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Spirit Possession and Trance
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Bettina E. Schmidt, Lucy Huskinson
Inbunden, 2010
1983 kr
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Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, these books open …
UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age
Millennial Conspiracism
Av David G. Robertson, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2017
558 kr
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How—and why— were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, …
Problem with Interreligious Dialogue
Plurality, Conflict and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations
Av Muthuraj Swamy, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2017
515 kr
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Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and ‘interreligious dialogue’. By challenging the assumption that ‘world religions’ operate as essential entities separate from the lived experiences of practitioners, he shows that interreligious dialogue is in turn …
Spirits and Trance in Brazil
An Anthropology of Religious Experience
Av Bettina E. Schmidt, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2017
515 kr
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Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by …
Critical Study of Non-Religion
Discourse, Identification and Locality
Av Christopher R. Cotter, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of ‘religion’ and empirical studies of ‘religion in the real world’. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in …
Secular Assemblages
Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
Av Marek Sullivan, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power. While existing works of secular intellectual history, especially Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age …
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
The Evil Eye in Greece
Av Eugenia Roussou, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how processes of globalization influence and …
American Evangelicals
Conflicted on Islam
Av Ashlee Quosigk, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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Ashlee Quosigk explores the diversity of opinions within the largest religious group in the US – Evangelical Christians – on the topic of Islam. Evangelicals are often characterized as monolithically antagonistic toward Muslims. This book challenges that stereotype, exposing the sharp divides that …
Individualized Religion
Practitioners and their Communities
Av Claire Wanless, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can provide a viable basis for …
Free Zone Scientology
Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion
Av Aled Thomas, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of ‘auditing’ as a case study, this book explores the ways in which new types of ‘Scientologies’ can emerge. The notion of Free Zone …
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
The Evil Eye in Greece
Av Eugenia Roussou, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece. It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how processes of globalization influence and …
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism
Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality
Av Karen O'Brien-Kop, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2021
1419 kr
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This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called ‘yoga’ in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O’Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the …
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism
Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality
Av Karen O'Brien-Kop, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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This book revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called ‘yoga’ in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O’Brien-Kop also develops an alternative way of analysing the reception history of yoga that aims to decentre the Eurocentric and imperialist enterprises of the …
Free Zone Scientology
Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion
Av Aled Thomas, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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In this novel academic study, Aled Thomas analyses modern issues surrounding boundaries and fluidity in contemporary Scientology. By using the Scientologist practice of ‘auditing’ as a case study, this book explores the ways in which new types of ‘Scientologies’ can emerge. The notion of Free Zone …
Individualized Religion
Practitioners and their Communities
Av Claire Wanless, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can provide a viable basis for …
American Evangelicals
Conflicted on Islam
Av Ashlee Quosigk, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
430 kr
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Ashlee Quosigk explores the diversity of opinions within the largest religious group in the US – Evangelical Christians – on the topic of Islam. Evangelicals are often characterized as monolithically antagonistic toward Muslims. This book challenges that stereotype, exposing the sharp divides that …
Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions
Theory and Practice
Av James L. Cox, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2022
1348 kr
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This book compiles James L. Cox’s most important writings on a phenomenology of Indigenous Religions into one volume, with a new introduction and conclusion by the author. Cox has consistently exemplified phenomenological methods by applying them to his own field studies among Indigenous Religions, …
Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions
Theory and Practice
Av James L. Cox, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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This book compiles James L. Cox’s most important writings on a phenomenology of Indigenous Religions into one volume, with a new introduction and conclusion by the author. Cox has consistently exemplified phenomenological methods by applying them to his own field studies among Indigenous Religions, …
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan
Beyond Religion?
Av Ioannis Gaitanidis, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2022
1348 kr
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This book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s …
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan
Beyond Religion?
Av Ioannis Gaitanidis, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2024
430 kr
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This book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s …
Secular Assemblages
Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
Av Marek Sullivan, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power. While existing works of secular intellectual history, especially Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age …
Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics
Embodied Transformation in the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga
Av Lina Aschenbrenner, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2023
1278 kr
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Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as “neo-spiritual aesthetics.” This book takes the reader on an analytical journey through a Gaga class, outlining the effective aesthetics of Gaga …
Acute Religious Experiences
Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies
Av Richard Saville-Smith, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2023
1278 kr
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This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical re-readings of seminal texts show how 20th-century theoreticians in the humanities sought to erase …
Acute Religious Experiences
Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies
Av Richard Saville-Smith, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2024
430 kr
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This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical re-readings of seminal texts show how 20th-century theoreticians in the humanities sought to erase …
Neo-Spiritual Aesthetics
Embodied Transformation in the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga
Av Lina Aschenbrenner, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2024
430 kr
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Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as “neo-spiritual aesthetics.” This book takes the reader on an analytical journey through a Gaga class, outlining the effective aesthetics of Gaga …
Sense of Belonging
Religion and Identity in British Fishing Communities
Av Stephen Friend, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2022
1348 kr
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Exploring the relationship between identity and religion in British Fishing Communities during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this volume focuses on three communities in the UK: Scarborough, Filey and Grimsby.The study offers a brief overview of the development of these communities and outlines …
Sense of Belonging
Religion and Identity in British Fishing Communities
Av Stephen Friend, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2023
430 kr
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Exploring the relationship between identity and religion in British Fishing Communities during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this volume focuses on three communities in the UK: Scarborough, Filey and Grimsby.The study offers a brief overview of the development of these communities and outlines …
Critical Study of Non-Religion
Discourse, Identification and Locality
Av Christopher R. Cotter, Bettina E. Schmidt
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of ‘religion’ and empirical studies of ‘religion in the real world’. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in …
One Nation, Many Faiths
Religious Pluralism and National Identity in an Interfaith Organisation
Av Liam T. Sutherland, Bettina E. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2025
1207 kr
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This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland. It analyzes the organization and their literature, demonstrating the ways in which they have …
One Nation, Many Faiths
Religious Pluralism and National Identity in an Interfaith Organisation
Av Liam T. Sutherland, Bettina E. Schmidt m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland. It analyzes the organization and their literature, demonstrating the ways in which they have …
