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Taylor & Francis Early Islamic Art and Architecture 23 The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Formation of alAndalus Part 1 History and Society The Formation of the Classical Islamic World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Church Polyphony
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jews and Arabs in Pre and Early Islamic Arabia 639 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Power Marginality and the Body in Medieval Islam Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Islamic Visual Culture 11001800
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jerusalem Constructing the Study of Islamic Art Volume IV Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Early Islamic Theology The Mutazilites and alAshari Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam Vol II 2 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Classical Islamic Theology The Asharites Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam Vol III 3 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Context and Cognitive Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Repair of the Soul
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Can Scientists Believe Some Examples of the Attitude of Scientists to Religion
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Taylor & Francis Homosexuality and Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AlKitab AlAqdas or The Most Holy Book
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Taylor & Francis Ltd MindfulnessBased Teaching and Learning
Book SynopsisMindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning is the first comprehensive survey text exploring the history, research, theory, and best practices of secular-scientific mindfulness. With a focus on how mindfulness is taught and learned, this book is an invaluable resource for aspiring or expert mindfulness specialists. Integrating and defining the emerging field of MBTL within a common purpose, evidence-base, and set of transprofessionaland transformationalpractices, the book provides both a visionary agenda and highly practical techniques and tools. Chapters provide curriculum design and teaching tips, explore the expert-validated MBTL-TCF competency framework, and reveal insights into the ways self-awareness can evolve into ecological awareness through intensive retreats.Trade Review"Combining rigorous scholarship with an intuitive understanding of contemplative practice, this impressive book makes a compelling case for mindfulness as an embodied bridge linking the broad domains of education and self-growth. It is a wonderful resource for educators, mindfulness teachers, and professionals interested in fostering curiosity, sensory processing, and awareness as platforms for lifelong learning and well-being." Zindel Segal, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough"Seonaigh MacPherson and Patricia Rockman have integrated material from a wealth of disciplines, distilling the teaching and learning of secular-scientific mindfulness to cultivate personal and societal wellbeing. In so doing, they bring divergent views of western mindfulness together, emphasizing a common and critical goal in a western world that is in dire need of working toward well-being on all levels." Ellen Katz, PhD, associate professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto"This book is a deep dive into the mindfulness field, exploring many of its significant questions, themes, and controversies: its history, how mindfulness emerged in multiple sectors, and scientific and clinical issues. A standout is the useful rubric for evaluating and training mindfulness teachers. Thoroughly researched, meticulous, and comprehensive, this book will be a landmark text for the mindfulness field for years to come." Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education, UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and author of The Little Book of BeingTable of ContentsSection 1. Histories - Why MBTL: From Mindfulness to Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning 1. How We Got Here: From Traditional to Secular-Scientific Mindfulness 2. Where We Are Now: Secular-Scientific Mindfulness and the Malaise of Modernity 3. What Happened: The Mainstreaming of Mindfulness Section 2. - Contexts - Where We Teach: MBTL in Institutional Contexts 4. Community and Continuing Education: Beyond Institutional Constraints 5. Healthcare: The Medicalization of Mindfulness 6. Higher Education: From Contemplative Studies to "Student Success" 7. PreK-12 Education: Where Social-Emotional and Inquiry-Based Learning Intersect 8. Workplace and Organizational Contexts Section 3. Theories - Why Mindfulness Works: Theories Informing MBTL 9. Biological Theories of Embodied Cognition and Mindfulness 10. Cognitive Processing Theories 11. Buddhist Theories of Mindfulness and Learning Section 4. Practices - What We Teach: The What, Why, and How of MBTL 12. Mindfulness as Body-Mind Communication 13. Mindfulness as Social-Emotional Learning 14. Mindfulness as Inquiry-Based Learning Section 5. Methods - What We Do: Competencies and Professional Practice in MBTL 15. Transprofessional Competencies for MBTL Specialists: The MBTL-TCF 16. Curriculum Design for MBTL Specialists 17. Trauma-Informed Practice in MBTL Section 6. Limits - What We Don't See: The Post-Modern Frontier of MBTL 18. The Limits of Professionalism: Navigating the Wilds of the (Post)Modern 19. From Self-Awareness to Ecological Awareness: Mindful Encounters with Wildlife During Intensive Silent Retreats
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Platos Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts
Book SynopsisPlato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato's famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato's Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato's philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato's Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of the sons of God and the dauTrade Review"Russell Gmirkin has presented ground-breaking research. The monograph is a tour de force in research on Ancient Near Eastern cultures. He has posited novel interpretations, in particular his interpretation of the early chapters of the book of Genesis, which is enlightening. There can no longer be any doubt that the Greek translators of Genesis had contact with and made use of Platonic ideas."-Johann Cook, Platonism and the Bibles, Theological StudiesTable of Contents1. Comparative Methodology and Genesis 1-11, 2. Genesis 1 and Creation Myths, 3. Genesis 1 and Greek Cosmogenies, 4. Genesis 1 as Philosophy, 5. Genesis 1 as Science, 6. Genesis 2-3 as Myth, 7. Genesis 2-11 and Plato’s Critias, 8. Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in Plato and the Bible
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Taylor & Francis The SÃmi Narrative Tradition
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to document and analyse the SÃmi narrative tradition. It considers the worldviews inherent in the narratives and links them to traditional cosmology and other cultural expressions (such as joik and duodji). The chapters address a variety of issues, including care for children, the perception of nature, disputes over land and natural resources, local justice, the spiritual world of everyday life, and LÃstadianism. Sketching SÃmi history and the cultural context of storytelling, NergÃrd also considers the modern challenge for the narrative tradition. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and research, the volume is valuable reading for Indigenous studies and disciplines such as anthropology.Table of ContentsPreface; 1 Nature, Animals and People; 2 The Narrative Tradition; 3 The Messenger; 4 Leaving a Child Behind; 5 The Voice of Common Properties; 6 The Narratives about the Noaidi; 7 The Spiritual Aftermath; 8 The Spirituality transferred to Læstadianism; 9 Narratives on Local Justice; 10 The Gaze of Future in the Past
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Taylor & Francis Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought
Book SynopsisLacan and Chan Buddhist Thought provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings. The book emerged from the three co-authorsâ engagement with Lacanâs 1962â1963 Seminar on Anxiety, and the significance of Lacanâs original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts â such as the objet a, jouissance, the real, Nirvana, and the mirror â through ancient Buddhist teachings and koans. With this focused exploration of psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism, the authors offer a philosophically grounded cross-cultural approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in Asian countries. Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought will be a rich resource for psychoanalysts, academics, and students interested in Lacan and religion, the intellectual and cultural relationship between Asian and Western thought, and Mahayana BuTrade Review"This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name Lackhan is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan." - Xiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory."What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest." - Michael Eigen, PhD., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis "This book is one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to Lacan. Since Chinese people are familiar with Buddhist thought, interpreting Lacan from this perspective makes the reader feel especially at home and helps to understand some of Lacan's extremely difficult concepts. This book is very suitable for Chinese readers to study Lacan and the writers present Lacan with such depth and lightness that the reader will find it a pleasure to read. The interpretation of the name Lackhan is very helpful in understanding the two otherness inside and outside the subject, as well the explication of the concepts of jouissance, pleasure, and the Real are very illuminative and greatly clarify their complexities. In the works published in China on Lacan, there are only a few references to the relationship between Lacan's thought and Buddhism which are not so systematic. Therefore, this book, and eventually a Chinese translation, will have a great academic impact that will not only help to popularize Lacanian theory in China, but also orients a new trend in studying Lacan." - Xiaoyi Zhou, Peking university. Dr. Zhou earned his doctorate at Lancaster University in 1993, and has published widely on comparative literature and literary theory."What a treat to read this profound, careful, and creative exploration of Lacan and Chan Buddhism. East-West illuminate and add to each other, amplifying Lacan's vocabulary and concepts and Chan's existential evocations. It was not a surprise to see YHVH in the glossary touching a dimension beyond name and thought in the usual sense. And although Bion was not part of this work, his emphasis on the creative unknown vibrates with it. Unconscious to unconscious, psyche to psyche, mind to mind—so much permeates and enriches. This book opens many doors and passageways and gives us much to think about, experience and digest." - Michael Eigen, PhD., New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (adjunct) and the National Psychological Association for PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Lacan and Vasubhandu ( 世亲菩萨) 2. The Second Turning of the Dharma Wheel: Nagarjuna’s Teachings on Nirvan 3. Rereading Freud’s Nirvana 4. The Pleasure, Constancy, and Nirvana Principles 5. Wu and Mu in the Cáodòng Zōng and Línjì Schools 6. "No Buddha-Nature" and Buddha’s Desire 7. The Vacuum in Western Science 8. Lacan and Wu 9. The Paradoxical Chan Koans, Self-Reference, and Letter Jouissance 10. The True Body of Bodhi and Buddh(a) 11. The Mirror in Lacan, Chan, and Dogen’s Zen 12. The One, the Many, and Kuan-yin 13. Clinical Dream Example, Appendix: The Practice of Thinking non-thinking or Thinking/Meditating with the Body of (the Third) Jouissance.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd CompassionBased Approaches in Loss and Grief
Compassion-Based Approaches in Loss and Grief introduces clinicians to a wide array of strategies and frameworks for engaging clients throughout the loss experience, particularly when those experiences have a protracted course.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to the Quran
The Routledge Companion to the Qurâan offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Qurâan by both established authorities and emergent voices, the 40 chapters in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture.The Qurâan is spoken of in scholarship across disciplines; it is the beating heart of a living community of believers; it is a work of beauty and a basis for art and culture; it is a profoundly significant historical artifact; and it is a mysterious survivor from the Late Ancient Arabic-speaking world. This Handbook accompanies the reader into the many worlds that the Qurâan lives in, from its ancient settings, to its internal drama, and through the 1,400 years of discussion and debate about its meaning.Bringing diverse approaches to the Qurâan together in one volume The Routledge Companion to the Qurâan
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Monastic Economy
Book SynopsisThis book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries engage with the capitalist world economy via a model which aims less at âperformanceâ per se, than at the fulfilment of human and religious values.Based on fieldwork across several countries in Europe, Africa and South America, it explores not only the daily work and economy in monastic communities in their tensions with religious life, but also the new interest from society in monastic products or monastic management. With attention to present trends in monastic economy, including the growth of ecology and the role of monasteries in the social and economic development of their localities, the author demonstrates that monastic economy consists not solely in the subsistence of religious communities outside the world, but in economic activity that has a real impact on its local or even more global environment, in part through transnational networks of monasteries.As such, Contemporary Monastic Economy: A Sociological Perspective will appeal to scholars of religious studies and sociology with interests in contemporary monasticism.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Christological Paradigm Shifts in Prophetic
Book SynopsisThis book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications of these shifts? Does it mean that believers no longer believe in Christ but in their leaders? Does it shift believers' faith towards materiality than the person of Christ? This volume will be valuable for scholars of African Christianity and in particular those interested in the neo-prophetic movement and Christology in a South African context.Table of ContentsIntroduction-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda; 1 The paradigmatic shift of some New Prophetic Churches from the ipsissima verba of Scripture to a non-existent Christology-Paul Themba Mngadi; 2 "Who has bewitched you?": The Christological shift from faith to works in Galatians 3:1-9 applied to South African Pentecostalism-Elise B. Kisungu; 3 Towards a deepened Christology on the Cape Flats: The "Spirit of Christ" metaphor in the neo-Pentecostal church-Eugene Baron; 4 Wo/Men’s God-given power: Male headship versus female agency in Pentecostal sermons-Tumi Mampane; 5 Examining the position of prophets in relation to Christology within contemporary South African Pentecostal missions-Themba Shingange; 6 African neo-Pentecostalism's emphasis on prosperity and its implications for its Christology: An African Pentecostal hermeneutical consideration-Marius Nel; 7 Insufficient to ransom Africans?: The neo-Pentecostal fear of generational curses in Africa and Christ’s vicarious atonement-Collium Banda; 8 Christ and the neo-Pentecostal preacher on the platform: Catechists or celebrities?-Kelebogile T. Resane; 9 From replacing Christ to crisis: Rethinking Christology in some new religious ministries in South Africa-Bekithemba Dube; Epilogue-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge History of Witchcraft
