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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “karsten lehmann”
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  • Religious NGOs in International Relations

    The Construction of 'the Religious' and 'the Secular'

    by Karsten Lehmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
    Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms – referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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    CHROMOSOME: The Encrypted Paradise

    by Karsten Lehmann ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Drew E ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A tense science thriller about ethics, identity, and ancient knowledge.Outside a research institute, protesters accuse scientists of experimenting on children. Conspiracy—or a warning no one wants to hear?Five‑year‑old Lisa attends the institute’s open house. Days later, her mother faces hostility at a parent meeting, and tensions begin to rise.Then ... Read more

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    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dictionary of Homophobia

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  • Shadow Work

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: "...to name those acts of competence, lust or ... Read more

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  • Faith as an Option

    Possible Futures for Christianity

    by Hans Joas ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization ... Read more

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  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

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  • The Power of Tolerance

    A Debate

    by Wendy Brown, Rainer Forst ...
    Series Book 44 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of ... Read more

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  • Comparative Law as Critique

    by Günter Frankenberg ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
    'A leading figure in critical legal studies and renowned scholar of comparative constitutionalism, Frankenberg urges us forward, offering a new taxonomy for critical work. He illustrates its potential in terrific chapters on recent transnational legal movements: to regulate the veil, provide access to justice and reinvigorate human rights as a language of justification. A methodological tour de ... Read more

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  • Foucault and Neoliberalism

    Edited by Daniel Zamora, Michael C. Behrent ...
    Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault was not a direct witness of these years, his work on neoliberalism is nonetheless prescient: the question of liberalism ... Read more

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  • Diasporas

    by Stephane Dufoix ...
    Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing a fresh, synthetic perspective to virtually all aspects of this topic. Stéphane Dufoix ... Read more

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  • We, the People of Europe?

    Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

    by Étienne Balibar ...
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