Constituting Communities

Author : John Clifford Holt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487059
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Communities written by John Clifford Holt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constituting Communities explores how community functions within Theravāda Buddhist culture. Although the dominant focus of Buddhist studies for the past century has been on doctrinal and philosophical issues, this volume concentrates on discourses that produced them, and why and how these discourses and practices shaped Theravāda communities in South and Southeast Asia. From a variety of perspectives, including historical, literary, doctrinal and philosophical, and social and anthropological, the contributors explore the issues that have proven important and definitive for identifying what it has meant, individually and socially, to be Buddhist in this particular region. The book focuses on textual discourse, how communities are formed and maintained within pluralistic contexts, and the formation of community both within and between the monastic and lay settings.

Author : P. Mouritsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582087
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Communities written by P. Mouritsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective this book discusses the political solutions of constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism to cultural conflict. It places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects 'culture'.

Author : Steven S. Tuell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065428
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting the Community written by Steven S. Tuell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh collection of essays honors the life and work of Professor Dean McBride. Revolving around the theme of polity in ancient Israel, this festschrift addresses many aspects of ancient Israelite society, organization, and political affairs. The 15 contributors discuss themes such as “justice,” “self-definition,” “ethnicity,” “constitutionalism,” “reform,” and “community,” as understood over the course of time in the books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings.

Author : Hester Lessard
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774818824
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storied Communities written by Hester Lessard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories � narratives of contact and narratives of arrival � helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

Author : European Coal and Steel Community
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Draft Treaty Constituting the European Coal and Steel Community written by European Coal and Steel Community and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tamir Moustafa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108334075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Religion written by Tamir Moustafa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Joel Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000189457
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting the Minangkabau written by Joel Kahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia. The author argues that the impact of colonial land-grabbing and political control led to the formation of a peasant economy in the period. At the same time, the author tackles issues in the recent anthropological debates about ethnography and culture to argue that this period also witnessed the construction of what we now call 'Minangkabau Culture' - a process that involved western ethnographers, colonial officials and Minangkabau intellectuals in an often conflicted process of modern cultural transformation.

Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315476
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Americans written by Priscilla Wald and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constituting Americans" rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to fixing the words precisely of what it means to be an American

Author : Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801875684
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Federal Sovereignty written by Leslie Friedman Goldstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses why, when, and how sovereign states give up some of their sovereignity to form a larger union Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending comparative and historical institutionalist approaches. She argues that the most useful framework for understanding the kinds of "supra-state" formations that are increasingly apparent in the beginning of the third millennium is comparative analysis of the formative epochs of federations of the past that formed voluntarily from previously independent states. In Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European Union in Comparative Context Goldstein identifies three significant predecessors to today's European Union: the Dutch Union of the 17th century, the United States of America from the 1787 Constitution to the Civil War, and the first half-century of the modern Swiss federation, beginning in 1848. She examines the processes by which federalization took place, what made for its success, and what contributed to its problems. She explains why resistance to federal authority, although similar in kind, varied significantly in degree in the cases examined. And she explores the crucial roles played by such factors as sovereignty-honoring elements within the institutional structure of the federation, the circumstances of its formation (revolt against distant empire versus aftermath of war among member states), and notably, the internal culture of respect for the rule of law in the member states.

Author : National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addresses, Reports, Statements of Benevolent Societies, Constitution, Minutes, Roll of Delegates, Etc. of the ... Session written by National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: