Challenging religion [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson
| Challenging religion [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerEileen <1938->
BeckfordJames A RichardsonJames T. <1941-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion and sociology
Cults |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-134-39204-4 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- ; PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson -- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-François Mayer -- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg -- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin -- ; PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins -- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine -- Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill -- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie -- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire -- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark -- ; PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS -- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann -- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies -- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn. |
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Challenging religion [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson
| Challenging religion [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerEileen <1938->
BeckfordJames A RichardsonJames T. <1941-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion and sociology
Cults |
| ISBN |
1-280-24124-1
0-203-29943-4 0-203-28907-2 1-134-39203-6 1-134-39204-4 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- ; PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson -- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-François Mayer -- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg -- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin -- ; PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins -- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine -- Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill -- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie -- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire -- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark -- ; PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS -- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann -- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies -- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn. |
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson
| Challenging religion : essays in honour of Eileen Barker / / edited by James A. Beckford and James T. Richardson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BarkerEileen <1938->
BeckfordJames A RichardsonJames T. <1941-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion and sociology
Cults |
| ISBN |
1-280-24124-1
0-203-29943-4 0-203-28907-2 1-134-39203-6 1-134-39204-4 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- ; PART I. NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Absolutes and relatives: two problems for new religious movements / Bryan R. Wilson -- Cults, culture and manure: why the root of the second should be the first rather than the third / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and the Internet: the global marketplace / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Religious groups and globalisation: a comparative perspective / Margit Warburg -- Religion after atheism: moving away from the communal flat / Marat Shterin -- ; PART II. RELIGIOUS 'DEVIANCE' AND CONTROL -- Notes on the contemporary peril to religious freedom / Thomas Robbins -- Chapter in the life of Eileen Barker: the American Psychological Association, brainwashing controviersies and the Great Cult Apoligist Conspiracy / Massimo Introvigne -- Satanic abuse: lessons from a controversy / Jean La Fontaine -- Countercult monitoring movement in historical perspective / J. Gordon Melton -- Making of a moral panic: religion and state in Singapore / Michael Hill -- PART III. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND EMPOWERMENT -- What's happening in American church/state jurisprudence? / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious toleration in Western and Central European countries / Karel Dobbelaere, Jaak Billiet -- Religious minorites in France: a Protestant perspective / Grace Davie -- Gendered spiritualities / Meredith B. McGuire -- Making of a survivor: rhetoric and reality in the study of religion and abuse / Nancy Nason-Clark -- ; PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS -- Aspects of the constitution, construction and reconstruction of human reality / Thomas Luckmann -- Sociology of wisdom / Douglas Davies -- Cataclysms and the apocalyptic imagination / Richard K. Fenn. |
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The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon
| The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon |
| Autore | McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200/.71 |
| Soggetto topico | Religion - Study and teaching |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-47800-3
1-280-02279-5 0-203-46038-3 0-203-45179-1 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics
Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index |
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McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, >
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The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon
| The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon |
| Autore | McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200/.71 |
| Soggetto topico | Religion - Study and teaching |
| ISBN |
1-134-47799-6
1-134-47800-3 1-280-02279-5 0-203-46038-3 0-203-45179-1 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics
Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index |
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McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
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The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon
| The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon |
| Autore | McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200/.71 |
| Soggetto topico | Religion - Study and teaching |
| ISBN |
1-134-47799-6
1-134-47800-3 1-280-02279-5 0-203-46038-3 0-203-45179-1 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics
Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index |
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McCutcheon Russell T. <1961->
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Levi-Strauss on religion : the structuring mind / / Paul-Francois Tremlett
| Levi-Strauss on religion : the structuring mind / / Paul-Francois Tremlett |
| Autore | Tremlett Paul-François |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Oakville, CT, : Equinox Pub. Ltd., 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 pages) |
| Disciplina | 200.92 |
| Collana | Key thinkers in the study of religion |
| Soggetto topico | Religion |
| ISBN |
1-315-71109-5
1-317-49091-6 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Levi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralism -- Kinship as communication -- The illusion of totemism -- Myths without meaning -- Structuralism, shamanism, and material culture -- The structure of nostalgia -- Levi-Strauss and the study of religions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910973616503321 |
