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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974440303321

Autore

Carruthers Jo

Titolo

England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic / / Jo Carruthers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, 2011

ISBN

9786613274328

9780826439376

0826439373

9781283274326

1283274329

9781441142757

1441142754

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

New directions in religion and literature

Disciplina

820.9382

305.6970941

Soggetti

Religion and literature - England

Religion and culture - England

Protestantism - England

Islamophobia - England

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; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH REFORMATION AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER TWO SECULARIZING THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER THREE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISHNESS AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER FOUR THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC AND ISLAMOPHOBIA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

England's Secular Scripture seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Carruthers argues that English antagonism towards Islam lies in part in the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism. The book traces



the transposing, and secularizing, of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic'; of simplicity, individualism, and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth, Hardy, Eliot and Orwell, among others, perpetuate this

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484155303321

Titolo

Information Technology in Biomedicine : Proceedings 6th International Conference, ITIB’2018, Kamień Śląski, Poland, June 18–20, 2018 / / edited by Ewa Pietka, Pawel Badura, Jacek Kawa, Wojciech Wieclawek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-91211-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 615 p. 278 illus.)

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 762

Disciplina

660.60285

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Biomedical engineering

Medical informatics

Artificial intelligence

Computational Intelligence

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Health Informatics

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

ITiB’2018 is the 6th Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, hosted every two years by the Department of Informatics & Medical Devices, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology. The Conference is organized under the auspices of the Committee on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The meeting has become an established event that helps to address the demand for fast



and reliable technologies capable of processing data and delivering results in a user-friendly, timely and mobile manner. Many of these areas are recognized as research and development frontiers in employing new technology in the clinical setting. Technological assistance can be found in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation alike. Homecare support for any type of disability may improve standard of living and make people’s lives safer and more comfortable. The book includes the following sections: Ø Image Processing Ø Multimodal Imaging and Computer-aided Surgery Ø Computer-aided Diagnosis Ø Signal Processing and Medical Devices Ø Bioinformatics Ø Modelling & Simulation Ø Analytics in Action on the SAS Platform Ø Assistive Technologies and Affective Computing (ATAC) .