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"As a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of postliberalism, this timely book reveals how the idea of personal values have served to divide and segregate people rather than uniting them under a shared common good. Also discussed are the contemporary interplay of sovereignty and morality and religion and politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Potential
• 3. Pentecost
• 4. Mediation
• 5. Body
• 6. Imagination
• 7. World
• 8. Legacy

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Lawami' al-Nazar fi Tahqiq Ma'ani al-Mukhtasar is Ahmad b. Ya'qub al-Wallali's (d. 1128/1716) commentary on al-Sanusi's (d. 895/1490) compendium of logic, al-Mukhtasar. Al-Wallali was the first commentator on al-Sanusi's compendium after the author's autocommentary. In this publication, Ibrahim Safri offers a critical edition of this work, together with a study of the author's life and oeuvre. Safri also tries to show the indirect influence of Avicennism on logic in the Maghribi tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the basis of his writings on logic and philosophical theology, al-Wallali was considered a master of rational sciences by his contemporaries.
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• The Mohammedan Work
• One Thousand Words for Sword
• Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité,
• Be Faithful unto Death
• The Shadow of God on Earth
• Teach Them What You Have Taught Me
• Oath-Breaker
• The People's Commander
• Long Live the Just King of Kings!
• We Will Die so Freedom Can Live
• Today, I Know That I Am a Shah
• Resistance Is Equal to Suicide
• Why Bare Your Chest for a King Who Does Not Care for You?
• Either You or Constitutionalism
• This Is My Own, My Native Land!
• I Must Go. I Am Gone
• The Army of Salvation
• So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom
• The Seed of Better Things

Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He arrived in the midst of a democratic revolution-the first of its kind in the Middle East-led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country into a fully self-determining, constitutional monarchy, one with free elections and an independent parliament. The Persian students Baskerville educated in English in turn educated him about their struggle for democracy, ultimately inspiring him to leave his teaching post and join them in their fight against a tyrannical shah and his British and Russian backers. "The only difference between me and these people is the place of my birth, " Baskerville declared, "and that is not a big difference." In 1909, Baskerville was killed in battle alongside his students, but his martyrdom spurred on the revolutionaries who succeeded in removing the shah from power, signing a new constitution, and rebuilding parliament in Tehran. To this day, Baskerville's tomb in the city of Tabriz remains a place of pilgrimage. Every year, thousands of Iranians visit his grave to honor the American who gave his life for Iran. In this rip-roaring tale of his life and death, Aslan gives us a powerful parable about the universal ideals of democracy-and to what degree Americans are willing to support those ideals in a foreign land. Woven throughout is an essential history of the nation we now know as Iran-frequently demonized and misunderstood in the West. Indeed, Baskerville's life and death represent a "road not taken" in Iran. Baskerville's story, like his life, is at the center of a whirlwind in which Americans must ask themselves: How seriously do we take our ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom do we support?
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New England theologian Jonathan Edwards came to prominence at the culmination of a dramatic paradigm shift in millennialism that had begun in the sixteenth century, declaring that a thousand-year earthly kingdom would arrive in the future. For Edwards, the land of Israel would be the ideal location of the millennial kingdom, and the people of Israel, after their restoration, would play critical and decisive roles in the millennium's commencement. Edwards's millennial vision was also cosmic, however, and included both Europe and China. Unlike his Protestant predecessors and his Puritan contemporaries, Edwards's millennialism de-centralized England and New England. Contrary to what many have argued, Edwards neither originated nor advocated the notion of the American redeemer nation. In America's Theologian Beyond America, Victor Zhu establishes the coherence of Edwards's Judeo-centric and cosmic vision of the millennial kingdom and argues that this vision is an indispensable part of Edwards's theological system. He highlights three theological loci in Edwards's millennialism: the greatness of God's divine sovereignty, the magnificence of His glory, and the capaciousness of His kingdom. Zhu demonstrates Edwards's conviction of the progressive realization of the kingdom, refuting the prevailing misinterpretation that Edwards thought the millennium was imminent. He explores Edwards's cosmic vision of the millennial kingdom, which extended from New England and Israel to China and other parts of the "heathen" world. In conclusion, Zhu examines the contemporary relevance of Edwards's millennialism in Chinese millennial movements.
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"This handbook reviews factors that impact youth development, including biological, cognitive, and emotive processes; development through social contexts; cultural diversity; risk behaviors and psychopathology; positive youth development; intervention and policy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction /
• 1. Taborite Revolutionary Apocalypticism: Mapping Influences and Divergences /
• 2. Heretical Eschatology and Its Impact on Radical Reformation Movements: The Flagellants of Thuringia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Thomas Muntzer, and the Anabaptists /
• 3. Terror, War and Reformation: Ivan the Terrible in the Age of Apocalypticism /
• 4. A Messiah from the Left Side /
• 5. Millenarian News and Connected Spaces in 17th-Century Europe /
• 6. Carvajal and the Franciscans: Jewish-Christian Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting /
• 7. Kabbalistic Influences on "Pietistic" Millenarian Expectations: Philipp Jakob Spener's (1635-1705) Eschatological View Between Scripture and Christian Kabbalah /
• 8. Everyday Apocalypse: Russian and Jewish "Sects" at the End of the Eighteenth Century /
• 9. Margins of the Encubierto: The Messianic Kings' Tradition in the Iberian World (15th-17th Centuries) /
• 10. Mirror Images: Imperial Eschatology and Interreligious Transfer in Seventeenth-Century Greek Orthodoxy /
• 11. Restorers of the Divine Law: Native American Revolts in the New World, Christianity, and the Quest for Purity in the Age of Revolution.
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Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa, raising questions about possible interconnections. Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco. It offers a broad picture of Christian and, to a lesser extent, Jewish and Islamic eschatological movements from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, thereby bridging important and long-standing gaps in the historiography. Apocalypse Now will appeal to both researchers and students of the history of early modern religion and politics in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic worlds. By exploring connections between numerous eschatological movements, it gives a fresh insight into one of the most promising fields of European and global history.
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• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Awakening of the Dogmatic Dream: The Quest for Certainties in Science and Philosophy
• 1.1. Science
• 1.2. Philosophy
• 1.3. Conclusions
• Chapter 2. The Nature of the Laws of Physics: Regularist Physicalism
• 2.1. Regularist physicalism
• 2.2. Brief history of physical theories
• 2.3. Laws of nature
• Chapter 3. Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Kinematics: States, physical magnitudes, and systems
• 3.3. Kinematics: Physical magnitudes, eigenvalues and eigenvectors

