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  • The Diocese's Darkest Chapter

    Cultural Trauma and the Making of the Catholic Abuse Crisis in America

    by Allison Niebauer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    From its quiet inception in 1988, to a hailstorm of statewide and national controversy over thirty years later, this bookfollows the development of public discourse regarding a clergy sexual abuse scandal in a small Catholic Diocese in Central Pennsylvania. Weaving together the evolving local and national narratives, it offers a striking account of how stakeholder rhetoric has influenced public ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States

    Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance

    by Christiana Ares-Christian, Shana Scudder, Allison Niebauer, Elisa Vogel, Jennifer Crosby Burgess, Julianna Edmonds, Jimmy Hamill, L Heidenreich, Joseph Burzynski, Beth Buyserie, Elizabethada A. Wright2, Amy Ferdinandt Stolley3, Laura J. Panning Davies4, Jennifer L. Bay5, Jamie L. Downing6, Jamie White-Farnham7 ...
    Building on various feminist theories of ethos, the authors in this collection explore how North American Catholic women from various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes have used elements of the group’s positionality to make change. The women considered in the book range from the earliest Catholic sisters who arrived in the United States to women who held the Church hierarchy ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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    An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

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    In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here ... Read more

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  • Truth Overruled

    The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom

    by Ryan T. Anderson ...
    "Every leader in America needs to read this book! It's by far the best summary of what's at stake." —Rick WarrenThe Supreme Court has issued a decision, but that doesn't end the debate. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Americans face momentous debates about the nature of marriage and religious liberty. Because the Court has redefined marriage in all 50 states, we have to energetically protect ... Read more

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  • The Making of Americans

    Democracy and Our Schools

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must ... Read more

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  • Thinking Differently about Leadership

    A Critical History of Leadership Studies

    by Suze Wilson ...
    Series series New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
    Thinking Differently about Leadership asks why and how we have come to understand leadership in the way we now do, and the consequences which arise from these understandings. Its critical interrogation of Classical Greek, Medieval and modern social scientific ideas reveals that troubling assumptions and problematic expectations are key features of leadership theorizing both in the past and today ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Men Astutely Trained

    A History of the Jesuits in the American Century

    by Peter Mcdonough ...
    A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient virtues & to the pursuit of the free play of ideas. This book explains developments among the Jesuits and sets them in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Having People, Having Heart

    Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

    by China Scherz ...
    This study of charity in Uganda "challenges current international development norms and standards . . . as . . . refusals to redistribute wealth" ( Washington Post).Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local ... Read more

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  • The State

    by Philip Pettit ...
    A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip ... Read more

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  • The Moral Background

    An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics

    by Gabriel Abend ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s.According to Abend, morality consists of three levels: moral and ... Read more

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  • Inside Appellate Courts

    The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals

    by Jonathan M. Cohen ...
    Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization have impinged on judges' abilities to bestow justice. By viewing the courts of appeals as large ... Read more

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  • Bad Pastors

    Clergy Misconduct in Modern America

    Edited by Anson D. Shupe, William A. Stacey, Susan E. Darnell ...
    Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news.Is there something about religious organizations that fosters such misbehavior? Bad Pastors presents a range of new perspectives and ... Read more

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