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This path-breaking collection brings together thirteen leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences to address some of the most pressing issues in contemporary global Pentecostalism. Representing institutions from eight different nations on four continents, these scholars perceptively illuminate vital matters ranging from politics, cultural performance, and sexual identity to history, theology, and socioeconomics. The articles are grounded in primary research conducted in Africa, Australia, Europe, and South America and informed by cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives, making "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" a must-read for serious students of global Pentecostalism.

De Stroheim à Spielberg, de Naissance d’une nation à la trilogie Scream, de Selznick aux frères Weinstein, des Nickelodeons bondés au piratage en ligne, la question de l’acceptabilité des films traverse toute l’histoire d’Hollywood. Confrontés à diverses formes de censure, les studios s’organisent très tôt pour faire face, mais également faire place à la critique : ils engagent des censeurs internes pour incorporer à moindre coût les contraintes de chaque époque. D’où la dualité de ce livre : discipline industrielle car les studios créent des dispositifs d’autorégulation, bâtissent des digues concurrentielles, guettent collectivement tout signe d’assouplissement ou de raidissement de la censure ; innovation cinématographique car chaque film est une occasion de tester la détermination et la sagacité des censeurs. C’est une nouvelle histoire culturelle et industrielle d’Hollywood qui se révèle : celle des trouvailles d’un Hawks, d’un Wilder ou d’un Kubrick, mais aussi celle des astuces commerciales, des querelles juridiques et des confrontations publiques. Quatre dates jalonnent le récit : 1915, émergence de la censure civile ; 1934, naissance de la Ligue de la Décence ; 1968, institution de la cotation par âges ; 1999, tuerie de Columbine. Pourquoi Columbine ? Parce que le débat sur la violence fictionnelle reprend à Washington, montrant aux studios que la menace d’une censure fédérale demeure d’actualité.

In his questio on the motion of elements and mixed bodies in a void the Italian professor of practical medicine, Albertino Rinaldi da Salso di Piacenza (Albertinus de Rainaldis de Placentia, also known as Albertino da Piacenza), held the clearly non-Aristotelian view that an element in a void would not move instantaneously, but successively. To prove his conclusion Albertino draws to a large degree on arguments proposed by Richard Kilvington. Among the few 14th century authors who rejected Aristotle’s account of motion in a vacuum Kilvington had presented the most thorough analysis of this subject. While Kilvington is known for his sophisticated argumentation and entangled style of presenting and sometimes nearly hiding his own opinions, Albertino’s treatise is better structured, and his conclusions are brought out more clearly. His disputation is an impressive testimony to the impact of Kilvington’s views of motion in a void.

As members of a global society, many young children’s experience in early childhood classrooms have yet to fully realize the richness of their increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse settings. Drawing on data from a participatory action research project, this study explored how such settings might produce global citizens who enact the social responsibilities of respect, empathy, and acceptance. Video-recordings of children aged five to six years in four urban preschool classrooms across Southeast Queensland, Australia, were collected. The teachers showed the children involved selected excerpts to illicit video-stimulated accounts. Excerpts were transcribed using conversation analytic methods, documenting turn taking, and verbal and non-verbal responses. Explicating teacher and young children’s classroom interactions and accounts identified the classroom practices of teachers and children to encourage global citizens who promote respect, empathy, and acceptance. This chapter presents the co-designed Empowering Global Learner framework of participation, communication, and sense of belonging to illustrate the classroom practices used for effective global citizens.

"Europe in Mauthausen" presents a comprehensive history of the survivors of a Nazi concentration camp and is based on a unique collection of 859 oral and video history interviews with with former concentration camp prisoners in Europe, Israel, North and South America. The second volume examines how prisoners from numerous European countries were brought to the Mauthausen concentration camp complex. The deportations, the transfers of prisoners within the Nazi camp system and the death marches led to constant changes in the camp society; despite the omnipresence of violent death; thus, the fates of the inmates differed considerably.

This book contains a collection of latest research developments on Organic light emitting diodes (OLED). It is a promising new research area that has received a lot of attention in recent years. Here you will find interesting reports on cutting-edge science and technology related to materials, fabrication processes, and real device applications of OLEDs. I hope that the book will lead to systematization of OLED study, creation of new research field and further promotion of OLED technology for the bright future of our society.

A fuel cell-based electric aircraft is considered a long-term solution for medium range flights to reduce aviation Carbon footprint. Equipping its powertrain with superconductivity reduces the weight and spance and increases efficiency. Such a powertrain includes components, such as superconducting fault current limiter, DC/AC cables and motor, and DC/AC inverter. This work presents the approach to model such a powertrain in MATLAB/SIMULINK for simulation in various flight scenarios.

Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention and its answer is less obvious than you might think. This book charts Brazil's evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial Latin American essayists: Uruguayan critic José Enrique Rodó, Brazilian writer-diplomat Joaquim Nabuco, Mexican humanist Alfonso Reyes, and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of Brazil's preeminent historians. While these writers are canonical figures in their respective national literary traditions, their thoughts on Brazilian-Spanish American relations are seldom investigated, and they are rarely approached from a comparative perspective. In Nossa and Nuestra América, Newcomb traces the development of two parallel essayistic traditions: Spanish American continentalist discourse and Brazil's solidly national exegetic tradition. With these essayistic traditions in mind, he argues that Brazil plays a necessary-and necessarily problematic-role in the intellectual construction of "Latin America." Further, in traversing the Luso-Hispanic frontier and bringing four of Latin America's preeminent thinkers into critical dialogue, Newcomb calls for a truly comparative approach to Luso-Brazilian and Spanish American literary and cultural studies. Nossa and Nuestra América will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literature and ideas, and to anyone interested in rethinking comparative approaches to literary texts written in Portuguese and Spanish.

With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. This book brings together chapters by a diverse group of established and emerging authors to develop a growing body of scholarship that explores the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecogames. The book comprises four thematic sections, Today's Challenges: Games for Change, Future Worlds: New Imaginaries, The Nonhuman Turn, and Critical Metagaming Practices. Each section explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games. As a result, the book's comprehensive scope covers a variety of angles, methodologies, and case studies, significantly expanding the field of green media studies.

This chapter aims to present watermills as a component of local political landscapes and as a proxy to power relations and political interactions within early medieval local communities. Research on various European regions has shown that watermills could be subject to complex property regimes, often characterised by partible ownership and shared use. Through the analysis of the evidence from the north of the Iberian Peninsula, the chapter considers the different resources and infrastructures that mills weaved together, analysing different levels of decision-making on which their management relied, and delving into the local landscapes that they contributed to shape.

<div><div><div>No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity.&nbsp;<i>A Tale of Two Capitalisms</i>&nbsp;offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution.</div><br><div>Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses.</div><br><div>Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.</div></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div></div>

This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone assessing their contribution in strengthening political participation in the region. As institutions that apply the rules governing elections, electoral management bodies (EMBs) have occupied, over the last two decades, the heart of discussion and practice on the critical question of effective citizen participation in the public affairs of their countries. The way in which they are established and the effectiveness of their operations have continued to preoccupy those who advocate for competitive elections, while reforms to the EMBs have taken centre stage in more general political reforms. Election Management Bodies in West Africa thus responds to the evident need for more knowledge about an institution that occupies a more and more important place in the political process in West Africa. Based on documentary research and detailed interviews in each country, the study provides a comparative analysis which highlights the similarities and differences in the structure and operations of each body, and attempts to establish the reasons for their comparative successes and failures.

Alfred Nobels Testament wohnt eine Dynamik inne, die alljährlich für internationale Kontroversen sorgt. Die Schwedische Akademie, die diese Auszeichnung verleiht, versucht seit Beginn ihrer Tätigkeit, die von Nobel festgelegten Richtlinien vor dem Hintergrund gegenwärtiger literarischer Strömungen bzw. Tendenzen auszulegen. Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt sich mit dem Literaturnobelpreis und seinen deutschsprachigen Preisträgern der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts auseinander. Anhand von Archivmaterial (Nominierungen, Gutachten, offiziellen Schreiben und privaten Briefen) wird gezeigt, auf welch vielfältige Weise das Auswahlverfahren funktioniert. Die dabei gewonnenen Einblicke in die Abläufe machen die hinter den jeweiligen Entscheidungen stehenden auch auβerliterarischen Zusammenhänge deutlich.

Wie die PISA-Studie in aller Schärfe gezeigt hat, ist die Modernisierung der Schule ein zentrales Anliegen unserer Gesellschaft. Doch wie ist diese Modernisierung nachhaltig möglich? Mehr als dreißig führende europäische Schul- und Bildungsexperten kommen in diesem Band zu Wort und bieten mit ausgewählten Grundlagentexten die Basis für eine sachlich fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit dieser hochkomplexen Thematik. Aufgrund der Prominenz vieler Beiträge und der interdisziplinären Moderation durch die beiden Herausgeber will der Band einen breiten und zugleich gegliederten Zugang zur aktuellen Schulmodernisierung liefern: eine »Pflichtlektüre« für alle Pädagogen und Lehramtsstudenten sowie alle an aktuellen bildungspolitischen Fragen Interessierten.

War is usually considered a men's affair, where women would only play secondary roles. Although they are actresses and witnesses of history, they constantly see their experience devalued. Yet, given the scale of the conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the entire population was affected. Since women have mobilized in different ways, it seems important to promote a reading of the warlike phenomenon according to the prism of the genre. This book is part of this perspective. By collecting contributions from historians and writers, this book describes both the complexity of women's wartime experiences and their representations in literature.