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UNINA9910789593203321 |
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Demilitarization in the contemporary world / / edited by Peter Stearns |
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Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Armed Forces - Demobilization |
Disarmament - History - 20th century |
Militarism - History - 20th century |
Security, International |
World politics - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Historical and sociological perspectives -- Introduction / Peter N. Stearns -- Demilitarization: unraveling the structures of violence / Andrew Bickford -- Germany -- The demilitarization of Germany, 1945-2010 / Jay Lockenour -- Peace movements and the demilitarization of German political culture, 1970s-1980s / Holger Nehring -- Japan and comparative aftermath -- U.S. strategic preference for securing military bases and impact of Japanese financial community on constrained rearmament in Japan, 1945-1954 / Yoneyuki Sugita -- From demilitarization to remilitarization: external and internal pressures on Japanese security policy / Glenn D. Hook -- Japanese remilitarization and constitutional revision / Christopher Hughes -- Demilitarization and democratization in the post-World War II world / Stephanie Trombley Averill -- Central America -- Costa Rica and Honduras: demilitarization as choice / Kirk Bowman -- Demilitarization after Central American civil wars / J. Mark Ruhl and Philip J. Williams -- Afterword / Peter N. Stearns. |
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Contemporary world history has highlighted militarization in many ways, from the global Cold War and numerous regional conflicts to the general assumption that nationhood implies a significant and growing |
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military. Yet the 20th century also offers notable examples of large-scale demilitarization, both imposed and voluntary. This work fills a key gap in current historical understanding by examining demilitarization programs in Germany, Japan, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. |
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UNINA9910955805303321 |
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Downing F. Gerald <1935-> |
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Cynics, Paul, and the Pauline churches : Cynics and Christian origins II / / F. Gerald Downing |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998 |
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1-134-69458-X |
1-280-33622-6 |
9786610336227 |
0-203-20347-X |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Cynics (Greek philosophy) |
Pauline churches |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and indexes. |
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Cover; CYNICS, PAUL AND THE PAULINE CHURCHES: Cynics and Christian Origins II; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 A CYNIC PREPARATION FOR PAUL'S GOSPEL FOR JEW AND GREEK, SLAVE AND FREE, MALE AND FEMALE; (i) How may Paul have been heard and his behaviour perceived?; (ii) For example: what Cynics and Paul and some early Christians said and did about Greeks and barbarians, bond and free, male and female.; (ii - α) Neither Jew nor Greek; (ii - β) Neither slave nor free.; (ii - γ) No 'male and female'; (iii) Interim conclusions; 2 SCHOLARLY PERCEPTIONS OF CYNICS, AND OF CYNICS AND EARLY CHRISTIANS |
AND OUR SOURCES(i) Recent Studies of Cynic traces in Paul's writings.; (ii) Cynics: The popular generalisations; (iii) The Variegated Cynic 'Family' in the First Century: A preliminary Sketch.; 3 WHY THEN THE |
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LAW?; (i) Recent debate; (ii) 'Law' in Graeco-Roman debate; (iii) Cynic disparagement of laws and customs; iv) Paul the mould-breaker; (v) For the sake of transgressions; and the pedagogue; (vi) Further thoughts on law; (vii) Conclusion; 4 ALREADY THE SCEPTRE AND THE KINGDOM; (i) Taking Cynic freedom too far; (ii) Already?; (iii) Free for anything; (iv) Paul rules |
(v) I can do what I want(vi) Embodied freedom; (vii) Free from family ties; (viii) I can eat anything, anywhere - I know; (ix) The strong and the weak and freedom to adapt; (x) In conclusion; 5 TROUBLES INVITED, TROUBLES WITHSTOOD; (i) Distinctively Cynic physical self-discipline; (ii) Weapons for the fight; (iii) Troubles taken on; (iii ) Troubles taken on - (a) Hunger, thirst and cold; (iii ) Troubles taken on (β) Half-naked, dispossessed, homeless; (iii ) Trouble taken on (γ) Ill-treated; (iii) Trouble taken on (δ) Like Herakles or Odysseus; (iii ) Trouble taken on (ε) Contrary kindness |
(iii) Trouble taken on (ζ) An active, costly success(iv) Divinely called - empowered - displayed; 6 PAUL THE TEACHER AND PASTOR; (i) The True Cynic Philosopher; (ii) God's agent; (iii) Paul as Odysseus, again; (iv) Working for a living; (v) My own example; (vi) In conclusion; Appendix - Epicurean psychogogy; 7 ONE GOD, ONE LORD; (i) Imitating the divine; (ii) Herakles and Odysseus, once more; (iii) One God; (iv) No traditional cults or cult objects; (v) Friends of God; (vi) The gifts of the Spirit; (vii) Symbols and sacraments; (viii) Saving grace; (ix) The beginning of the end |
(x) A return to the good beginning, away from today's corruption(xi) Vice and virtue; (xii) The exalted sufferer; (xiii) In conclusion: the five theses, again.; 8 PAUL, AN 'ANOMALOUS' JEW; 9 STOIC AND EPICUREAN STRANDS; (i) The Porch; (ii) The Garden; 10 PAUL AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIANS, AND THEIR TRADITIONS OF JESUS; AND JESUS; (i) Early Christian Cynicism; (ii) Jesus as a Cynic for a Cynic church and a Cynic Paul; 11 CONCLUSIONS; So, what may we suppose we have shown?; ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ANCIENT AUTHOR INDEX; MODERN AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX |
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F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society.F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word.Cynics, Paul and the Pauline |
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