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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religion Past & Present written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Frischer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312139
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Sculpted Word written by Bernard Frischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focusses on the Epicureans, who are of special interest because their approach was at once extremely passive and extremely successful. Unlike other philosophical schools, which depended primarioly on public lectures and books, the Epicureans avoided contract with the dominant culture and attracted members by erecting statues of Epicurus and their other master in public places. These iconologically rich, "sculpted words" appealed to teh very people most likely to be attracted to Epicureanism, those most likely to accept the philosophy of materialism, sensationalism, and the repression of feeling, and those who sought a way of life sperate from teh dominant culture. This book is an innovative application of an inter-disciplinary humanistic an social-scientific approach to ancient Greek philosophy and art. It will appeal to those interested in the history of these subjects and those interested in the sociology of knowledge and communication. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199739471
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher : Religion Past and Present
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion Past & Present: Bia-Chr written by Hans Dieter Betz and published by Religion Past and Present. This book was released on 2007 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly worldwide in its coverage, this English version of the 4th edition of the RGG, makes this gold standard of encyclopedias accessible to the English-speaking world. Taking into account the latest research developments, it offers a wide-ranging and multi-denominational approach to all aspects of the study of religion and theology.
Author : Friedrich Schweitzer
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830992858
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book International Knowledge Transfer in Religious Education written by Friedrich Schweitzer and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about international knowledge transfer in religious education as an academic discipline; at the same time, though, it is related to the school subject of RE. Its aim is to strengthen the awareness of the need for international cooperation in the field of religious education in general and especially for clarifying the role of knowledge in this kind of cooperation. The contributions discuss a number of issues, among others related to the validity and transferability of knowledge in religious education. Thus, the book takes up a topic which so far has remained implicit and therefore also untreated. This approach implies a whole spectrum of new methodological and epistemological problems. Some crucial questions that are discussed in the chapters from different national contexts are: – How can the national and the international context be productively connected to each other? – Which concept or understanding of ›international‹ should be used when it comes to the transfer of knowledge? – What exactly is meant by ›knowledge‹ in religious education? – What does ›transfer‹ mean in this context? The scope of the book is an invitation to other colleagues to take part in and to continue the discussion.
Author : Susan D. Blum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461638852
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Lies That Bind written by Susan D. Blum and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an authoritative examination of rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty in society. Blum points to a propensity for deception in Chinese public interactions in situations where people in the United States would expect truthfulness, yet argues that lying is evaluated within Chinese society by moral standards different from those of Americans. Chinese, for example, might emphasize the consequences of speech, Americans the absolute truthfulness. Blum considers the longstanding values that led to this style of interaction, as well as more recent factors, such as the government's control over expression. But Chinese society is not alone in the practice of such customs. The author observes that many Americans also excel in manipulation of language, yet find a simultaneous moral absolutism opposed to lying in any form. She also considers other traditions, including Japanese and Jewish, that struggle to control the boundaries of lying, balancing human needs with moral values in contrasting ways. Deception and lying, the book concludes, are distinctively cultural yet universal—inseparable from what it is to be a human being equipped with language in all its subtlety.
Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004126282
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Sparks of the Logos written by Daniel Boyarin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to Christianity, and provides a re-examination, by going back to the roots, of a rabbinic Judaism that would not manifest some of the deleterious social ideologies and practices that modern orthodox Judaism generally does.
Author : Gérard Prunier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1849046182
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia written by Gérard Prunier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea) are largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature that is partial or propagandist. Moreover there have been few attempts to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the country's recent history, politics and culture that goes beyond the usual guidebook fare. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia seeks to do just that, presenting a measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the main features of this unique country, now building on the foundations of a magical and tumultuous past as it struggles to emerge in the modern world on its own terms.
Author : Roger O'Toole
Publisher : Toronto ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religion written by Roger O'Toole and published by Toronto ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill Ryerson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019880587X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book International Law and Religion written by Martti Koskenniemi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume brings together contributions by academics in various fields of law and the humanities, in order to tackle the complex interactions between international law and religion. The originality and the variety of approaches makes this book a must-have for academics planning to approach the topic in the future.
