Böcker utgivna av SUNY Press

Sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions.

This book explores the possibility of grounding the idea of human excellence, which has traditionally been associated with hierarchical systems, on an ecological structuring of the psyche. Riker bases his concept on recent work in psychoanalytic theory, emotion theory, sociobiology, ethnogenic social psychology, and feminism, as well as on the insights of such philosophers as Aristotle, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.

The conception of karma in the religious traditions of India has prompted numerous interpretations, many of which equate karma with notions of fate. Karma and Creativity presents a perspective on karma that emphasizes the efficacy of human activity in bringing about desired results--from upholding societal order to the attainment of spiritual liberation.Karma is examined in light of several classical Indian texts. Special attention is given to the concept of mind-only in both Hinduism and Buddhism. The study focuses on the positive approach to action first learned by the sage Vasisin the Mahabharata and then taught by him to Sri Rama in the Yogavasis. It concludes with an exploration of the theological and ethical implications of action and creativity.

Utpaladeva was considered a siddha, a "perfected being," one of the masters of the tantric tradition in Kashmir, and he is best known for his philosophical treatises. The Shivastotravali reflects Utpaladeva's philosophy, known as the Pratyabhijna school. And yet it is unique among the author's works in its not being a straightforward philosophical treatise but instead, as Dr. Bailly points out in her introduction, more of a spiritual diary of one who is actually treading the path of Shiva. The path that Utpaladeva has chosen does not require leaving one's home and heading for a mountain cave; instead it calls for changing one's view of the world, for leading a life of divine recognition while carrying on with ordinary life.In clearly written, lucid prose Dr. Bailly illuminates the many facets of Utpaladeva's quest. At the core of his spiritual journey is the enigmatic relationship between devotion and grace: how much does spiritual attainment depend upon the individual's efforts, and how much is a divine gift? And how are these to be realized while living in the midst of society, maintaining worldly obligations and lifestyle?For over a thousand years the Shaiva community of Kashmir has used in its worship the hymns of Utpaladeva's Shivastotravali. Here for the first time these hymns are presented in translation as English verse along with the Sanskrit, a clear and lively introduction, two appendices on special aspects of Kashmir Shaivism, and additional notes.

Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.

Demographers explore population diversity in the United States.

The authors use examples from their own clinical practice to explain the development of Lacanian theory.

For two decades, colleges and universities have regularly offered, and in some cases required, courses in thinking skills. Such courses generally have focused on training students in the basics of informal and formal logic, the assumption being that good thinking is logical thinking, and that instruction in critical or "good" thinking consequently should emphasize logical procedures. This "logistic" assumption is clearly reflected in both critical thinking textbooks as well as in the professional literature.Recently, however, the epistemic and pedagogical identification of critical thinking and logical thinking has been questioned by educators from a wide diversity of disciplines. Many of these critics argue that a richer, more comprehensive model of thinking itself is needed, one that acknowledges the importance of traditionally downplayed faculties such as empathy, imagination, and insight. Others contend that thinking skills theory and pedagogy must take into consideration the contextual and sometimes political influences upon not just content but also styles of thinking. finally still other critics of the conventional model of critical thinking argue that recent research in feminist studies sheds a great deal of light upon the directions in which critical thinking instruction should go.The fourteen essays in this anthology all illustrate this new way of thinking about critical thinking. Each of them is critical of the received model, and each of them argues for one that goes beyond the conventional reduction of thinking skills to logical expertise. But each approaches the issue from a different angle, thereby providing the reader with a diversity of perspectives and accents.Re-Thinking Reason is an invaluable resource tool, research guide, and supplemental textbook, for educators across the disciplines who are concerned with incorporating thinking skills instruction in their classes.

Communication has become more complex as businesses compete globally. This book explores corporate communication as both a professional practice and as an academic discipline. The essays and case studies provide numerous perspectives on topics such as diversity, sexual harassment, global corporate communications, and communicating corporate culture. These essays are meant to stimulate thought and encourage additional research.

This book examines American public culture and the means by which communities in the U.S. reconstruct the past and reinterpret the present in the development of tourism. Norkunas shows how public culture is not confined to just museums or monuments, but can be constructed on many different levels and in different settings, such as community ethnicity, natural setting (environment), literary landscape, and history. In her case study of Monterey, the author explores the particular ideologies that prompt the community to represent itself in tourism, and that also act to legitimate the current social structure.

