Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employm ...
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and ...
Esta nueva compilacion de cronicas, en su mayoria no vueltas a publicar desde su primera aparicion en periodicos de comienzos del siglo xx, busca rescatar la produccion temprana de Luis Tejada, desestimada hasta el momento actual, asi como evidenciar la evolucion de algunos de los temas y de la escritura en general del gran cronista. Igualmente, la seleccion pretende resaltar la universalidad de su obra, enfocada desde perspectivas localistas en ...
Las ultimas elecciones nacionales en Colombia se celebran en los primeros meses del ano 2014-en marzo las legislativas y en mayo y junio la primera y segunda vuelta presidencial, respectivamente-. La eleccion presidencial constituyo la segunda vez en la historia en que un presidente en ejercicio se presentaba a la reeleccion-figura adoptada constitucionalmente en el ano 2006-. Estos comicios, a diferencia de muchos otros celebrados en las ultima ...
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ?the social? might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ?the post-apartheid social?. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experienc ...
How do Muslims fit into South Africa?s well-known narrative of colonialism, apartheid and post-apartheid? South Africa is infamous for apartheid, but the country?s foundation was laid by 176 years of slavery from 1658 to 1834, which formed a crucible of war, genocide and systemic sexual violence that continues to haunt the country today. Enslaved people from East Africa, India and South East Asia, many of whom were Muslim, would eventually const ...
Un periodo de contrastes en materia de derecho a la informacion. Asi fue 2017, ano en que el diario El Informador festejo su centenario de existencia, en tanto que la revista Proceso Jalisco dejo de publicarse, tras mas de un decenio de actividad. Se registro un aumento significativo de la oferta de los sitios periodisticos en linea, pero tambien una regresion en materia del derecho de las audiencias y una mayor presion de parte de diversos acto ...
Las emociones se construyen, expresan y regulan en las distintas esferas de socializacion, y son las relaciones de genero, familiares y comunitarias un ambito central privilegiado para su analisis. Estas expresiones y experiencias emocionales son el pegamento de lo social que fijan las interacciones entre los sujetos y definen las estructuras sociales. El presente libro contiene ensayos que muestran la pertinencia del analisis de la dimension em ...
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good There’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation – Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information – until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald W. Bibby teams up with two Gen X colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an ...
