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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Moral Authority"”.
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Moral authority of juries: A forgotten aspect of citizenship
… with emphasis on the jury's function as a moral check on government. It is advocated that legal protection be extended to the right of citizens to exercise the "nullification" power in order to maintain a highly regarded system of law based on equity and founded on the moral integrity of …
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Moral Authority as Moral Skill: An Exemplarist Theory of Practical Justification
How should we understand the question "Why be moral?" Can we answer this question? If so, how? In this paper I develop an exemplarist theory of practical moral justification; that is, a theory of the justification of the prima facie moral things that we do, not the moral beliefs that we have. I …
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Demanding to be human : the moral authority of human rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Women’s rights occupy a contested moral and political position internationally. They are neither accepted as core values everywhere, nor always struggling for acceptance. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the UN General Assembly in …
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Unjust Profit: Moral Economies of Recycling and Migration in Urban Turkey
… migrants and citizens are key sites where new moral understandings of work, profit, and citizenship are produced. The study aims to introduce new empirical and conceptual understandings of moral economic life, citizenship, and waste labour. As the largest city in a country that hosts nearly …
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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA
… Special attention is given to the association of moral authority with the capacity for literary and artistic production, and the means by which persons are so entitled. The project concludes with reflections on the political significance in medieval Sri Lanka of the contiguity of these themes, as …
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Religious women in modern American social reform: Evangeline Booth, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Dorothy Day, and the rhetorical invention of humanitarian authority
… of “scientific” standards and state-based authority in humanitarian endeavors. This study compares and contrasts the rhetorical efforts of Evangeline Booth (the American Commander of the Salvation Army), Aimee Semple McPherson (founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel), …
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Superintendent Leadership and Student Achievement in Suburban High Schools: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Analysis
… between the superintendent's leadership authority and the achievement of his or her students.</p><p>The central research questions of this study are:</p><p>1) To what degree does parental education predict high school student achievement in suburban Chicagoland?</p><p>2) To what degree …
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Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective
… of the twenty-first century had enjoyed high moral authority as a religious organization that promoted the dignity of the human person and acted as an ethically responsible corporate citizen in American society. However, such moral authority crumbled following the 2002 Boston Globe revelations …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… and Zora Neale Hurston, the Bible is a source of moral authority they use to challenge the imperialist, colonialist, and nativist projects of the twentieth-century U.S. In rebranding the Bible as politically radical, these writers are not denying the authority of the Bible, but are …
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Ego-tribalism in religion, politics, and media : a changing landscape calls for a new theory of trust.
… Survey, I analyze the impact of Internet usage, moral authority, and religiosity on generalized social trust. I find that moral individualism is negatively associated with social trust. Increasing religiosity is not significant, challenging previous research that suggested religiosity predicts an …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… groups. Consequently, the military lacks moral authority, and is preoccupied with maintaining its power and seeking legitimacy. The state is oriented to regime maintenance rather than policy implementation, leaving the regime without autonomy to pursue policy goals outside of its security …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… groups. Consequently, the military lacks moral authority, and is preoccupied with maintaining its power and seeking legitimacy. The state is oriented to regime maintenance rather than policy implementation, leaving the regime without autonomy to pursue policy goals outside of its security …
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Presuppositions In Moral Education Discourse: Developing An Analytic Framework And Applying It To Moral Education Traditions
Moral education is ever more important in our schools today, but the various moral education traditions make it difficult to decide which tradition best serves our purpose and population. This dissertation develops and uses an original analytic framework to narrow the choices of moral education …
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Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
… of traditional Christian communities and the moral authority of the churches. This work helps define the specific place of churches and religion in the post-1945 world. It examines how the culture of consumption that arose after World War II affected existing religious customs and mores. …
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Between Morality and Myth: A Parodic Visual Manifesto
… way in which myths are elevated to the status of moral values. The photographic works created for this thesis challenge long held beliefs and emotions that associate sex with shame and guilt, and that grow out of the moral traditions we have inherited. Judeo-Christian traditions and religious …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… and re-norm his or her “self” according to a moral authority beyond the authority of the nation state. While critical of liberalism on one level, this “expanded” citizenship ultimately offers liberalism political advice in crisis situations by performing a public sacrifice on the state and …
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Rules of Disorder: A Comparative Study of Student Discipline
… of rules and punishments for students erode the moral authority of the teacher and create spaces outside the classroom where students can develop and employ identities and cultural hierarchies that lead to more frequent and extreme forms of unruliness. I also argue that the regulation of student …
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The Making of the Shrew: Comedy, Adaptation, and the Construction of Shakespeare's Cultural Authority on the Restoration and Eighteenth -Century Stage
… Charles II and imagine for the theater a moral authority that counters the king's power to license the stage. Charles Johnson's The Cobler of Preston (1716) uses Shakespeare to attempt to delimit access to, and construct class hierarchies within, both the polite society of the eighteenth …
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Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
… reaction to a perceived threat to the Protestant moral authority of the community. The revived Klan of the teens and 1920s feared and vilified virtually any population that was not native-born white Protestant Americans which included immigrants, African-Americans, Jews, and Catholics. In Oak Park …
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Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity and Urbanization in Vietnam
… groups often excluded from positions of authority in institutionalized Buddhism and, in turn, Buddhist studies scholarship, such as low-income day laborers, elderly women, Buddhist nuns at peri-urban temples, and a lay community of queer "same-gender-loving" [đồng tính] men. Despite their …
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