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Author : Bodil Liljefors Persson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of the Jaguar Prophet written by Bodil Liljefors Persson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruno Boute
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004240039
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Devising Order written by Bruno Boute and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, scholarship in the Humanities and in the Social Sciences has witnessed the synchronic and often tangled rise of Ritual and Performance Studies. This interdisciplinary collection of essays in disciplines ranging from Theology to Antropology to Business Administration offers an insightful guide to assumptions, approaches and methods that underpin much of cutting-edge research in the field, with the help of case-studies spanning four continents and covering a long-haul period from the High Middle Ages to the Present.
Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083306
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History written by Matthew White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.
Author : Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493655
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Religion, Space, and the Environment written by Sigurd Bergmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions often nurture important skills that help believers locate themselves in the world. Religious perceptions, practices, emotions, and beliefs are closely interwoven with the environments from which they emerge. Sigurd Bergmann's driving emphasis here is to explore religion not in relation to, but as a part of the spatiality and movement within the environment from which it arises and is nurtured.Religion, Space, and the Environment emerges from the author's experiences in different places and continents over the past decade. At the book's heart lie the questions of how space, place, and religion amalgamate and how lived space and lived religion influence each other.Bergmann explores how religion and the memory of our past impact our lives in urban spaces; how the sacred geographies in Mayan and northeast Asian lands compare to modern eco-spirituality; and how human images and practices of moving in, with, and through the land are interwoven with the processes of colonization and sacralising, and the practices of power and visions of the sacred, among other topics.
Author : Henrik Bogdan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350413291
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Study of Religion in Sweden written by Henrik Bogdan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars.
Author : Kerry M. Hull
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1457117533
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Parallel Worlds written by Kerry M. Hull and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452901381
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus written by and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252363
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Ritual Practice of Time written by Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
Author : Robert M. Carmack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317346785
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Mesoamerica written by Robert M. Carmack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their influence in the world community. For courses on Mesoamerica (Middle America) taught in departments of anthropology, history, and Latin American Studies.
Author : Torsten Janson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Your Cradle is Green written by Torsten Janson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torsten Janson has been a lecturer in Islamology at Lund University, Sweden, since 1995.
Author : Anne-Christine Hornborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Landscape of Left-overs written by Anne-Christine Hornborg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magnus Lundberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unification and Conflict written by Magnus Lundberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leif Carlsson
Publisher : University of Lund Department of History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Round Trips to Heaven written by Leif Carlsson and published by University of Lund Department of History. This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the Common Era, a number of religious texts were written recounting heavenly journey adventures. These narratives have come to constitute a recurring theme in research regarding ancient religions. This book features several early Jewish and Christian heavenly journey texts. Most of them are included in the apocalyptic literature. During the earlier research, the heavenly journey motif was understood to be one of many elements in this literature. It was not until the latter part of the 20th century that the stories of the heavenly journeys were treated as a type of their own among these texts. The approach of this study serves to illuminate the function of the texts and the circumstances and settings in which they were composed and later passed on, something which scholars have only recently begun to acknowledge. Of vital importance is the status of the heavenly travelers as well as their relationships with other members of the Tradition Group considered to have authored the texts. Two main types of heavenly journeys appear in the accounts. One type has the function of providing an identity for the heavenly traveler, and the other constitutes a paradigm for the events awaiting mankind after death. The concluding section of the book is a relatively long exposition of 3 Baruch. This text, which in its entirety portrays a heavenly journey, informs the reader about death. In common with a number of other heavenly texts, 3 Baruch has both Jewish and Christian elements. Moreover, it clearly reflects a universal perspective. A similar perspective is also found in several of the other heavenly journey narratives which provides a reasonable explanation for how they could be used in both Jewish and Christian contexts.
Author : Shinji Yamase
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impact of Christianity on Colonial Maya, Ancient Mexico, China, and Japan written by Shinji Yamase and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Kull
Publisher : Stockholm University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Piety and Politics written by Ann Kull and published by Stockholm University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. The aim of this dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it is a study in the tradition of the history of ideas, and thus attempts an analysis of Nurcholish's ideational production and methodological approach. Secondly, it aims to locate Nurcholish's ideas and activities within the Indonesian context. To this end it provides a presentation of his life, intellectual influences and an overview of relevant historical facts.
Author : Julio Edgar Lopez-Maldonado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Ethnohistory of the Stingless Bees Melipona Beecheii (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) in the Mayan Civilization, Decipherment of the Beekeeping Almanacs Part I in the Madrid Codex and the Study of Their Behavioral Traits and Division of Labor written by Julio Edgar Lopez-Maldonado and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank N. Egerton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498700705
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America written by Frank N. Egerton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is the largest professional society devoted to the science of ecology. A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America tells the story of ESA's humble beginnings, growing from approximately 100 founding members and a modest publication of a few pages to a m
