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  • Managing Sacralities

    Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

    Edited by Oscar Salemink, Irene Stengs, Ernst van den Hemel ...
    Series Book 6 - Explorations in Heritage Studies
    What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are —religious or secular—sources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an increasingly popular and influential frame, these questions arise in diverse and challenging manners. The question who controls, manages, and frames ... Read more

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  • Emerging Ritual in Secular Societies

    A Transdisciplinary Conversation

    by Ellen Dissanayake, Matthieu Smyth, Robert C. Scaer, Andrés Allemand Smaller, Christine Behrend, Isabel Russo, Michael Picucci, Joanna Wojtkowiak, Lindy Mechefske, Irene Stengs, Gianpiero Vincenzo, Jacqueline Millner ...
    The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures. The relatively new field of ritology, which includes neuroscience, anthropology, cultural psychology, psychotherapy and even art and performance, raises questions about the significance and practice of ritual today. This book is the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Secular Sacred

    Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion

    Edited by Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, Irene Stengs ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular Sacred focuses on diverse topics such as the dynamic roles of Carnival in Brazil, the public contestation of ritual in Northern Nigeria, and the culturalization of secular tolerance in the Netherlands.The contributions focus on the ways in which sacrality and secularity mutually ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Flow

    The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    Series Book 6 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is ... Read more

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  • Art and its global histories

    A reader

    Edited by Diana Newall ...
    Series Book 5 - Art and its Global Histories
    The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism.The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn'. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from ... Read more

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  • The Happiness Hypothesis

    Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world’s philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our lives.**“Wonderfully smart and readable.” —**Washington PostIn The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines philosophical wisdom and sci... ... Read more

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  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Read more

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  • Theatre

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this ... Read more

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  • The Power of Meaning

    Crafting a Life That Matters

    by Emily Esfahani-Smith ...
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  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

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