The Cambridge companion to John Wesley / / edited by Randy L. Maddox, Jason E. Vickers [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996202480903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-139-80179-1; 1-139-00283-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge companions to religion
• Disciplina: 287.092; B
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-322) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Randy L. Maddox & Jason E. Vickers -- Wesley's context -- The long eighteenth century / Jeremy Gregory -- Wesley's life -- Wesley's life and ministry / Kenneth J. Collibs -- Wesley in context / David N. Hempton -- Wesley's work -- Wesley as revivalist : renewal leader / Charles I. Wallace -- Wesley as reacher / William J. Abraham -- Wesley as biblical interpreter / Robert W. Wall -- Wesley as diarist and correspondent / Ted A. Campbell -- Wesley as editor and publisher / Isabel Rivers -- Wesley's engagement with the natural sciences / Randy L. Maddox -- Wesley as adviser on health and healing / Deborah Madden -- Wesley's theological emphases / Jason E. Vickers -- Wesley's emphases on ethics / Rebekah L. Miles -- Wesley's emphases on worship and the means of grace / Karen B. Westerfield Tucker -- Wesley's legacy -- Spread of Wesleyan Methodism / Kenneth Cracknell -- The Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic extension of the Wesleyan tradition / Randall J. Stephens -- The African-American wing of the Wesleyan tradition / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Current debates over Wesley's legacy among his progeny / Sarah H. Lancaster.
• Sommario/riassunto: A leading figure in the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth-century England, John Wesley (1703-91) is the founding father of Methodism and, by extension, of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements. This Cambridge Companion offers a general, comprehensive introduction to Wesley's life and work, and to his theological and ecclesiastical legacy. ; Written from various disciplinary perspectives, including history, literature, theology, and religious studies, this volume will be an invaluable aid to scholars and students, including those encountering the work and thought of Wesley for the first time.

Genocide : The Power and Problems of a Concept / / edited by Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822245403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen’s University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 0-2280-0951-0; 0-2280-0952-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Disciplina: 364.1510904
• Soggetti: Genocide - History - 20th century; Genocide; History
• 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: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Genocide and Mass Categorical Violence -- Somebody Else’s Crime: The Drafting of the Genocide Convention as a Cold War Battle, 1946–48 -- The Costs of Silencing Holocaust Victims: Why We Must Add Sexual Violence to Our Definition of Genocide -- Frames and Narratives: How the Fates of the Ottoman Armenians, Stalin-Era Ukrainians, and Kazakhs Illuminate the Concept of Genocide -- The Holodomor in the Context of Soviet Mass Killing in the 1930s -- The Kazakh Famine, the Holodomor, and the Soviet Famines of 1930–33: Starvation and National Un-building in the Soviet Union -- The “Lemkin Turn” in Ukrainian Studies: Genocide, Peoples, Nations, and Empire -- The Orchestrated Inapplicability of the Law of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide – une exception française? -- Is It Time to Forget Genocide? Conceptual Problems and ; New Directions -- The Limits of a Genocide Lens and Possible Alternatives -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth, but that expansion has also compounded the tensions between a rigid legal concept and the manifold realities researchers have discovered. The legal and political benefits that accompany genocide status have also reduced complex discussions of historical events to a simplistic binary – is it genocide or not? – a situation often influenced by powerful political pressures.Genocide addresses these tensions and tests the limits of the concept in cases ranging from the role of sexual violence during the Holocaust to state-induced mass starvation in Kazakh and Ukrainian history, while considering what the Armenian, Rwandan, and Burundi experiences reveal about the uses and pitfalls of reading history and conducting politics through the lens of genocide. Contributors examine the pressures that great powers have exerted in shaping the concept; the reaction Raphaël Lemkin, originator of the word “genocide,” had to the United Nations’ final resolution on the subject; France’s long-held choice not to use the concept of genocide in its courtrooms; the role of transformative social projects and use of genocide memory in politics; and the relation of genocide to mass violence targeting specific groups.Throughout, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.