Book SynopsisThe Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children's books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religious, and anthropological origin and development, including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witTrade Review'The history of witchcraft, once narrowly focused on early modern Europe, now ranges widely across time and territory, and reaches deeply into every nook and cranny of human activity and experience. This diverse collection of essays, by leading experts in their fields, both reflects this remarkable historiographical development and does full justice to the importance of the subject in the twenty-first century.'Malcolm Gaskill, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsEditor’s Preface; Part 1: Witches in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages; Witches in Greece and Rome; Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology in the Bible, Ancient Judaism and Earliest Christianity; Demons and Witchcraft in the Early Church; Witchcraft and Demonology in the Middle Ages; The Rise of the Witchcraft Doctrine; Part 2: The Early Modern Witch Hunts: Regions and Issues; Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy; Germany – "the Mother of the Witches"; Witch Hunts in the Low Countries (1450-1685); Witch Hunts in France; Witch Hunting in Spain: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Witch Hunts in Britain; Witchcraft in Scandinavia; Witch Hunts in Eastern Central Europe; Witch Hunts in Eastern Europe; The Salem Witch Hunt; Witchcraft and the Early Modern Media; Witchcraft and Gender; Child-Witches; Witchcraft in Everyday Life; The Interrelationship of Magic and Witchcraft; Part 3: Modern Concepts of Witches; Child Eaters and Other Problems of Democracy: Witchcraft and the American Frontier; Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe; Shifting Figures of the Witch in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Wicca; Disciples of Hell: The History of Satanism; Part 4: Witches and the Arts; Witchcraft and Early Modern Art (1450-1550); The Witch Figure in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature; Where Have All the Witches Gone? The Disappearing Witch and Children’s Literature; Witchcraft in Film
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Religious Movements
New Religious Movements: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the field of New Religious Movements (NRMs). Western culture is currently going through a wave of fascination with cults, with numerous documentaries and television series dedicated to describing these groups. Meanwhile, scholars have been wrestling with the intricacies of this loaded category for decades.Introducing the reader to some of the key issues and debates in the field of NRM studies, this book includes discussions on: how to define the term new religious movement critically unpacking the term cult how to study NRMs brainwashing and deprogramming prophecy and failed prophecy charisma and authority NRMs and violence gender and sexuality This book is essential reading for students and scholars of religion who are approaching the study of NRMs for the first time as well as those in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lacan in the End Times
Book SynopsisThis book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.The first part of this book underlines what psychoanalysis and psi-sciences continue to overlook: who now provides what Lacan called the narrow footbridge between anxiety and death? What terror(ism) must replace the father? How can reality be stabilised once more? The second part follows the atomised world as it turns towards extremism and utopian dreams: in Ireland via Hanaghan's radical psychoanalysis; in Levinasian ethics; in Gnostic belief in an evil world; and in the clinic of the death drive. The conclusion turns finally to the God beyond God, and the overwhelming evidence for God's presence in the world.Lacan in the End Times will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,Trade Review"Rob Weatherill asks questions based on his life’s work and research about contemporary culture and psychical organisation that few venture to ask. The provocations of this book will challenge, inspire and stimulate. Rob engages the reader with the most serious and consequential issues of our time. Read this and you will not emerge unmoved by Rob’s deep concerns about the state of our world." Dr Eve Watson, Psychoanalyst, Dublin; co-editor, Critical Essays on the Drive in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge)"Through his books and lectures on psychoanalysis and the malaise of contemporary Western civilisation, Rob Weatherill has been among the key intellectual influences on my life. His books are frightening, urgent, dizzying in their range and erudition, and consistently willing to explore the bleakest, most harrowing corners of life in an atomised and apocalyptic culture. Moreover, by virtue of Weatherill’s insistence on the need for a moral and spiritual bulwark against the ravages of untrammelled capitalism on the psyche, his work is actively countercultural. There are precious few writers engaged with his themes and concerns."Rob Doyle, author, Threshold"I am delighted to recommend very warmly the new work of Rob Weatherill. I was very impressed with his previous work, The Anti-Oedipus, whose characteristic excellences the current work also displays. I found it illuminating in an intrepid way, courageous in an enlivening way, and wise in a discerning way. Weatherill trenchantly reminds us of ‘home-truths’ about the mess we have often made of things. That said, and not least, Weatherill, has something of the redeeming eye of the comic for our current self-incurred absurdities. Very warmly recommended." William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA; Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven BelgiumTable of ContentsPart I 1. Do You Believe in Reality? 2. Where Have All the Fathers Gone? 3. Loving the Father into Life. 4. Being (not) in the World without a Father Part II 5. The Mystical Origins of Psychoanalysis in Ireland. 6. Hanaghan Returns. 7. Is it Righteous to Be? 8. Tired to Death in an Evil World. 9. The Irreducible Datum. Part III 10. The Evidence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex Therapy with Religious Patients
Book SynopsisSex Therapy with Religious Patients is a comprehensive guidebook for mental health professionals who work with those struggling with sexual issues within a religious context. The book provides practical guidance on how to approach sensitive topics related to sex and religion, including addressing religious beliefs and values that may impact sexual behavior, beliefs, and attitudes.Drawing on research and clinical experience, the book offers a range of evidence-based interventions for working with individuals from different Jewish, Christian, and Muslim backgrounds. It also explores the unique challenges and opportunities presented by patients' religious beliefs and provides strategies for integrating spirituality into the therapeutic process.The book is written in an accessible and engaging style, with real-life case examples and exercises that can be used in therapy sessions. It is an essential resource for mental health professionals seeking to enhance their
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Worldview Religious Studies
Book SynopsisWorldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies.The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of play', and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological.Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sourceTable of ContentsPart 1 Theories and Perspectives - 1. Framing Worldviews, 2. Religion and Religious Studies, 3. Destiny, Ritual-Symbol and Gift, 4. Evil, Merit, Salvation. Part 2 Worldview Types - 5. Types of Worldview, 6. Natural Worldview, 7. Scientific WorldvieW, 8. Ancestral Worldview, 9. Karmic Worldview, 10. Prophetic Sectarian, 11. Mystical Worldview, 12. Ideological Worldview, 13. Ludic Worldview, 14. Seeing and Seeing-through Worldviews.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisAdvances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the art of integrating contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices, including mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques. It brings together clinicians, scholars, and thought leaders of unprecedented caliber, featuring some of the most eminent pioneers in the rapidly growing field of contemplative psychotherapy.The new edition offers an expanded array of effective contemplative interventions, contemplative psychotherapies, and contemplative approaches to clinical practice. New chapters discuss how contemplative work can effect positive psychosocial change at the personal, interpersonal, and collective levels to address racial, gender, and other forms of systemic oppression. The new edition also explores the cross-cultural nuances in the integration of Buddhist psychology and healing practTrade Review"In this important volume, the authors have succeeded in deepening the current mutual embrace between psychotherapy and meditative practice. Written with clarity and featuring leading minds in both domains, this book signals the emergence of a new, theory-linked contemplative psychotherapy that crosses schools and boundaries in its pursuit of real clinical deliverables."Zindel Segal, PhD, distinguished professor of psychology in mood disorders, University of Toronto Scarborough"Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of one of the hottest cutting edges in psychotherapy today—its merger with contemplative practice. A must have for anyone in this field."Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ and coauthor of Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Transforms Mind, Brain, and Body"While the goals of psychotherapy and contemplative practise share some important commonalities—the relief of suffering—until this volume, there was no compendium bringing these modalities together. Joe Loizzo and his colleagues have done a remarkable job in surveying this vast landscape. A must read for any clinician or provider wishing to incorporate contemplative practice into therapy."Richard Davidson, author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain, founder, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison"With business leaders, healthcare providers, educators, and celebrity influencers all touting the benefits of mindfulness and other forms of contemplative practice, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sift through the data and the hype, the science and the sales pitch. This updated edition of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy provides an illuminating tour of this burgeoning field, guided by an impressive and diverse roster of researchers, clinicians, and spiritual teachers. This insightful book examines the promise and the practical challenges of applying contemplative practices to the personal, clinical, and social problems we all face today."Doris F. Chang, PhD, clinical psychologist and associate professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work, and co-editor of Transformative Careers in Mental Health for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color: Strategies to Promote Healing and Social Change in Academia, Clinical Settings, and BeyondTable of ContentsPart 1: Mindfulness and Personal Healing 1. Contemplative Practices for Assessing and Eliminating Racism in Psychotherapy: Towards Dynamic Inclusive Excellence 2. Buddhist Origins of Mindfulness Meditation 3. The Buddha, MLK, and the Ethics of Healing Community 4. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Practicing Presence and Resilience 5. Positive Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness 6. Mindfulness Practice as Advanced Training for the Clinician 7. Meditation, Wisdom, and Compassion in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 8. Toward an LGBTQ+ Affirmative Approach to Contemplative Psychotherapy Part 2: Compassion and Social Healing 9.Traditional Buddhist Perspectives on Modern Compassion Trainings and a Proposal for an Integrated Relational Emotional-Analytical Framework 10. Compassion Practice, Social Justice, and Collective Liberation 11. The Supreme Medicine of Exchanging Self-Enclosure for Altruism 12. Interpersonal Connection, Compassion, and Well-Being: The Science and Art of Healing Relationships 13. Compassion in Psychotherapy 14. The RAIN of Self-Compassion: A Simple Practice for Clients and Clinicians 15. Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT): A Contemplative Therapeutic Intervention For Self-Regulation and Cultivating Loving Intimate Relationships Part 3: Embodiment and Natural Healing 16. Tantra, Imagery, and Integral Dynamic Therapy 17. Skill, Stamina, (Noticing Avoidance) & Embodied Connectedness: Realizing Our Vows to Be of Service 18. The Essence of Tantric Medicine: Embodied Healing in the Yuthog Nyingthig Tradition 19. Imagery and Trauma: The Psyche's Push for Healing 20. Embodied Practice, the Smart Vagus, and Mind-Brain-Body-World Integration 21. How to Be a Transformational Therapist: AEDP Harnesses Innate Healing Affects to Rewire Experience and Accelerate Transformation 22. From Trauma to Transformation: Accelerating Resilience, Recovery, and Integration Through Embodied Transformational Therapy
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Taylor & Francis Holocaust vs. Popular Culture
Book SynopsisHolocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.The binary is defined in terms of âœincompatibilityâ between the Holocaust and Popular Culture on the one hand and the âœuniversalizationâ of the Holocaust memory through Popular Culture on the other. The book does emphasize the anti-representation argument. Nevertheless, the authors make a case for a productive understanding of âœHolocaust Popular Cultureâ as contributing to the expansion of Holocaust studies as well as cultural studies in the transnational context. The book theorizes Popular Culture in broad terms and highlights the diversity of Holocaust Popular Culture mainly but not exclusively produced in the twenty-first century. This interdisciplinary collection covers a wide variety of Popular Culture genres including language, literature, films, television shows, soap operas, music, dance, sTable of ContentsHolocaust versus Popular Culture: A Critical Introduction Part One: Explicating Incompatibility 1. Popular Fiction, Literary Culture, and Artistic Truth: Thane Rosenbaum’s The Golems of Gotham and Twenty-First Century Holocaust Representation 2. Playing with the Unspeakable: The Holocaust and Videogames 3. Representation, Appropriation, and Popular Culture: Food and the Holocaust in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist 4. Nazi Linguistics and Mass Manipulation: An Analysis of Holocaust Primary Sources vis-à-vis Popular Culture Part Two: Rethinking Universalization 5. Hitler’s Popularity and the Trivialization of the Holocaust in India 6. Decoding Holocaust Narratives in Japanese Pop Culture: Through the Lens of Anne no Nikki (1995) and Persona Non Grata (2015) 7. Holocaust Representations through Popular Music: Ferramonti di Tarsia amidst Documentation, Commemoration and Mystification 8. Holocaust Museums: A Study of the Memory Policies of the USA and Poland 9. Trace and Trauma: Early Holocaust Remembrance in American and Canadian Popular Culture Part Three: In Defence of Popular Culture 10. Mothers, Daughters and the Holocaust: A Study of Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs 11. Superheroes and the Holocaust in American Comics 12. Unearthing the Real in the Magical: Holocaust Memory and Magic Realism in Select Post-Holocaust Fictions 13. "Once-upon-a-very-real-time": Fairy Tales and Holocaust in Jane Yolen’s Novels 14. Retelling the Holocaust with Children: A Pedagogic Study of Stephen King’s Apt Pupil and Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic 15. "Is it safe?": Marathon Man as Holocaust Drama 16. Child’s Play, Fantasy and the Holocaust in Jojo Rabbit and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 17. Incorrectamundo?: Holocaust, Humor, and Anti-Hate Satire in the Works of Brooks and Waititi
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Taylor & Francis Living Folk Religions
