Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World:Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
Sidney M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Pluralistic World

Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality: Religion in a Pluralistic World

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Glazier ◽  
Felicitas D. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Pluralistic World

Home Free

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Residential Relocation ◽  
Criminal Opportunities ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
Desistance From Crime ◽  
Residential Change ◽  
Rare Opportunity

This book is about building credible science to address the challenge of criminal recidivism. It does so by drawing upon a unique natural experiment that presented an opportunity to witness an alternate reality. More than 625,000 individuals are released from prison in the United States each year, and roughly half of these individuals will be back in prison within just three years. A likely contributor to the churning of the same individuals in and out of prison is the fact that many released prisoners return home to the same environment with the same criminal opportunities and criminal peers that proved so detrimental to their behavior prior to incarceration. This study uses Hurricane Katrina as a natural experiment for examining the question of whether residential relocation away from an old neighborhood can lead to desistance from crime. Many prisoners released soon after Katrina could not go back to their old neighborhoods, as they normally would have done. Their neighborhoods were devastated by a once-in-a-generation storm that damaged the vast majority of housing units in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina provided a rare opportunity to investigate what happens when individuals move not just a short distance, but to entirely different cities, counties, and social worlds. This study draws upon both quantitative and qualitative evidence to reveal where newly released prisoners resided in the wake of the Katrina, the effect of residential relocation on the likelihood of reincarceration through eight years post-release, and the mechanisms revealing why residential change is so important after release from prison.

Sovereignty

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Heller
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Political System ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The People ◽  
Pluralistic World

This 1927 work addresses the paradox of sovereignty, that is, how the sovereign can be both the highest authority and subject to law. Unlike Kelsen and Schmitt who seek to dissolve the paradox, this text sees the tensions that the paradox highlights as an essential part of a society ruled by law. Sovereignty, in the sense of national sovereignty, is often perceived in liberal democracies today as being under threat, or at least “in transition,” as power devolves from nation states to international bodies. This threat to national sovereignty is at the same time considered a threat to a different idea of sovereignty, popular sovereignty—the sovereignty of “the people”—as important decisions seem increasingly to be made by institutions outside of a country’s political system or by elite-dominated institutions within. This text was written in 1927 amidst the very similar tensions of the Weimar Republic. In an exploration of history, constitutional and political theory, and international law, it shows that democrats must defend a legal idea of sovereignty suitable for a pluralistic world.

The Role of Education in a Pluralistic World

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
David B. Wandera
Keyword(s):  
Pluralistic World

scholarly journals Constructing a Christian theology for the pluralistic world

Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Jason S. Sexton
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Pluralistic World
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