1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911110488803321

Autore

Flaskerud Ingvild

Titolo

Visualizing belief and piety in Iranian Shiism / / Ingvild Flaskerud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

ISBN

9786613207500

9781472548788

1472548787

9781283207508

1283207508

9781441186782

1441186786

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

297.2/67

Soggetti

Art and religion - Iran

Islam and art

Shīʻah - Doctrines

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

Note on transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The portrait of Imam Ali: 1. The emergence of a prototypical model and its survival -- 2. Imam Ali in Shia memory -- 3. The iconography of Imam Ali and its reception -- Part II. The battle at Karbala: 4. The battle at Karbala in Shia memory and piety -- 5. Visual Karbala narratives in Shia piety -- 6. The parcham wall hanging -- 7. Representation and reception of Karbala in colour posters -- Part III. Images and decorative designs in ritual space: 8. The image as a votive gift -- 9. Images in the liturgy of commemoration and celebration -- 10. Decorative programmes across gendered ritual space -- 11. Transposing iconography -- Conclusion: visualizing and seeing in the service of Islam.

Sommario/riassunto

"The representation of prophets and saints in Islam is erroneously considered nonexistent by many scholars of Islam, Muslims, and the general public. The issue is often dealt with superficially without attention to its deep roots in piety and religiosity. Visualizing Belief and



Piety in Iranian Shiism offers new understanding of Islamic iconography and Muslim perspectives on the use of imageries in ritual contexts and devotional life. Combining iconographic and ethnographic approaches, Ingvild Flaskerud introduces and analyzes imageries (tile-paintings, posters and wall-hangings), ritual contexts and interviews with male and female local viewers to discuss the representation, reception and function of imageries in contemporary Iranian Shia environments. This book presents the argument that images and decorative programmes have stimulating qualities to mentally evoke the saints in the minds of devotees and inspire their recollection, transforming emotions and stimulating cultic behaviours. Visualization and seeing are significant to the dissemination of religious knowledge, the understanding of spiritual and ethical values, the promotion of personal piety, and functions as modes of venerating God and the saints."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911147261403321

Titolo

Case studies and policy perspectives : technology and women's employment / / Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise A. Tilly, editors ; Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1987

ISBN

9786610221431

9781280221439

1280221437

9780309554985

0309554985

9780585261553

0585261555

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Collana

Computer chips and paper clips ; ; v.2

Altri autori (Persone)

HartmannHeidi I

KrautRobert E

TillyLouise

Disciplina

331.4

Soggetti

Microelectronics - Social aspects

Office practice - Automation

Women white collar workers - Effect of technological innovations on

Women - Employment - Government policy - United States



Women - Employment

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

""Computer Chips and Paper Clips""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CONTENTS, VOLUME I""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I OVERVIEW""; ""Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives""; ""THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN""; ""OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY""; ""POLICY PERSPECTIVES""; ""Framing the Issues""; ""Are Women Workers at Risk?""; ""Banking and Finance""; ""Hospitals and Health Care""; ""POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Full Employment""; ""Continued R&D""; ""Strengthened Education and Retraining""; ""A National Jobs and Education Program""

""Continued EEO Enforcement""""Child Care""; ""A CONCLUDING NOTE""; ""References""; ""PART II CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN WORKERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY""; ""The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry""; ""THE PACE OF DIFFUSION AND THE NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS""; ""Underwriting and Claims Support Systems""; ""Administrative/Clerical, Decision Support, and Agency Systems""; ""EFFECTS OF AUTOMATION ON THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE WORK FORCE""; ""CHANGES IN THE NATURE OF WORK: THE VIEW FROM THE SHOP FLOOR""; ""WOMEN AND MINORITY WORKERS""

""Effects of Automation on the Female Work Force""""Effects of Automation on Minority Workers""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; """"Machines Instead of Clerks"": Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950""; ""SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT, THE COST ACCOUNTING REVOLUTION, AND THE ACCOUNTANT""; ""OFFICE MACHINES AND THEIR HISTORY""; ""MECHANIZATION, FEMINIZATION, AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT""; ""WOMEN OFFICE WORKERS: HOW MANY IN WHAT JOBS?""; ""STRATIFICATION IN THE OFFICE""; ""Marital Status, Class, and Race and Ethnicity""; ""Wages and Clerical Work""; ""References""

""New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary""""THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE SECRETARY""; ""PATRIMONY IN TRADITIONAL SECRETARIAL WORK""; ""Traditional Secretarial Tasks""; ""Rewards and Career Mobility""; ""CHANGES IN THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN TO SECRETARIAL JOBS: RISING EXPECTATIONS AND DECLINING SATISFACTION""; ""THE NEW OFFICE ENVIRONMENT""; ""Word Processing: The Core Technology""; ""Secretarial Sharing and Minipools: New Staffing Ratios in the Automated Office""; ""The Shared Secretary""; ""The Minipool Secretary""

""THE PERSISTENCE OF PATRIMONY IN THE NEW OFFICE""""The New Tasks""; ""Career Opportunities""; ""Compensation and Skills""; ""Wages and Upskilling""; ""Other Variables Affecting Change""; ""Office Size""; ""Industrial Variation""; ""Resources and Wealth of Office""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; ""Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women in Computer-Related Occupations and High-Tech Industries""; ""COMPUTER-RELATED OCCUPATIONS""; ""Descriptions of Occupations""; ""Engineers""; ""Computer Specialists""; ""Engineering and Science Technicians""; ""Computer Operators""



""Data-Entry Operators""

Sommario/riassunto

This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution. Topics include the implications for equal employment opportunity in light of new technologies; a case study of the insurance industry and of women in computer-related occupations; a study of temporary, part-time, and at-home employment; and education and retraining opportunities.