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Author: David Henig Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1800735529 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
Author: David Henig Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1800735529 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
Author: Larry S. Temkin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192666991 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 421
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In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, and the dominant philosophical positions of Peter Singer and Effective Altruism. Filled with keen analysis and insightful discussions of philosophy, current events, development economics, history, literature, and age-old wisdom, this book is a thorough and sobering exploration of the complicated ways that global aid may incentivize disastrous policies, reward corruption, and foster “brain drains” that hinder social and economic development. Using real-world examples and illuminating thought experiments, Temkin discusses ethical imperialism, humanitarian versus developmental aid, how charities ignore or coverup negative impacts, replicability and scaling-up problems, and the views of the renowned economists Angus Deaton and Jeffrey Sachs, all within the context of deeper philosophical issues of fairness, responsibility, and individual versus collective morality. At times both inspiring and profoundly disturbing, he presents the powerful argument that neglecting the needy is morally impermissible, even as he illustrates that the path towards helping others is often fraught with complex ethical and practical perils. Steeped in empathy, morality, pathos, and humanity, this is an engaging and eye-opening text for any reader who shares an intense concern for helping others in need.
Author: Brenda Knight Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1632280108 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 380
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In the hurly burly of this busy world, simple kindness and goodness can get left behind in the rush to be first in line, at the top of the corporate ladder and have the most "likes." But, what does it all mean at the end of the day? Isn't being a good person and making real contributions to the world more important than anything else? Author Brenda Knight, part of the team who made the world a better place with "Random Acts of Kindness" as well as a little more thankful with The Grateful Table," writes "At the end of life, I feel sure having lots of money, fancy cars and real estate is not nearly as important as how much love you gave to the world." This realization was the inspiration for Be a Good In the World, a book of "good days" filled with ideas for making a difference.
Author: Jessica Sporn Publisher: Old Enough to do Good ISBN: 0557341965 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 23
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This is the story of how one 8 year old changed the lives of a Guatemalan family with a simple question to her parents: "Can't we go somewhere and do good in the world?" Traveling to the Guatemalan highlands, Samy and her parents built a home for a poor Mayan family. Samy tells how this trip forever changed her life, and her view of the world around her. 100%% of the proceeds of this book go to From Houses to Homes, the organization Samy traveled with.
Author: Jonathan R. Wilson Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1441240934 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 304
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The doctrine of creation has often been neglected in Christian theology. Distinguished evangelical theologian Jonathan Wilson exposes what has been missing in current theological discourse and offers an original, constructive work on this doctrine. The book unites creation and redemption, showing the significance of God's work of creation for understanding the good news of redemption in Jesus Christ. Wilson develops a trinitarian account of the life of the world and sets forth how to live wisely, hopefully, peaceably, joyfully, and generously in that world. He also shows how a mature doctrine of creation can help the church think practically about contemporary issues, including creation care, sexuality, technology, food and water, and more.
Author: Alan Bainbridge Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003810292 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 195
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This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education – what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come? The book contains contributions from colleagues at a single UK University, internationally recognised for its approach to sustainability education. Introducing a conceptual framework called the ‘Paradox Model’, the book explores the tensions that underpin the challenge of developing sustainability in higher education in the 21st century. It asks probing questions about the purpose of higher education in the 21st century given growing concerns in relation to planetary safety and justice and calls for a rethinking of educational purpose. It draws upon the theory and practice of education and explores how these can develop an understanding of sustainability pedagogies in practice. Finally, it delivers thought-provoking discussion on what constitutes a ‘good’ higher education that meets the needs of a world in crisis. Drawing on a planetary health lens, the book concludes with a ‘manifesto’ that brings together the key insights from the contributing authors. This will be an engaging volume for academics and educators from a wide range of disciplines in higher educational settings interested in translating sustainability theory into educational practice.
