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Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard
H. Gene Blocker
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Jennifer M. Jeffers
Wadsworth Publishing
, 1998
Almost
In truth, this book deserves 3.5 stars-unfortunately for me, that is not available.So I had to put it a notch lower together with an earlier review on William James' book. A sad affair for me and the editors of this tex. A little after Kant the whole thing starts ...
The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a
Peri Bearman
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Wolfhart Heinrichs
, ...
I. B. Tauris
, 2008
A sea change has taken place in Islamic legal studies. This book both reflects and contributes to that change. Traditionally, scholars in this field have tended to focus on law as a body of rules and doctrines, as ?fiqh.? This volume is interested in how the law has been applied to concrete situations. It looks at judicial decision-making, legal ...
New Wine into Fresh Wineskins: Contextualizing the Early Christian Confessions
Richard N. Longenecker
Hendrickson Publishers
, 1999
Throughout the centuries Christians have sought to understand better the nature of the earliest features of the gospel message, for in that understanding lies the opportunity to make relevant the gospel's power to effect change-in other words, to put new wine into fresh wineskins. Veteran New Testament scholar Richard Longenecker explains how ...
Contextualizing Theological Education
Pilgrim Press, The
, 2008
To contextualize theological education is to engage three contexts: academy, church, and society. In this new collection, faculty at Candler School of Theology reflect on particular meansgs, insights, challenges, and implications of such an engagement.
Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology
Anton Markos
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2002
This is a wide ranging and deeply learned examination of evolutionary developmental biology, and the foundations of life from the perspective of information theory. Hermeneutics was a method developed in the humanities to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. In Readers of the Book of Life, the author shows ...
Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul (Oxford Early ...
Richard J. Goodrich
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2008
Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodrich's close analysis of Cassian's earliest work (The Institutes) focuses on his interaction with the values and preconceptions of a traditional Roman elite, as well as his engagement with ...
Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis: A Participatory Approach to Effective Instruction (Language, ...
Lawrence N. Berlin
Lawrence Erlbaum
, 2005
Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis: A Participatory Approach to Effective Instruction provides pre-service and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms. Along with the model, the text is designed ...
Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical ...
Society of Biblical Literature
, 2003
How did Greco-Roman discourse shape early Christian literature and identity? Contextualizing Acts advances the discussion in this collection of innovative analyses of the intersection of Lukan narrative and Greco-Roman discourse. Topics span the adaptation of ancient rhetoric and historiography, influence of epics and novels, role of orality, and ...
Contextualizing Homelessness: Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless (New ...
Ken Kyle
Routledge
, 2005
Homelessness in the US remains a grave and persistent problem despite the efforts of homeless activists, advocates for the homeless, government bureaucrats, and policy makers. If we are to move forward in solving the problem, a critical theory of homelessness is necessary. This project employs three different disciplinary approaches--social ...
Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations
Joe L. Kincheloe
,
Patrick Slattery
, ...
Allyn & Bacon
, 1999
Much needed
This is exactly the kind of text future teachers need! For too long educators have been given recipes for teaching...they need to learn to think. Unless we consider the socio-cultural influences on education we will continue to perpetuate the status-quo. The title ...
Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb (After ...
Alison Rice
Lexington Books
, 2006
Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir Khatibi. Alluding to music not only as a theme pulsing throughout these writers' works, but also as a means of comprehending their unique, improvisational writing styles, ...
Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2003
Bringing together a range of specialists in their respective fields, the book provides a combination of original research with fundamental questions about why states stay together, and above all why sometimes they fall apart. When and under what conditions is the separation of one part of a state from another justified? Written in an accessible ...
Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies.)
Thomas M. Felson, Nancy Konstan, David Falkner
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
, 1999
These essays examine innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philosophy. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways.
Out of Minimalism: The Referential Cube: Contextualizing Sculptures by Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor & Rachel ...
Malin Hedlin Hayden
Not Avail
, 2003
This Ph.D. dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread, respectively. The notion applied minimalism is tentatively applied to their sculptures. A primary argument is that these works are ...
Visions of Sts: Contextualizing Science, Technology, and Society Studies (Suny Series in Science, Technology, ...
State University of New York Press
, 2001
Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.
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