Author: Richard Warren Perry File Type: pdf The future outlines of the new global order are the constant object of speculation--economic, political, and metaphysical. From the sunny new world proclaimed by global free marketers to the rebellion against globalization unleashed in the streets of Seattle and Genoa, to the doomsdays envisioned by transnational terrorists and counterterrorists alike, this emerging global-millennial epoch is foretold alternately as redemption or apocalypse. The authors consider these sweeping descriptions of humankinds future, as well as the discourses of globalization that filter and frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. Their goal is not to resolve the ultimate semantic or philosophical question of what globalization really is instead, their essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernitys architecture. In Globalization under Construction, the authors ask What are the rationalities of government implicit in global modernitys project of mobilizing space, time, and difference? And what difference does it make to the globalization debates to put those rationalities in the foreground of critical analysis? Altogether, their work attempts to discern in the disparateness of contemporary events an emerging pattern of governmentality, techniques of governance and assemblages of intersecting arguments about the history of the present and the nature of the future that our present portends. A kaleidoscopic look at the intersections of globalization and governance.

Author: Christopher Macann File Type: pdf Macann guides the student through the major texts of the four great thinkers of the phenomenological movement. **

Author: Ziauddin Sardar File Type: pdf What do scientists actually do? Is science value-free? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? Introducing Philosophy of Science is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves. What do scientists actually do? Is science value-free? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? Introducing Philosophy of Science is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves. **About the Author Ziauddin Sardar is a renowned cultural and science critic who is the author of several Introducing titles. Borin Van Loon has worked on numerous Introducing titles. He is a freelance illustrator, surrealist painter and collagist.

Author: Michael Prokurat File Type: pdf Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood. The Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, places and events of the Eastern Church. Two millennia of the religion are surveyed in over five hundred concise entries, concentrating primarily on the last 150 years. Includes an overview of the early Church through the Byzantine and Russian Empires, into the present multinational Orthodox presence in the ecumenical movement. Many of the general entries cannot be found elsewhere in English, and the comprehensive compilation of biographies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orthodox theologians (American, Russian, Greek, and many other nationalities) is published here for the first time. Includes a detailed 4000-year chronology, illustrations, extensive bibliography, and an appendix listing the current canonical patriarchs and autocephalous churches.ReviewGolitzin and Prokurat, the two authors of this much needed dictionary, are both respected scholars among Orthodox and non-Orthodox. This dictionary more than adequately demonstrates their scholarly abilities...a remarkable collection... (Church History )Prokurat and Peterson have packed a great deal of informative, clear, and useful information into this volume. The focus on Orthodoxy worldwide and the soundness of the scholarship make this an especially useful contribution. (Choice )Accessible...this volume will be a useful reference for both Orthodox and non-Orthodox readers. (Christianity Today )...well worth the investment... (The Orthodox Church )...well-written articles...the dictionary is recommended for all religious libraries. (Arba )...provides...useful information which may be difficult to locate elsewhere. (Journal Of Religious History )...entirely welcome reference work on the Orthodox tradition...meets a long-felt need...an excellent bibliography...both beginning and more advanced students will consult this bibliography to great advantage...provides concise, accurate, and up-to-date information on a wide range of subjects... (The Catholic Historical Review )...extraordinary in both its scope and its depth...this work clearly outshines its predecessors...while the uniqueness of the Orthodox worldview and way of life is consistently stressed by the authors, they situate Orthodoxy in a much larger religious context...no less impressive than the biographical and geographical entries are those on theological topics...traditional theological categories are treated with conciseness and clarity, on the one hand, and breadth and nuance on the other...an enormously complex topic is made manageable through an insightful application of conceptual framework...a timely publication, and, by virtue of its superb quality, a contribution of enormous importance. (Critical Review Of Books In Religion )The reader who expects dictionaries to be dry and impersonal will find the present volume a pleasant surprise. While scrupulous in their presentation of the facts, the compilers do not necessarily hide the fact that they have opinions...provides a wealth of information on theology and liturgy, as well as history, church life today and prominent personalities past and present. An extensive and valuable, if dauntingly detailed, bibliography, thematically arranged, covers almost one hundred pages at the end of the book. As a mine of fascinating information, attractively presented, and as a major contribution to greater understanding of the Orthodox Church, this volume is to be warmly welcomed...no serious theological library should be without it. (Sobornost )A useful annotated bibliography that systematically lists primary and secondary sources. (Religious Studies Review ) About the AuthorMichael Prokurat was Assistant Professor of Scripture at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Marys Seminary, Houston. Alexander Golitzin is Assistant Professor at the Department of Theology of Marquette University. Michael D. Peterson, the bibliographer, is the Branch Librarian at the San Anselmo collection of the Graduate Theological Union Library, Berkeley.