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Have You Ever Wondered?

Churches do an excellent job of discipling members in daily application of the principles of Christianity. Traditional Bible study groups tend to focus on individual books. But where do inquisitive Christians find answers to topics – sometimes perplexing – about their faith? Dr. Barton’s first book, Seeking Understanding Faith, focused on exploring God and interactive faith. This book explores answers to questions about the Bible. When did time begin? Did Jesus really have to die? Why do we celebrate Jesus’ birth at Christmas? What happened to the apostles? Have You Ever Wondered? addresses such questions.

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Direction and Socio-spatial Theory

The embodied directedness of human practice has long been neglected in critical socio-spatial theory, in favor of analyses focused upon distance and proximity. This book illustrates the absence of a sense for direction in much theoretical discourse and lays important groundwork for redressing this lacuna in socio-spatial theory. Many accounts of the social world are incomplete, or are increasingly out of step with recent developments of neoliberal capitalism. Not least through new technological mediations of production and consumption, the much-discussed waning of the importance of physical distance has been matched by the increasing centrality of turning from one thing to another as a basic way in which lives are structured and occupied. A sensibility for embodied processes of turning, and for phenomena of direction more generally, is urgently needed. Chapters develop wide-ranging and original engagements with the arguments of Sara Ahmed, Jonathan Beller, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Virginia Held, Bernard Stiegler, Theodore Schatzki, Rahel Jaeggi, Hartmut Rosa and David Harvey. This book reinterprets practice, embodiment, alienation, reification, social reproduction and ethical responsibility from a directional perspective. It will be a new valuable resource and reference for political and social geography students, as well as sociologists and anthropologists.