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The Ritual Process
Structure and Anti-Structure
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.
The Ritual Process has acquired the...
Joining Hands
Politics And Religion Together For Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the Civil Rights movement? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom and political action in their fight for life? Confronting questions that challenge the foundations of both politics and spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb presents a brave new account
A Greener Faith
Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith , Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically...
by Roger S. Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
The environmental crisis creates an unprecedented moral predicament: how to be a good person when our collective and individual actions contribute to immeasurable devastation and suffering. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from philosophy, political theory, global religion, ecology, and...
by Roger Henri Trepanier
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
About the book
In this very timely book, the author confronts the subject of paganism that has seen resurgence worldwide in the last thirty years in particular and is now commonly referred to as Neopaganism or modern paganism. The central theme of the book is that Neopaganism is now in the process...
by Tristram Potter Coffin, Roger deV. Renwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Tristram Potter Coffin's The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the...
The Democracy of the Dead
Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Will democracy figure prominently in China's future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course of answering them, look to the ideas of John Dewey and Confucius.
Those most sanguine about...
The Separation of Powers in the Contemporary Constitution
Judicial Competence and Independence in the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
In this 2010 book, Roger Masterman examines the dividing lines between the powers of the judicial branch of government and those of the executive and legislative branches in the light of two of the most significant constitutional reforms of recent years: the Human Rights Act (1998) and Constitutional...
by Steven Roger Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was conceived of to the media explosion of the present day. Fischer begins by describing the modes of communication used by whales, birds, insects, and nonhuman primates,...
by John-Roger
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
With sensitivity and clarity, this book addresses questions about the relationship between sex and spirituality. John-Roger deals with sex as a natural function of the body rather than something shameful, healing separation between the body and the soul.
by Laura Betti, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Italo Calvino
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1980
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1980
Séminaire dirigé par Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, avec la participation de Laura Betti, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Italo Calvino, Catherine Clément, Roger Dadoun, Jean-Paul Dollé, Alain Finkielkraut, Enrico Groppali, Pierre Mertens, Alberto Moravia, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Marcelin Pleynet, Antonio...
Anthropology of the Brain
Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress,...
Ancient Natural History
Histories of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to...
Handbook of Porphyrin Science (Volumes 21 25)
With Applications to Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This is the fifth set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science.
Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in chemistry, materials science, physics, biology and medicine. They are the red color in blood (heme) and the green in leaves...