• 3.4. Dynamics: Probabilities and evolution
• 3.5. Dynamics: Measurement and preparation of states
• 3.6. Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4. A First Approach to the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics
• 4.1. Events and measurements
• 4.2. Systems and states
• Chapter 5. Causal Closure and Strong Emergence in Quantum Mechanics
• 5.1. Physicalism and causal closure in quantum mechanics
• 5.2. Strong emergence
• 5.2.1. Non-separability of the quantum states
• 5.2.2. Non-supervenience of the quantum properties
• 5.2.3. Top-down causation
• 5.3. No cloning and inaccessibility of quantum states

• Chapter 6. The Measurement Problem: Decoherence and Some Interpretations that Admit an Ontology of Quantum Objects and Events
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Decoherence
• 6.3. The Many Worlds Interpretation
• 6.4. The Montevideo Interpretation of quantum mechanics
• Chapter 7. Processes and Individuals
• Chapter 8. Quantum Ontology and the First-Person Perspective
• 8.1. First-person perspective and direct inner acquaintance
• 8.2. Quantum ontology and direct inner acquaintance
• 8.3. States and direct inner acquaintance
• Chapter 9. Physical Requirements for Models of Consciousness

• 9.1. The hard problem of consciousness
• 9.2. Relevance of quantum mechanics in conscious phenomena
• 9.3. Requirements for quantum models of consciousness
• 9.4. Scenarios for quantum models of consciousness
• 9.4.1. Is a quantum-based consciousness compatible with decoherence?
• 9.4.2. Fisher's model of quantum cognition
• 9.5. Conclusions
• Chapter 10. The Role of Consciousness in Living Beings
• 10.1. Introduction
• 10.2. Unlimited associative learning
• Chapter 11. Free Will and the Quantum Consciousness
• 11.1. Determinism
• 11.2. Indeterminism

