Ecology and literature of the British Left : the red and the green / / edited by John Rignall and H. Gustav Klaus ; [in association] with Valentine Cunningham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465456503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-14632-8; 1-317-14631-X; 1-315-57867-0; 1-4094-1823-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CunninghamValentine; KlausH. Gustav <1944->; RignallJohn <1942->
• Disciplina: 820.9/355
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Radicalism in literature; English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Ecology in literature; Politics and literature - Great Britain - History; Radicalism - Great Britain - History; Romanticism - England; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Contemporary ecocriticism between red and green / Richard Kerridge -- 2. Was Coleridge green? / Seamus Perry -- 3. 'Wastes of corn' : changes in rural land use in Wordsworth's early poetry / Helena Kelly -- 4. John Clare's weeds / Minda Gorji -- 5. John Clare &. &. &. Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome / Simon Kovesi -- 6. Graeco-Roman pastoral and social class in Arthur Hugh Clough's Bothie and Thomas Hardy's Under the greenwood tree / Stephen Harrison -- 7. Landscape, labour and history in later nineteenth-century writing / John Rignall -- 8. Fallen nature : Ruskin's political apocalypse / Dinah Birch -- 9. ; William Morris and the garden city / Anna Vaninskaya -- 10. H.G. Wells, Fabianism and the 'shape of things to come' / John Sloan -- 11. Guardianship and fellowship : radicalism and the ecological imagination 1880-1940 / William Greenslade -- 12. Felled trees, fallen soldierse / H. Gustav Klaus -- 13. Marxist cricket? Some versions of pastoral in the poetry of the thirties / Valentine Cunningham -- 14. Eco-anarchism, the new left and romanticism / James Radcliffe -- 15. A huge lacuna vis-a-vis the peasants : red and green in John Berger's trilogy Into their labours / Christian Schmitt-Kilb -- 16. Green links : ecosocialism and contemporary Scottish writing / Graeme Macdonald.
• Sommario/riassunto: Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their r

Conversion in the age of pluralism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Guiseppe Giordan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792373303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-60170-9; 9786612601705; 90-474-4494-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Collana: Religion and the social order, , 1061-5210 ; ; v. 17
• Altri autori (Persone): GiordanGiuseppe
• Disciplina: 248.2/4
• Soggetti: Conversion; Religious pluralism
• 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: Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani -- Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan -- The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi -- Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan -- Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel -- For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot -- Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / Régis Dericquebourg -- Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta -- Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace -- Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio -- Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan -- Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud -- A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi -- Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-André Turcotte.
• Sommario/riassunto: The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the ; framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate when an individual \'converts.\' Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of \'conversion\' in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one \'true\' truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria.