Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
ISBN: 9781441968951 / Angielski / Miękka / 595 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong. Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it encompasses any way that individuals form understandings of what behaviors are better than others, what goals are most laudable, and what "proper" people believe, feel, and do. Morality involves the explicit and implicit sets of rules and shared understandings that keep human social groups intact. Morality includes both the... Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produc... |
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Expanding Religion: Religious Revival in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9783110228151 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989. Previously marginalized believers and churches became accepted and active participants of social life. Several successive surveys of three international projects studied religious revival and variations of religiosity, the social image of religious people and their specific private and public behaviour in the period between 1991 and 2008. The present volume is the first ever cross-national and cross-denominational comparative analysis of these results. In sharp contrast to Western developments post-communist Europe experienced a spectacular religious revival after 1989. Previously marginalized bel... |
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478,18 zł |
Sociology and Liturgy: Re-Presentations of the Holy
ISBN: 9780333550793 / Angielski / Twarda / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. Interest centres on the dilemmas of the liturgical actors in handling a transaction riddled with ambiguities and potential misunderstandings. The study is an innovative effort to link sociology to theology in a way that serves to focus on an issue of social praxis.
This is a study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. Interest centr...
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Godless Intellectuals?: The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented
ISBN: 9781845456702 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Few have failed to recognize the return of the religious as a factor in social theory. None, so far, has more cogently explained the contributions of French social thought to the challenge of the Sacred in our day than Riley." - Charles Lemert, author of Durkheim's Ghosts
"Alexander Riley's radically revisionist account throws down the gauntlet to the conventional wisdom of intellectual history. Riley offers a cultural sociology of intellectuals that explores the sacred narratives that motivate their life and work...original and compelling." - Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson... "Few have failed to recognize the return of the religious as a factor in social theory. None, so far, has more cogently explained the contributions of...
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Christianity and Liberal Society
ISBN: 9780198159339 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different approaches to the subject of three twentieth-century theologians--Reinhold Niebuhr, George Grant, and Jacques Maritain--and draws out the implications for current political thought.
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world. Despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of libe...
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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
ISBN: 9780824833985 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea's (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women's lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious... Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea's (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflecti... |
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133,35 zł |
The Mission of God in Latin America
ISBN: 9781609470036 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the socio-political, economic, environmental and spiritual reality of Latin America and the response of the Christian church. The purpose of this investigation is to provide a paradigm for integral mission based on Luke-Acts that enables the Latin American church to embody missio Dei.
This is a study of the socio-political, economic, environmental and spiritual reality of Latin America and the response of the Christian church. The p...
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Religionssoziologie
ISBN: 9783110027853 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity
ISBN: 9781847063915 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documentary as Exorcism is an interdisciplinary study that builds upon the insights of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, theological and religious studies and media and film studies to showcase the role of documentary film as a system of signifying capable of registering complex theological ideas while pursuing the authentic aims of documentary filmmaking. Robert Beckford marries the concepts of 'theology as visual practice' and 'theology as political engagement' to develop a new mode of documentary filmmaking that embeds emancipation from oppression in its... Documentary as Exorcism is an interdisciplinary study that builds upon the insights of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, theologic... |
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Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity
ISBN: 9781847063922 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documentary as Exorcism is an interdisciplinary study that builds upon the insights of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, theological and religious studies and media and film studies to showcase the role of documentary film as a system of signifying capable of registering complex theological ideas while pursuing the authentic aims of documentary filmmaking. Robert Beckford marries the concepts of 'theology as visual practice' and 'theology as political engagement' to develop a new mode of documentary filmmaking that embeds emancipation from oppression in its... Documentary as Exorcism is an interdisciplinary study that builds upon the insights of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, theologic... |
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The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses
ISBN: 9780804740029 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. This volume reveals another aspect of the work of this remarkable polymath, a pioneering analysis of the psychological underpinnings of what we now call the Radical Right and its use of the media to propagate its political and religious agenda. The now-forgotten Martin Luther Thomas was an American fascist-style demagogue of the Christian right on the radio in the 1930s. During these years, Adorno was living in the United States and...
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and ...
