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Description: Latin America, the United States of America, religion, and politics are ingredients of a brew with considerable explosive power. The four terms denote factors in a complex and, for the most part, violently intertwined relationship. Historically, this relation has been shaped primarily by the Protestant mission in Latin America and its Pan-American objectives. Yet, this mission now belongs to the past. The once American religiosity of the missionaries has taken different and more charismatic forms under the conflicting conditions of life in Latin America and today is shaped in particular by the class antagonisms of the subcontinent. However, this does not mean that some evangelical organizations do not continue to represent political interests of their Northern neighbor, or that vice versa,the political religiosity of the South does not contribute to ideological struggles in the United States, either through Liberation Theology in the 1980s, or today through the solidarity with Latin American migrants. The present book visualises the logic of the inter-American entanglements by tracing and interpreting exemplary developments and conflicts, framing the narrative plot between two important religious events in 1916 and 2016.

Description: The contemporary state of affairs, however, is way too complex to presuppose that a simple formula will be enough to synthesize all its multiple facets. The fact that both our institutions and our mental life are regulated by communication is more and more evident. It is also clear that human history should submit itself to a democratic consensus, and that contemporary societies have to proclaim themselves democratic, pretending many times they are following a consensus that must be the kernel of collective and of individual development. This consensus, however, is itself also being submitted to an all-encompassing social experiment. Such an experiment is permanently looking for new laws and new accomplishments, because in complying with the scientific model, it presupposes that laws previously valid, and previous social accomplishments no longer apply because social life is in need of being reinvented and people should live in harmony the new laws. The individuals are therefore entangled in this continuous reconfiguration of their institutions and of themselves. They are nolens volens obliged to judge this perpetual renewal of their social tissue in order to secure their own personal life. This book is an answer to the now globally widespread need of judgment by everyone of the results of this continuous reconfiguration, and although it does not claim any final conclusion, it sums up many important views about our time, coming from human and social that should be an important contribution to the construction a humanity worth living.

Description: The court and court society in the Hispanic world (16th-18th centuries): The courtly world has emerged as a propitious intellectual and historiographical space for thinking and writing the history of early modernity. Ever since the renewal of the so-called ‘political history,’ but also after the perspective of cultural studies, the courtly has become the privileged scenario for the study of the political society of the Modern Age, starting from the analysis of the formation of the different social actors’ different political identities in dispute, as well as the tracking of hidden interests in decision-making in order to understand power groups or networks. Similarly, the courtly cannot but be thought of as that singular scenario and/or space of conjunction and indistinction between the political (public) and the economic (private), as well as a locus of identity formation and dispute. In this sense, the study of the Ancien Régime societies cannot ignore the courtly, which is a key element for understanding and analyzing one of the articulating elements of the globality of the European monarchies, particularly the Hispanic monarchy. As this work describes, this global perspective allows us to understand the importance and imprint of the courtly in America. Therefore, the aim is to analyze and understand the court and the courtly world from multiple perspectives. The articles that make up this work problematize the courtly from different geographical spaces, but above all from different intellectual concerns and preoccupations: princely and courtly education, the problem of the King’s favorite, the religious, the nobiliary, the place of the feminine in the court or, also, the materiality of the courtly texts and the materiality of the government of the monarchy from the court.

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Description: El mundo cortesano se ha erigido como un espacio intelectual e historiográfico propicio para pensar y escribir la historia de la primera modernidad. Desde la renovación de la denominada ‘historia política’, pero también desde los estudios culturales, lo cortesano ha devenido en el escenario privilegiado de estudio de la sociedad política de la Edad Moderna, partiendo de análisis de la conformación de las diferentes identidades políticas en disputa de los distintos actores sociales, como también del rastreo de intereses ocultos en las tomas de decisiones para comprender redes o grupos de poder. Asimismo, lo cortesano no puede dejar de pensarse como ese escenario y/o espacio singular de conjunción e indistinción entre lo político (público) y lo económico (privado), así como un locus de conformación y disputa identitaria. En este sentido, el estudio de las sociedades del Antiguo Régimen no puede obviar lo cortesano, máxima para comprender y analizar uno de los elementos articuladores de la globalidad de las monarquías europeas, singularmente de la monarquía hispánica. Esta perspectiva global nos permite comprender, como se realiza en esta obra, la importancia e impronta de lo cortesano en América. Por lo tanto, esta obra busca analizar y comprender la corte y el mundo cortesano desde múltiples perspectivas. Los artículos que conforman esta obra problematizan lo cortesano desde diversos espacios geográficos, pero sobre todo desde distintas inquietudes y preocupaciones intelectuales: la educación principesca y cortesana, el problema del valimiento, lo religioso, lo nobiliario, el lugar de lo femenino en la corte o, también, la materialidad de los textos cortesanos y la materialidad del gobierno de la monarquía desde la corte.

