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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781108702300 , 9781108478342
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 268 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 304.8095694
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    Keywords: Return migration History 20th century ; Return migration History 20th century ; Jews Migrations 20th century ; History ; Zionism ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Israel Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; United States Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108432986 , 9781108421560
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 189 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religion, philosophy, and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Williams, Clifford, 1943 - Religion and the meaning of life
    DDC: 204
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    Keywords: Philosophy and religion ; Meaning (Philosophy) ; Life ; Religion ; Spirituality ; Religiosität ; Lebenssinn
    Abstract: "We humans are troubling paradoxes. We intensely want our lives to be meaningful, to count for something, to matter not only in individual and social ways but in a "cosmic" way. At the same time, we often evade thinking about meaning and let ourselves be driven by impulse instead of meaningfulness. This paradox is troubling-and puzzling-because it looks as though we undermine the very thing we most want. This book is about both poles of this paradox. It describes ways of acquiring meaning plus obstacles to acquiring meaning, including ones we ourselves initiate"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107082601 , 9781107442962
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 304 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Coles, Alasdair Neurology and Religion
    DDC: 616.8
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    Keywords: Neurology ; Religion ; Nervous System Diseases ; Religion and Science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Neuropsychologie ; Kognitionswissenschaft
    Abstract: The discipline of neurology / Alasdair Coles -- The scientific study of religion / Joanna Collicutt -- Methodological hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion / Stuart Judge -- Embodied cognition and the neurology of religion / Warren Brown -- Phenomenology, neurology, psychiatry, and religious commitment / Ian Kidd -- Philosophical hazards in the neuroscientific study of religion / Daniel de Haan -- The Glass Onion and the mereological fallacy / Sophie Grace Chappell -- Toward an islamic neuropsychiatry : a classification of the diseases of the head in ʻAlī ibn Sahl Rabbān al-Ṭabarī Paradise of wisdom / Alasdair Coles -- Temporal lobe epilepsy, Dostoyevsky and irrational significance -- Disease, religious belief and spirituality / Clare Redfern & Roger Baker Parkinson -- Beyond reasonable doubt : cognitive and neuropsychological implications for religious disbelief / Pennycook et al. -- Ramadam fasting and neurologic disorders / Ashraf El-Mitwalli -- Autism and the panoply of religious belief, disbelief and experience / Kelly Clark & Ingela Visuri -- Personhood and religion in people with dementia / Julian Hughes -- Religion and frontotemporal dementia / Nicolas Block and Bruce Miller -- Religion and spirituality in neuro-rehabilitation : a case study / Joanna Collicut -- Eastern spirituality, mind-body practices and neuro-rehabilitation / Giles Yeates -- Examining the continuum of life to determine death : a Jewish perspective / Aron Buchman -- Near-death & out-of-body experiences : a case for dialogue between scientist & theologian? / Michael Marsh.
    Abstract: "Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the nervous system. The subject started, in its modern form, with the work of Thomas Willis in seventeenth century England, as mentioned by Joanna Collicutt. Willis studied the effects of diseases (for instance stroke) of the brain in people in life, and compared these with their anatomical effects at post-mortem. From these observations, he systematically assembled an account of the hierarchical nature of the nervous system from the peripheral nerves to the spinal cord, and then on through an ascending series of structures in the brain. This clinico-pathological tradition reached its apogee in the work of Jean-Martin Charcot in late nineteenth century Paris (Clifford Rose 1999). Since then, the imaging and laboratory sciences have increasingly informed our understanding of the normal function of the brain and its diseases. A key concept, for the purposes of this volume, is that different parts of the brain are specialised for different functions. Thomas Willis proposed this, and since his time opinion has swung from the extremes of localisation (the idea, for instance, that one neuron in your brain is responsible for "recognising" your grandmother) to the "equipotential view" (where all parts of the brain are equally involved in all brain function). The modern view is that distinctive brain functions are subserved by separate networks of anatomical structures"--
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108716840 , 9781108492492
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 213 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ward, Keith, - 1958- Religion in the modern world
    DDC: 201/.5
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    Keywords: Religions History 21st century ; Religion History 21st century ; Religion ; Pluralismus ; Vielfalt
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108457477
    Language: English
    Pages: 65 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Elements in the philosophy of religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Le Poidevin, Robin, - 1962- Religious fictionalism
