The author -- Part 1: The unconscious conspiracy and how to confound it -- One job, one year, one life -- Learning some basic truisms about leadership -- The new metaphysics of our age -- Part 2: A society without dreams -- The long slide from true leadership -- Back to the future -- The age of unreality -- Where have all the leaders gone? -- Part 3: Parts of the problem -- Bosses as heroes and…
1. Personal communication -- Self-disclosure and listening -- Self perception and value orientation -- Seeing and not seeing -- Closure -- Experience and language -- Environmental awareness -- Categorization -- Perceptual context -- Object awareness -- Perceptual set -- Learning and change -- Assumptions -- Observations and inferences -- Predicting attitudes -- Silence -- Personal space -- Para…
Contents: Glossary / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 1. Doing Social Research / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 2. Theory and Social Research / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 3. Ethics in Social Research / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 4. Reviewing the Scholarly Literature and Planning a Study / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 5. Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement / W. Lawrence Neuman -- 6. Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling / W. L…
Pt. 1. The conversionist tie. Southern Baptists and conversion / Bill Leonard -- Toward a conversionist spirituality / James Wm. McClendon, Jr. -- The hermeneutics of conversion / Randy Hatchett -- Horace Bushnell, spiritual formation, and conversion / James Reed -- pt. 2. The contemplative tie. The contemplative roots of Baptist spirituality / E. Glenn Hinson -- A confession for Catholic Bapti…
Deeply challenging to the religious and social status quo, this work searches for a new understanding of religion's role in our time of massive social, economic and geopolitical change. Guide by his remarkable experience with South African indigenous groups and popular religion, the author shows how marginalized people read the Bible and how their "local wisdom", or "incipient theologies", offe…
Content: I. What is the Bible? -- II. People of Palestine? -- III. Israel before the Bible -- IV. David begins the Bible -- V. Solomon and the temple -- VI. Revolutions in Israel -- VII. Great estates -- VIII. The Iron Empire -- IX. Josiah and the Deuteronomists -- X. Babylonian rulers and the court in exile -- XI. Persian rulers and the new temple -- XII. Greek rulers and Rome's hasmoneans -- …