1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459721903321

Titolo

Progress in computational physics (PiCP) [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 1 Wave propagation in periodic media / / editor, Matthias Ehrhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[S.l.], : Bentham e Books, [2010]

ISBN

1-60805-150-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Progress in Computational Physics (PiCP), 1 ; ; v.1

Altri autori (Persone)

EhrhardtMatthias

Disciplina

530.4/1/0113

530.410113

Soggetti

Mathematical physics

Wave mechanics

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.

Nota di contenuto

00 Title Page Cover.pdf; 01 Title Page; 02 Contents; 04 preface; 05 Contributors; 06 Part I; 07 Chapter  1 06; 08 Chapter 2 43; 09 Chapter 3 23; 10 Part II; 11 Chapter 4 35; 12 Chapter 5 27; 13 Chapter 6 32; 14 Part III; 15 Chapter 7 30; 16 Chapter 8 30; 17 Index 04

Sommario/riassunto

Progress in Computational Physics is a new e-book series devoted to recent research trends in computational physics. It contains chapters contributed by outstanding experts of modeling of physical problems. The series focuses on interdisciplinary computational perspectives of current physical challenges, new numerical techniques for the solution of mathematical wave equations and describes certain real-world applications. With the help of powerful computers and sophisticated methods of numerical mathematics it is possible to simulate many ultramodern devices, e.g. photonic crystals structures,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779146303321

Autore

Dunning Benjamin H

Titolo

Aliens and sojourners [[electronic resource] ] : self as other in early Christianity / / Benjamin H. Dunning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-88996-X

0-8122-0181-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Disciplina

270.1

Soggetti

Self - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Strangers - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Alienation (Theology)

Identification (Religion)

Other (Philosophy)

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.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the Rhetoric of Identity -- Chapter One: Citizens and Aliens -- Chapter Two :Going to Jesus "Outside the Camp": Alien Identity in Hebrews -- Chapter Three: Outsiders by Virtue of Outdoing: The Epistle to Diognetus -- Chapter Four: Foreign Countries and Alien Assets in the Shepherd of Hermas -- Chapter Five: Strangers and Soteriology in the Apocryphon of James -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries?Aliens and Sojourners argues that



the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity. Resident aliens and foreigners had long occupied a conflicted space of both repulsion and desire in ancient thinking. Dunning demonstrates how Christians and others in antiquity capitalized on this tension, refiguring the resident alien as being of a compelling doubleness, simultaneously marginal and potent. Early Christians, he argues, used this refiguration to render Christian identity legible, distinct, and even desirable among the vast range of social and religious identities and practices that proliferated in the ancient Mediterranean.Through close readings of ancient Christian texts such as Hebrews, 1 Peter, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the Epistle to Diognetus, Dunning examines the markedly different ways that Christians used the language of their own marginality, articulating a range of options for what it means to be Christian in relation to the Roman social order. His conclusions have implications not only for the study of late antiquity but also for understanding the rhetorics of religious alienation more broadly, both in the ancient world and today.