Striking From the Margins

Striking From the Margins
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Publisher : Saqi Books
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : 9780863565007
ISBN-13 : 086356500X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Striking From the Margins by : Aziz Al-Azmeh

Download or read book Striking From the Margins written by Aziz Al-Azmeh and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations. One of the most significant is the resurgence of activist and puritanical forms of religion presenting as viable alternatives to existing social, cultural and political practices. The rise in sectarianism and violence in the name of religion has left scholars searching for adequate conceptual tools that might generate a clearer insight into these interconnected conflicts. In Striking from the Margins, leading authorities in their field propose new analytical frameworks to facilitate greater understanding of the fragmentation and devolution of the state in the Arab world. Challenging the revival of well-worn theories in cultural and post-colonial studies, they provide novel contributions on issues ranging from military formations, political violence in urban and rural settings, transregional war economies, the crystallisation of sect-based authorities and the restructuring of tribal networks. Placing much-needed emphasis on the re-emergence of religion, this timely and vital volume offers a new, critical approach to the study of the volatile and evolving cultural, social and political landscapes of the Middle East.

Christ in the Margins

Christ in the Margins
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Publisher : Orbis Books
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ISBN-10 : 9781608333868
ISBN-13 : 1608333868
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Christ in the Margins by : Edwina Gateley

Download or read book Christ in the Margins written by Edwina Gateley and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding God in the Margins

Finding God in the Margins
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Publisher : Lexham Press
Total Pages : 85
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ISBN-10 : 9781683590811
ISBN-13 : 1683590813
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Finding God in the Margins by : Carolyn Custis James

Download or read book Finding God in the Margins written by Carolyn Custis James and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros. Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.

Striking from the Margins

Striking from the Margins
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Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 086356139X
ISBN-13 : 9780863561399
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Striking from the Margins by : Saqi Books

Download or read book Striking from the Margins written by Saqi Books and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely volume offering a new approach to the study of the volatile social and political landscapes in the Middle East.

German History from the Margins

German History from the Margins
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780253111951
ISBN-13 : 0253111951
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis German History from the Margins by : Neil Gregor

Download or read book German History from the Margins written by Neil Gregor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly "Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism. Germany's minorities have always been active partners in defining what it is to be German, and even after 1945, despite the legacy of the Nazis' murderous destructiveness, German society continues to be characterized by ethnic and cultural diversity.

Organizing at the Margins

Organizing at the Margins
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9780801457210
ISBN-13 : 0801457211
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Organizing at the Margins by : Jennifer Jihye Chun

Download or read book Organizing at the Margins written by Jennifer Jihye Chun and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion, labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and the importance of immigrants and women employed in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Using comparative historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she shows how labor movements in countries with different histories and structures of economic development, class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar trajectories of change. Chun shows that as the base of worker power shifts from those who hold high-paying, industrial jobs to the formerly "unorganizable," labor movements in both countries are employing new strategies and vocabularies to challenge the assault of neoliberal globalization on workers' rights and livelihoods. Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues that by cultivating alternative sources of "symbolic leverage" that root workers' demands in the collective morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case studies of janitors and personal service workers in the United States and South Korea offer a surprising comparison between converging labor movements in two very different countries as they refashion their relation to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce and expand the moral and material boundaries of union membership in a globalizing world.

Fire Margins

Fire Margins
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780886777180
ISBN-13 : 0886777186
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fire Margins by : Lisanne Norman

Download or read book Fire Margins written by Lisanne Norman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance long-running science fiction series of alien contact and interspecies conflict Carrie and Kusac—she a human telepath, he a Sholan one—have together found a love stronger than all the differences between their two races. But now they have become the center of a power struggle between their peoples, as well as of one between the various guilds and clans on the Sholan homeworld. And they have discovered, too, that their situation is not unique. Other humans and Sholans are bonding as well. With the Sholan homeworld about to bear witness to the birth of a new hybridized race with powers beyond any of the Guilds, the current unstable political climate may soon explode into something far more violent. Approached by the Telepaths, the Warriors, and the secret organization known as the Brotherhood, Kusac realizes that he and Carrie have no choice but to strike out on their own, forming a new group outside of all the Clans and Guilds, and owing loyalty only to the most ancient of their gods. For only through exploring the Sholans’ long-buried and purposefully forgotten past, can they hope to find the answers they seek—and the path to survival not only for their own new people, but for the Sholans and humans as well....