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Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Hirschfeld, who was a professor of economics for fifteen years before training as a theologian, seeks to bridge these two fields in this innovative work about economics and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. According to Hirschfeld, an economics rooted in Thomistic thought integrates many of the insights of economists with a larger view of the good life, and gives us critical purchase on the ethical shortcomings of modern capitalism. In a Thomistic approach, she writes, ethics and economics cannot be reconciled if we begin with narrow questions about fair wages or the acceptability of usury. Rather, we must begin with an understanding of how economic life serves human happiness. The key point is that material wealth is an instrumental good, valuable only to the extent that it allows people to flourish. Hirschfeld uses that insight to develop an account of a genuinely humane economy in which pragmatic and material concerns matter but the pursuit of wealth for its own sake is not the ultimate goal. The Thomistic economics that Hirschfeld outlines is thus capable of dealing with our culture as it is, while still offering direction about how we might make the economy better serve the human good.

Contextual analysis of the representation of women and Jews in the fourteenth-century manuscripts of the German law book known as the Sachsenspiegel. A Germanist and an art historian examine the pictures and text in the four densely illustrated manuscripts of the Sachsenspiegel that were produced in the century following its composition by Eike von Repgow. This is the first extensive study of these famous picture books in English. Using critical frameworks based on performative and feminist theory, the authors give detailed consideration to the social differences reshaped and maintained by text and image. Although Eike's project, realized in the early 1220s, was concerned with peaceful interaction between diverse groups, including Slavic Wends as well as Germans, and with the provision of guardians for the young, the handicapped and the judicially impaired, his text is open to subversion by the images. Changing emphases in the pictures accord with changing attitudes to women and Jews in the period of production of these works, between c. 1300 and 1360. A burgeoning book culture in the fourteenth century carried Eike's law into the town halls at a time when the German cities were increasingly Christianized; market churches were constructed in the judicial and economic hub even as Synagogues disappeared from town centres during the pogroms. The market complex became part of the material culture of the law.

Konzeption der Stadt als Aufgabenträger für die Aufrechterhaltung und Weiterentwicklung des öffentlichen Straßenpersonennahverkehrs in Halle (Saale) ab dem Jahr 2018 mit zahlreichen Vorgaben (Mindeststandards) zur Erschließungs-, Bedienungs- und Beförderungsqualität für die betreibenden Verkehrsunternehmen.

Governments today are confronted with a complex array of interconnected problems, increased citizen expectations, and fiscal constraints. Furthermore, they must operate in a context of fast-paced technological, geopolitical, economic, social, and environmental change. Existing policies and programmes may not be suitable for tackling the challenges of today, let alone those of tomorrow. Governments therefore require a systemic approach to public sector innovation to develop and deliver novel solutions that meet the existing and emergent needs of citizens. This report looks at the experience and context of the Public Service of Canada, where significant emphasis has been placed on innovation, and proposes a new public sector innovation system model to assist Canada and other countries.

KinderStärken e.V. arbeitet seit über 10 Jahren im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendbeteiligung. In dieser Handreichung wird zu Beginn verschiedene Methoden vorgestellt. Anschließend werden wichtige Erkenntnisse und Anregungen für Kommunen und kommunale Prozess beschrieben.

This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system's ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable. It measures CompraNet's scope, functionality and use against global trends in e-procurement in order to guide its future development. The report includes input from key stakeholder groups such as contracting authorities, suppliers and civil society. It also identifies the supporting mechanisms such as legislation, policy, training, and infrastructure, that are required for the system to be successful.

Intro -- Inhalt -- 1 Eine Theologie der Menschenrechte. Einführende Überlegungen -- 1 Einleitung -- 1 Das Verhältnis von Theologie und Menschenrechten in der Geschichte -- 2 Die Auseinandersetzung mit Menschenrechten in der Theologie -- 3 Zu diesem Band -- Literatur -- I Eine Theologie der Menschenrechte? -- 2 Zur Theologie der Menschenrechte. Positionen und Perspektiven -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Menschenwürde - Menschenrechte -- 3 Theologie und Menschenrechte - Keine Liebe auf den ersten Blick -- 3 Theologische Grundmodelle für die Begründung von Menschenwürde und Menschenrechten -- 3.1 Theologische Begründungsmodelle -- 3.1.1 Gottesrecht und Menschenrechte (Jürgen Moltmann) -- 3.1.2 Christliche Wurzeln der Menschenrechte (Konrad Hilpert) -- 3.2 Nichttheologische Begründungsmodelle -- 3.2.1 Säkularer Charakter der Menschenrechte (Martin Honecker) -- 3.2.2 Strukturelle Korrespondenz (Trutz Rendtorff) -- 3.2.3 Analogie und Differenz (Wolfgang Huber, Heinz Eduard Tödt) -- 3.2.4 Menschenrechte als interkultureller Overlapping Consensus (Heiner Bielefeldt) -- 3.2.5 Die Demokratiedefizite der Menschenrechte und das radikale gesellschaftliche Imaginäre (Ulrike Auga) -- 3.3 Kombination von theologischer und nichttheologischer Begründung -- 3.3.1 Doppelte Begründung der Menschenrechte (Eberhard Schockenhoff, Dietrich Bonhoeffer) -- 3.3.2 Die Gottesspur der Menschenrechte (Hans-Joachim Sander) -- 4 Ausblick: Menschenrechte aus der Perspektive Öffentlicher Theologie -- Literatur -- 3 Gerechter Frieden und Menschenrechte. Entwurf einer Theologie der Menschenrechte in friedensethischer Absicht -- 1 Einleitung: Der Menschenrechtsgedanke und die christliche Friedensethik - ein nicht ganz klares Verhältnis -- 1.1 Menschenrechte als emergierende Leitkategorie bei Entscheidungen über Krieg und Frieden.

In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America. Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order