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An analysis of the impact of cultural values on the use of force and negotiations in American foreign policy.

A particularly insightful commentary on Heidegger's thinking, as well as a fascinating look at Gadamer himself.

This is the only book to deal with classical Islamic cosmology as it was formulated by the Ikhwan al-S'afa al Biruni and Ibn Sina during the tenth and eleventh centuries. These figures influenced all the later centuries of Islamic history and in fact created the cosmological framework within which all later scientific activity in the Islamic world was carried out--the enduring image of the cosmos within which Muslims have lived during the past millennium.Nasr writes from within the Islamic tradition and demonstrates how, based on the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet, the figures treated in this work integrated elements drawn from various ancient schools of philosophy and the sciences. This book is unique in its treatment of classical Islamic cosmology as seen from within the Islamic world-view and provides a key for understanding of traditional Islamic thought.

These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. Here philosophers, social and political commentators, as well as cultural and literary analysts present controversial background essays on the complex history of postmodernism. The readings in the second section debate the possibility-or desirability-of trying to define the postmodern, given its cultural agenda of decentering, challenging, even undermining the guiding "master" narratives of Western culture. The readings in the third section explore postmodernism's complicated complicity with these very narratives, while the fourth section moves from theory to practice in order to investigate, in a variety of fields, the common denominators of the postmodern condition in action.

This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the core teachings of Buddhism promote gender equity rather than male dominance, despite the often sexist practices found in Buddhist institutions throughout history.

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Critical literacy as political intervention: Three variations on a theme Kevin Harris 2 Informing critical literacy with ethnography Gary L. Anderson and Patricia Irvine 3 Critical literacy and the politics of gender Barbara Bee 4 The challenge of popular education in the Grenada revolution Didacus Jules 5 Words to a life-land: Literacy, the imagination, and Palestine CHRIS SEARLE 6 Between moral regulation and democracy: The cultural contradictions of the text Michael W. Apple 7 Literacy and urban school reform: Beyond vulgar pragmatism Dennis Carlson 8 Literacy, pedagogy, and English studies: Postmodern connections James A. Berlin 9 Postmodernism and literacies James Paul Gee 10 Reading and writing the media: Critical media literacy and postmodernism David Sholle and Stan Denski 11 Feminist literacies: Toward emancipatory possibilities of solidarity Jeanne Brady and Adriana Hernandez 12 (Dis)connecting literacy and sexuality: Speaking the unspeakable in the classroom Kathleen Rockhill 13 Literacy and the politics of difference Henry Giroux 14 Critical literacy and the postmodern turn Peter L. McLaren and Colin Lankshear Postscript to "Critical literacy and the postmodern turn" Contributors Author Index Subject Index

Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.

Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, ¿rividy¿ became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika as the dominant Tantric tradition in Kashmir. This is the first comprehensive study of the texts and traditions of this influential school of goddess-centered, ¿¿kta, Tantrism. Centering on the goddess's three manifestations-the beneficent deity Lalita Tripurasundari, her mantra, and the visually striking sricakra-¿rividy¿ creates a systematic esoteric discipline that combines elements of the yogas of knowledge, of devotion, and of ritual. Utilizing canonical works, historical commentaires, and the interpretive insights of living practitioners, this book explores the theological and ritual theories that form the basis for ¿rividy¿ practice and offers new methods for critical and comparative studies of esoteric Hinduism.

Gives the first broad comprehensive account-political, religious, social, and economic-of the Turkish history of Anatolia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and outlines the major factors that led to the rise of the Ottomans.

This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of black self-concept, and captures the complex interplay between black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology and their resistance to the powerful structural forces operating within the school. It offers practical suggestions for working constructively with racial and ethnic subcultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies.

This volume deals with the caliphate of Yaz¿d. Yaz¿d was not accepted as a legitimate caliph by many of the leading Muslims of the time, and, therefore, al-¿abar¿ has concentrated his account of Yaz¿d's caliphate almost entirely on the opposition to him. This opposition had its leadership in two of the leading Islamic figures of the time, al-¿usayn, the son of the caliph ¿Al¿, and Ibn al-Zubayr, a leading Muslim who felt that he had had some claims to the caliphate himself. The first revolt was led by al-¿usayn. This revolt, although ineffectual in military terms, is very important for the history of Islam, as al-¿usayn came to be regarded by Shi'ite Muslims as the martyred imam; his martyrdom is still commemorated every year by them.In his account al-¿abar¿ has preserved for us some of the earliest historical writing on the subject. The amount of space he devotes to this event shows the importance it had already assumed by his own time. The second revolt, that of Ibn al-Zubayr, was much more serious in immediate terms. The revolt or civil war can be divided into two stages. This volume covers the first stage, ending with the timely death of Yaz¿d, which saved Ibn al-Zubayr from defeat.

Explores the relationship between sport and national identities within the context of globalization in the modern era.

Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within science.

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.

Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Korea and East Asia, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to contemporary Korean politics. It explicates the great changes in South Korea, which has gone from being one of the poorest nations to a proud member of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation while making the transition to democracy. The work focuses on the geopolitical and cultural setting, historical evolution, institutional foundation, dynamics of political leadership, and political and administrative processes of Korean politics. It also features chapters on political determinants of the rise and decline of the Korean economy, foreign and unification policy of South Korea, and political development and decay in North Korea.

Parallels and contrasts values from world religions and those proposed by the environmental perspective of deep ecology.

Explores how women inmates make the transition from prison back into society.

Explores the concept of Restorative Justice in diverse spiritual traditions.

Explores how women in prison manage to mother their children from behind bars.

An indispensable guide to the major work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.

Men from a wide range of traditions discuss gender justice in world religions.

This is a condensed version of a long epic, written between 750 and 500 B.C., consisting of 50,000 lines of Sanskrit verse. Divided into seven Kanor books, it tells the story of Rama from his birth to his death. At regular intervals throughout the text, the chapters being condensed are designated by Kantitles and numbers. Each interval is appropriate in length for a daily reading, and there are 365 intervals.The cast of characters is provided by a glossary of proper names.

Speaking Culturally presents case studies of two cultures, focusing on how speaking is thematized and enacted in each. The Teamsterville culture is drawn from the author's studies of the spoken life of an urban, working-class neighborhood in Chicago, while the Nacirema culture draws upon studies of communication among middle-class Americans, primarily on the West Coast.Using fieldwork conducted over a period of twenty years, Philipsen shows how listening to a people's spoken life can reveal expressions of underlying codes-or social rhetorics-of what it means to be a person, how persons can and should be linked together in social relations, and how communication can and should be used in interpersonal conduct. From these studies of speaking in two cultures emerges an understanding of communication as an activity in which people not only draw from and express but also shape and fashion their understandings of self, society, and strategic action.

Analysis from the perspective of those adversely affected by the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of hosting an Olympic Games.

Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges.

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

Offers a fascinating ethnography of physicality and gender relations in women's team contact sports.

The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.

The freshest and most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology explore the myriad pathways to knowledge.