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A Critical Study of Classical Religious Texts in Global Contexts: Challenges of a Changing World challenges toxic stereotypes of world religions by providing scholarly investigations into classic sacred texts in global contexts. By engaging more perspectives, important connections, and more, complex and humanizing "stories" are developed, inviting the reader to see the face of the "Other" and, perhaps, to see a bit of oneself in that face. In today's world of increasing polarization and the rise of nationalism, the contributors to this volume welcome the reader to join them in a shared humanity that seeks understanding. A red thread that runs through each chapter relates to the challenges that globalization brings to the sacred texts in various contextual settings. The contributors describe various circumstances related to reading and interpreting sacred writings—whether historical or more recent—which continue to have an influence today. The essays in this volume view these religious texts in relation to four dichotomies: minority-majority, diaspora-homeland, center-periphery of the globalized world, and secular-religious. These elements by no means exhaust the issues, but they serve as a starting point for a discussion of relevant contexts in which sacred texts are read. The breadth of research represented stimulates a deeper understanding that is vital if we are to move beyond stereotypes and religious illiteracy to meaningfully engage the "Other" with wisdom and empathy—important virtues in today's world. A Critical Study of Classical Religious Texts in Global Contexts will appeal to scholars and graduate students of religious studies, sacred scriptures, and post-colonial studies, as well as informed and inquisitive general readers interested in exploring interfaith dialogue and broadening their religious literacy.

What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying. MySpace, Twitter and You Tube are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial crisis in the industry. The old postwar industrial planning model of pop, which centralized control in the hands of major record corporations, and divided the market into neat segments, is dissolving in front of our eyes. This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding pop music today. It provides a clear survey of the field and a description of core concepts. The main theoretical approaches to the analysis of pop are described and critically assessed. The book includes a major investigation of the revolutionary changes in the production, exchange and consumption of pop music that are currently underway

Introduction: autonomizing the Calderonian auto sacramental -- Tradition revised: the auto sacramental in the early twentieth century. The avant-garde rediscovery of the auto -- Francoism and the auto as political mouthpiece restoring the auto: from the battlefield to a national theater -- Tradition overthrown: the auto sacramental in the post-Franco era. Subverting tradition: Francisco Nieva and his sacred irreverence -- Emerging from darkness: national and theatrical revision in Jesús Campos García's A ciegas -- The auto industry: anti-commercialism and the plays of Ernesto Caballero -- Conclusion

The Second Vatican Council was convoked by Pope John to find ways and means for the pastoral needs of modem society in a state of an ever-going change in the social, cultural, economic, political and spiritual spheres. Such a programme presupposes a deep insight into the nature and mission of the Church such as we find in the Constitution De Ecclesia: Lumen Gentium which provides the basic theological principles for a healthy, efficient and effective pastoral action as envisaged by the Council Fathers. ; N/A

This study looks at the funerary inscriptions that are reproduced verbatim in Roman elegy. Through an analysis of quoted inscriptions in the elegies of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid, the author places these inscriptions into their literary and societal context. While it has often been assumed that the primary motive for including such inscriptions is to achieve a permanent memorial for the dead, this study argues that the inscriptions instead serve a series of functions that are typical for their specific elegaic context, and that distinguish them from inscriptions in other genres

Presents an illustrated examination of the underground comix movement which began in the 1960s in response to the political and social upheavals of the era, looking at the work of fifty artists associated with the movement, including Art Spiegelman, Vaughn Bode, and R. Crumb. Contains adult content

Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: The language and the art of it

The electro-chemical black swan / Nav Haq -- A glossary of rave -- Baroque sunbursts / Mark Fisher -- Festival Club. Where nothing happens, 2013 / Irene de Andrés -- Artists: Jacques André, Irene de Andrés, Cory Arcangel, George Barber, Jef Cornelis -- Horse power: interview with Renaat Vandepapeliere -- Artists: Jeremy Deller, Denicolai & Provoost, Rineke Dijkstra, Aleksandra Domanović, Andreas Gursky -- Hard beat: interview with Water Van Beirendonck -- Artists: Dan Halter, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Ann Veronica Janssens, Martin Kersels, Mark Leckey -- Without borders: interview with Wolfgang Voigt -- Artists: The Otolith Group, Daniel Pflumm, Sergey Shutov, Matt Stokes, Walter Van Beirendonck -- Score for acide brass, 1997 / Jeremy Deller -- Fear of a wet planet / Kodwo Eshun -- Legislature -- List of works -- Contributors' biographies -- Colophon