Is liberation theology geographically divided or thematically unified? How is Jewish related to other such theologies? The lifework of Marc H. Ellis demonstrates the continued relevance this movement born from political struggles in Latin America 1970s. This edited volume gathers contributions a Festschrift conference held at Perkins School Theology Dallas, TX, April 2018. range authors represe...

Calls for a “nonideal turn” in political philosophy are increasingly common the field. Political philosophers repeatedly asked to step out of their ivory towers and get hands dirty with real moral crises that surround them. These calls not surprising, given dysfunctionality politics many states world—including prospering democracies—and bleak promises futures hold. But task doing nonideal theor...

We propose an approach to detect violence in movies at video shot level using low-level and mid-level features. We use audio energy, pitch and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features to represent the affective audio content of movies. For the affective visual content, we extract average motion information. To learn a model for violence detection, we choose a discriminative classific...

Liberal theories of civil disobedience have long come under attack.1 The list charges is considerable. What often called the “orthodox” liberal view has been reproached to limit aims claims equal rights, while actors used reclaim democratic participation (Markovits, 2005). accounts are also said “sanitized” practice by subjecting it overly strict conditions, too at odds with intensifying dynami...

One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth, factors supporting its maintenance, and theories of female aggression are examined. ...