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Christology in Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9781498230551 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christology defines the very heart of the Christian faith. Traditionally the study of the person and work of Christ has been understood largely as an exercise in biblical exegesis or historical and doctrinal analysis. Rarely, if ever, has Christology focused on the changing cultural paradigms that have deeply influenced the development of human knowledge and self understanding. This unique volume by Colin Greene reverses that trend and, in line with developments in modern cultural theory, explores the interlaces between successive cultural contexts and the story of Jesus to which the...
Christology defines the very heart of the Christian faith. Traditionally the study of the person and work of Christ has been understood largely as an ...
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Die Eickstedt-Sammlung Aus Suedindien: Differenzierte Wahrnehmungen Kolonialer Fotografien Und Objekte
ISBN: 9783631666197 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch nimmt die Eickstedt-Sammlung aus Sudindien zum Ausgangspunkt und verbindet ethnologische Forschung im Museum mit postkolonialer Kritik an der Aneignung von Objekten und Fotografien. Dabei vermittelt die Sammlung als ethnohistorische Quellen ein Bild der Gesellschaft Sudindiens in den 1920er-Jahren. Gleichzeitig stellt sich die Frage nach -anderen- Wahrnehmungen: Wer stand mit welcher Intension hinter der Kamera? Und wie interpretiert man die Fotografien und Objekte im heutigen Sudindien? Katja Muller stellt verschiedene Narrative aus Indien und Deutschland nebeneinander und macht...
Das Buch nimmt die Eickstedt-Sammlung aus Sudindien zum Ausgangspunkt und verbindet ethnologische Forschung im Museum mit postkolonialer Kritik an der...
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355,08 |
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Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation Mountain
ISBN: 9780826356307 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to visit Salvation Mountain, a unique religious structure in the Southern California desert. Built by Leonard Knight (1931-2014), variously described as a modern-day prophet and an outsider artist, Salvation Mountain offers a message of divine love for humanity. In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully. Like his early Christian predecessors, Knight received visitors from all over the world who were seeking his... Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to visit Salvation Mountain, a unique religious structure in the Southern California desert. Built by Leonard Kn... |
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97,10 |
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Consciousness in Oscillation: Worldviews and Their Transcendence as Spiritual Practice
ISBN: 9783631642757 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual s lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. At the centre of attention is a group of individuals and their unfolding life-stories as they move through a journey of transformation, seeking to explore and understand the complexity of their own consciousness. The emphasis is on the embodiment of belief systems and the individuals inherent existential power to transcend cultural precepts....
The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews ...
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In Pursuit of Paradise: Senegalese Women, Muridism and Migration
ISBN: 9789171067760 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Muridism is a Sufi order which originated in Senegal, West Africa, at the end of the 19th century and is now in rapid expansion with the Senegalese emigrants around the world. Among the Murids the belief is strong that the founder Shaykh Amadou Bamba and his mother Mame Diarra Bousso can help them gain a better life on earth and entry into Paradise. The book gives an account of some Murid women the author has met in Senegal and on Tenerife. Their various paths of life are described with a focus on trade, religion and gender relations. In what ways do women's conditions of life differ from...
Muridism is a Sufi order which originated in Senegal, West Africa, at the end of the 19th century and is now in rapid expansion with the Senegalese em...
