Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes write by Joska Samuli Schielke. This book was released on 2012. Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Egypt in the Future Tense
Egypt in the Future Tense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egypt in the Future Tense write by Samuli Schielke. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Egypt in the Future Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended.” —Choice Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Schielke challenges prevailing views of Muslim piety, showing that religious lives are part of a much more complex lived experience. “This wonderful book brings fresh insights into the anthropology of hope in general and Egypt in particular. It makes a rewarding read for scholars interested in how life and all its ambiguities and aspirations unfold under changing notions of religious commitment, new regimes of circulation, and emerging patterns of consumption.” —American Anthropologist “An altogether innovative, compelling, and sensitive perspective on what is perhaps the most important question facing young people in the Middle East today: how to make a life in rapidly shifting, complex times whose future is uncertain.” —Jessica Winegar, author of Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of the Ordinary write by Marc Stears. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Out of the Ordinary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and must learn to find it again. This is an age of polarization. It’s us vs. them. The battle lines are clear, and compromise is surrender. As Out of the Ordinary reminds us, we have been here before. From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, Barbara Jones, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee, and Bill Brandt, had no formal connection to one another. But they each worked to forge a politics that resisted the empty idealisms and totalizing abstractions of their time. Instead they were convinced that people going about their daily lives possess all the insight, virtue, and determination required to build a good society. In poems, novels, essays, films, paintings, and photographs, they gave witness to everyday people’s ability to overcome the supposedly insoluble contradictions between tradition and progress, patriotism and diversity, rights and duties, nationalism and internationalism, conservatism and radicalism. It was this humble vision that animated the great Festival of Britain in 1951 and put everyday citizens at the heart of a new vision of national regeneration. A leading political theorist and a veteran of British politics, Stears writes with unusual passion and clarity about the achievements of these apostles of the ordinary. They helped Britain through an age of crisis. Their ideas might do so again, in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Ordinary Lives
Ordinary Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordinary Lives write by Kunal Kumar. This book was released on 2020-09-24. Ordinary Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kumar's debut work, Ordinary Lives, is a montage of poems that are poignant and thought provoking. He takes on complex societal and environmental issues with a maturity that belies his youth. As the readers progress through the stories, they soon realize that 'Ordinary Lives' are anything but ordinary. Amidst the lyrical rhyme schemes and witty dialogue lie profound narratives of people who face hardship with humility, resilience, and sometimes craftiness. The poems are riveting, with relatable characters, engaging plot lines and endings that leave you clamoring for more.
Life as Politics
Life as Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life as Politics write by Asef Bayat. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Life as Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action. The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.
