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"A Teacher's Guide to Science and Religion in the Classroom provides practical guidance on how to help children access positive ways of thinking about the relationship between science and religion. Written for teachers of children from diverse-faith and non-faith backgrounds, it explores key concepts, identifies gaps and common misconceptions in children's knowledge, and offers advice on how to help them form a deeper understanding of both science and religion. Drawing upon the latest research as well as the designs of successful workshops for teachers and for children, there are activities in each chapter which have been shown to help children understand why science and religion do not necessarily conflict. The book highlights children's interest in so-called Big Questions which bridge science and religion and responds to the research finding that most children are missing ideas that are key to an explanation of why science and religion can be harmonious. The book explores key concepts and ideas including : - Nature of science - Power and limits of science - Evolution, genes and human improvement - Miracles, natural disasters and mystery - Profile of scientists, including Galileo and Newton A Teacher's Guide to Science and Religion is an essential companion for preservice and practising teachers, providing session plans and pedagogic strategies, together with a cohesive framework, that will support teachers in fostering children's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning"--

Religious organizations regularly perform key bridge building and political activation tasks in the racialized landscape of living wage organizing in the U.S. As bridge builders, they mediate the varied concerns and cultures of labor, immigrant, and black civil rights organizations through ideology translation, relational repair, and inclusion monitoring. Religious organizations' social location and indigenous leadership development also cultivates levels of political participation among poor people and people of darker colors that often outstrip their economic and educational demographics. Drawing on participant observation and national level data on political engagement, this article assesses the strengths and constraints that religious organizations bring to race conscious organizing in the new coalitions of social movement unionism.

Soziologische Zeitdiagnosen thematisieren gegenwärtig vermehrt das Religiöse. Während die frühen Diagnosen der modernen Gesellschaft fast einhellig eine Säkularisierung der Religion diagnostizieren und damit das Religiöse aus dem Zentrum der Analyse verdrängen, sehen sich gegenwärtige Theorien der Modernität häufig durch das Religiöse herausgefordert und stellen es folglich in den Mittelpunkt ihrer Bemühungen um eine Diagnose der modernen Gesellschaft. Neben diesem wirkmächtigen, eher an gesellschaftstheoretischen und zeitdiagnostischen Fragen orientierten Diskurs entwickelt sich in den letzten Jahren eine soziologische Theorierichtung, die eng am Begriff der Praxis ausgerichtet ist und vor allem in ihrer postkolonialen Ausformung universellen Gesellschaftsdiagnosen höchst skeptisch gegenübersteht. In diesem Sinne werden gesellschaftliche Praktiken und Praxisformen auch ohne den Anspruch untersucht, die Analyseergebnisse in eine allgemein ansetzende Gesellschaftstheorie einzubetten.

Tese de mestrado, Estudos Anglísticos, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2009 ; The following dissertation spots a light on social issues of women in the Victorian era. Intolerance was the main feature of victorian era. But in the middle of century flexibility was spread over victorian society. In other words, women were allowed to study and work under strict conditions and social conventions. So, we can say that Victorian's social manners ruled their life. I think it is possible to say Queen Victoria was the actress not the writer of strict rules. Meaning, Victorian's women were obey rules of God which were changed and reformed in a way or another to suit human needs. This reforming made a gap within society. In other words, classes and differences between a man and a woman were appeared. Equality was the other feature of Victorian's society. A man's and a woman's positions were unequal within Victorian society. It is also examines Josephine Butler's works, Social Purity (1879) and Truth Before Everything (1897) and the case of prostitutes also brought up to the light by Josephine Butler. Although she made her readers give attention to this danger and to fight against it because and as I understood from her works she was worried about of increase this social danger within society and how to control it. The projective of this study is to analyse literary text and give an idea about the history and appeals of human equality and social justice for communities in our time through cultural and social conflicts that occur within societies. ; Resumo disponível em língua árabe

Provides a much-needed humanities-based analysis and description of humanism in relation to theses cultural markers. Whereas most existing analysis attempts to explain humanism through the natural and social sciences (the "what" of life), Anthony B. Pinn explores humanism in relation to "how" life is arranged, socialized, ritualized, and framed. This ground-breaking publication brings together old and new essays on a wide range of topics and themes, from the African-American experience, to the development of humanist churches, and the lyrics of Jay-Z--

3.4 Responsibility and decision3.5 Gift and economy; 3.5.1 Giving; 3.5.2 Forgiveness; 3.5.3 Hospitality; 3.6 Politics in deconstruction; 3.6.1 Between legacy and eschaton; 3.6.2 The coming democracy, a community without community; 3.6.3 Messianic Marxism; 3.6.4 Enlightened European openness; CHAPTER 4 Faith in deconstruction; 4.1 The name of confusion; 4.2 Negative theology -- Approaching God; 4.2.1 Negative theology as language; 4.2.2 Promise; 4.2.3 Prayer; 4.2.4 Secret; 4.2.5 Place; 4.3 Universal apophatics; 4.3.1 Every other is wholly other; 4.3.2 Revelation and revealability

[eng] The article presents the new place of the figure of Ramon Llull in the modern civic and religious universe. Llullism has had a clear impact on Mallorcan society since the 14th century, in parallel to the knowledge and the universitycentred and political debates he generated in the past. Llull was the Blessed Brother par excellence and the originator of the Fatherland, and he continues to be so in contemporary times. This article is divided into two main sections: first, one in which the changes and adaptations of Llull in the 19th century are presented, and secondly, one which addresses the dual role religious and civic of the figure of Llull within the framework of the commemoration of the 6th centennial of his death, promoted by the diocese based on the initiatives of Bishop Pere Joan Campins, and by Palma City Hall with the creation of the Institut d'Estudis Superiors per a la Dona [Institute of Higher Studies for Women].

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets. Focusing on a case study of an FBO in Morocco which gives aid to sub-Saharan African irregular migrants, the book reveals some of the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts through their particular Christian values. This book contends that the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities that arise are primarily a result of the organisation having to negotiate a normative global secular liberalism which requires a strict demarcation between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. Faith-based actors, particularly within humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide and in examining the question of how religious values translate into humanitarian and development practices, categories such as religion, the secular and politics and the boundaries between them will need to be interrogated. This book explores the diversity and complexity of the work of FBOs and will be of great interest to students and researchers working at the intersections of humanitarianism and development studies, politics and religion.