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This volume collects selected papers delivered at the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, which was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in July 2018. It includes papers dealing with the past, present, and future of utilitarianism – the theory that human happiness is the fundamental moral value – as well as on its applications to animal ethics, population ethics, and the future of humanity, among other topics.

Humanities --- Theorie und Anwendungen des Utilitarismus --- Glück und Wohlergehen --- John Stuart Mill --- Tierethik --- Populationsethik --- Theory and applications of Utilitarianism --- Happiness and Flourishing --- animal ethics --- population ethics

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This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.

Cities and towns --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Social aspects --- Public spaces --- City planning --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Urban planning --- human flourishing --- alternative space --- commons

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An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States-from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston.Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource.Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke.Co-published with Seattle University's Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs.

Homelessness. --- biblical hermeneutics. --- community revitalization. --- congregations. --- constructive theology. --- faith-based organizations. --- homeless ministries. --- housing insecurity. --- human flourishing. --- non-profit organizations. --- public religion. --- social ethics. --- sociology of religion. --- the common good.

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Offers a radical political interpretation of history that generates fresh insights into the emancipatory potential of ordinary Nigerians and their precolonial cultural institutions

Political corruption --- Group identity --- Social ethics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethics --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Nigeria --- Religion. --- Politics and government. --- Boston University. --- Democratic Republicanism. --- Emancipatory Politics. --- Ethics. --- Historical Identity. --- History. --- Human Flourishing. --- Identity. --- Moral Exemplars. --- Myth. --- Nigeria's Predicament. --- Nigeria. --- Nigerian Pentecostalism. --- Nimi Wariboko. --- Political Development. --- Political Philosophy. --- Political Theory. --- Precolonial Cultural Institutions. --- Societal Transformation. --- Society. --- Socio-Ethical Identity. --- Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics.

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The Religious Freedom Institute’s FORIS project, an initiative made possible by funding from the John Templeton Foundation, proudly presents, with the assistance of MDPI, this Special Issue of Religions with a focus on the “Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society.” Its strengths lie in its global perspective, the acumen of its authors, and the wide range of subjects and complex factors addressed. This Special Issue volume consists of a series of articles written by leading religious freedom scholars and advocates, including Jonathan Fox, Roger Finke, Paul Marshall, Chad Bauman, Byron Johnson, Timothy Shah, Robert Hefner, Lihui Zhang, Rebecca Supriya Shah, Dane Mataic, Mariz Tadros, and Akram Habib. It contributes to the overall scholarship revolving around religious freedom by placing greater and well-deserved attention upon the crucial nature of institutional religious freedom and its key capacity to enable the enjoyment of religious freedom and human rights in general. Religious liberty is not an individual right alone, but rather includes the right of religious communities to gather in synagogues, churches, mosques, temples, and other houses of worship. Freedom of religion also includes the right of faith communities to establish religious institutions such as schools, hospitals, ministries to the poor, universities, and countless others that seek to embody the teachings of their respective religious traditions. Institutional religious freedom encompasses this full range of congregational and organizational expressions of religious faith.

Religious freedom --- religious institutions --- human rights --- religious freedom --- rights --- institutions --- organizations --- for profit --- jurisdiction --- vocation --- Hindu --- Christian --- law --- restriction --- religion --- India --- minority --- majority --- legal --- regulation --- temples --- churches --- mosques --- freedom --- volunteerism --- prosocial --- crime --- positive criminology --- desistance --- identity transformation --- rehabilitation --- religious liberty --- religious organizations --- institutional religious freedom --- religious autonomy --- church autonomy --- freedom of the church --- W. Cole Durham, Jr. --- Indonesia --- religion in law --- citizenship --- institutional religious restrictions --- international human rights organizations --- religious restrictions --- Erastianism --- secularism --- Jawaharlal Nehru --- Hinduism --- Hindu nationalism --- culture --- economy --- human flourishing --- religion institution --- education --- pandemic --- COVID-19 --- minorities --- discriminaiton --- Copts --- equal citizenship --- Coptic movements --- Egypt