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33 produkter
Religion : i historia, samtid och framtid
Av Janne Haaland Matlary, Daniel T. Potts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
239 kr
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Tron på en styrande, övergripande, himmelsk princip har följt människan genom historien. Mer än 80 procent av världens befolkning har idag en religiös tillhörighet och även i sekulära stater fortsätter religionen att spela en viktig roll. Det går inte att förstå politik och internationella …
Nation, stat och imperium : tillhörighet i en globaliserad värld
Av Philip Bobbitt, Gillian Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
239 kr
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Med det kalla krigets slut och globaliseringens segertåg trodde många att nationalism hörde till historien. Men det visade sig vara tvärtom. Idag ser vi hur nationalismen sprids över hela världen. Samtidigt växer sig populistiska och anti-demokratiska rörelser starka. Att höra hemma någonstans …
The Ritual Animal
Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity
Inbunden, 2021
526 kr
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A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years.From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans …
Nation, state and empire
Av Robin Lane Fox, Gillian Clark m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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With the end of the Cold War and the triumph of globalisation, many believed that nationalism now was a thing of the past: instead the opposite is true. Today, we can see nationalism spreading across the world, as populistic and anti-democratic movements grow stronger.Belonging somewhere seems to …
Nation, stat och imperium
Av Robin Lane Fox, Gillian Clark m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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Med det kalla krigets slut och globaliseringens segertåg trodde många att nationalism hörde till historien. Men det visade sig vara tvärtom. Idag ser vi hur nationalismen sprids över hela världen. Samtidigt växer sig populistiska och anti-demokratiska rörelser starka. Att höra hemma någonstans …
On political order and the future of democracy
Av Ali Ansari, Gerard Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
218 kr
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Inheritance
The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
Häftad, 2026
302 kr
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An “exhilarating” (Irish Times) and “ambitious” (The Guardian) account of the ancient inheritance that made us who we are—and is now driving us to ruin.Why do similar beliefs in ghosts appear across cultures? How might our tendency to imitate one another contribute to the climate catastrophe? And …
Ritual Animal
Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity
E-bok, 2021
374 kr
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A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans …
Ritual Animal
Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity
E-bok, 2021
374 kr
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A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans …
Arguments and Icons
Divergent Modes of Religiosity
Inbunden, 2000
3956 kr
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Why do initiations in Papua New Guinea often subject novices to violence and terror? Why do some cargo cults lead to regional unity and others to regional divisions? How have features of cognitive processing in missionary Christianity contributed to new forms of identity among Melanesians? The …
Arguments and Icons
Divergent Modes of Religiosity
Häftad, 2000
1019 kr
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Why do initiations in Papua New Guinea often subject novices to violence and terror? Why do some cargo cults lead to regional unity and others to regional divisions? How have features of cognitive processing in missionary Christianity contributed to new forms of identity among Melanesians? The …
Inside the Cult
Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 1995
3388 kr
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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated …
Inside the Cult
Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 1995
406 kr
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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated …
Modes of Religiosity
A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Inbunden, 2004
1414 kr
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Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At …
Modes of Religiosity
A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
Häftad, 2004
556 kr
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Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At …
Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw
Inbunden, 2004
1695 kr
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Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a …
Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw
Häftad, 2004
710 kr
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Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a …
Mind and Religion
Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, Robert N. McCauley
Inbunden, 2005
1695 kr
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Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious …
Mind and Religion
Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, Robert N. McCauley
Häftad, 2005
710 kr
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Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious …
Theorizing Religions Past
Archaeology, History, and Cognition
Av Harvey Whitehouse, Luther H. Martin
Häftad, 2004
710 kr
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Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omodes of religiosityO theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal …
Mind and Religion
Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, Robert N. McCauley
E-bok, 2005
779 kr
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Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious …
Theorizing Religions Past
Archaeology, History, and Cognition
Av Harvey Whitehouse, Luther H. Martin
E-bok, 2004
779 kr
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Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omodes of religiosityO theory has been attracting many scholars of past religions. Based upon universal …
Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
Av Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw
E-bok, 2004
757 kr
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Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a …
Modes of Religiosity
A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission
E-bok, 2004
608 kr
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Religions_whatever else they may be_are configurations of cultural information reproduced across space and time. Beginning with this seemingly obvious fact of religious transmission, Harvey Whitehouse goes on to construct a testable theory of how religions are created, passed on, and changed. At …
Debated Mind
Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography
E-bok, 2020
712 kr
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In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that …
Debated Mind
Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography
E-bok, 2020
727 kr
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In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that …
Inheritance
The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
E-bok, 2024
113 kr
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‘Insightful and breathtaking’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of Sapiens‘Bold and sweeping’ PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads‘Profoundly thought-provoking’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut EconomicsHow has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are humans everywhere prone to …
Inheritance
The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
Häftad, 2025
154 kr
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‘Insightful and breathtaking’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of Sapiens‘Bold and sweeping’ PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads‘Profoundly thought-provoking’ KATE RAWORTH, author of Doughnut EconomicsHow has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are humans everywhere prone to …
Debated Mind
Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography
Inbunden, 2001
2501 kr
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In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that …
