Signs Of Freedom

Author : Martinez, German
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 158768215X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Freedom written by Martinez, German and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, innovative, and coherent vision of the sacraments that takes into account current biblical, theological, liturgical, and ministerial developments and challenges the reader to a new awareness of their spiritual power to transform communities and lives.

Author : Betty Reid Soskin
Publisher : Hay House
ISBN 13 : 1401954219
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sign My Name to Freedom written by Betty Reid Soskin and published by Hay House. This book was released on 2018 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. Blending together selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes"--

Author : John Malkin
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1937006565
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds of Freedom written by John Malkin and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounds of Freedom brings together some of the contruy's best-known musicians to share their thoughts on spirituality and social change. Philip Glass, the Indigo girls, Michael Franti, Michelle Shocked, Laurie Anderson and others reveal their inspiration and their commitments to peace and justice. Featuring a foreword by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Author : Sabine M. I. Henning-Helbig
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3347992504
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astrology as a Guide to your personal Freedom written by Sabine M. I. Henning-Helbig and published by tredition. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a clear and structured introduction about an astrological birth chart is given. But not only that! You read about the deeper interpretations of the Zodiac circle and planets, that influences us. In other words: You learn the basics how to read and interpret a birth chart.

Author : Wolfgang Sakulin
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041134158
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trademark Protection and Freedom of Expression written by Wolfgang Sakulin and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trademark law grants right holders an exclusive right to prevent third parties from using a sign. This can readily be seen as the antithesis of freedom of expression, which arguably includes a right of third parties to non-exclusive use of a sign for a variety of purposes, ranging from informing consumers, to voicing criticism or to artistic expression. Drawing on cultural theory and– which has shown that society is involved in a constant struggle about shaping the meaning of signs (including trademarks) and– this highly original and provocative book contends that trademark law fails to sufficiently differentiate between commercial purpose and the social, political, or cultural meanings carried by one and the same sign. The author shows that the and‘functional approachand’ to justifying trademark rights taken in current jurisprudence and doctrine is deficient, in that it does not take sufficient account of the fact that trademark rights can restrict the freedom of expression of third parties. Specifically, the exercise of rights granted under the European Trademark Regulation and the national trademark rights harmonized by the European Trademark Directive can cause a disproportionate impairment of the freedom of commercial and non-commercial expression of third parties as protected by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The authorand’s in-depth analysis explores such elements as the following: o the economic and ethical rationales of trademark rights; o whether trademark rights under European law can be justified by these rationales; o how freedom of expression can serve as a limitation to trademark rights; o what level of protection such freedom of expression grants to third parties; o the role of trademarks of social, cultural, or political importance in public discourse; o chilling effects on public discourse that can be caused by the exercise of trademark rights; o the interpretation of provisions regulating the grant and revocation of trademark rights in light of freedom of expression; and o the interpretation of the scope of protection and the limitations of trademark rights in light of freedom of expression. In effect, the analysis serves to expand the focus of legislators, courts, and trademark registering authorities from the interests of trademark right holders, who seemingly are granted ever more protection, to the justified interests of third parties. The critical analysis of existing trademark law leads the author to clearly identify the areas of trademark law in which the law needs to be reinterpreted and the areas in which legislative action should be taken, with recommendations for a number of limitations that should aid legislators in drafting concrete amendments. The new insights and imperatives provided by this book are sure to prove useful to both courts interpreting existing provisions of trademark laws and to legislators who are faced with the challenges of drafting new rules or revising existing laws.

Author : David E. DeCosse
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666711128
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross written by David E. DeCosse and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is in a crisis of freedom. Influenced by neoliberal economics, the concept of freedom has become identified with an abstract, radical individualism disdainful of responsibility to others and to the past. Signs of this crisis crop up everywhere. Some invoke freedom as justification for refusing to wear a mask in a pandemic. Others argue that freedom is an empty word if it's celebrated apart from an honest engagement with the country's history of racism. Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross offers a Catholic theological response to this crisis of freedom. Catholic social ethics may be better known for its emphasis on social principles like the common good and solidarity. But developments in Catholic theologies of freedom in the last decades provide fertile ground from which to develop a bold, creative response to this American crisis of freedom. In this book, theologian David DeCosse draws on thinkers ranging from philosopher Amartya Sen to Black Catholic theologian Shawn Copeland to twentieth-century theological giant Karl Rahner in order to reimagine American freedom in light of classic Catholic emphases on embodiment, relationship, history, the good, and God. The result is a Catholic public theology that provides a redemptive path forward in an age of crisis.

