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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Kevin Kenny

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2023
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Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. In the twenty-fifth anniversary edition, a new preface reflects on the original work, immigration and labor history today, and the enduring memory of the Molly Maguires in American popular culture.
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The Compleat Victory

The Compleat Victory

Kevin J. Weddle

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2024
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize & Winner of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2024 NASDR Excellence in American History Book Award In The Compleat Victory, award-winning military historian Kevin J. Weddle traces an epic panorama of strategy and chance--from London, to Quebec, to Philadelphia, to New York--that ultimately led to the decisive conclusion at Saratoga. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany. When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, however, a combination of the Continental Army and Militia forces, commanded by Major General Horatio Gates and inspired by the heroics of Benedict Arnold, forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. The American victory stunned the world and changed the course of the war. Kevin J. Weddle offers the most authoritative history of the Battle of Saratoga to date, explaining with verve and clarity why events unfolded the way they did. In the end, British plans were undone by a combination of distance, geography, logistics, and an underestimation of American leadership and fighting ability. Taking Ticonderoga had misled Burgoyne and his army into thinking victory was assured. Saratoga, which began as a British foraging expedition, turned into a rout. The outcome forced the British to rethink their strategy, inflamed public opinion in England against the war, boosted Patriot morale, and, perhaps most critical of all, led directly to the Franco-American alliance. Weddle unravels the web of contingencies and the play of personalities that ultimately led to what one American general called "the Compleat Victory."
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On Xi Jinping

On Xi Jinping

Kevin Rudd

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2025
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An authoritative account of Xi Jinping's worldview and how it drives Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage. In his new book, On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage--that of President Xi Jinping, who now hold near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that Xi's worldview differs significantly from those of the leaders who preceded him, and that this ideological shift is reflected in the real world of Chinese policy and behaviour. Focusing on China's domestic politics, political economy, and foreign policy, Rudd characterises Xi Jinping's ideological framing of the world as "Marxist-Leninist nationalism." According to Rudd, Xi's notion of Leninism has taken the party and Chinese politics further to the left in comparison to his predecessors. Also, his Marxism has also taken Chinese economic thinking to the left-in a more decisively more statist direction and away from the historical dynamism of the private sector. However, Chinese nationalism under Xi has moved further to the right- towards a much, harder-edged, foreign policy vision of China and a new determination to change the international status quo. Xi's worldview is an integrated one, where his national ideological vision for China's future is ultimately inseparable from his view on China's position in the region and the world. These changes in worldview are also reflected in Xi's broader rehabilitation of the concept of "struggle" as a legitimate concept for the conduct of both Chinese domestic and foreign policy--a struggle that need not necessarily always be peaceful. Finally, Xi's ideological worldview also exhibits a new level of nationalist self-confidence about China's future--derived from China's historical and civilizational strengths but reinforced by his Marxist-Leninist concept of historical determinism and the belief that the tides of history are now on firmly China's side. A powerful analysis of the worldview of arguably the most consequential world leader of our era, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in how Xi is transforming both China and the international order, and, most importantly, why?
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The Architects of Dignity

The Architects of Dignity

Kevin D. Pham

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2024
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Vietnam has long been a crossroads of empires and thus a site of rich cross-cultural intellectual exchange. In The Architects of Dignity, Kevin Pham is the first political theorist to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge Western conventional wisdom. Drawing on Vietnamese and French language material, Pham traces an intergenerational debate among six influential Vietnamese intellectuals and political leaders who had competing visions for how the Vietnamese should strengthen themselves to stand up to French colonial domination. As theorists from a peripheral nation, they struggled to identify a national cultural heritage to be proud of or take guidance from. Rather than despair, they harnessed feelings of shame for their anti-colonial and nation-building projects. In doing so, they offer conceptions of shame and dignity that depart from mainstream conceptions in existing scholarship. While postcolonial theory typically views shame as destructive false consciousness, these thinkers show how a nation can harness shame in anticolonial, productive, and self-affirming ways, namely by synthesizing Eastern and Western ideas to be architects of their own dignity. And while dignity is typically understood as something inherent in individuals, as a justification for rights, and as requiring recognition, these thinkers saw dignity as a property of nations, as rooted in the duties a nation's people embrace instead of in the qualities of persons, and as something to be asserted by the nation instead of being dependent on recognition by colonizers.
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The End of Binaries

