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  • African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change

    Series series Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
    This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change.Despite the fact that Africa has ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Health and Development in Africa

    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This book explains the context of disease, wellbeing and medical practices in Africa, and importantly, how these are influenced by religion (including African ways of belief), spirituality, and faith-based institutions, in relation to healthcare practices. By doing so the handbook explores both positive and negative roles of religion, spirituality, and faith-based institutions in individual and ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security Studies in Africa

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa is a groundbreaking reference resource that offers an interdisciplinary and decolonial exploration of peace, conflict, and security across the African continent. It features theoretical articulations that explore new approaches to peacebuilding in Africa, rethinking peacebuilding strategies and decolonized approaches to governance and ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used ... Read more

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  • The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai

    Planting the Future

    Series series Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
    This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect our natural habitats. This collection explores the various strategies Maathai employed in her ... Read more

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  • Academic Dependency and Professionalization in the South

    Perspectives from the Periphery

    Series Book 5 - Encuentros Collection
    Since 1960, an unequal international structure is recognized in terms of production and circulation of knowledge in the international science system. This phenomenon is called academic dependency and motivated actions towards promoting the education of scientist and stimulating the bond between institutions and scholars of the periphery. This, considering that the peripheral knowledge-production ... Read more

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    A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It

    A Practical Guide to Mastering Very Large Government Projects

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Since 1960, two-thirds of very large governmental projects in Nigeria have not only failed, but been abandoned mid-course. This presents a bigger failure rate than mega projects elsewhere, and yet there is no available data or analysis to help us understand the reasons behind such failures. This book provides an authoritative examination into why very large projects in Nigeria have failed so badly ... Read more

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    Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts, ... Read more

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    Enriched Edition. Daily Life, Customs, Worship, and Community in First-Century Jewish Society

    In Sketches of Jewish Social Life, Alfred Edersheim reconstructs the daily world of first-century Judaism with unusual density and sympathy, moving beyond doctrine into household customs, education, worship, festivals, marriage, labor, charity, and communal order. Written in a learned yet accessible Victorian prose, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of biblical antiquarian ... Read more

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    Series Book 1 - Open Reports Series
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