1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453314503321

Autore

Spadola Emilio <1972->

Titolo

The calls of Islam : Sufis, Islamists, and mass mediation in urban Morocco / / Emilio Spadola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01137-X

0-253-01145-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Disciplina

297.0964/34

Soggetti

Islam - Morocco - History

Sufism - Morocco - History

Mass media in religion - Morocco

Mass media - Religious aspects - Islam

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 Competing Calls in Urban Morocco; 2 Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology, and Control; 3 Our Master's Call: The Apotheosis of Moroccan Islam; 4 Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing; 5 Rites of Reception; 6 Trance-Nationalism, or, the Call of Moroccan Islam; 7 "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element Between People": The Call as Exorcism; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once-marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910135203203321

Titolo

IECON 2014 : 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society : proceedings : Sheraton Hotel Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A., 30 October - 01 November 2014 / / sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, , 2014

ISBN

1-4799-4032-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1649 pages)

Disciplina

670.427

Soggetti

Automation

Electronic control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954638403321

Autore

Macunovich Diane J

Titolo

Birth quake : the baby boom and its aftershocks / / Diane J. Macunovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002

ISBN

9786612537219

9781282537217

1282537210

9780226500928

0226500926

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Population and development

Disciplina

304.62

Soggetti

Overpopulation - History - 20th century

United States Population History 20th century

United States Economic conditions 1945-

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. 283-296) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Overview: The Birth Quake and Its Aftershocks -- PART 1. Defining Concepts and Terms -- PART 2. First-Order Effects of Changing Relative Cohort Size -- PART 3. Second-Order Effects of Changing Relative Cohort Size -- PART 4. Third-Order Effects of Relative Cohort Size -- Appendix A: Expectations in the Williams College Class of 1999 -- Appendix B: Data for Figure 4.1 -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In Birth Quake, Diane J. Macunovich argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom-in particular, the passage of the baby boomers into young adulthood. Macunovich focuses on the pervasive effects of changes in "relative cohort size," the ratio of young to middle-aged adults, as masses of young people tried to achieve the standard of living to which they had become accustomed in their parents' homes despite dramatic reductions in their earning potential relative to that of their parents. Macunovich presents the results of detailed empirical analyses that



illustrate how varied and important cohort effects can be on a wide range of economic indicators, social factors, and even on more tumultuous events including the stock market crash of 1929, the "oil shock" of 1973, and the "Asian flu" of the 1990's. Birth Quake demonstrates that no discussion of business or economic trends can afford to ignore the effects of population.