Tag: Unfolding

The Unfolding Gospel How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else


Free Download John P. Bowen, "The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else"
English | ISBN: 1506471676 | 2021 | 212 pages | EPUB | 1038 KB
Many congregations and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church. John Bowen’s conviction is that the solution is to be found not in new programs or strategies but in a recovery of theological vision-that of Jesus and his gospel, which transforms every aspect of life. This vision restores hope in the only way realistically possible._

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Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction


Free Download Humaira Riaz, "Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1666902659 | 2023 | 130 pages | PDF | 1023 KB
Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction presents Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism in literary texts to understand American perspective of Islam and Muslims. By deconstructing selected literary works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo within Fredrickson’s notion of racism as scavenger ideology, Humaira Riaz argues that fiction incorporates racism cloaked in Islamophobia. The author concludes that necessitating interfaith community interaction may help in decreasing religious conflicts. Many of the Western and American assumptions about Islam are generated from ignorance. This work proposes a thorough discursive understanding of Islam as a code of life.

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Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations Employment and Occupational Mobility


Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility By Deepak K. Mishra, Vandana Upadhyay, Atul Sarma
2012 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 0415523087 | PDF | 2 MB
As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force. Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the extent, types and implications of inter-generational occupational mobility (or immobility) among tea garden labourers in Assam. In the process, it reflects on how even a sector that had brought capital and labour from outside and contributed significantly to the country’s export earnings failed to create dynamic growth linkages within the local economy. The experience of the labour force in the Assam tea sector, the authors argue, is important for making sense not only of the development dynamics of the region, but of the contradictory ways in which forces of globalisation and neo-liberal reforms have been reshaping the worlds of labourers in the margins. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, development studies, management studies, and studies of north-east India, as well as to policy-makers and those in the tea industry.

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The Unfolding A Novel


A.M. Homes, "The Unfolding: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1783785330, 1783785357 | 416 pages | EPUB | 2.6 MB
The dazzling new state-of-the-nation novel from one of America’s most significant contemporary writers and winner of the Women’s Prize for May We Be Forgiven, which explores the makings of our political times.

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Narratives Unfolding National Art Histories in an Unfinished World


Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World By Martha Langford (editor)
2017 | 454 Pages | ISBN: 0773549781 | PDF | 20 MB
Somewhere between global and local, the nation still lingers as a concept. National art histories continue to be written – some for the first time – while innovative methods and practices redraw the boundaries of these imagined communities. Narratives Unfolding considers the mobility of ideas, transnationalism, and entangled histories in essays that define new ways to see national art in ever-changing nations. Examining works that were designed to reclaim or rethink issues of territory and dispossession, home and exile, contributors to this volume demonstrate that the writing of national art histories is a vital project for intergenerational exchange of knowledge and its visual formations. Essays showcase revealing moments of modern and contemporary art history in Canada, Egypt, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel/Palestine, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, paying particular attention to the agency of institutions such as archives, art galleries, milestone exhibitions, and artist retreats. Old and emergent art cities, including Cairo, Dubai, New York, and Vancouver, are also examined in light of avant-gardism, cosmopolitanism, and migration. Narratives Unfolding is both a survey of current art historical approaches and their connection to the source: art-making and art experience happening somewhere.

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