"The author provides unprecedented critical, interdisciplinary explorations of the complex dynamics and intersectionalities operating between disability and poverty in rural areas, an assumed relationship that is too often misunderstood. Reporting on long term ethnographic work in Guatemala and prioritising the voices, knowledge and narratives of disabled people and their families, Grech offers an incisive and refined critical analysis of the various complex barriers and interactions in the disability/poverty/rurality nexus encountered by what Grech calls 'disabled families'. The book opens up discussions on a broad range of themes traversing conceptual, spatial, historical, embodied, spiritual, racial, sexual and gendered terrains among others. It challenges and reframes established, often imposed discourses and practices, and contests issues of (re)presentation, Eurocentrism, and coloniality. Finally, it contributes new and uncharted reflections for further debate, which are indispen
ESSAYS ON CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND CULTUREby T'ang Chun-i1. The Development of Ideas of Spiritual Value in Chinese Philosophy2. The Individual and the World in Chinese Methodology3. Cosmologies in Chinese Philosophy4. The T'ien Ming (Heavenly Ordinance) in Pre-Ch'in China I5. The T'ien Ming (Heavenly Ordinance) in Pre-Ch'in China II6. The Spirit and Development of Neo-Confucianism7. Chang Tsai's Theory of Mind and Its Metaphysical Basis8. The Development of the Concept of Moral Mind from Wang Yang-ming to Wang Chi9. The Criticism of Wang Yang-ming's Teachings as Raised by His Contemporaries10. Liu Tsung-chou's Doctrine of Moral Mind and Practice and His Critique of Wang Yang-ming11. The Development of the Chinese Humanistic Spirit12. The Religious Spirit of Confucianism13. Chinese Attitude Toward World Religions14. On the Direction of the Development of Political Consciousness in the Chinese people in the Past One Hundred Years15. The Reconstruction of Confucianism and the Modernization
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This Element provides a comprehensive yet concise account of scientific research on children's religious and spiritual (RS) development. After providing a historical sketch of definitional issues in the science of RS, the first section reviews basic descriptive information on children's RS development as well as wholistic theoretical models and measures of children's RS development. The second section covers evidence about links of child and parental RS to children's psychosocial adjustment, and highlights the need for more research that discriminates specific positive and negative manifestations of RS for children's development. The third section summarizes evidence about the robust influence of parents on their children's RS development and parents' perceptions of their role in this process. The fourth section focuses on cognitive-developmental research on children's cognitions about God/deities and prayer. The Element concludes with a synopsis of key themes and challenges that resea
