Empire, Colony, Postcolony

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954392803321
• Autore: Young Robert J. C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 9781118896143; 9781405193405
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 pages)
• Disciplina: 325/.3
• Soggetti: Colonies; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- I -- II -- Note -- Chapter 2 Empire -- Empire and Civilization -- The Geography of Empire: Land vs. Global Maritime Empires -- The Governance of Empire -- Two Models of Empire -- Empires and Diversity -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Colony -- The Temporality of Colonization -- The Colony as Settlement -- Colonization, Migration, and Indigenous Peoples -- Colonizer and Colonized: Intimate Enemies -- The Colony as Trading Factory -- The Colony as the Laboratory of Modernity -- Note -- Chapter 4 Slavery and Race -- Slavery -- Race -- Note -- Chapter 5 Colonialism and Imperialism -- Colonialism -- Imperialism -- Imperialism without Colonies -- Chapter 6 Nation -- The Nation as the Product of Colonial Expansion -- The Nation and Human Rights -- The Nation, Human Rights, and Slavery -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Nationalism -- Chapter 8 Anticolonialism -- Anticolonialism -- Anticolonial Nationalism: Italy and Ireland -- The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917 -- Strategies of Resistance: Rebellion or Reform -- Culture as Soft Power -- On National Culture -- Chapter 9 Decolonization -- Phase One: 1776-1826 -- Phase Two: 1826-1945 -- Phase Three: 1945-Present -- Chapter 10 Neo-colonialism, Globalization, Planetarity -- Neo-; colonialism -- Globalization: Free Trade and Advanced Technology -- Economics -- Politics and Human Rights -- Resistance to Globalization -- The University -- The Anti-Globalization Movements -- Islamism -- Planetarity -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Postcolony -- The Postcolony as Former Colony -- Ethnic Diversity -- Law, Education, and Language -- The Settler Postcolony -- The Postcolony as a Zone of Dysfunction -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Postcolonialism -- Knowledge and Theory -- Orientalism -- Culture -- Language and Translation -- Race, Ethnicity, Identity -- Subalternity.; Indigeneity -- Nomadism -- Migration -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- EULA.
• Sommario/riassunto: Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism

The names of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam : a basis for interfaith dialogue / / Máire Byrne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960086903321
• Autore: Byrne Máire
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2011
• ISBN: 9786613174048; 9781472549464; 1472549465; 9781283174046; 1283174049; 9781441163417; 1441163417
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 202/.11
• Soggetti: Abrahamic religions; God - Name
• 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 (pages [155]-168) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Interfaith Dialogue and Comparative Theology -- 2. Names and Naming -- 3. Names of God in the Hebrew Bible -- 4. Names of God in the New Testament -- 5. 99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah -- 6. Comparative Theologies and the Names of God -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book offers a welcome solution to the growing need for a common language in interfaith dialogue; particularly between the three Abrahamic faiths in our modern pluralistic society. The book suggests that the names given to God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur'an, could be the very foundations and building blocks for a common language between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths. On both a formal interfaith level, as well as between everyday followers of each doctrine, this book facilitates a more fruitful and universal understanding and respect of each sacred text; exploring both the commonalities and differences between each theology and their individual receptions. In a practical application of the methodologies of ; comparative theology, Maire Byrne shows that the titles, names and epithets given to God in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam contribute towards similar images of God in each case, and elucidates the importance of this for providing a viable starting point for interfaith dialogue."--Bloomsbury Publishing.