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  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    de Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ...
    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

    $75.59 USD

  • Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Edición de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • How Things Count as the Same

    Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

    de Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller ...
    In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Religion and Charity

    The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

    de Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...
    Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Power and Protest in the Countryside

    Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

    Edición de Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim ...
    “Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has taken through the past three centuries.”—Pacific Affairs ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Rito e modernità

    I limiti della sincerità

    de Adam P. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J. Puett, Bennett Simon ...
    Rito e modernità si propone di cambiare radicalmente la nostra concezione del rito. Con l'aiuto di prospettive psicoanalitiche e antropologiche, illustra il processo di creazione di mondi"come se", fondati nella capacità della mente di immaginare universi condivisi, di passare da un mondo immaginario all'altro, comune al rito e al gioco. I riti tracciano i confini dei mondi immaginari, tra cui l ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • It Happens Among People

    Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

    Edición de Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series Libro 8 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia

    Organizing between Family and State

    Edición de Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In *Civil Life,*Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject, whose chapters address these ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    de Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Leer más

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  • God in Pain

    Inversions of Apocalypse

    de Slavoj Zizek, Boris Gunjevic ...
    Traducido por Ellen Elias-Bursac ...
    A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of ... Leer más

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  • A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    de Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope, damnation, and humor—Berger ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy and Theology

    de John Caputo ...
    A highly engaging essay that will draw students into a conversation about the vital relationship between philosophy and theology.In this clear, concise, and brilliantly engaging essay, renowned philosopher and theologian John D. Caputoaddresses the great and classical philosophical questions as they inextricably intersect with theology--past, present, and future. Recognized as one of the leading ... Leer más

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