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Creationism on Trial
Evolution and God at Little Rock
Häftad, 1998
347 kr
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Langdon Gilkey's account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. The book brings to life principal characters and anecdotes from the trial and translates the abstract religious concepts of the case into digestable language.
When the Sun Danced
Myth, Miracles and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
Häftad, 2012
325 kr
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Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of Fátima in Portugal. At the final apparition event, approximately 70,000 visitors gathered to witness a prophesied miracle intended to convince the public …
Ordinarily Sacred
Av Lynda Sexson
Häftad, 1992
290 kr
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Ordinarily Sacred aims to illuminate the sacred quality of experience that on the surface appears mundane or secular. Through stories, metaphors, and images, the author claims, we discover the religious or the sacred in the activities of ordinary life - dreams, play, and memory. In these activites, …
Kierkegaard
The Indirect Communication
Av Roger Poole
Inbunden, 1993
904 kr
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This book is a study of the much debated problem of Soren Kierkegaard's ""indirect communication."" It approaches the problem, however, in quite a new way by applying some of the insights of recent literary theory. This study is both a contribution to literary theory, in the sense that it seeks to …
Versions of Deconversion
Autobiography and Loss of Faith
Inbunden, 1994
839 kr
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This text examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyse the ways they have interpreted that loss. For some the experience of deconversion led to another religious faith while others turned to atheism or agnosticism.
Myth and Method
Av Laurie L. Patton, Wendy Doniger
Inbunden, 1996
985 kr
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Assessing the state of the study of myth, this text explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course that takes into account both the comparative and the contextual issues raised since 1985.
Myth and Method
Av Laurie L. Patton, Wendy Doniger
Häftad, 1996
489 kr
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Assessing of the state of the study of myth, this text explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course that takes into account both the comparative and the contextual issues raised since 1985.
Savage Systems
Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
Häftad, 1996
347 kr
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Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of ""religion""and ""religions"" on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which European travelers, missionaries, settlers, and government agents, as well as indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of …
Otherness of God
Inbunden, 1998
784 kr
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Examining the concept of the otherness of God, this text traces its theme from Plato to dialectical theology. Although a variety of approaches are considered, the contributors agree that despite the ontological argument, one must continue to think theologically when questioning the nature of God.
Symbolic Loss
The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End
Av Peter Homans
Inbunden, 2000
857 kr
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The ten essays assembled in this volume represent, in an interdisciplinary way, the work of scholars attempting to understand the decline of mourning practices and their associated rituals. The text is arranged in sections on cultural studies, architecture, history and psychology.
Symbolic Loss
The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End
Av Peter Homans
Häftad, 2000
319 kr
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The ten essays assembled in this volume represent, in an interdisciplinary way, the work of scholars attempting to understand the decline of mourning practices and their associated rituals. The text is arranged in sections on cultural studies, architecture, history and psychology.
Taking Responsibility
Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2001
489 kr
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Responsibility is the queen of modern virtues, Winston Davis argues, even if there is no consensus as to what responsibility means. These essays, by scholars of philosophy, anthropology, history, religious studies, classics and law, encompass conceptions of responsibility around the globe.
Exhibiting Religion
Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1951-1893
Inbunden, 2002
691 kr
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World's fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the base level of popular culture found on the midways of the earliest international expositions - where Victorian ladies gawked at displays of non-Western, ""primitive"" …
Meditation and the Martial Arts
Av Michael L. Raposa, Gary L Ebersole
Inbunden, 2003
333 kr
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The relationship between meditation and martial arts is a multifaceted one: meditation is one of the practices in which martial artists engage in order to prepare for combat, while the physical exercises constituting much of the discipline might be considered meditative practices. This book …
Value of Solitude
The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography
Häftad, 2004
331 kr
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Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In The Value of Solitude, John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both positive and negative, have been interpreted …
Doing Justice to Mercy
Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice
Av Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew Myer Boulton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
730 kr
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It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoning that concern norms, deliberation of ends, cultivation of disposition, and transformation of moral agency. Law, in contrast, seeks to govern human …
Doing Justice to Mercy
Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice
Av Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew Myer Boulton m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
274 kr
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It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life. Religion and ethics articulate complex systems of moral reasoning that concern norms, deliberation of ends, cultivation of disposition, and transformation of moral agency. Law, in contrast, seeks to govern human …
Sacred Claims
Repatriation and Living Tradition
Av Greg Johnson
Inbunden, 2007
779 kr
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects - including ""sacred objects"" - from federally funded institutions. Although …
Sacred Claims
Repatriation and Living Tradition
Av Greg Johnson
Häftad, 2007
319 kr
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects - including ""sacred objects"" - from federally funded institutions. Although …
Bewildered Travel
The Sacred Quest for Confusion
Inbunden, 2007
730 kr
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Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not …
Bewildered Travel
The Sacred Quest for Confusion
Häftad, 2007
234 kr
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Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not …
Praise of the Secular
Inbunden, 2008
535 kr
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Conservative religious figures routinely warn against the dangers of secularization, just as proponents of the modern secular state decry the theocratic tendencies of religion. Both sides assume that the sacred and the secular are diametrically opposed. Gabriel Vahanian rightly calls such …
Religion After Postmodernism
Retheorizing Myth and Literature
Inbunden, 2008
904 kr
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In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the fable as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to …
Religion After Postmodernism
Retheorizing Myth and Literature
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the fable as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary theories and styles in the wake of postmodernism to …
Kierkegaard
The Indirect Communication
Av Roger Poole
Häftad, 1993
578 kr
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This book is a study of the much debated problem of Soren Kierkegaard's ""indirect communication."" It approaches the problem, however, in quite a new way by applying some of the insights of recent literary theory. This study is both a contribution to literary theory, in the sense that it seeks to …
When the Sun Danced
Myth, Miracles and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal
Inbunden, 2012
784 kr
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Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of Fátima in Portugal. At the final apparition event, approximately 70,000 visitors gathered to witness a prophesied miracle intended to convince the public …
Textual Intimacy
Autobiography and Religious Identities
Inbunden, 2012
904 kr
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Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this ""textual intimacy,"" Wesley Kort begins with a theorisation of what it means to …
Freud and Augustine in Dialogue
Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Culture of Modern Spirituality
Häftad, 2013
288 kr
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It is arguably the case,"" writes William Parsons, ""that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine."" Yet it is commonly assumed that Freud and Augustine would have nothing to say to each other with regard to spirituality or …
Ideas to Live for
Toward a Global Ethics
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2015
372 kr
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Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such …
Pagan Writes Back
When World Religion Meets World Literature
Av Zhange Ni
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls ""pagan criticism,"" which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of …
