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• The first hegemon : the great Persian empire from Cyrus to Alexander
• Tolerance in Rome's high empire : gladiators, togas, and imperial glue
• China's golden age : the mix-blooded Tang dynasty
• The great Mongol empire : cosmopolitan barbarians
• The "purification" of medieval Spain : inquisition, expulsion, and the price of intolerance
• The Dutch world empire : diamonds, damask, and every "mongrel sect in Christendom"
• Tolerance and intolerance in the East : the Ottoman, Ming, and Mughal empires
• The British empire : "rebel buggers" and the "white man's burden"
• The American hyperpower : tolerance and the microchip
• The rise and fall of the Axis Powers : the strategic price of intolerance
• The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century
• The day of empire : lessons of history.

Historians have long debated the rise and fall of empires. To date, however, no one has studied the far rarer phenomenon of hyperpowers--those few societies that amassed such extraordinary military and economic might that they essentially dominated the world. Here, globalization expert Chua explains how hyperpowers rise and why they fall. She examines history's hyperpowers--Persia, Rome, Tang China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States--and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the roots of their ultimate demise. For all their differences, she argues, every one of these world-dominant powers was, at least by the standards of its time, extraordinarily pluralistic and tolerant, succeeding by harnessing the skills and energies of individuals from very different backgrounds. But Chua also uncovers a great historical irony: in virtually every instance, multicultural tolerance eventually sowed the seeds of decline, and diversity became a liability.--From publisher description.

• Contributors include: Bob Becking, Kune Biezeveld, Bert Blans, Erik Borgman, Jacqueline Borsje, Maaike de Haardt, Akke van der Kooi, Anne-Marie Korte, Rene Munnik, and Marcel Poorthuis.
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What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous, producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their contributions range from the fields of biblical and religious studies, history and philosophy of religion, systematic theology, to gender studies in theology and religion.The authors also explain the particular contribution of their own theological discipline to these debates.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction William J. Connell
• 1. "Be Rather Loved Than Feared" Class Relations in Quattrocento Florence F.W. Kent
• 2. Giannozzo and His Elders Alberti's Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy John M. Najemy
• 3. Li Emergenti Bisogni Matrimoniali in Renaissance Florence Julius Kirshner
• 4. Michele del Giogante's House of Memory Dale Kent
• 5. Inheritance and Identity in Early Renaissance Florence The Estate of Paliano di Falco Thomas Kuehn
• 6. Perceived Insults and Their Consequences Acciaiuoli, Neroni, and Medici Relationships in the 1460s Margery A. Ganz
• 7. The War of the Eight Saints in Florentine Memory and Oblivion David S. Peterson
• 8. Naming a Nun Spiritual Exemplars and Corporate Identity in Florentine Convents, 1450--1530 Sharon T. Strocchia
• 9. The Prophet as Physician of Souls Savonarola's Manual for Confessors Donald Weinstein
• 10. Raging against Priests in Italian Renaissance Verse Lauro Martines
• 11. Liturgy for Nonliturgists A Glimpse at San Lorenzo William M. Bowsky
• 12. The Florentine Criminal Underworld The Underside of the Renaissance John K. Brackett
• 13. Lay Male Identity in the Institutions of a Tuscan Provincial Town James R. Banker
• 14. Insiders and Outsiders The Changing Boundaries of Exile Alison Brown
• 15. The Identity of the Expatriate Florentines in Venice in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries Paula Clarke
• 16. Clement VII and the Crisis of the Sack of Rome Paul Flemer Contributors Index.
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Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relationships of family, neighborhood, guild, patronage, and religion that, from a twenty-first-century perspective, greatly limited the scope of individual thought and action. The sixteen essays in this volume expand the groundbreaking work of Gene Brucker, the historian in recent decades who has been most responsible for the discovery and exploration of these pre-modern qualities of the Florentine Renaissance. Exploring new approaches to the social world of Florentines during this fascinating era, the essays are arranged in three groups. The first deals with the exceptionally resilient and homogenous Florentine merchant elite, the true protagonist of much of Florentine history. The second considers Florentine religion and Florence's turbulent relations with the Church. The last group of essays looks at criminals, expatriates, and other outsiders to Florentine society.
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• pt. 1. The social process : the creation of a liberal public sphere under the pax Britannica
• pt. 2. The intellectual texture : the Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyah , moral languages stirring the public mind.