Description: De acuerdo a leyendas incaicas, a Inicios de los años 1400 hubo una batalla en las afueras del Cusco que cambió el curso de la historia sudamericana. Los chancas, un poderoso grupo étnico de la región de Andahuaytas, habían comenzado un agresivo plan de expansión. Habiendo ya conquistado pequeñas entidades políticas, su ejército habia penetrado profundamente en el territorio de sus tradicionales rivales, los incas. Mediante una serie de maniobras inusuales, los incas derrotaron a las fuerzas invasores chancas y llegaron a transformarse en el grupo más poderoso de los Andes. Muchos investigadores creen quo la derrota do los chancas representa un momento crítico en la histona de Sudamérica, ya que los incas luego continuaron su expansión, estableciendo el más extenso imperio do América. A pesar de la relevancia que habría tenido para la historia sudamericana, hasta hace unos años, el núcleo territorial Chanca había permanecido inexplorado. Consecuentemente, los procesos culturales conducentes al rápido desarrollo de este grupo y la posterior derrota de los mismos a manos de los incas tampoco habían sido investigados. Entre 2001 y 2004, Brian S. Bauer y su equipo de investigación realizaron una prospección arqueológica en la región de Andahuaylas. Este proyecto constituyó una oportunidad sin precedentes para examinar problemas teóricos relativos a la historia y al desarrollo cultural de las sociedades prehispánicas tardías de esta región de los Andes. El libro derivado de dichos trabajos presenta un análisis arqueológico sobre el desarrollo do los chancas y examina su derrota final frente a los incas.

Description: Este texto se pregunta ¿cuál es la propuesta de Foucault respecto a la experiencia de la homosexualidad actual? La hipótesis de trabajo surge de la siguiente deducción: si la experiencia de la homosexualidad genera una ética sexual y una estética de la existencia, tanto en la Antigua Grecia como en la actualidad, entonces la interrogación por la homosexualidad conlleva a una pregunta por la constitución del sujeto. Para abordar esta cuestión, es necesario entender el análisis del autor sobre la ética sexual en la Antigua Grecia centrada en la relación amorosa entre hombres libres. A partir de la noción griega de una estética de la existencia, es posible reflexionar sobre los peligros que acechan a los movimientos homosexuales con la entrada en el ámbito de lo público, la adquisición de derechos y una política de la identidad. Estos movimientos se han integrado a las instituciones sociales hegemónicas a las que pretendían resistir y al dispositivo de la sexualidad al que pretendían oponerse. En esa línea, se encuentran actualmente los estudios de género, LGBTI y queer replanteando los modos de resistencia a partir del pensamiento de Foucault y la estilización de la libertad, la identidad y los placeres.

Description: This volume shows through the use of legal sources that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful; and at the same time shows how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. Muslim law developed a clear legal cadre for dhimmīs, inferior but protected non-Muslim communities (in particular Jews and Christians) and Roman Canon law decreed a similar status for Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe. Yet the theoretical hierarchies between faithful and infidel were constantly brought into question in the daily interactions between men and women of different faiths in streets, markets, bath-houses, law courts, etc. The twelve essays in this volume explore these tensions and attempts to resolve them. These contributions show that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful—and at the same time how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negotiated. These essays explore also the possibilities and the limits of the use of legal sources for the social historian.

