The Brazilian Amazon experienced, in the late 1830s, one of Brazil s largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections, known as the Cabanagem. Uniquely, rebels succeeded in controlling provincial government and town councils for more than a year. In this first book-length study in English, the rebellion is placed in the context of late colonial and early national society and economy. It compares the Cabanagem with contemporaneous Latin American peasant rebellions and challenges to centralized authority in Brazil. Using unpublished documentation, it reveals contrary to other studies that...
The Brazilian Amazon experienced, in the late 1830s, one of Brazil s largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections, known as the Cabanagem. Uniquely, r...
How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread. Relationships between Polish radicals and the English Dissenters existed, and the English radicals profoundly...
How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in r...
It is generally assumed that science and religion are at war. Many now claim that science has made religious belief redundant; others have turned to a literalist interpretation of biblical creation to reject or revise science; others try to resolve Darwin with Genesis. "The Nature of Creation" addresses this complex debate by engaging with both modern science and biblical scholarship together. Creation is central to Christian theology and the Bible, and has become the chosen battleground for scientists, atheists and creationists alike. "The Nature of Creation" presents a sustained historical...
It is generally assumed that science and religion are at war. Many now claim that science has made religious belief redundant; others have turned to a...
The Nature of Creation presents a sustained historical investigation of what the creation texts of the Bible have to say and how this relates to modern scientific ideas of beginnings. The book aims to demonstrate what science and religion can share, and how they differ and ought to differ.
The Nature of Creation presents a sustained historical investigation of what the creation texts of the Bible have to say and how this relates to moder...
That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here consider how humans come to know themselves and their worlds. Should anthropologists should seek complexity or simplicity in their analyses of other societies? By going beyond the notion that a way of knowing is a perspective on the world, this book explores paths to understanding, as people travel along them, craft their knowledge and shape experience. The topics examined here range from illness to ignorance, teaching undergraduates in Scotland...
That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here co...
There can arguably be no greater influence on a person s life than their education, and it is the classroom practice of teachers that helps to shape young lives. "How to Develop the Habits of Outstanding Teaching" aims to help teachers improve their teaching habits and practice so that every student can be supported, challenged and inspired to achieve their ambitions and goals.
Providing a step-by-step guide to the key components for creating outstanding lessons, the book includes a wealth of strategies and techniques that are easy to implement and will have an immediate impact on your...
There can arguably be no greater influence on a person s life than their education, and it is the classroom practice of teachers that helps to shap...
There can arguably be no greater influence on a person s life than their education, and it is the classroom practice of teachers that helps to shape young lives. "How to Develop the Habits of Outstanding Teaching" aims to help teachers improve their teaching habits and practice so that every student can be supported, challenged and inspired to achieve their ambitions and goals.
Providing a step-by-step guide to the key components for creating outstanding lessons, the book includes a wealth of strategies and techniques that are easy to implement and will have an immediate impact on your...
There can arguably be no greater influence on a person s life than their education, and it is the classroom practice of teachers that helps to shap...