Book SynopsisLiving Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers: What Is Folk Religion? Spirit Beings and Deities Performance and Ritual Praxis Possession and Exorcism Health, Healing, and Lifestyle Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures.Living Table of ContentsIntroduction: Three Little Words Aaron Michael Ullrey and Sravana Borkataky-Varma Part 1: What is Folk Religion? 1. Interrogating the Folk-Classical Divide in the Study of Indic Religions through a Local Bengali Ritual Performance Frank J. Korom 2. The Sādhū that Came for Lunch: Revising Tropes of Disconnection in the Jain Diaspora Tine Vekemans 3. What Makes Folk Buddhism? Alyson Prude 4. Why a Folk Religion May Not Exist Among Followers of an Abrahamic Faith: The Case of Sunni Egypt Hasan El-Shamy Part 2: Spirit Beings and Deities 5. Goddess Trees in the Forest of Bliss: Local Place and Translocal Space in a City of Pilgrims David Gordon White 6. Bhairava, Hanumān, and the Deified Dead: A Material Study of Vernacular, Official, and Folk Registers of Living Hinduism in Vārāṇasī, North India Seth Ligo 7. There is Something in Me: Narratives of LGBTIQ+ Sangomas (Traditional Healers) in South Africa Rachel Schneider Part 3: Performance and/or Ritual Praxis 8. Sufi Festivals in Contemporary Morocco: Authorizing and Performing Folk Religiosities John C. Thibdeau 9. Mantras for "Every God and Goddess": Vernacular Religious Ritual in the Literature of Sabhapati Swami Keith Cantú 10. Observing Buddhist Precepts by Divination: Practices According to ZhanchajingXingyi Wang 11. Spellbinding Skalds: Music as Ritual in Nordic Neopaganism Mathias Nordvig and Padraic Fitzgerald 12. Cremating the Body Politic: Mapping the Materiality of the Indo-Caribbean Mortuary Ritual Corpus Keith E. McNeal Part 4: Possession and Exorcism 13. Talking to the Other Side: Spiritualism as "Vernacular Religion" in Central Ohio Hugh B. Urban 14. Becoming a God: Spirit Possession Practices at a South Indian Temple Julie Edelstein 15. Post-Christianity and Esotericism: A Study of a Satanic Exorcist William Chavez 16. Controlling the Lore: A Survey of UFO Folklore in the United States Diana Pasulka Part 5: Health, Healing, and Lifestyle 17. Indigenous Revitalization, Rock Music, and the Holy Spirit: The Religious Logic of Healing at Lake Junaluska Jason E. Purvis 18. The Triple Goddess: Examining Maiden, Mother, Crone in Wiccan-Witchcraft Traditions Jason Mankey 19. Lifestyle Brands That Rock Your Soul: Wellness Culture as Folk Religion in North America Anya Foxen. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Invisible Religion
Book SynopsisA modern classic of social science, this book addresses the question of whether Western societies are becoming secular as they modernize, arguing that rather than a decline of religion, we are witnessing a shift from an older, Church-centered form to another, invisible and still largely unexplored form of religion. Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction Foreword Introduction I. Religion, Church and SociologyII. Church-Oriented Religion on the Periphery of Modern SocietyIII. The Anthropological Condition of ReligionIV. The Social Forms of ReligionV. Individual ReligiosityVI. Religion and Personal Identity in Modern SocietyVII. Modern Religious ThemesPostscript
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Apuleius Golden Ass
Book SynopsisThis volume examines Apuleius' comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic writings.The novel was written against a cultural and religious background in which the donkey had various connotations, both positive and negative, but tended to be admired in Jewish, Christian, and later, in Muslim writings. Smith explores the influence of such popular opinions on The Golden Ass and how Apuleius presented Isis and Osiris as desirable alternatives to the claims of both Christianity and magic, offering hope of spiritual renewal partly modelled on contemporary religious apocalyptic literature. Complemented by images of contemporary art, including amulets and terra cotta figures, this volume gives readers a better understanding of how Apuleius, osteTrade Review"Smith presents a coherent set of arguments...he has shown surprising, often compelling, correspondences between these texts and the Metamorphoses, and this book will form a valuable addition to our studies of Apuleius’ elusive novel." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"S.’s book is the fruit of a life-long study of The Golden Ass and it is an excellent read. Moreover, it offers a new perspective not only on the relationship between Apuleius and early Christianity, but also on how the pagan elite was perceiving the new religion and reacting to it." - Censurae LibrorumTable of Contents1. Asinine Thinking; 2. Magical Thinking: The Witchcraft Narrative; 3. Fortune Competes With Providence: The Meaning of Laughter; 4. Robbers Think Like Heroes; 5. Cupid and Psyche: Thinking Like A Winged Creature; 6. Thinking Like A Christian Apologist; 7. Is the Golden Ass a God?; 8. Thinking Like A Christian; 9. Christian and Jewish Apocalyptic Writings; 10. Balancing Judaism and Christianity; Appendix: Lucius ‘Becomes’ Apuleius.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metamorphoses of Religion and Spirituality in
Book SynopsisThis book offers a range of contemporary sociological reflections on new manifestations of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has seen significant social and political transformation. It explores the development of cultural and religious trends, including secularisation, new spiritualit,y and a resurgence of religiosity outside of traditional structures. The theoretical and empirical contributions by established and emerging scholars address topics including: the experiences and values of young people, the role and influence of media, the relationship between public and private religion, and the position of state and institutions. The book will be of particular interest to sociologists of religion and others focused on contemporary Central and Eastern European societies.Table of ContentsTransmutation of Spiritual and Religious Mentality – Introduction Part 1 The Metatoretical Dimension of Social and Religious Metamorphoses 1 Cultural Sociology of Religion in the Perspective of Comparative Religion 2 The Concept of Public Religion in the Context of the Development of the Sociology of Religion – The Perspective of the Central and Eastern Europe 3 Spirituality vs. Religiosity as an Impetus to the Discussion on the Change Factors in the Contemporary Sociology of Religion 4 Modern Directions of Development of Religion and Spirituality – An Attempt at Systematisation 5 New Spirituality as a Social and Cultural Megatrend 6 Metamorphoses of Religiosity in Poland – Post-Modern Spirituality or Religious Morality? 7 "The Miracle of Mindfulness" – Between the Discovery of the Sacred in Everyday Life and Secularization of the Practice of Meditation Part 2 Transformations of Religiosity and Spirituality in the Society at Risk – An Attempt at Diagnosis 8 Religiosity of the Polish Intelligentsia at the Beginning of the 21st Century 9 The Sacred and the Youth – Theoretical and Empirical Inspirations 10 The Spectre of Secularisation: Against Equating Church Indifference with Religious Indifference 11 Spiritual Values of University Students in Contemporary Ukrainian Society – A Sociological Discourse 12 Contemporary Religiosity in Practice – Experiencing Religion 13 Religious Experience as a Dimension of Religiosity – Polish Youth in the World of Experience 14 The Approach to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Poland in Light of Innovation and Religious Selectivity 15 From Orality to the Internet – Transformations of Religious Communication in the Polish Miracular Communities 16 A Scapegoat or a Modern Devil? The Analysis of the Catholic Press Discourse on "Gender" and "Genderists" (on the Examples of "Niedziela" and "Tygodnik Powszechny" Weeklies) 17 #Witchesofinstagram. How Does Social Media Spread Spirituality, Witchcraft, and Pagan Movements?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.The authors of this volume explore the cross-disciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and Jewish thought, while seeking out the resonance of new meanings, to exemplify the uncanny similarities that exist between ancient Rabbinic methods of interpretation and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and methodology, particularly the centrality of the question and the deconstruction of narrative. In doing so, this collaboration addresses the bi-directional influence between, and the relevance of, the Jewish interpretive tradition and psychoanalysis to provide readers with renewed insight into key topics such as Biblical text and midrash, religious traditions, trauma, gender, history, clinical work and the legacies of the Holocaust on psy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spiritual Healing for Trauma and Addiction
