Class 200: New Studies in Religion – serie
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Privilege of Being Banal
Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
Häftad, 2021
322 kr
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France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than “heritage.” In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of …
Neuromatic
Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain
Häftad, 2021
306 kr
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In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling and critical examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled …
Credulity
A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Av Emily Ogden
Häftad, 2018
263 kr
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From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of …
Make Yourselves Gods
Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Inbunden, 2019
809 kr
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From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called "religion." Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and …
Make Yourselves Gods
Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called "religion." Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and …
Consuming Religion
Inbunden, 2017
852 kr
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What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at bottom religious questions. Whether or not you have been inside of a cathedral, a temple, or a …
Consuming Religion
Häftad, 2017
306 kr
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What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at bottom religious questions. Whether or not you have been inside of a cathedral, a temple, or a …
Credulity
A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Av Emily Ogden
Inbunden, 2018
852 kr
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From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of …
Faking Liberties
Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
Häftad, 2019
297 kr
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Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution had guaranteed freedom of religion since 1889, the …
Hunted
Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
Inbunden, 2019
698 kr
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“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation …
Hunted
Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation …
Aliites
Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali
Av Spencer Dew
Häftad, 2019
280 kr
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“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali’s message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, one that would both ensure protection for all …
Experiments with Power – Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed “crime hot spots.” The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures …
Experiments with Power
Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
Häftad, 2020
280 kr
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In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed “crime hot spots.” The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures …
Lives of Objects
Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
Inbunden, 2020
775 kr
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Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of …
Lives of Objects
Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
Häftad, 2020
314 kr
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Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of …
Privilege of Being Banal
Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
Inbunden, 2021
1303 kr
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France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than “heritage.” In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of …
Making a Mantra
Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
Av Ellen Gough
Inbunden, 2021
886 kr
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Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of …
Making a Mantra
Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
Av Ellen Gough
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of …
Ripples of the Universe
Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona
Inbunden, 2021
886 kr
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Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality. Nestled among stunning sandstone formations, Sedona has built an identity completely intertwined with that of the permanent residents and throngs of visitors who insist it …
Ripples of the Universe
Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona
Häftad, 2021
323 kr
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Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality. Nestled among stunning sandstone formations, Sedona has built an identity completely intertwined with that of the permanent residents and throngs of visitors who insist it …
Kindred Spirits
Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism
Av Brenna Moore
Inbunden, 2021
1074 kr
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Kindred Spirits takes us inside a remarkable network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets, and activists who pushed against both the far-right surge in interwar Europe and the secularizing tendencies of the leftist movements active in the early to mid-twentieth century. With meticulous …
Kindred Spirits
Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism
Av Brenna Moore
Häftad, 2021
348 kr
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Kindred Spirits takes us inside a remarkable network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets, and activists who pushed against both the far-right surge in interwar Europe and the secularizing tendencies of the leftist movements active in the early to mid-twentieth century. With meticulous …
Neuromatic
Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain
Inbunden, 2021
1074 kr
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In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling and critical examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled …
Profaning Paul
Inbunden, 2021
886 kr
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A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul. The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Despite, or in some cases …
Profaning Paul
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul. The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Despite, or in some cases …
Unbridled
Studying Religion in Performance
Inbunden, 2022
940 kr
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A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer’s play Equus. In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffer’s enigmatic play about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think differently about religion. For several years, Robert has used Equus to introduce students to the study of …
Unbridled
Studying Religion in Performance
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer’s play Equus. In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffer’s enigmatic play about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think differently about religion. For several years, Robert has used Equus to introduce students to the study of …
Sincerely Held
American Secularism and Its Believers
Inbunden, 2022
752 kr
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A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States. “Sincerely held religious belief” is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Court to local controversies. The …
Sincerely Held
American Secularism and Its Believers
Häftad, 2022
273 kr
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A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States. “Sincerely held religious belief” is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Court to local controversies. The …