Socio-intellectual history of the Siṅgha Sabhā, Arya Samaj, and Ahmadiyya, voluntary reform movements.

• Introduction : religious pluralism as a work in progress
• Here are no disputes : reputation and realities in the new republic
• Just behave yourself : pluralism as selective tolerance
• Marching to Zion : the Protestant establishment as a unifying force
• Repentance for our social sins : adjustments within the establishment
• In (partway) from the margins : pluralism as inclusion
• Surviving a while longer : the establishment under stress in the early twentieth century
• Don't change your name : early assaults on the melting pot ideal
• Protestant-Catholic-Jew : new mainstream, gropings toward a new pluralism
• Whose America is it anyway? : the sixties and after.

Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in the Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define their nation, for two centuries they have been grappling with the question of how they can coexist. In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country's struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals. In 1800 the United States was an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. Over the next two centuries, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and others would emerge to challenge the Protestant mainstream. Although their demands were often met with resistance, Hutchison demonstrates that as a result of these conflicts the USA expanded its understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. No longer satisfied with mere legal toleration, the USA now expects that all religious groups will share in creating its national agenda.
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• Contributors include: Luigi Berzano, Anthony J. Blasi, Pierluigi Caddeo, Roberto Cipriani, Regis Dericquebourg, Stefano Federici, Kieran Flanagan, Kees de Groot, Eliana Martoglio, Patrick Michel, Roberto Motta, Enzo Pace, William H. Swatos, Jr., Francesco Valerio Tommasi, Sophie-Helene Trigeaud, and Paul-Andre Turcotte.
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The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate when an individual "converts." Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of "conversion" in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one "true" truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria.
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• I. The problem. [Pt.] 1. A dubious battle in Oakland
• II. The exhaustion of commonality. [Pt.] 2. "A prodigious amalgam." The dream, the pot, and the popular front ; Red blood, green lawns, and the grand creed ; The Vietnam crackup and the "anti-American" Left ; The Reagan restoration ; Nothing fails like success
• [Pt.] 3. The fragmentation of the idea of the left. United humanity and the United States ; From a theory to end all classes to a theology without God ; The New Left and the search for surrogate universals
• III. The aggrandizement of difference. [Pt.] 4. The coloring of America?
• [Pt.] 5. Marching on the English department while the right took the White House. The cant of identity ; The beauty and power of blackness ; The ethnic multiplication ; The separatist impulse ; Culture as surrogate politics, campus as surrogate world ; The profusion of identities
• [Pt.] 6. The recoil. The scarlet letters ; The selectivity of media obsessions ; The right turn ; Another dubious battle
• [Pt.] 7. Where we're coming from. Blinded identities ; The shadowed Enlightenment
• IV. The poignancy of multiculturalism. [Pt.] 8. The fate of the commons.

In The Twilight of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin places the debates of the moment in a sweeping historical context and - sparing no sides - he argues that these highly charged conflicts are a sideshow, obscuring a seismic transformation in American political life. The Left, which once stood for universal values, has come to be identified with the special needs of distinct "cultures" and select "identities." The Right, long associated with privileged interests, now claims to defend the needs of all. The consequences are clear: since the late 1960s, while the Right has been busy taking the White House, the Left has been marching on the English department. With dazzling range and acuteness, Gitlin's analysis moves through American history and modern thought, from academic squabbles to the crisis in the Democratic party, from embattled school boards to the right-wing exploitation of those scarlet letters, "PC." In the end, he maintains, the culture wars are evasions of America's deepest trauma - inequality - and he eloquently contends that America is lost unless its obsession with cultural differences can be transcended in the name of the common good.

