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The Star That Set - Samuel B. Hand - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Star That Set - Samuel B. Hand - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

For over a century, from 1854, the year the party was organized, until 1958, Vermonters never failed to elect Republicans to its state and national offices, and every four years they returned a slate of electors pledged to the Republican presidential nominee. The Vermont GOP was trumpeted as the star that never set in the Republican Party''s political firmament, until the decline of family farms and the influx of Democrat-leaning urbanites in the 1960s and 1970s eroded the bedrock of Vermont''s GOP base. Encompassing the years 1854 to 1974, Samuel Hand''s superb historical study documents the rise and fall of Vermont republicanism, exploring the personalities and the religious, political, and social institutions that constituted the Vermont Republican Party. More than simply the authoritative telling of a remarkable century of hegemony for the Vermont GOP, The Star That Set is a compelling story of the waning importance of party in modern American political life.

DKK 441.00
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The Athlete's Covenant - Suzanne Stefanowski Hudd - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Athlete's Covenant - Suzanne Stefanowski Hudd - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Using everyday sporting experiences as a foundation, Suzanne S. Hudd lays out a set of informal rules that athletic team members learn to uphold. Prescribed within the “athlete’s covenant,” these guidelines support the transformation of the player’s individual commitment to hard work into a set of collective, role-related obligations that are applicable across time and sport. Hudd’s analysis highlights this “everyday sportsmanship” practiced within the team which flows naturally from the mimicry and synchrony that players routinely use to perfect their talents. Working to turn star players into team players, the covenant encourages athletes to set their sights on goals that surpass what their individual talents alone can provide. Hudd theorizes our waning commitment to these important collectivistic properties of sport has contributed to the belief that sportsmanship is a thing of the past.

DKK 848.00
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The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture - Karen E. Hayden - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture - Karen E. Hayden - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive to civilized, rural to urbanormative, backward to forward-thinking, and regress versus progress. In each chapter of The Rural Primitive, Karen E. Hayden uses popular cultural depictions of the rural primitive to illustrate the ways in which this trope was used to set poor, rural whites apart from others. Not only were they set apart, however; they were also set further down on the imaginary continuum of progress and regress, of evolution and devolution. Hayden argues that small, rural, tight-knit communities, where “everyone knows everyone” and “everyone is related” came to be an allegory for what will happen if society resists modernization and urbanization. The message of the rural, close-knit community is clear: degeneracy, primitivism, savagery, and an overall devolution will result if groups are allowed to become too insular, too close, too familiar.

DKK 768.00
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South Asia in Transition - Robert Parkin - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

South Asia in Transition - Robert Parkin - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of either the region of the discipline of anthropology. The book makes extensive use of existing publications to describe how anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said about it. The first set of chapters deal mostly with India, being successively on caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the body and personhood, politics and political economy. The second set of chapters deal successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

DKK 1007.00
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Alexandre Kojeve - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Alexandre Kojeve - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève''s work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical manner. The first part of the book comprises six essays in which their authors explore Kojève''s understanding of art, religion and atheism, and his reception of the thought of Hegel, Marx, and Carl Schmitt. The book''s second part is made up by two contributions that tackle respectively Kojève''s conceptions of the “end of history” and “empire” in the light of his notion of Sophia or “Wisdom”, and his understanding of the relationship between philosophy and power in the light of an exegetical reading of the debate he held with Leo Strauss. The authors of the final three essays set out to explore the extent to which Kojève''s previous processing of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences might have resulted in three increasingly concrete outcomes, namely: his notion of authority; the Lacanian mirror-stage; and global trade.

DKK 830.00
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Alexandre Kojeve - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Alexandre Kojeve - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève''s work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical manner. The first part of the book comprises six essays in which their authors explore Kojève''s understanding of art, religion and atheism, and his reception of the thought of Hegel, Marx, and Carl Schmitt. The book''s second part is made up by two contributions that tackle respectively Kojève''s conceptions of the “end of history” and “empire” in the light of his notion of Sophia or “Wisdom”, and his understanding of the relationship between philosophy and power in the light of an exegetical reading of the debate he held with Leo Strauss. The authors of the final three essays set out to explore the extent to which Kojève''s previous processing of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences might have resulted in three increasingly concrete outcomes, namely: his notion of authority; the Lacanian mirror-stage; and global trade.

