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Author : Jenny Randles,Peter Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Death
ISBN : 0586201475
Author : Clay Routledge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190629427
Humans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not only concerned about survival, but also about our significance. The quest for transcendent meaning is one reason why humans embrace the supernatural. Children naturally see the world as magical, yet when humans reach full cognitive development they are still drawn to supernatural beliefs and ideas that defy the laws of physics. Even those who consider themselves secular or atheists are seduced by supernatural belief systems. Clay Routledge, an experimental psychologist, asserts that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is rooted in our fear of death and need for meaning. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, he reveals just how universal supernatural thinking is, and how this kind of thinking is adaptive and even healthy. Routledge takes readers through a wide range of fascinating research from psychology that paints a picture of humans as innate supernatural thinkers. Exploring research from the emerging field of experimental existential psychology, he makes the case that all humans have the same underlying existential needs, with similar coping strategies across times, cultures, and degrees of religiousness. Surprisingly, cultural institutions such as sports, environmentalism, secular humanism, and science also showcase supernatural attributes and qualities. Indeed, studies show that supernatural thinking assuages stress and anxiety and improves mood and psychological well-being. But there is a potential dark side to this line of thinking: it can lead to personal and social problems, and some individuals can take it a step too far. However, Routledge argues that this dark side of supernatural thinking is the exception, not the rule. Further, supernatural thinking is ever-present, and should unite us instead of dividing us.
Author : Richard S. Ross III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476627793
Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered “techniques” for examining witches. This history examines the outbreak of witch hysteria in the Valley, focusing on accusations of demonic possession, apotropaic magic and the role of the clergy. Although the hysteria was eventually quelled by a progressive magistrate unwilling to try witches, accounts of the trials later influenced contemporary writers during the Salem witch hunts. The source of the document “Grounds for Examination of a Witch” is identified.
Author : Michael George Duignan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : BL:A0020775080
Author : Ricardo Roque,Elizabeth G. Traube
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789202724
The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained. Reinterpreting the dynamic interplay between archive and field, these essays propose a method for mutually productive crossings between historical and ethnographic research. It engages critically with the colonial pasts of indigenous societies and examines how fieldwork and archival studies together lead to fruitful insights into the making of different colonial historicities. Timor-Leste’s unusually long and in some ways unique colonial history is explored as a compelling case for these crossings.
Author : John Reynolds Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Death
ISBN : UCAL:B3527653
Author : Aku Visala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317089612
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations and clarifies its relationship to other approaches to religious phenomena. This unique contribution to discussions regarding the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive study of religion summarizes the so far fragmentary discussion, exposes its underlying assumptions, and develops a novel framework for further discussion.
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UVA:X000469119
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021570601
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Sociology
ISBN : IND:30000099145892
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Sociology
ISBN : WISC:89050972843
Author : Franklin Henry Giddings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UCSC:32106007657544
Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375898631
"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others ironically, but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession, all against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history—the Great Depression, the World's Fair, Al Capone and his fellow gangsters.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Theology
ISBN : NYPL:33433081665311
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015013774818