The Dawn Of Belief

Author : D. Bruce Dickson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816513369

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Hunter-gatherers of the Upper Paleolithic period of the late Pleistocene epoch in western Europe left a legacy of cave paintings and material remains that have long fascinated modern man. This book draws on theories derived from cultural anthropology and cognitive archaeology to propose a reconstruction of the religious life of those people based on the patterning and provenience of their artifacts. Based on the premises that all members of Homo sapiens sapiens share basically similar psychological processes and capabilities and that human culture is patterned, the author uses ethnographic analogy, inference from material patterns, and formal analysis to find in prehistoric imagery clues to the cosmology that lay behind them. The resulting book is an intriguing speculation on the nature of paleolithic religion, offering scholars a valuable synthesis of anthropological, archaeological, and sociological research, and general readers an accessible account of how our forebears may have regarded the unknown. "A well-written and intellectually rigorous introduction. If you are curious about prehistory, you will enjoy it." —Wilson Library Bulletin "Most interesting to those scholars interested in seeking materialist foundations or ecological explanations for religious practices." —American Antiquity "A well-written and concise account of what has recently been achieved by the investigations of spiritual life of the Earth's most ancient human communities." —Archiv Orientalni (Czechoslovakia)

Author : D. Bruce Dickson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816513368

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The Dawn of Belief by D. Bruce Dickson Pdf

Hunter-gatherers of the Upper Paleolithic period of the late Pleistocene epoch in western Europe left a legacy of cave paintings and material remains that have long fascinated modern man. This book draws on theories derived from cultural anthropology and cognitive archaeology to propose a reconstruction of the religious life of those people based on the patterning and provenience of their artifacts. Based on the premises that all members of Homo sapiens sapiens share basically similar psychological processes and capabilities and that human culture is patterned, the author uses ethnographic analogy, inference from material patterns, and formal analysis to find in prehistoric imagery clues to the cosmology that lay behind them. The resulting book is an intriguing speculation on the nature of paleolithic religion, offering scholars a valuable synthesis of anthropological, archaeological, and sociological research, and general readers an accessible account of how our forebears may have regarded the unknown. "A well-written and intellectually rigorous introduction. If you are curious about prehistory, you will enjoy it." —Wilson Library Bulletin "Most interesting to those scholars interested in seeking materialist foundations or ecological explanations for religious practices." —American Antiquity "A well-written and concise account of what has recently been achieved by the investigations of spiritual life of the Earth's most ancient human communities." —Archiv Orientalni (Czechoslovakia)

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374721107

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : Eric Strickland Waterhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Psychology, Religious
ISBN : MINN:319510015246119

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Author : Sevgi Soysal
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953861399

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Dawn by Sevgi Soysal Pdf

A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended, and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness “Like Pamuk’s Snow, Dawn is the Turkish tragedy writ small. In contrast to Snow, it places gender at its heart.” --Maureen Freely In Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings together dark humor, witty observations, and trenchant criticism of social injustice, militarism, and gender inequality. As night falls in Adana, köftes and cups of cloudy raki are passed to the dinner guests in the home of Ali – a former laborer who gives tight bear hugs, speaks with a southeastern lilt, and radiates the spirit of a child. Among the guests are a journalist named Oya, who has recently been released from prison and is living in exile on charges of leftist sympathizing, and her new acquaintance, Mustafa. A swift kick knocks down the front door and bumbling policemen converge on the guests, carting them off to holding cells, where they’ll be interrogated and tortured throughout the night. Fear spools into the anxious, claustrophobic thoughts of a return to prison, just after tasting freedom. Bristling snatches of Oya’s time in prison rush back – the wild curses and wilder laughter of inmates, their vicious quarrels and rapturous belly-dancing, or the quiet boon of a cup of tea. Her former inmates created fury and joy out of nothing. Their brimming resilience wills Oya to fight through the night and is fused with every word of this blazing, lucid novel.

Author : Jonathan Jong,Jamin Halberstadt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472571649

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Death Anxiety and Religious Belief by Jonathan Jong,Jamin Halberstadt Pdf

There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment critics and Victorian theorists of religion, and has been further developed by contemporary cognitive scientists. Why do people believe in gods? Because they fear death. Yet despite the abiding appeal of this simple hypothesis, there has not been a systematic attempt to evaluate its central claims and the assumptions underlying them. Do human beings fear death? If so, who fears death more, religious or nonreligious people? Do reminders of our mortality really motivate religious belief? Do religious beliefs actually provide comfort against the inevitability of death? In Death Anxiety and Religious Belief, Jonathan Jong and Jamin Halberstadt begin to answer these questions, drawing on the extensive literature on the psychology of death anxiety and religious belief, from childhood to the point of death, as well as their own experimental research on conscious and unconscious fear and faith. In the course of their investigations, they consider the history of ideas about religion's origins, challenges of psychological measurement, and the very nature of emotion and belief.

Author : Bahiyyih G. Tahzib
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004481657

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Freedom of Religion or Belief by Bahiyyih G. Tahzib Pdf

Author : Will D. Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Faith
ISBN : NYPL:33433079545228

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The Dawn of a New Era; Or, Truth, Love and Faith by Will D. Mitchell Pdf

Author : Carl Murchison
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781446357705

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The Case for and Against Psychical Belief by Carl Murchison Pdf

The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F+W Media International Ltd, resurrects rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural—other-worldly books for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts and witchcraft. Fourteen Essays On Psychical Phenomena And Mediumship By Fourteen Authors, including Sir Oliver Lodge, Houdini, Mary Austin And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Author : E L. Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600095002

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Sermons preached at Union chapel, King's Lynn by E L. Hull Pdf

Author : E. L. Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Sermons, English
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5XZD

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Sermons Preached at King's Lynn by E. L. Hull Pdf

Author : E. L. Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001481493

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Sermons Preached at Union Chapel, King's Lynn. First [- Second] Series by E. L. Hull Pdf

Author : Will D. Mitchell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0484908561

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The Dawn of a New Era by Will D. Mitchell Pdf

Excerpt from The Dawn of a New Era: Or Truth, Love and Faith Many I know will severely condemn me for hav ing so written, but only I hope for a short time until they come into the true realization of the light of my words. For I have written them with no other purpose than the general good, and I ask no one to believe without weighing my thoughts for they can be put aside as foolish (ii you will) if you cannot realize them in the light and sense in which they are written. Therefore, come what will, I fear nothing, for I have 'spoken' but thetruth, which I feel will be gladly received by every honest and unbiased mind or those free from the bondage of belief. For he who foolishly holds as truth the mere words of others, knows not the how, the why and the wherefore of truth, and can not therefore know whether he be honest to him self or to others. To know you are truthful is to know you are honest, but to merely believe, and then proclaim your beliefs as truth is to be most surely dishonest, for you have no evidence with which to prove your contentions. It follows, there fore, that your beliefs are but mere hearsay, and perchance only falsehood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ruel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004664678

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Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life by Ruel Pdf

This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.

Author : Morton Klass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429971112

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Across The Boundaries Of Belief by Morton Klass Pdf

This book focuses on anthropological questions and methods, and is offered as a supplement to textbooks on the anthropology of religion. It is designed to help students collecting and interpreting their own fieldwork or archival data and relating their findings to the work of others.