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  • Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press  (5)
  • London [u.a.] :Routledge,
  • Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell
  • Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Praeger
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  • 1
    ISBN: 0226034046 , 0226034038 , 9780226034041
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 310 S. , Ill.
    DDC: 305.5/67/092261
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1703-1904 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; American prose literature 19th century ; Americans History 19th century ; Sources ; Captivity narratives ; Pirates History 19th century ; Sources ; Prisoners of war (Islamic law) Biography ; Slavery History 19th century ; Sources ; Slaves Biography ; Gefangener ; Amerikaner ; Sklaverei ; Kriegsgefangener ; Sklave ; Weiße ; Seeräuberei ; Autobiografie ; Nordafrika ; Biografie ; Quelle ; Biografie ; Quelle ; Biografie ; Quelle ; Nordafrika ; Sklave ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Amerikaner ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Kriegsgefangener ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Seeräuberei ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Amerikaner ; Sklave ; Geschichte 1703-1904 ; Nordafrika ; Gefangener ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Nordafrika ; Kriegsgefangener ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Autobiografie ; Nordafrika ; Sklave ; Weiße ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Autobiografie
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  • 2
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    Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 0226775275 , 0226775283
    Language: English
    Pages: 213 S.
    DDC: 813.54
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    Keywords: Africans Fiction ; Songhai (African people) Fiction ; New York (N.Y.) Fiction ; Adventure fiction ; Domestic fiction ; Adventure fiction ; Domestic fiction
    Abstract: A novel on a West African street peddler in New York and the effect his emigration has on his wife back home. With the money he sends, she opens a store and becomes an independent woman. Nevertheless, she suffers from loneliness because he keeps delaying his return, having found girlfriends.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511572746
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 210 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
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    DDC: 393/.9/0951
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1368-1911 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Mourning customs / China ; Funeral rites and ceremonies / China ; Filial piety / China ; Trauerritual ; Bestattungsritus ; China / Social life and customs / 1644-1912 ; China ; China ; Bestattungsritus ; Geschichte 1368-1911 ; China ; Trauerritual ; Geschichte 1368-1911
    Abstract: As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the state, and laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian society, would be observed by officials throughout the empire. In this way, the emperor would be following the ancient dictate that he 'govern all-under-heaven with filial piety'. Norman Kutcher's study of mourning looks beneath the rhetoric to demonstrate how the state - unwilling to make the sacrifices that a genuine commitment to proper mourning demanded - quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system. With acute sensitivity to language and its changing meanings, Kutcher sheds light on a wide variety of issues that are of interest to historians of late Imperial China
    Description / Table of Contents: Death and the state in imperial China: continuities -- The reorientation of Ming attitudes toward mourning -- The early Qing transformation of mourning practice -- The bureaucratization of the Confucian -- The death of Xiaoxian and the crisis of Qianlong rule -- Death and Chinese society
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  • 4
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell
    ISBN: 0631201157 , 0631201149
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 274 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Social archaeology
    DDC: 909/.097671
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Archeologie ; Archäologie ; Cultura islâmica ; Islam ; Islamismo (arqueologia) ; Muçulmanos (vida cotidiana;arqueologia) ; Islamic civilization ; Material culture ; Muslims ; Social archaeology ; Sachkultur ; Alltag ; Islam ; Sozialarchäologie ; Islam ; Alltag ; Islam ; Sozialarchäologie ; Islam ; Sachkultur
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  • 5
    ISBN: 0-415-16445-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 204 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    DDC: 305.896
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    Keywords: Schwarze. ; Ethnische Identität. ; Afrikabild. ; Literatur. ; Frauenliteratur. ; Amerika. ; Schwarze ; Ethnische Identität ; Afrikabild ; Literatur ; Ethnische Identität ; Schwarze ; Schwarze ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; Frauenliteratur
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  • 6
    ISBN: 0226473767
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 378 S. , Ill., Kt.
    DDC: 306/.0944
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1786-1930 ; Amerikanen ; Sociologische aspecten ; Toerisme ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Americans ; Tourism History ; Frankreichbild ; Amerikanischer Urlauber ; Frankreich ; France Social life and customs ; Frankreich ; USA ; Frankreich ; Amerikanischer Urlauber ; Geschichte 1786-1930 ; USA ; Frankreichbild ; Geschichte 1786-1930
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  • 7
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    Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Praeger
    ISBN: 0275958604 , 0275963357
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 182 S.
    Series Statement: Religion in the age of transformation
    DDC: 306.60973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2000 ; Religionssoziologie ; Neue Religion ; Sekte ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
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  • 8
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    Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Praeger
    ISBN: 0275965600
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 542 S.
    Edition: Paperback
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Religion ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Anthropologie ; Religion ; Ethnologie
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  • 9
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    Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Praeger
    ISBN: 0275956717 , 0275956725
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 226 S. , Ill.
