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Book Review by Ferdinand Arslanian
No full textBook Review: Mohammed Imady, The Evolving Concepts of Development in Syria: Damascus: Dar Tlas Lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 200
Neighbourhood and Health Inequalities in Formal and Informal Neighbourhoods in Aleppo
No full textSyria\u27s neoliberal public policies have encouraged stark inequalities between the privileged centers and deprived peripheries of its cities. The authors of Syria\u27s Contrasting Neighbourhoods compare and contrast the settlements around Syria\u27s largest city, Aleppo, with the newly developed chic neighborhoods in the old city of Damascus
“Churches in Exile: Alternative Models of Church for Ireland in the 21st Century” by Cathy Higgin
No full textReview of Cathy Higgins, Churches in Exile: Alternative Models of Church for Ireland in the 21st Century (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Columbra Press, 2013)
The General Assembly of 2015
Get PDFWhile in some Presbyterian Churches, discussion and analysis of Assembly debates and decisions are common this type of analysis is far less common in Scotland. In this paper, Johnston McKay offers us a survey of the debate concerning same-sex relationships in recent years, culminating in the 2015 General Assembly. He traces the history of the debate from 2009 onwards, in the events, discussions and debates following the decision of the Presbytery of Aberdeen to sustain a call to a minister in a homosexual partnership. McKay describes the divisions and tensions apparent in the Church of Scotland, but also demonstrates the way in which the introduction of a model of the Church as a ‘mixed economy’ and, then, the use of the concept of ‘constrained difference’ contributed towards a major resolution of the discussion
“The Unknown God: Responses to the New Atheists” edited by John Hughes
No full textReview ofJohn Hughes, ed., The Unknown God: Responses to the New Atheists (London: SCM Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 106. £12.9
"The Early Luther: Stages in a Reformation Reorientation" by Berndt Hamm
No full textReview ofBerndt Hamm, The Early Luther: Stages in a Reformation Reorientation (trans. Martin J. Lohrmann; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2014
Governance Without Government in Syria: Civil Society and State Building During Conflict
Get PDFThis article aims to break new ground in academia by bridging the existing knowledge and practice gap on governance during conflict. It seeks to understand the governance dynamics during conflict in the non-government-controlled parts of Syria. It pays particular attention to civil society and state building processes. In doing so, the study spans historical and geographical width. Historically, to understand the roots of the conflict, it assesses the state-civil society-market dynamics of governance in Syria prioir to 2011. Nevertheless, its focus is on contemporary Syria between March, 2011 and May, 2014. Geographically, its particular attention and in-depth analysis is on three areas in the non-government-controlled parts: Al-Raqqa (the city), Deir Ez-zor (Al-Mayadeen and the city) and Aleppo (the city)
COSMOPOLIS: TOWARDS A POSITIVE CONCEPTION OF CYNIC POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Get PDFJason Hill has argued that the Cynics are relevant as originators of a “‘radical notion of cosmopolitanism,”’ but their equation of human citizenship with rationality (correspondence to ‘cosmos’ or the world’s order) is “‘exalted,”’ “‘abstract and idealistic.”’ The advance made by the Stoics over the Cynics, he argues, is that with the former we have a move toward the concrete, towards a moral practice of “‘cross-communal affiliation”’ that more closely presages “‘the concomitant decline in the significance of tribal fixation and its attendant overdetermination,”’. I maintain that these ideas are already operative with ancient Cynics such as Diogenes and are in fact more radical than the Stoic version that succeeds them.