Book SynopsisThrough stories and conversations, Drs. Dolores BigFoot and Allyson Kelley reflect on research, clinical work, faith-based topics, spirituality, and recovery. They invite readers to reflect on what it means to walk on a healing path. Beginning with a brief history of broken spirits and a broken world, the book then discusses the causes of brokenness, vulnerability to brokenness, and healing as a construct of social justice and advocacy. The following chapters cover current aspects of healing from the lens of mental health and substance use, addiction, trauma, and recovery. As much of the world struggles with some aspect of brokenness and healing, stories of enduring well provide examples from all relations and walks of life about healing. Theories and research presented throughout the text support stories and concepts presented. Stories about families, coping, grief, loss, and boundaries give readers resources and exercises to help them become whole. Special consideration is Trade Review"Authors welcome the healer into a foundationally spiritual understanding of deep trauma and its treatment. Soon it becomes evident that underneath moral injury, trauma often causes a deeper spiritual injury. In this way, trauma becomes a gateway to galvanize a "hard-wired" road to spiritual awakening and growth. Here, growth is a state of peace and satisfaction. This is a growth that is fueled in tandem, concomitantly, with emotional pain. Psychotherapy for authors Bigfoot and Kelley no longer aim simply for recovery back to baseline or exclusively symptom relief, but rather a form of Post Traumatic Spiritual Growth (PTSG), a scientifically supported pathway to renewal. Clinical steps and methods can readily be used by an experienced clinician or an emerging therapist in training. This book, based upon decades of clinical experience, is a jewel to lay down treatments in support of PTSG and the "new normal" in trauma work."Lisa Miller, Ph.D., professor and founder, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Columbia University, and author, New York Times Bestseller, The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain.Table of Contents1. Broken Spirits and The Healing Path 2. Depression, Anxiety, Suicide Ideation, Substance Abuse...And Enduring Well 3. Trauma 4. Recovery 5. Healing 6. Hope for Families 7. Gratitude and Enduring Well
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Taylor & Francis Rape Culture in the House of David
Book SynopsisRape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men describes a biblical rape culture sustained and maintained by Yhwh and a host of menâfrom royal kings and princes to their relatives, counselors, generals, and servants. This volume reveals that sexual violence in the house of David is not simply perpetrated by its most powerful men. Rather, in the pursuit of power, status, authority, and honor, men form alliances and networks that support the use and abuse of womenâs bodies and valorize sexualized violence against other men. The man who is most capable of sexual violence is Israelâs ideal king.Barbara Thiede deftly addresses the power and contemporary relevance of these narratives and argues that exposing and naming rape culture in biblical literature is essentialâin social, economic, and political realms. This is a meaningful feminist intervention in the field of biblical studies and is of great benefit to graduate students and scholars of religion,Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rape and Rape Culture in the Hebrew Bible: Choosing the Right Words; 1. Disposing of Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: The Rapes of Tamar and of David’s Pilagshim; 2. The Taking, Trapping, and Raping of Women: Michal and Bathsheba; 3. The Once and the Future King: Saul, David, and the Practice of Sexual Violence; Hidden in Plain Sight—The Rape Culture of the Hebrew Bible: Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anthropology of Religion
Book SynopsisThis book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments. Its climax was Frazer's Golden Bough, which is a pillar of modernity second only to Darwin's Origin of Species. But its notion of religion was entirely speculative. When anthropologists went to see for themselves, they encountered formidable obstacles. How to access a people's most profound understandings of the world and everything in it? Holding fast to the premise that ethnographers have no special powers of seeing inside other people's brains, this book teaches students to proceed slowly, a step at a time, watching how people perform rituals great and small, asking questions that seem stupid to their hostTable of ContentsIntroducing the Independent Thinkers 1. "Such Turbulent Human Material" 2. The Mirror of Modernity 3. The Phenomenon of the Golden Bough 4. If I was a Horse 5. The Essence of Religion 6. On the Uselessness of Ritual 7. Einstein in The Outback 8. Real Knowledge of Real Worlds 9. Integrity of Science and Religion 10. Laying Tylor’s Ghost 11. Exorcising Freud 12. What’s Only Natural 13. Beginnings, Middles, and Ends 14. No One Believes in Things That Aren’t There 15. Being Reasonable 16. Invitations You Can’t Refuse 17. Nature Does Not Work Independently Of Man 18. Findings Postscript: Religion and Evolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People
Book SynopsisWhat are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion as a way of life, as an antidote to violence and cruelty? In The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People, social scientists Nancy Guerra and Kirk R. Williams provide easy-to-follow steps to help you understand the what, the why, and the how of compassion. They bring together cutting-edge research, inspiring spiritual teachings, and their own life experiences to help you bring compassion front and center in your life. Not only is compassion good for you and those around you, but it is the key to a more peaceful and just world.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music and Temple Ritual in South India
Book SynopsisMusic and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Siva documents the musical practices of the periya me?am, a South Indian instrumental ensemble of professional musicians who perform during the rituals and festivals of high-caste (Brahmanical) Tamil Hindu temples dedicated to the Pan-Indian god Siva an important patron of music since at least the tenth century. It explores the ways in which music and ritual are mutually constitutive, illuminating the cultural logics whereby performing and listening are integral to the kinetic, sensory and affective experiences that enable, shape and stimulate ritual communication in present-day devotional Hinduism. More than a rich and vivid ethnographic description of a local tradition, the book also develops a comprehensive and original analytical model, in which music is understood as both a situated and creative activity, and where the fluid relationship between humans and non-humans, in this case divine beings, is truly taTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of Audio ExamplesPreface1 Introduction2 Temple Ritual and Image Worship3 Musicians, from Past to Present4 The Repertoire5 Sound, Space and Divine Images6 Musical Time vs. Ritual Time7 Music, Emotion and Devotion8 ConclusionGlossaryBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Telling Terror in Judges 19
Book SynopsisTelling Terror in Judges 19 explores the value of performing a reparative reading' of the terror-filled story of the Levite's pilegesh (commonly referred to as the Levite's concubine) in Judges 19, and how such a reparative reading can be brought to bear upon elements of modern rape culture. Historically, the story has been used as a morality tale to warn young women about what constitutes appropriate behaviour. More recently, (mainly male) commentators have tended to write the woman out of the story, by making claims about its purpose and theme which bear no relation to her suffering. In response to this, feminist critics have attempted to write the woman back into the story, generally using the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book begins by surveying some of the traditional commentators, and the three great feminist commentators of the text (Bal, Exum and Trible). It then offers a reparative reading by attending to the pilegesh's surprising prominence, her moral and marital agencyTrade Review"A great deal has been written now on the rape narratives of the Hebrew Bible, subjecting the assumptions of the biblical texts and their commentators to profound critical scrutiny. Helen Paynter’s remarkable book moves the debate forward by offering a reparative reading of the story of the Levite’s pilegesh in Judges 19, in which this ancient victim of rape becomes a prophetic voice addressing the suffering of victims of gender-based violence today. Everyone who seeks to read the Hebrew Bible with moral seriousness must engage with this book." — James Harding, University of Otago, New Zealand"Paynter's modeling of a 'thick reading' of the Judges 19 text and the experience of the woman - sensitively given the name Beli-Fachad or 'Fearless One' by Paynter - is deftly argued and constructed, and serves as a valuable contribution to the scholarship that takes seriously the trauma and violence of both the narrative and of contemporary experiences of women."— Jayme Reaves, Sarum College, UK Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and dedication Introduction Chapter 1: Beli-Fachad in the hands of men Chapter 2: Beli-Fachad in the hands of commentators Chapter 3: Opening up redemptive possibilities Chapter 4: Beli-Fachad as subject and object Chapter 5: Beli-Fachad in her own voice Conclusion Works Consulted Index
