1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463405003321

Titolo

Contesting post-racialism : conflicted churches in the United States and South Africa / / edited by R. Drew Smith [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

261.8328496

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity

Church and social problems - South Africa

Church and social problems - United States

Post-racialism

Electronic books.

South Africa Race relations

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A restless presence : church activism and "post-apartheid," "post-racial" challenges / Allan Boesak -- Shape-shifting : cultural hauntings, contested post-racialism, and black theological imagination / Walter Earl Fluker -- High school students, the Catholic Church, and the struggle for black inclusion and citizenship in Rock Hill, South Carolina / Luci Vaden -- Christian youth activism and South African black ecclesiology / Reggie Nel -- White theology amidst white rhetoric on violence / Cobus van Wyngaard -- "They must have a different God than our God" : towards a lived theology of black churchwomen during the United States civil rights movement / AnneMarie Mingo -- Church youth activism and political and economic constraints in "post-racial" South Africa / Chabo Freddy Pilusa -- Black South African Christian response to afrophobia in contemporary South Africa / Rothney S. Tshaka -- Collisions between racism and the truth of the cross / Leah Gaskin Fitchue and Ebony Joy Fitchue -- Pursuing American racial justice and a politically and theologically informed black church praxis



/ Forrest E. Harris Sr -- In defense of "Christian activism" : the case of Allan Boesak / Boitumelo Senokoane -- Legitimacy : the praxis of consensing and consenting in the contested post-racial democratic discourse in South Africa / Vuyani Vellem -- In search of a transforming public theology : drinking from the wells of black theology / Nico Koopman -- Whither transcendence? Framing the contours of transatlantic black unity in contested post-racialized times / William Ackah -- Contextuality of black experience and contributions to a wider debate / Anthony G. Reddie.

Sommario/riassunto

This title contains some chapters based on papers presented at the 2011 Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) conference at University of South Africa, and at the 2012 TRRR conference at University of London, Birkbeck College.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974135403321

Autore

Evans Elizabeth

Titolo

Gender and the Liberal Democrats : representing women? / / Elizabeth Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011

ISBN

9781847797872

1847797873

9781781702277

1781702276

9781847794116

1847794114

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

324.24106082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government

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. [162]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Gender and the Liberal Democrats:



national and international context; 2. The Liberal Democrats: ideology and organisation; 3. Feminist presence and women's descriptive representation; 4. Supply and demand: the political recruitment of women; 5. Women's substantive representation: 'for women' but not by women; 6. The symbolic representation of women: tokens or role models?; 7. Conclusions: representing women?; Appendices; Appendix 1 Research methods

Appendix 2 A chronology of women's representation and the Liberal DemocratsBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within the Liberal Democrats that directly impact upon the party's low number of women MPs. It explores the extent to which the party's ideology, culture and organisation are dominated by a prevailing masculine bias and questions why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return white, middle-aged