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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465025703321

Autore

Yadlapati Madhuri M.

Titolo

Against dogmatism : dwelling in faith and doubt / / Madhuri M. Yadlapati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-252-09520-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

202.2

Soggetti

Faith

Belief and doubt - Religious aspects

Philosophy and religion - History

Electronic books.

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

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Beyond Fundamentalism and Atheism""; ""PART ONE. RE-EXAMINING FAITH IN ACTION""; ""One. Postures of Trust""; ""Humility as the Door to Faith""; ""Friedrich Schleiermacher: Religious Consciouness of Absolute Dependence""; ""Hindu Puja: Belonging to a Protected World""; ""Conclusion""; ""Two. What Is Our Sacred Responsibility in the World?""; ""Hindu Dharma""; ""What Can Mere Humans Do in Narnia?""; ""God's Caliph on Earth""; ""Covenantal Responsibility, Partnership, and Struggle""; ""Conclusion""

""PART TWO. THE CENTRALITY OF DOUBT""""Three. Christian Faith and the Protestant Principle""; ""Soren Kierkegaard""; ""Karl Barth""; ""Paul Tillich""; ""Conclusion""; ""Four. Faith and Transcendence in Hindu Traditions""; ""Mystical Experience and the Limits of Understanding in the Upanishads""; ""Bhakti, Transcendence, and Freedom in the Bhagavad Gita""; ""Maya: That Which Is Not""; ""The Ambiguity of Hindu Theism: Shiva""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART THREE. RECONCILING WAYS OF FAITH AND DOUBT""; ""Five. Resisting the Reification of Religion""; ""Humanist Criticisms of Religious Dogmatism""

Sommario/riassunto

Defending the rich tapestry of faith and doubt against polarisation,



'Against Dogmatism' reveals a spiritual middle way, an approach native to the long-standing traditions in which faith and doubt are interwoven in constructive and dynamic ways.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463220603321

Autore

Lachmund Jens

Titolo

Greening Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature / / Jens Lachmund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-95322-6

0-262-31242-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Inside technology

Disciplina

307.760943/155

Soggetti

City planning - Environmental aspects

Urban ecology (Sociology) - Germany - Berlin

Urban policy - Environmental aspects - Germany - Berlin

Urban wildlife management - Germany - Berlin

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Traditions of Urban Greening; 2 Ecology's Natures; 3 The Emergence of a Policy: Ecologists and the Species Protection Program; 4 Building Communities, Forming Alliances; 5 Places in the Making: From Wastelands to Urban Nature Parks; 6 From Conservation to Mitigation: The Management of Urban Encroachments into Nature; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change. Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin, where, since the 1970's, urban planning has been complemented by a



systematic policy of "biotope protection"--at first only in the walled city island of West Berlin, but subsequently across the whole of the reunified capital. In Greening Berlin, Jens Lachmund uses the example of Berlin to examine the scientific and political dynamics that produced this change .After describing a tradition of urban greening in Berlin that began in the late nineteenth century, Lachmund details the practices of urban ecology and nature preservation that emerged in West Berlin after World War II and have continued in post-unification Berlin. He tells how ecologists and naturalists created an ecological understanding of urban space on which later nature-conservation policy was based. Lachmund argues that scientific change in ecology and the new politics of nature mutually shaped or "co-produced" each other under locally specific conditions in Berlin. He shows how the practices of ecologists coalesced with administrative practices to form an institutionally embedded and politically consequential "nature regime."Lachmund's study sheds light not only on the changing place of nature in the modern city but also on the political use of science in environmental conflicts, showing the mutual formation of science, politics, and nature in an urban context.