1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464885503321

Titolo

Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer / / edited by Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8143-3993-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StraussLauren B

BrennerMichael <1964->

MeyerMichael A

Disciplina

909/.0976608

Soggetti

Jews - Identity - History

Jews - History - 1789-1945

Enlightenment

Reform Judaism - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modernity through the eyes of its chroniclers: the scholar as interpreter and shaper of modern Jewish life / Lauren B. Strauss -- Michael A. Meyer: an appreciation / Ismar Schorsch -- Michael A. Meyer and his vision of Reform Judaism and the Reform rabbinate: a lifetime of devotion and concern / David Ellenson -- Michael A. Meyer's periodization of modern Jewish history: revisiting a seminal essay / David B. Ruderman -- When does the modern period of the Jewish calendar begin? / Elisheva Carlebach -- The controversy over the salvation of the Jews, Turks, and heathens in the second half of the eighteenth century: a theological path to tolerance? / Ernst-Peter Wieckenberg -- The Merchant of Venice and the theological construction of Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel -- Toward the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews: Yiddish-Hebrew texts on sex and circumcision / Michael Stanislawski -- Analyzing the zeitgeist: Ludwig Philippson as historian of the modern era / Christhard Hoffmann --



German historians and the Jews / Peter Pulzer -- The "return of the Jews to history": considerations about an ideological concept / Evyatar Friesel -- Simon Rawidowicz on the Arab question: a prescient gaze into the "new history?" / David N. Myers -- Jewish religion and capitalism / Avraham Barkai -- The mystical world of colonial American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Public faith and private virtue: Cincinnati's American Israelites / Karla Goldman -- Gender, antisemitism, and Jewish identity in the fin de siècle / Paula E. Hyman -- Apprenticeships in work and love: Jewish youth growing up in Imperial Germany / Marion Kaplan -- Lukewarm establishment or militant religious ideology?: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein -- Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner -- The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner -- Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. Levy -- Reflections on Jewish nostalgia in the era of globalization / Richard I. Cohen -- From Klausner to Oz and back / Arnold J. Band -- Stumbling stones: marks of Holocaust memory on German streets / Monika Richarz -- Is literary history possible?: reflections on literary history / Gershon Shaked.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155539603321

Autore

Sharīʻatī ʻAlī

Titolo

al-ʻAwdah ilá al-dhāt = : The return to identity / / taʼlīf ʻAlī Sharīʻatī ; tarjamahu ʻan al-Fārisīyah Ibrāhīm Shitā ; wa-rājaʻāhu Muḥammad Mahdī al-Gharīrī ; taqdīm Zakī al-Mīlād

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Altri autori (Persone)

GharīrīMuḥammad Mahdī

ShitāIbrāhīm al-Dasūqī

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Islam - 20th century

Communism and Islam

Philosophy, Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816546303321

Titolo

Indigenous conflict management strategies : global perspectives / / edited by Akanmu G. Adebayo, Jesse J. Benjamin and Brandon D. Lundy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-5042-8

0-7391-8805-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict

Conflict management

Peace-building

Indigenous peoples

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : indigeneity and modernity, from conceptual category to strategic juridical identity in the context of conflict / Jesse Benjamin and Brandon D. Lundy -- Weaving indigenous and western methods of conflict resolution in the Andes / Fabiola Córdova -- Traditional decision-making in contemporary child welfare : relying on Dane-Zaa laws to care for and protect children and families / Tara Ney, Vanessa Currie, Maureen Maloney, Crystal Reeves, Jillian Ridington, Robin Ridington, and Judith Zwickel -- Addressing disputes between first nations : an exploration of the indigenous legal lodge / Jessica Dickson -- Globalization and indigenous conflict management : experiences from Africa / Afua Bonsu Sarpong-Anane -- Indigenous conflict resolution strategies in monarchical systems : comparison of the nature, effectiveness and limitations of the Yoruba and Akan models / Joseph Kingsley Adjei and Akanmu G. Adebayo -- Land ownership in Nigeria : land use act versus traditional land tenure system / Olusegun O. Onakoya -- The intra-Tutsi schism and its effect on truth, justice, and reconciliation in the Rwandan Gacaca courts / Birthe C. Reimers -- Successful integration of western and indigenous conflict management



: Swaziland case study / Mallory Primm -- Monitoring conflicts of interest : social conflict in Guinea-Bissau's fisheries / Brandon D. Lundy -- The changing roles of traditional institutions in conflict management : a historical perspective from the Bamenda grassfields, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi -- Jirga an indigenous institution for peace building in the Pukhtoon belt of Pakistan / Ali Gohar -- FATA : finding common ground in uncommon places / Paul Paterson -- Mesopotamia's indigenous revival : political discourse, imagined sovereignty, and contemporary Kurdish representations of identity / Haluk Baran Bingol and Jesse Benjamin -- Socio-political change and the evolution of irrigation disputes in rural China : the Jianghan Plain, 1870s-2011 / Jiayan Zhang -- Conclusion : culture and conflict management : the need for a paradigm shift / Debarati Sen, Ferdinand Kwaku Danso, and Natalia Meneses.

Sommario/riassunto

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of both successful and unsuccessful integrations of indigenous and Western strategies. As it explores these approaches, this books also analyzes the central characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems from around the globe.