1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786390903321

Titolo

Identities in Transition / / Edited by Georgina Tsolidis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2012

ISBN

1-84888-082-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Multiculturalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"In March 2011 a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines met in Prague to attend the Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity Conference hosted by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. This collection provides an insight into the dynamism of those few days in Prague."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN: 978-1-84888-082-5 ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Tsolidis ""; ""Part 1: Culture: Critical Examinations ""; ""Culture from the Point of View of Philosophical Anthropology: Chrobak ""; ""Acknowledging and Limiting the Moral Significance of Cultural Praxis: Demiray ""; ""Part 2: Living Together: Questioning Assimilation and Integration ""; ""Integrational Politics and Migrant Aspirations: Bagreeva and Mendzheritskiy ""; ""Thinking about Intercultural Leadership: Crumpton ""; ""Part 3: Intercultural Dialogues ""

""Interculturality on a Diverse Australian Campus: Fozdar """"Part 4: Transnational Identities: Diaspora and Subject Formation ""; ""Kurdish Diaspora: Akkaya ""; ""Part 5: Transnational Identities: The European Experience ""; ""Representations of European Cultural Identity in Mini-Europe: Lahdesmaki ""; ""Part 6: Remaking the Re-Inventing Identities ""; ""Left-Wing Italian Jews from the 19602 to 19802: Di Figlia ""; ""How Things Are Made Georgian: Tsuladze ""; ""Disfigured Past: Tran ""; ""Part 7: Educational Institutions and the Making of Identities ""; ""Mirroring Absences: Tsolidis ""

""Part 8: Migrants and Flexible Identities """"The (Im)migrant 'Other': Simou ""; ""Kyrgyz Feasts and Migrant Dreams: Rubinov ""; ""Part 9: Authenticity, Identity and Media ""; ""Advertising Strategy for Teenagers in Taiwan: Lishchenko, Shieh and Chen ""; ""'Martin was in the jungle



alone, and the sun was sinking': Sriratana ""; ""Part 10: Reaching Out, Crossing the Cultural Divide ""; ""Women on Purpose: Berman and Hassinger ""; ""An Experimental Study of Russian and Swedish Value Systems: Shabes, Bostedt, Troshchenkova, Ivarsson, Damber and Potapova ""; ""Back Cover ""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973355803321

Autore

Cooey Paula M. <1945->

Titolo

Religious imagination and the body : a feminist analysis / / Paula M. Cooey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

9780197740866

0197740863

9781280442872

1280442875

9780195358612

0195358619

9781423736820

1423736826

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

291.2/2

Soggetti

Human body - Religious aspects

Imagination - Religious aspects

Women - Religious aspects

Feminist theory

Philosophical theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ONE: Introduction; TWO: The Body and Gender; THREE: The Body as Site for Religious Imagination; FOUR: The Body as Sign for Religious Imagination; FIVE: Site, Sign, and Imagination; SIX: Mapping Religion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Exhibition Catalogues; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a feminist perspective on the significance of the body in the



context of religious life and practice, this treatise examines the evidence, ranging from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of Frida Kahlo.