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Comprises an ethnographic study of the small, predominantly Inuit village of Quaqtaq in Nunavik in arctic Quebec. The author focuses on the interaction between modernity and tradition in residents' relations with the outside world and, more specifically, in cultural identity. Includes a few b & w photographs.

Brulle (2000) has noted the failure of the recent literature in critical theory to reflect the commitment of its founders to applying their philosophical and theoretical scholarship to create concrete social change. The authors have taken up the challenge to recover critical theory's "forgotten materialist component" and simultaneously responded to the call to reinvigorate the civic mission of the public university through efforts to integrate critical theory with community service learning and community-based research. The paper discusses historical, philosophical and theoretical issues in this effort and some reflections on our attempt to apply them in practice through the revitalization of the Center for Community Action and Research at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.

This article explores religion as a cause for terrorism, looking at different causes for terrorism and discussions into the harms associated with popular conceptions of associating religion with terrorism. The results of this research demonstrate that there are multiple causes for terrorism, which are not associated with religion, despite "intelligence-led policing" methods pertaining to religious and racial profiling. Theocracies and democracies have both abused human rights, demonstrating that states will ultimately prioritize their interests at the expense of the rights and freedoms of civilians, including the right to life.

Introduction to America's sacred ground /Barbara A. McGraw --American Jews and the public role of religion /Kenneth D. Wald --Confucianism on America's sacred ground /Thomas Selover --Catholicism and pluralism : a continuing dilemma for the twenty-first century /Jo Renee Formicola --Greening America's sacred ground : eco-spirituality and environmental politics /Stephen Woolpert --The Mormon religion, cultural challenges, and the good society /John R. Pottenger --American Muslims and the rediscovery of America's sacred ground /M.A. Muqtedar Khan --The Black church : sacred cosmos meets sacred ground /James Lance Taylor --The Hindu tree on America's sacred ground /Anatanand Rambachan --Staking out America's sacred ground : the Baptist tradition of religious liberty /Derek H. Davis --Buddhist contributions to the civic and conscientious public forums /Rita M. Gross --Unsecular humanism : the Supreme Court and American public culture /David W. Machacek,Phillip E. Hammond.

Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theology, Eugenics, and the Roots of Change; 3 The Paradigm Shift of Articles 12 and 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD); 4 US Policy toward Community Living as Aspects of Nondiscrimination; 5 European Perspectives on the Right to Community Living; 6 Comparing Community Living Policies: United States vs. Europe; 7 Promoting Change in Community Living of People with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of Israel.

Religious and charitable foundations are often held to have been a sub¬stantial presence in pre-industrial societies. One of their key tasks was the funding of public services, specifically social and religious services. This dissertation has tried to explain the regional variation in the extent to which foundations funded these public services. It was first documented that foundations funded their activities through returns on asset ownership, especially land. The religious and charitable sector owned up to forty per cent of the land in regions with weak territorial states and a strong nobilities. Large-scale asset ownership had economic consequences. High levels of institutional landownership resulted in significant distortions on lease markets for land. However, the ownership of financial instruments by foundations made them only a minor presence on late-medieval financial markets. The religious and charitable sector made modest, though significant contributions to social spending in the late-medieval period. Asset returns, a crucial aspect of the finance of foundations, were unimportant for the funding of education. Religious services were by far the highest priority of foundations. In terms of expenditures on the their primary purpose, religious and charitable foundations were efficient organisations, having about as much overhead as present-day charitable and public equivalents. The religious and charitable sector varied in size, reaching between three and fifteen per cent of regional GDP. The sector had grown at an annual rate of circa 0.4 per cent in the late-medieval period to reach this size. This means that as far as their economic weight is concerned, the literature probably overstates the importance of church and charity in the medieval period. The final task of this research was to find out what determined the levels of public service provision. High levels of per capita social spending by religious and charitable foundations were linked to open political systems. Alternative social insurance ...

For most of Israel's first two decades of independence the United States was not a close ally of Israel and did not provide Israel with significant amounts of either financial or military aid. All that changed, however, with President Johnson's decision to sell Phantom jets to Israel in 1968. This paper explains how the sale came about, and how the present-day U.S.-Israel alliance evolved. (DÜI-Hns)

The intention of this article is to provide a structural and operational analysis of policing beyond the police in Northern Ireland. While the polity enjoys low levels of 'officially' recorded crime as part of its post-conflict status, little empirical analysis exists as to the epistemological roots of security production outside that of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The empirical evidence presented seeks to establish that beyond more prominent analyses related to paramilitary 'policing', the country is in fact replete with a substantial reservoir of legitimate civil society policing – the collective mass of which contributes to policing, community safety and quality of life issues. While such non-state policing at the level of locale was recognised by the Independent Commission for Policing, structured understandings have rarely permeated governmental or academic discourse beyond anecdotal contentions. Thus, the present argument provides an empirical assessment of the complex, non-state policing landscape beyond the formal state apparatus; examines definitions and structures of such community-based policing activities; and explores issues related to co-opting this non-state security 'otherness' into more formal relations with the state.

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO commented on whether the efforts of the White House China Trade Relations Working Group and selected agencies violated the anti-lobbying provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1913. GAO noted that it identified one violation, which involved an electronic mail (e-mail) authorized by an agency representative assigned to the Working Group. While this appeared to constitute a violation of the applicable anti-lobbying appropriation provision, it involved a minimal expenditure of appropriated funds. GAO has discussed this e-mail with the White House Counsel's Office."

How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, urban communities and monasteries in medieval Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. Readership: Scholars, students and anyone interested in Medieval, Global, Cultural and Comparative History, Asian Studies, Historical Anthropology and Sociology and Religious Studies and academic libraries in these fields.