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Taylor & Francis Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThis volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.Offering an original and innovative combination of case studies on the material aspects and cross-cultural transfers of magic and religion, this book brings together a range of contributions that cross and connect sub-fields with a pan-Mediterranean, comparative scope. Section I investigates the material aspects of magical practices, including first editions and original studies on papyri, gems, lamellae containing binding curses and protective texts, and other textual media in ancient book culture. Several chapters feature the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri, the compilation of magical recipes in the formularies, and the role of physical book-forms in the transmission of magical knowlTable of ContentsPrologue – A Kind of Magic: A Tribute to Christopher Faraone - Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carolina López-Ruiz, and Sofía Torallas Tovar; Section I Materials; 1. Mustering Knowledge in the Longer Greco-Egyptian Formularies - Richard Gordon; 2. The Composition of GEMF 31/PGM I and Its Sources - Sofía Torallas Tovar; 3. He Means ‘Rose’: Marginal Notes in the Greek Papyri of the Theban Magical Library - Korshi Dosoo; 4. The Magic Hour: Cultures of Timekeeping in GEMF 57/PGM IV - Kassandra Miller; 5. Practice your Spells When It Suits You Best. The “Cycles of the Moon” Transmitted in GEMF 74/PGM VII and GEMF 55 /PGM III - Raquel Martin Hernández; 6. Stars and Stones: Practice, Materiality, and Ontology in Astrological Rites - Ian S. Moyer; 7. The Limits of Textuality in Artemidorοs’ Oneirocritica - Kenneth W. Yu; 8. Magical Magnets? Mastering the Winds on a North Aegean Island - Sandra Blakely; 9. Fencing in the Drivers and the Chariot Horses in a Latin Defixio from Hadrumetum (DT 277 + 278) - Celia Sánchez Natalías; Section II Cross-Cultural Contexts;10. The Problem of the Magi - Bruce Lincoln; 11. Magicians and Mendicants: New Light from the Marmarini Inscription - Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 12. Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite?: Phoenician Art and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean - Carolina López-Ruiz; 13. Uncovering an Earlier Version of the Demeter-Persephone Story: The Anatolian Background of Hekate’s Appearance in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter - Mary R. Bachvarova; 14. A Bronze Medallion in Madrid: Cross-Cultural and Material Transmission of an Amuletic Tradition from Syria to Sicily - Roy D. Kotansky; 15. “Bind Them as a Sign on Your Hand”: Amulets and Tefillin in Rabbinic Texts - Megan S. Nutzman; 16. A Misplaced Mummy: Thelxinoe’s Corpse in Xenophon’s Ephesiaka - Janet Downie; Epilogue – A Kind of Magic: The Work and Legacy of Christopher Faraone - Clifford Ando.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Tolstoy
Book SynopsisQueer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychoanalysis, political history, LGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Using a psychobiographical framework, Sethness Castro uncovers profoundly queer dimensions in Tolstoy's life experiences and art. Deftly contributing to the progressive and radical analysis of gender and sexuality, this book examines how Tolstoy's erotic dissidence informed his anarchist politics, anti-militarist ideals, and voluminous literary production. Sethness Castro analyzes the influence of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Cervantes, Rousseau, Kant, Herzen, Proudhon, Chernyshevsky, and his mother Marya Volkonskaya on the artist''s writings. Furthermore, he details Tolstoy''s emblematic linking of LGBTQ+ desire with moral and erotic self-determination and resistance to Tsarist despotismespecially in War and Peace.This book is vital reading for those interested iTrade Review'Sethness's excellent book is a wide-ranging and erudite examination of Tolstoy through the lenses of queerness and anarchism, and what is remarkable is how many contradictions and mysteries in Tolstoy’s life and work get clarified by this double focus. It is as if he had suddenly popped into three dimensions. The close reading of War and Peace is full of startling new insights, and the study as a whole brings Tolstoy into our time in a new and important way. Wonderful to see!'Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future, USA'This passionate, ground breaking study of Tolstoy's bisexuality, politics and art offers fascinating new insights into our understanding of the Russian writer's life. By detailing Tolstoy's relationships, experiences and creative process, the author reveals Tolstoy’s far sighted literary support for what we would now call LGBT+ liberation, his resistance to war and oppression, and his support for egalitarian social change. Bravo!'Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner and Director, Peter Tatchell Foundation, UK'Queer Tolstoy is astonishing in the breadth of its expert knowledge base as well as its vibrant insights on timely questions of gender and sexuality. It’s a tour de force featuring dazzling literary analysis, political critique, close reading of texts, plus fulsome biographical and historical context. Sethness Castro explicates War and Peace as a Russian Iliad, whose themes are vividly contemporary: horrors of war, anti-militarism, anti-imperialism, class hierarchy, labor exploitation, humanism, self-sacrifice, religious pacifism, and collective liberation. Viewing Tolstoy as a 'traumatized veteran and a queer outsider,' Sethness Castro furnishes a new philosophical understanding of underappreciated homosocial, homophilic, and homosexual aspects of Tolstoy’s life and works as these illumine bonds of friendship, love, and peace, and issues of misogyny, super-masculinity, and patriarchal despotism. References are memorable not only to Marx, Marcuse, Kropotkin, and the great names of 19th Century Russian and European literature, but also to rather more unlikely (yet equally momentous) connections to Ali Shariati, Gandhi, Leslie Fiedler, and Malcolm X, with even a note on Tolstoy’s acquaintanceship with the vegetarian founder of a Russian commune near Wichita, Kansas! This landmark new appreciation of the life and work of Tolstoy develops an intimate and uplifting sense of solidarity with the monumental prose poet as dissident literary artist, pacifist, and educator, who transgressed conventional gender boundaries.'Charles Reitz, author of The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, USA'Javier Sethness Castro’s book is quite remarkable. Not only does he tell us much about Tolstoy, the brilliant author and Russian count, but he does so through a contemporary lens that has no parallel. I usually don’t like ways of seeing that compare historical events through the eyes of today’s world. I usually find such attempts artificial, trying to be politically correct. But Sethness’s ideas are much more than that. Using a wealth of contemporary and historical sources, we find a provocative argument that deserves consideration. Was Tolstoy "queer"? We will never know for sure, but Sethness makes a compelling case. His book is provocative, engaging and well written. I might never have known all that I learned from it; I am glad I read it, and think it is a worthy addition to your library. How often do you find an anarchist, Christian, gender-stretching author who we really knew so little about?'Elaine Leeder, Dean