By highlighting the intersection of clergy, elites, and outcast groups,Working in the Vineyard of the Lordilluminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion, and changing attitudes ...toward charity in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Italy. Lance Lazar's work represents a new look at popular devotion throughout Early Modern Italy and its distillation in confraternal piety.
Lazar's research sheds new light on the sixteenth-century revolution in charity and poor relief, particularly the aggressive new charity focusing on marginalized groups such as prostitutes and Jews, who were among the earliest foci of Jesuit-inspired intervention. The author also recovers women's roles in reform, as recipients, administrators, and benefactors.
Working in the Vineyard of the Lordrepresents the first assessment of an entire confraternal network affiliated with a single religious order in the Early Modern period. It also reshapes views of the Jesuits and their ministries by reaffirming the prominence of Jesuit-sponsored lay initiatives, and places the earliest Jesuit confraternities in the context of religious reform, voluntary devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity across Early Modern Europe.
Baptism offers the distinctive practice of Christian initiation, rooted in Jesus' own baptism, ministry, death, and resurrection. Too often, however, people with intellectual disabilities are ...excluded from this core Christian practice and so barred from full inclusion in the life of discipleship. How can the work of the Triune God in baptism renew Christian imagination toward an embrace of baptismal identities and vocations among disabled Christians? In Becoming the Baptized Body Sarah Jean Barton explores how baptismal theologies and practices shape Christian imagination, identity, and community. Privileging perspectives informed by disability experience through theological qualitative research, Becoming the Baptized Body demonstrates how theology done together can expansively enliven imagination around baptismal practices and how they intersect with the human experience of disability. Through a lively tapestry of stories, theological insights, and partnerships with Christians who experience intellectual disability, Barton resists theological abstraction and engages and expands the field of disability theology. With a methodological commitment to inclusive research and a focus on ecclesial practice, Barton brings theologians of disability, biblical accounts of baptism, baptismal liturgies, and theological voices from across the ecumenical spectrum in conversation with Christians shaped by intellectual disability. Becoming the Baptized Body explores how the real-world experiences of disabled Christians enrich and expand received Christian theological traditions and illustrates avenues for vibrant participation and formation for all believers.
What motivates “ordinary people” to support refugees emotionally and financially? This is a timely question considering the number of displaced people in today’s world is at an all-time high. To help ...counter this crisis, it is imperative for the Canadian government to determine which policies encourage volunteers to welcome asylum seekers, and which ones must be reviewed. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions relates the story of the St. Joseph’s Parish Refugee Outreach Committee over its thirty years in action, revealing how seemingly small decisions and actions have led to significant changes in policies and in people’s lives—and how they can do so again in the future. By helping readers—young and old, secular and faith-oriented—understand what drives individuals and communities to welcome refugees with open hearts and open arms, the authors hope to inspire people across Canada and beyond its borders to strengthen our collective willingness and ability to offer refuge as a lifesaving protection for those who need it.
One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, ...distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature.
Ce travail consiste à caractériser l'espace pastoral de la région PACA en termes de distribution spatiale et de diversité des formations végétales concernées. Pour caractériser l'emprise spatiale des ...espaces pâturés nous avons analysé deux bases de données disponibles : le registre parcellaire graphique (RPG) issus des déclarations des agriculteurs dans le cadre de la politique agricole commune et une enquête pastorale (EP) réalisée à l'échelle des régions Provence Alpes Côte d'azur et Rhône Alpes. Nous avons ensuite caractérisé l'occupation du sol par télédétection en distinguant 5 clases de milieux (forêts, landes fermées, landes ouvertes, pelouses, sol nu) à l'échelle d'un géoterroir test de la région (Haut Verdon Annot-Saint André). Nos résultats montrent de fortes divergences entre les données issues des RPG et EP et montrent la pertinence de la création d'une cartographie dédiée au pastoralisme par télédétection selon une approche orientée objet comme voie de caractérisation de l'occupation du sol des espaces naturels pâturés usuellement mal renseigné à cette échelle large. A l'échelle de ce géoterroir test, quelques soit la source de donnée de spatialisation une forte proportion de l'espace pastoral (60 %) est en question soit en regard des règles d'admissibilité de ces surfaces aux soutiens publics de la PAC (30 %) ou des perspectives à moyen terme d'accessibilité pour les animaux à une ressource pâturable du fait de la forte dynamique de fermeture des milieux (30 % des surfaces déclarées appartenant à la catégorie landes fermées).
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the ...Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.Re-released now with a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author, The Society of Captives will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power.
Alors qu’au siècle précédent fleurissent les textes montrant des sociétés utopiques, Urfé reprend ce thème qu’il adapte à un univers pastoral dans L’Astrée. Cependant, plutôt que de se contenter d’en ...démontrer la supériorité, il représente la fragilité qu’il y a dans tout projet utopique : dès lors qu’elle est incapable de survivre longtemps aux assauts du réel, à quoi peut bien servir une utopie ? La société idéale qui nous était proposée au début du roman s’effrite peu à peu pour se briser sous nos yeux. Entre critique de l’écriture utopique et regard paternel porté sur des personnages voués à souffrir de cette rencontre contre-nature avec l’extérieur, L’Astrée nous donne à voir comment le plus beau des pots de terre est inévitablement condamné à se confronter au pot de fer de la réalité. Le roman met alors en scène la beauté de cette brutale rencontre.
Changes in Care Coe, Cati
2022, 20211015, 2021, 2021-10-15
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Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and
for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation
is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many
...years with chronic, disabling illnesses. In Ghana, many older
people, rather than experiencing a sense of security that they will
be respected and cared for by the younger generations, feel anxious
that they will be abandoned and neglected by their kin. In response
to their concerns about care, they and their kin are exploring new
kinds of support for aging adults, from paid caregivers to social
groups and senior day centers. These innovations in care are
happening in fits and starts, in episodic and scattered ways,
visible in certain circles more than others. By examining emergent
discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in
Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile
processes by which some social change occurs. There is a short film
that accompanies the book, "Making Happiness: Older People Organize
Themselves" (2020), an 11-minute film by Cati Coe. Available at:
https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-thke-hp15
In this work Mr. Mack explores the tension in Pope's life between Garden and City, between the poet's desire for seclusion and privacy and his concern for political and social issues.
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