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This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Aknowledgments -- C H A P T E R O N E The Missing Individual in Theological Discussions of Economic Vulnerability -- C H A P T E R T W O A New Framework for Understanding Alienation and Its Relation to Poverty -- C H A P T E R T H R E E Socio-economic Structure and Human Character: Fromm on Alienation -- C H A P T E R F O U R The Inauthentic Self: Alienation Interpreted by a Macro-social Lens -- C H A P T E R F I V E Instability and Resilience: Erikson on Alienation and Self -- C H A P T E R S I X The Courageous Self: A Tillichian and Pastoral Response to Alienation -- Bibliography -- Index.

Quality public education, modern highway systems, and reasonably priced housing--these are just some of the qualities that once made California one of the most desirable places to live. Just a few decades later, the state finds itself with an education system that is failing its citizens, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and a quickly evaporating dream of home ownership. Illustrating each step of the breakdown that led to its current state of dysfunction, Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California provides insight into a system gone amuck. It addresses complic.

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Empty pedestals and barracks converted into schools : the dismantling of symbols of colonial power -- Policies governing celebrations : Catholic, North American, and patriotic fiestas -- Attempts at linguistic colonization and the struggle to preserve Spanish : Anglicized words and expressions and their tropes -- The "decolonization" of names : national identity and the selection of patriotic place names -- The socialization of symbols representing the idea of country -- Public culture and nationalism