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95,78 |
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Fraktale Metropolen: Stadtentwicklung Zwischen Devianz, Polarisierung Und Hybridisierung
ISBN: 9783658114916 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Sammelband ruckt Prozesse der Devianz, Fragmentierung und Hybridisierung in der Stadtentwicklung in den Mittelpunkt. Im Oktober und November 2005 erschuttern landesweite Unruhen in den banlieues, den Vorstadten, die franzosische Politik und Gesellschaft. In das mediale und auch wissenschaftliche Scheinwerferlicht rucken Fragen der Stadtentwicklung, der Kriminalitat, sozialraumlicher Polarisierung und Exklusion, gerade von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Zehn Jahre danach beleuchtet dieses Buch die Frage, wohin sich die franzosische Gesellschaft, die Grosswohnsiedlungen und... Dieser Sammelband ruckt Prozesse der Devianz, Fragmentierung und Hybridisierung in der Stadtentwicklung in den Mittelpunkt. Im Oktober und November... |
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Islam Und Sozialisation: Aktuelle Studien
ISBN: 9783658019372 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band leistet einen differenzierten Beitrag zur Frage nach Verhaltnisbestimmungen von Islam und Sozialisation, indem er Einblicke in qualitativ ausgerichtete Forschungsarbeiten bietet, die der Frage nach der Bedeutung islamischer Religiositat fur das Aufwachsen bzw. das Sein in der Welt nachgehen. Die Beitrage richten die Aufmerksamkeit u.a. auf Prozesse der Adressierung und Kategorisierung, Bedeutungsdimensionen der Anerkennung, bildungsbezogene Praktiken und deren biographische Bedeutung, moralische Orientierungen und asthetische Rezeptionsformen sowie geschlechtsbezogene... Der Band leistet einen differenzierten Beitrag zur Frage nach Verhaltnisbestimmungen von Islam und Sozialisation, indem er Einblicke in qualitativ ... |
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Horse-And-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World
ISBN: 9780887557989 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the impact of the modern world on their lives. This book records their responses and strategies for resisting the very things - ease, technology, upward mobility, consumption-that most people today take for granted.
Between 2009 and 2012, Royden Loewen and a team of researchers interviewed 250 Mennonites in thirty-five communities across the Americas about the imp...
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City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
ISBN: 9780823271597 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it has become a microcosm of world religions. City of Gods explores the history of Flushing from the colonial period to the aftermath of September 11, 2001, spanning the origins of Vlissingen and early struggles between Quakers, Dutch authorities, Anglicans, African Americans, Catholics, and Jews to the consolidation of New York City in 1898, two World's...
Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely popul...
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City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
ISBN: 9780823271603 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it has become a microcosm of world religions. City of Gods explores the history of Flushing from the colonial period to the aftermath of September 11, 2001, spanning the origins of Vlissingen and early struggles between Quakers, Dutch authorities, Anglicans, African Americans, Catholics, and Jews to the consolidation of New York City in 1898, two World's...
Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely popul...
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Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity: Seeing and Believing
ISBN: 9781498523554 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence on earth. Believers fashion themselves as devotees of Our Lady in several ways. Through autobiography, they look backward in time to see their lives as leading up to their participation in the prayer group or in some cases moving to Emmitsburg. By observing and telling miracle stories, they adopt...
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call one...
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The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
ISBN: 9780739195833 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's "great" religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often,...
The world's "great" religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and,...
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Die Kirchen Und Der Deutsche Nationalstaat: Konfessionelle Beiträge Zum Systembestand Und Systemwechsel
ISBN: 9783658115074 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 847 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bastian Scholz legt die erste diachrone, konfessionsvergleichende Analyse der staatspolitischen Haltungen beider christlicher Grokirchen in Deutschland vor. Er erortert ihren Einfluss auf die Stabilitat der politischen Systeme des 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts sowie ihre Rolle wahrend der staatlichen Umbruche. Fur Deutschlands Geschichte war die konfessionelle Spaltung der Bevolkerung ebenso schicksalhaft wie die Vielzahl von Systemtransformationen. Die katholische Kirche pflegte nach 1803 allgemeine Staatsdistanz, war opportunistische wie risikoscheue Wegbereiterin des Verfassungsstaates.... Bastian Scholz legt die erste diachrone, konfessionsvergleichende Analyse der staatspolitischen Haltungen beider christlicher Grokirchen in Deutsch... |
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Methodist Morals: Social Principles in the Public Church's Witness
ISBN: 9781621902409 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers keen insight into the public church, interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic discourse about morality and human rights in light of faith. Examining official Methodist teachings from institutional, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives, Darryl Stephens provides a rich analysis of this case study of Protestant social witness.