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    Keywords: Religion ; Fiktionalismus
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781108499033 , 9781108713078
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 143 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religion, philosophy, and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Schellenberg, J. L., - 1959- Religion after science
    DDC: 201/.65
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    Keywords: Religion and science ; Geological time ; Evolution ; Naturwissenschaften ; Religion ; Geochronologie ; Evolution
    Abstract: The 10,000-year test -- Development and the divine -- The end is not near -- Big ambitions -- A poor record -- Verdict: immature not doomed -- A new path for science and religion -- The new Agnosticism -- Naturalism tamed -- Agnostic religion? -- The new Humanism -- The religion project.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108469449 , 1108469442
    Language: English
    Pages: 75 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jeffrey, Anne God and morality
    DDC: 205
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    Keywords: Religious ethics History ; God Proof, Moral ; History ; Philosophy and religion ; Ethics ; Religious ethics ; History ; Moral ; Gottesfrage ; Moralischer Gottesbeweis ; Norm ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Gottesbeziehung
    Abstract: "This Element has two aims. The first is to discuss arguments philosophers have made about the difference God's existence might make to questions of general interest in metaethics. The second is to argue that it is a mistake to think we can get very far in answering these questions by assuming a thin conception of God, and to suggest that exploring the implications of thick theisms for metaethics would be more fruitful."-- Back cover
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-75)
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781107173880 , 1107173884 , 9781316626276 , 131662627X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 301 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Asian connections
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lambourn, Elizabeth, 1966 - Abraham's luggage
    DDC: 382.09182/4
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    Keywords: Ben Yijû, Abraham ; Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century ; To 1500 ; Jewish merchants ; Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500 ; Jewish merchants Middle East ; Commerce History ; Medieval, 500-1500 ; Commerce ; Commerce Medieval ; Jewish merchants ; India Commerce To 1500 ; History ; India Commerce ; History ; To 1500 ; India ; Middle East ; Ben Yijû, Abraham ; Indischer Ozean Region ; Fernhandel
    Abstract: From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and written in India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju, Lambourn focuses on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the daily life of such India traders, on land and at sea. This is an exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued. 'Abraham's Luggage' demonstrates the potential for writing challenging new histories in the accidental survival of apparently ordinary ephemera
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781107173309
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 493 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The conscience wars
    DDC: 342.08/5
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    Keywords: Liberty of conscience ; Konferenzschrift 2015 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewissensfreiheit ; Religion ; Menschenrecht ; Verfassungsrecht ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Religionskrieg
    Abstract: "In this work, Professors Rosenfeld and Mancini have brought together an impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis on the greater demand for religions exemptions to government mandates. Traditional religious conscientious objection cases, such as refusal to salute the flag or to serve in the military during war, had a diffused effect throughout society. In sharp contrast, these authors argue that today's most notorious objections impinge on the rights of others, targeting practices like abortion, LGTBQ adoption, and same-sex marriage. The dramatic expansion of conscientious objection claims have revolutionized the battle between religious traditionalists and secular civil libertarians, raising novel political, legal, constitutional and philosophical challenges. Highlighting the intersection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities, this volume showcases this political debate and the principal jurisprudence from different parts of the world and emphasizes the little known international social movements that compete globally to alter the debate's terms"--
    Abstract: "Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality Introduction: The New Generation of Conscience Objections in Legal, Political and Cultural Context Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld I. The New Conscientious Objection versus the Old The new generation of conscience based objections differs sharply from its predecessors in that it involves claims that are interventionist and intrusive as opposed to claims aimed at withdrawal and absence from discrete areas of mainstream collective undertakings. Typical of the past, are conscientious objectors who sought to be excused from serving in the military or from going to war, or else from pledging allegiance to their country's flag in public gatherings. In contrast, today's most notorious conscientious objectors seek exemption from generally applicable laws requiring employers to provide contraception coverage in the medical insurance benefits they must extend to their women employees; or from providing services offered to the general public, such as cakes or flowers for wedding celebrations or hotel rooms with large beds, to individuals belonging to sexual minorities; or from issuing marriage or civil union licenses in their capacity as state employees to same-sex couples"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the new generation of conscience objections in legal, political and cultural context Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld; Part I. Conscientious Objection in a Constitutional Democracy: Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Conscience and its claims: a philosophical history of conscientious objection Julie Saada and Mark Antaki; 2. The conscience wars in historical and philosophical perspective: the clash between religious absolutes and democratic pluralism Michel Rosenfeld; 3. Conscientious objections Bernard Schlink; 4. Egalitarian justice and religious exemptions Cecile Laborde; 5. Is there a right to conscientious objection? Lorenzo Zucca; 6. Affect and the theo-political economy of the right to freedom of 'thought, conscience and religion' Marinos Diamantides; Part II. Conscientious Objection or Culture Wars? The Changing Discourse of Religious Liberty Claims: 7. Conscience wars in transnational perspective: religious liberty, third-party harm, and pluralism Reva Siegel and Douglas NeJaime; 8. Transatlantic conversations: the emergence of society-protective anti-abortion arguments in the United States, Europe and Russia Susanna Mancini and Kristina Stoeckl; 9. The geopolitics of transnational law and religion: wars of conscience and the framing effects of law as a social institution Pasquale Annicchino; Part III. Objecting to Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Name of Mainstream Religious Convictions: Striking a Balance between Freedom and Equality: 10. Objections to antidiscrimination in the name of conscience or religion: a conflicting rights approach Eva Brems; 11. The role of the European Court of Human Rights in adjudicating religious exception claims Helen Keller and Corina Heri; 12. When do religious accommodations burden others? Nelson Tebbe, Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger; Part IV. Conscience, Accommodation and its Harms: Children, Women and Sexual Minorities: 13. The missing children in elite legal scholarship Marci A. Hamilton; 14. Religious refusals and reproductive rights: claims of conscience as discrimination and shaming Louise Melling; 15. Seeking to square the circle: a sustainable conscientious objection in reproductive healthcare Emmanuelle Bribosia and Isabelle Rorive; 16. Marriage registrars, same sex relationships, and religious discrimination in the European Court of Human Rights Christopher McCrudden; Part V. Concluding Perspectives on the Conscience Wars: 17. Mission still impossible Stanley Fish; 18. The politics of religion: democracy and the conscience wars Robert Post
    Note: All the contributions included in this volume originated in an international interdisciplinary symposium called "The Conscience Wars" held at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in in New York City in the fall of 2015 (Vorwort)
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108442374 , 9781108425469
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 161 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Moon, Richard, 1956 - Putting faith in hate
    DDC: 342.0853
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    Keywords: Hate speech Law and legislation ; Freedom of religion ; Freedom of speech in the church ; Offenses against religion Law and legislation ; Religious institutions Law and legislation ; Hate speech Law and legislation ; Freedom of religion ; Freedom of speech in the church ; Offenses against religion Law and legislation ; Religious institutions Law and legislation ; Hassrede ; Religion ; Meinungsfreiheit ; Religionsfreiheit ; Konflikt ; Gesetzgebung ; Sprachstil ; Sozialverhalten ; Social Media ; Religiosität ; Meinungsfreiheit ; Meinungsäußerung ; Wertorientierung ; Religiosität ; Pluralistische Gesellschaft ; Konflikt ; Hassrede ; Meinungsfreiheit ; Redefreiheit ; Religion
    Abstract: Introduction -- Freedom of expression and the regulation of hate speech -- When religious groups are the target of hate speech : Islamophobia and the Muslim tide -- The ridicule and insult of the sacred -- When religion is the source of hate speech -- Conclusion : free speech, religious speech, hate speech
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107132221 , 9781107584778
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 174 Seiten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religion, philosophy, and society
    DDC: 201/.67
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    Keywords: Arts and religion ; Art and philosophy ; Philosophie ; Kunst ; Religion ; Glaube ; Kreativität
    Abstract: Religion, art, and the aesthetics of everyday life -- Sacred music -- Art, icon, and idolatry -- Literature and liturgy -- Glorious and transcendent places -- Re-thinking the sacred arts
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781316636961 , 9781107186057
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 292 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Koch, Anne, 1971 - [Rezension von: Religion and the morality of the market] 2017
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsethik ; Religion ; Welt ; Economics Religious aspects ; Economics Moral and ethical aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Moral ; Ethik ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie ; Volkswirtschaftslehre ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Politische Ökonomie