• Introduction : the dialectic of Jewish enlightenment / David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel
• The melting pot and beyond : Jews and the politics of American identity / David Biale
• In defense of Shaatnez : a politics for Jews in a multicultural America / Mitchell Cohen
• Pluralism and its discontents : the case of Blacks and Jews / Cheryl Greenberg
• Multiculturalism and the politics of interest / Michael Walzer
• Jewish studies as counterhistory / Susannah Heschel
• The paradox of Jewish studies in the new academy / Sara R. Horowitz
• The double canonicity of the Hebrew bible / Robert Alter
• The idea of Judaism in feminism and afrocentricism / Amy Newman
• Scattered seeds : a dialogue of diasporas / Michael Galchinsky
• Language as homeland in Jewish-American literature / Hana Wirth-Nesher
• Modernism and exile : a view from the margins / Michael Gluzman
• Fags-hags and bu-Jews : toward a (Jewish) politics of vicarious identity / Naomi Seidman.

Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in print for the first time) is the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the conventional polar opposition between a majority 'white monoculture' and a marginalized 'minorities of color multiculture.' This book takes issue with such a dichotomy by showing how experiences of American Jews can undo conventional categories. Neither a complaint against multiculturalism by Jews who feel excluded from it, nor a celebration of multiculturalism as the solution to contemporary Jewish problems, "Insider/Outsider" explores how the Jews' anomalous status opens up multicultural history in different and interesting directions. The goal of the editors has been to transcend the notion of 'comparative victimology' and to show the value of a narrative that does not rely on competing histories of persecution. Readers can discover in these essays arguments that will broaden their understanding of Jewish identity and multicultural theory and will enliven the contemporary debate about American culture generally.
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• Mystery and humanity
• Can moral beliefs be true or false?
• Butler on conscience and virtue
• The varieties of goodness
• Divine and human goodness
• Does the doctrine of the atonement make moral sense?
• The Jewishness of Jesus
• A critique of Don Cupitt's Christian Buddhism
• John Hick and the question of truth in religion
• The problem of evil as a practical problem
• Individual or society?
• Religious resources for the overcoming of evil.

"This important work explores the distinctiveness of Christian ethics, particularly through its interconnections with doctrine and the wider history of religions." "Brian Hebblethwaite shows how the distinctiveness of Christian ethics can only be understood and appreciated against this wider background. In a remarkably skilful and sensitive way he brings out the pluriform and complex nature of that distinctiveness - in Christian individuals and communities as they reflect something of the triune love of God, and in contemporary humanism and the major world faiths in which this love is also discernible to different degrees." "He concludes with an extended exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of the different religions in their contributions to the overcoming of evil." "The result is a seminal study for everyone interested in ethics, theology and religious studies."--Jacket

• Dog words / Abdelfattah Kilito, translated by Ziad Elmarsafy
• Interrupted journeys : the cultural politics of Indian reburial / Pemina Yellow Bird and Kathryn Milun
• Faceless tongues : language and citizenship in nineteenth-century Latin America / Julio Ramos
• The Imam and the Indian / Amitav Ghosh
• On language memoir / Alice Yaeger Kaplan
• Pictures of a displaced girlhood / Marianne Hirsch
• Mother tongues and other strangers : writing "family" across cultural divides / Angelika Bammer
• Double articulation : a place in the world / Doreen Massey
• Where have all the natives gone? / Rey Chow
• Year of the ram : Honolulu, Feb. 2, 1991 / James Clifford
• Memories of empire / Bill Schwarz
• An incomplete replacing : the white South African expatriate / Sheila Roberts
• Écriture judaïque : where are the Jews in western discourse? / Susan E. Shapiro
• A "Mischling" attempts to fight for his rights / H.G. Adler, translated by Jamie Owen Daniel
• Sheltering battered bodies in language : imprisonment once more? / Karen Remmler
• "Coming home" on the fourth of July : constructing immigrant identities / Panivong Norindr
• A not-so-new spelling of my name : notes toward (and against) a politics of equivocation / Elaine K. Chang
• Frontlines/borderposts / Homi K. Bhabha
• Aller à la ligne / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Examines the effects of leaving one's native culture or experiencing the imposition of a colonizing culture.
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Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary. Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications.Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids a chaotic relativism according to which all values are in the end arbitrary. Maintaining that good lives must be reasonable, but denying that they must conform to one true pattern, Kekes develops and justifies a pluralistic account of good lives and values, and works out its political, moral, and personal implications.
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