Author : Susanne Bobzien
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519316
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy written by Susanne Bobzien and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. The book identifies the main problems that the Stoics addressed and reconstructs the theory, and explores how they squared their determinism with their conceptions of possibility, action, freedom, and moral responsibility, and how they defended it against objections and criticism by other philosophers. It shows how the Stoics distinguished their causal determinism from ancient theories of logical determinism, fatalism, and necessitarianism. Along the way an authoritative account is given of many other related aspects of Stoic thought, including their views on the predictability of the future, the role of empirical sciences, the determination of character, and moral freedom. Bobzien's study of these central doctrines of Stoicism reveals the considerable philosphical richness and power that they retain today.

Author : Hassanaly Ladha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350105805
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Freedom written by Hassanaly Ladha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a radical reading of Hegel's oeuvre, The Architecture of Freedom sets forth a theory of open borders centered on a new interpretation of the German philosopher's related conceptions of language and the aesthetic, mastery and servitude, and subjectivity and the state. The book's argument turns on Hegel's identification of “Africa” as a fluid, utopic space enabling the traversal of the East-West binary. As Hegel's figure for the non-historical, Africa emerges as the negativity that propels the movement of the dialectic in time. Mirroring the “shrouded” continent's relation to history, Kantian “architectonics” step out of the realm of logic in Hegelian thought and drive the historical unfolding of the aesthetic. In a foundational move, Hegel hypostatizes the aesthetic entanglement of built and linguistic form as the colossus of Memnon, an African warrior memorialized in ancient architecture, myth, and art. Reaching for freedom, the Memnon marks the architectonic modality through which the African slave, at the telos of history, will fulfill the spiritual promise of the human and bring about the politically mature state. The book examines the syncretic figure of the Memnon and slave across Hegel's lecture courses, the Phenomenology of Spirit, the Encyclopedia, and the Philosophy of Right. Ultimately the book calls for a reassessment of a range of Hegelian philosophemes across disciplines in the humanities. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in philosophy, postcolonial and African studies, political theory, architecture, and historiography.

Author : Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1645473341
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind written by Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the collected works of the modern Tibetan master Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk is the root text and commentary on the Dzogchen tantra called The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind, a verse text on the direct practices to realize the nature of mind taught within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a modern commentary on a Dzogchen tantra titled The Natural Freedom and Openness of the Mind, covering the practices of trekcho, thogal, and bardo. This tantra is a mind terma, or treasure, of the early modern terton, or treasure revealer, Deshek Lingpa (1842–1907), and incarnation of Yudra Nyingpo, a student of Yeshe Tsogyal, preeminent female consort of Padmasambhava, through whom the transmission lineage of this teaching is said to descend. The commentary presents the approach to enlightenment taught in this tradition. These instructions are considered advanced and secret, to be taught only to those who have received transmission from a qualified master. For the curious reader outside of the tradition, this book offers a clear and concise introduction to way the Nyingma tradition frames Buddhist cosmology, mind, liberation, and prayer.

Author : Eberhard Busch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802863787
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawn to Freedom written by Eberhard Busch and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of Drawn to Freedom is not to understand the Heidelberg Catechism, Eberhard Busch explains, but rather through it to understand what it means for us to believe in the merciful and just triune God. This is our God today, who always was our God, and will be our God tomorrow. This book, then, is a carefully developed, wide-ranging exploration of what it means to be a Christian in today s world. God is so committed to freedom, writes Busch, that he wants to give humans their own freedom. To unfold what this proposition means for Christians, Busch reexamines the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563 from a modern perspective and uses its question-and-answer format to propose an understanding of God s ways that still holds true for the twenty-first century. Busch also invites into the conversation past and present theologians, philosophers, musicians, and scientists with significant questions, objections, and alternative views. He probes such issues as self-understanding, personal worth, sin and forgiveness, hope and despair, and faith and love all in relation to the freedom and deliverance that he believes God desires to afford us.