    Description / Table of Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Note: Enthält 12 Beiträge
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781107032491 , 9781108447799
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: Critical perspectives on empire
    DDC: 305.6/970947409034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1788-1914 ; HISTORY / Europe / Eastern ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Muslims History ; Muslims Social conditions ; Community life History ; Islam Social aspects ; History ; Social change History ; Volga-Ural Region (Russia) Ethnic relations ; Volga-Ural Region (Russia) Social conditions ; Muslims History ; Imperialism Social aspects ; History ; HISTORY / Europe / Eastern ; Muslim ; Europa ; Russland ; Russia History 1801-1917 ; Russland ; Russland ; Muslim ; Geschichte 1788-1914
    Abstract: "Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia's Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations"..
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107640931 , 9781107048416 , 1107640938
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 279 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 23 cm
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 305.42096781
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    Keywords: Women's rights History 19th century ; Women's rights History 20th century ; Civil rights History ; Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) History ; Islamic law History ; Women Social conditions ; Minorities Social conditions ; Civil rights ; Islamic law ; Justice, Administration of (Islamic law) ; Minorities ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women's rights ; Tanzania ; Zanzibar ; History ; Zanzibar History 1890-1964
    Abstract: The Kadhi's courts colonised -- Race and the impartial modern judiciary -- The Kadhis and gender -- Litigants and the Kadhi's courts -- The Kadhis' alienation and autonomy -- Marriage, materialism, and temporary compliance -- Property, debt, and inheritance -- Bargaining for divorce -- The Kadhis, ethnicity, and the perpetuation of master-slave relations -- Appendix : Distribution of cases.
    Note: Originally published in hardback: 2015 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 15
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107043046 , 9781107337732 , 9781107618237
    Language: English
    Pages: 292 p.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies no. 46
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 46
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.6/978209538
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    Keywords: Shiites Political activity ; History ; Islam and politics History ; Dissenters History ; Sects Political aspects ; History ; Sunnites Relations ; Shīʻah ; Shīʻah Relations ; Sunnites ; Shīʻah ; Relations ; Sunnites ; Sunnites ; Relations ; Shīʻah ; Shiites ; Political activity ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Islam and politics ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Dissenters ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Sects ; Political aspects ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) ; Politics and government ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) ; Religion ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) Politics and government ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) Religion
    Abstract: Toby Matthiesen traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. This book outlines the difficult experiences of being Shia in a Wahhabi state, and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position. Shia petitioned the rulers, joined secular opposition parties and founded Islamist movements. Most Saudi Shia opposition activists profited from an amnesty in 1993 and subsequently found a place in civil society and the public sphere. However, since 2011 a new Shia protest movement has again challenged the state. The Other Saudis shows how exclusionary state practices created an internal Other and how sectarian discrimination has strengthened Shia communal identities. The book is based on little-known Arabic sources, extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and interviews with key activists. Of immense geopolitical importance, the oil-rich Eastern Province is a crucial but little known factor in regional politics and Gulf security
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Politics of notables -- 2. Oil and dissent -- 3. Shia Islamism -- 4. A decade of confrontation -- 5. Marginal recognition -- 6. Arab uprisings -- Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521676748 , 9780521859424 , 0521859425 , 0521676746
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVIII, 521 S. , Ill., Kt. , 23 cm
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Additional Information: Rezension Berkwitz, Stephen C., 1969 - Textbook Buddhism 2016
    DDC: 294.3
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    Keywords: Buddhism ; Religion ; Religionsgeschichte ; Religionswissenschaft ; Philosophie ; Ritual ; Buddhism ; Einführung ; Buddhismus
    Abstract: In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey critiques and corrects some common misconceptions and mistranslations, and discusses key concepts that have often been over-simplified and over-generalised. The volume includes detailed references to scriptures and secondary literature, an updated bibliography and a section on web resources. Key terms are given in Pali and Sanskrit, and Tibetan words are transliterated in the most easily pronounceable form, making this is a truly accessible account. This is an ideal coursebook for students of religion, Asian philosophy and Asian studies, and is also a useful reference for readers wanting an overview of Buddhism and its beliefs.
