01678nam 2200409 450 991013597610332120180126083558.01-4758-2767-9(CKB)3710000000911434(MiAaPQ)EBC4722624(EXLCZ)99371000000091143420160629h20172017 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPublic school finance decoded a straightforward approach to linking the budget to student achievement /Jay C. TolandLanham :Rowman & Littlefield,[2017]©20171 online resource (117 pages)1-4758-2768-7 1-4758-2769-5 How finance and student achievement go hand-in-hand -- Looking at the past to predict the future -- How to use district efficiency indicators -- What expenses to include in the indicators -- Child nutrition ratios -- Maintenance and operation of plant ratios -- Transportation ratios -- Technology ratios -- Other ratios to consider -- What expenditures directly correlate with student achievement -- Linking the strategic plan to budget -- How it all fits together.Public schoolsUnited StatesFinanceAcademic achievementUnited StatesPublic schoolsFinance.Academic achievement379.1220973Toland Jay C.1975-1245425MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910135976103321Public school finance decoded2888419UNINA05037nam 2200601Ia 450 991096300840332120251104203553.00-7914-8825-X10.1515/9780791488256(CKB)2670000000233664(OCoLC)794701347(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587137(SSID)ssj0000676412(PQKBManifestationID)11390215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676412(PQKBWorkID)10677668(PQKB)11493948(MdBmJHUP)muse12813(Au-PeEL)EBL3407939(CaPaEBR)ebr10587137(DE-B1597)681594(DE-B1597)9780791488256(MiAaPQ)EBC3407939(EXLCZ)99267000000023366420010802d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReligion in late modernity /Robert Cummings NevilleAlbany State University of New York Pressc20021 online resource (303 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5424-X 0-7914-5423-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.Intro -- Religion in Late Modernity -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Contingencies of Nature -- Nature Defined -- Cosmological Contingency: Determinateness and Time's Flow -- Ontological Contingency: Creation and Eternity -- Symbols of Ontological Asymmetry -- 2. Human Nature -- Defining Human Nature -- To Be under Obligation -- The Human Condition -- Orientation and Poise -- 3. Religious Symbols -- Symbolic Meaning and Religion -- The Reference of Religious Symbols -- The Interpretation of Religious Symbols -- The Truth of Religious Symbols -- 4. The Symbols of Divine Action -- The Concept of God -- What Can We Know about God? -- When Can We Say God Is a Personal Agent? -- When Should We Not Say God Is a Personal Agent? -- 5. Eternity and the Transformation of Soul -- Eternity as a Contemporary Problem -- Plotinus and Eternity -- The Transformation of Soul to Engage Eternity -- The Engagement of Eternity -- Eternity Engaged through the Temporal -- Eternity in Time: Real and Illusory -- Eternity and Immortality -- 6. Religion and Scholarship -- Recent History of the Study of Religions -- Participation and Distance in a Typology of the Study of Religions -- Models of Spirituality among Historically Conscious Scholars -- 7. Religion and Society -- World Society, World Culture, World Community -- The Causal Effectiveness of Religions -- Global Modernization and Religious Traditions -- Maitreyan Strategies -- 8. Religion and Politics: Spheres of Tolerance -- Religious Wars and the Alleged Privacy of Religion -- Obligation and Civil Religion -- Ultimacy and Religions' Essential Features -- Political Tolerance of Religions -- Religion and Public Theology -- 9. Religion and the American Experiment -- The American Religious Scene -- The Experiment: An Hypothesis -- What Makes Religions Religious -- 10. Religion and Vital Engagement.Engagement and Competence -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Oversoul -- The Soul Transformed -- Emerson, Nietzsche, and Jesus: A Challenge to Modernism -- 11. The Public Character of Theology and Religious Studies -- 12. Religions, Philosophies,and Philosophy of Religion -- The Impact of Scholarship on Philosophy of Religion -- A Definition of Philosophy of Religion -- The Problematic of Translation and Comparison -- Comparison, Philosophy, and Theology -- 13. A Paleopragmatic Philosophy of the History of Philosophy -- Paleopragmatism -- Signs: The Phenomenology, Comparison, and Lineages of Philosophies -- Phenomenology of Philosophy -- Comparative Philosophy -- Philosophical Influences -- Philosophies as Referents: Structures, Insights, Orientation -- Philosophic Conceptual Structures as Icons -- Philosophies as Indices -- Philosophies as Conventional Orientations of Life: Symbolic Reference -- Philosophies as Interpretive Engagements:Truth, Usability, Fallibilism -- Philosophies as True or False in Their Contexts -- Historical Philosophies as Contemporary Resources -- Historical Philosophies as Correctives -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.Philosophical theologyReligionPhilosophyPhilosophical theology.ReligionPhilosophy.200/.9/051Neville Robert C159865MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963008403321Religion in late modernity4451577UNINA