» książki » Social Science - Sociology of Religion
 |
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism: Puritanism, Democracy, and Society
ISBN: 9780387493206 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism s original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within historically Puritan Western societies. There is emphasis on Great Britain and particularly America, from the 17th to the 21st century. "This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on P... |
cena:
402,53 |
 |
Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780393328325 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally impoverished, and economically unequal centuries in human history. Ethical and spiritual contributions in the twenty-first century are needed to rectify these pitfalls. Religions can help societies to wrestle with the bedrock question of societal advancement: What does it mean to be a developed society? In doing so, religious traditions help to create the new worldviews needed to build sustainable civilizations in the new century. Fortunately,... The absence of strong spiritual and ethical dimensions in twentieth-century development helped to produce one of the most violent, environmentally ... |
cena:
82,43 |
 |
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
ISBN: 9780415151009 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers.
This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research. It addresses the most recent debates on the encounter between Islam and modernity... The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout ...
|
cena:
258,48 |
 |
Apocalypse Observed : Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan
ISBN: 9780415192767 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines religious violence, analyzing five of the most notorious cults of the late 1990s. The authors present a revealing account of religious sects and conflict. Cults covered include: the apocalypse at Jonestown; the Branch Davidians at Waco; the violent path of Aum Shinrikyo; the mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple; and the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate.
This work examines religious violence, analyzing five of the most notorious cults of the late 1990s. The authors present a revealing account of religi...
|
cena:
731,67 |
 |
Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan
ISBN: 9780415192774 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing account of religious sects and conflict. Cults covered include:
* the apocalypse at Jonestown * the Branch Davidians at Waco * the violent path of Aum Shinrikyo * the mystical apocalypse of the Solar Temple * the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate. Through comparative case studies and in-depth analysis, the authors show how religious violence can erupt not simply from the beliefs of the cult followers or the... Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascina...
|
cena:
370,66 |
 |
An Introduction to Longitudinal Research
ISBN: 9780415260077 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe and the US which make longitudinal data widely available to graduate students for the first time. Elisabetta Ruspini here provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the issues involved in this kind of research. This book:
* Defines the concept of longitudinal research * Gives guidance on sources of longitudinal data in Europe and the US and their strengths and weaknesses * Discusses the choices that need to be made in this kind... One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe an...
|
cena:
926,78 |
 |
An Introduction to Longitudinal Research
ISBN: 9780415260084 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe and the US which make longitudinal data widely available to graduate students for the first time. Elisabetta Ruspini here provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the issues involved in this kind of research. This book:
* Defines the concept of longitudinal research * Gives guidance on sources of longitudinal data in Europe and the US and their strengths and weaknesses * Discusses the choices that need to be made in this kind... One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe an...
|
cena:
258,48 |
 |
Rationality and the Study of Religion
ISBN: 9780415281997 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion, possibly the most fanciful and certainly the most subjective domain of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its study. Attracting crowd healers, conjurers, the pious and the prophetic alongside comparativists and sceptics, it excites opinions and generalizations, whilst seldom explicitly staking out the territory for the discussions and means of knowledge in which it partakes. Increasingly, serious scholars argue that religious study needs to define and critique its own field, to distinguish itself from theology and other non-objective disciplines. Yet how do...
Religion, possibly the most fanciful and certainly the most subjective domain of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its study....
|
cena:
204,81 |
 |
Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion
ISBN: 9780415303545 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. Pilgrimage, which works both on global economic and individual levels, is recognised as a highly creative and politically charged force intimately...
Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors co...
|
cena:
829,23 |
 |
Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion
ISBN: 9780415303552 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the 21st century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. Pilgrimage, which works both on global economic and individual levels, is recognised as a highly creative and politically charged force intimately bound up in...
Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the 21st century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanin...
|
cena:
243,84 |
 |
Buddhism in Canada
ISBN: 9780415322799 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing constituency of Euro-Canadian Buddhists seriously interested in the faith. This insightful study analyzes the phenomenon of Buddhism in Canada from a regional perspective. The work provides an important examination of the place of Buddhism in a developed western country associated with a traditional Judeo-Christian culture, but undergoing profound sociological transformation due to large-scale...
Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most im...
|
cena:
682,89 |
 |
The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America
ISBN: 9780415409148 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include:
This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the... |
cena:
756,05 |
 |
The Lure of Images: A history of religion and visual media in America
ISBN: 9780415409155 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include:
This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the... |
cena:
234,09 |
 |
The Multicultural Riddle: Rethinking National, Ethnic and Religious Identities
ISBN: 9780415922128 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equality between and among three groups: those who believe in a unified national culture, those who trace their culture to their ethnic identity, and those who view their religion as their culture. To solve the multicultural riddle, one must rethink national identity, ethnicity and the role of religion in the modern world.
An exploration of all the issues that shape our search for a multicultural society. The book examines how we can establish a state of justice and equa...
|
cena:
756,05 |
 |
The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature
ISBN: 9780415926393 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fasci...
|
cena:
473,10 |
 |
The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature
ISBN: 9780415926409 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fasci...
|
cena:
146,29 |
 |
Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds
ISBN: 9780415930352 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.
This innovative collection brings together essays on women's religious experiences in both Europe and the Americas during the colonial era.
|
cena:
204,81 |
 |
The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
ISBN: 9780415972505 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Numerous eyewitness accounts described New Orleans' famous Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux as the most powerful woman there is. As a person of African descent and a woman she was barred from holding public offices according to Antebellum United States laws. Nevertheless, it appears that it was she who ruled over the city, not the municipal authorities. This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the...
Numerous eyewitness accounts described New Orleans' famous Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux as the most powerful woman there is. As a person of African desc...
|
cena:
756,05 |
 |
Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth
ISBN: 9780465049363 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Catholic Matters, Father Neuhaus addresses the many controversies that have marked recent decades of American Catholicism. Looking beyond these troubles to "the splendor of truth" that constitutes the Church, he proposes a forward-thinking way of being Catholic in America. Drawing on his personal encounters with the late John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, Neuhaus describes their hope for a springtime of world evangelization, Christian unity, and Catholic renewal. Catholic Matters reveals a vibrant Church, strengthened and unified by hardship...
In Catholic Matters, Father Neuhaus addresses the many controversies that have marked recent decades of American Catholicism. Looking beyond th...
|
cena:
92,37 |
 |
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
ISBN: 9780472109876 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the age of Western colonial expansion, Christian missionaries were important participants in the encounter between the West and peoples throughout the rest of the world. Mission schools, health services, and other cultural technologies helped secure Western colonialism, and in some cases transformed or even undermined colonialism's effect. The very breadth of missionaries's focus, however, made the involvement of women in missionary work both possible and necessary.
Missionary groups thus faced more immediately the destabilizing challenges that colonial experience posed to their... Throughout the age of Western colonial expansion, Christian missionaries were important participants in the encounter between the West and peoples thr...
|
cena:
415,64 |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