The End of Binaries

Kevin Richardson

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2025
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We live in a world in which the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation are increasingly being contested. Gender categories like man and woman cannot do justice to non-binary, genderqueer, and trans people. Common categories of sexual orientation, like heterosexual and homosexual, are unhelpful for understanding a new generation of people whose sexual identities do not neatly fit within those categories. These various social binaries-man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual--are now a fraught way to understand social identity. At the same time as there is resistance to these binaries, there are also those who reinforce and protect them. Across the United States and other countries, there has been a wave of legislation targeting perceived threats to the gender binary system. Books with trans characters are being removed from the shelves of public libraries. There is a surge of legislation prohibiting trans women from using women's restrooms. There is legislation that challenges the legality of drag performances. All of these efforts are attempts to preserve the dominant gender and sexuality binaries. The End of Binaries articulates a philosophical alternative to these binary ways of thinking about gender and sexuality. It proposes a spatial theory of gender and sexuality, where a person's gender or sexuality should be understood as a location within a multidimensional space. Just as the boundaries of countries divide up geographical territories, social boundaries divide up regions of gender and sexuality space. And just as each person has an exact location represented by a GPS coordinate, each person has a gender and sexual location that represents their distinctive way of being gendered or sexually oriented. The spatial approach to gender and sexuality fundamentally understands gender and sexuality as complex, diverse, and continuous. The spatial framework is a more accurate (and more just) way to understand the diversity of gender and sexuality.
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The End of Binaries

The End of Binaries

Kevin Richardson

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2026
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We live in a world in which the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation are increasingly being contested. Gender categories like man and woman cannot do justice to non-binary, genderqueer, and trans people. Common categories of sexual orientation, like heterosexual and homosexual, are unhelpful for understanding a new generation of people whose sexual identities do not neatly fit within those categories. These various social binaries-man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual--are now a fraught way to understand social identity. At the same time as there is resistance to these binaries, there are also those who reinforce and protect them. Across the United States and other countries, there has been a wave of legislation targeting perceived threats to the gender binary system. Books with trans characters are being removed from the shelves of public libraries. There is a surge of legislation prohibiting trans women from using women's restrooms. There is legislation that challenges the legality of drag performances. All of these efforts are attempts to preserve the dominant gender and sexuality binaries. The End of Binaries articulates a philosophical alternative to these binary ways of thinking about gender and sexuality. It proposes a spatial theory of gender and sexuality, where a person's gender or sexuality should be understood as a location within a multidimensional space. Just as the boundaries of countries divide up geographical territories, social boundaries divide up regions of gender and sexuality space. And just as each person has an exact location represented by a GPS coordinate, each person has a gender and sexual location that represents their distinctive way of being gendered or sexually oriented. The spatial approach to gender and sexuality fundamentally understands gender and sexuality as complex, diverse, and continuous. The spatial framework is a more accurate (and more just) way to understand the diversity of gender and sexuality.
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Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work

Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work

Kevin Bazzana

Oxford University Press
1997
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This book is a detailed study of the Canadian pianist, broadcaster, writer, and composer Glenn Gould (1932-82). While focussed primarily on his performances, it also situates his work and thought more broadly within relevant musical, cultural, intellectual, and historical contexts. It incorporates most of the existing primary and secondary literature on Gould, as well as many ideas, interpretations, and perspectives that have never before been offered. It alsoincorporates ideas from a wide range of literature, both musical and otherwise, and has benefitted from on-site research at The Glenn Gould Papers in the National Library of Canada. The book offers a more comprehensive, balanced, and thoroughly researched portrait of Gould as pianist and interpreterthan any previous volume in the Gould literature. Following an introduction that summarizes Gould's career and the posthumous interest in him, the book divides into two parts. Part 1, `Premises', focuses on the intellectual and aesthetic ideas that informed Gould's performances, and draws on literature from many fields, including music history and aesthetics, cultural history, the history of performance practice, theatre, literary criticism, and music analysis. The three large chapters of Part 1 cover a wide range of topics: Gould'sidealism, views on the musical work, musical tastes, and repertoire; his position on the role of the performer; the analytical, critical, and ethical discourses embodied in his performances; and his approach to performance in the contexts of Romanticism, modernism, neo-Classicism, post-structuralism, thehistorical performance movement, twentieth-century theatrical and literary practices, and cultural currents in the 1950s and 1960s. Part 2, `Practices', focuses in detail on Gould the pianist, illuminating important features of his style through prose description and critical analysis, and including graphic musical examples and plates. This second part focusses on specific aspects of Gould's performance practices: his relationship to the piano; his approach to counterpoint, rhythm, dynamics, articulation and phrasing, and ornamentation; and his uses of recording technology as a kind of performance practice. A conclusionserves in part as a summary of previous findings, but also discusses how, in light of these findings, Gould's work as a performer might ultimately be assessed.
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Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631

Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631

Kevin Sharpe

Clarendon Press
1979
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A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.
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GCSE Religious Studies for AQA A: Buddhism

