1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463701703321

Autore

Fones-Wolf Ken

Titolo

Struggle for the soul of the postwar South : white evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie / / Ken Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; ; Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-252-08066-1

0-252-09700-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Working Class in American History

Disciplina

331.880975/0904

Soggetti

Labor unions - Organizing - Southern States - History

Labor movement - Religious aspects - Christianity

Evangelicalism - Southern States - History

Christian conservatism - United States

Social classes - United States

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 and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how workers responded to organized labor's most ambitious effort to transform the U.S. South in the decades after World War II: the CIO's Operation Dixie (1946-53). The authors investigate how the Depression and World War II, and the economic restructuring that accompanied them, affected the religious culture of the South and the outlook of evangelical Protestants. Drawing on deep research in denominational archives and newspapers and in records of national church organizations, the CIO, and business organizations, they examine the religious backgrounds and outlooks of the individuals the



CIO sent to the South and discuss how these messengers -- who represented denominational backgrounds quite different from those of their would-be constituents -- looked to southern ministers and congregants. They also use oral histories to consider how workers' religious beliefs guided their choices to join or reject the CIO's appeal. By making the sacred a major element in the story of struggle for southern economic justice and positioning class as a central aspect of southern religion, the Fones-Wolfs provide new and nuanced understandings of how southerners wrestled with the options available to them in this crucial period of change and possibility"--

"In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The authors' nuanced look at working-class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the authors show, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility. "--



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996237240503316

Autore

Patera Maria

Titolo

Figures grecques de l'epouvante de l'antiquite au present : peurs enfantines et adultes / / par Maria Patera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28362-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, , 0169-8958 ; ; Volume 376

Disciplina

880.9

Soggetti

Byzantine literature - History and criticism

Fear in literature

Children in literature

Greek literature - History and criticism

Goddesses, Greek, in literature

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Lamia, l’autre ici-même -- Mormô l’épouvantail -- Gellô l’aôrê et Gulou la démone -- Empousa onoskelis, la séductrice -- Pour conclure avec les enfantillages -- Annexes -- Bibliographie -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

In Figures de l’épouvante grecques de l’antiquité au présent , Maria Patera examines an unfamiliar aspect of the Greek pedagogy of fear, illustrated by narratives about four Greek terrifying figures: Lamia, Mormô, Gellô and Empousa. These female bogeys belong to the children's world. Each of those figures provokes fear in a particular way, according to its own characteristics (metamorphosis, hybridity, cannibalism, et cetera). By means of a diachronic comparison of the ancient figures with their Byzantine and modern Greek namesakes, each of them is assigned a proper position within its specific historical, cultural, and religious context. Dans Figures de l’épouvante grecques de l’antiquité au présent , Maria Patera examine un aspect mal connu de la pédagogie grecque, celui de la peur, illustré à travers des récits principalement destinés aux enfants à propos des épouvantails Lamia,



Mormô, Gellô et Empousa. Ces quatre figures féminines appartiennent aux chambres enfantines et aux contes de bonnes femmes. Chacune d’entre elles matérialise un aspect de l’épouvante à travers ses façons d’agir et ses traits caractéristiques (métamorphose, hybridité, anthropophagie, et cetera). Un examen diachronique permet de comparer les personnages anciens à leurs homonymes byzantins et néo-grecs et de déterminer leurs fonctions respectives dans chaque contexte historique, religieux et culturel donné.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996309071303316

Autore

Aschheim Steven E. <1942->

Titolo

The German-Jewish experience revisited / / edited by Steven E. Aschheim, Vivian Liska ; in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem ; contributors, Steven E. Aschheim [and seventeen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2015

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039332-8

3-11-036719-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ; ; 3, , 2199-6962 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

305.892/4043

Soggetti

Jews - Germany - History - 1990-

Jews - Germany - Identity

Jews - Germany - Social conditions

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- The Jews as Educators of Humanity - a Christian-Philosemitic Grand Narrative of Jewish Modernity? / Ilany, Ofri -- Transfers of Categories: the German-Jewish Experience and Beyond / Idel, Moshe -- German Classicism and Judaism / Witte, Bernd -- Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads / Gilman, Sander L. -- Between Decay and Doom:



Zionist Discourses of "Untergang" in Germany, 1890 to 1933 / Vogt, Stefan -- Popular Entertainment and Mass Media: The Central Arenas of German-Jewish Cultural Engagement / Jelavich, Peter -- Aby Warburg and Weimar Jewish Culture: Navigating Normative Narratives, Counternarratives, and Historical Context / Levine, Emily J. -- The Jewish Places of Weimar Cinema: Reconsidering Karl Grune's The Street / Ashkenazi, Ofer -- Jewish Liberalism in the Weimar Republic? Reconsidering a Key Element of Political Culture in the Interwar Era / Hacke, Jens -- History in the House of the Hangman: How Postwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History / Rahden, Till van -- Non-Jewish Perspectives on German-Jewish History. A Generational Project? / Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie -- Rabbi S. R. Hirsch and his Perception of Germany and German Jewry / Morgenstern, Matthias -- Between East and West: Pauline Wengeroff and her Cultural History of the Jews of Russia / Magnus, Shulamit S. -- The Anti-Nazi Plays of Habimah during the 1930's and the Making of Eretz-Israel Bildung / Zer-Zion, Shelly -- Berlin and Jerusalem: Toward German-Hebrew Studies / Eshel, Amir / Rokem, Na'ama -- Postscript / Aschheim, Steven E. / Liska, Vivian -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience - their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews - and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910370660503321

Autore

Masullo, Aldo

Titolo

Tempo della vita e mercato del tempo : dialoghi tra filosofia ed economia sul tempo : verso una critica dell'azienda capitalistica / Aldo Masullo, Paolo Ricci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Angeli, 2015

ISBN

978-88-917-1024-6

Descrizione fisica

111 p. ; 22 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Ricci, Paolo <1967- >

Disciplina

330.1

Locazione

FSPBC

FLFBC

Collocazione

Collez. 2228 (114)

DAM A92.25 MASA 03

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia