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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Anthropology of Religion
Book SynopsisThis clear and engaging guide introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers major traditional topics including definitions, theories, and beliefs, as well as symbols, myth, and ritual. The book also explores important but often overlooked issues such as morality, violence, fundamentalism, secularization, and new religious movements. The chapters all contain lively case studies of religions practiced around the world. The third edition of Introducing Anthropology of Religion is fully updated and contains additional content on material religion, visual religion, and affect theory, and a new chapter takes a closer look at medical and health topics. The author encourages the reader to engage throughout with the unifying themes of race, gender, and power, and how these themes are intertwined with anthropology of religion. ImagesTrade ReviewPraise for the second edition:"This book is the best example I know of its kind – an introductory text that combines sophisticated, cross-cultural, and historically nuanced discussion with an intuitive ordering of subjects. Eller is especially good at weaving together contemporary perspectives with classical anthropological theory. The book’s accessibility and erudition make it perfect for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars alike."Liam D. Murphy, California State University, Sacramento, USA"The first edition of Introducing Anthropology of Religion was one of the most engaging, comprehensive, and theoretically sophisticated overviews ever published. Eller’s second edition includes a range of new and revised material as well as expanded web resources. Beginning students and specialists alike will learn much from this volume."Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USATable of Contents1. Studying Religion Anthropologically: Definitions and Theories 2. Beliefs, Beings, and Bodies 3. Symbols, Specialists, and Substance 4. Religious Language: Words of Truth, Words of Power 5. Ritual: Religion in Action 6. Religion and Morality: Forming Society, Transforming Self 7. Religion, Medicine, and Wellness 8. Religious Change and New Religious Movements 9. Translocal or "World" Religions 10. Religious Fundamentalism 11. Religious Violence 12. Secularism and Irreligion Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Spain and the Protestant Reformation
Book SynopsisFor Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. Moreover, the Protestant Reformation stimulated changes within Spain and other Habsburg domains, reinvigorating the Spanish Inquisition against new enemies, reinforcing Catholic orthodoxy, and restricting the reach of the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution. This book argues that the Protestant Reformation was an existential threat to the Catholic Habsburg monarchy of the sixteenth century and the greatest danger to its political and religious authority in Europe and the world. Spainâs war on the Reformation was a war for the future of Europe, in which the Spanish Inquisition was the most effective weapon. This war, led by Charles V and Philip II was in the end a triumphant failure: S
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Taylor & Francis Religion and Humour
Book SynopsisThis timely and lively introduction to exploring the intersection of religion and humour evaluates existing scholarship and methodologies within the field, arguing for a culturally critical approach to the study.Hinged on a qualitative sociological framework, this book asks questions about the construction, presentation, and purpose of humour in religious contexts. It is broken down by theoretical approach, with chapters covering: a âœcomparative religionsâ approach; a theological approach; how social sciences offer us useful tools for research; and a review of existing theoretical models. As the first volume to introduce the field of religion and humour, this engaging book is essential reading for students approaching the topic for the first time, and for anyone with an interest in related fields such as religion and popular culture and humour studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hinduism
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1959, Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world's chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man, creation, and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual, of art, asceticism, and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India's mystical insights and philosophical speculation, and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism, religion, Indian philosophy, Indian culture, and heritage. Table of ContentsWorld Perspectives What This Series Means Acknowledgements Foreword 1. The Spirit of Hinduism 2. The Godhead and Creation 3. The Soul and Its Destiny 4. Hindu Ethics 5. Spiritual Disciplines I (Karma-Yoga) 6. Spiritual Disciplines II (Bhakti-Yoga) 7. Spiritual Disciplines III (Jnana- Yoga) 8. Spiritual Disciplines IV (Raja- Yoga) 9. Tantra: A Way of Realization 10. Hinduism in Practice 11. Interreligious Relations: A Hindu Attitude
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion
Book SynopsisA Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion introduces the key concepts and theories from religious studies that are necessary for a full understanding of the complex ways in which religious and cultural institutions and traditions influence society. This book provides readers with an arsenal of critical concepts for studying religious ideologies, practices, and communities. This edition has been thoroughly revised and now includes a new chapter on Belief and a rewritten chapter on Essentialism, and has been restructured to clearly emphasize key topics including: problems with the concepts of religion and belief systems; functionalism and classification; essentialism, socialization, and habitus; and legitimation, authority, and authenticity All ideas and theories are clearly illustrated, with contemporary and engaging examples and case studies throughout. It's an essential text for all students approaching the subjeTable of Contents1. Religion 2. Belief 3. Functionalism 4. Classification 5. Essentialism 6. Structure 7. Habitus 8. Legitimation 9. Authority 10. Authenticity Case Study: What Would Jesus Do? Afterword References Index
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Taylor & Francis Death Loss Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century 1780â1914
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Christian and Faithbased Counseling for Brain
Book SynopsisChristian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury is the first book of its kind to offer faith-based therapy to address the emotional, cognitive, and mental health needs of individuals who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). A highly researched piece of work, the book puts forth an innovative and effective method for not only addressing the challenges of a life-changing injury but also for creating a sense of purpose.Through the nuances of faith-based counselling, this book focuses on the spiritual and existential aspects of understanding the diagnosis and creating a purpose post-injury. It examines how brain injury can affect an individual by exploring the deficits of brain injury, the impact of brain injury, and the challenges specific to damage to certain brain lobes. It also describes the mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, grief, anger, and posttraumatic stress, that can affect both the survivor and their family members. OfferTrade Review"Christian and Faith-based Counseling for Brain Injury: Techniques for Survivors and Families reflects Dr. Deana Adams’ long-time academic research, teaching, and professional practice in working with brain injury survivors and their families. Her book is timely, relevant, and fills a gap specifically in Christian and faith-based compassionate counseling for persons surviving brain injury and their families."- Rev. Dr. Helen T. Boursier, Ph.D., Author, Educator, Advocate, Ordained MinisterTable of Contents1. Christian and Faith-based Counseling Defined. 2. Brain Injury Defined. 3. Stages of Treatment. 4. Family Experience of a Loved One With Brain Injury. 5. Brain Anatomy, Functions, and Deficits. 6. Coping With Emotional and Social Deficits of Brain Injury. 7. Coping with Cognitive Deficits of Brain Injury. 8. Counseling Depression and Anxiety. 9. Counseling Ambiguous Grief. 10. Counseling Posttraumatic Stress. 11. Counseling Fatigue and Anger. 12. Counseling Self-Concept and Purpose.
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Taylor & Francis God After the Church Lost Control
Book SynopsisThis book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical critique of churches. Here the authors argue for the necessity of rethinking God-talk in a pluralist and changing context and for thinking critically about hegemonic ways of speaking about God from a moral and experiential perspective, not only from the point of view of abstract theology. Drawing on empirical material from a Norwegian setting, the book advocates a critical-constructive theology with a notion of God that takes human experience and social change seriously. It depicts a God who is an enabler of moral maturity rather than an authoritarian moral instructor, a God who is on the side of the marginalized and poor, and a challenge to unjust hierarchies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why this Book? 1 On God and change2 Religious trends in Northern Europe – an overview3 Does society shape God?4 The changing Christian God5 The crisis of theology – and why it matters for speaking about God6 The morally intolerable God – and the alternative7 The politically dangerous God – a God of love8 God as she? Why can’t she be?9 Pluralism challenges notions of God and religious truth10 When God becomes irrelevant to society’s challenges11 God as vulnerable love?Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisReligion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an accord between contemporary art and religion.It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes.It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices curious about its promises and possibilities.Trade Review"This remarkable volume invites into conversation an impressive assembly of interlocutors and an impressively diverse set of approaches to a still-mystifyingly understudied subject. Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord represents a signal contribution that brings into creative relation its two key terms to demonstrate how they are not simply manifest in adjacency but often also inextricably fused. Highly recommended to scholars in art and/or religion as to artists in all media!"Sally M. Promey, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith Part I: Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks 1. The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons Jonathan A. Anderson 2. Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art Linda Stratford 3. Translating Religion: Contemporary Art Through a Postsecular Lens Lieke Wijnia 4. The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations? Jeffrey L. Kosky 5. Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial Daniel A. Siedell 6. A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt 7. Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue Aaron Rosen Part II: Artistic Strategies 8. Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood Katie Kresser 9. Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art Cynthia Hahn 10. Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage Site: Ambrosio’s As Far as the Eye Can Travel Zine Kathryn Barush 11. Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art Rachel Hostetter Smith 12. Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists Wayne L. Roosa 13. Revisiting "Art in the Dark": Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism Karen Gonzalez Rice 14. Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art Jorge Sebastián Lozano 15. Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime Ronald R. Bernier Part III: Case Studies of Artists and Artworks 16. The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol Stephen Bush 17. "A King Aesthetic?": Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. James Romaine 18. From the Wounds Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth/Ethics of Liberation Cecilia González-Andrieu 19. Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement Matthew J. Milliner 20. Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez’s Light Body Julie M. Hamilton 21. Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things Donato Loia 22. On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski’s The Holy Artwork Isabelle Loring Wallace 23. Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art Ben Schachter 24. Back to the Garden – Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari Eleanor Heartney 25. Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 26. Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan’s Recent Monumental Works Changping Zha 27. Chrysanne Stathacos and Charwei Tsai: The Mandala Haema Sivanesa 28. Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor’s Martyred Women Karen von Veh 29. Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance Yohana Agra Junker 30. Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art Sascha Crasnow Afterword: A Colloquy with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate. Contributors: Biographical Notes Credits Index
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Translation and
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion is the first to bring together an extensive interdisciplinary engagement with the multiple ways in which the concepts and practices of translation and religion intersect.The book engages a number of scholarly disciplines in conversation with each other, including the study of translation and interpreting, religion, philosophy, anthropology, history, art history, and area studies. A range of leading and emerging international specialists critically engage with changing understandings of the key categories âtranslationâ and âreligionâ as discursive constructs, thus contributing to the development of a new field of academic study, translation and religion. The 28 contributions, divided into six parts, analyze how translation constructs ideas, texts, or objects as âsacredâ or for âreligious purposesâ, often in competition with what is categorized as ânon-religious.â The part played by faith communities is treated as integral to analyses of the role of translation and religion. It investigates how or why translation functions in re-constructing and transforming religion(s) and for whom and examines a range of âsacred textsâ in translationâ from the written to the spoken, manuscript to print, paper to digital, architectural form to objects of sacred art, intersemiotic scriptural texts, and where commentary, exegesis and translation interweave.This Handbook is an indispensable scholarly resource for researchers in translation studies and the study of religions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Selling the Sacred
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Transnational Citizenship in the
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Akan-speaking Ghanaians in London and explores in detail the experience of African migrants living in Britain, investigating how they construct their British citizenship through their membership of the church.Building on extensive ethnographic research in London and Ghana, the author explores the relationship between religion and citizenship, the emergence of transnational subjectivities, and the making of diaspora aesthetics among African migrants. Starting from the understanding that citizenship is dialogical, a status mediated by a subject's multiple and intersecting identities, the author highlights the limitations of existing conceptualisations of migrant citizenship. Anchored in a case study of the British/Ghanaian Methodist Church as a transnational religious organisation and cultural polity, the book explores diasporic religious subjectivities as both cosmopolitan and transnational, while being configured in emotionally and morally significant wayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The New African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Religion, and Citizenship in the Gateway City 1. Haringey: Associational Life and Black Leadership in a North London Borough 2. Migrant Spaces and Transnational Networks Between London and Ghana 3. "Virtuous Citizenship": Ethnicity and Encapsulation among Akan-Speaking Ghanaian Methodists in London 4. Agape Love: Gender, Class and Transnational Subjectivities in a Methodist Women’s Fellowship 5. ‘Showing-off Aesthetics’: Looking Good, Making Relations and ‘Being in the World’ in the London Akan Diaspora 6. Intimacy, Citizenship and Transnational Family Lives between London and Ghana Conclusion: Everyday Practices of Citizenship and the Struggle for Recognition and Distinction in Akan London
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Walaya in the Formative Period of Shiism and
Book SynopsisFocused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.The book offers a textual and comparative analysis of walaya based on primary sources in the ninth and tenth centuries, from both Shi'i and Sufi circles. The starting point is one of the oldest surviving Shi'i sources, Kitab Sulaym. Alongside this, the author analyses al-I?a? of Fa?l Shadhan al-Nishaburi, Kitab al-Ma?asin of al-Barqi and Kitab al-Kafi of al-Kulayni. Three major texts in Sufism are considered: Kitab al-?idq by Abu Sa?id al-Kharraz, Tafsir al-Qur?an al-?A?im by Sahl al-Tustari, and Al-Tirmidhi's Kitab Sirat al-Awliya?. Together, these sources highlight the doctrinal aspects of walaya, e
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisThis book uses SEA ethnography to provide new insights into humanenvironmental relationships & ecologies, with theoretical innovations& will interest pol-ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability & pol.sci, development std., human geography & ecology, SEA & Asian std.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies is an innovative, multidisciplinary volume covering the history, religion, culture and politics of Jewish Studies and psychoanalysis.An international team of contributors brings together these two fields and offers a critical assessment of the encounters that emerge from the confrontation and collaboration they have with each other. Chapters cover a broad range of topics, including psychoanalytic history, critical theory, film, ritual, Jewish heritage, the Bible, antisemitism, racism, life- writing and the occult.This Handbook will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in several interrelated disciplines, such as Jewish Studies, psychoanalysis, group analysis, sociology, anthropology, psychosocial studies, literature, film and gender studies. It will be of especial value to students of psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion Landscape and Material Culture in
Book SynopsisThis book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century. The essays in the volume focus on understanding questions of premodern religion, material culture processes and their spatial and environmental contexts through a study of networks of commodities and cultural and religious landscapes. From the early history of coastal regions such as Gujarat and Bengal to material networks of political culture, from temples and their connection with maritime trade to the importance of landscape in influencing temple-building, from regions considered peripheral to mainstream historiography to the development of religious sects, this collection of articles maps the diverse networks and connections across regions and time.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and research
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Taylor & Francis The Idea of Holiness and the Humane Response
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1981, The Idea of Holiness and the Humane Response is a radically innovative book, presenting a critical appraisal of the concept of holiness and its effects. It offers a view of holiness far less favourable than the traditional one, yet its conclusions are by no means purely critical or negative. For it sees certain other elements in Hebrew thought as marvelously rich and fertile, insistently reasserting themselves, but repeatedly overwhelmed by an opposed and stronger passion for the idea of holiness. This book is an interesting read for scholars of religion, social history and psychology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Meditation for Psychotherapists
Book SynopsisMeditation for Psychotherapists provides students and practitioners of psychotherapy with specific meditation techniques.Chapters offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach as an adjunct to established professional development tools. This is the first time specific bespoke meditation techniques have been connected to different therapeutic modalities, building on the author's already published work.The book is accompanied by a website with audio-guided meditations and courses directed to an international audience across multiple psychotherapy models www.arosspsychotherapy.com/meditation.
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Taylor & Francis Luke and the Jewish Other
Book SynopsisLuke and the Jewish Other takes up the debated question of the orientation of Luke toward the Jewish people. Building on recent studies in the social history of early Jewish-Christian relations, it offers an analysis of Lukeâs portrayal of Jewish and Christian identities that challenges the common assumption that the construction of religious identity in antiquity necessarily depended upon antagonistic relations with others. Taking account of the deep and often divisive difference that belief in Jesus made in Lukeâs community, the author argues that Luke hoped to bring about both a rapprochement with and the conversion of contemporary Jews. Through this account of identity and alterity in the Gospel of Luke, the book cuts across boundaries of biblical studies, history, theology, and social theory, proposing a way forward for the study of Lukeâs relation to Judaism and of the parting of the ways between Jews and Christians in the early Common Era.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critics Not Caretakers
Book SynopsisThe essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.The book begins with several essays that outline the basis of an alternative, sociorhetorical approach to studying religion, before moving on to a series of discrete dispatches from the ongoing theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, Benson Saler, and Jacob Neusner as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field's future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarshipa role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to go Trade Review"The issues discussed in the first edition have not gone away; they are here now with a vengeance. This second edition rises to the occasion with new provocative chapter introductions that are not to be missed. But what is most remarkable is how the old and new come together in a way that will have us read the field—its history, its challenges, and its potential--with fresh perspective and the vigor to make it better."Richard Newton, The University of Alabama, U.S.A."Russell T. McCutcheon’s Critics Not Caretakers was one of a small handful of key works from the last thirty years that helped to bring about a paradigm shift in the academic study of religion, a shift that opened up space for all-new avenues of research on the political history of the concept of religion. The material new to this second edition helps readers—both old and new—situate the book in relation