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Enthält u.a. Rezensionen: Haynes, Jeff: Religion in Third World politics. - Boulder/Colo. ... : Rienner, 1994. - 166 S

A review essay on books by: John Burdick, Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1993); Sonia Alvarez & Arturo Escobar (Eds), The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992); Roger N. Lancaster, Life Is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1993); & David Stoll, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala (New York: Columbia U Press, 1993 [see listings in IRPS No. 82]). Like scholars in a variety of other disciplines, Latin Americanists are borrowing increasingly from postmodernism as they reflect on transformations in contemporary Latin America & reconsider traditional leftist ideas & practices. Stoll demonstrates a suspicion of leftist metanarratives as he argues that Mayans in Guatemala's Ixil Triangle have abandoned revolutionary politics & turned to small, local, often subtle forms of resistance. Burdick draws heavily on some central postmodern themes -- including an attraction to issues of culture & identity & an impatience with the traditional Left -- as he simulatneously announces & explains the failure of the progressive church in Brazil. The essays included in the Alvarez & Escobar collection seek to combine the resource-mobilization approach with the new social movements theory emphasis on identity in order to gain a fuller understanding of contemporary social movements in Latin America. Finally, Lancaster's study of working class life in Managua, Nicaragua, in the late 1980s illustrates both the plight of contemporary socialist strategies & the possibility of linking postmodern concerns about gender, sexuality, & race to questions of class, the state, & national sovereignty. M. Maguire

Works Righteousness explores the ways that different ethical theories relate to what people actually do. Peterson argues that the most dominant philosophical and religious approaches have largely ignored practice, assuming that internal mental states are what matter for ethics and that ideas and practices are related in a simple, linear fashion. However, some alternative models, including pragmatism, Marxism, and religious pacifism, present a more complex view of the relations between values and practices. These traditions show how attention to practices opens up new ways of thinking about moral theory and concrete issues like hate speech, euthanasia, and climate change.

'Works Righteousness' is a full-length study of the place of practice in ethical theory. It is a critique of the idealism of dominant approaches, an analysis of alternative models in which practice plays a more significant role, and an argument for taking practice seriously both in broad questions about ethical theory and in concrete case studies. The text's main argument is that what people actually do should be central to ethical theory.

"Works Righteousness is the first full-length study of the place of practice in ethical theory. It is a critique of the idealism of dominant approaches, an analysis of alternative models in which practice plays a more significant role, and an argument for taking practice seriously both in broad questions about ethical theory and in concrete case studies. The book's main argument is that what people actually do should be central to ethical theory. Rather than assuming that pre-established moral ideas guide action, ethicists should acknowledge and explore the ways that practices generate values and the mutual shaping between ideas and actions. This argument challenges dominant philosophical and religious theories that assume that ideas are what really matter"--

This book traces women's influence on maternity policy in Norway from 1880-1940. Maternity policies, including maternity leave, midwifery services and public assistance for mothers, were some of the first welfare policies enacted in Norway. Feminists, midwives, and working women participated in their creation and helped transform maternity policies from a restriction to a benefit. Situating Norway within the larger European context, this book contributes to discussions of Scandinavian welfare state development and further untangles the relationship between social policy and gender equality. This study of poor, rural women alongside urban middle-class feminists is rooted in an inclusive archival source base that speaks to the interplay between local and national welfare officials and recipients, the development and implementation of laws in diverse settings, the divergent effects maternity policies had on women, and women's varied responses.

If nature is what lies beyond human society, then animals must be a part of it. For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve the wilderness. They are also real creatures and individual subjects with whom we have diverse and complex relationshipsScholars, however, tend to treat animals and the environment as distinct, mutually exclusive objects of interest and concern. Conducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholar

This text examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Peterson proposes an 'ethical anthropology' that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures