Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities: Atlanta, Georgia to Denver, Colorado
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities: Atlanta, Georgia to Denver, Colorado

Author: Jill Copolla

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780787648701

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Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities provides access to a wide range of geographic, demographic, economic, and social information for 50 cities from around the world. The material is arranged into 22 easy-to-follow rubrics that facilitate quick scanning and meaningful comparisons among entries: 1 Introduction, 2 Getting There, 3 Getting Around, 4 People, 5 Neighborhoods, 6 History, 7 Government, 8 Public Safety, 9 Economy, 10 Environment, 11 Shopping, 12 Education, 13 Health Care, 14 Media, 15 Sports, 16 Parks and Recreation, 17 Performing Arts, 18 Libraries and Museums, 19 Tourism, 20 Holidays and Festivals, 21 Famous Citizens, 22 Bibliography, including Web sites.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions
Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions

Author: Henri Gooren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319270777

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This encyclopedia provides an overview of the main religions of Latin America and the Caribbean, both its centralized transnational expressions and its local variants and schisms. These main religions include (but are not limited to) the major expressions of Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Mormonism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses), indigenous religions (Native American, Maya religion), syncretic Christianity (including Afro-Brazilian religions like Umbanda and Candomblé and Afro-Caribbean religions like Vodun and Santería), other world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam), transnational New Religious Movements (Scientology, Unification Church, Hare Krishna, New Age, etc.), and new local religions (Brazil’s Igreja Universal, La Luz del Mundo from Mexico, etc.).

The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters
The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters

Author: Eric C. Jones

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2009-05-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0759113114

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Throughout history, societies have had to decide whom to 'sacrifice' and whom to help in times of disaster. This volume examines how elite groups attempt to maintain power through the use of particular economic, political, and ideological instruments and how both ruling elites and common people endeavor to create meaningful traditions while enduring hardship.The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters demonstrates how vulnerability is economically constructed, primary producers adapt their production regimes, how traders and merchants adapt their practices, and how political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts.

Anthology of African Christianity
Anthology of African Christianity

Author: Isabel Apawo Phiri

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 1240

ISBN-13: 9781506474922

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By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Christianity has taken shape and established roots in all areas of African reality. It has come to stay. Therefore, we welcome Christianity afresh in Africa, where it has arrived to continue the ancient and vibrant Christianity in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. It is appropriate that the Anthology of African Christianity presents, in valuable detail, this new reality that describes its African landscape in totality.