Introducción a las disciplinas espirituales AETH
Introducción a las disciplinas espirituales AETH

Author: Association for Hispanic Theological Education

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1426765789

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Introducción a las disciplinas espirituales, escrito por el Dr. Roberto Amparo Rivera, presenta con estilo sencillo y a la vez profunfo aspectos de la vida cristiana que el autor nos reta a ver como disciplinas espirituales. Estas disciplinas no solamente incluyen las distintas prácticas, sino también las actitudes, intenciones y pensamientos de quienes profesan la piedad como estilo de vida.

Sociology in Ecuador
Sociology in Ecuador

Author: Philipp Altmann

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-23

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3031144295

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This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador. The case of Ecuador is especially interesting, as Ecuadorian sociology oscillated between theoretical debates—some of them out of time—and a constant search for ways of applying them to the local reality. In the decades after its formal creation in 1915, early academic sociology in Ecuador worked creatively with already outdated theories around positivism and organicism to understand the indigenous population's position, the regional fragmentation, and the formation of a coherent nation-state in Ecuador. After a short attempt of installing a more technical sociology in the 1960s, those topics were taken up and re-read by Marxist-inspired critical sociology after the 1970s, leading to the nation-wide institutionalization of one particular tradition that could connect to continental debates. This book engages with several relevant debates in social sciences and humanities, particularly by adding to the thriving research on social sciences and the role of the university and higher education in Latin America. Furthermore, it touches some recently influential topics in sociology: Ecuadorian sociology can be read as Southern Theory or engaged with from a postcolonial or decolonial perspective; the research on how ideas travel, are diffused or localized is vital for understanding sociology in Ecuador; the relation between academia and politics; and more.

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Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13:

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Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

Author: Carlos Vidales

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 3030527468

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This book traces the origins and evolution of cybersemiotics, beginning with the integration of semiotics into the theoretical framework of cybernetics and information theory. The book opens with chapters that situate the roots of cybersemiotics in Peircean semiotics, describe the advent of the Information Age and cybernetics, and lay out the proposition that notions of system, communication, self-reference, information, meaning, form, autopoiesis, and self-control are of equal topical interest to semiotics and systems theory. Subsequent chapters introduce a cybersemiotic viewpoint on the capacity of arts and other practices for knowing. This suggests pathways for developing Practice as Research and practice-led research, and prompts the reader to view this new configuration in cybersemiotic terms. Other contributors discuss cultural and perceptual shifts that lead to interaction with hybrid environments such as Alexa. The relationship of storytelling and cybersemiotics is covered at chapter length, and another chapter describes an individual-collectivity dialectics, in which the latter (Commind) constrains the former (interactants), but the former fuels the latter. The concluding chapter begins with the observation that digital technologies have infiltrated every corner of the metropolis - homes, workplaces, and places of leisure - to the extent that cities and bodies have transformed into interconnected interfaces. The book challenges the reader to participate in a broader discussion of the potential, limitations, alternatives, and criticisms of cybersemiotics.