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The rural idyll and the kingdom of Christ
Rural Theology, 2004What we call the rural idyll and what we call the kingdom of Christ are often simply constructions which tend to reflect the over-riding self-interest of human beings. What is required is a correcting vision which allows us to recover a vision of the world as God sees it in order more clearly to discern God's will.
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2007
Abstract Despite the emphasis on the electoral imperative of winning rural seats, the countryside always represented far more than simply a setting for the Labour Party’s political ambitions. Interpretations of its political culture generated a series of inherently negative responses to rural Britain, but these existed alongside an ...
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Abstract Despite the emphasis on the electoral imperative of winning rural seats, the countryside always represented far more than simply a setting for the Labour Party’s political ambitions. Interpretations of its political culture generated a series of inherently negative responses to rural Britain, but these existed alongside an ...
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Beyond the Idyll: Contested Spaces of Rural Tourism
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2014Svein Frisvoll's thesis challenges us about the way in which we conceptualise and understand rural space, and seeks to apply the insights inspired by his reworking of Halfacree's model (Halfacree 2...
Michael Woods +2 more
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In Search of Arcadia: The Persistence of the Rural Idyll in New Zealand Rural Subdivisions
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1998Abstract Arcadian ideals have long been important in western culture. They underpinned projects for colonial settlement and continue to be manifest today in urban perceptions of rural lifestyle throughout the English speaking world. Results from a study of 58 existing or intending smallholders around Christchurch, New Zealand, highlight the way ...
Simon Swaffield, John Fairweather
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OUT OF PLACE IN THE COUNTRY: TRAVELLERS AND THE “RURAL IDYLL”
Antipode, 1996A controversial new Criminal Justice and Public Order Act in Great Britain contains measures to curb the lifestyles of a group known collectively as “New Age Travellers”. This paper examines these travellers as “folk devils” of the Conservative “New Right” on a number of levels: their lifestyle does not conform to that espoused by authoritarian or ...
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Contemporary clerical constructions of a spiritual rural idyll
Sociologia Ruralis, 2002Research among rural clergy in Somerset suggests that both historically and in the present, country clergy play a part in the creation, re–creation, envisioning, and transmission of a spiritual variant of the rural idyll. Earlier studies on the origins, nature, and function of the rural idyll have largely neglected this spiritual dimension.
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Spaces of well‐being and regional settlement: International migrants and the rural idyll
, 2021Natascha Klocker +11 more
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Beyond the Rural Idyll: Images, countryside change and geography
Geography, 2005This article contributes to the Conference theme of ‘Images in Geography’ by arguing that the effective analysis of imagery can help geographers to understand countryside change.
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