Religions and trade : religious formation, transformation and cross-cultural exchange between East and West / / edited by Peter Wick and Volker Rabens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910537377703321
• Autore: Wick Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brill, 2013; Boston : , : Brill, , 2014
• ISBN: 90-04-25530-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Collana: Dynamics in the history of religions, , 1878-8106 ; ; volume 5
• Altri autori (Persone): WickPeter; RabensVolker
• Disciplina: 201/.7
• Soggetti: Religions; Religions - Relations; Globalization - Religious aspects; Commerce; Business - Religious aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part one. Trade and the topology of religious space -- part two. Trade and religious symbol systems -- part three. Trade and religious knowledge -- part four. Trade and religious-ethical ways of life.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Religions and Trade a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed from the perspective of “trade.” Trade changes religions. Religions expand through the help of trade infrastructures, and religions extend and enrich the trade relations with cultural and religious “commodities” which they contribute to the “market place” of human culture and religion. This leads to the inclusion, demarcation and densification as well as the amalgamation of religious traditions. In an attempt to find new pathways into the world of religious dynamics, this collection of essays focuses on four elements or “commodities” of religious interchange: topologies of religious space, religious symbol systems, religious knowledge, and religious-ethical ways of life.

Ergodic theory : Probability and Ergodic Theory Workshops, February 15-18, 2007, February 14-17, 2008, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill / / Idris Assani, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788797403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2009]; ©2009
• ISBN: 0-8218-8164-7; 0-8218-4649-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, ; 485 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 515/.48
• Soggetti: Ergodic theory
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Preface -- Injectivity of the Dubins-Freedman construction of random distributions -- A maximal inequality for the tail of the bilinear Hardy-Littlewood function -- Almost sure convergence of weighted sums of independent random variables -- Recurrence, ergodicity and invariant measures for cocycles over a rotation -- 1. Invariant measures, regularity of a cocycle -- 2. Growth of the ergodic sums over a rotation, application to recurrence -- 3. Examples of ergodic BV Rd-cocycles -- 4. Examples of non-regular cocycles -- 5. Appendix : A Diophantine property for (α, β) -- References -- Examples of recurrent or transient stationary walks in Rd over a rotation of T2 -- 1. A sufficient condition of recurrence for stationary walks -- 2. Series with small denominators -- 3. Growth in norm ll ll2 of the ergodic sums and recurrence -- 4. An example of transient cocycle -- References -- A short proof of the unique ergodicity of horicyclic flows -- A-periodic order via dynamical systems: Diffraction for sets of finite local complexity -- Laws of iterated logarithm for weighted sums of iid random variables -- Homeomorphic Bernoulli trial measures and ergodic theory -- Distinguishing transformations by averaging methods -- Some open problems.