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"While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers are invited to explore how gods and heroes famous from Greek drama animated the imaginations of ancient individuals and communities as they articulated and reinvented their religious visions for a new era. In this study, Friesen demonstrates that Greek theater's influence is evident within Jewish and Christian intellectual formulations, narrative constructions, and practices of ritual and liturgy. Through a series of interrelated case studies, the book explores how particular plays, through text and performances, scenes, images, and heroic personae, retained appeal for Jewish and Christian communities across antiquity. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach across classical, Jewish, and Christian studies, bringing together these separate avenues of scholarship to produce fresh insights and a reevaluation of theatrical drama in relation to ancient Judaism and Christianity. Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era allows students and scholars of the diverse and evolving religious landscapes of antiquity to gain fresh perspectives on the interplay between gods and heroes-both human and divine-of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians as they were staged in drama and depicted in literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• Elements of time scale calculus
• Elements of fractional dynamic calculus on time scales
• Linear inequalities for Riemann-Liouville fractional delta integral operator
• Fractional Young and Holder inequalities
• Fractional inequalities for convex functions
• Opial-type inequalities
• Chebyshev-type inequalities
• Hardy-type fractional inequalities
• Reverse Hardy-type fractional inequalities
• Inequalities for generalized Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals
• Some inequalities
• Jensen inequalities.

• Part I: contexts and concepts
• African refugees in Australia: resettlement and representation
• Education and refugee integration: a capability approach
• Part II: educational attainment
• School education: aspirations, engagement, and transition
• Higher education opportunities: policy visibility of refugees
• Higher education participation: access, experience, and success
• Part III: integration outcomes
• Multiculturalism and refugee integration
• Economic participation, social engagement, and cultural citizenship
• Racial othering
• Improving refugee integration: policy ideas.

• Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent
• Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives
• Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's
• Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile
• Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru
• Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's
• Passbook Number F.
• Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless
• Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction
• Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila
• Aboulela's Translator and Minaret
• Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua
• Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and
• Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora.

"Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality. Alastair MacIntyre's haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. Modern ethics has placed its stake in the absolute good, while ancient ethics rests upon the foundation of the relative good. Following the lead of Bernard Williams, Agent Relative Ethics identifies alienation as a disturbing symptom of the present focus upon absolute goods. It then completes the diagnosis of the malady afflicting modern moral theory by clarifying the difference between absolute and relative goods. The remainder of the book explores how agent relativity can overcome the modern fragmentation of our ethical knowledge. Not just any relative goods can rectify the modern disorder. Only shared goods, belonging to a union of individuals, are sufficiently robust to overthrow the contemporary despotism of neutral goods. These shared goods exhibit many parallels with common sense morality, including partiality, impartiality, punishment, and an antagonism toward harmfully using others together with a more lenient attitude toward foreseeing harm. The final chapters probe the conditions, often unpalatable to the modern mind, by which ethics might be restored. Agent Relative Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics and moral theory, ancient ethics, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Three Brothers, Three Versions of the Same "Mixture"
• Personal Experiences in the Service of Collective Projects
• Local Populations as Caboclos : The Difficult Naming of a Social Formation
• The Caboclo, a Protean Notion : "Traditional Populations" versus Invisible Beings
• The Implicit Nature of the Caboclo or How to Conceive the "Mixture"
• The "Mixture" and Its "Matrices" : Race through the Prism of Culture.

• Cover
• American Gnosis
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Awakening: An Introduction
• 1. What Is Neo-​Gnosticism and What Is Gnosis?
• 2. Neo-​Gnosticism in American Literature
• 3. Neo-​Gnostic Video
• 4. The Neo-​Gnosticism of Miguel Serrano
• 5. The Neo-​Gnosticism of Samael Aun Weor
• 6. The Enigmatic Dr. Musès
• 7. Psychedelic Gnosis
• 8. American Archontic Neo-​Gnosticism
• 9. Understanding American Gnoses
• 10. Political Religion and the End of Modernity
• 11. Future Gnosis
• 12. Conclusion
• Notes
• Index

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Paganisms
• 2. Communes
• 3. Collaborations
• 4. Partnerships
• 5. Technologies
• 6. Polyamories
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index

"This book examines a variety of arguments that might be thought to support skepticism about the existence of morality, and it explains how these arguments can be answered by those who believe in objective moral truths. The focus throughout is on discussing questions that frequently trouble thoughtful and reflective individuals, including questions like the following: Does the prevalence of moral disagreement make it reasonable to conclude that there aren't really any moral facts at all? Is morality simply relative to particular societies and times? What could objective moral facts possibly be like? If there were moral facts, how could we ever come to know anything about them? Shouldn't belief in the theory of evolution undermine our confidence that our moral intuitions reliably reveal moral truths? Would moral facts ever actually explain anything at all? Can morality really have the motivating and rational force we normally take it to have? How can one possibly find a place for objective moral values in a scientific worldview? The book explores plausible answers to questions like these and it thus aims to show why the belief in objective morality remains an intellectually reasonable one"-- Provided by publisher.

• Dismantling the showcase
• Heritage in exile
• On borders : Deconstructing the modern museum
• A time for the margins : On reconstructing and rehumanising
• Redistributing the museum : Towards a museology of hope
• Reflections for our past's future.

Poems.

• Introduction
• Part 1. Unveiling dancers' artistry. Performing: A transcendent experience
• Breath, movement, emotion and music
• Expressivity, harmony, creativity and artistry
• Technique, training and changes in dancers' brains
• Dealing with challenges
• Part 2. The magical motor system. The science behind the scenes
• Pathways to new skills
• Part 3. The art of training dancers. Our role as ballet teachers
• Skills in cueing and feedback
• Discovering technique
• The speaking body
• Discovering the dancer inside
• Afterword.

• Part I: The Asia Pacific War
• Introduction: Is there, or was there, a so-called 'Just War'?
• The Origins of the Asia Pacific War: 'Honor, Fear, Self-interest'
• The Human Impact of the Asia Pacific War
• The Legacies of the Asia Pacific War
• the Atomic Bombings and Article 9
• Part II : Postwar Reconciliation Introduction: Aspects of Reconciliation
• Reparations, Memorials and Reconciliation at State Level
• Citizens' Reconciliation
• Postwar Reconciliation Through the Arts.

"This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. The first half of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part 2 explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan's neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war's impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in post-war memory and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.

• Assimilation in conservatory education
• Transforming the White racial frame
• Concrete advice for leadership and staff
• Equity
• Interviews with young professionals.

"Leading Change engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: what does it mean to diversify Western classical music? Many institutions have focused solely on diversifying the demography of their participants, but without a deeper conversation about structural oppression in classical music, this approach continues to isolate and exclude students of color. Rooted in the author's experience working with BIPOC students at a major American conservatory, this book articulates the issues facing minority students in conservatories and schools of music, going beyond recruitment to address the cultural issues that alienate students. The author argues that the issue of diversity should be approached through the lens of aesthetics, and that the performance and pedagogy of Western classical music must change if a more diverse membership is to thrive in this genre. Reflecting on the author's experience through the lens of recent critical theory in music education, this volume presents the viewpoints of Black and Latinx music students in their own words. Addressing the impact of racialized aesthetics on the well-being of BIPOC music students, the author shows how students are alienated when attempting to assimilate into conservatory environments, and envisions an alternative, integrative approach to conservatory education. Offering a deep dive into the psychological and cultural reasons for the racialization of Western classical music, and potential institutional solutions, this concise book is relevant to performers, students, and institutional leaders"-- Provided by publisher.