Author : Jan Wepsiec
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Sciences written by Jan Wepsiec and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains some 5,000 current and ceased international serial publications in the field of social sciences such as economics, political science, sociology, cultural anthropology, international law, comparitive law, human geography, social history, education, psychology and so on. Includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary publications, comparitive studies indexing and abstracting journals in general social sciences and in individual disciplines. Arranged alphabetically by title followed by a comprehensive subject index.
Author : Frank Whaling
Publisher : T. & T. Clark Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religion in Today's World written by Frank Whaling and published by T. & T. Clark Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018307
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sufism written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.
Author : Paul Connerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521270939
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book How Societies Remember written by Paul Connerton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the currently dominant idea that literary texts may be taken as a metaphor for social practices generally. The author argues that images of the past and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances and that performative memory is bodily. Bodily social memory is an essential aspect of social memory, but it is an aspect which has until now been badly neglected. An innovative study, this work should be of interest to researchers into social, political and anthropological thought as well as to graduate and undergraduate students.
Author : Susan Marie Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608997413
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process written by Susan Marie Smith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people, even non-Christians, know that Christians gather for worship once a week, and that they are right there to support each other when there is a baptism or a wedding or a funeral. But what about other poignant, vulnerable, or life-changing times? How does the church help people handle changes that in the past, in Christendom, were considered "secular"? Does the church have a role at retirement when one's ministry changes, or when a family's children leave home and familiar patterns seem to grind to a halt? Is there any rite possible for someone who is called to Christian ministry but not to ordination? Or to someone whose vows are broken in divorce? Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process asserts that baptism marks the beginning of a process of participation in Christ's ministry, so that no part of life can finally be considered secular. Susan Marie Smith shows how every passage, healing, and ministry vocation is "holy," and she lays the groundwork needed for every church to create the rituals necessary to lament and celebrate the endings and beginnings that happen in every Christian life.
Author : Paul Tillich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294585
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (945 download)
Download or read book The New Being written by Paul Tillich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations on key passages from the Bible by the leading Protestant theologian of the 20th century.
Author : MARIA ROSA. ANTOGNAZZA
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019883151X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Thinking with Assent written by MARIA ROSA. ANTOGNAZZA and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; but in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however, ongoing attempts to identify the conditions which turn belief into knowledge continue to face counterexamples and charges of circularity. In response to this recurrent failure, leading philosophers have begun exploring alternative accounts of knowledge. This ground-breaking book pushes the revolt against post-Gettier epistemology in a radically new direction. It begins by challenging the crude history of philosophy underling the entire Gettier paradigm. A survey ranging from the pre-Socratics to the mid-twentieth century reveals that the allegedly 'standard' or 'traditional' analysis of knowledge is neither standard nor traditional. In fact, it is difficult to find major philosophers for thousands of years who regarded knowledge as a species of belief, or belief as entailed by knowledge. The standard view was rather that knowing and believing are distinct, mutually exclusive mental states, involving different mental faculties, and playing distinct and complementary roles in our cognitive lives. Having demolished the historical premise upon which the entire Gettier paradigm rests, this book reframes elements of this age-old consensus in contemporary terms which push 'knowledge first' epistemology in a fresh direction. Knowledge, Antognazza argues, is phenomenologically and ontologically prior to belief, and, crucially, is not a kind of belief - not even "the best kind". In turn, "mere believing" is not "a kind of botched knowing" but a mental state fundamentally different from knowing, with its own crucial and distinctive role in our cognitive life. Contrary to the claim that belief aims at knowledge, the specific contribution of belief to our cognition is that of aiming at truth when knowledge is out of our cognitive reach. Knowing and believing are mutually exclusive but complementary ways of 'thinking with assent'. The book then applies this renewed paradigm to range of controversial issues, including the taxonomy of belief, the role of the will in belief, testimony, collective knowledge, and religious epistemology. Applying innovative methods to a vast range of materials on a rich variety of topics, this is a rare philosopher and a work of exceptional interest. Applying innovative methods to a vast range of materials on a rich variety of topics, this is a rare philosopher and a work of exceptional interest.
