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Book Synopsis Automatic Religion by : Paul Christopher Johnson
Download or read book Automatic Religion written by Paul Christopher Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
Book Synopsis Religion and Family in a Changing Society by : Penny Edgell
Download or read book Religion and Family in a Changing Society written by Penny Edgell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested changes: "family values" in local religious life -- |t Religious involvement and religious institutional change -- |t Religion, family, and work -- |t Styles of religious involvement -- |t "The problem with families today ..."--|t Practice of family ministry -- |t Religious familism and social change.
Book Synopsis The Psychology Of Religion by : Bernard Spilka
Download or read book The Psychology Of Religion written by Bernard Spilka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development, and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions. A number of new contributions are collected with previously published pieces to illustrate the
Book Synopsis Studies in Religious History by : Ernest Renan
Download or read book Studies in Religious History written by Ernest Renan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion as Empowerment by : Kyriaki Topidi
Download or read book Religion as Empowerment written by Kyriaki Topidi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism. At the same time, it also questions the thesis that as societies become more modern, they also become less religious. The authors look beyond the rule of law orthodoxy in their consideration of the freedom of religion as a human right and place this discussion in a more plurality-sensitive context. The book sheds more light on the informal and/or customary mechanisms that explain the limited impact of law on individuals and groups, especially in non-Western societies. The focus is on discussing how religion and the exercise of religious rights may or may not empower individuals and social groups and improve access to human rights in general. This book is important reading for academics and practitioners of law and religion, religious rights, religious diversity and cultural difference, as well as NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and advocates at multicultural jurisdictions. It offers a contemporary take on comparative legal studies, with a distinct focus on religion as an identity marker.
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.
Book Synopsis Auto-suggestion and Religion by : Henry Child Carter
Download or read book Auto-suggestion and Religion written by Henry Child Carter and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report, International Religious Freedom by : United States. Department of State
Download or read book Annual Report, International Religious Freedom written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conceptualizing Religion written by Saler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we transform a folk category — in this case, religion — into an analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In addressing that question, this book critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion for scholarly purposes, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. The author argues that the most plausible analytical strategy can be based on the idea of family resemblances, especially as that idea has been used and developed in contemporary prototype theory. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of 'more or less' rather than a matter of 'yes or no,' and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
Book Synopsis Religion in America by : George C. Bedell
Download or read book Religion in America written by George C. Bedell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Other Worlds, Other Bodies by : Emily Pierini
Download or read book Other Worlds, Other Bodies written by Emily Pierini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of “other” worlds that may intersect with the so-called “material” or “physical” worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.
Book Synopsis Innovative Automatic Identification and Location-Based Services: From Bar Codes to Chip Implants by : Michael, Katina
Download or read book Innovative Automatic Identification and Location-Based Services: From Bar Codes to Chip Implants written by Michael, Katina and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book emphasizes the convergence and trajectory of automatic identification and location-based services toward chip implants and real-time positioning capabilities"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Auto-biography of Goethe by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book The Auto-biography of Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tyranny of God by : Marquez Comelab
Download or read book The Tyranny of God written by Marquez Comelab and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, the author probes into how life began. It then progresses to investigate the nature of religions and writes that, because we refuse to accept our mortality, we delude ourselves and we coerce others, with the tyranny of our own beliefs.
Book Synopsis The Auto-biography of Goethe Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book The Auto-biography of Goethe Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Auto-Biography of an Obsolete Churchman: with Some Suggestions on Further Reform; in a Letter to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... Second Edition by : afterwards BURDON SANDERSON BURDON (Richard)
Download or read book The Auto-Biography of an Obsolete Churchman: with Some Suggestions on Further Reform; in a Letter to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... Second Edition written by afterwards BURDON SANDERSON BURDON (Richard) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Auto-biography of Goethe ... Translated ... by John Oxenford. (The Concluding Books, Also Letters from Switzerland, and Travels in Italy, Translated by A. J. W. Morrison.). by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Download or read book The Auto-biography of Goethe ... Translated ... by John Oxenford. (The Concluding Books, Also Letters from Switzerland, and Travels in Italy, Translated by A. J. W. Morrison.). written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