DKK 317.00
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Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era - Robert J. Thompson - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era - Robert J. Thompson - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective commitment to rationality. A post-truth world, however, is not an immutable condition and cannot be accepted as the new norm. The author argues that American higher education take responsibility for combating anti-rationalism by promoting the development of student''s personal attributes that constitute a rational mind-set and rationalist identity, such that they hold themselves accountable for commitments to seeking truth and the value of critical thought and reasoned discourse as defining element of their way of being in the world. Scholarship exists across many disciplines regarding anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American society and the personal attributes that together constitute a rational mind-set, including an evaluativist personal epistemology, open-mindedness and conscientiousness, and a rationalist identity. The author brings the perspective of a psychologist to the analysis and synthesis of this scholarship and the implications for educational practices that are effective in promoting the development of student''s rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.

DKK 980.00
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Mandate for Change - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Mandate for Change - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation''s leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domestic and international topic, written specifically for the book by a leading thinker and activist in the field. These chapters set forth a fundamental, badly needed ''mandate for change'' to reinvigorate government and rethink the role of markets and civil society. Each one includes an essay supporting the proposed policies and a resource list of relevant organizations, websites, and readings. It is perfect for public policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

DKK 565.00
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Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt - Lawrence S. Stepelevich - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt - Lawrence S. Stepelevich - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt examines Stirner''s incisive criticism of his contemporaries during the period from the death of Hegel, in 1831, to the 1848 German Revolution. Stirner''s work, mainly the Ego and His Own, considered each of the major figures within that German school known as “The Young Hegelians.” Lawrence S. Stepelevich argues that for Stirner, they were but “pious atheists,” and their common revolutionary ideology concealed an ancient religious ground – which Stirner set about to reveal. The central doctrine of this school, that Mankind was its own Savior, was initiated in 1835 by the theologian, David F. Strauss''s in his Life of Jesus , and it progressed with August von Cieszkowski''s mystical recasting of history, followed by Bruno Bauer''s absolute atheism and Ludwig Feuerbach''s statement that “Man is God.” This soon found reflection in the “Sacred History of Mankind” declared by Moses Hess. Within a decade, the result was the secular reformulation of this theological ideology into the “Scientific Socialism” of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Although linked to it, Max Stirner was the most relentless and feared critic of this school. His work, never out of print, but largely ignored by academics, has inspired countless “individualists” set upon rejecting any form of religious or political “causes,” and finding Stirner''s assertion that he had “set his cause upon nothing” took this as their own cause.

DKK 361.00
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Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt - Lawrence S. Stepelevich - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt - Lawrence S. Stepelevich - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt examines Stirner''s incisive criticism of his contemporaries during the period from the death of Hegel, in 1831, to the 1848 German Revolution. Stirner''s work, mainly the Ego and His Own, considered each of the major figures within that German school known as “The Young Hegelians.” Lawrence S. Stepelevich argues that for Stirner, they were but “pious atheists,” and their common revolutionary ideology concealed an ancient religious ground – which Stirner set about to reveal. The central doctrine of this school, that Mankind was its own Savior, was initiated in 1835 by the theologian, David F. Strauss''s in his Life of Jesus , and it progressed with August von Cieszkowski''s mystical recasting of history, followed by Bruno Bauer''s absolute atheism and Ludwig Feuerbach''s statement that “Man is God.” This soon found reflection in the “Sacred History of Mankind” declared by Moses Hess. Within a decade, the result was the secular reformulation of this theological ideology into the “Scientific Socialism” of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Although linked to it, Max Stirner was the most relentless and feared critic of this school. His work, never out of print, but largely ignored by academics, has inspired countless “individualists” set upon rejecting any form of religious or political “causes,” and finding Stirner''s assertion that he had “set his cause upon nothing” took this as their own cause.

DKK 848.00
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International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human development. This is an important and timely topic since the international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will guide international development efforts over the next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper understanding of the SDGs, the international norms that underpin them, and any normative change they represent is vital for students, scholars, and development practitioners and professionals. This volume is designed to provide an account of some of the normative debates and normative change that the process of developing a set of SDGs has entailed. Its goal is to assess the origins, nature, extent, and implications of normative change in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. It also evaluates the extent to which the SDGs represent a significant change from established development norms and practices.