    DDC: 305.488927073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1875-1995 ; Soziale Situation ; Araberin ; USA ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511612046
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 302 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religious traditions 11
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    DDC: 303.3/0951
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    Keywords: Politik ; Religion ; Kings and rulers / Religious aspects ; Philosophy, Confucian ; Herrscher ; Mystizismus ; König ; Religion ; Geschichte ; China / Politics and government ; China / Kings and rulers ; China ; China ; Herrscher ; Mystizismus ; Geschichte ; China ; Herrscher ; Religion ; Geschichte ; China ; König ; Religion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, these associations were retained, though sidelined, as the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler, with a messianic appeal for the ruled. As a paradigm, it also became appropriated by private individuals who strove for wisdom without becoming kings. As the Confucian tradition interacted with the Taoist and the Buddhist, the religious character of spiritual and mystical cultivation became more pronounced. But the sage-king idea continued, promoting expectations of benevolent despotism rather than democratisation in Chinese civilisation
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  • 11
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    London [u.a.] :Routledge,
    ISBN: 0-415-12896-X , 0-415-12897-8
    Language: English
    Pages: 243 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Ethnologie - Aspect religieux ; Godsdienst ; Humanisme ; Religion ; Religion et culture ; Religion ; Ethnology Religious aspects ; Humanism ; Religion ; Religion and culture ; Kulturanthropologie. ; Religion. ; Kulturanthropologie ; Religion
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  • 12
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    Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 0226075915 , 0226075923
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 412 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
    DDC: 306.76630901
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    Keywords: Bibel ; Geschichte 30-600 ; Frühchristentum ; Lesbische Orientierung ; Römisches Reich
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  • 13
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 306 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 93
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
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    DDC: 305.5/67/092
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    Keywords: Jacobs, Harriet A. / (Harriet Ann) / 1813-1897 / Incidents in the life of a slave girl ; Jacobs, Harriet A. ; Slaves / United States / Biography / History and criticism ; Women slaves / United States / Biography / History and criticism ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Jacobs, Harriet A. 1818-1896 Incidents
    Abstract: Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship which will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars such as Jean Fagan Yellin (biographer and editor of the annotated edition of Incidents), Frances Smith Foster, Donald Gibson, and emerging critics Sandra Gunning, P. Gabrielle Foreman, and Anita Goldman. The essays take on a variety of subjects in Incidents, treating representation, gender, resistance, and spirituality from differing angles. The chapters contextualise both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art; all endeavour to be accessible to a heterogeneous readership
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl , "I disguised my hand" : writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl and John Jacobs's "A true tale of slavery" , Through her brother's eyes : Incidents and "A true tale" , Resisting Incidents , Manifest in signs : the politics of sex and representation in Incidents in the life of a slave girl , Earwitness : female abolitionism, sexuality, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl , Reading and redemption in Incidents in the life of a slave girl , Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and the slavery debate : bondage, family, and the discourse of domesticity , Motherhood beyond the gate : Jacobs's epistemic challenge in Incidents in the life of a slave girl , "This poisonous system" : social ills, bodily ills, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl , Carnival laughter : resistance in Incidents , Harriet Jacobs, Henry Thoreau, and the character of disobedience , The tender of memory : restructuring value in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl , Conclusion : vexed alliances : race and female collaborations in the life of Harriet Jacobs
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781139052641
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    DDC: 943/.004924
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1300-1800 ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Jews / Germany / History / 1096-1800 / Congresses ; Nichtjude ; Juden ; Christ ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Deutschland ; Germany / Ethnic relations / Congresses ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Deutschland ; Christ ; Juden ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Nichtjude ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Christentum ; Judentum ; Geschichte 1300-1800 ; Deutschland ; Juden ; Sozialgeschichte 1300-1800
    Abstract: During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. This book is the first comprehensive account of Jewish-Gentile relations in central Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It lays particular emphasis on cultural, economic, social, and political issues, and incorporates much new research
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflecting on German-Jewish history / Jacob Katz -- The Jewish quarters in German towns during the late middle ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Organizational forms of Jewish popular culture since the middle ages / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Criminality and punishment of the Jews in the early modern period / Otto Ulbricht -- Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Roman Empire : a comment / Theodore K. Rabb -- Aspects of stratification of early modern German Jewry : population history and village Jews / Michael Toch -- Jewish economic activity in early modern times / Stefi Jersch-Wenzel -- Comparative perspectives on economy and society : the Jews of the Polish commonwealth : a comment / Gershon David Hundert -- Languages in contact : the case of Rotwelsch and the two "Yiddishes" / Paul Wexler -- Meeting on the road : encounters between German Jews and Christians on the margins of society / Yacov Guggenheim --