to the history of the discipline, the debates that were taking place at the time of its publication, and the scholarship since that has participated in the book’s trajectory; along the way, McCutcheon points to where his hopes for the discipline remained as yet unfulfilled. Critics is now essential reading for any scholar writing on the contested history of "religion.""Craig Martin, St. Thomas Aquinas College, U.S.A."What McCutcheon does so masterfully in this work is to provide clarity on what religious studies as a discipline has the power to do so well: to analyze how people both create and respond to ideas of unquestionable authority, the driving concept behind so many movements we call “religion” today. However, this book’s longevity and relevance lies in its central claim that scholars of religion also have these unquestionable authorities with which they must grapple. This is a must-read for anyone who takes seriously the social and political dynamics that define the academic study of religion."Leslie Smith, Avila University, U.S.A."In Critics Not Caretakers, McCutcheon offers a way of writing about and teaching contentious topics, not only in the study of religion but also in the wider humanities and social sciences since it is not really about ‘religion’ but the critical study of a category that has been taken for granted. This augmented second edition is a reminder of what it is a scholar of religion is studying: the ways in which humans categorise, classify, divide the world around them into sacred/secular, insider/outsider and so on, bringing to our attention the scholarly assumptions privileging the ‘sacred’ and the ‘insider’ in these bifurcations. McCutcheon gives attention to both theoretical concerns and pedagogy, and thus this book has a practical application for those researching and teaching the study of religion."Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, UK.Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Copyright Permissions Introduction to the Second Edition Part I. Background1. "Not Nearly Critical Enough": Studying Religion as Part of the Humanities Part II. Redescribing Religion as Something OrdinaryIntroduction to Chapter 22. More than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering Through the Academy with the Study of Religion Introduction to Chapter 33. Redescribing "Religion" as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion Part III. Dispatches from the Theory WarsIntroduction to Chapter 44. Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go" Introduction to Chapter 55. Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century Introduction to Chapter 66. "We’re All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Trans-Cultural Understandings Introduction to Chapter 77. The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the Parliament of Religions Introduction to Chapter 88. "My Theory of the Brontosaurus...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion Part IV. Culture Critics and CaretakersIntroduction to Chapters 9 and 109. A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual 10. Talking Past Each Other: Public Intellectuals Revisited Part V. Going Public: Teaching TheoryIntroduction to Chapters 11–1411. Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance12. Redescribing "Religion and..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem 13. Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals 14. Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources Part VI. This Messy Mix of Historical Human PerformanceAfterword to the Second Edition BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Business and Performance Management
Book SynopsisThis unique book discovers a new dimension in the study of strategic and performance management in Islamic Business studies. It addresses the missing link of spirituality from modern-day organizational structure in the presence of high-tech pressure in all areas of human endeavours. The authors propose an integrated study of Islamic business approach to strategic and performance management systems to achieve sustainable organizational performance. The book explores employees' wellbeing and organizations' perceiving work environment as a spiritual pathway to cultivate values in Islamic business ecosystem to sustain humanity. It is all about care, empathy, and sustenance of others, about truthfulness and management being truthful to themselves and others and endeavouring to live their values more effusively while performing their work. The book stresses the impact of spirituality in performance management, concluding that for any organization to run efficiently, spirituality is
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religions Beliefs and Education in the European
Book SynopsisThis book represents an exposition of judicial pedagogies' as a new concept, and discusses juridical-educational issues in detail, through an analysis of the educational claims and assumptions of judges' decisions in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).It sheds light on how, within courtrooms around the world, judges are increasingly being asked to decide upon issues of religion and belief in schooling, whether about admissions policies, curriculum planning, or pupils' and teachers' dress and jewellery. With key human rights principles at stake, these proceedings are often fraught, clashing with strong opinions about education and schooling. Focusing on decisions made in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the author considers how the supranational court looks at these issues, and considers the ECtHR's role within the European Education space. Drawing upon research and scholarship surrounding these questions, the book surveys a series of educational issues, inc
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Sufi Centres in India
Book SynopsisThe authors of this volume discuss some of the regional Sufi Centres in India and their contribution in the social emancipation of the society.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rumi The Persian The Sufi