Tremlett Paul-François
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Lévi-Strauss on Religion [[electronic resource] ] : The Structuring Mind
| Lévi-Strauss on Religion [[electronic resource] ] : The Structuring Mind |
| Autore | Tremlett Paul-Francois |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.6 |
| Collana | Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion |
| Soggetto topico |
Le ́vi-Strauss, Claude
Religion Religion - General Philosophy & Religion |
| ISBN |
1-315-71109-5
1-317-49091-6 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Bibliography; Index |
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Tremlett Paul-Francois
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| London, : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2008 | ||
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Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon
| Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RidgeonLloyd V. J |
| Soggetto topico |
Religions - History
Civilization - History |
| ISBN |
1-134-42934-7
1-134-42935-5 1-280-02243-4 0-203-42313-5 0-203-42548-0 9780203423135 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: STUDYING RELIGION; HINDUISM; In what sense is Hinduism a religion?; Hinduism in history; The Harappan period; The period of the north Indian empires; The period of regional kingdoms; The period of Muslim rule; The period of British rule; Independence; Karma, rebirth and cyclic time; Karma and rebirth; Theodicy; Karma and other determinants of destiny; Cyclic time; Karma and cosmic time in the modern world; Dharma: norms of conduct; The literature of dharma; Differentiation by gender; Differentiation by caste
Differentiation by stage of lifeDifferentiation by age of the world; The gods and God; Patterns of worship and its objects; The divine feminine; Local deities and pan-Hindu deities; Avataras and saints; Hindu worship and theology in the modern world; BUDDHISM; Pragmatism; The Four Noble Truths; The sangha; The Abhidharma; The emergence of Mahayana Buddhism; The Bodhisattva; Emptiness (sunyata); The Yogacara; The Tathagata-garbha; From India to China; Translation; Sudden enlightenment; Philosophization and simplification; Hua-yen; Pure-Land Buddhism; Pure-Land Buddhism in Japan; Zen Transcendentalism againJUDAISM; Reliable and unreliable sources of knowledge; 'Judaism is not a Christian heresy'; The roots of Judaism; The historical beginnings of Rabbinic Judaism; The religious principles of Rabbinic Judaism; The Mishnah and Tosefta; Some parallels with Christianity; The medieval flowering of Judaism; The Talmuds; The commentaries and grammars; Philosophy and ethics; Zohar and kabbalah; Messianism; Sabbatai Sevi; Jewish Christians, Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism; Towards modernity: Hasidism and the Haskalah; The Hasidic movement; The Haskalah Reform, Orthodox and Conservative JudaismAnti-Semitism and the Holocaust; The Holocaust; Zionism and the land of Israel; Eretz Yisrael; CHRISTIANITY; Key texts: the formation of the biblical canon; Theological 'canon'?; The Church and the world: a variety of approaches; The early Christian Church; Constantine: first Christian emperor; East and West: the first Christian centuries; The Christian Church in the Western world: the Protestant Reformation; The Christian Church: communities of resistance and renewal; Western Christianity and the challenges of the modern world The challenge of Enlightenment philosophyChallenges of secularism, pluralism and postmodernism; The challenge of evil: the Holocaust; The challenge of feminism; The Church beyond Europe; India: the Church of St Thomas; Africa: the Ethiopian Church; The epic tale of Christian missionaries; The Church in North America; ISLAM; The testament of faith (shahada); ' and Muhammad is his messenger.'; Prayer (salat); Sufism; Fasting (sawm); The Qur'an; The Qur'an as a text; Limits of interpretation; The alms tax (zakat); Islamic law; Pilgrimage (hajj); The hajj rites; Pluralism Jihad: Islam and the state |
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| London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon
| Major world religions : from their origins to the present / / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RidgeonLloyd V. J |
| Soggetto topico |
Religions - History
Civilization - History |
| ISBN |
1-134-42934-7
1-134-42935-5 1-280-02243-4 0-203-42313-5 0-203-42548-0 9780203423135 |
| Classificazione | 11.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: STUDYING RELIGION; HINDUISM; In what sense is Hinduism a religion?; Hinduism in history; The Harappan period; The period of the north Indian empires; The period of regional kingdoms; The period of Muslim rule; The period of British rule; Independence; Karma, rebirth and cyclic time; Karma and rebirth; Theodicy; Karma and other determinants of destiny; Cyclic time; Karma and cosmic time in the modern world; Dharma: norms of conduct; The literature of dharma; Differentiation by gender; Differentiation by caste
Differentiation by stage of lifeDifferentiation by age of the world; The gods and God; Patterns of worship and its objects; The divine feminine; Local deities and pan-Hindu deities; Avataras and saints; Hindu worship and theology in the modern world; BUDDHISM; Pragmatism; The Four Noble Truths; The sangha; The Abhidharma; The emergence of Mahayana Buddhism; The Bodhisattva; Emptiness (sunyata); The Yogacara; The Tathagata-garbha; From India to China; Translation; Sudden enlightenment; Philosophization and simplification; Hua-yen; Pure-Land Buddhism; Pure-Land Buddhism in Japan; Zen Transcendentalism againJUDAISM; Reliable and unreliable sources of knowledge; 'Judaism is not a Christian heresy'; The roots of Judaism; The historical beginnings of Rabbinic Judaism; The religious principles of Rabbinic Judaism; The Mishnah and Tosefta; Some parallels with Christianity; The medieval flowering of Judaism; The Talmuds; The commentaries and grammars; Philosophy and ethics; Zohar and kabbalah; Messianism; Sabbatai Sevi; Jewish Christians, Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism; Towards modernity: Hasidism and the Haskalah; The Hasidic movement; The Haskalah Reform, Orthodox and Conservative JudaismAnti-Semitism and the Holocaust; The Holocaust; Zionism and the land of Israel; Eretz Yisrael; CHRISTIANITY; Key texts: the formation of the biblical canon; Theological 'canon'?; The Church and the world: a variety of approaches; The early Christian Church; Constantine: first Christian emperor; East and West: the first Christian centuries; The Christian Church in the Western world: the Protestant Reformation; The Christian Church: communities of resistance and renewal; Western Christianity and the challenges of the modern world The challenge of Enlightenment philosophyChallenges of secularism, pluralism and postmodernism; The challenge of evil: the Holocaust; The challenge of feminism; The Church beyond Europe; India: the Church of St Thomas; Africa: the Ethiopian Church; The epic tale of Christian missionaries; The Church in North America; ISLAM; The testament of faith (shahada); ' and Muhammad is his messenger.'; Prayer (salat); Sufism; Fasting (sawm); The Qur'an; The Qur'an as a text; Limits of interpretation; The alms tax (zakat); Islamic law; Pilgrimage (hajj); The hajj rites; Pluralism Jihad: Islam and the state |
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| London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 | ||
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