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Longing and Shame -- Enduring Faith: Christians and the Contemporary World -- The Legacy of Modernity -- Are We in Exile? -- Two Temptations -- Judgment and Mission -- Fostering Hope: From Alien to Ambassador -- Learning to Lament -- Calling, Citizenship, and Commission -- Establish an Embassy -- Know the Mission -- Ambassadors of Love: Exiles on Mission -- Learn the Language -- Stories of the West -- Cultural Translation -- Pilgrimage-a way of being.

We live in a time of crises -- economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are destined to deepen unless we radically transform our economy. But despair is not an option, and Adler provides a compelling alternative: democratic socialism. He argues that to overcome these crises we need to assert democratic control over the management of both individual enterprises and the entire national economy. To show how that would work, he draws on a surprising source of inspiration: the strategic management processes of many of our largest corporations. In these companies, the strategy process promises to involve and empower workers and to ensure efficiency and innovation. In practice, this promise is rarely realized, but in principle, that process could be consolidated within enterprises and it could be scaled-up to the national level. Standing in the way? Private ownership of society's productive resources, which is the foundation of capitalism's ruthless competition and focus on private gain at the cost of society, the environment, and future generations. Adler shows how socialized, public ownership of our resources will enable democratic councils at the local and national levels to decide on our economic, social, and environmental goals and on how to reach them. The growing concentration of industry makes this socialization step ever easier. Democratic socialism is not a leap into the unknown, Adler shows. Capitalist industry has built the foundations for a world beyond capitalism and its crises

1. Introduction -- 2. Race, Social Contract Theory, and Social Darwinism -- 3. Political Theology, Negative Dialectics, and Messianic History -- 4. Enlightenment, Genealogy, and Political Discourse Ethics -- 5. Nietzsche, Critical Theory, and Cultural Linguistic Theology -- 6. Orientalism, the Problematic of Marx, Subaltern Studies -- 7. Mimicry, Hegel Interpretation, and Mimetic Theory of Language -- 8. Ethnic Nationalism, Social Darwinism, and Alternative Modernities -- 9. Ernst Troeltsch: Political Ethics and Comparative Religions -- 10. Epilogue

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. The Swedish-Jacobite conspiracy of 1717 -- 2. The ministerial response -- 3. The exploitation of fear -- 4. The Spanish-Jacobite conspiracy of 1719 -- 5. Ministerial vigilance and retaliation -- 6. The necessity for a plot -- 7. The English Jacobite plot of 1721 -- 8. Walpole's investigation -- 9. Walpole's political gain -- 10. Walpole's intelligence system -- 11. The death of English Jacobitism -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 1. John Sempill (Sample), Walpole's anti-Jacobite spy -- APPENDIX 2. The Norfolk List of 1721 -- APPENDIX 3. Estimate of Jacobite strength in England and Wales for an uprising in 1721 -- APPENDIX 4. Known Jacobites or individuals suspected of Jacobitism who were members of the House of Commons in the years 1715-45 -- APPENDIX 5. Duke of Wharton's list of Jacobite support among the peerage in 1725 -- Bibliography -- Index

The Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East gathers a diverse team of international scholars, each of whom provides unique expertise into the status and prospects of minority populations in the region. The dramatic events of the past decade, from the Arab Spring protests to the rise of the Islamic state, have brought the status of these populations onto centre stage. The overturn of various long-term autocratic governments in states such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and the ongoing threat to government stability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon have all contributed to a new assertion of majoritarian politics amid demands for democratization and regime change. In the midst of the dramatic changes and latent armed conflict, minority populations have been targeted, marginalized, and victimized. Calls for social and political change have led many to contemplate the ways in which citizenship and governance may be changed to accommodate minorities - or indeed if such change is possible. At a time when the survival of minority populations, and the utility of the label minority has been challenged, this handbook answers the following set of research questions: What are the unique challenges of minority populations in the Middle East? How do minority populations integrate into their host societies, both as a function of their own internal choices, and as a response to majoritarian consensus on their status? Finally, given their inherent challenges, and the vast, sweeping changes that have taken place in the region over the past decade, what is the future of these minority populations? What impact have minority populations had on their societies, and to what extent will they remain prominent actors in their respective settings?

Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Comparative Theologies and Multiple Modernities -- Postcolonial God's Mission and Comparative Study -- Comparative Studies of Religion and Multiple Modernities -- "Analogical" Comparative Theology -- "Commentarial" Comparative Theology and -- A New Comparative Theology and Multiple Modernities -- Organization of Themes and New Orientation -- Chapter 2 Comparative Theology, Religious Discourse, and Phenomenological Imagination -- Religion and Society -- Phenomenology: Intentionality and Lifeworld -- Phenomenology and Culture as Semantics -- Theological Phenomenology and the Word of God -- Paul Tillich and Comparative Theology -- A New Comparative Theology: Problematization and Immanent Critique -- Archeology and Critical, Social Analysis -- Correlational Research and Historical-Critical Method -- A Note in Transition -- Chapter 3 Comparative Theology of Justification and Interreligious Learning: Martin Luther and Shinran Shonin -- Honen and Pure Land Teaching in Japan -- Shinran's Life: Formative Period and Exile -- Shinran's Breakthrough to the Vow of Amida -- Luther, Justification, and Grace of Christ -- Luther and Medieval Teaching of Justification -- Luther's Teaching of Justification: Forensic and Effective -- Historical Resource and Reading Together: Faith and Grace -- Problematization: Buddha Nature and Other Power -- Historical Encounter: Faith and Buddha Nature -- Conclusion: Self-Renewal, Solidarity, and Universal Grace -- Chapter 4 Totaliter Aliter, God's Mission, and the Postcolonial -- God's Mission in Postcolonial Background -- Reconciliation and Missional Ecclesiology -- Mission and Solidarity with the World -- The Wholly Other in Speech-Act and Phenomenological Hermeneutic -- Gospel, Culture, and Religion -- Culture and Religion as Ensemble of the Text

Introduction : The Great Cut across the Face of Nature -- Yawning, Abysmal Gullies -- The Most Picturesque Features of the Coastal Plain : Geologists Arrive at Providence Canyon -- Rough, Gullied Land : Soil Scientists Arrive at Providence Canyon -- A Land That Nature Built for Tourists -- Giving Fame and Focus to the Fact of Soil Erosion -- Gullies and What They Mean -- Somewhere between the Grand Canyon and a Sickening Void -- Conclusion : The Ecology of Erasure

"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new: Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration (SEI CMMI), Ernst & Young Navigator System Series project risk methodology, Project Management Institute

Annotation Magisterial in scope and scrupulous in its investigation and attribution of sources, 'Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy' will take its place as an important document that contributes much in terms of prophetic praxis - it challenges those who are comfortably complacent and unwilling to be disturbed