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965. This volume presents a systematic study of Rumi's rebirth into a total being. By studying the elements of Persian culture, as well as the unique writings of Rumi, the author reveals the characteristics of maturity, the qualities of final integration in identity, health, and happiness that underlie Rumi's life and work. Trade Review"The author has enriched the cultural life of the English-speaking world by presenting the ideas and personality of one of the greatest humanists in such a vivid scholarly fashion…" Erich Fromm Table of ContentsPreface Introduction I. An Analysis of Persian Culture II. Rebirth in Love and Creativity: An Analysis of Rumi III. The Human Situation and SelfRealization IV. The Contribution of Rumi to the Situation of Modern Man
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Taylor & Francis Childrenâs Spirituality and Traditions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Treasure of the Copper Scroll
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1960, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll is the companion volume to John Marco Allegro's People of the Dead Sea Scrolls and tells the story of this unusual, buried treasure. Allegro here reveals much hitherto unknown information the location of many of the cities of the Old Testament, events of the second Jewish Revolt, and the relation between the Essene community at Qumran and the New Testament interest in healing. With facsimiles of the scroll, translations of its texts, and a thorough discussion of its significance, with maps indicating many of the probable present-day hiding places, the book is a truly fascinating report on this unusual document and a first long step toward the unravelling of its secrets.Table of ContentsForeword Illustrations Abbreviations 1. Discovery and Opening 2. Decipherment 3. The Treasure 4. The Places: Sites about the Dead Sea 5. The Places: The Jericho Area 6. The Places: The Jerusalem Area 7. Who Hid the Treasure? 8. Summary and Conclusion Notes to the Translation Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India
Book SynopsisIn The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India, the focus of the author is the process of establishment of Hindu-Muslim unity as a result of historical, social and cultural factors over a period of ten centuries. Traversing this era, he reveals how the Muslim rulers contributed to such harmony and how the two cultures exchanged and accepted each other''s tenets to enrich and formulate a composite Indian culture. To explore the foundations on which the complex culture of India rests, the author examines the contribution of Sufism which inherently connotes syncretism and tolerance, as well as the simultaneous rise of the Bhakti movement in medieval India.This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)Table of ContentsPreface1. Assimilating Features of Indian Culture2. Early Arab Contacts and the Advent of Islam in India3. In Search of Equivalence: Interaction between Sufism and Hinduism4. Sufi Ideals, Sufi Institutions and the Impact of Sufis on Indian Society and Culture5. The Bhakti and Sufi Movements6. The Efforts of Muslim Rulers for Unity and Harmony7. The Syncretic Cults: Blending of Hindu–Muslim Elements8. Mutual Influences on Social and Religious Life9. Glimpses of Composite Indian Culture10. EpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Eastern Land and the Western Heaven
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the structure of a unity with diversity developed in the Qing imperial formation (16361912) by a case study of the Qing-Tibetan encounters in the eighteenth century.By analyzing historical and ethnographical materials, the book investigates the translation of Chinese histories and stone inscriptions into Tibetan, the transformation of the landscapes at Mount Wutai and Lhasa, and the transplantation of Chinese deities and medical practices to Tibet. It demonstrates the processes in which the cosmopolitan interlocutors reified imperial integrity while expressing their diverse longings and belongings. It concludes that the Qing's rule over its cultural others was neither simply Sinicizing nor colonizing, but a translational process in which multivocalic actors shared narratives, landscapes, and practices, while the emperor and tantric masters performed cosmic power over humans and metahumans.This book cuts across the fields of anthropology, historTable of Contents1. Introduction: Narratives, Landscapes, and Practices at Qing-Tibetan Interface PART I Narratives 2. Discovering the Western Treasure: Tibet in Qing Cosmopolitan Historiography 3. Taming the Eastern Land: China in Tibetan Buddhist Historiography PART II Landscapes 4. Hierarchizing Spaces: Cosmopolitanism and “Our Holy Dynasty” 5. Maṇḍalizing Landscape: The Cosmopolitics of Tantric Masters PART III Practices 6. Local and Translocal Beings: The Guandi Cult in Tibet 7. The Edicts and the Edible: Digesting Imperial Sovereignty in Lhasa 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Spirituality and Holistic Spiritual Health
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Taylor & Francis How Values Education Can Improve Student and
Book SynopsisPresenting Values Education as a solution to major challenges in education such as student disengagement and teacher burnout, this book provides a wealth of practical advice about how to implement the Education in Human Values approach in schools, promoting wellness and improved educational outcomes. Values Education is a worldwide movement and comes in several forms. This book explains the need for and nature of values education, provides practical, easy strategies for implementing the Education in Human Values (EHV) approach, and outlines the educational theories that underpin it. The practical strategies in this book can be implemented in small increments in all aspects of school life. The focus is on both student and teacher wellbeing. The methods can also be used by teachers to address their own professional and personal challenges and to help them cope with difficult situations that cannot be changed.Written for teachers, teacher educators, and teachers in traini
