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The idea of etnos came into being over a hundred years ago as a way of understanding the collective identities of people with a common language and shared traditions. In the twentieth century, the concept came to be associated with Soviet state-building, and it fell sharply out of favour. Yet outside the academy, etnos-style arguments not only persist, but are a vibrant part of regional anthropological traditions. Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents. Using contemporary fieldwork and case studies, the volume shows how the ideas of these ethnographers continue to impact and shape identities in various regional theatres from Ukraine to the Russian North to the Manchurian steppes of what is now China. Through writing a life history of these collectivist concepts, the contributors to this volume unveil a world where the assumptions of liberal individualism do not hold. In doing so, they demonstrate how notions of belonging are not fleeting but persistent, multi-generational, and bio-social.
Ethnicity. --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- ethnicity --- traditions --- Eurasia --- etnos --- national identity --- language --- collective identities
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This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.
War and society --- History --- Collective identities. --- Ethnicity. --- Medieval warfare. --- global medieval history. --- War and society. --- Military history, Medieval.
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«This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist within the logic of legal and political mechanisms that define regional and national boundaries and the reality of the lives lived within these constructions. The resulting essays are instructive, thought-provoking and sometimes very moving explorations of the making and meaning of historical and contemporary borderlands.» (Roisín Higgins, Professor of History, National University of Ireland Maynooth) «This volume is a masterful combination of analyses of feelings of belonging and identities following from changing state and cultural borders in the past and present and their challenges for living together. Its chapters analyse the intersections of people, territory, institutions and law from theoretical perspectives as well as through reflexive individual experience of social identity formation from below, often with a focus on their contestation in (re-)territorialized sub-state regions.» (Josef Marko, Professor of Comparative Public Law and Political Sciences, University of Graz) Both the Brexit process and the Covid pandemic have challenged the idealistic concept that borders in Europe and elsewhere were becoming ever more permeable. The idea that the world was becoming a global village has been seriously eroded. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has once again highlighted how power politics draws borders and shapes belongings. This has necessitated analyses of the nature of human-made borders and boundaries and the consequences for individuals and collectives who experience inclusion or exclusion on their feelings of belonging and their identities. Similarly, governmental policies within states have created majorities and minorities and have caused grave implications for those groups at the receiving end of legislation and state actions. This multidisciplinary volume comprises essays from researchers and academics, located in Europe and beyond, who investigate the effects of border creation, social and legal inclusivity and exclusion on individuals and collective identities in the past and today. Combining «from above» and «from below» perspectives, the volume explores macro-political processes affecting borders and senses of belonging as well as their intersections at the microlevel, including private views and individual responses to such types of processes.
Andrea --- Belonging --- Border creation --- Borders --- Carlà --- Challenging --- Change --- Changing --- collective identities --- Experience --- Georg --- Grote --- GroteCarlà --- Laurel --- Plapp --- Policy --- Private --- social and legal inclusivity
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This book tells the story of how a parish women's meeting started in 1876 by a Victorian vicar's wife is now the most authentic and powerful organization of women in the new global Christianity. Its cross-disciplinary approach examines how religious faith and shifting ideologies of womanhood and motherhood in the imperial and post colonial worlds acted as a source of empowerment for conservative women in their homes, communities and churches. In contrast to much of feminist history, A History of the Mothers' Union 1876-2008: Women, Anglicanism and Globalisation shows how the beliefs of ordinary women led them to become advocates and activists long before women had the vote or could be ordained priests.
Having survived an identity crisis over social and theological liberalism in the 1960s, the Mothers' Union provides a model of unity and reconciled diversity for a divided world wide church. Today it is hailed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and international development practitioners as an outstanding example of global Christian engagement with poverty and social transformation issues at the grass roots.
The material is arranged both thematically and chronologically. Case studies of Australia, Ghana and South Africa trace how the Mothers' Union arrived with white British women but evolved into indigenous organizations.
