Despite a plurality of doctrinal statements on war, peace, and nonviolence, some United Methodists sustain a commitment to nonviolence. Through qualitative research, Practicing Discipleship draws o...
Coal mining has been and continues to be a large industry in southwestern Virginia, along the Appalachian Mountains, and more specifically in Wise County. Much controversy concerning the envir...
For many years I have had an interest in the equality of women and men, particularly in the church, where it has been woefully lacking for the most part. More recently Fundamentalist theologians ha...
In economic experiments decisions often differ from
game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous
in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there
a benefit to generosity toward strangers...
The analysis in this book elicits and "teases out"
contemporary logics of gender and sexuality from
modern psychiatric texts on transsexualism. There is
an explicit focus on found asymmetries of...
This text provides a novel approach to a critical issue--the potential of pain. Initially, the potential of pain is explored by way of paradise lost, as an explanation of why things are as we exper...
The government and the central bank are
interconnected by a consolidated public sector
budget constraint: the operational deficit of the
budget is financed by new borrowings and by
seigniorage....
The use of community consultation to address socio-environmental degradation is entwined with contested democratic principles polarising views of its role. Three democratic paradigms are at issue. ...
The idea that reason can justify induction was
famously criticized by David Hume. Hume concluded
that there is no rational justification for
inductive inferences and hence, no rational
justific...
Investigating the major problems and to see rospects of micro-enterprises development is a timely concern in Ethiopia. Because many urban poor women and jobless youth are highly engaging in this...
Since the burst of the internet bubble there is a great deal of interest in the way investment bank prices and allocates initial public offerings (IPOs). The additional scrutiny and spotlight i...
The Book of Revelation has always been a mysterious and intriguing book, describing in symbolic terms the confrontation between the Disciples of Christ and the powers - political and supernatural -...
The Advancement through Interactive Radio (AIR)
project focuses on a new approach for increasing the
status and empowerment of women in developing
communities, with wider application to the field o...