Reflections: January February March 2017

Reflections: January February March 2017
Author: Sasvati Nome
Publisher: Society of Abidance in Truth
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

REFLECTIONS is the SAT Temple’s quarterly journal. This issue of the SAT Temple’s quarterly journal contains two transcripts of Satsangs with Nome, "No Difficulty" and "As the Self", the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, excerpts from “The Ramana Way,” (the RMCL journal by Sri A. R. Natarajan and Sarada Natarajan), the SAT temple photo album, excerpts from Vedas and numerous Advaitic scriptures, updates on events occurring at the SAT Temple, and much more.

Reflections: January February March 2018

Reflections: January February March 2018
Author: Sasvati Nome
Publisher: Society of Abidance in Truth
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

REFLECTIONS is the SAT Temple’s quarterly journal. “Reflections” contains transcriptions of satsangs at SAT given by Nome, the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, excerpts from numerous Advaitic scriptures, updates on events occurring at the SAT Temple, and much more.

Doing Gender in Events

Doing Gender in Events
Author: Barbara Grabher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000465209

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event. Drawing upon Critical Event Studies, Anthropology of the Festive and Gender Studies, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the entangled, conceptual entities of gender and events. Through a gendered analysis of the culture-led event, Hull UK City of Culture 2017, this work expands epistemological perspectives relevant to the study of events in general and City/ Capital of Culture initiatives in particular. Driven by a feminist, collaborative methodological approach, the book draws on four years of ethnographic, qualitative research in the city of Hull and its celebration of the title, UK City of Culture in 2017 and provides an in-depth analysis of how audiences engage, performances enact, and infrastructures condition the production of cultures of gender equality in the citywide celebration. This will be a valuable resource for upper-level students and academics in the field of Event Studies, Cultural Policy, Geography, Anthropology and Gender Studies.

Blessen

Blessen
Author: Margaret Simon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780984891528

Ever since a hurricane sent a water oak through the roof of Pawpee's house crippling her grandfather, ten-year-old Blessen LaFleur has lived with her mother and grandfather in a FEMA trailer on True Friend Road in St. Martinville, La. An accident involving her pet chicken, Blue, pushes Blessen into discoveries about faith, death, and her heritage.

Conceptualizing Mass Violence

Conceptualizing Mass Violence
Author: Navras J. Aafreedi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000381315

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.

Time for Reflection

Time for Reflection
Author: Steve Younger
Publisher: Saint Andrew Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715209922

Time for Reflection is a comprehensive handbook for school chaplains and all with responsibility for ensuring the spiritual development of children and young people. It offers clear and essential guidance on a wide variety of topics: • the role of chaplains in relation to pupils, parents, staff and the whole school community • guidelines on appointing chaplains • codes of conduct • involving chaplains in the delivery of curriculum content • chaplaincy and pastoral care • chaplaincy and crisis support • a practical theology of chaplaincy. In addition, busy chaplains will welcome the range of tried and tested ideas for assemblies and other acts of religious observance, and the directory of online resources for chaplaincy ministry. Framed within Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, and grounded in academic research, new and experienced chaplains everywhere will find Time for Reflection an invaluable guide.

Irishness on the Margins

Irishness on the Margins
Author: Pilar Villar-Argáiz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319745670

This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework. Accordingly, the contributions explore different facets of what we term “Irish minority and dissident identities,” ranging from political agitators drowned out by mainstream narratives of nationhood, to identities differentiated from the majority in terms of ethnicity, religion, class and health; and sexual minorities that challenge heteronormative perspectives on marriage, contraception, abortion, and divorce. At a moment when transnational democracy and the rights of minorities seem to be at risk, a book of this nature seems more pressing than ever. In different ways, the essays gathered here remind us of the importance of ‘rethinking’ nationhood, by a process of denaturalisation of the supremacy of white heterosexual structures.

Thinking seriously about youth work

Thinking seriously about youth work
Author: Hanjo Schild
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9287185476

If we consider the 50 states having ratified the European Cultural Convention of the Council of Europe or the member states of the European Union, the multiple and divergent nature of the realities, theories, concepts and strategies underlying the expression “youth work” becomes evident. Across Europe, youth work takes place in circumstances presenting enormous differences with regard to opportunities, support, structures, recognition and realities, and how it performs reflects the social, cultural, political and economic context, and the value systems in which it is undertaken. By analysing theories and concepts of youth work and by providing insight from various perspectives and geographical and professional backgrounds, the authors hope to further contribute to finding common ground for – and thus assure the quality of – youth work in general. Presenting its purified and essential concept is not the objective here. The focus rather is on describing how to “provide opportunities for all young people to shape their own futures”, as Peter Lauritzen described the fundamental mission of youth work. The best way to do this remains an open question. This Youth Knowledge book tries to find some answers and strives to communicate the strengths, capacities and impact of youth work to those within the youth sector and those beyond, to those familiar with its concepts and those new to this field, all the while sharing practices and insights and encouraging further reflection.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1040125662

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This handbook explores rituals, beliefs, ceremonies and festivals, liturgy, knowledge and traditions that tribal people practice today and traces the history of their interaction with other religions, communities and cultures. The book provides analytical, intellectual, and cultural insights into the religious tradition of tribes within the interactive space of a pan-Indian civilisation. It examines contemporary religious practice within tribes while also exploring changes either brought on by interactions or political interventions. The volume reflects on the intersections of cultural or political life of communities and their religious worldviews. The book also discusses the processes of assimilation or adoption of different religion or religious traditions by tribes and the challenges of detribalisation and shrinking populations of vulnerable groups. It explores both established and emerging dynamics in the field of tribe and religion and provides a look into the unique systems of kinship, worship and life within many different tribal communities in India. This and its companion handbook, The Routledge Handbook of Tribe and Religions in India: Contemporary Readings on Spirituality, Belief and Identity, provide a comprehensive look into the religious life and practices of a very diverse group of tribes in India. It will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the fields of religion, anthropology, indigenous and tribal studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology of culture, sociology of religion, development studies, history, political science, folkloristic, and colonialism.