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21 produkter
Sacred Scents in Early Christianity and Islam
Inbunden, 2016
1208 kr
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Medieval scholars and cultural historians have recently turned their attention to the question of “smells” and what olfactory sensations reveal about society in general and holiness in particular. Sacred Scents in Early Christianity and Islam contributes to that conversation, explaining how early …
Dancing Culture Religion
Av Sam Gill
Inbunden, 2012
1420 kr
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In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special …
Dancing Culture Religion
Av Sam Gill
Häftad, 2012
643 kr
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In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special …
Risky Marriage
HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania
Häftad, 2013
713 kr
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Given that women and girls carry the heaviest burdens of the African HIV pandemic, their lived experiences should be the starting point for any pedagogy of prevention. In light of this claim, Risky Marriage: HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania uses qualitative fieldwork with HIV positive …
Early Daoist Dietary Practices
Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
Av Shawn Arthur
Inbunden, 2013
1561 kr
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Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health, and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also actively sought to improve their health and increase their longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, …
Dancing in the Muddy Temple
A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body
Av Eline Kieft
Inbunden, 2022
1137 kr
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Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied …
Dancing Bodies of Devotion
Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam
Häftad, 2016
614 kr
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Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam examines how Bharata Natyam, a traditionally Hindu storytelling dance form, moves across religious boundaries through both incorporating choreography on Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jain themes and the pluralistic identities of …
Early Daoist Dietary Practices
Examining Ways to Health and Longevity
Av Shawn Arthur
Häftad, 2015
857 kr
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Much as the modern Western world is concerned with diets, health, and anti-aging remedies, many early medieval Chinese Daoists also actively sought to improve their health and increase their longevity through specialized ascetic dietary practices. Focusing on a fifth-century manual of herbal-based, …
Body of Christ Incarnate for You
Conceptualizing God's Desire for the Flesh
Av Adam Pryor
Inbunden, 2016
1212 kr
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Incarnation has always been an important concept within Christian theology. For centuries theologians have wrestled with how best to conceptualize the vexing problem of what it means that Jesus the Christ is fully God and fully human. In this book, Adam Pryor explores how the incarnation has …
Sensing Sacred
Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care
Häftad, 2018
616 kr
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Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues …
Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future
Inbunden, 2021
1212 kr
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This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, …
Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, …
Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference
Perspectives and Strategies
Av Sam Gill
Inbunden, 2018
1283 kr
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Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differences—cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability—are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. While it is laudable to nurture an environment promoting the tolerance of difference, Creative Encounters, …
Religion and Technology into the Future
From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve
Av Sam Gill
Inbunden, 2018
1638 kr
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Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present …
Holy Body
Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology
Inbunden, 2024
1155 kr
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Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology argues that all bodies across sexual difference are procreative. The author lays the ground for her argument with chapters that summarize the current debate over the gender binary in theology, modern scientific …
Holy Body
Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology argues that all bodies across sexual difference are procreative. The author lays the ground for her argument with chapters that summarize the current debate over the gender binary in theology, modern scientific …
Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
Inbunden, 2021
1212 kr
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Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets, and translators in the English language. In Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. explores the role played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied …
Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets, and translators in the English language. In Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. explores the role played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied …
Quatremère de Quincy's Moral Considerations on the Place and Purpose of Works of Art
Introduction and Translation
Inbunden, 2021
1141 kr
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Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most important Neoclassicalart historian in the generation after Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). It is difficultnow to appreciate his importance, due in part to the lack of translations of his 21 publishedbooks: three were …
Cosmopolitan Crete
A History of Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Mixing
Inbunden, 2026
1208 kr
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This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation. Louis A Ruprecht Jr. explores the mixture of culture, traditions, languages, and religion in the Greek …
Spirit, the Ascended Christ, and the Beauty of the Body
Av Laura Cerbus
Inbunden, 2027
1208 kr
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Laura Cerbus constructs a theology of the aesthetic formation of the body, attentive to the key role of the Holy Spirit in forming beautiful saints. Working from a Reformed theological approach, Laura Cerbus engages with the writings of the Reformed tradition’s leading theologian of beauty, …
