Bøger af Stephen Pavey

Troubled by her mother's recent death, sixteen-year-old Grace is forced to leave her beloved Canada to travel to England aboard the Empress of Ireland with her father and his new fiancée, Harriet. While aboard the ship, Grace is ignored by her father and befriends Paden, son of the ship's assistant chief steward. Grace soon discovers that Paden is part of a ship theft ring and is planning on stealing silver bars belonging to her father's employer. Paden seeks Grace's help, since the theft would send her and her father back home, benefiting her also. Should she help Paden, or consider her father? Meanwhile, Harriet hounds Grace, and Paden must avoid the suspicions of his father, his vigilant steward Mr. Steele, and an evil engine worker who manipulates Paden. Each person does not realize, however, that shortly after leaving port, the Empress will face a disaster that will undermine the plans of many.

Thirteen-year-old Martin Cooper feels pegged for failure. Following the death of his father, he lives with his mother and quirky uncle on the poor side of Twin Hills. His only pleasure in life is skateboarding. Martin agrees to attend school in a wealthy neighborhood because the town's only skate park is nearby. At school, Martin struggles to hide his poor social status and gain popularity. However, he clashes with a skateboard rival named Brent Stocker, who also competes with Martin for the affection of Martin's dream girl, Sarah. Martin's popularity predicament changes when he finds a duffle bag with a rewarding secret. While using its contents to even the score on his sad life, Martin is pursued by a mysterious man, the police, and is haunted by his need to protect his secret at all costs. He finds that possessing his new treasure comes with a severe price.

Lucas Williams, a thirteen-year-old who mourns the death of his mother, aimlessly logs excessive hours on his computer, avoiding others in the real world. Living in Sage Hills, California in 2011, Lucas stumbles upon an amazing revelation when chatting on his computer with a girl. She lives down the street from him in an old abandoned house and is typing to him from the past-the year, 1981. Misha Logan, also thirteen, is the neglected daughter of a military computer scientist who is working on developing the new internet, in 1981. Lucas and Misha learn that Misha will soon die and Lucas must covertly, uncover clues about how to rescue her. Lucas also surmises that the internet-time window might somehow reverse his mother's death by sending her a warning, back in time. Lucas and Misha flirt with dark consequences by secretly exchanging valuable information from their own time periods while being pursued by a mysterious man who is after this frightening technology.

Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, the book demonstrates how theological discourse and practice engage with historical and material relations of power. It has been normative to speak of power in terms of political and economic processes and theology in terms of interpretive and symbolic experiences. This work breaks new ground by linking theological ideas with political-economic processes in terms of the structural relations of power.Ethnographically, this research investigates the theological processes of Hong Kong Chinese Christians during a period of significant social change and crisis, precipitated by the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It shows how local Christians and Christian institutions mediated the significant regional, national, and transnational forces of political-economic change by connecting theological practice to the structural relations of power. The Christian response was a contested process closely intertwined with the broader contested processes of social organization.This study develops an understanding of Christianity that goes beyond ecclesiastical hegemony to encompass struggles over human practice, meaning, and representation in relation to the changing political-economic context. These findings implicate religious ideas and practice as significant to an understanding of social inequalities and powerlessness by connecting ideologies to material conditions. Christian ideas may be used to legitimize an oppressive social order or they may be used to liberate those who are oppressed. Issues related to the policies and practice of development should take seriously the role of religious beliefs and practices.

Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf''s research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, the book demonstrates how theological discourse and practice engage with historical and material relations of power. It has been normative to speak of power in terms of political and economic processes and theology in terms of interpretive and symbolic experiences. This work breaks new ground by linking theological ideas with political-economic processes in terms of the structural relations of power.Ethnographically, this research investigates the theological processes of Hong Kong Chinese Christians during a period of significant social change and crisis, precipitated by the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It shows how local Christians and Christian institutions mediated the significant regional, national, and transnational forces of political-economic change by connecting theological practice to the structural relations of power. The Christian response was a contested process closely intertwined with the broader contested processes of social organization.This study develops an understanding of Christianity that goes beyond ecclesiastical hegemony to encompass struggles over human practice, meaning, and representation in relation to the changing political-economic context. These findings implicate religious ideas and practice as significant to an understanding of social inequalities and powerlessness by connecting ideologies to material conditions. Christian ideas may be used to legitimize an oppressive social order or they may be used to liberate those who are oppressed. Issues related to the policies and practice of development should take seriously the role of religious beliefs and practices.""I was drawn to anthropology in the early 1980s through the work of such cutting-edge anthropologists/missiologists as Charles Kraft, Jacob Loewen, Charles Tabor, Alan Tippett, and Ralph Winter. While obviously influenced by these early innovators, Stephen Pavey is part of a new era of younger missiologically informed anthropologists. His ethnographic study of the church in Hong Kong is both anthropologically sound and missiologically important, and is a great addition to the small yet growing literature on the anthropology of Christianity.""-Steven YbarrolaProfessor of Cultural AnthropologyAsbury Theological Seminary""With Theologies of Power and Crisis Pavey successfully extends anthropological analysis to new realms as he contributes to our understanding of Christian Asia. He demonstrates the intellectual value of ethnography in our quest to understand the world around us. It is an excellent example of anthropology engaged in the world. Perhaps this work will teach and influence those involved with cross-cultural practices in a variety of settings."" -from the afterword by John van WilligenProfessor Emeritus of AnthropologyUniversity of KentuckyStephen Pavey is an applied anthropologist, artist, and activist at One Horizon Institute in Lexington, Kentucky.