GCSE Religious Studies for AQA A: Buddhism

Kevin James

Oxford University Press
2016
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We are currently updating our resources for AQA GCSE Religious Studies Specification A following the changes announced by AQA for assessment from 2026. Revised editions will be available for you to pre-order from summer 2025. Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: Religious Studies First teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018 This textbook offers a tried and trusted approach to cover the study of Buddhism, and thematic studies from the perspective of Buddhism. Each chapter sets clear objectives and topic summaries, helping students understand what they need to know. Case studies provide a real-life story or perspective, showing Buddhism as it is practised today, and offering contemporary ethical issues for debate. The book includes a range of activity types and study tips to develop understanding in the classroom or at home. There is also further assessment guidance throughout the book, offering revision checklists, practice questions and sample answer activities to support the new question types.
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MYP English Language Acquisition Phase 4

MYP English Language Acquisition Phase 4

Kevin Morley; Alexei Gafan

Oxford University Press
2017
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Refine, progress and perfect English acquisition. Preparing MYP learners to step into IB Diploma English B with confidence, this text connects relevant learning material and objectives to the MYP curriculum framework structure. An inquiry-based approach enables reflection, questioning and critical thought, fully in line with the MYP approach. Build the high levels of English fluency central to student success in IB Diploma English B Connect learning material and objectives with the MYP curriculum structure Facilitate inquiry-based learning that drives reflection on big picture questions as students develop language skills Frame English language learning within the context of key and related concepts, statements of inquiry, global contexts and approaches to learning Prepare learners for assessment with practice and guidance directly mapped to the MYP assessment objectives Develop confident language learners who are ready to progress, with practice that leads students confidently towards IB Diploma Mapped to the most current MYP curriculum framework
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IB English B Course Book Pack: Oxford IB Diploma Programme (Print Course Book & Enhanced Online Course Book)

IB English B Course Book Pack: Oxford IB Diploma Programme (Print Course Book & Enhanced Online Course Book)

Kevin Morley; Kawther Saa'D Aldin

Oxford University Press
2018
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Written by experienced English B experts and teachers, this print and digital Course Book pack provides the most comprehensive mapping to the latest DP Language B syllabus, for first examination in 2020. Each Course Book Pack is made up of one print Course Book and one enhanced online Course Book, for a rich and interactive learning experience. Developed directly with the IB, you can trust the resource to support confident development of the four language skills and to provide thorough coverage of the new prescribed themes and concepts. Now including plenty of listening practice and a wealth of additional digital materials, this brand new, enhanced edition fully supports the new IB course and assessment. This online Course Book will be available on Oxford Education Bookshelf until 2028. Access is facilitated via a unique code, which is sent in the mail. The code must be linked to an email address, creating a user account. Access may be transferred once to a new user, once the initial user no longer requires access. You will need to contact your local Educational Consultant to arrange this.
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Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Prepared: English B

Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Prepared: English B

Kevin Morley

Oxford University Press
2020
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IB Prepared resources are developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment. IB Prepared: English B provides strategic guidance, authentic sample material and exam-style practice opportunities, allowing learners to consolidate the skills that are essential to success.
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Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Prepared: English B (Online)

Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Prepared: English B (Online)

Kevin Morley

Oxford University Press
2020
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IB Prepared resources are developed directly with the IB to provide the most up-to-date, authentic and authoritative guidance on DP assessment. IB Prepared: English B provides strategic guidance, authentic sample material and exam-style practice opportunities, allowing learners to consolidate the skills that are essential to success.
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Parallel and Sequential Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations

Parallel and Sequential Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations

Kevin Burrage

Clarendon Press
1995
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This book presents an up-to-date exposition of the current `state of the art' of numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations in a parallel computing environment. Although the main focus is on problems of initial value type, consideration will also be given to boundary value problems and partial differential equations. Furthermore, because linear algebra is an important component of the solution of differential equations, a complete chapter is devoted to the parallel solution of linear systems of equations. In addition to presenting an overview of parallel computing in general, two chapters are devoted to a summary of existing sequential differential equation methods. The parallel techniques discussed include parallelism across the method, parallelism across the step, parallelism across the system, and dynamic iteration. The book concludes with a chapter on the behaviour of a parallel code based on waveform relaxation. This comprehensive book is unique in its content and provides a balance between theoretical and practical issues by providing general frameworks in which to study parallel methods.
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Multiaged Silviculture

