Культурология
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France is also the home for Europe's largest Muslim minority, variously estimated at numbering between four and six million people. This means that in terms of simple numbers, France can be counted as the world's fifteenth Islamic power. Previous conflicts with religion have left a deep impression on French political culture: from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century conflicts between Catholics and Protestants played to the formation of the collaborationist Vichy government in 1940. In recent decades, Muslims have been stigmatized as an irreconcilable minority unable to adapt to the secular culture of the majority of French citizens. This work draws out the political implications of the current conflict. It is based on events and publications produced in a single five year period, beginning with the shock of the 2002 Presidential elections, in which Le Pen was the second most successful candidate, ranging through the legislation of March 2004 which banned the Islamic headscarf from French state schools, and which sparked off a series of bad-tempered exchanges between left and right-wing French nationalists, anti-racism campaigners, secularists, anti-clericals and a variety of Muslim authors.
Why We Live in Community
Everyone’s talking about “community” these days. Arnold and Merton say it can be lived, too.In this time-honored manifesto, Arnold and Merton add their voices to the vital discussion of what real community is all about: love, joy, unity, and the great “adventure of faith” shared with others along the way. Neither writer describes (or prescribes) community here, but they do provide a vision to guide our search. For both the uninitiated seeker and the veteran, this book offers guidance – and a disarming call to a renewed commitment and a deepened faith.
Urban commons. Городские сообщества за пределами государства и рынка
Недоверие к устоявшимся политическим и социальным институтам все чаще вынуждает людей обращаться к альтернативным моделям общественной организации, позволяющим уменьшить зависимость от рынка и государства. В центре внимания этого сборника – исследование различных вариантов взаимоотношений внутри городских сообществ, которые стремятся к политической и социальной автономии, отказываются от государственного покровительства и по-новому форматируют публичное пространство. Речь идет о специфической «городской совместности» – понятии, которое охватывает множество жизненных практик и низовых форм общественной организации, реализованных по всему миру и позволяющих по-новому взглянуть на опыт городской повседневности. Urban Commons – Moving Beyond State and Market Ed. by Dellenbaugh, Mary / Kip, Markus / Bieniok, Majken / Müller, Agnes / Schwegmann, Martin
К русской речи: Идиоматика и семантика поэтического языка О. Мандельштама
В гуманитарном мире сложился устойчивый образ О. Мандельштама – сложного, «темного» поэта, чьи стихи нуждаются в кропотливой дешифровке. Увлеченные поисками интертекстуальных связей, филологи зачастую игнорируют первооснову мандельштамовской лирики – язык. В своей монографии «К русской речи» П. Успенский и В. Файнберг исследуют роль идиоматики в поэтическом языке Мандельштама: как поэт систематически использует фразеологию для создания сложных поэтических образов и подчас загадочных смыслов. Идиоматика, по мнению авторов, определяет не только смысл строк или строф, но иногда и развитие всего стихотворения, что позволяет считать русский язык главным «вдохновителем» поэта. Предложенная авторами когнитивная модель восприятия творчества Мандельштама дает ответ на вопрос, почему его стихи, несмотря на всю их «эзотеричность», кажутся интуитивно понятными и сохраняют силу поэтического высказывания для нескольких поколений читателей. П. Успенский – кандидат филологических наук, PhD, доцент Департамента истории и теории литературы Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики». В. Файнберг – выпускница Школы филологии, магистрантка программы «Цифровые методы в гуманитарных науках» (Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»).
Twins Talk
Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them. It presents, in the first person, the grounded and practical experiences of twins as they engage, both individually and together, the “who am I” and “who are we” questions of life. Here, the twins themselves are the stars. Dona Lee Davis conducted conversational interviews with twenty-two sets of identical twins attending the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, the largest such gathering in the world. Lively and often opinionated, each twin comes through as a whole person who at the same time maintains a special bond that the vast majority of people will never experience. The study provides a distinctive and enlightening insider’s challenge to the nature/nurture debates that dominate contemporary research on twins. The author, herself an identical twin, draws on aspects of her own life to inform her analysis of the data throughout the text. Each chapter addresses a different theme from multiple viewpoints, including those of popular science writers, scientific researchers, and singletons, as well as those of the twins themselves.
Blessed Names and Attributes of Allah
"Allah's are the names most beautiful. Whatever is in the heavens and earth extols His glory."—The Qur'an (Al-Hashr 59:24)"Allah has 99 names. He who remembers these will certainly enter Paradise."—Prophet Muhammad (Bukharhi Hadith Kitab Ad-Dawat, 2,949)Remembering the Names of Allah is a sacred tradition in Islam. Both the Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet (Hadiths) state the importance of learning them and promise reward for reciting them in supplications and prayers.This beautiful presentation of Allah's most revered nintety-nine names draws the reader nearer to the Divine through contemplation and reflection of Allah's names, their meaning, and how each impacts our daily lives. They help to conceptualize Allah, Whose limitless greatness and glory is impossible to grasp.Each name is presented in the original Arabic and its translation into English. Accompanying each name is a commentary that is concise and easy to understand but rich in meaning.[b]Abdur Raheem Kidwai (b. 1956) is a professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, India, and a visiting fellow at the School of English, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He earned his two PhDs in English from the Aligarh Muslim University and the University of Leicester. He is a well-known author of many works on the Qur'an and Islam, including: [i]The Qur'an: Essential Teachings; [i]Daily Wisdom: Islamic Prayers and Supplications;[i] Daily Wisdom: Selections from the Holy Qur'an; and [i]What Should We Say?