    Note: Revision of: Introduction to Buddhism N=(DLC) , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Previous ed.: 1990. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - "Extensively revised and fully updated."
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  • 17
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107042032 , 9781107323674 , 9781107650077
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Religion in a liberal state
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Religion and law ; Secularism Social aspects ; Liberalism Religious aspects ; Religion and law ; Religion and law ; Secularism ; Social aspects ; Liberalism ; Religious aspects ; Religion and law ; Great Britain ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Staat ; Liberalismus ; Säkularisation
    Abstract: As religion has become more visible in public life, with closer relations of co-operation with government as well as a force in some political campaigns, its place in public life has become more contested. Fudged compromises of the past are giving way to a desire for clear lines and moral principles. This book brings the disciplines of law, sociology, politics and theology into conversation with one anther to shed light on the questions thrown up by 'religion in a liberal state'. It discusses practical problems in a British context, such as the accommodation of religious dress, discrimination against sexual minorities and state support for historic religions; considers legal frameworks of equality and human rights; and elucidates leading ideas of neutrality, pluralism, secularism and public reason. Fundamentally, it asks what it means to be liberal in a world in which religious diversity is becoming more present and more problematic
    Abstract: Religion in a liberal state / Raymond Plant -- The European Court of Human Rights and religious neutrality / Ian Leigh -- Religion and sexual orientation : conflict or cohesion? / Maleiha Malik -- Liberal religion and illiberal secularism / Linda Woodhead -- Moderate secularism in liberal societies? / Derek McGhee -- Excluded, included or foundational? religions in liberal democratic states / Veit Bader -- Justificatory secularism / Cécile Laborde -- What lacks is feeling : Hume versus Kant and Habermas / John Milbank -- Arguing out of bounds : Christian eloquence and the end of Johannine liberalism / John Perry
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2014)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521879491 , 9781139159876 , 9781283340946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 345 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
    DDC: 306.60954
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    Keywords: Social conflict Religious aspects ; History ; Social conflict History ; South Asia Religion
    Abstract: An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: community and conflict in South Asia; 2. Building spheres of community: 1860s - 1910s; 3. Transforming spheres of community: the post First World War wold; 4. Nationalising spheres of community: anti-colonialism and religious politics; 5. The 1940s, state transformation, community and conflict; 6. National integrity and pluralism, 1947-1967; 7. The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 19
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521896511 , 9781139137454 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139137454
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9781139141475
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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  • 20
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 375 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
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    Keywords: Religion and politics ; Secularism ; Politik ; Religiosität ; Säkularisierung ; Religion ; Religion ; Politik ; Säkularisierung ; Religiosität ; Säkularisierung
    Abstract: This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Part I: Understanding Secularization: 1. The secularization debate; 2. Measuring secularization; 3. Comparing secularization worldwide; Part II: Case Studies of Religion and Politics: 4. The puzzle of secularization in the United States and Western Europe; 5. A religious revival in post-communist Europe?; 6. Religion and politics in the Muslim world; Part III: The Consequences of Secularization: 7. Religion, the Protestant ethic, and moral values; 8. Religious organizations and social capital; 9. Religious parties and electoral behavior; Part IV: Conclusions: 10. Secularization and its consequences; 11. Re-examining the theory of existential security; 12. Re-examining evidence for the security thesis
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    ISBN: 9780521899710 , 0521899710
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 311 S. , Ill., Kt. , 24 cm
    Series Statement: African studies 110
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 297.0966/0904
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    Keywords: Sylla, Yacouba Influence ; Religious communities History 20th century ; Sufis History 20th century ; Islam Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Social change History 20th century ; Social justice History 20th century ; Westafrika ; Islam ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte ; Westafrika Afrique-Occidentale Française ; Islam ; Sufismus ; Muslime ; Geistliche ; Sylla, Yacouba ; Religiöse Praxis ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kolonialzeit ; Religionsgeschichte ; Africa, West Religious life and customs ; Africa, West Social conditions 20th century ; France Colonies 20th century ; History ; Africa, West Colonial influence ; Westafrika ; Africa, West Religious life and customs ; Westafrika ; Islam ; Sozialer Wandel
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    ISBN: 0521588138 , 0521582148 , 9780521588133 , 9780521582148
