1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814252203321

Autore

Avery Cheryl

Titolo

Better off forgetting? : essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory / / editors, Cheryl Avery, Mona Holmlund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4426-9986-8

1-4426-8987-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages)

Disciplina

025.17/140971

Soggetti

Archives - Canada

Archives - Government policy - Canada

Public records - Canada - Management

Electronic books.

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives / Marion Beyea -- Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada / Shelley Sweeney -- Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis / Jo-Ann Munn Gafuik -- Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchized / Doug Surtees -- The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada / Terry Cook and Bill Waiser -- Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of 'Source' in the Digital Environment / Robert Cole and Chris Hackett -- Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences / Yvette Hackett -- Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth / Terry Eastwood -- Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming / Tom Nesmith -- Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives / Tom Adami and Martha Hunt -- Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism / Robert Steiner.

Sommario/riassunto

"Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist



to house the records we produce. Some conceive of these institutions as old and staid, suggesting that archives are somehow trapped in the past. But archives are more than resources for professional scholars and interested individuals. With an increasing emphasis on transparency in government and public institutions, archives have become essential tools for accountability.

Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies. While stimulating debate about our rapidly changing information environment, Better Off Forgetting? focuses on the continuing role of archives in gathering and preserving our collective memory."--Publisher description

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910420930003321

Autore

Halldorf Joel <1980->

Titolo

Pentecostal Politics in a Secular World : The Life and Leadership of Lewi Pethrus / / by Joel Halldorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030470517

3030470512

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 pages)

Collana

Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies, , 2634-5862

Disciplina

287.6092

200

Soggetti

Evangelicalism

Pentecostalism

Theology

Church

Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism

Christian Theology

Ecclesiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: A Life Bent Towards Politics -- 2. Born and Born Again: The Making of a Counter-Cultural Identity -- 3. Visions of The Polis: From Denominational Bureaucracy to Spiritual Community -- 4. The Capital of Power: Charisma, Friendship, and Institutions -- 5. Escaping the Iron Cage: Pentecostalism and the Malaise of Modernity -- 6. Flirting with Fanaticism: Ecstasy, Authenticity, and Middle-Class Respectability -- 7. Lonely at the Top: The Cost of Leadership -- 8. All About the Money? Saving Souls or Funding CEOs -- 9. Church Politics for Revivalism: How to contain Latter Rain -- 10. Mission In Modernity: Large-Scale Projects and Episcopal Structures -- 11. Dreaming of a Christian Nation: Pentecostal Party Politics -- 12. Epilogue: Swedish Evangelicalism and the American Religious Right (Or: Why Swedish Pentecostals Are Not Trumpists).

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the life and leadership of Lewi Pethrus, a monumental figure in Swedish and international Pentecostalism. Joel Halldorf describes Pethrus’ role in the emergence of Pentecostalism in Sweden, the ideals and practices of Swedish Pentecostalism, and the movement’s turn to professional party politics. When Pentecostals in the USA ventured into politics, they became allied with the Republican party, and later Donald Trump. The Swedish Pentecostals took another route: while culturally conservative, they embraced the progressive economic politics of the Social Democratic party. During the 2010s, they have also rejected the nationalism of the growing populist movement. Halldorf analyzes and explains these differences between Swedish evangelicals and Pentecostals on the one hand, and the Religious Right in the USA on the other. .