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Taylor & Francis Ibn Arabis Religious Pluralism
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Taylor & Francis IslÄmic Integrated Narrative Therapy
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Taylor & Francis Jurisprudence and Theology
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Blurb, Inc. The Life of Reason Part I Esprios Classics
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Austin Macauley Publishers Charles Dickens Has a Wish
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Austin Macauley Publishers Charles Dickens Has a Wish
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Austin Macauley Publishers Luke to Theo Again
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Austin Macauley Publishers Compelling Evidence
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Taylor & Francis The Politics of Spiritual Work in Christian
Book SynopsisThis book examines how three conservative Christian movements â Jehovahâs Witnesses, Conservative Laestadians, and the Old Order Amish â attribute spiritual meanings to both paid employment and voluntary work, and how work functions as a tool of governance within these communities. A central concept developed in the book is spiritual work, used to describe forms of labour imbued with religious meaning and purpose. The book offers a detailed analysis of how religious interpretations of work regulate membersâ lives and sustain internal power dynamics. By tracing both the theological roots and social consequences of these interpretations, the study demonstrates that work is not merely an economic necessity but a central component of the moral and spiritual order within these movements. Framed by perspectives from the study of power and governance, the book identifies three key dimensions through which governance operates via work: shaping individual spirituality, reinforcing communal belonging and cohesion, and regulating the boundary between the religious community and the outside world.
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Taylor & Francis The Christian Trauma Survivorâs Workbook
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Rwg Publishing Middle East on Fire in the 21st Century 3 World Crusade
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Natson Publishing & Creatives LLC. Lifting the Mask
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Lulu.com The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and
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Cambridge University Press We Gods People
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Cambridge University Press Inventing Hebrews
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Cambridge University Press Employee Participation in Governance
Book SynopsisMichael Lower explores the relationship between Catholic social thought and the rights of the employee, encouraging consideration of the place of the corporation in the economy and whether British and European corporate governance and labour law do what they should to put the employee at the centre of corporate governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Catholic social thought: nature, sources and core principles and values; 3. CST and work; 4. CST, private property and markets; 5. The corporation; 6. The firm and society; 7. Employee participation in corporate governance: an ethical analysis; 8. Corporate governance in the United Kingdom; 9. Labour law and employee participation; 10. Employee participation and EU corporate governance; 11. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism Biblical Traditions and Race Relations
Book SynopsisIn the Hebrew Bible, various aspects of theism exist though monotheistic faith stands out, and the New Testament largely continues with Jewish monotheism. This Element examines diverse aspects of monotheism in the Hebrew Bible and their implications to others or race relations. Also, it investigates monotheistic faith in the New Testament writings and its impact on race relations, including the work of Jesus and Paul''s apostolic mission. While inclusive monotheism fosters race relations, exclusive monotheism harms race relations. This Element also engages contemporary biblical interpretations about the Bible, monotheistic faith, and race/ethnicity.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Theism and Race Relations in the Hebrew Bible; 3. Monotheism and Race Relations in the New Testament; 4. Contemporary Biblical Interpretation about Others, Race, and Ethnicity; 5. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Sacrifice
Book SynopsisAfter over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the analytical utility of the notion writ large. The word ''sacrifice'' (Latin sacrificium) itself frequently is broken down into its Latin roots, sacer, sacred, and facere, to do or to make to do or to make sacred which is a huge category and also vague. Presuming it is people and places that are made sacred, we must question the dynamics. Does sacrifice ''make sacred'' by summoning the presence of gods or ancestors? By offering gifts to them? By dining with them? By restoring or establishing cosmic order? By atoning for personal or collective sins? By rectifying social disequilibrium through scapegoating? By inducing an existential epiphany about life and death? While this short Element cannot cover all complexities and practices, it does treat critically some prominent themes, theories, and controversies concerning sacrifice, from ancient to present times.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Themes; 2. Theories of Sacrifice; 3. Controversies: 'Sacrificial' Scenes in the Iliad; 4. Ritual Dynamics and Ancient Near Eastern Cursing Texts; Conclusion; References.
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