• 11.3. Addressing some objections to free will
• Chapter 12. Self-consciousness and Persons
• 12.1. Self-consciousness and self-determination
• 12.2. Episodic vs. permanent self
• 12.3. Self-consciousness and persons
• 12.4. Conclusion
• Chapter 13. The Higher Activities of the Self: Cognition
• 13.1. Origins
• 13.2. Conceptual representations
• 13.3. Rudimentary and robust first-person perspectives
• 13.4. The distinction between the 'I' and the 'me' self
• 13.5. The self as a process: The centrality of freedom
• Chapter 14. The Transcendence of the Self
• Chapter 15. Persons and the Search for Transcendence

What is consciousness? Does free will exist?There exists a widespread conviction that the recent scientific discoveries, especially those related to physics and biology, in particular in contemporary neurosciences, question the traditional attempts to give meaning to life and a basis for our moral compass. Current scientific thinking usually identifies the mind with the mere exchange of electrical signals among neurons. It claims that consciousness is an irrelevant epiphenomenon and that introspection is an unreliable instrument to achieve any form of knowledge. Also, that the physical universe is causally closed and therefore all that occurs only has physical causes and all kind of freedom is excluded. The problem of assigning meaning and purpose to our lives, to the essential conceptions of the value of human life and social justice, becomes practically insoluble if one accepts the predominant notions that supposedly stem from contemporary science. The clash between the scientific and humanistic conception of human beings seems to have no option but to abandon the latter.The aim of this book is to show that, contrary to what is usually considered, current advances in science allow to re-evaluate the role of consciousness and human freedom without entering into contradiction with empirical evidence or scientific theories in place today. The book starts by analyzing the certainties provided by the scientific thought and philosophical reflection while discussing the role and content of physical theories, and in particular, quantum mechanics. It discusses in detail the nature of quantum objects and the role they may have in consciousness. In particular, it analyzes models that allow phenomena of quantum nature to manifest themselves in the brains of animals and humans, and account for many of the properties of consciousness. Finally, we analyze how self-conscious and free entities like persons emerge, making compatible the scientific view with a renewed and better supported way of perceiving people, their values and culture.
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A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James William James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, "is life worth living?" Bringing together many of his best and most popular essays, talks, and other writings, this anthology presents James's answer to that and other existential questions, in his own unique manner-caring, humorous, eloquent, incisive, humble, and forever on the trail of the "ever not quite." Here we meet a James perfectly attuned to the concerns of today-one who argues for human freedom, articulates a healthy-minded psychology, urges us to explore the stream of consciousness, presents a new definition of truth based on its practical consequences, and never forecloses the possibility of mystical transcendence. Introduced by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, these compelling and accessible selections reveal why James is one of the great guides to the business of living.
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The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of theology, from a dispute over the Nicene Creed to the question of the authority of the Pope. But while these issues are cited as the most important reasons for the split, they were not necessarily the issues that caused it. In Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory A. Edward Siecienski argues that other, seemingly minor issues also played a significant role in the schism. Although rarely included in modern-day ecumenical dialogues, for centuries these "other issues"-the beardlessness of the Latin clergy, the Western use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist, and the doctrine of Purgatory-were among the most frequently cited reasons for the dispute between East and West. Disagreements about bread, beards, and the state of souls after death may not, at first, appear to be church-dividing issues, but they are the nevertheless among the reasons why the church today is divided. This was a schism over azymes long before it was a schism over the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, and the beardlessness of the Latin clergy was cited as a reason for breaking communion with the Latin Church prior to all the subsequent arguments about the wording of the Nicene Creed. To understand the schism between East and West, Siecienski contends, we must grasp not only the reasons it remains, but also the reasons it began.
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• I Beards :
• 1. Beards in the biblical and patristic tradition
• 2. Beards in the east-west polemic
• II Azymes :
• 3. Bread and leaven in the biblical and patristic tradition
• 4. The azyme debate : the eleventh and twelfth centuries
• 5. The azyme debate : the Fourth Crusade to the modern era
• III Purgatory :
• 6. Purgatory in the biblical and patristic tradition
• 7. Purgatory in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
• 8. Purgatory from Ferrara-Florence to modern times

