LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul weller

9 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul weller

  • Fethullah Gülen’s Teaching and Practice
    Paul Weller
    This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews with Gülen and Hizmet participants and a literature review, this Open Access book locates the clear origins of G...
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    60,24 €

  • Hizmet in Transitions
    Paul Weller
    In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning 'service') is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, whi...
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    60,22 €

  • Religion or Belief, Discrimination and Equality
    Kingsley Purdam / Nazila Ghanea / Paul Weller
    In recent years, controversial issues related to religion or belief, discrimination, equality and human rights have come to the fore, especially in the context of public debates around multiculturalism following the ’social policy shock’ created by the impact of violent religious extremism. For example should there be restrictions on what people can wear in the work place based...
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    66,52 €

  • European Muslims, Civility and Public Life
    Paul Weller
    This collection deals with challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London Transport attacks of 2005. The contributors explore the challenges to the concept and practice of civility in public life within a European context, and demonstrate the contributions that can be made in this regard f...
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    50,85 €

  • A Mirror For Our Times
    Paul Weller
    26th September 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of The Satanic Verses controversy - a controversy that in many ways became paradigmatic for the following two decades. Taking as its starting-point the opening two years of the controversy, Paul Weller uses the events and arguments of those years as a lens through which to view what later developed, both in re...
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    61,30 €

  • Religious Diversity in the UK
    Paul Weller
    At a time when issues of religious diversity are ever present in the media and in public debate in the UK, student and general interest in this topic is at a new high. Paul Weller’s new textbook provides an overview of the religious diversity of the UK. Informed by examples from the author’s own research and professional practice, and referring to other key sources, it takes a...
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    76,00 €

  • Time for a Change
    Paul Weller
    In Time For a Change, Paul Weller argues that continuation of the establishment of the Church of England is theologically and politically inadequate to the religious, social and political landscape of the twenty-first century. Theologically and ecclesiologically, he suggests that reluctance actively to consider alternatives is symptomatic of a lack of confidence that needs to b...
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    129,47 €

  • Alternate Civilities
    Robert Paul Weller
    Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist’s answer to the argument that China’s cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. It compares China with the vibrant democracy that has developed over the last decade in Taiwan. ...
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    77,58 €

  • Resistance, Chaos and Control in China
    Robert Paul Weller
    Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and 'cultural resistance', which instead lies unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and dissolving all unified interpretation. ...
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    66,59 €