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Doelstelling: De scriptie is een vertaling met commentaar van de inleiding en drie hoofdstukken uit het boek 'Dude, Where's My Country?' van Michael Moore. Middelen of methode: In de annotaties werden de culturele referenties vergeleken met de bestaande Nederlandse en Spaanse vertalingen. Woordenboeken, vakliteratuur en internet werden gebruikt als bronnenmateriaal. Resultaten: Het resultaat is een Nederlandse vertaling van de inleiding en drie hoofdstukken met annotaties over culturele referenties die problemen konden opleveren in de Nederlandse vertaling.

Culturele referenties. --- Engels. --- George W. Bush. --- Spaans. --- Verenigde Staten. --- Vertaling en vergelijking met bestaande vertaling. --- Vertaling.

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Born-Again believers --- Evangelicalism --- Charismatics --- Pentecostalism --- religion --- modern culture --- religious movements in America --- North America --- President George W. Bush --- charismatic Christians

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An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the worldReligious conservatives around the world often claim that a society without a strong foundation of faith would necessarily be an immoral one, bereft of ethics, values, and meaning. Indeed, the Christian Right in the United States has argued that a society without God would be hell on earth.In Society without God, Second Edition sociologist Phil Zuckerman challenges these claims. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with more than 150 citizens of Denmark and Sweden, among the least religious countries in the world, he shows that, far from being inhumane, crime-infested, and dysfunctional, highly secular societies are healthier, safer, greener, less violent, and more democratic and egalitarian than highly religious ones.Society without God provides a rich portrait of life in a secular society, exploring how a culture without faith copes with death, grapples with the meaning of life, and remains content through everyday ups and downs. This updated edition incorporates new data from recent studies, updated statistics, and a revised Introduction, as well as framing around the now more highly developed field of secular studies. It addresses the dramatic surge of irreligion in the United States and the rise of the "nones," and adds data on societal health in specific US states, along with fascinating context regarding which are the most religious and which the most secular.

Well-being. --- Values Voters. --- Utter obliviousness. --- United States. --- Sweden. --- Sociological Theories. --- Societal Well-being. --- Secularization. --- Secularity. --- Secularism. --- Secular. --- Secular Studies. --- Scandinavian society. --- Scandinavia. --- Rituals. --- Reticence. --- Reluctance. --- Religious People. --- Religious Belief. --- Religion. --- Meaning of Life. --- Jews. --- International Comparisons. --- George W. Bush. --- Denmark. --- Death. --- Danish history. --- Danish culture. --- Cultural Religion. --- Apostasy;Asatru;Atheism;Belief;Benign indifference;Christianity. --- Apostasy. --- Asatru. --- Atheism. --- Belief. --- Benign indifference. --- Christianity.

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What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems--with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be made to connect with each other, and �how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellectually respectable way. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theoretical and policy issues, such as the question of preventive war and the problem of international order, to more historical subjects--for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 and Franco-American relations during the Nixon-Pompidou period. But in each case the aim is to show how a theoretical perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of historical issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic conceptual problems.

World politics --- Cold War. --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Coexistence (World politics) --- Peaceful coexistence --- Philosophy. --- Polemology --- anno 1900-1999 --- American policy. --- Dean Acheson. --- Eastern Europe. --- France. --- Franco-American relations. --- George W. Bush. --- German rearmament. --- Henry Kissinger. --- John F. Kennedy. --- MC 48. --- NATO. --- Richard Nixon. --- Soviet Union. --- USSR. --- United States. --- Western Europe. --- anarchic system. --- anarchy. --- defense policy. --- foreign policy. --- foreign relations. --- international law. --- international order. --- international politics. --- international relations. --- nuclear sharing policy. --- nuclear strategy. --- nuclear weapons. --- political system. --- preemptive strategy. --- preventive war. --- state power. --- systemic forces. --- theoretical analysis. --- weapons of mass destruction.

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In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W. Bush methodically manipulates the law to promote right-wing causes. The beneficiaries of these machinations range from frontline pro-weapon and anti-women's rights groups to major industries that profit from lax environmental standards and military intervention in resource-rich regions. Accessibly written, legally rigorous, and meticulously documented, Veering Right demonstrates how the administration's already-ample arsenal for accomplishing ideological goals was expanded with weapons such as Attorney General John Ashcroft's social crusades and the polarizing 2004 election campaign. Tiefer lays out a compelling case for how the administration consistently erects barriers to media and congressional oversight that might expose covert motivations to public scrutiny. With an eye on the future, the White House is building a durable and potentially dominant machine for pursuing ideological goals by awarding lifetime judgeships and by exchanging favors for campaign funding. This book presents eye-opening evidence that ultra-conservatives could achieve previously unimaginable successes during a second Bush term. As a former Solicitor of the House of Representatives, Tiefer possesses a wealth of insight gleaned from decades of no-holds-barred investigations and judicial struggles. His wide-ranging perspective takes into account cultural changes, constitutional issues, partisan and electoral developments, and political personalities. The most exhaustive analysis to date of the Bush administration's real agenda, this book provides a rare insider's view of the strategic, devious, and potentially overpowering ways that presidents make ideological use of the law. Veering Right Documents How * President Bush's secrecy and deception undermined the democratic process by misleading Congress and the public about international and domestic matters ranging from doctored Iraq weapons intelligence to covered-up drug maker subsidies paid for by seniors * Bush's first term lays the groundwork for even more extreme right wing policies if he is re-elected. This agenda includes tilting the nation's tax structure against the middle class in Democratic states, weakening traditional Medicare by concentrating rising costs on poorer and sicker seniors, and exporting jobs via the trade fast track * John Ashcroft used religiosity and race-baiting to build his political career and, after 9/11, blocked questioning of his abuses-ranging from concealed undermining of the Bill of Rights to promoting the intolerance of the religious right-by labeling it as suspicious and even treasonous * Bush turned the public's reaction after 9/11 away from the logical Saudi suspects and against Iraq in a spectacular double-play to push his agenda in the world's oil patch * Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton and her crew of lawyer-lobbyists ran the public's resources and its pollution controls like a candy store for pariah industries * Bush's domestic legal gambits around big money paid off in 2004 with a historical gross campaign war chest as a quid pro quo for favors rendered * The Bush Administration dismantled international legal regimes ranging from arms control and women's rights to global climate control and international tobacco regulation * Bush's unilateralist alienation of potential support abroad hobbled both the Iraq occupation and the effort against terrorism

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