Author: Gloria Fisk Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231544820 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 265
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When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated a variety of literary greatness that testified also to the good literature can do in the world. Gloria Fisk challenges this standard for canonization as “world literature” by showing how poorly it applies to Pamuk. Reading the Turkish novelist as a case study in the ways Western readers expand their reach, Fisk traces the terms of his engagement with a literary market dominated by the tastes of its Anglophone publics, who received him as a balm for their anxieties about Islamic terrorism and the stratifications of global capitalism. Fisk reads Pamuk’s post-9/11 novels as they circulated through this audience, as rich in cultural capital as it is far-flung, in the American English that is global capital’s lingua franca. She launches a polemic against Anglophone readers’ instrumental use of literature as a source of crosscultural understanding, contending that this pervasive way of reading across all manner of borders limits the globality it announces, because it serves the interests of the Western cultural and educational institutions that produce it. Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature proposes a new way to think about the uneven processes of translation, circulation, and judgment that carry contemporary literature to its readers, wherever they live.
Author: Anthony Lenh Dinh Ngo Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 9781477249383 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 92
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On Good Friday of the year 2633, the world will end. This answer is hidden in the Bible . After we read the book of prophet Daniel, the words of Jesus, the image Death of Jesus on the Golgotha Hill, the Revelation of Saint John, and the book of prophet Ezekiel, we are getting an answer for the END DAY. As we know that, the book of prophet Daniel gave us the times and the Revelation of Saint John gave us the progress to the END DAY, from the time of Jesus: * Christianity was persecuted by Pharisees and Roman Empires from the Death of Jesus, and also from the year 610 by Islamism until the Holy War over in the year 1290. * A Thousand-year reign from 1290-2300, peaceful and joyful for Christianity expand to the whole world. After the year 2300, Satan will be released and disaster will begin to the END DAY. * After year the year 2300, a new Empires from Islamism occupy Asia countries and the Christian churches in Asia will be suffer (first seal, white horse). * War is broken in Asia countries (second seal, red horse). * Starvation in the world (third seal, black horse), but not in Western countries (but do not damage the olive oil or the wine). * Death by many sources killed population of the world (fourth seal, green horse). * Christianity are slaughtered in Asia countries (fifth seal). * Israel lost their country again, except the capital Tel-Avis stills remain ( missing tribe Dan in The 144,000 Seals)...
Author: Holly Burkhalter Publisher: Convergent Books ISBN: 1601425090 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 208
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“In this extraordinary memoir of grace, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God on one of the most unlikely, irreverent, and utterly beautiful pilgrimages through life as it actually is.” —Gary A. Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission “It used to be that my own religious philosophy was to work hard, charm everyone within spittin’ distance, and do a lot of crafts. So how did this hard-core leftist skeptic find peace and happiness among Bible-quoting, praying-out-loud, born-again evangelicals? I realized that my two choices—the existence of a loving God or the reality of evil—weren’t the only options. Option three is that God is good and the world is lousy. But wait. There’s more. God knows the world is lousy. Knows it, hates it, and wants us to do something about it...” —Holly Burkhalter, Good God, Lousy World & Me For over thirty years, Holly Burkhalter has worked as an international rights advocate for victims of genocide, rape, and injustice. Throughout most of her career, the heartbreak she encountered around the world—and in her own life—had convinced her that there was no such thing as a loving God. How could there be? If God was there, he should be charged as a war criminal for tolerating atrocities against the young, the poor, and the vulnerable. Then, Holly discovered a new truth: God was there—in the grief, in the violence, in the questions. And God was good. It was the greatest, hardest, most radiant surprise of her life. This is her story.
Author: David Henig
Author: David Henig
Author: Larry S. Temkin
Author: Brenda Knight
Author: Jessica Sporn
Author: Jonathan R. Wilson
Author: Creighton Peden
Author: Alan Bainbridge
Author: Gloria Fisk
Author: Anthony Lenh Dinh Ngo
Author: Holly Burkhalter