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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jacques Haers, SJ -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Completing our Liberative Turns -- Specific Aims and Sc ope of the Study -- An Overview of the Book -- Part One- The Glocal Context of Human and Ecological Oppressions -- Chapter 1- Colonial Oppressions and Poverty in the Philippines -- A Portrait of Precolonial Philippines -- A Narrative of an Overly Colonized Country -- The Contemporary Oppressions of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao -- Chapter 2- The Glocal Context of Poverty and Ecological Crisis -- The Colonization of Our Natural Resources -- The Global Phenomenon of Poverty and the Ecological Crisis -- Chapter 3- A Diagnosis of the Roots of the Oppressive Relationship with Nature -- The Anthropocentric Perspective of Western Christianity -- The Anthropocentric Perspective of Modernity -- The Unsustainable Modern Socioeconomic Ideologies -- Chapter 4- An Exploration of Ecological Perspectives -- The Context of the Emergence of the Science of Ecology -- The New Cosmology Ecology -- The Superorganism Ecology -- The Ecosystem Ecology -- Some Creative Appropriations of Ecological Perspectives -- Part Two- Poverty and the Ecological Crisis: Challenges to Magisterium and Theologians -- Chapter 5- The Liberation Theologies and the Magisterium -- Some Seeds of the Preferential Option for the Poor in Vatican II -- The Magisterium's Bias for the Top-Down Preferential Option for the Poor -- The Magisterium's Commitment to Integral Liberation -- The Changing Contexts of the Latin American Liberation Theology -- Chapter 6- The Catholic Social Teaching on Ecology -- An Overview of the Catholic Social Teaching on Ecology -- The CST on How Human Beings should Relate with Nature -- The Ecological Crisis as a Moral Issue -- A Critical Assessment of the CST's Ecological Perspective

Over the past forty years Europe has grown as a global presence and today it plays an important role in a variety of ways: politically, socially, economically, and culturally. European theologians have no choice but to take cognizance of this fact and respond to the broad social challenges by clarifying their views on God and being a prophetic voice in cultural, political and social decision-making. The authors in this volume take up four main contemporary global challenges, i.e. globalization, violence, gender, and the environment, and the volume provides its readers with first-rate theological reflections in Europe. The articles offered here are the result of an intensive workshop held in Leuven in September 2004 and are sponsored by the European Commission and the VLIR, as part of a three-year study program on the understanding of God in Europe.

"Over the past forty years Europe has grown as a global presence and today it plays an important role in a variety of ways: politically, socially, economically, and culturally, European theologians have no choice but to take cognizance, of this fact and respond to the broad social challenges by clarifying their views on God and being a prophetic voice in cultural, political and social decisionmaking. The authors in this volume take up four main contemporary global challenges, i.e. globalization, violence, gender, and the environment, and the volume provides its readers with first-rate theological reflections in Europe. The articles offered here are the result of an intensive workshop held in Leaven in September 2004 and are sponsored by the European Commission and the VLIR. as part of a three-year study program on the understanding of God in Europe."--Jacket

Introduction -- Contextualizing the Spectacular / Paul Hodkinson -- Exploring New Ground. Nerds, Geeks, Gamers and Fans: Doing Subculture on the Edge of the Mainstream / Benjamin Woo -- Creative Entrepreneurship in the Cultural Industries: Rhetoric and Realities of Youth Creative Work / Miranda Campbell -- The Influence of Happenings on the Performative Display of Subcultures: Insights into the Beat, Mod, Provo and Hipster Movements / Stefan Wouters -- "Fed Up with Men": Music as Symbolic Resistance in the Flemish Lesbian and Women's Movement / Robbe Herreman, Alexander Dhoest and Bart Eeckhout -- Why Are All the Gospel Rappers Online?: The Role of Social Media Sites in Building Communities in Buffalo, NY / Erika Gault -- Revisiting Old Ground. Young People on the Edge: A World of Post-Subcultures and Post-Suburbs? / Rupa Huq -- Club Culture in the Cultural Periphery: The Case of Estonia / Airi-Alina Allaste --"Thank You for Being So Professional!": The 1990s Club Culture as a Vehicle of Entrepreneurialism in the Post-Socialist Context / Zuzana Kepplová -- Respect for the Blood: The Hungarian "Radical Galaxy" and "National Hip Hop" / Ágnes Patakfalvi Czirják -- Communal Utopias within Nature-Based Spiritualities in the Post-Soviet Region: The Visions of an Ideal World among Vissarionites and Anastasians / Rasa Pranskeviciute

This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope. On the one hand, the notion of resistance is redefined and applied to contemporary practices of cultural production and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, contributors reconsider the connection of subcultures to everyday culture, exploring more mainstream forms of cultural production and consumption across a wider range of social groups. As a consequence, this book extends the scope to look beyond the white, male, adolescent, urban cultures identified with earlier subcultural s.

This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes

Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change interacts with changing economic landscapes, social distinctions and political realities. A variety of drivers contribute to demographic change in the various regions and countries considered, such as family policies, economic realities, the impact of educational differentials and the attitudes towards marriage. On the macro-level the new trends are restructuring the age composition of populations and are reshaping the life courses of individuals and families. In turn, the impact demographic forces have on the organisation of labour markets, on fiscal policies, on the care of the elderly, on migration flows and on political changes can be quite radical.

Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the 'default perspective' on the relationship between both phenomena. In this book, the authors claim that, although the dominant approach is legitimate and essential, it nonetheless falls short in grasping the full complexity of the interaction between religion and volunteering. It needs to be recognized that there are tensions between religion and volunteering, and that these tensions are intensifying as a result of the changing meaning and role of religion in society. Therefore, the central aim and contribution of this book is to demonstrate that the relationship between religion and volunteering is not univocal but differentiated, ambiguous and sometimes provocative. By introducing the reader to a much wider landscape of perspectives, this volume offers a richer, more complex and variable understanding. Apart from the established positive causality, the authors examine tensions between religion and volunteering from the perspective of religious obligation, religious change, processes of secularization and notions of post-secularity. They further explore how actions that are considered altruistic, politically neutral and motivated by religious beliefs can be used for political reasons. This volume opens up the field to new perspectives on religious actors and on how religion and volunteering are enacted outside Western liberal and Christian societies. It emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives, including theology, philosophy, sociology, political science, anthropology and architecture

Demographic change exerts pressure on public finances and labour markets. In this study, we analyse the demographic dynamics in the European Union (EU) up until 2100 and present different strategies to cope with the challenge of ageing (building on Groot and Peeters 2012, and Peeters and Groot 2012). The aim of this study is to investigate whether the EU economies, currently under fiscal distress due to the financial crisis, will be able to cope with the fiscal impact of the retiring baby boom generations in the decades to come. This impact does not only involve the public budget for the society as a whole, but also the fiscal burden for the actual workers who, in the EU social security systems, mainly pay for the old age pension benefits of the current old age generations. In our analyses of the policy options, we explicitly take account of these workers by imposing a no-change in fiscal pressure for these workers from 2010 onwards.