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Judaism’s Critique of Idolatry and the Beginning of Liberative Religion
No full textAround the globe religion is under attack. Humanists, secularists and atheists depict believers as deluded and dangerous. The aim of this book is to challenge this perception. Sensible Religion defends the validity and emphasises the excitement of the religious quest across the faiths. It demonstrates that the practice of sensible religion is often a courageous path pitted against religious extremism and secularism. Written by committed believers from the major world's faiths, the book endorses the term 'sensible' as expressing religious reasonableness as well as sensitivity to criticism and new insights. Followers of the different traditions live ordinary lives in the mainstream of the world. This volume therefore addresses beliefs and the manner in which these convictions relate to social, political and ethical action. Countering the argument that religion is at root extremist and irrational, Sensible Religion brings together thoughtful and critical reflections by leading thinkers about humanity's spiritual quest.Contents: Foreword, Peter Vardy; Preface, Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis; The religious quest, Christopher Lewis; A sensible Judaism of love, Michael Lerner; Judaism’s critique of idolatry and the beginning of liberative religion, Melissa Raphael; Islam, Tim Winter; Retrieving the equilibrium and restoring justice: using Islam’s egalitarian teachings to reclaim women’s rights, Sara Khan; Reclaiming jihad, Dawoud el-Alami; The reasonableness of Christianity, Keith Ward; Christianity and sensible religion: a feminist approach, Mary Grey; The ecosystem of religions: a Hindu perspective, Rita D. Sherma; Hinduism: true (satyam), good (shivam) and beautiful (sundaram), Anantanand Rambachan; Is Buddhism sensible?, Dharmachari Subhuti; Buddhism: sense and sensibility, Hozan Alan Senauke; Sikhi(sm) and the 21st century Sikh diaspora, Opinderjit Kaur Takhar; African Traditional Religion, Nokuzola Mndende; Conclusion: sensible religion matters, Dan Cohn-Sherbok; Index
Observations on the music and life of pianist/composer Herbie Hancock
No full textAn analysis of Hancock's musical style, pianism and biographyM.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Alan SimonIncludes discograph
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Socially responsible investing
No full textSocially responsible investment or investing (SRI) is the practice of integrating social, environmental and ethical (SEE) considerations into investment decisions. In particular, SRI refers to the addition of SEE criteria to conventional financial criteria in the selection and management of portfolios of shares (stocks) of companies listed on stock markets. SR investors care not only about the size of their prospective financial return and the risk attached to it, but also about its source – the nature of the company’s products and services or how it does business. ‘[I]t matters where the money comes from’ (Lewis, 2002: p4
Proceedings of the British Psychological Society Seminar Series: Aspects of Terrorism and Martyrdom
No full textBackground. The British Psychological Society Research Seminars Competition recently funded a three-part seminar series, entitled “Aspects of terrorism and martyrdom”. The first one-day seminar was held on 1st May 2002 and was jointly hosted by the Department of Psychology and Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, England, UK. Aims. The first seminar focused on the question: What roles are played by religious beliefs and identity in supporting views of violent activists as terrorists or martyrs? Main contribution. Seven papers were presented examining the question under discussion: Andrew Silke described the role of the organisation in suicide terrorism; Orla Muldoon investigated identity as a moderator of attitudes to violence in a normal student population; Max Taylor and John Horgan examined the psychological and behavioural bases of Islamic fundamentalism; Graeme Steven discussed the relationship between religious beliefs and motivation to join a terrorist group; Clare Gummer and Kate Miriam Loewenthal examined British Christians’ beliefs about Islamic terrorism and martyrs; Christopher Alan Lewis, Mary Mullan and Catherine Frances Quigley examined some beliefs in Northern Ireland about martyrdom, terrorism and September 11th; Simon Dein provided an anthropological perspective on violence and martyrdom in Islam. Dialogue about the papers was facilitated by a number of round-table discussions chaired by Christopher Alan Lewis, Marco Cinnirella and Brooke Rogers respectively. Conclusions. Collectively the papers presented at the seminarprovide a clearer understanding of what roles are played by religious beliefs and identity in supporting views of violent activists as terrorists or martyrs
On the Plurality of Lewis's Triviality Results
No full textDavid Lewis introduced a new kind of reductio ad absurdum style of argument: while the claims, suitably formalized, do not lead to outright contradiction, he showed they are tenable only in trivial ways. Lewis proved what are known as triviality results against the claims. The claims are "Probabilities of conditionals are conditional probabilities." "Desires are beliefs about what is good." The author argues that the tenuous connections between the claims go considerably further still: the claims give rise to debates that display a remarkably parallel structure. He brings out their many similarities to illuminate both of them, and to point the way to some promising avenues for future research. He displays structural similarities between the fluctuating fortunes of Stalnaker's Thesis, and those of Desire‐as‐Belief. Lewis concludes telegraphically by saying that Desire by Necessity is "a form of anti‐Humeanism, sure enough, but not the right form of anti‐Humeanism"; and that's it
Religiosity and happiness: an ever-winning couple? An answer from India
No full textThe link between individual religiosity and happiness has been studied with respect to different aspects. The general conclusion is that religiosity helps people to feel happier. However the extant studies have never taken into account how belonging to a discriminated religious group in a tense environment affects happiness. This paper analyzes this in India, a multireligious country, characterized by religious conflicts. The results show that membership to a discriminated group is source of unhappiness provided that the group represents a minority in a specific territory. Instead, when a religious community is a minority in the country, but it is represents the majority of the population in some specific region(s) membership to it increases individual's happiness. A religiousbased federalism could appease the conflicts and increase people's happiness.happiness, India, religious denominations, conflict, discrimination
sj-docx-1-psr-10.1177_10888683241228328 – Supplemental material for Power to Detect What? Considerations for Planning and Evaluating Sample Size
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psr-10.1177_10888683241228328 for Power to Detect What? Considerations for Planning and Evaluating Sample Size by Roger Giner-Sorolla, Amanda K. Montoya, Alan Reifman, Tom Carpenter, Neil A. Lewis, Christopher L. Aberson, Dries H. Bostyn, Beverly G. Conrique, Brandon W. Ng, Alexander M. Schoemann and Courtney Soderberg in Personality and Social Psychology Review</p
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