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UNINA9910461842703321 |
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Titolo |
Understanding religious sacrifice [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Jeffrey Carter |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2003 |
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1-283-20258-1 |
9786613202581 |
1-4411-0921-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (480 p.) |
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Controversies in the study of religion |
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Sacrifice |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; General Introduction; 1 EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR: From Primitive Culture: Researches in the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Arts, and Custom; 2 HERBERT SPENCER: From The Principles of Sociology; 3 WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH: From The Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institution; 4 JAMES G. FRAZER: From The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; 5 HENRI HUBERT and MARCEL MAUSS: From Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function; 6 EDWARD A. WESTERMARCK: From The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas |
7 EMILE DURKHEIM: From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life8 SIGMUND FREUD: From Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics; 9 GERARDUS VAN DER LEEUW: From Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology; 10 GEORGES BATAILLE: From The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy; 11 ADOLF E. JENSEN: From Myth and Cult among Primitive Peoples; 12 EDWARD E. EVANS-PRITCHARD: ""The Meaning of Sacrifice among the Nuer""; 13 WALTER BURKERT: From Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth |
14 RENEĢ GIRARD: From Violence and the Sacred15 JAN VAN BAAL: ""Offering, Sacrifice and Gift""; 16 VICTOR TURNER: From ""Sacrifice as |
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Quintessential Process: Prophylaxis or Abandonment?""; 17 LUC DE HEUSCH: From Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach; 18 VALERIO VALERI: From Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii; 19 JONATHAN Z. SMITH: ""The Domestication of Sacrifice""; 20 ROBERT J. DALY: ""The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and Christianity""; 21 BRUCE LINCOLN: ""Debreasting, Disarming, Beheading: Some Sacrificial Practices of the Scyths and Amazons"" |
22 NANCY JAY: From Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity23 WILLIAM BEERS: From Women and Sacrifice: Male Narcissism and the Psychology of Religion; 24 MAURICE BLOCH: From Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience; 25 JON D. LEVENSON: From The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity; Postscript; Selected Bibliography on Sacrifice; Index |
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This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. Collected here are twenty five influential selections, each with a brief introduction addressing the overall framework and assumptions of its author. As they present different theories and examples of sacrifice, these selections also discuss important concepts in religious studies such as the origin of religion, totemism, magic, symbolism, violence, structuralism and ritual performance. Students of comparative religion, ritual studies, the history of religions, the anthropolo |
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UNINA9910788450903321 |
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Autore |
Coffey William <1948-> |
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The Langevin equation [[electronic resource] ] : with applications to stochastic problems in physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering / / W.T. Coffey, Yu. P. Kalmykov |
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River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2012 |
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[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (852 p.) |
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World Scientific series in contemporary chemical physics ; ; v. 27 |
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Langevin equations |
Brownian motion processes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface to the Tllird Edition; CONTENTS; Contents; Chapter 1 Historical Background and Introductory Concepts; 1.1. Brownian motion; 1.2. Einstein's explanation of Brownian movement; 1.3. The Langevin equation; 1.3.1. Calculation of Avogadro's number; 1.4. Einstein's Method; 1.5. Essential concepts in Statistical Mechanics; 1.5.1. Ensemble of systems; 1.5.2. Phase space; 1.5.3. Representative point; 1.5.4. Ergodic hypothesis; 1.5.5. Calculation of averages; 1.5.6. Liouville equation; 1.5.7. Reduction of the Liouville equation; 1.5.8. Langevin equation for a system with one degree of freedom |
1.5.9. Intuitive derivation of the Klein-Kramers equation1.5.10. Conditions under which a Maxwellian distribution in the velocities may be deemed to be attained; 1.5.11. Very-high-damping (VHD) regime; 1.5.12. Very-low-damping (VLD) regime; 1.6. Probability theory; 1.6.1. Random variables and probability distributions; 1.6.2. The Gaussian distribution; 1.6.3. Moment-generating fimctious; 1.6.4. Central limit theorem; 1.6.5. Random processes; 1.6.6. Wiener-Khinchin theorem; 1.7. Application to the Langevin equation; 1.8. Wiener process; 1.8.1. Variance of the Wiener process |
1.8.2. Wiener integrals1.9. The Fokker-Planok equation; 1.10. Drift and diffusion coefficients; 1.11. Solution of the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation; 1.12. The Smoluchowski equation; 1.13. Escape of particles over potential barriers: Kramers' theory; 1.13.1. Escape rate in |
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the IHD limit; 1.13.2. Kramers' calculation of the escape rate in the VLD limit; 1.13.3. Range of validity of the IHD and VLD formulas; 1.13.4. Extension of Kramers' theory to many dimensions in the IHD limit; 1.13.5. Langer's treatment of the IHD limit; 1.13.6. Kramers' formula as a special case of Langer's formula |
1.13.7. Kramers' turn over problem1.14. Applications of the theory of Brownian movement in a potential; 1.15. Rotational Brownian motion: application to dielectric relaxation; 1.15.1. Breakdown of the Debye theory at high frequencies; 1.16. Superparamagnetism: magnetic after-effect; 1.17. Brown's treatment of Neel relaxation; 1.18. Asymptotic expressions for the Neel relaxation time; 1.18.1. Magnetization reversal time in a uniaxial superparamagnet: application of Kramers' method; 1.18.2. Escape rate formulas for superparamagnets; 1.19. Ferrofluids |
1.20. Depletion effect in a biased bistable potential1.21. Stochastic resonance; 1.22. Anomalous diffusion; 1.22.1. Empirical formulas for the complex dielectric permittivity; 1.22.2. Theoretical justification for anomalous relaxation behavior; 1.22.3. Anomalous dielectric relaxation of an assembly of dipolar molecules; References; Chapter 2 Langevin Equations and Methods of Solution; 2.1. Criticisms of the Langevin equation; 2.2. Doob's interpretation of the Langevin equation; 2.3. Nonlinear Langevin equation with a multiplicative noise term: Ito and Stratonovich rules |
2.4. Derivation of differential-recurrence relations from the one-dimensional Langevin equation |
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This volume is the third edition of the first-ever elementary book on the Langevin equation method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian motion of particles and spins in a potential highlighting modern applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and so on. In order to improve the presentation, to accommodate all the new developments, and to appeal to the specialized interests of the various communities involved, the book has been extensively rewritten and a very large amount of new material has been added. This has been done in order t |
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