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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954638703321

Autore

Lincoln Bruce

Titolo

Religion, empire, and torture : the case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib / / Bruce Lincoln

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

9786612537905

9781282537903

1282537903

9780226481913

0226481913

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

935/.05

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Religion and politics - Iran

Iran History To 640

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Center and periphery -- God's chosen -- Creation -- Microcosms, wonders, paradise -- The dark side of paradise -- Postscript: on Abu Ghraib and some related contemporary matters.

Sommario/riassunto

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia.Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in the cosmos and their moral status in relation



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349313203321

Titolo

Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions : 7th International Conference, DAPI 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26–31, 2019, Proceedings / / edited by Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-21935-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 482 p. 251 illus., 208 illus. in color.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 11587

Disciplina

006.6869

004.019

Soggetti

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Application software

Computer engineering

Computer networks

Computer vision

Education - Data processing

Social sciences - Data processing

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computer Engineering and Networks

Computer Vision

Computers and Education

Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

IoT and Big Data -- MOVEMENT AWARENESS: an analysis of the GESTURES installation game -- AquaBot: An Interactive System for Digital Water Play -- Security in Smart Toys: a Systematic Review of Literature -- Presentation of Information Uncertainty from IoBT for



Military Decision Making -- A Mirror That Reflects, Augments and Learns -- Towards an Understanding of College Students' Perceptions of Smart Home Devices -- Managing Changes Initiated by Industrial Big Data Technologies: A Technochange Management Model -- Designing a cyber physical system prototype for the leaching process in producing high-purity materials -- Smart cities and built environments -- On the Relationship between Accuracy of Bus Position Estimated by Crowdsourcing and Participation Density -- reTessellate: Modular Dynamic Surfaces Reactive to Socio-Environmental Conditions -- A User-Centric Design Framework for Smart Built Environments: A Mixed Reality Perspective -- Optimization of a WiFi Wireless Network thatMaximizes the Level of Satisfaction of Users and Allows the Use of New Technological Trends in Higher Education Institutions -- From smart city to smart society: China's journey towards essential urban-rural transformation -- The Potential of Virtual Real World for Usability Test of Location-Aware Apps -- Capturing People Mobility with Mobile Sensing Technology for Disaster Evacuation -- Multi-modal Sensor based Localization and control method for Human-following Outdoor Security Mobile Robot -- Designing Mobile and IoT Solutions for Sustainable Smart Cities: studies with electronic waste disposal -- Spatial Perception and Humanistic Innovation in Smart Cities:A Systematic Review -- Perception and emotion in DAPI -- Emotion-Aware Ambient Intelligence: Changing Smart Environment Interaction Paradigms through Affective Computing -- Engaging with sense of smell through textile interactions -- Emotion detection affected soothing device -- Sensing creatures: tools for augmenting our sensory awareness of space -- Affective Sleeve: Wearable Materials with Haptic Action for Promoting Calmness -- DAPI for health and learning -- A Framework of Longitudinal Study to Understand Determinants of Actual Use of the Portable Health Clinic System -- Feasibility of Digital Health Services for Educating the Community People Regarding Lifestyle Modification Combating Noncommunicable Diseases -- Vocabulary Learning Support System based on Automatic Image Captioning Technology -- Development of Mobile Based In-Home Patient Monitoring System for the Management of Chronic Disease of Indigenous Communities in a Developing Country -- Supporting Human Relationship-Building in a Daily Life Community -- Comparison of User Listening Attitude for Birdsongs Recorded in Fukushima Restricted Area to Prepare Training Data for AI -- Take a photo for my story: social connectedness for the elderly -- The Information infrastructure for analyzing and visualizing learning logs in ubiquitous learning environments.-Advanced Tools for Digital Learning Management Systems in University Education -- Elicitation of Appropriate Scratching Zones based on Lecture Slide Layouts -- eamless Collaborative Learning Method to learn Business Japanese with eBook and chat system -- Supporting Weight Loss through Digitally-augmented Social Expression -- Learning Behavioral Pattern Analysis based on Digital Textbook Reading Logs.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, in Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 2019. A total of 1274 papers and 209 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2019 proceedings from a total of 5029 submissions. The 36 papers included in this volume were organized in topical sections on IoT and big data; smart cities and built environments; perception and emotion in DAPI; and DAPI for health and learning.