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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 …
Critical Study of Non-Religion
Discourse, Identification and Locality
E-bok, 2020
484 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 …
Critical Study of Non-Religion
Discourse, Identification and Locality
E-bok, 2020
499 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 …
Secular Assemblages
Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
E-bok, 2020
499 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 …
Secular Assemblages
Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
E-bok, 2020
488 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 …
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
The Evil Eye in Greece
E-bok, 2021
488 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 …
Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion
The Evil Eye in Greece
E-bok, 2021
499 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 …
American Evangelicals
Conflicted on Islam
E-bok, 2021
454 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 …
American Evangelicals
Conflicted on Islam
E-bok, 2021
468 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 …
Individualized Religion
Practitioners and Their Communities
E-bok, 2021
499 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 …
Individualized Religion
Practitioners and Their Communities
E-bok, 2021
499 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 …
Free Zone Scientology
Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion
Av Aled Thomas
E-bok, 2021
499 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 …
Free Zone Scientology
Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion
Av Aled Thomas
E-bok, 2021
499 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 …
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
E-bok, 2021
468 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
E-bok, 2021
468 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, …
