1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790200003321

Titolo

Childhood Poverty [[electronic resource] ] : Multidisciplinary Approaches / / edited by Jo Boyden, Michael Bourdillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-58468-8

9786613614513

0-230-36279-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies on Children and Development

Classificazione

POL038000POL023000POL033000

Disciplina

362.77/569091724

362.77569

362.77569091724

Soggetti

Social justice

Poverty

Social policy

Political sociology

Economic development

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Development Aid

Children, Youth and Family Policy

Political Sociology

Development Studies

Social Structure, Social Inequality

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

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Methodology; 1 Doing Longitudinal Research: Opportunities and Challenges in a Study of Childhood; 2 The Ethics of Social Research with Children and Families in Young Lives: Practical Experiences; 3 Uncovering the Consequences of Pre-School Malnutrition; 4 Understanding Child Poverty in Developing Countries:



Measurement and Analysis; Part II Dynamics of Childhood Poverty

5 'Pro-Poor' Growth and Children in Developing Countries: The Case of Vietnam6 Evidence on Early Childhood Development Investment Returns; 7 Do Economic Shocks Have a Long-Term Effect on the Height of 5-Year-Old Children? Evidence from Rural and Urban Ethiopia; Part III Children's Experiences of Poverty; 8 Poverty and Developmental Potential; 9 Poverty, Child Risk, and Resilience in Developing Countries; 10 Political Economy, Perception, and Social Change as Mediators of Childhood Risk in Andhra Pradesh; 11 On Being Despised: Growing up a Congolese Refugee in Dar es Salaam

12 'Pen, Book, Soap, Good Food, and Encouragement': Understandings of a Good Life for Children among Parents and Children in Three Ethiopian Communities13 'Ridiculed for Not Having Anything': Children's Views on Poverty and Inequality in Rural India; Part IV Learning, Time Use and Life Transitions; 14 Pathways through Early Childhood Education in Ethiopia, India, and Peru: Rights, Equity, and Diversity; 15 Explaining and Overcoming Marginalization in Education: Ethnic and Language Minorities in Peru; 16 Child Agricultural Work in South Africa: A Contested Space

17 Are Work and Schooling Complementary or Competitive for Children in Rural Ethiopia? A Mixed-Methods StudyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

EPUB.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954339703321

Autore

Brakke David

Titolo

Demons and the making of the monk : spiritual combat in early Christianity / / David Brakke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780674028654

0674028651

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Classificazione

BO 2560

Disciplina

271/.009/015

Soggetti

Monastic and religious life - Egypt - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Demonology - Egypt - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Spiritual warfare - Egypt - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. The Monk in Combat -- 1. The Single One: The Monk against the Demons -- 2. The New Martyr and Holy Man: Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony -- 3. The Gnostic: Evagrius Ponticus -- 4. The Vigilant Brother: Pachomius and the Pachomian Koinonia -- 5. The Prophet: Shenoute and the White Monastery -- II. War Stories -- 6. "The Holy and Great Fathers": Monks, Demons, and Storytelling -- 7. Ethiopian Demons: The Monastic Self and the Diabolical Other -- 8. Manly Women, Female Demons, and Other Amazing Sights: Gender in Combat -- 9. From Gods to Demons: Making Monks, Making Christians -- Afterword: The Inner Battle -- Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate.