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Author : Mark-harald Jensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Rituals of Critical Mass written by Mark-harald Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Bruce Bushong
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491748699
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Critical Mass written by E. Bruce Bushong and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the horrors of 9/11, Brian had been lost. His quest for purpose led him to France in the spring of 2003. There, everything changed when he joined with fellow seekersKatrina, a German physicist; Hadji, an Indian engineer; Alia, a Brazilian pilot; and Qui Jen, a Japanese ninjaas part of the Holistic Group dedicated to the transformation of the planet through the creation of Critical Mass. As foretold in ancient texts, Critical Mass is both a beautifully simple and incomprehensibly complex concept for change. To achieve this rare state, 3,511 people must be trained to come together in a single thought. If this can be accomplished, that one thought will manifest as a new reality, a self-aware planet, a Global Brain. Brian is challenged to accept the responsibilities of the Uniter, the one who would come and start the world anew. But the Monarchists, a group with considerably less philanthropic goals, have vowed to stop at nothing to ensure that their vision is the one that comes to pass. The first group to achieve Critical Mass will win the planet. In order to realize his spiritual potential to save humanity, Brian and his crew travel the world in search of knowledge to use the Tree of Life, an ancient map of consciousness. Can they achieve their goals before the Monarchists achieve theirs? Only time and fate will tell
Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134490178
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Media Rituals written by Nick Couldry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behaviour for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Couldry applies the work of theorists such as Durkheim, Bourdieu and Bloch to a number of important media arenas: the public media event; reality TV; Webcam sites; talk shows and docu-soaps; media pilgrimages; the construction of celebrity. In a final chapter, he imagines a different world where the media's ritual power is less, because the possibilities of participation in media production are more evenly shared.
Author : Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533032
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Critical Mass written by Mead Art Museum (Amherst College) and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Puts New Jersey at the center of key art movements during the sixties
Author : adrienne maree brown
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352615
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Emergent Strategy written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
Author : Vincent Lloyd
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804768846
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Problem with Grace written by Vincent Lloyd and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Problem with Grace develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology and shows how a series of religious concepts (such as love, faith, liturgy, and revelation) can be constructively used today in both political theory and political practice.
Author : Rita Smith Kipp
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084029
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Dissociated Identities written by Rita Smith Kipp and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world. What the state's policies on culture and religion mean to Karo women and men, who now live in cities throughout Indonesia as well as in their Sumatran homeland, becomes clear only by looking at the way Karo families and communities contend with religious pluralism, with the pull of tradition working against the wish to be "modern" and with the new wealth differences in their midst. Newly discrete facets of Karo selfhood - ethnic, religious, and economic - replicate in microcosm the political tensions of the nation-state, revealing both why the New Order has enjoyed great stability over almost three decades and the sources of disruption that may lie ahead.
Author : Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213327
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)
Download or read book What's Left? written by Mary Jo Weaver and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's Left? employs a thoroughly in-house approach in which self-identified liberal Catholics examine various facets of liberal Catholicism.... this book explores some of the most prominent threads of leftist Catholic aspiration and dissent." --Choice What's Left? is the most comprehensive study to date of liberal American Catholics in the generation following the second Vatican council (1962-65). The main features of liberal American Catholicism--feminist theology and practice, contested issues of sexual conduct, new social locations of academic theology, liturgy, spirituality, ministry, race and ethnicity, and public Catholicism--are presented here in their historical and social contexts.
Author : Ute Husken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136517936
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Ritual Matters written by Ute Husken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.
Author : Caitlin O'Connell
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797201611
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Wild Rituals written by Caitlin O'Connell and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others. Behavioral ecologist and world-renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell dives into the rituals of elephants, apes, zebras, rhinos, lions, whales, flamingos, and many more. This fascinating read helps us better understand how we are similar to wild animals, and encourages us to find healing, self-awareness, community, and self-reinvention. • Filled with fascinating stories on 10 different animal rituals • Features original full-color photos, from the Caribbean to the African savannah • Demonstrates the profound way we are similar to the wild creatures who captivate us Wild Rituals journeys into the desert, tundra, and rainforest to reveal the importance of rituals and how they can help us find a simpler, more meaningful way of living. In a culture of technology where we find ourselves living at a greater distance from nature and each other, this remarkable book taps into the unspoken languages of creatures around the world. • Caitlin O'Connell is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and an award-winning author who spent more than 30 years studying animals in the wild. • Makes a great gift for anyone curious about nature, animals, and how humans compare to and interact with both • Add it to the shelf with books like Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina; Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal; The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben; and The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery.
Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791478211
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Ritual and Deference written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.
Author : Jeff Ferrell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403960337
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Tearing Down the Streets written by Jeff Ferrell and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt take back urban spaces from the developers and "disneyfiers". Drawing on more than a decade of first-hand research, this lively account goes inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high-risk "BASE jump" parachutists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, to explore the day-to-day skirmishes in the struggle over public life and public space.
Author : William G. Gray
Publisher : Skylight Press
ISBN 13 : 1908011173
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Rollright Ritual written by William G. Gray and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s the redoubtable old occultist William G. Gray bicycled from his Gloucestershire home to the Rollright stone circle in Oxfordshire on a clear and full-mooned summer night. The visionary experiences he encountered on that night and in other similar visits resulted in the writing of this book, originally published by Helios Books in 1975 and now a classic among pagan and craft traditions. The text of the ritual is given in full, along with a discussion of its pattern and purpose. The Rollright Ritual is a powerful initiatory rite for attuning oneself to a personal and communal path of spiritual growth, presented here with an explanatory text and a discussion of the spiritual lives and practices of the stone circle builders of Great Britain. "Somehow, we ought to get away from ideas that a Standing Stone is only an outworn sign of our past, and see it as an upraised Finger of Fate beckoning us ahead toward our future. The Stone is not merely a memorial of bygone beliefs, but a pointer that should raise our highest hopes of finding faith in all the Life that lies ahead of us."
Author : Professor Erik Champion
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472422902
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage written by Professor Erik Champion and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inter-relationship between digital humanities and digital games is surprisingly seldom investigated. This book explains how games and virtual environments can be used in teaching and research to critique issues and topics in virtual heritage and interactive history. Individual chapters highlight the importance of visualisation, rituals, role-playing, alternatives to violent gameplay, interactive narrative, biofeedback and critical thinking.
Author : Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846439
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Rational Ritual written by Michael Suk-Young Chwe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, knowledge of the knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. For instance, people watching the Super Bowl know that many others are seeing precisely what they see and that those people know in turn that many others are also watching. This creates common knowledge, and advertisers selling products that depend on consensus are willing to pay large sums to gain access to it. Remarkably, a great variety of rituals and ceremonies, such as formal inaugurations, work in much the same way. By using a rational-choice argument to explain diverse cultural practices, Chwe argues for a close reciprocal relationship between the perspectives of rationality and culture. He illustrates how game theory can be applied to an unexpectedly broad spectrum of problems, while showing in an admirably clear way what game theory might hold for scholars in the social sciences and humanities who are not yet acquainted with it. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age.
Author : Elliott B. Weininger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429874774
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Ritual, Emotion, Violence written by Elliott B. Weininger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced, and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought, and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras, using data from New York, and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart, using data from Philadelphia, examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book, a study by Paul DiMaggio, Clark Bernier, Charles Heckscher, and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which, according to Collins, is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that, at least under certain circumstances, digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge, examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm, one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes, suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction, by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final, reflective chapter, Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written, these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today.
Author : Randall Collins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851742
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Interaction Ritual Chains written by Randall Collins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in. The first half of Interaction Ritual Chains is based on the classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms, emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of all sorts--from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual relationships with prostitutes--while describing the interaction rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and literary theory.
