hollywood written by William D. Romanowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Communication Association's Book of the Year Hollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war. Indeed, there is a long list of movies that have attracted religious condemnation, from Gone with the Wind with its notorious "damn," to The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ. But the reality, writes William Romanowski, has been far more complicated--and remarkable. In Reforming Hollywood, Romanowski, a leading historian of popular culture, explores the long and varied efforts of Protestants to influence the film industry. He shows how a broad spectrum of religious forces have played a role in Hollywood, from Presbyterians and Episcopalians to fundamentalists and evangelicals. Drawing on personal interviews and previously untouched sources, he describes how mainline church leaders lobbied filmmakers to promote the nation's moral health and, perhaps surprisingly, how they have by and large opposed government censorship, preferring instead self-regulation by both the industry and individual conscience. "It is this human choice," noted one Protestant leader, "that is the basis of our religion." Tensions with Catholics, too, have loomed large--many Protestant clergy feared the influence of the Legion of Decency more than Hollywood's corrupting power. Romanowski shows that the rise of the evangelical movement in the 1970s radically altered the picture, in contradictory ways. Even as born-again clergy denounced "Hollywood elites," major studios noted the emergence of a lucrative evangelical market. 20th Century-Fox formed FoxFaith to go after the "Passion dollar," and Disney took on evangelical Philip Anschutz as a partner to bring The Chronicles of Narnia to the big screen. William Romanowski is an award-winning commentator on the intersection of religion and popular culture. Reforming Hollywood is his most revealing, provocative, and groundbreaking work on this vital area of American society.

The Age of the Reformation

Author : Albert Pollard
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 1531285724
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Reformation written by Albert Pollard and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON the 18th of August, 1503, after a sudden and mysterious illness Alexander VI had departed this life to the unspeakable joy of all Rome, as Guicciardini assures us. Crowds thronged to see the dead body of the man whose boundless ambition, whose perfidy, cruelty, and licentiousness coupled with shameless greed had infected and poisoned all the world. On this side the Alps the verdict of Luther's time and of the centuries which followed has confirmed the judgment of the Florentine historian without extenuation, and so far as Borgia himself was concerned doubtless this verdict is just. But today if we consider Alexander's pontificate objectively we can recognize its better sides.

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform

Author : Mr Roberto Henke
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409490203
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform written by Mr Roberto Henke and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an updated state of the art report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this volume has a particular emphasis on the governance of institutional changes and national/regional implementation. This book, with a foreword by Franz Fischler, also includes four commissioned contributions from leaders in the field including Sofia Davidova, Roberto Esposti, Tassos Haniotis and Johan Swinnen.

Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms

Author : R. S. Deshpande
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180695322
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms written by R. S. Deshpande and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcript of papers presented during a workshop held at Mussorie from 15-16 March, 2007.

Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance

Author : Jesse M. Locker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429863365
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance written by Jesse M. Locker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders. Rather than considering this period a degraded afterword to Renaissance classicism or an inchoate proto-Baroque, the book seeks to understand the art on its own terms. By considering artists such as Federico Barocci and Stefano Maderno in Italy, Hendrick Goltzius in the Netherlands, Antoine Caron in France, Francisco Ribalta in Spain, and Bartolomeo Bitti in Peru, the contributors highlight lesser known "reforms" of art from outside the conventional centers. As the first text to cover this formative period from an international perspective, this volume casts new light on the aftermath of the Renaissance and the beginnings of "Baroque."

Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe

Author : Pietro Delcorno
Publisher : Radboud University Press
ISBN 13 : 9493296083
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe written by Pietro Delcorno and published by Radboud University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus of religious reform between ca. 1380-1520, which expressed itself in a variety of Observant initiatives in many religious orders all over Europe, and also brought forth the Devotio moderna movement in the late medieval Low Countries, had considerable repercussions for the production of a wide range of religious texts, and the embrace of other forms of cultural production (scribal activities, liturgical innovations, art, music, religious architecture). At the same time, the very impetus of reform within late medieval religious orders and the wish to return to a more modest religious lifestyle in accordance with monastic and mendicant rules, and ultimately with the commands of Christ in the Gospel, made it difficult to wholeheartedly embrace the material consequences of learning, literary and artistic prowess, as the very pursuit of such pursuits ran against basic demands of evangelical poverty and humility. This volume explores how this tension was negotiated in various Observant and Devotio moderna contexts, and how communities connected with these movements instrumentalized various types of writing, learning, and other forms of cultural expression to further the cause of religious reform, defend it against order-internal and external criticism, to shape recognizable reform identities for themselves, and to transform religious life in society as a whole.

