Never before in American history have we seen the number of African Americans teaching at Christian Colleges as we see today. Black Scholars in White Space highlights the recent research and scholarly contributions to various academic disciplines by some of America's history-making African American scholars working in Christian Higher Education. Many are the first African Americans or only African Americans teaching at their respective inst ...
What makes for a good life? The seven deadly vices and seven holy virtues, ingrained in our cultural imagination, help us answer this perennial question. For two millennia, these fourteen character traits have stirred our imagination of human nature and desire. Sometimes, however, lists like the seven deadly sins remain mere caricatures that shame and exclude. The world, however, is not divided up into priests and convicts, saints and sinners, v ...
What is the relationship between faith, especially Christian faith, and a lifestyle that respects animals as our neighbors and kin? Why should faith entail a commitment to vegetarianism? Are animals meant to be heirs of the kingdom of God as well as human beings? Taking the Adventure offers answers to these questions in the context of important biblical themes: of Eden and Exodus, of the prophetic imperative, of Jesus as a prophet proclaiming li ...
The African-American community represents a paradox of sorts. While collective success has been achieved in many areas, African-Americans still disproportionately suffer from a variety of social ills. The residual effects from years of slavery and exclusion from the major institutions of American life are still trenchant. Yet, there is hope. As we move forward into a new millennium, our greatest answers can be found by exploring the past. The Ch ...
W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the United States. It is the first empirical study of religion conducted by Black scholars. It is a landmark historical text on African-American religion and mores of a century and more ago. A new intr ...
In this book, Ethel Kosminsky studies the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in São Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. She explores the stories of Japanese immigrants who replaced the labor of recently-freed slaves on coffee plantations, and their descendants’ return migration to Japan when the Bastos economy began to suffer in the late twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in bot ...
Основная функция этикета – облегчать общение людям, которых разделяет разница в менталитете и обычаях. И нигде, кажется, эта разница не проявляется так сильно, как в случае столкновения западных, европейских норм поведения с японскими. Япония – поистине загадочная для европейца страна, полная на первый взгляд непонятных, неожиданных и строгих правил. И в то же время страна необычайно интересная, богатая красотой природы и традиций, страна с древ ...
С именем Германа Михайловича Крепса (1896–1944) – геоботаника, зоолога, этнографа – связаны первые советские экспедиции по Кольскому полуострову, имевшие впоследствии огромное народно-хозяйственное значение. Организатор первой Хибинской сельскохозяйственной станции за Полярным кругом (1922), создатель самого северного в мире заповедника (1930) – уже этого вполне хватило бы, чтобы надолго остаться в благодарной памяти потомков. Но в творческой би ...
