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Kingdom to Commune
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents.Exploring piety, practice, and material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible theology.The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed inKingdom to Commune.
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Shelley's Apocalypticism : a Study of the Human Mind's Imaginings, 1818-1822
Apocalypse and millennium are often discussed in relation to Percy Bysshe Shelley's works, but there remains little sustained, in-depth analysis that singularises and magnifies their significance for his thought. This thesis offers a substantial reassessment of Shelley's thought by correlating the understanding of apocalypse and millennium to the study of the poet's apocalypticism, the symbolic universe through which to understand and discuss one's existence and ideas of futurity. This thesis demonstrates the importance of understanding Shelley's apocalyptic-eschatological perspective for a comprehensive, nuanced study of his conceptions of morality, violence, history, and religion. Chapter one analyses the expression of Shelley's apocalyptic-eschatological perspective in 'The Mask of Anarchy' (composed 1819), reconsidering the controversy that underlies the (perceived) dichotomy between the poem's violent tones and its pacifist message, to emphasise that Shelley's vision, rather than being ambiguous, understands pacifism as different from passivity. Chapter two reads 'Ode to the West Wind' (1820) and fragments often neglected in criticism - 'Orpheus' (composed 1821), 'The Coliseum' (composed 1818), and 'Fragments of an Unfinished Drama' (composed 1822) - to focus on Shelley's Temples of Nature, spaces whose millennial promise is problematised by his inexorable, yet optimistic, scepticism. Chapter three studies 'Adonais''s (1821) subversion of the traditional association of death and darkness, considering death as the millennial state of the human soul, and proposing, in this context, the kaleidoscope as a framework, hitherto unconsidered, through which to understand Shelley's famous image of life as 'a dome of many-coloured glass'. Chapter four explores 'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) to appreciate Shelley's questioning and rejection of institutionalised forms of authority that subjugate the human intellect and will, and illustrate his composite vision of apocalypse and millennium. The coda examines 'Hellas' (1822) for the ways in which it extends discussions raised in previous chapters, especially Shelley's understanding of pacifism and violence, and his considerations on the cycles of history.
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Five weapons. 1, Making the grade
\"13-year-old Tyler has a problem. He's a pacifist enrolled in a school for young assassins. His father is a legendary hitman but, worst of all, he has a secret that can get him killed. Tyler is optimistic because he has a unique weapon that nobody can beat: his razor-sharp-mind\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Mujeres, paz y seguridad: la Resolución 1325 veinte años después
El 31 de Octubre de 2000, el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, adoptó la Resolución 1325. Con esta histórica Resolución se abría la agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad, profundizando y afianzando temas que habían estado presentes en las décadas anteriores. En ella se reconocía el impacto desproporcionado y desigual de la violencia en los conflictos armados, a la vez que instaba a una necesaria participación de las mujeres en la construcción de la paz y en la prevención de los conflictos. Veinte años después de su aprobación, es necesario analizar y evaluar los aportes, los avances -y también los retrocesos- en las materias que la Resolución 1325 planteaba de una manera pionera. En este libro se recogen tanto los aspectos jurídicos y políticos como nuevas perspectivas de análisis que nos muestran la incidencia de la Resolución en el contexto de crisis global sanitaria, las sinergias con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, o su aplicación en relación con la infancia en escenarios de conflictos armados. Igualmente, a lo largo del libro se analizan los distintos actores comprometidos con la aplicación de la Resolución: desde las distintas organizaciones de la sociedad civil, hasta la Unión Europea, la Corte Internacional de Justicia, o las propias Naciones Unidas. Con estos análisis, presentes en las páginas de este libro, las AUas -académicas de España, Suecia, Colombia y Costa Rica- pretender contribuir a un debate necesario y urgente acerca de la inclusión de las mujeres y de la perspectiva de género -tal y como planteaba la Resolución 1325- que está lejos de estar cerrado. Los escenarios geopolíticos cambiantes, los nuevos conflictos armados, los millones de desplazamientos, pero también, las resistencias de las mujeres a las múltiples violencias que sufren, nos hacen plantear la necesidad de repensar un instrumento tan relevante como es la Resolución 1325 y la Agenda de Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad.
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