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Book Synopsis Animism, Magic, and the Divine King by : Giza Rsheim
Download or read book Animism, Magic, and the Divine King written by Giza Rsheim and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the ancient kingdom of Sumer was the due of the serpent or bull hero who defeated the old serpent or bull and had access to the Divine Mother we can understand why her love appears to be a dangerous boon in later ages. For year by year the chosen of Ishtar has to encounter a foe of his own blood and one of the two "bulls" is dispatched to the country without return. -from "The Divine King" Thoroughly fascinating and totally engrossing, this 1930 work is an exploration of myth and magic in ancient cultures and how they tapped into the most elemental of human experiences-sex, death, tribalism, and war-to lay the foundations of modern religion, contemporary politics, and even the tradition of scientific inquiry. Armchair anthropologists, readers of comparative mythology, and anyone interested in the fundamental basis of the human subconscious will find this book extraordinarily enlightening. Hungarian anthropologist GZA RHEIM (1891-1953) was the first professor of anthropology at the University of Budapest, a position he held from 1919 to 1938, when he fled to the United States to escape the unrest of Europe just prior to World War II. He is also the author of The Riddle of the Sphinx (1934), The Origin and Function of Culture (1943), The Eternal Ones of the Dream (1945), and The Gates of the Dream (1952).
Book Synopsis Animism, Magic, and the Divine King by : Géza Róheim
Download or read book Animism, Magic, and the Divine King written by Géza Róheim and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan by : Kuel Maluil Jok
Download or read book Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan written by Kuel Maluil Jok and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern "Southern Sudan". It gives an account of how the animistic ritual performances of the divine chief-priests are strategies in conflict management and resolution. For centuries, the Nilotic peoples have been resisting changes to new religious identities and conservatively remained Animists. Their current interactions with the external world, however, have transformed their religious identities. At present, the Nilotics are Animist-Christians or Animist-Muslims. This does not mean that the converted Nilotics relinquish Animism and become completely assimilated to the new religious prophetic dogmas, instead, they develop compatible religious practices of Animism, Christianity and Islam. New Islamic fundamentalism in Sudan which is sweeping Africa into Islamic religious orthodoxy, where Sharia (Islamic law) is the law of the land, rejects this compatibility and categorises the Nilotics as "heathens" and "apostates". Such characterisation engenders opposing religious categories, with one side urging Sharia and the other for what this study calls "gradable" culture. Kuel Jok is a researcher at the Department of World Cultures at the University of Helsinki. In Sudan, Jok obtained a degree in English Linguistics and Literature and diplomas in Philosophy and Translation. He also studied International Law in Egypt. In Europe, Jok acquired an MA in Sociology from the University of Joensuu, Finland and a PhD in the same field from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Book Synopsis Crypts of the Gods by : Randa Kassis
Download or read book Crypts of the Gods written by Randa Kassis and published by E-Kutub Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randa Kassis starts from an anthropological challenge, saying that the system of religious ethics which is intended to form templates of what is forbidden or acceptable in sexual relationships between humans was only a modification of myths and dominating social experiences that sought to control this instinct to serve the power of forbidding. These myths have raised that form of ethics to a sacred rank, not only because they were unable to understand sex but because they were unable to understand the mysteries of nature too. Kassis takes up this challenge in order to say that life and liberty are parts of each other and they are linked to our capacity of awareness. If we discover that religious morality was a result of historical misunderstanding, then we will need to free this morality from the prison of human virtue.
Book Synopsis On the Animation of the Inorganic by : Spyros Papapetros
Download or read book On the Animation of the Inorganic written by Spyros Papapetros and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interacting with computers and other equipment. In On the Animation of the Inorganic, Spyros Papapetros examines ideas about simulated movement and inorganic life during and after the turn of the twentieth century—a period of great technical innovation whose effects continue to reverberate today. Exploring key works of art historians such as Aby Warburg, Wilhelm Worringer, and Alois Riegl, as well as architects and artists like Fernand Léger, Mies van der Rohe, and Salvador Dalí, Papapetros tracks the evolution of the problem of animation from the fin de siècle through the twentieth century. He argues that empathy—the ability to identify with objects of the external world—was repressed by twentieth-century modernist culture, but it returned, projected onto inorganic objects such as machines, automobiles, and crystalline skyscrapers. These modern artifacts, he demonstrates, vibrated with energy, life, and desire of their own and had profound effects on people. Subtle and insightful, this book will change how we view modernist art, architecture, and their histories.
Download or read book Making Magic written by Randall Styers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.
Download or read book God Against Us written by Alvin Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 200? with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual perspective on current End Time Events including the Rapture and the Great Tribulation.
Book Synopsis The King's Body by : Sergio Bertelli
Download or read book The King's Body written by Sergio Bertelli and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.