Offers keen insight into the public church, interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic discourse about morality and human rights...
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204,03 |
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Thich Nhat Hanh's Sociological Imagination: Essays and Commentaries on Engaged Buddhism
ISBN: 9781888024302 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Summer 2008 (VI, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is dedicated to an exploration of Thich Nhat Hanh's Engaged Buddhist philosophy and spiritual theory and practice from a sociological and social scientific vantage point, to highlight the significance his teaching bears for the development of a self-reflective, globally humanist, and environmentally concerned, sociological imagination. Included are several talks, letters, and a poem, by Thich Nhat Hanh on the meaning and practice of Engaged Buddhism-in regard to issues ranging from war and...
This Summer 2008 (VI, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is dedicated to an exploration of Thich Nhat Hanh's E...
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Thich Nhat Hanh's Sociological Imagination: Essays and Commentaries on Engaged Buddhism
ISBN: 9781888024876 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Summer 2008 (VI, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is dedicated to an exploration of Thich Nhat Hanh's Engaged Buddhist philosophy and spiritual theory and practice from a sociological and social scientific vantage point, to highlight the significance his teaching bears for the development of a self-reflective, globally humanist, and environmentally concerned, sociological imagination. Included are several talks, letters, and a poem, by Thich Nhat Hanh on the meaning and practice of Engaged Buddhism-in regard to issues ranging from war and...
This Summer 2008 (VI, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is dedicated to an exploration of Thich Nhat Hanh's E...
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421,46 |
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Cultural Roots of Sustainable Management: Practical Wisdom and Corporate Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9783319282855 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. While for decades a purely mathematical-technical orientation dominated the business curriculum, this book presents CSR and sustainability as a business concept embedded in its cultural and spiritual context. It initially approaches practical wisdom from different cultural and religious traditions as a source of spiritual capital for sustainable business practices. Subsequently, it links current CSR concepts and the latest thinking in CSR with long-standing cultural and spiritual knowledge, promoting a more...
This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. While for decades a purely mathematical-technical orientation domi...
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Muslimas Und Muslime in Österreich Im Migrationsstress
ISBN: 9783658118280 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In einer reprasentativen Studie untersucht Paul M. Zulehner den Modernisierungsstress in Bezug auf Freiheitsbewusstsein/Unterwerfungsbereitschaft, Geschlechterrollen, islamische Glaubigkeit, dem viele Muslime aus vormodernen Kulturen, die in westeuropaische Lander migrieren, ausgesetzt werden. Die Daten belegen, dass zumal jungere Muslimas sich in ihrem Frauenbild westlichen Frauen annahern und sich im Zeitraum von zwei Generationen eine Art "Europaischer Islam von unten" entwickelt. Die Islamische Religionsgemeinschaft konnte diesen ebenso wertschatzen wie eine Islamische Theologie ihn...
In einer reprasentativen Studie untersucht Paul M. Zulehner den Modernisierungsstress in Bezug auf Freiheitsbewusstsein/Unterwerfungsbereitschaft, Ges...
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169,28 |
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Ritual, Heritage and Identity: The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World
ISBN: 9781138659933 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the importance of ritual and ritual theory to discourses of authenticity and originality, thereby deepening our insight into concepts of cultural heritage, identity and nation in a globalised world. The volume is the first interdisciplinary attempt to understand the significance of rituals and related performative traditions in the creation of grounded cultural identities, 'home' and heritage as geographically experienceable locations. It assembles perspectives from social and cultural anthropology, performance studies, education and arts that can deal with the politics... This book explores the importance of ritual and ritual theory to discourses of authenticity and originality, thereby deepening our insight into con... |
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242,84 |
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Questioning the 'Muslim Woman': Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality
ISBN: 9781138660090 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly Muslim colony in South Delhi, this book attempts to demonstrate the complexity of their lives and the multiple levels of insecurity they face. Unlike other studies on Indian Muslims that focus on Islam as a defining factor, this book highlights the ways in which religious identity intersects with... The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are ofte... |
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242,84 |