Description: The objective of entangled history and the environment is to introduce climatic and other environmental factors into the postcolonial debate on the unequal power relations between the metropolis and its colonies. Dealing with both environment and empire, as well as unequal (colonial) power relations, has so far largely occurred in separate fields, environmental history, and postcolonial studies. The book attempts to bring the two strands together and to combine the conceptual perspective of intertwined history and comparative practices in order to highlight both material and constructed (or discursive) aspects of the environment as a factor in the formation of unequal (colonial) power relations. Two case studies are conducted through this conceptual lens. The first offers a new perspective on Christopher Columbus' first contact with the Arawak in Hispaniola in 1492. The second examines how climate became an argument for enslaving Africans and displacing them to sugar plantations in the Caribbean.

Description: Within the scope of the events of the 2019 Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Year, under the auspices of our Presidency and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in partnership with Istanbul University, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University, and the Fuat Sezgin Islamic Science History Research Foundation, we had the honor of hosting the first International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium of Islamic History of Science on 13-15 June at Istanbul University. Our late Professor Fuat Sezgin, who questioned and evaluated the role of Islamic civilization in the development of sciences with a scientific attitude instead of taking a reactionary defensive stance against the views that limit the role of Islamic civilization in its contribution to inter-civilizational transfer only in certain historical periods, earned an unforgettable place in the history of Islamic science while he was still alive with the dozens of works he published with his commentary, hundreds of volumes of books he uncovered, nearly a thousand scientific tools he unearthed, the scientific institutions he pioneered, and the scientists he inspired. By remembering our late Professor Fuat Sezgin, who, despite all the obstacles and difficulties he faced, faithfully and patiently devoted his entire life to showing the place of the sciences developed in the Islamic world in the international history of science, and especially to objectively revealing the role of Islamic sciences in the development of the history of Western science, we hope to be able to make a modest contribution in terms of passing his scientific legacy on to future generations. The symposium we held to honor the legacy of Fuat Sezgin by remembering the works he carried out during his lifetime and to express our gratitude to him was attended by nearly 100 worthy academicians in the field of the history of science from 21 different countries, and this legacy left behind by our late Professor was honored with a total of 79 papers presented over three days. Prepared as a tangible fruit of the symposium and a permanent expression of our gratitude to our late Professor, this proceedings book has been created with the contributions of the esteemed academicians who participated in the symposium. It consists of an introduction section of three articles written on the life and works of our late Professor, and 38 articles in English, Arabic, and Turkish categorized under the titles of Fuat Sezgin’s Contributions to the History of Science, Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Geography, Natural Sciences, and Islamic Studies. Hoping that this proceedings book we have published will have an important place in the history of Islamic Science literature and make a significant contribution to the field with the belief that it will open the horizons of young researchers, we are grateful to have the opportunity to thank the individuals and institutions for their support in organizing this important event and the preparation of this proceedings book. We would like to express our gratitude to the Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Islamic Science History Research Foundation (IBTAV) Board of Trustees Member N. Bilal Erdoğan, IBTAV Founding President Ethem Sancak, IBTAV Board Chairman Mecit Çetinkaya, former Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism and Zeytinburnu Mayor Ömer Arısoy, the General Director of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Ibrahim Eren, the Founding Rector of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University Prof. Dr. Musa Duman, and the Rector of Kırıkkale University Prof. Dr. Ersan Aslan who was the Coordinator of the 2019 Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Year, and in particular to the honorary board members of our symposium, Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin’s esteemed spouse Dr. Ursula Sezgin and their daughter Journalist and Writer Hilâl Sezgin for their participation and support. We would like to thank the Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Islamic Science History Research Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, Turkish Airlines, Fatih Municipality, and Üsküdar Municipality for providing financial support to our symposium. The Science and Regulation Board and our Secretariat successfully carried out the process of organizing our symposium and the publication of our book. We would like to especially thank the scientists working in the field of Islamic science history from many countries around the world who contributed to our Symposium with their papers. History of Islamic science studies include a wide range of disciplines from mathematics, astronomy, medicine and other natural sciences to philosophy and social sciences. The goal and vision of our late Professor Fuat Sezgin, who took a holistic approach to all these sciences mentioned, shows us that there are many more studies to be done in this field. The ideas and works left behind by our Professor will be a guide for many scientific studies with research that will be carried out in the coming years.