    Description / Table of Contents: Contacts at the bedside : Jewish physicians and their Christian patients / Robert Jütte -- Contacts and relations in the pre-emancipation period : a comment / Deborah Hertz -- The usurious Jew : economic structure and religious representations in an anti-Semitic discourse / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Imagining the Jew : the late medieval eucharistic discourse / Miri Rubin -- Representations of German Jewry : images, prejudices, ideas : a comment / Carlo Ginzburg -- German territorial princes and the Jews / Rotraud Ries -- Jews in eccleciastical territories of the Holy Roman Empire / J Friedrich Battenberg -- Jews in the imperial cities : a political perspective / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- Germans with a difference? The Jews of the Holy Roman empire during the early modern era : a comment / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- Germany and its Jews : a changing relationship (1300-1800) / Jonathan I. Israel --
    Description / Table of Contents: The Jewish minority and the Christian majority in early modern Central Europe / Hartmut Lehmann -- The Jews of the Netherlands in the early modern period / Richard H. Popkin -- Jewish identity in a world of corporations and estates / Mack Walker
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9780511520846
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    DDC: 306.6/91657
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 600-1500 ; Geschichte ; Buddhist monasticism and religious orders ; Monasticism and religious orders / History / Middle Ages, 600-1500 ; Asceticism / Theravāda Buddhism ; Asceticism / Catholic Church ; Therawada ; Christentum ; Soziologie ; Mönchtum ; Therawada ; Mönchtum ; Christentum ; Geschichte 600-1500 ; Therawada ; Mönchtum ; Soziologie
    Abstract: This book is a comparative macrosociological study of the interaction between religious virtuosi and society in two civilizations: traditional Theravada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. Merging Weberian sociology with the Maussian tradition of gift-analysis, and criticizing the neglect of meaning in current comparative historical sociology, the author also argues the need for a multidimensional approach capable of addressing the part played by religious orientations in shaping the institutional strength and ideological power of religious elites in the historical framework of the Great Traditions
    Description / Table of Contents: Virtuosi and society : elements of a comparative macrosociological approach -- The Weberian legacy -- Monasticism and social order : a multidimensional comparative perspective -- Virtuosi and society in Theravada Buddhism -- Ideological groundings : hierarchy and ritualized exchange -- Virtuosity institutionalized : the Sangha in social context -- Virtuoso radicalism : the triumph of a sociological complex -- Virtuosi and society in medieval Catholicism -- Ideological groundings : plurality and conditional exchange -- Virtuosity institutionalized : monasticism in social context -- Virtuoso radicalism : a self-defeating triumph -- Virtuosity, charisma, and social order -- Virtuosity and the virtuoso-society complex -- The virtuoso complex compared -- Conclusion : religious virtuosity as ideological power : some implications for the comparative study of civilizations
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  • 16
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    Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 0226259927
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 213 S.
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Beleving ; Chronisch zieken ; Ethische aspecten ; Psychologische aspecten ; Verteltheorie ; Ziekte ; Ethik ; Psychologie ; Attitude to Health ; Discourse analysis, Narrative ; Disease psychology ; Sick Role ; Sick Psychology ; Krankheit ; Autobiografische Literatur ; Krankheit ; Autobiografische Literatur
    Abstract: Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing. Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as on the stories of people he has met during years spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness narratives, ranging from the well-known - Gilda Radner's battle with ovarian cancer - to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilities. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: they abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic
    Abstract: Frank identifies three basic narratives of illness - stories of restitution, chaos, and quest. Restitution narratives anticipate getting well and give prominence to the technology of cure. In chaos narratives, illness seems to stretch on forever, with no respite or redeeming insights. Quest narratives are about finding that illness can be transformed into a means for the ill person to become someone new. Understanding these three narrative types helps us to hear the ill, but ultimately illness stories are more. Frank presents these stories as a form of testimony: the ill person is more than a survivor; she is a witness. Schooled in a "pedagogy of suffering," the ill person reaches out to others, offering a truth about living. The truth is a starting point for a "narrative ethics," as private experiences become public voices. Wounded storytellers teach more than a new way to understand illness; they exemplify an emerging ethic of postmodern times
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  • 17
    ISBN: 0-415-10790-3 , 0-415-10791-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 316 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: ASA decennial conference series
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Anthropologie philosophique ; Anthropologie philosophique ; Antropologische aspecten ; Femmes et religion - Études transculturelles ; Fundamentalisme ; Godsdienst ; Pluralisme (Philosophie) ; Pluralisme (sciences sociales) ; Religion - Études transculturelles ; Tolérance - Études transculturelles ; Tolérance ; Zekerheid ; Religion ; Cultural pluralism ; Philosophical anthropology ; Religionstudies ; Tolerationstudies ; Kulturanthropologie. ; Religiöser Pluralismus. ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift 1993 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Kulturanthropologie ; Religiöser Pluralismus
    Abstract: The peoples of the world are now facing economic integration and social interaction on a wider scale than ever before. But has this produced a greater sense of common reason, or shared world citizenship? Contemporary global communication, itself celebrating diversity, has paradoxically stimulated local commitments to exclusive ethnic, cultural and religious identity. The chapters in this book explore the ways in which anthropology can throw light on these diverging new 'certainties', often possessive of place, bodily substance or cultural heritage and often claiming divine justification
    Abstract: The Pursuit of Certainty is a convincing demonstration of anthropology's relevance to the contemporary world and its turbulence. It offers ground-level insights into a growing global consensus about the primacy of cultural difference; into the shrill new certainties which are spreading in some areas though being resisted in others: and into the 'post-Enlightenment' rise of religious justification in human affairs
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