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 286 Seiten , Karten , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Themes in Islamic history
    DDC: 297.09
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    Keywords: Islam History ; Middle East Religion ; Middle East Civilization ; Naher Osten ; Gesellschaft ; Religion ; Geschichte 600-1800 ; Naher Osten ; Gesellschaft ; Islam ; Geschichte 600-1800 ; Rezeption ; Islamische Theologie ; Geschichte 600-1800 ; Naher Osten ; Islam ; Religion ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 600-1800
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 270-275 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521831415 , 0521539064 , 0521429293
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 367 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 2. ed.
    DDC: 297
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    Keywords: Islam ; Islam ; Religion ; Muslime ; Glaube ; Islam ; Terrorismus ; Bosnien ; Afghanistan ; Palästina ; Krieg ; Einführung ; Islam
    Note: Previous ed.: 1995
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511157233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    DDC: 306.699
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    Keywords: Gewalt ; Religion ; Sekte
    Abstract: Explores recent high profile cases of new religious movements involved in violence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511499326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 249 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Cults ; Gewalt ; Neue Religiosität ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Neue Religiosität ; Gewalt
    Abstract: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by the members of Heaven's Gate. They explore the dynamics leading to these dramatic episodes in North America, Europe, and Asia, and offer insights into the general relationship between violence and religious cults in contemporary society. The authors conclude that these events usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized
    Description / Table of Contents: Violence and religion in perspective / David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton -- Dramatic denouements / David G. Bromley -- Challenging misconceptions about the new religions-violence connection / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley -- Sources of volatility in religious movements / Thomas Robbins -- Crises of charismatic legitimacy and violent behavior in new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Public agency involvement in government-religious movement confrontations / Stuart A. Wright -- Watching for violence: a comparative analysis of the roles of five types of cult-watching groups / Eileen Barker -- Mass suicide and the Branch Davidians / John R. Hall -- Occult masters and the Temple of Doom: the fiery end of the Solar Temple / Massimo Introvigne and Jean-François Mayer -- Dramatic confrontations: Aum Shinrikyô against the world / Ian Reader -- Making sense of the Heaven's Gate suicides / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- Lessons from the past, perspective for the future / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
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    ISBN: 052158342X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 1232 Seiten , Illustrationen, 1 Karte , 23 cm
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in LeMarquand, Grant [Rezension von: Sundkler, Bengt, A History of the Church in Africa] 2003
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ross, Andrew C., 1931 - A history of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. Pp. xix+1232 incl. frontispiece and 8 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. £85. 0 521 58342 X 2002
    Series Statement: Studia missionalia Upsaliensia 74
    Series Statement: Studia missionalia Uppsaliensia
    DDC: 276
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    Keywords: Christianity ; Christianity Africa ; History ; Africa Church history ; Africa Church history ; Afrika ; Christentum ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Kirchengeschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturverz. S. 1099 - 1147
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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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511006349 , 9780511006340
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 461 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rothblatt, Sheldon Modern university and its discontents
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    Keywords: Newman, John Henry 1801-1890 ; Newman, John Henry ; Newman, John Henry ; Newman, John Henry ; Education, Higher History ; Great Britain ; Education, Higher History ; United States ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; Great Britain ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; United States ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher History ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; Education, Higher Aims and objectives ; EDUCATION ; Higher ; Education, Higher ; Education, Higher ; Aims and objectives ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Hoger onderwijs ; History ; Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; USA ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis -- 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place' -- 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such' -- 4. Failure -- 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education -- Interlude: General introduction to Chapters six and seven -- 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval' -- 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London -- 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached -- 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest.
