Author: Joseph Philip RobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Evangeline; Or, The Spirit of Progress
Author: Joseph Philip RobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Spirit of Development
Author: Erica BornsteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135946760
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This work is an ethnographic account of the work of transnational, Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe. Protestant NGOs are one of the voices of pluralism in southern Africa, sometimes challenging the state and at other times collaborating with it. The tensions of such engagement are key to understanding the successes and failures of transnational, humanitarian endeavors to foster democratic governance in Zimbabwe. While much scholarship has been focused, theoretically, on the role of NGOs in democratization in Africa regarding international foreign policy, few studies offer empirically grounded insights into how transnational NGOs operate.The Spirit of Development addresses, ethnographically, how an American discourse of Christian humanitarianism transforms and is transformed by, local settings.
The Idea of Progress
Author: J. B. BuryPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027303206
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
"We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation." Contents: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon Cartesianism The Doctrine of Degeneration: the Ancients and Moderns The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot The Encyclopaedists and Economists Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux The Year 2440 The French Revolution: Condorcet The Theory of Progress in England German Speculations on Progress Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution The Search for a Law of Progress: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851) Material Progress: the Exhibition of 1851 Progress in the Light of Evolution
Principles and Progress of the Movement. The sectarian spirit of the movement. By “Britannicus.” From the Leicester Conservative Standard and Midland Counties Monthly Magazine
Author: pseud BRITANNICUSGems from the Spirit Mine, Illustrative of Peace, Brotherhood and Progress. [By E. F.]
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Author: E. F.The Spirit of Progress
Author: The Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of the World; a Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford ... Second Edition
Author: Richard Charles COXEMorning Lectures. Twenty Discourses Delivered Before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York ... in 1863
Author: Andrew Jackson DAVISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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History of the Idea of Progress
Author: Robert NisbetPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Spirit of Progress
Author: Steven CarrollPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730497852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The thing that makes you, it never goes. A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a gallery owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably intersect. And all the while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new age, roars through their lives like time's arrow, pointing to the future and the post-war world only some of them will enter. 'If Graham Greene can have the phrase 'Greene-land' used to celebrate his fictional world, I hope Steven Carroll gets recognition for the Australia he records. Perhaps it should be called 'Carroll-land'' Bookseller + Publisher