Preface How To Use This Book Introduction 1. The Nature of Theology I. Divine Matters II. Theological Assumptions and Assertions III. Theological Conceptualization IV. Truth and the Modes of Theological Assertion 2. Revelation: Sources and Uses of Theology I. Authority in Theology II. Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience III. Uses of Theology IV. Revelation 3. God the Creator I. God the Problem II. The Primacy of Divine Creation III. Determinateness as the Character of the Created World IV. God as Creator ex Nihilo 4. God as Trinity I. The Trinitarian Character of Divine Creation II. Time and Eternity III. God as Logos IV. Sky God, Earth Mother, Ground, Goal 5. The Human Condition: Covenant I. The Religiously Particular Analysis of the Human Condition II. Conditions of Covenant: Genesis 2 and 3 III. The Logos Ideals of Covenant IV. Divine Judgment 6. The Human Condition: Sin I. Unrighteousness II. Impiety III. Faithlessness and Despair IV. Sin and Divine Love 7. Salvation, Freedom, and Bondage I. The Problem of Salvation II. Natural Freedom III. Divine and Human Agencies IV. Depravity and Bondage of the Will: Original Sin 8. Justification, Grace, and Love I. The Quest for Grace II. Justification: Objective and Subjective III. Dynamics of Faith and Repentance IV. Divine Love: Conviction and Commitment 9. Sin and Society I. A Social Metaphysics of the Covenant II. Social Sanctification III. Oppression and Blasphemy IV. Alienation and Secularism 10. Sanctification I. Sanctification and Justification II. Personal Sanctification: Spirit, Mind, and Heart III. Sanctification as Social Justice IV. Sanctification in Love 11. Christology: The Cult of Jesus Christ I. The Cultic Community of Jesus II. The Teachings of Jesus III. Jesus Christ the Redeemer: Resurrection and the Kingdom IV. The Universality and Particularity of Salvation 12. Christology: The Divinity of Christ I. A Logos Christology II. Incarnation and the Two Natures of Christ III. Christ and the Holy Spirit: The Filioque IV. Christ and History 13. The Holy Spirit in the Church I. Sacraments: Baptism and Eucharist II. Mission, Teaching, Preaching, and Action III. The Church as the Body of Christ IV. Christianity and Other Religions Appendix A: A Brief Bibliography of Liberation Theology Appendix B: A Brief Bibliography of Feminist Theology Notes Bibliography Index

This book explains and offers insights into the humanizing effects of the ethnic and cultural sources of moral values. The author provides an alternative to the concept of moral development formulated by Lawrence Kohlberg, arguing that morality is socially constructed, not based on rational principles of individuals.Cortese offers critical analyses of ethnicity and moral judgment, combining two controversial and central areas: morality and race relations. Critiquing the cognitive-developmental model, Cortese examines social class, gender, and ethnic differences in moral judgment and concludes that moral judgment reflects the structure of social relations, not the structure of human cognition. He carefully situates his own argument in relation to both Kolbergian theory and the feminist critique thereof.

Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Part One: The Academic Professional: Problems of Self-Knowledge and Education I. Alienation II. What is the Educating Act? III. Crisis of Authority and Identity: The Inevitability of Professionalism IV. The Professionalization of the University Part Two: Academic Professionalism and Identity: Rites of Purification and Exclusion V. A Specimen Case of Professionalizing a Field of Learning: Philosophy VI. Eccentricities and Distortions of Academic Professionalism VII. Academic Professionalism as a Veiled Purification Ritual VIII. Pollution Phenomena: John Dewey's Encounter with Body-Self Part Three: Reorganizing the University IX. Revolutionary Thought of the Early Twentieth Century: Reintegrating Self and World and a New Foundation for Humane Knowledge X. The Reactionary Response of Positivism: Cementing Purification, Professionalism Segmentation in the University XI. Recovering from Positivism and Reorganizing the University XII. Reclaiming the Vision of Education: Redefining Definition, Identity, Gender Epilogue Index

Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.

By exploring the work of the Frankfurt school today, this book helps to define the very field of cultural studies.

Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.

Confronts the challenge presented to traditional public policy by postmodern thought.

A well-known theologian and philosopher offers a late-modern perspective on religion, one opposed to the received truths of postmodern religious thought.

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in "traditional" Muslim society.

Addresses the question: How can school communities be created and sustained?

This is the first scholarly examination of the use of dialogic theory and pedagogy by scholars and teachers of writing. Dialogic methods have become extremely important to many different approaches to pedagogy. However, no one has yet noted that such pedagogies are being espoused by scholars and teachers who have vastly differing theoretical and ideological orientations from one another. Given the fact that the same kind of pedagogy is being proposed by people from such widely differing perspectives, it is time for a substantial reassessment of the use of dialogic pedagogies in literacy education.Ward's critique of the "democratic" dialogue that expressivists, social constructionists, radical pedagogists, and poststructuralists profess should be read by all compositionists employing collaborative learning in their classrooms. Ward's pedagogy acknowledges and makes room for the differences among students that feminist and social constructionist pedagogies often ignore; it takes into account that social relationships outside the composition classroom can affect the relationships of students within it.

This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation.The essays demonstrate how contemporary discussions of interpretation are necessarily sent back to the hermeneutic tradition. Emphasizing the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on the contemporary debates concerning current interpretive practices, this volume traces the differences in interpretive perspectives generated in the writings of Michel Foucault, Eric Blondel, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Manfred Frank, Werner Hamacher, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The essays by Foucault, Blondel, Frank, Hamacher, and Nancy appear here for the first time in English.

Women's Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the work's Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women.Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.

This book explores the philosophical background of questions on environmental justice. It focuses on theories of distributive justice, primarily those which concern the manner in which benefits and burdens should be allocated when there is a scarcity of benefits (relative to people's wants or needs) and a surfeit of burdens. It is one of those rare philosophy books that is at once accessible and sophisticated, as it introduces both philosophers and people interested in environmental studies, law, and economics to germane developments in the philosophical treatment of the question of justice. Since environmental concerns are uniquely global, theories of distributive justice are tested most thoroughly for their comprehensiveness when they are applied to environmental matters. Consequently, most illustrations and applications in this book are drawn from contexts of environmental concerns including property rights, human rights, animal rights, general utility, and hypothetical contracts.

Explicates the philosophy of religion emerging from the work of Bernard Lonergan, the esteemed theologian who reinvigorated Catholic thought in the twentieth century.

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.