    Abstract: This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university architecture and the use of space in connection with educational ideals, urbanism and universities, and the competition of states, markets and academic guilds for the control of universities and the right to define the missions of university professors
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    ISBN: 9780521369268 , 0521369266
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 471 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition published
    DDC: 299.6
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    Keywords: Religion, Primitive Africa ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Africa Religion ; Religion Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Religion ; Geistesgeschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-464) and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139166232
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 471 pages)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Wissenssoziologie ; Magie ; Religion ; Afrika ; Africa / Religion ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Magie ; Afrika ; Wissenssoziologie ; Afrika ; Religion
    Abstract: Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139052467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 397 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Keywords: Weber, Max / 1864-1920 / Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max ; Weber, Max ; Sombart, Werner ; Evangelische Kirche ; Kapitalismus ; Religion ; Capitalism / Religious aspects / Protestant churches ; Religion and sociology ; Christian ethics ; Calvinism ; Protestant work ethic ; Wirtschaft ; Protestantismus ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 ; Protestantismus ; Wirtschaft ; Sombart, Werner 1863-1941 ; Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
    Abstract: The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation
    Description / Table of Contents: The German theological sources and Protestant church politics / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The thesis before Weber : an archaeology / Paul Münch -- Max Weber, Protestantism, and the debate around 1900 / Thomas Nipperdey -- Weber the would-be-Englishman : anglophilia and family history / Guenther Roth -- Weber's historical concept of national identity / Harry Liebersohn -- Nietzsche's monastery for freer spirits and Weber's sect / Hubert Treiber -- Weber's ascetic practices of the self / Harvey S. Goldman -- The Protestant ethic versus the "new ethic" / Klaus Lichtblau -- The rise of capitalism : Weber versus Sombart / Hartmut Lehmann -- The longevity of the thesis : a critique of the critics / Malcolm H. MacKinnon
    Description / Table of Contents: The use and abuse of textual data / David Zaret -- Biographical evidence of predestination, covenant, and special providence / Kaspar von Greyerz -- The thing that would not die : notes on refutation / Guy Oakes -- Historical viability, sociological significance, and personal judgment / Gianfranco Poggi -- The historiography of continental Calvinism / Philip Benedict -- The Protestant ethic and the reality of capitalism in colonial America / James A. Henretta -- The economic ethics of the world religions / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer -- "Meet me in St. Louis" : Troeltsch and Weber in America / Hans Rollmann
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
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    DDC: 291.3/4
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Sacrifice ; Experience (Religion) ; Religion and civilization ; Gewalt ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Opfer ; Religion ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Opfer ; Religion ; Religiöse Erfahrung
    Abstract: Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 78
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    DDC: 305.896/50624
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Berti (African people) ; Muslims / Sudan ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion ; Sudan / Social life and customs ; Berti ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion
    Abstract: Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local, popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, but Professor Holy shows that the customary rituals constitute an integral part of the religious system of the Berti. Carefully analysing the symbolic statements made in Berti rituals, Professor Holy demonstrates that the distinction between the two classes of rituals is an expression of the gender relationships characteristic of the society. He also examines the social distribution of knowledge about Islam, and explains the role of the religious schools in sustaining religious ideas. The work is not only an ethnographic study of ritual, belief and gender in an African society. It also makes a significant contribution to current anthropological discussion of the interpretation and meaning of rituals and symbols
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511520600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 287 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/0095694
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    Keywords: Judentum ; Ethnicity / Israel ; Social classes / Israel ; Judaism / Israel ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziologie ; Religion ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Israel / Ethnic relations ; Israel ; Israel ; Ethnizität ; Religion ; Soziale Klasse ; Israel ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Soziologie ; Israel ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur
    Abstract: This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
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    DDC: 393
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Religion ; Fertility cults ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Wiedergeburt ; Tod ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Ethnologie ; Tod ; Anthropologie ; Wiedergeburt
    Abstract: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
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