The Catholic and Orthodox churches have been divided for nearly a thousand years. The issues that divide them are weighty matters of theology, from a dispute over the Nicene Creed to the question of the authority of the Pope. But while these issues are cited as the most important reasons for the split, they were not necessarily the issues that caused it. In Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory A. Edward Siecienski argues that other, seemingly minor issues also played a significant role in the schism. Although rarely included in modern-day ecumenical dialogues, for centuries these "other issues"-the beardlessness of the Latin clergy, the Western use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist, and the doctrine of Purgatory-were among the most frequently cited reasons for the dispute between East and West. Disagreements about bread, beards, and the state of souls after death may not, at first, appear to be church-dividing issues, but they are the nevertheless among the reasons why the church today is divided. This was a schism over azymes long before it was a schism over the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, and the beardlessness of the Latin clergy was cited as a reason for breaking communion with the Latin Church prior to all the subsequent arguments about the wording of the Nicene Creed. To understand the schism between East and West, Siecienski contends, we must grasp not only the reasons it remains, but also the reasons it began.
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• Introduction
• Founding faces
• A new science of man
• Character detectives
• The manly brow movement
• Criminal minds
• Facing race.

"Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person's intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant--if largely forgotten--cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Founding faces
• A new science of man
• Character detectives
• The manly brow movement
• Criminal minds
• Facing race.

The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The "Deleuze and..." industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of representation. Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes: Text (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); Body (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway); Sex (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); Race (Jesus and the white faciality machine); and Politics (democracy, despots, pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze.
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Over 15 years after its original publication The Bible in History remains an essential examination of the symbiotic relationship between Scripture and the social and cultural contexts shaping its interpretation. David W. Kling traces the fascinating story of how specific biblical texts-sometimes a single verse, other times a selection of verses or chapters, even books-have at various times emerged to be the inspiration of movements that have changed the course of history. Episodes range from Anthony's call to the desert and a life of monasticism after hearing Jesus's directive to the "rich young rule" to give up his possessions, to the Anabaptists non-violent ethic in following Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, to the varied applications of the exodus motif in African American history. This revised and expanded second edition adds two new chapters. The first examines the text in Matthew 28:18-20 and considers the multitudinous interpretations before, during, and after the text emerged as the iconic "Great Commission" of missionary motivation in the modern period. The second assesses those biblical texts that encompass the divisive and ongoing issue of male homosexuality. Both chapters engage the question of, "how the texts have shaped the times, " but, as Kling argues, the "times" have also exerted an enormous impact on shaping the interpretation of the texts, and hence, on the continuing disputes over the meaning of those texts.
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• The DNA of the Bold Ones
• The Cardi B Conundrum: Success Is a Pitfall
• Simmons V. ESPN: Chipping Toward Your Next Big Move
• Paradox of Piracy
• Jamsetji's Last Laugh: Disruption Is a Joke
• The Romanow Proposal: Innovation's Dirty Little Secret
• The Meeker Method: 1 True Fan
• Hasan's Hot Streak: How to Engineer a Lucky Break
• The Female Pharoah: Disrupt a Culture, Leave a Legacy.

A practical and inspirational playbook that shows you how to use innovation and disruption to become truly unstoppable. Disruption for disruption's sake isn't a smart strategy when you're seeking ways to accelerate your career and become truly indispensable. In The Bold Ones, you'll discover it's more about being "dangerous" than disruptive: being simultaneously bold enough to challenge industries, yet practical enough to recreate them. Internationally celebrated disruption strategist Shawn Kanungo offers a playbook for individuals who know they need to become bolder to push their careers and companies forward -but don't know how to innovate: You'll learn where to start, what to do, and how to break through with your ideas. In ten chapters that present the ten pillars to becoming dangerous, you'll learn the secrets of innovation and human behavior-from recognizing that almost every innovation starts out with resistance to becoming a "deep generalist" (someone who can spot trends in adjacent industries and apply them to one's own core competencies). Each pillar will help you learn exactly how to innovate, disrupt, and use your skills right where you are, today, and put your ideas into play. You'll also discover replicable tactics of some of the world's greatest (and sometimes unlikely) change agents, such as Bill Simmons, Steph Curry, Hatshepsut, Elon Musk, Cardi B., including: Unlock Disruption with Your Hidden Ideas How Past Innovation Stops Us from Future Disruption Look Outside to Recreate Within Pirating the Power of Institutions Build a Brand by Starting Small.
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