1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155227703321

Titolo

Adapting to climate change : national strategy and progress / / Gerard Robinson and Lillian K. Moore, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] : , : Nova, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61942-755-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Collana

Climate Change and its Causes, Effects and Prediction

Disciplina

363.738/745610973

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Risk management - Government policy - United States

Regional planning - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780845903321

Autore

Lee Samuel

Titolo

Rediscovering Japan, reintroducing Christendom [[electronic resource] ] : two thousand years of Christian hsitory in Japan / / Samuel Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Hamilton Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-49891-6

9786612498916

0-7618-4950-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

270.0952

275.2

Soggetti

Japan Church history

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 (p. 173-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The beginning : the arrival of the Israelites in Japan B.C. 250-A.D. 250 -- pt. 2. Keikyo : the Church of the East in Japan A.D. 600 -- pt. 3. Kirishitan : the Catholic Church in Japan, the age of persecution A.D. 1542 -- pt. 4. Kirisuto Kyokai : the arrival of Protestantism in Japan, the age of revival & indigenization A.D. 1853 -- pt. 5. Analysis & conclusions, the age of a new beginning A.D. 2000.

Sommario/riassunto

Japan's Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspective. Lee analyzes cultural, religious and linguistic evidence to argue that Christianity was introduced to Japan through the Lost Tribes of Israel, converted to Christianity through the missionary efforts of the Assyrian Church of the East around A.D. 500.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789847403321

Autore

Foster Cecil

Titolo

Blackness and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom / / Cecil Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-86628-1

9786612866289

0-7735-7581-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (652 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/071

Soggetti

Black people - Canada - Ethnic identity

Black people - Canada - Social conditions

Multiculturalism - Canada

Black people

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sect. 1. Blackness and the quest for freedom -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Blackness : method, differences, perspective -- 3. Meaning, understanding, and knowing -- 4. Common sense blackness : existentialism, epistemology, ontology -- Sect. 2. Theoretical frameworks -- 5. Blackness and goodness : frameworks of study -- 6. Ideology that privileges the somatic -- 7. Phenomenology, history, and paradigms -- 8. Blackness and speculative philosophy -- Sect. 3. Blackness - quest for whiteness in Western thought -- 9. Greek mythologies and philosophies -- 10. The cunning of blackness -- 11. Blackness : status, citizenship, death, and rebirth -- 12. Slavery and death -- 13. Ethno-racial bondage -- Sect. 4. Canadian blackness and identity -- 14. Multiculturalism and blackness -- 15. Promises of multiculturalism -- 16. Blackness : essences, mythologies, and positioning -- 17. Neo-mythic multiculturalism -- 18. Blackness : social and political in Canada -- 19. New ideals of Canadian blackness -- 20. Black Canada - reconciliation?

Sommario/riassunto

In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical,



anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism.