Author: Carter Lindberg File Type: pdf 3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the evolution and impact of this timeless topic. ullTakes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love llExamines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history llTackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns llExplores diverse periods and examples from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise llContributes valuable insights into one of historys most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to todays liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.lulReviewOverall, Lindberg offers a significant work, one which will be helpful for pastors, seminarians, graduate students, and interested lay people. (Lutheran Quaterly, 2011)Lindberg has written an excellent book that deserves a wide readership. Its vastness of scope is breathtaking and its selection of topics comprehensive.. (Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2010)The text is a model of a clear and elegant prose.... [Readers] will find numerous insights in this short but informative publication. (Journal for the study of Marriage & Spirituality, Autumn 2009)Any scholar or general reader who wishes to grapple with the nature of love may find this book and its bibliography a fine place to start. (The Catholic Historical Review, January 2009)A wonderful overview of the ways in which the theme of love has been presented and reflected upon from biblical times to the late 20th century. (Church Times, November 2008)ReviewThis book is doubly impressive, both for covering so much material so expertly in such a short space and also for doing it with such elegant prose.Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological SeminaryI didnt think there was anything new to say about love, but Professor Lindbergs history of love is wonderfully refreshing. He draws judiciously on a vast and varied treasure of fact and theory including erotic, neighbourly and religious love to portray a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon ever changing and reaching out for new connections in all kinds of ways.Trond Skard Dokka, University of Norway 3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the evolution and impact of this timeless topic. ullTakes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love llExamines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history llTackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns llExplores diverse periods and examples from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise llContributes valuable insights into one of historys most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to todays liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.lulReviewOverall, Lindberg offers a significant work, one which will be helpful for pastors, seminarians, graduate students, and interested lay people. (Lutheran Quaterly, 2011)Lindberg has written an excellent book that deserves a wide readership. Its vastness of scope is breathtaking and its selection of topics comprehensive.. (Reviews in Religion & Theology, 2010)The text is a model of a clear and elegant prose.... [Readers] will find numerous insights in this short but informative publication. (Journal for the study of Marriage & Spirituality, Autumn 2009)Any scholar or general reader who wishes to grapple with the nature of love may find this book and its bibliography a fine place to start. (The Catholic Historical Review, January 2009)A wonderful overview of the ways in which the theme of love has been presented and reflected upon from biblical times to the late 20th century. (Church Times, November 2008)ReviewThis book is doubly impressive, both for covering so much material so expertly in such a short space and also for doing it with such elegant prose.Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological SeminaryI didnt think there was anything new to say about love, but Professor Lindbergs history of love is wonderfully refreshing. He draws judiciously on a vast and varied treasure of fact and theory including erotic, neighbourly and religious love to portray a dynamic, multi-dimensional phenomenon ever changing and reaching out for new connections in all kinds of ways.Trond Skard Dokka, University of Norway

Author: Valerie Francisco-Menchavez File Type: pdf The nature of transnational families is such that separated members, both abroad and home, consistently craft strategies of care through technology and multidirectional care work to cope with the difficult sacrifice of migration. This book is about the affliction of migration and globalization and the durability of families through these circumstances. It provides accounts of the impact of global care chains on the families of migrant women from the Philippines and the emergence of new forms of intimacies and care work as the women navigate and negotiate the emotional and material consequences of family separation and the resulting shifts in family gender dynamics. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Francisco presents the self-care perspective of women of color feminism by showing the multidirectional care work that occurs with migration and investigates the changes in family that come with migration and circumstances where migrants are separated from their families because of legal or economic reasons. Anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipino migrants and their families in the Philippines, it also describes the lives of many families from the Global South who are separated from one another. Francisco highlights the way in which new technologies have become central to the reconfiguration of family and how Facebook, Skype, and recorded videos and pictures are important components in the lives of migrant mothers and their families left behind. Francisco analyzes the formation of extended communities of migrant mothers and the fictive kinships that women apart from families of origin create abroad in their mother work abroad--