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Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to assist them. It provides a comparative exploration of refugees and asylum seekers in nine urban areas in Africa, Asia and Europe to examine issues such as status recognition, international and national actors, housing, education and integration. The book explores the relationship between refugee policies of international organisations and national governments and on the ground realities and demonstrates both the diverse of circumstances in which refugees live, and their struggle for recognition, protection and livelihoods.  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Barely and rarely mentioned in ancient texts, common Christians remain nameless and undifferentiated.  Free Download Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (Early American Studies) by Kathleen M. Brown English | February 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1512823279 | True EPUB | 456 pages | 10.3 MB Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges.  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Mick 2006 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0814629253 | EPUB | 1 MB The sacraments are at the heart of our life as Catholics, the way we celebrate together our continuing conversion and encounter with God. Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing, Marriage, and Holy Orders 'al are activities that require preparation to bring us to the fullness of our life in community and in Christ. Chapter by chapter, Father Lawrence Mick puts these core experiences into their historical and theological context, and illuminates the ways the sacraments bring us together as God's people. Ever conscious of the complex history of the church and its dynamic relationship to ritual, as well as the varied histories of human communities,Understanding the Sacraments Todayis a book to be visited and revisited, a companion to the ongoing and repeated practices that nourish us.Lawrence E. Mick, a priest in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is a liturgical consultant and writer whose numerous books includeLiving Baptism Daly, published by Liturgical Press. He has also been active in parish, retreat, and campus ministries.  Free Download Understanding Photojournalism by Paul Lowe, Jennifer Good English | December 14, 2017 | ISBN: 1472594894, 1526612232 | True EPUB | 206 pages | 7.7 MB Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context. Outlining the history and theory of photojournalism, this textbook explains its historical and contemporary development; who creates, selects and circulates images; and the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the practice.  Free Download Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism (Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism) edited by Cosmin Toma English | February 9, 2023 | ISBN: 150137012X | True EPUB | 312 pages | 3 MB Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of drunkenness, heart transplants, contemporary cinema and the problem of freedom, is entirely "immersed" in modernity, as he puts it. Within this plural framework, art - which he explicitly defines as a modern construct - plays a singular role in that it is the very prism through which he explores the problems of sense and feeling in general, particularly as they relate to "our" experience of modernity. |
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