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Description: 2019 Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Yılı Etkinlikleri kapsamında Cumhurbaşkanlığımız himayelerinde, Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığının desteği ile İstanbul Üniversitesi, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi ve Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin İslâm Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Vakfı ortaklığında I. Uluslararası Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin İslâm Bilim Tarihi Sempozyumu’nu 13-15 Haziran’da İstanbul Üniversitemiz ev sahipliğinde gerçekleştirmiş olmanın onurunu yaşadık. İslam medeniyetinin bilimlerin gelişimindeki rolünü, sadece belirli tarihi dönemlerde medeniyetler arası aktarımdaki katkısı ile sınırlandıran görüşler karşısında tepkisel bir savunmacı tutum takınmak yerine ilmi bir tavırla sorgulama ve değerlendirmelerde bulunan merhum Fuat Sezgin Hocamız, tenkitli neşrini yaptığı onlarca eser, tıpkıbasımını yaptığı yüzlerce cilt kitap, gün yüzüne çıkardığı bine yakın bilimsel âlet, kuruluşuna öncülük ettiği bilimsel kurumlar ve ilham verdiği bilim insanları ile İslam bilim tarihinin sayfalarında henüz hayattayken unutulmaz bir yer edinmiştir. Sempozyumumuz aracılığıyla tüm yaşamını, karşılaşmış olduğu tüm engellere ve zorluklara rağmen, inançla ve sabırla durmaksızın İslam dünyasında gelişen bilimlerin dünya bilim tarihindeki yerini göstermeye, özellikle de Batı bilim tarihinin gelişiminde İslam bilimlerinin rolünü nesnel bir biçimde ortaya koymaya adayan merhum Fuat Sezgin Hocamızın ilmî mirasını hatırlayıp onu gelecek nesillere aktarma noktasında mütevazı bir katkı sağlayabilmiş olabilmeyi umut ediyoruz. Fuat Sezgin Hocamızın bu mirasını ve de hayatta iken yürütmüş olduğu çalışmaları onurlandırmak ve kendisine karşı minnetimizi ifade etmek üzere gerçekleştirdiğimiz sempozyuma, 21 farklı ülkeden bilim tarihi alanında çalışmalar yürüten 100’e yakın değerli akademisyen katılmış ve üç gün boyunca merhum hocamızın geride bıraktığı bu miras sunulan toplam 79 bildiri ile onurlandırılmıştır. Sempozyumun somut bir meyvesi, merhum hocamıza olan minnet ve şükran duygumuzun daimî ve kalıcı bir ifadesi olarak hazırlanan bu bildiriler kitabı, sempozyuma katılan değerli hocalarımızın katkılarıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. Bildiriler Kitabı, merhum hocamızın hayatı ve eserleri üzerine yazılmış üç makaleden oluşan bir giriş kısmı ve de Fuat Sezgin’in Bilim Tarihine Katkıları, Astronomi, Matematik, Tıp, Coğrafya, Doğa Bilimleri ve İslami Bilimler başlıkları altında kategorize edilmiş İngilizce, Arapça ve Türkçe dillerinde toplam 38 makaleden oluşmaktadır. Yayınladığımız bu bildiri kitabının İslam Bilim Tarihi literatüründe önemli bir yer edineceğini ve genç araştırmacıların ufkunu açacağı inancıyla alana önemli bir katkı sağlayacağını temenni ederek, bu önemli organizasyonun gerçekleştirilmesinde ve bildiri kitabının hazırlanmasında desteklerini esirgemeyen kişi ve kurumlara teşekkür etme imkânı bulduğumuz için bahtiyarız. Başta Sempozyumumuzun Onur Kurulunda bulunan Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin’in muhterem eşleri Sayın Dr. Ursula Sezgin ve kızları Gazeteci Yazar Sayın Hilâl Sezgin olmak üzere Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin İslam Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Vakfı (İBTAV) Mütevelli Heyeti Üyesi N. Bilal Erdoğan’a, İBTAV Kurucu Başkanı Ethem Sancak’a, İBTAV Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Mecit Çetinkaya’ya, Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Eski Yardımcısı ve Zeytinburnu Belediye Başkanı Ömer Arısoy’a, Türkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu Genel Müdürü İbrahim Eren’e, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi Kurucu Rektörü Prof. Dr. Musa Duman’a ve Kırıkkale Üniversitesi Rektörü ve 2019 Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Yılı Koordinatörü Prof. Dr. Ersan Aslan’a katılım ve desteklerinden dolayı şükranlarımızı sunarız. Sempozyumumuzun gerçekleşebilmesi için finansal destek sağlayan Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin İslam Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Vakfı, Kültür Bakanlığımız, Türk Havayolları, Fatih Belediyesi ve Üsküdar Belediyesi’ne teşekkürü borç biliriz. Bilim ve Düzenleme Kurulu ile Sekreteryamız, Sempozyumumuzun düzenlenmesi ve tebliğ kitabımızın yayınlanma sürecini başarı ile yürüttüler. Sundukları tebliğler ile Sempozyumumuza katkı sağlayan dünyanın çok sayıda ülkesinden İslam bilim tarihi alanında çalışma yapan bilim insanlarına özellikle teşekkür etmek isteriz. İslâm bilim tarihi çalışmaları matematik, astronomi, tıp ve diğer tabii ilimlerden felsefe ve sosyal bilimlere çok geniş bir yelpazeyi içermektedir. Zikredilen tüm bu ilimlere bütüncül bir yaklaşımla eğilen merhum Fuat Sezgin Hocamızın hedef ve vizyonu, bu alanda daha yapılması gereken birçok çalışmanın var olduğunu da bize göstermektedir. Hocamızın miras bıraktığı fikir ve eserler ilerleyen yıllarda yapılacak araştırmalarla çok sayıda ilmi çalışma için yol gösterici olacaktır.

