Amusing Ourselves to Death

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1986
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

In Search for a Theology Capable of Mourning

In Search for a Theology Capable of Mourning
Author: H. Martin Rumscheidt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532619006

To what extent are the children of Holocaust perpetrators to feel remorseful or responsible for their parents’ wrongdoing? Is the yearning by those offspring of Nazi sympathizers for forgiveness justified, or should they separate themselves from their parents or relatives and ignore the history? Such dilemmas have gnawed at theologian Martin Rumscheidt ever since, at age eighteen, he discovered his father’s complicity in using Jewish slave labor at his workplace, IG Farben. He has written and spoken extensively about his journey in search of what he calls a theology of mourning that would preserve his concept of the reality of God and still recognize the reality—at times grim reality—of life.

Shakin' All Over

Shakin' All Over
Author: George McKay
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472052098

Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability. George McKay’s Shakin’ All Over is a cross-disciplinary examination of the ways in which popular music performers have addressed disability: in their songs, in their live performances, and in various media presentations. By looking closely into the work of artists such as Johnny Rotten, Neil Young, Johnnie Ray, Ian Dury, Teddy Pendergrass, Curtis Mayfield, and Joni Mitchell, McKay investigates such questions as how popular music works to obscure and accommodate the presence of people with disabilities in its cultural practice. He also examines how popular musicians have articulated the experiences of disability (or sought to pass), or have used their cultural arena for disability advocacy purposes.

Epiestems of Death

Epiestems of Death
Author: Pratham Parekh
Publisher: Akhand Publications
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9381416400

Death and dying experiences are not common across human race because humans do not share common cultural heritage and physical environment. The fact of death thus can be considered as socially constructed fact abounded by idiosyncratic religious beliefs and rituals existing within social life. It is almost impossible to have common consensual understanding of death and dying. This book tries to investigate various sources of knowledge about death in multiple disciplines from sociological lenses.

Christian Discourses, etc

Christian Discourses, etc
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1400868637

The edition includes "Christian Discourses," "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air" and "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.