CORDELIA MOYSE is Adjunct Professor of Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, PA, USA.
Mothers' Union --- Undeb y Mamau --- History. --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Anglicanism. --- Collective Identities. --- Empowerment. --- Globalisation. --- Grass Roots. --- International Development. --- Mothers' Union. --- Political Engagement. --- Poverty. --- Social Transformation. --- Victorian Era. --- Women. --- feminist history. --- global Christianity. --- motherhood. --- poverty. --- religious faith. --- social transformation. --- womanhood.
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This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials", such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on productions of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. A distinctive feature of the volume's coverage is the diversity of Latin textual environments and genres that the contributors examine in their work, including chronicles, liturgy and pseudo-histories, as well as apologetical treatises and works of hagiography and literature. Perhaps most importantly, the book examines the "many lives" that Charlemagne was believed to have lived by successive generations of medieval Latin writers, for whom he was not only a king and an emperor but also a saint, a crusader, and, indeed, a necrophiliac.
Contributors: Matthew Gabriele, Jace Stuckey, Sebastián Salvadó, Miguel Dolan Gómez, Jeffrey Doolittle, James Williams, Andrew J. Romig, Oren J. Margolis.
Charlemagne, --- France --- Holy Roman Empire --- History --- Karol Wielki, --- Karl --- Carolus Magnus, --- Shārlmān, --- Charles the Great, --- Karl Velikiĭ, --- Carlo Magno, --- Carlos Magno, --- Karolus Magnus, --- Karl the Great, --- Carlomagno, --- Karl den store, --- شارلمان، --- To 1517 --- Charlemagne --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- Byzantium. --- Charlemagne Legend. --- Charlemagne. --- Chronicles. --- Collective Identities. --- Crusader. --- Hagiography. --- Latin Textual Environments. --- Legends. --- Literature. --- Liturgy. --- Manifestations. --- Medieval Latin Texts. --- Medieval Writers. --- Middle Ages. --- Necrophiliac. --- Political Science. --- Political Views. --- Saint. --- Thirteenth Century. --- Twelfth Century.
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The politics of old age in the twenty-first century is contentious, encompassing ideological debates about how old age is conceptualised and the rights and welfare entitlements of individuals in later life. This book situates the discussion in the international context and outlines findings of an Irish case study which explores the evolution of older people's interest organisations in Ireland from their inception in the mid-1990s to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Older people --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Services for. --- Government policy. --- Services for --- Government policy --- Ireland. --- Irish Free State --- Airlann --- Airurando --- Éire --- Irish Republic --- Irland --- Irlanda --- Irlande --- Irlanti --- Írország --- Poblacht na hÉireann --- Republic of Ireland --- advocacy. --- age-based policy. --- collective identities. --- constructions of ageing. --- grey power. --- identity politics. --- old age policy. --- older people's interest organisations. --- pensioners organisations. --- social policy.
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Comparative religion --- Satanism --- 235.5 --- 248.222 --- Black Mass --- Devil-worship --- Satanic cults --- Worship of Satan --- Cults --- Occultism --- 248.222 Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- Kwade engelen. Demonen. Demonologie. Duivel. Satan. Lucifer. Asmodeus. Beëlzebub. Mephistoteles --- the Devil --- history --- early modern Sweden --- sex --- science --- liberty --- 19th century counterculture --- witches --- anarchism --- evolutionism --- the demonic feminine --- the Black Pope --- the Church of Satan --- modern Satanism --- LaVey --- sects --- scripture --- the Satanic Bible --- Anton LaVey --- conspiracy culture --- conversion --- Satanic collective identities --- Poland --- Post-Satanism --- left-hand paths --- the Temple of Set --- evolution of Satanism --- Luciferian witchcraft --- Paganism and Satanism --- political esotericism --- radical Islam --- national socialism --- the Order of Nine Angles --- Stanislaw Brzybyszewski --- fin-de-siècle Satanism
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