David A Peters: 7 books
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor
A Compendium of the Most Delightful, Romantic, Humorous, Ironic, Sarcastic, or Pathetically Funny Stories and Statements in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor examines how the Bible writers intentionally used humor, irony, and sarcasm to argue their points concisely. This work begins with the dysfunctional families of Genesis, continues delightfully through every book of the Bible, and ends with a glorious fulfillment in...
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...
by Michael A. Peters, Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Demosthenes' "On the Crown"
Rhetorical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it...
Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...