Download or read book Domination written by Alkis Kontos and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975-12-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle. It is an abandonment of our freedom, our will, and our love of justice, and yet socially, psychologically, and ontologically domination in some degree seems inevitable. There is now in the western world an uneasy sense that more domination is going on than necessary, and this work tries to outline the theoretic modalities of this human predicament. The twelve essays in Domination examine such questions as: Does the ego of the infant require for its development some experiences of dominance? Is it men or the system that causes the domination of women? How has capitalism with its property laws entailed limits on national and personal freedom? What do existentialism and critical theory have to tell us about violence and reason, or about magic and science, as modes of life that constrain everyone? What is racialism? And, if the world is beyond the powers of reason, what does modern man now make his public and private raison d’être? Those who are looking for amelioration of the quality and quantity of human freedom will find this book helpful in defining and cracking the chains. The contributors, in order of their appearance of their essays, are O. Weininger, Elizabeth Brady, R.T. Naylor, R.O. Matthews, C.B. Macpherson, Monika Langer, Keith McCallum, Ato Sekyi-Out, Christian Lenhardt, Ben Agger, David Cook, and Alkis Kontos.
Book Synopsis Psychology and Myth by : Robert Alan Segal
Download or read book Psychology and Myth written by Robert Alan Segal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses by : Gábor Klaniczay
Download or read book Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses written by Gábor Klaniczay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of medieval Hungarian and central European royal saints.
Book Synopsis Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall by : Herbert Weisinger
Download or read book Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall written by Herbert Weisinger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1953, Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall argues that our response to tragedy is made up of a series of responses: the impact of experience which produces the archetypes of belief; the formation of the archetype of rebirth; the crystallization of the archetype of rebirth in the myth and ritual of the ancient Near East; the transformation of myth and ritual in the religions of the ancient world, including Christianity; the formalization of the archetype of rebirth into the concept of felix culpa, the paradox of the fortunate fall and finally the secular utilization of the paradox of the fortunate fall as the substance out of which tragedy is made. This book will be of interest to students of literature, philosophy and history.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures by : Theresa Bane
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
Book Synopsis THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOD ILLUSION by : Ir. Jim K K Wong
Download or read book THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOD ILLUSION written by Ir. Jim K K Wong and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one may have read Cicero in The Nature Of The Gods, ancient people were vivid observers of the sky and the celestial bodies because of their livelihood- they were mostly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. The cycles of nature and seasons were the most important factors affecting farming civilizations. The brilliant ‘stars’ Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and the zodiac were also objects of great interest. These heavenly bodies were regarded as deities even by learned philosophers. Cicero and Socrates had a field day demolishing these strongly held prevailing ideas. One popular god illusion of the West and Middle East began with patriarch Abraham who was an astronomer from Mesopotamia. He studied Jupiter avidly and could predict its behavior which he used it to his advantage in his migration to the Fertile Crescent and in his encounters with hostile inhabitants. Abraham had the delusion that Jupiter-Yahweh was a deity who could be depended to assist him in troubled times. The Yahweh Delusion was passed down from Abraham to son Isaac and grandson Jacob. Jacob’s 12 sons migrated to Egypt, multiplied and eventually became slaves. Moses a pariah Egyptian prince became the rebel leader of the Hebrew slaves when he discovered his roots. At the opportune moment, c.1450 BCE, Venus erupted from unstable fast-spinning Red Giant Jupiter and shot into the inner solar system like a billiard ball along a highly elliptical orbit. It had several close encounters with Earth, Moon and Mars and created stunning phenomena or ‘miracles’ such as the much exaggerated Ten Plagues, parting of the Red Sea, the rain of manna, apparent stopping of the Earth’s rotation, and even the destruction of the mighty army of Sennacherib near Jerusalem. Moses and his successors apparently knew and could predict more or less unusual celestial phenomena and attributed them to a tribal deity Yahweh who was connected with their deliverance and survival. Every successful prediction or expectation resulted in augmenting the god illusion. The god illusion evolved through stupendous sagas, cross fertilized by neighbors and reformers roughly from 1500 BCE to 500 BCE. However, the Hebrews had a confused idea of this savior deity and its feminine aspects, such as the Celestial Cow giving manna-milk. In the evolutionary process, Yahwist patriarchs literally wrote off the influential Goddess and made Yahweh a lone male god of Judaism and Christianity. The underlying motive developing this god illusion is Moses’ and Israel’s covetousness of the fertile Holy Land. Moses needed a justification to commit genocide, to rob, loot, destroy and drive out people inhabiting the land of milk and honey. The justification is a tribal god of Israelites who gives mandate to his chosen race to rob and steal the Promise Land from ‘evil’ worshippers of false gods! The underlying theory for this god illusion evolution hypothesis is based on Immanuel Velikovsky’s bestseller of the 1950s, Worlds in Collision. This hypothesis met fierce opposition in academia and Establishment Science. The AAAS Symposium 1974 was convened to address the serious challenge. Here, the author produces abstracts from various experts in various disciplines of sciences and arts to counter objections to the underlying theory. The god illusion presented here is my own interpretation of the psychological impacts and aspects of these astounding celestial phenomena. I am using appropriate knowledge in several disciplines to support my thesis, such as radiation chemistry, upper atmosphere chemistry and behavioral science. My training as a stock analyst to read the underlying environment enables me to read in between the lines, to speculate and connect the gaps and dots together and present a satisfying version of the god illusion.
