Festival and Events Management: An International Arts and Culture Perspective

Festival and Events Management: An International Arts and Culture Perspective Review

Festival and Events Management: an international perspective is a unique text looking at the central role of events management in the cultural, tourism and arts industries.

With international contributions from industry and academia, the text looks at the following:
* Events & cultural environments
* Managing the arts & leisure experience
* Marketing, policies and strategies of art and leisure management

Chapters include exercises, and additional teaching materials and solutions to questions are provided as part of an accompanying online resource.

* Provides practical applications, models and illustrations of the event management operation from a variety of international perspectives
* Demonstrates how to manage and market the arts and leisure experience
* International case studies from Europe, New Zealand, Australia and USA

Introduction to the New Testament, Vol. 1: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age (2nd edition)

Introduction to the New Testament, Vol. 1: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age (2nd edition) Review

Among the striking features that distinguish this comprehensive two-volume work, now complete in its second edition, from other books of similar title are its wide historical scope, its tretment of early Christian literature in the chronological sequence, and the inclusion of over sixty noncanonical Christian documents.

Volume 2, after considering problems related to the interpretation of early Christian writings - transmission, canon, text, form criticism, literary criticism, and narrative and rhetorical criticism - unfolds the story of the early Christian communities and their literature from John the Baptist and Jesus to Justin Martyr, Valentinus, and Polycarp.

This narrative has been written in a readable, nontechnical style, supplemented by current bibliographies for each selection that include listings of the best editions of original texts as well as the most accessible English translations. An essential work for students, teachers, and clergy, this set will also appeal to the educated layperson looking for a scholary treatment of the New Testament and its background in the world of Jewish and Greco-Roman antiquity.

Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)

Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics) Review

What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism?

These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book. Their analyses draw on a unique set of data collected and processed by the contributors to this volume within the framework of the World Values Survey project. This data enables these authors to establish similarities and differences in support of democracy between a large number of countries with different cultural and structural conditions as well as historical legacies.

The macro-level findings of the book tend to support the proposition that support of democracy declines the further east one goes. In contrast, micro-level relationships have been found to be astonishingly similar. For example, support of democracy is always positively related to higher levels of education – no matter where an individual citizen happens to live. This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.

The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life

The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life Review

The Cynical Society is a study of the political despair and abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicism—a central but unexamined aspect of contemporary American political and social life. Goldfarb reveals with vivid strokes how cynicism undermines our capacity to think about society's strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on thinkers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Allan Bloom and on such recent works asBeloved, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Mississippi Burning, The Cynical Society celebrates cultural pluralism's role in democracy.