Emerita/Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University, USA'Queer Tolstoy makes a bold contribution to scholarship and should appeal to multiple audiences within and beyond Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies. Tolstoy specialists, scholars of Russian literature and empire, and those invested in Russian queer culture and thought will find a refreshingly new vision of Tolstoy in this clearly argued, widely researched, and thought-provoking monograph [...].Analyzing Tolstoy’s life and works in relation to Russia and European anarchist, populist, socialist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and sexological thought, as well as both Christian and Buddhist theology, Sethness argues that Tolstoy was a bisexual whose queer desires for men were inextricably linked to his critique of not only the Russian state and church, but also repressive social hierarchies, imperialism, war, abuse of animals, and other manifestations of 'toxic masculinity' [...].His ideal readers will delight in the rhetorical acrobatics that allow them to see Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings (1906) and even—through a wink at Arkhip Kuindzhi’s painting, Rainbow (1905)—gay pride flags avant-la-lettre in Prince Andrei’s sky. They will also relish the rare invitation this volume offers to contemplate Tolstoy alongside such thinkers as Audre Lorde, Gayle Rubin, and Ursula Le Guin. While acknowledging Tolstoy’s misogyny, Russian chauvinism, and commitment to aristocratic leadership of the narod [people] as major limitations to his egalitarianism, Sethness marshals a broad spectrum of progressive thought in his analysis of these contradictions [...].Given the importance of any work that counters the harmful suppression of LGBTQ+ voices and histories in Russia, Queer Tolstoy should be greeted as a welcome incursion on the discipline by a writer who rightfully claims Tolstoy for world culture.'Jillian Porter, New York University, USATable of Contents1. Theoretical Preface on Queer Anarchism 2. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy: A Queer, Christian-Anarchist Writer 3. The Life and Death of a "Holy Fool" 4. Humanism, Militarism, and Imperialism in The Cossacks and Hadji Murat 5. War and Peace: An Anarcho-Populist Verbal Icon 6. War and Peace, Book One: "Andrei Bolkonsky" 7. War and Peace, Book Two: "Natasha Rostova" 8. War and Peace, Book Three: "The Year 1812" 9. War and Peace, Book Four: "Pierre Bezukhov" 10. Conclusion: The Psychodynamics of Hierarchy
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Taylor & Francis A Prototype Approach to Hate and Anger in the
Book SynopsisThis innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible. The book draws on the prototype approach to conceptual categories to help interpret emotion language in biblical passages. Contemporary scholarship has come to recognize that biblical emotion terms do not necessarily possess exact equivalents within our modern lexicons, even if some of these terms express (or appear to express) concepts similar to those conveyed by modern emotion language. In particular, the book focuses on snâ and árh, which are almost always equated in modern English with hate and anger. However, the ancient Hebrew roots evoke varied and robust emotion-scripts that are quite different than their English counterparts. We see how the prototype script model may help to expose the unique nuances of snâ and árh and put into profile elements of these emotions that may otherwise go unnoticed. Overall, the study demonstrates that even though modern emotion terms cannot fully capture the ancient emotional experience, our shared use of language to evoke meaning offers us entrÃe into the emotional world represented in the Hebrew Bible.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religions and Sports The Basics
Book SynopsisReligions and Sports: The Basics introduces the many connections and interactions between religions and sporting activities.Readers will gain a foundational understanding of how to approach religions and sports analytically, theoretically, and methodologically. The book uses multiple relational frameworks to examine probing discussions around religious expressions in sports, the social connections of religions and sports, the mirroring of sport and religious devotion, and the discourse between religious ideas and leaders and professional athletes. Supplemented with numerous case studies and engaging exercises, it guides students through approaching research inquiries within the intersection of religion and sport for the first time.With lively discussion on contemporary sports including skateboarding and pickleball, it is a must-read for all students of Religions and Sports and Religion and Popular Culture, in addition to sports fans more broadly.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamically Modified Cognitive Behavioural
Book SynopsisThis book outlines the methods and practice of Islamically Modified Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (IMCBT), a modified version of CBT adapted to the Muslim client's preferences, culture, and religion.The book begins by establishing IMCBT's fidelity to the core competencies and evidence-based practices of CBT while also introducing new unique features and interventions related to Muslim clients. It uses real-life cases to off er practical strategies for overcoming stigma, forming the therapeutic alliance, structuring the session, and utilising the client's faith for coping and problem-solving. Chapters comprehensively provide CBT skills competencies with Islamic modifications for a range of topics including case conceptualisation, reframing, cognitive restructuring, and advanced coping strategies for addressing interpersonal conflicts and enhancing therapeutic outcomes. The book also offers both proscriptive and prescriptive ethical guidance by showcasing instances where
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Story of Islamic Art
Book SynopsisProviding an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world, A Story of Islamic Art explores fifty case studies, taken from different regions of the Islamic world and from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries. The novel aspect of these case studies is that they are presented as fictional narratives, allowing the reader to imagine art and architecture, either in their original cultural settings or at some later point in their histories. These stories are supported by a scholarly framework that allows the reader to continue their exploration of the chosen artefacts and their historical context.The fifty case studies take the form of short stories, each of which focuses on one or more object from the Islamic world. These encompass portable items in a wide variety of media, book illustrations, calligraphy, photographs, architectural decoration, buildings, and archaeological sites. The book also provides a detailed introduction,Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsNotes for the ReaderList of FiguresIntroductionGlossaryTimelineChapter 1: Sanaʿa, 660Chapter 2: Aswan, 691Chapter 3: Aleppo, 695Chapter 4: Damascus, 714Chapter 5: Qusayr ʿAmra, 745Chapter 6: Akhmim, 751Chapter 7: Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, 774Chapter 8: Basra, 841Chapter 9: Samarra, 856Chapter 10: Qayrawan, 863Chapter 11: Bukhara, 930Chapter 12: Rusafa, 998Chapter 13: Baghdad, 1000Chapter 14: Tripoli, 1070Chapter 15: Samarqand, 1085Chapter 16: Kharraqan, 1093Chapter 17: Harran, 1104Chapter 18: Herat, 1183Chapter 19: Mecca, 1199Chapter 20: Kashan, 1201Chapter 21: Wasit, 1236Chapter 22: Palermo, 1248Chapter 23: Tabriz, 1306Chapter 24: Cairo, 1361Chapter 25: Granada, 1375Chapter 26: Xi’an, 1402Chapter 27: Panjakent, 1490Chapter 28: Nizwa, 1531Chapter 29: Venice, 1547Chapter 30: Erzincan, 1568Chapter 31: Sofia, 1582Chapter 32: Isfahan, 1637Chapter 33: Agra, 1642Chapter 34: Hawizeh Marshes, 1673Chapter 35: Istanbul, 1733Chapter 36: Breslau, 1766Chapter 37: Lahore, 1799Chapter 38: Nafplio, 1831Chapter 39: Kuala Lumpur, 1886Chapter 40: London, 1892Chapter 41: Edirne, 1899Chapter 42: Simunul, 1902Chapter 43: Qalʿat Bani Hammad, 1908Chapter 44: Manzala, 1910Chapter 45: Hindiyya, 1918Chapter 46: Rabat, 1937Chapter 47: Cleveland, 1956Chapter 48: Djenné, 1985Chapter 49: New York, 2015Chapter 50: Anywhere, 2020Appendix: Notes on Chapters 1–50Further Reading
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