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Author : G. W. Trompf,Keith W. Carley
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9820200075
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Melanesia
ISBN : OCLC:18443045
Author : Keith Carley,Deane Fergie,Willington Jojoga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:837162833
Author : Keith Carley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9820200075
Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521383066
Am invariable guide and analysis to pressing issues of religious and Soviet change in the Pacific.
Author : John D'Arcy May
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082641513X
The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal religious traditions ("biocosmic" or "immanentist") of the Asian-Pacific region, namely, Aboriginal Australia and Melanesia (Christianity) and Sri Lanka and Japan (Buddhism). In each case, the encounters represented a failure of the "great" traditions. In the third, constructive and theological part of the book, the author shows how an acknowledgment of these failures may provide a back door to dialogue.
Author : James R. Martel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478023043
In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism—a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions—dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the authority for the community that archism has stolen. The goal of anarchist prophets is to render themselves obsolete and to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist themselves. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance in Syria and the Spanish Revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the means to overthrow archist authority.
Author : David N. Gellner,Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000568974
This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans’ varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.
Author : Phyllis G. Jestice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781851096497
A cross-cultural encyclopedia of the most significant holy people in history, examining why people in a wide range of religious traditions throughout the world have been regarded as divinely inspired. The first reference on the subject to span all the world's major religions, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia examines the impact of individuals who, through personal charisma and inspirational deeds, served both as glorious examples of human potential and as envoys for the divine. Holy People of the World contains nearly 1,100 biographical sketches of venerated men and women. Written by religious studies experts and historians, each article focuses on the basic question: How did this person come to be regarded as holy? In addition, the encyclopedia features 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures such as awakening and conversion experiences, heredity, gender, asceticism, and persecution. Whether exploring by religion, culture, or historic period, this extensively cross-referenced resource offers a wealth of insights into one of the most revealing—and least explored—common denominators of spiritual traditions.
Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590849
This is an investigation of Western cultural identity. It shows how people's images of themselves and others reflect the power that different groups in a society have to shape these images. The contributors describe these images in Western academic writing, popular Western culture, and societies outside the West, in this counterpart to Edward Said's Orientalism. - ;Occidentalism is an investigation of images of Western cultural identity. Edward Said's Orientalism revolutionized Western understanding of non-Western cultures by showing how Western projected images shaped the Occidental of the Orient, but those who follow Said have not until now reflected that understanding back onto Western societies. Occidentalism shows how images of the West shape people's conceptions of themselves and others, and how these images are in turn shaped by members of Western and non-Western societies alike. The contributors describe and explicate these images in a variety of areas, from Western academic writing to popular Western culture, from societies within and outside the West, to show how power and conflict shape such conceptions. -
Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521416917
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.
Author : Garry Trompf
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSD:31822034284323
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Author : David Lipset,Richard Handler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782383765
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.
Author : Peter Antes,Armin W. Geertz,Randi R. Warne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110211702
Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.
Author : Peter Antes,Armin W. Geertz,Randi Ruth Warne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311017698X
Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.