Multiaged Silviculture

Kevin O'Hara

Oxford University Press
2014
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This book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide. Over recent decades, forest science and management have tended to emphasize plantation silviculture. Whilst this clearly meets our wood production needs, many of the world's forests need to be managed far less intensively and more flexibly in order to maintain their natural ecosystem functions together with the values inherent in those processes. Developing multiaged management strategies for these complex forest ecosystems represents a global challenge to successfully integrate available science with sustainable management practices. Multiaged Silviculture covers the ecology and dynamics of multiaged stands, the management operations associated with regeneration, tending, and stocking control, and the implications of this strategy on production, genetic diversity, and stand health. It is primarily aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of forestry and silviculture, but will also be of relevance and use to all professional foresters and silviculturists.
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Multiaged Silviculture

Multiaged Silviculture

Kevin O'Hara

Oxford University Press
2014
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This book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide. Over recent decades, forest science and management have tended to emphasize plantation silviculture. Whilst this clearly meets our wood production needs, many of the world's forests need to be managed far less intensively and more flexibly in order to maintain their natural ecosystem functions together with the values inherent in those processes. Developing multiaged management strategies for these complex forest ecosystems represents a global challenge to successfully integrate available science with sustainable management practices. Multiaged Silviculture covers the ecology and dynamics of multiaged stands, the management operations associated with regeneration, tending, and stocking control, and the implications of this strategy on production, genetic diversity, and stand health. It is primarily aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of forestry and silviculture, but will also be of relevance and use to all professional foresters and silviculturists.
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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

Kevin Gilmartin

Oxford University Press
2015
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Over the course of a literary career that extended from the lingering Malthusian controversies of the late eighteenth century to the brink of the Reform Act of 1832, William Hazlitt produced a remarkable body of committed radical journalism. Against the view that partisan passion undermined his aesthetic judgment and compromised his celebrated disinterestedness, William Hazlitt: Political Essayist restores politics to the center of his achievement as a critic and essayist. In doing so Kevin Gilmartin explores his constructive relationship with the early nineteenth-century popular reform movement, while acknowledging his desire to reflect critically on radical politics and express his own doubts about social progress. Early chapters attend closely to his critical method and matters of style and form, focusing on the political development of his contradictory prose manner. Paradox and inconsistency are central to his attack on 'Legitimacy', a term he drew form the lexicon of post-Napoleonic political journalism. In treating legitimate government as a revived form of divine right monarchy, Hazlitt often produced harrowing visions of the perfect refinement of oppressive power and the complete elimination of any principle of liberty or resistance. At the same time he found ways to preserve his commitment to oppositional political expression and the redemptive necessity of what he termed 'a word uttered against'. Later chapters bring together the spiritual heritage of rational Dissent and emerging democratic developments in London to understand Hazlitt's distinctive mobilization of radical memory as a way of contending with present injustice and envisioning a political future.
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Prime Ministers in Greece

Prime Ministers in Greece

Kevin Featherstone; Dimitris Papadimitriou

Oxford University Press
2015
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This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can a prime minister establish control and coordination across his or her government? The Greek system of government sustains a 'paradox of power' at its very core. The Constitution provides the prime minister with extensive and often unchecked powers. Yet, the operational structures, processes and resources around the prime minister undermine their power to manage the government. Through a study of all main premierships between 1974 and 2009, Prime Ministers in Greece argues that the Greek prime minister has been 'an emperor without clothes'. The costs of this paradox included the inability to achieve key policy objectives under successive governments and a fragmented system of governance that provided the backdrop to Greece's economic meltdown in 2010. Building on an unprecedented range of interviews and archival material, Featherstone and Papadimitriou set out to explore how this paradox has been sustained. They conclude with the Greek system meeting its 'nemesis': the arrival of the close supervision of its government by the 'Troika' - the representatives of Greece's creditors. The debt crisis challenged taboos and forced a self-reflection. It remains unclear, however, whether either the external strategy or the domestic response is likely to be sufficient to make the Greek system of governance 'fit for purpose'.
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The Theological Project of Modernism

The Theological Project of Modernism

Kevin W. Hector

Oxford University Press
2015
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Modernism's theological project was an attempt to explain two things: firstly, how faith might enable persons to experience their lives as hanging together, even in the face of disintegrating forces like injustice, tragedy, and luck; and secondly, how one could see such faith, and so a life held together by it, as self-expressive. Modern theologians such as Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Ritschl, and Tillich thus offer accounts of how one's life would have to hang together such that one could identify with it; of the oppositions which stand in the way of such hanging-together; of God as the one by whom oppositions are overcome, such that one can have faith that one's life ultimately hangs together; and of what such faith would have to be like in order for one to identify with it, too. So understood, modern theology not only sheds light on faith's potential role in enabling persons to identify with their lives, but stands in unexpected continuity with contemporary 'contextual' theologies. This book offers clear, careful readings of modernism's key figures in order to explain their relevance to practical concerns and to contemporary understandings of faith.
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