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A Paradox Perspective on Faith-Based Organizations
A significant amount of research exists pertaining to faith-based organizations (FBOs). However, thus far, this research has focused primarily on government-funded, faith-based, social service provision. A fuller portrait of the complexities of faith-based organizations is warranted, given their rich history in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic contexts of civilization. In addition, research has only begun to touch on the management of faith-based organizations, and the tensions, contradictions, and oppositions that exist within them. This study explores the application of a paradoxical framework on faith-based organizations. Building on the research and categorization of organizational paradoxes by Smith and Lewis (2011), the study uses 33 paradox exemplars to inform a micro-level understanding of five established community faith-based nonprofit human service organizations. Comparative case studies have been used to investigate (1) the tensions, contradictions, oppositions, and simultaneous paradoxes within faith-based organizations, and (2) how they are managed. The findings suggest that the application of a paradoxical framework is a useful perspective from which to view the management and operation of faith-based organizations. The findings demonstrate that the faith-based organizations in this study exhibited all 33 paradox exemplars. The findings also reveal that the paradox management techniques and tactics identified by existing literature can be successful in managing the 33 paradox exemplars.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men. Struck by the intensely human drama of secrecy and deception played out for all to see, Porter explores the phenomenon in great depth. InBureau of Missing Personshe examines a large number of these works-eighteen in all-placing them in a wide literary and cultural context and considering the ethical quandaries writers face when they reveal secrets so long and closely held.
Among the books Porter treats are Paul Auster'sThe Invention of Solitude, Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirFun Home, Essie Mae Washington-Williams'sDear Senator(on her father, Strom Thurmond), Bliss Broyard'sOne Drop, Mary Gordon'sThe Shadow Man, and Geoffrey Wolff'sThe Duke of Deception. He also discusses Nathaniel Kahn's documentary film,My Architect. These narratives inevitably look inward to the writer as well as outward to the parent. The autobiographical children are compelled, if not consumed, by a desire to know. They become detectives, piecing together clues to fill memory voids, assembling material and archival evidence, public and private documents, letters, photographs, and iconic physical objects to track down the parent.
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From the margins to the mainstream : institutionalising minorities in South Asia
A brilliant analysis of the socio-political processes that help us understand the challenges faced by marginalized populations for representation and recognition in India. The premise of democratic politics is that all citizens are equal and have an equal right to a say in national politics. This definition of democracy, however, is observed far more in the breach than in practice. Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis continue their struggle to seek entry into the institution from which they seem to be barred. Drawing on in-depth case studies the book explores how marginalized groups that achieve a degree of political inclusion often discover that it amounts to 'adverse incorporation' which is disempowering because it requires them to moderate or abandon key demands. The book is a unique work on the irony of 'institutionalization'.
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A note on the importance of developing digital facsimiles and a digital register of Javanese inscriptions
There are many regrets to be entertained over the treatment of the inscriptions of Java. Many inscriptions are well preserved and relatively accessible to the public in the courtyard of the National Museum in Jakarta, but there are many others that suffer from poor documentation, especially at the hands of their most prominent epigraphers.
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Considerations on the dating of the Barabudur stūpa: introduction to the problem
Given its prominence as one of the largest and certainly the most elaborately decorated Buddhist stūpas in the world, it is regrettable that a foundation inscription giving a firm date, name, or patron for the Barabudur monument has never been found. In the absence of a foundation inscription, a number of scholars have proposed and examined a variety of dating indicators. This article assesses past efforts to attempt a dating of the Barabu∂ur monument, and offers a new hypothesis on the dating and founder.
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The wilderness monks of the Abhayagirivihara and the origins of Sino-Javanese esoteric Buddhism
[...]the existence of these 'rag-wearing monks' seems to be formally associated witha Sinhalese king, Sena I (reigned circa 833-85310), of seemingly slightly later date than the 792 Abhayagirivihara inscription, although it is difficult to conceive a different role for this type of distinctive architecture, limited as it is to the wilderness periphery of the Anuradhapura Abhayagirivihara. According to the noted Tibetanist David Snellgrove, who as editor of an ancient palm-leaf version of the STTS is one of the few individuals in the world today who has seen and handled a copy of the STTS in the way that it would be known to the Indian masters, the palm-leaf manuscript of the STTS might weigh half a kilogram at most (personal communication with David Snellgrove). [...]the discovery near the giant gate of the Ratu Baka of a short tantric inscription, seemingly originating from the famous story of Trailokyavijaya in the STTS,19 would add convincing support to the suspicion that the Abhayagirivihara monks were invited to Java because they were the foremost masters of the Yoga Tantras, skilled commentators on the doctrines of these tantric texts and custodians of the most authentic recensions of the STTS. [...]there is a mantra which is associated with Trailokyavijaya, the most prominent story within the STTS, embedded into the earth on the Ratu Baka by a Javanese king known to have held the throne of Mataram at the time of the founding of the Sinhalese monastery there.
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