Book Synopsis The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity by : Daya Ram Varma
Download or read book The Art and Science of Healing Since Antiquity written by Daya Ram Varma and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sacral Kingship / La Regalità Sacra by : Carl-Martin Edsman
Download or read book The Sacral Kingship / La Regalità Sacra written by Carl-Martin Edsman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Editors The Sacral Kingship -- Zum sakralen Königtum in der Forschung der letzten hundert Jahre /Carl-Martin Edsman -- Zur Dialektik des Gottkönigtums /Hans Heinz Holz -- Der religionspsychologische Aspekt des sakralen Königtums /Adolf Allwohn -- Le caractère sacré de la souveraineté à la lumière de la psychologie collective /Edmond Rochedieu -- The High God and the King as symbols of totality /K. A. H. Hidding -- The Sacred Kingship and the priesthood /E. O. James -- Volksreligiöse Herrschaftsformen /Gustav Mensching -- The Sacral Chief among the American Indians /Paul Radin -- La place du roi divin dans les cercles culturels d'Afrique Noire /V. Van Bulck -- Divine Kingship and its partiopation in Ashanti /Rev. Patrick Akoi -- Il sacrificio del vecchio re-mago nella Cina leggendaria /P. Benedetto Fedele -- Le Roi Sacré dans l'ancien Viet-Nam /Nguyen Tran Huan -- Hindu Doctrine of Divine Kingship /A. Basu -- The Sacred Character of Ancient Indian Kingship /J. Gonda -- Le caractère royal et divin du trône dans l'Inde ancienne /Jeannine Auboyer -- La regalità sacra nell'antico Tibet /G. Tucci -- The Notion of Divine Kingship in Tantric Buddhism /D. L. Snellgrove -- La personne sacrée du Roi dans la littérature populaire Cambodgienne /Solange Thierry -- L'origine céleste de la souveraineté dans les inscriptions Paléo-Torques de Mongolie et de Sibérie /Jean-Paul Roux -- The Sacral Kingship of Iran /Geo Widengren -- The Position of the Queen in Ancient Egypt /C. J. Bleeker -- Das Königtum im Mittleren Reich /Günter Lanczkowski -- General Oriental and Specific Israelite Elements in the Israelite Conception of the Sacral Kingdom /Sigmund Mowinckel -- King David and the Sons of Saul /Arvid S. Kapelrud -- Herrschaftsform und Ichbewusstsein /Johannes Hempel -- Das erste Buch des Psalters. Eine Thronbesteigungsfestliturgie /Miloš Bič -- Les apports du psaume CX (vulg. CIX) à l'idéologie royale Israélite /J. Coppens -- Hasidic Conceptions of Kingship in the Maccabean Period /M. A. Beek -- The Consecration in the eighth Chapter of Testamentum Levi /H. Ludin Jansen -- Was there a Sacral Kingship in Minoan Crete? /Arne Furumark -- The Evidence for Divine Kings in Greece /H. J. Rose -- Mission sociale et pouvoirs magiques du poète comparés à ceux du Roi dans le lyrisme de Pindare /Jacqueline Duchemin -- Alexanders Gottkönigsgedanke und die Bewusstseinslage der Griechen und Makedonen /Fritz Taeger -- Le rex et les flamines maiores /Georges Dumézil -- Prodromes sacerdotaux de la divinisation impériale /Jean Bayet -- The Idea of the Kingdom of God in the New Testament /Frederick C. Grant -- Théocratie et monarchie selon l'Évangile /H. Clavier -- Le Conflit entre Dieu et le Souverain divinisé dans l'Apocalypse de Jean /L. Cerfaux -- The Effect of the Destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 on Primitive Christian Soteriology /S. G. F. Brandon -- L'idée de Dieu et la divinité du Roi (résumé) /H. I. Marrou -- Expressions of Cosmic Kingship in the Ancient World /H. P. L'Orange -- Der Abbau des Herrscherkultes im Zeitalter Konstantins /Kurt Aland.
Book Synopsis Studies in the History Ofr Religions by :
Download or read book Studies in the History Ofr Religions written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