Description: In the name of the other: Christianity and Indigenous peoples in the Argentine Chaco region (1965-1994). Pastoral aborigen ("aboriginal pastoral") is a type of ecclesiastical indigenism with Christian roots and an ecumenical perspective which, unlike other indigenist missions, did not seek to convert Indigenous people to Christianity, but rather to promote their development and contribute to their liberation. Pastoral aborigen missions were part of the conciliar renewal and were fraught with developmental precepts and leftist ideologies of the time. This book analyzes a particular case of this collective subject: the social network created in the late sixties and early seventies in the area that covers the center and west of the province of Formosa and the west of the province of Chaco (Argentina).

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Description: Pastoral aborigen es un tipo de indigenismo eclesiástico de raigambre cristiana y sentido ecuménico que, a diferencia de otras misiones indigenistas, no pretendió convertir a los indígenas al cristianismo, sino promover su desarrollo y contribuir a su liberación. Las misiones de pastoral aborigen se inscribieron en la renovación conciliar y estuvieron tensionadas entre preceptos desarrollistas e ideologías de izquierda propias de la época. Este libro analiza un caso particular de este sujeto colectivo: la red social gestada hacia finales de la década del sesenta y principios de los años setenta en la zona que cubre el centro y el oeste de la provincia de Formosa y el oeste de la provincia del Chaco (Argentina).

Description: The crisis of more than forty years: A recent global history: In a dialogue between History and studies in International Relations, this recent global history begins with the Cold War and the French May '68 uprisings; it continues with the 1973 oil crisis, which, although initially undervalued and disparaged as an increase in the price of oil, is addressed due to its impact on the course of the century and the political responses it generated: the rise of the New Right in the First World, the Soviet Perestroika, the Four Modernizations in China and the Iranian Revolution. Subsequently, the book covers unfinished transitions: the pretension of a unipolar world, the failed World Order and its conflicts, the 2008 crisis and the search for global governance after the crack.

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Description: En un diálogo entre Historia y estudios en Relaciones Internacionales, esta historia global reciente empieza con la Guerra Fría y el Mayo Francés para continuar con la Crisis de 1973 que, aunque inicialmente subvaluada y reducida al aumento del precio del petróleo, es abordada por su impacto en el devenir del siglo y las respuestas políticas que generó: el ascenso de la nueva derecha en el Primer Mundo, la Perestroika soviética, las Cuatro modernizaciones chinas y la Revolución Iraní. El siguiente recorrido que sigue este libro es el de las transiciones inacabadas: la pretensión unipolar, el fallido Orden Mundial y sus conflictos, la Crisis de 2008 y la búsqueda de la gobernanza global tras el crack.