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  • Male Homosexualities and World Religions

    de P. Hurteau ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality. ... Leer más

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    When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own?In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and ... Leer más

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  • Selling Yoga

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    de Andrea Jain ...
    Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according ... Leer más

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Leer más

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  • Religion

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    A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it. This book builds on recent developments in science, theory, and philosophy to advance an innovative theory of religion that goes beyond the problematic theoretical paradigms of the past.Drawing on the philosophy ... Leer más

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  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between ... Leer más

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  • The Sacred Project of American Sociology

    Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its founding fathers were mostly atheists. Its basic operating premises are secular and ... Leer más

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  • Theological Perspectives for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

    Public Intellectuals for the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Rather than wield religion as a weapon or a ruse in irrational appeals, the book attempts to reimagine a shared American mythos and ethos, by reminding us of our shared stake in creating an America committed to the life of all peoples and species and to the full developments of our capabilities as an exercise of liberty. ... Leer más

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  • Nordic Neoshamanisms

    Edición de S. Kraft, T. Fonneland, J. Lewis ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book proposes that the drive for religiosity and experiences of the sacred are far from lost in contemporary western societies. The contributors' objective is to explore the myriad of ways late modern shamanism is becoming more vital and personally significant to people, communities, and economies in Nordic countries. ... Leer más

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  • Dharma

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    Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as “ethics,” “religion,” “law,” or “social order,” dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the ... Leer más

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  • Spirited Things

    The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

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    The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher ... Leer más

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  • The Soul Journey

    How Shamanism, Santeria, Wicca, and Charisma Are Connected

    Shamanism, Santería, Wicca, and Charisma are connected via the trance state or ecstasy. Philpotts detail the theology and practices of shamanism, Santería, and Wicca, and then regretfully demonstrate why the proponents of these religions appeal to a form of Christianity. ... Leer más

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