ISBN:
978-1-78920-214-4
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 313 Seiten) :
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Illustration, Diagramm.
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology Volume 36
Series Statement:
Methodology and history in anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Good and evil / Social aspects
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Philosophical anthropology
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Theological anthropology
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Anthropological ethics
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Übel.
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Leid.
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Gewalt.
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Philosophische Anthropologie.
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Theologische Anthropologie.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Übel
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Leid
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Gewalt
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Philosophische Anthropologie
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Theologische Anthropologie
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin