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Radical Religion: Contemporary Perspectives on Religion and the Left
ISBN: 9780739143223 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political Left has had a turbulent relationship with religion, from outright hostility to attempts to meld religious faith with progressivism. Confronted with contemporary social ills, the progressive Left continues to disagree about the role that religion should play, whether in understanding social challenges and solutions, or stimulating social critique and reform. Radical Religion presents valuable insights, from both religious and secular perspectives, for progressives today as they struggle to formulate a coherent agenda and effective strategies for social change. This book presents...
The political Left has had a turbulent relationship with religion, from outright hostility to attempts to meld religious faith with progressivism. Con...
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518,42 zł |
Homo Sociologicus: Ein Versuch Zur Geschichte, Bedeutung Und Kritik Der Kategorie Der Sozialen Rolle
ISBN: 9783531173771 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der "Homo Sociologicus" ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. Mit einem Nachwort von Heinz Abels.
"Das Vergnugen, das die Lekture des schlanken Bandes noch immer bereitet, sei den Studenten gegonnt ...]." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19.1.2007 "Ralf Dahrendorfs vor bald einem halben Jahrhundert erschienenen Homo Sociologicus' ein klassikverdachtiges Buch zu nennen, ware eine Untertreibung. ...] Der schmalen Schrift ist es nicht unwesentlich zu verdanken, dass der Begriff der sozialen Rolle auch in der deutschsprachigen Soziologie heimisch hat werden konnen ...]." Neue Zurcher... Der "Homo Sociologicus" ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. Mit einem Nachwort von Heinz Abels.
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Beyond the Congregation: The World of Christian Nonprofits the World of Christian Nonprofits
ISBN: 9780199733521 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations. However, a different type of organization operating outside of these traditional structures is claiming an increasingly important place in the religious market. The growth of Christian nonprofits, popularly called "parachurch" organizations, has been recognized by churchgoers and social scientists alike as an important development that is transforming the composition and dynamics of American Christianity. The size, resources, and activities of this population have made it the public face of...
Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations. However, a different type of organization operating ...
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Islam and Modernity in Turkey
ISBN: 9780230109827 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In contrast to much of the Muslim world, a majority of Turks consider Islam to be primarily a matter of personal choice and private belief. How did such an arrangement come about? Moreover, most observant Muslims in Turkey do not see such a conception and practice of Islam as illegitimate. Why not? Islam and Modernity in Turkey addresses these questions through an ethnographic study of Islamic discourses and practices and their articulation with mass media in Turkey, against the background of late Ottoman and early Republican precedents. This ground-breaking book sheds new light on issues of...
In contrast to much of the Muslim world, a majority of Turks consider Islam to be primarily a matter of personal choice and private belief. How did su...
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The Antichrist
ISBN: 9781609420918 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the classic book by Nietzsche in hardcover format.
This is the classic book by Nietzsche in hardcover format.
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Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
ISBN: 9781845455699 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through intensive participant observation, group discussions, student diaries, and questionnaires, the author demonstrates how the State shapes Poland into a living deathscape of Diaspora Jewry. In the course of the voyage, students undergo a rite de passage, in which they are transformed into victims, victorious survivors, and finally witnesses of the witnesses. By viewing, touching, and smelling Holocaust-period ruins and remains, by accompanying the...
Israeli youth voyages to Poland are one of the most popular and influential forms of transmission of Holocaust memory in Israeli society. Through inte...
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Philosophie Et Science Au Moyen Age / Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9789048140763 / Angielski / Miękka / 445 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence
ISBN: 9789048152353 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.
Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginni...
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The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines
ISBN: 9789048155958 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents three of Blondel's most important articles, which have not yet appeared in English. These are Idealist Illusion (1898), The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life (1903), and The Starting Point of Philosophy (1906). These essays became significant in Blondel's transition from the early Action (1893) to his later works on Thinking (1934), Being and Beings (1935), and Action (1936-7). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought, which developed as he began to articulate the logic of action in response to the criticism that...
This book presents three of Blondel's most important articles, which have not yet appeared in English. These are Idealist Illusion (1898), The Element...
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389,09 zł |