1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSON0002033

Titolo

Philosophy and Film / edited and with and Introduction by Cyntia A.Freeland ; Thomas E. Wartenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; London : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

0415909201

Descrizione fisica

258 p. ; 23 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450135303321

Autore

Matthews Shelly

Titolo

First converts [[electronic resource] ] : rich pagan women and the rhetoric of mission in early Judaism and Christianity / / Shelly Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8047-8040-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 164 p. )

Collana

Contraversions

Disciplina

296.6/9/09015

Soggetti

Proselytizing - Judaism

Evangelistic work

Women in Judaism - Historiography

Women in Christianity - Historiography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS OF CLASSICAL WORKS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRIMES OF PASSION: RELIGION, SEX, AND STATE SUBVERSION IN ANTIQUITIES 18.65-84 -- 2. LADIES' AID: GENTILE NOBLEWOMEN AS SAVIORS AND BENEFACTORS IN



THE ANTIQUITIES -- 3. "MORE THAN A FEW GREEK WOMEN OF HIGH STANDING": "GOD-FEARING" NOBLEWOMEN IN ACTS -- 4. FIRST CONVERTS: ACTS 16 AND THE LEGITIMATING FUNCTION OF HIGH-STANDING WOMEN IN MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS OF WORKS CITED -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women's history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality. Because many of these texts speak of high-standing women's conversion to Judaism and early Christianity, this book also engages in the current debate about whether early Judaism was a missionary religion. The author argues that focusing on these stories of women converts and adherents, which have been largely ignored in previous discussions of the missionary question, sets the missionary question in a new, more adequate framework. The first chapter elucidates a story in Josephus's Antiquities of the mishaps of two Roman matrons devoted to Isis and Jewish cults by considering the common Hellenistic topos linking high-standing women, promiscuity, and religious impropriety. The remaining chapters demonstrate that in spite of this topos, Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists did tell stories of rich women's associations with their communities for positive rhetorical effect. In so doing, the book challenges the widespread assumption that women's association with "foreign" religious cults was always derided, questions scholarly arguments about public and private roles in antiquity, and invites reflection on issues of mission and conversion within the larger framework of Greco-Roman benefaction.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910370052903321

Titolo

The Migration Industry in Asia : Brokerage, Gender and Precarity / / edited by Michiel Baas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020

ISBN

9789811396946

9811396949

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages)

Disciplina

331.544095

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Feminism

Feminist theory

Economics - Sociological aspects

Human Migration

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Economic Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia's Migration Industry -- Precarity, migration and brokerage in Indonesia: insights from ethnographic research in Indramayu -- Brokered (Il)legality: Co-Producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand -- Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East -- Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy -- An Industry of Migration Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Migration of Nurses from India.

Sommario/riassunto

This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-



dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and state. It considers how for low-skilled migrants, migration is often not even possible without the involvement of the industry. As the opportunity to migrate has opened up to an ever-widening group of potential migrants, receiving nations have fine-tuned their migration infrastructure and programs to facilitate the inflow (and timely outflow) of the migrants it deems desirable. The migration industry plays an active role as mediator between migrants' desires and states' requirements. This pivot focuses on what unites sending and receiving sides of migration, going beyond presupposed established networks, and offering a clear conceptualization of the contemporary migration industry in Asia.