DKK 432.00
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International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human development. This is an important and timely topic since the international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will guide international development efforts over the next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper understanding of the SDGs, the international norms that underpin them, and any normative change they represent is vital for students, scholars, and development practitioners and professionals. This volume is designed to provide an account of some of the normative debates and normative change that the process of developing a set of SDGs has entailed. Its goal is to assess the origins, nature, extent, and implications of normative change in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. It also evaluates the extent to which the SDGs represent a significant change from established development norms and practices.

DKK 950.00
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Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship - David Zeitlyn - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship - David Zeitlyn - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship presents a set of studies of the way that Mambila speakers in Cameroon talk about themselves and their kin. Author David Zeitlyn employs conversational analytic methods to further the study of kinship terminologies. This book takes an important step toward a new synthesis between the practice of ethnography and the study of language while presenting African natural language data (still rare in mainstream linguistics) in an accessible format.

DKK 900.00
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Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Adnan Tufekcic - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Adnan Tufekcic - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Keith Doubt and Adnan Tufekčić analyze Bosnian social organization, cultural character, and boundary maintenance. Doubt and Tufekčić argue that modern Bosnians live in a polyethnic society, defined by a set of marriage and kinship practices that cross ethnic and national identity divisions. This book provides readers with a clearer understanding of Bosnian identity and the role of ethnic groups in an increasingly complex society.

DKK 724.00
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Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution - Melanie J. La Rosa - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution - Melanie J. La Rosa - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution: Public Health, Economics, Design, and Transformation is an engaging and interdisciplinary investigation into clean energy systems such as solar and wind power and the need to transform our energy system. Looking at the intersection of clean energy with community engagement, diversity, and economic development, it is a remarkably accessible account from the front lines of the clean energy revolution. Organized as a series of case studies set in eight locations, the author profiles people leading varied renewable energy projects from using solar to survive hurricanes to passing a Green New Deal bill for America’s largest city, the beginnings of the offshore wind industry, modular solar power systems, and changing the culture of an entire utility. Each case study is set into context of broader research, addressing how cities and states meet clean energy goals, howsolar or wind power address blackouts, and how individuals can accelerate clean energy for their home, business, or community. This book goes beyond merely explaining clean energy transition by providing unique insight into the calls for a complete transformation of America’s energy system.

DKK 317.00
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Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution - Melanie J. La Rosa - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution - Melanie J. La Rosa - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution: Public Health, Economics, Design, and Transformation is an engaging and interdisciplinary investigation into clean energy systems such as solar and wind power and the need to transform our energy system. Looking at the intersection of clean energy with community engagement, diversity, and economic development, it is a remarkably accessible account from the front lines of the clean energy revolution. Organized as a series of case studies set in eight locations, the author profiles people leading varied renewable energy projects from using solar to survive hurricanes to passing a Green New Deal bill for America’s largest city, the beginnings of the offshore wind industry, modular solar power systems, and changing the culture of an entire utility. Each case study is set into context of broader research, addressing how cities and states meet clean energy goals, howsolar or wind power address blackouts, and how individuals can accelerate clean energy for their home, business, or community. This book goes beyond merely explaining clean energy transition by providing unique insight into the calls for a complete transformation of America’s energy system.

DKK 804.00
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Ethical Habits - Aaron Massecar - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Ethical Habits - Aaron Massecar - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Previous attempts to set up an Ethics based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce have generally begun and ended with the 1898 lecture, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life. It was in that lecture that Peirce famously argued that Theory and Practice should be kept distinct. In Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective, Aaron Massecar argues that this lecture opens up a uniquely Peircean Ethics that brings theory into practice through an ethics of intelligently formed habits.

DKK 786.00
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Promoting Prosperity - Stuart S. Nagel - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Promoting Prosperity - Stuart S. Nagel - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This is the prosperity volume in a three-volume set on peace, prosperity and democracy. The author uses specific issues such as goods exchange, immigration policy, volunteerism in technical assistance, international exchange of factories, and monetary exchange rates to construct a polyvalent framework of analysis. In this examination of economic and technology policy from both a domestic and international perspective, Stuart Nagel has created an important and lasting contribution to the field of public policy studies.

