wyszukanych pozycji: 24
China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Societyvolume 12
ISBN: 9780520213265 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implications for the development of a "civil society." Madsen knows China well and has spent extensive time there interviewing Chinese Catholics both young and old, the "true believers" and the less devout. Their stories reveal the tensions that have arisen even as political control over everyday life...
After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years....
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390,63 zł |
The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below
ISBN: 9789004465176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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530,03 zł |
Standing Colors: Memoirs of Navy V-12 Officers
ISBN: 9781432782603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. They stood with our country. They went out into the sub-zero temperatures of a Montana winter to "stand colors," to show respect for the US flag and the nation it represented. They were the graduates of the Navy V-12 officer training program. Some went on to fight in World War II or Korea. Others were simply the watchmen who helped pull the country together after those conflicts. This book is a thank you to them and the families who waited for them at home. With this book we pass on what they stood for. Richard Madsen trained as a Navy officer at the Montana School of Mines and later Kansas...
They stood with our country. They went out into the sub-zero temperatures of a Montana winter to "stand colors," to show respect for the US flag and t...
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58,32 zł |
Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self
ISBN: 9780520226579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.
Deepening and developing the seminal vision of Habits of the Heart (California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers...
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213,41 zł |
Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan
ISBN: 9780520252288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized, and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. Democracy's Dharma connects these noteworthy developments to Taiwan's transition to democracy and the burgeoning needs of its new middle classes. Richard Madsen offers fresh thinking on Asian religions and shows that the public religious revival was not only encouraged by the early phases of the democratic transition but has helped to make that transition successful and sustainable. Madsen makes his argument through vivid case studies of...
This book explores the remarkable religious renaissance that has reformed, revitalized, and renewed the practices of Buddhism and Daoism in Taiwan. |
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219,51 zł |
The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780691099934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. Is such polarization leading to a violent "clash of civilizations" or can differences between ethical systems be reconciled through rational dialogue? This book provides an extraordinary resource for thinking clearly about the diverse ways in which humans see good and evil. In nine essays and responses, leading thinkers ask how ethical pluralism can be... The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New Yo... |
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246,17 zł |
China and the American Dream
ISBN: 9780520086135 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five years. The...
From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank an...
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390,63 zł |
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
ISBN: 9780520314467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,02 zł |
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
ISBN: 9780520360877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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585,85 zł |
The Urban Lifeworld : Formation Perception Representation
ISBN: 9780415231770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering an alternative approach to the analysis of urban experience. Two major cities, New York and Copenhagen are used as vehicles for this exploration of sociological, anthropological and aesthetic issues. The contribution of academics in the field of literature bring a different perspective to this comparative work.
This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering an alter...
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306,57 zł |
The Urban Lifeworld : Formation Perception Representation
ISBN: 9780415234030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering a new approach to the analysis of the urban experience.
This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering a new ap...
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753,56 zł |
Challenging Modernity
ISBN: 9780231214889 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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596,28 zł |
Challenging Modernity
ISBN: 9780231214896 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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153,17 zł |
The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780520306318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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585,85 zł |
Economic Inequality and Morality: Diverse Ethical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780815737193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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191,47 zł |
Field Guide for Home Inspectors
ISBN: 9780988665187 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,93 zł |
The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780520306325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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164,12 zł |
Handbook for Manufactured Home Inspection
ISBN: 9780988665156 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,93 zł |
The Red Mirror : Children Of China's Cultural Revolution
ISBN: 9780813324883 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long influence of this seminal period on China's children. Those who were teenagers in the late 1960s joined the Red Guards and the revolutionary rebel groups, following Mao's directives to make revolution,...
These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, surv...
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192,23 zł |
Good Society
ISBN: 9780679733591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.
THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for r...
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82,79 zł |