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UNINA9911132218403321 |
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An Agenda for Western Balkans: From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability / / Nikolaos Papakostas, Nikolaos Pasamitros, Jennifer Titanski-Hooper, Miruna Troncota, Anastas Vangeli, Bilge Yabanci, Alma Vardari-Kesler, Stefan Cetkovic, Tonka Koszadinova, Nicholas Rossis, Tom Phillips, Nikolaos Papakostas, Nikolaos Pasamitros |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Western Balkans |
Europe |
European Union |
European Integration |
politics |
sustainability |
future |
regional studies |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""An Agenda for the Western Balkans�Foreword""; ""The EU Democratization and State-Building in Kosovo: An Analysis Through the Fragmented Local Agency""; ""(B)ordering in the EU: Croatia's Path Toward Becoming 'European'""; ""The Challenge of Promoting Green Sectors in Serbia: Between International Demands, National Controversies and Sectoral Struggles""; ""Still ""Waiting for Godot"" in Sarajevo? Europeanization of Bosnia and Herzegovina�Between the Contradictions of EU Conditionality and Local Ownership"" |
""Macedonia: The Consequences of the Political Focus on Identity and How This Affects Balkan Politics and the European Integration Process.""""Reinventing the Past: Politics of Memory in the Post-Conflict |
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Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina""; ""On the Growing Cooperation Between China and the Western Balkans""; ""Statehood Without Sovereignty: Risky Negotiations in Post-Independence Kosovo""; ""Western Europe, Western Balkans: Barriers to Cross-Cultural Encounter"" |
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The book ‘An Agenda for the Western Balkans: From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability’ edited by Nikos Papakostas and Nikos Passamitros is a welcome addition to recent attempts at a comprehensive understanding of the complex socio-political predicament in the Western Balkans. The premise of the volume is that both research and EU policies in the region will benefit from bottom-up approaches that creatively supplement elite-driven perspectives. The contributors in the volume, all young researchers and analysts, are well placed to offer refreshing new outlooks and insights. The volume spans different disciplines and cover as diverse themes as the promotion of green sectors in Serbia, heritage management and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, state building in Kosovo or the changing political discourses in Croatia. Overall, the new edited volume offers plentiful food for thought for scholars and policy makers focusing on the Western Balkans and will make a good contribution to the recent literature on the region's problems and prospects. Dr. Ioannis Armakolas, Head, South-East Europe Programme, ELIAMEP |
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UNINA9911138598103321 |
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Autore |
Stuckrad Kocku von <1966-> |
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe : esoteric discourse and Western identities / / by Kocku von Stuckrad |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
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1-282-78699-7 |
9786612786990 |
90-04-18423-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 186 |
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Occultism - Europe - History |
Discourse analysis - Europe |
Group identity - Europe - History |
Cultural pluralism - Europe - History |
Social change - Europe - History |
Europe Intellectual life |
Europe Intellectual life Sources |
Europe Social conditions |
Europe Religious life and customs |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Esoteric discourse and the European history of religion -- Europe and the Christendom narrative -- From singularization to pluralism -- The secularization theory revisited -- Christian Occident? -- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession |
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with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? -- Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age -- Visual seductions -- The problem of "Renaissance paganism" -- Image acts and visual culture -- The presence of images as visual practice -- Political consideration -- Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform -- Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia -- Conclusion: locations of knowledge -- Writing histories, narrating pasts -- Esoteric discourse and Western identities. |
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One characteristic of European history of religion is a two-fold pluralism—a pluralism of religious identities on the one hand, and a pluralism of various societal systems that interact with religious systems on the other. Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion. Viewed from a structuralist perspective, ‘esoteric discourse’ provides an analytical framework that helps to reveal genealogies of modern identities in a pluralistic competition of knowledge. Experiential philosophy, kabbalah, astrology, Hermeticism, philology, and early modern science are linked to knowledge claims that shaped the way in which Western culture defined itself. |
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UNINA9911136681003321 |
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Sawyer Deborah F. <1956-> |
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God, gender, and the Bible / / Deborah Sawyer |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002 |
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1-134-68638-2 |
1-134-68639-0 |
1-280-11342-1 |
0-203-99530-9 |
9780203995303 |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Sex role - Biblical teaching |
God - Omnipotence - Biblical teaching |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-171) and indexes. |
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GOD, GENDER AND THE BIBLE; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Preliminary Observations; 2 Setting The Boundaries; Creation; Law; Wisdom; 3 Testing The Boundaries; Picking Up The Pieces; Laws Are Made To Be Broken; Abraham - The Mimetic Patriarch; Judah - Hypocrite Or Victim?; 4 Breaking The Boundaries; Judges; Ruth; 5 Crossing The Boundaries; Judith; Gospel Traditions; 6 Reconfiguring The Boundaries; Fatherhood - Divine And Human; Childhood In The Deusfamilias Vs. Paterfamilias; Oneness And Eternal Innocence; 7 Last Things; Gender-Bending As An Eschatological 'Tool' |
Working With The ExceptionalBibliography; Subject and Author Index; Index of Texts |
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Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and constructed identity. Through the study of gender in terms of its application by biblical writers as a theological strategy, we can observe |
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how these writers use female characters to undermine human masc |
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