DKK 883.00
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The Rhetoric of Soft Power - Craig Hayden - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Rhetoric of Soft Power - Craig Hayden - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives in order to portray how Joseph Nye’s notion of “soft power” has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence. The book examines four cases—Japan, Venezuela, China, and the United States—to illuminate the particular significance of culture, foreign publics, and communication technologies for the foreign policy ambitions of each country. This study explores the notion of soft power as a set of theoretical arguments about power, and as a reflection of how nation-states perceive what is an increasingly necessary perspective on international relations in an age of ubiquitous global communication flows and encroaching networks of non-state actors. Through an analysis of policy discourse, public diplomacy initiatives, and related programs of strategic influence, soft power in each case represents a localized set of assumptions about the requirements of persuasion, the relevance of foreign audiences to state goals, and the perception of what counts as a soft power resource. This timely analysis provides an unprecedented comparative investigation of the relationship between soft power and public diplomacy.

DKK 1016.00
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The Woman Question in Plato's Republic - Mary Townsend - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Woman Question in Plato's Republic - Mary Townsend - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato''s Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women’s nature and political position—a vision full of concern not only for the human community, but for the desires of women themselves.

DKK 397.00
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Southeast Asia and Environmental Sustainability in Context - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Southeast Asia and Environmental Sustainability in Context - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus they bring a much more nuanced and locally informed orientation to their respective contributions.

DKK 759.00
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China and the Founding of the United States - Dave Xueliang Wang - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

China and the Founding of the United States - Dave Xueliang Wang - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses examples of how the U.S. Founding Fathers were influenced and inspired by Chinese agriculture, architecture, and philosophy. China, then one of the most stable and powerful civilizations in the world, offered unique perspectives on various aspects of society which were distinct from the Founding Fathers’ European heritage. China provided an alternative set of social and political frameworks which supported the Founding Fathers’ efforts to craft a unique heritage for their young nation. These Founders sought to establish a political identity that was distinct from European aristocratic traditions.

DKK 883.00
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China and the Founding of the United States - Dave Xueliang Wang - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

China and the Founding of the United States - Dave Xueliang Wang - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses examples of how the U.S. Founding Fathers were influenced and inspired by Chinese agriculture, architecture, and philosophy. China, then one of the most stable and powerful civilizations in the world, offered unique perspectives on various aspects of society which were distinct from the Founding Fathers’ European heritage. China provided an alternative set of social and political frameworks which supported the Founding Fathers’ efforts to craft a unique heritage for their young nation. These Founders sought to establish a political identity that was distinct from European aristocratic traditions.

DKK 361.00
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The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 - Peter Ruggenthaler - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 - Peter Ruggenthaler - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on recently declassified Soviet archival sources, this book sheds new light on how the division of Europe came about in the aftermath of World War II. The book contravenes the notion that a neutral zone of states, including Germany, could have been set up between East and West. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin was determined to preserve control over its own sphere of German territory. By tracing Stalin''s attitude toward neutrality in international politics, the book provides important insights into the origins of the Cold War.

DKK 547.00
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Catholicism in the Eyes of The New York Times - Christopher Vecsey - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Catholicism in the Eyes of The New York Times - Christopher Vecsey - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Catholicism in the Eyes of The New York Times : The Epoch of Pope John Paul II serves as a comprehensive guide not only to Catholicism, but also to Times journalism during the epoch of Pope John Paul II.During Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, 1978-2005, The New York Times produced thousands of articles—news items and features by staff reporters, special correspondents and wire services; documentary excerpts; commentaries, editorials, and letters to the editor; all enhanced by headlines, captions, charts, drawings, and photographs by Times personnel—that set forth the salient features of Catholic life during that time. While TheTimes treatment of Catholicism was immense, two stories dominated Catholic coverage: Pope John Paul II himself and the sexual abuse scandal of Catholic clergy. The first part of this book, “Karol Wojtyla’s Pontificate,” explores the papacy of a man who was, without doubt, the central figure of Catholicism, as he set his evangelizing sights on defining the content of his church. The second part, “Sex Comes for the Archbishops,” spells out the contentions of the Church’s sexual abuse scandal, which cast the Catholic Church and John Paul II’s papacy in unwholesome shadows—at least as presented on the pages of The Times.

DKK 953.00
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