Reforming the Liturgy

Author : John Francis Baldovin
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814662199
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Liturgy written by John Francis Baldovin and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this summary volume on the reform of the liturgy since the Second Vatican Council, Baldovin pinpoints and assesses - both sympathetically and critically - the objections to changes in the liturgy since the council, focusing on philosophical, historical-critical, and theological questions. After addressing each criticism in turn, in a final chapter he assesses the critique of post-Vatican II liturgy as a whole, affirming what is accurate and necessary, rejecting what is backward looking, and proposing a set of principles to guide future development. No one who studies or participates in liturgical action in the twenty-first century can afford to overlook this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Reform Forward (Constitution And Law Judiciary And Police Secularism And Social Justice Religion And Polity)

Author : G.R. Reddy
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788131301999
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Reform Forward (Constitution And Law Judiciary And Police Secularism And Social Justice Religion And Polity) written by G.R. Reddy and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy

Author : Roger T. Ames
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438493541
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy written by Roger T. Ames and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger T. Ames's A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy is a companion volume to his Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy. It includes texts in the original classical Chinese along with their translations, allowing experts and novices alike to make whatever comparisons they choose. In applying a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics, Ames has tried to let the tradition speak on its own terms. The goal is to encourage readers to move between the translated text and commentary, the philosophical introduction that attempts to sensitize them to the interpretative context, and the companion Lexicon of key philosophical terms, with the expectation that in the fullness of time they will be able to appropriate the original Chinese terminologies themselves. Armed with their own increasingly robust insight into these philosophical terms, readers will be able to carry this nuanced understanding over into their critical reading of other available translations. Ultimately, for students who would understand Chinese philosophy, tian 天 must be understood as tian 天, and dao 道 must be dao 道.

Reforming the Humanities

Author : P. Levine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023010469X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the Humanities written by P. Levine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesco, this book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend the humanities as a source of moral guidance.

The Art of Living

Author : Wilferd Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780884861591
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Living written by Wilferd Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five essays from Peterson's first three books, dealing with such topics as giving, happiness, friendship, freedom, and prayer, provide inspiration and occasions for meditation

On Creating a Usable Culture

Author : Maureen A. Molloy
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831160
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book On Creating a Usable Culture written by Maureen A. Molloy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mead’s career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. In On Creating a Usable Culture, Maureen Molloy explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. She considers this in relation to Mead’s four popular ethnographies written between the wars (Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies) and the academic, middle-brow, and popular responses to them. Molloy argues that Mead was heavily influenced by the debates concerning the forging of a distinctive American culture that began around 1911 with the publication of George Santayana’s "The Genteel Tradition." The creation of a national culture would solve the problems of alienation and provincialism and establish a place for both native-born and immigrant communities. Mead drew on this vision of an "integrated culture" and used her "primitive societies" as exemplars of how cultures attained or failed to attain this ideal. Her ethnographies are really about "America," the peoples she studied serving as the personifications of what were widely understood to be the dilemmas of American selfhood in a materialistic, individualistic society. Two themes subtend Molloy’s analysis. The first is Mead’s articulation of the individual’s relation to his or her culture via the trope of sex. Each of her early ethnographies focuses on a "character" and his or her problems as expressed through sexuality. This thematic ties her work closely to the popularization of psychoanalysis at the time with its understanding of sex as the key to the self. The second theme involves the change in Mead’s attitude toward and definition of "culture"—from the cultural determinism in Coming of Age to culture as the enemy of the individual in Sex and Temperament. This trend parallels the consolidation and objectification of popular and professional notions about culture in the 1920s and 1930s. On Creating a Usable Culture will be eagerly welcomed by those with an interest in American studies and history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, and most especially by readers of American intellectual history, the history of anthropology, gender studies, and studies of modernism.