Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years--from defending the rights of those who hold different beliefs to affirming all beliefs as equally valid and correct. He looks back at the history of this shift and discusses its implications for culture today, especially its bearing on democracy, discussions about good and evil, and Christian truth claims. --from publisher description
`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that ′civilization′ prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He [Pratt] has at the very least broadened the boundaries of the debate about the history of imprisonment in new and novel ways that will surely become a basis for future analysis′ - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice ′In presenting and organizing such a wealth of historical material, John Pratt′s book will be welcomed by those who teach and study the history of the prison in the English-speaking world′ - Criminal Justice Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values and standards of the civilized world came to be set in place from around 1800 to the late 20th century. In this book, John Pratt draws on research about prison architecture, clothing, diet, hygienic arrangements and changes in penal language to establish this. The author demonstrates that this did not mean, however, that such a framework of punishment was ′civilized′. Instead it meant that punishment in the civilized world became anonymous and remote. Prison brutalities and privations could be largely unchecked by a public that did not want to be involved. In the last few decades it has become clear that civilized societies have to tolerate new boundaries of punishment. This is not because of any development of ′civilized punishment′. Instead this is due to a shift in public mood and power: from public indifference to public involvement in penal development. Throughout this text theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of examples from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It will be essential reading for students and academics of punishment, prisons and social theory.
Poetry in Marvel‘s point of view gives a person's mind a place to heal without incident - a place to be, an escape from life's daily entanglements and disappointments, culminating to that of “a lost soul begging for a bite or a hit or a taste or swig of something to make it through another moment.” In other words, if there is a definitive cure for misery and boredom, the “awe and wonder” found in poetry is the foundation on which it stands. The encapsulation of this idea is the driving force behind the series of poems called "A Day in the Death of Intolerance." The unique design, construction and intention of each poem combine with the others aim to create a sobriety so ever intoxicating it measures up to the listening of a person’s favorite songs. In this book, you will experience words capturing and reflecting life’s sounds, sights and feelings lifting off of printed pages to form perfectly shaped expressions to unravel the heaviness of a heart still grasping at words to communicate, per chance to be heard. In this book, you will also find lyrics crafted into phases promoting humility and harmony thus humanizing the conflicts caused by concepts that strain relationships. There is guidance throughout the book, generated by an extremely long “selection and placement” process to turn this series of poems into what can be considered an amazing poetic journey through time and space. These are poems that support mindfulness at the level of compassion that is required to remove personal disharmony and nourish the behavior behind effective communication. This book is a collection of 63 poems written in a variety of formats. The reader will, though requiring patience and a good-faith effort, start to appreciate and gain a fresh understanding of the difference between poetry and prose; this realization automatically inspires readers to witness the beauty of poetry that sits outside the "box" and purpose of prose – a box in which the mind is limited by a design to proliferate concepts for which we find our lives fixed or stuck. As a person progresses through this book, they will find themselves participating in a new, soft, awaking of their imagination. Such an awaking can tame the emotions springing forth from the annoyance of disappointment and distraction, thus leaving a person in the best of positions/attitudes to elicit from her or his environments the kind of support in which she or he has been searching. This book’s intention is to assist readers with being their own composers, their own groups/ bands/ orchestras and “iPhone-type-vendors” for tunes they enjoy. Poetry (reading and writing) is more than words borrowed from concepts to make a person think; it reaches beyond the borders between whatever purgatory one has to endure in this life and whatever heaven, there might be for each reader /writer – it is the finding of that missing thing, which enables continuous adventure, intrigue and joy as she or he learns to bathe “in the still quiet and forever waiting.”
The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that story is a muddied one. This new and expanded edition of a classroom favorite tells a jolting history—illuminated by historical texts, pictures, songs, cartoons, letters, and even t-shirts—of how our society has been and continues to be replete with religious intolerance. It powerfully reveals the narrow gap between intolerance and violence in America. The second edition contains a new chapter on Islamophobia and adds fresh material on the Christian persecution complex, white supremacy and other race-related issues, sexuality, and the role played by social media. John Corrigan and Lynn S. Neal's overarching narrative weaves together a rich, compelling array of textual and visual materials. Arranged thematically, each chapter provides a broad historical background, and each document or cluster of related documents is entwined in context as a discussion of the issues unfolds. The need for this book has only increased in the midst of today's raging conflicts about immigration, terrorism, race, religious freedom, and patriotism.
This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.
In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise. Chua's analysis uncovers a fascinating historical pattern: while policies of tolerance and assimilation toward conquered peoples are essential for an empire to succeed, the multicultural society that results introduces new tensions and instabilities, threatening to pull the empire apart from within. What this means for the United States' uncertain future is the subject of Chua's provocative and surprising conclusion.
William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.
A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. On a cold November day in Amsterdam in 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that "insulted the prophet Mohammed." The murder sent shock waves across Europe and around the world. Shortly thereafter, Ian Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the event and its larger meaning as part of the great dilemma of our time.
Vote of Intolerance, a novel by John McDowell and Ed Stewart, is a finely crafted political thriller that raises knotty questions: How should we respond to a culture with abberant lifestyles? How do we protect our families from the dangers of a corrupt culture?
