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“bruce lincoln”

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  • Discourse and the Construction of Society

    Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study--which draws on works in history, semiotics, ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars

    Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Authority

    Construction and Corrosion

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an effect. More precisely, it is an effect that depends for its power on the combination of the right ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Apples and Oranges

    Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets, Lies, and Consequences

    A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of age. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Between History and Myth

    Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding narratives invite revisionist retellings that modify details of the story in ways that undercut, ironize, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sunlight at Midnight

    St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf

    A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Bruce Lincoln ...
    In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God," fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and humanity—a baffling claim that attracted the notice of the judges then and still commands attention ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Secrets, Lies, and Consequences

    A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    In 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years old. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Writing Religion

    The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

    by Steven W. Ramey, Theodore Louis Trost, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Russell T. McCutcheon, Russell T. McCutcheon, Arjun Appadurai, Aaron W. Hughes0, Martin S. Jaffee1, Nathan Katz2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Bruce Lincoln4, Tomoko Masuzawa5, Ann Pellegrini6, Judith Plaskow7, Jonathan Z. Smith8 ...
    In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Belief and Bloodshed

    Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition

    by Scott Noegel, Sarah Culpepper Stroup, Michael Berger, Charles McDaniel, Paul Stephenson, Jon Pahl, David Atwill, Marianne Kamp, Charles Keyes, Marion Goldman, Joel Black, Bruce Lincoln ...
    Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

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  • Esotericism and the Academy

    Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

    by Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
    Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD