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Acts of faith [[electronic resource] ] : explaining the human side of religion / / Rodney Stark and Roger Finke
| Acts of faith [[electronic resource] ] : explaining the human side of religion / / Rodney Stark and Roger Finke |
| Autore | Stark Rodney |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | FinkeRoger <1954-> |
| Soggetto topico | Religion and sociology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic
agnosticism anthropology atheism belief catholicism christian ethics faith human nature ideology modern religion modern world morals mormonism orthodoxy philosophy religion religious groups religious leaders religious sects religious studies research scholarly science secular social science social scientists social studies sociology supernatural world religion |
| ISBN |
1-283-32074-6
9786613320742 0-520-92434-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion -- 1. A New Look at Old Issues -- 2. Rationality and the "Religious Mind" -- 3. Secularization, R.I.P. -- 4. The Micro Foundations of Religion -- 5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation -- 6. Religious Group Dynamics -- 7. Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival -- 8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies -- 9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment -- 10. Church-to-Sect Movements -- APPENDIX: Propositions and Definitions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Stark Rodney
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
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Bewitching women, pious men [[electronic resource] ] : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz
| Bewitching women, pious men [[electronic resource] ] : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina |
305.3/0959
305.30959 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
OngAihwa
PeletzMichael G |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Southeast Asia
Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia |
| Soggetto non controllato |
analysis
asian culture asian history biology cultural studies essay anthology essay collection eyewitness femininity fieldwork gender construct gender studies gender theory gender ghosts human body indonesia inequality international literary analysis literary criticism malaysia marriage masculinity nature vs nurture philippines political economy singapore southeast asia supernatural thailand transnational true story widow |
| ISBN |
1-283-38213-X
9786613382139 0-520-91534-8 0-585-13142-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control -- TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict -- THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society -- FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village -- FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia -- SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore -- SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms -- EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand -- NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778858703321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 | ||
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Bringing the gods to mind [[electronic resource] ] : mantra and ritual in early Indian sacrifice / / Laurie L. Patton
| Bringing the gods to mind [[electronic resource] ] : mantra and ritual in early Indian sacrifice / / Laurie L. Patton |
| Autore | Patton Laurie L. <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.5/38 |
| Soggetto topico |
Hinduism - Rituals
Mantras |
| Soggetto non controllato |
atharva veda
bandhu brahmana brahmin ceremony chanting deity devata eastern religion food studies grhya hinduism hymns india indian sacrifice indic religion magic mantra meditation metonymy mindfulness performance theory performed poetry religion religious belief religious history religious poetry religious practice rite ritual sacrifice soma south asia spirituality srauta literature supernatural tradition upanisads vedic ritual vedic vidhana viniyoga visualization |
| ISBN |
0-520-93088-6
1-282-35741-7 9786612357411 1-59875-522-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Poetry, Ritual, And Associational Thought In Early India: The Sources -- 2. Poetry, Ritual, And Associational Thought In Early India: The Theories -- 3. Viniyoga: The Recovery Of A Hermeneutic Principle -- 4. Fire, Light, And Ingesting Over Time -- 5. The Vedic "Other": Spoilers Of Success -- 6. A History Of The Quest For Mental Power -- 7. The Poetics Of Paths: Mantras Of Journeys -- 8. A Short History Of Heaven: From Making To Gaining The Highest Abode -- Conclusions: Laughter And The Creeper Mantra -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum -- General Index |
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Patton Laurie L. <1961->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
| Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock |
| Autore | Laycock Joseph <1980-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 793.93 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fantasy games - Moral and ethical aspects
Role playing - Moral and ethical aspects Dungeons and Dragons (Game) - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato |
alter egos
christian right christianity conspiracy theory constructed world dungeons and dragons fan studies fantasy games fantasy game theory gaming history imagination law enforcement media mental health morality nonfiction occult play theory popular culture psychology religion religious studies role playing games role playing roleplaying rpgs social behavior social theory sociology supernatural |
| ISBN |
0-520-28492-5
0-520-96056-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. "You Worship Gods from Books!" -- Introduction. Fantasy and Reality -- 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games -- 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon -- 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982 -- 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991 -- 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001 -- 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning -- 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous -- 8. Rival Fantasies -- Conclusion. Walking between Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787231203321 |
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Laycock Joseph <1980->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
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Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock
| Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / / Joseph P. Laycock |
| Autore | Laycock Joseph <1980-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 793.93 |
| Soggetto topico |
Fantasy games - Moral and ethical aspects
Role playing - Moral and ethical aspects Dungeons and Dragons (Game) - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato |
alter egos
christian right christianity conspiracy theory constructed world dungeons and dragons fan studies fantasy games fantasy game theory gaming history imagination law enforcement media mental health morality nonfiction occult play theory popular culture psychology religion religious studies role playing games role playing roleplaying rpgs social behavior social theory sociology supernatural |
| ISBN |
0-520-28492-5
0-520-96056-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. "You Worship Gods from Books!" -- Introduction. Fantasy and Reality -- 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games -- 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon -- 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982 -- 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991 -- 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001 -- 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning -- 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous -- 8. Rival Fantasies -- Conclusion. Walking between Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819978103321 |
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Laycock Joseph <1980->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
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Homer the theologian : Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition / / Robert Lamberton
| Homer the theologian : Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition / / Robert Lamberton |
| Autore | Lamberton Robert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1986 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) : 1 illustration |
| Disciplina | 883/.01 |
| Collana | The transformation of the classical heritage |
| Soggetto topico |
Religion in literature
Allegory Neoplatonism Epic poetry - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato |
achilles
allegory ancient philosophy bards calchas classicism classics dante divine inspiration divinity epic poetry epic tradition epic form genre gods and goddesses greco roman studies greek hero homer homeric poems iliad invocation literary criticism literary theory literature myth mythology nonfiction odyssey oral tradition platonic tradition platonism poetic form prophecy religion religious experience revelation semiotics theory supernatural theoclymenus tiresias trojan war |
| ISBN |
9786612355486
0-520-06607-3 0-520-90920-8 1-282-35548-1 0-585-16426-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I. THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY -- II. MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS -- III. PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM -- IV. THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY -- V. PROCLUS -- VI. THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES -- AFTERWORD. PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- APPENDIX IV -- WORKS CITED -- ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGES CITED -- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- GENERAL INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786211703321 |
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Lamberton Robert
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1986 | ||
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Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers
| Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 208 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.430903 |
| Collana | The magic in history series |
| Soggetto topico |
Magic
Magic - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Wiccan
disenchantment legitimization modernity supernatural superstition twentieth century witchcraft |
| ISBN | 0-271-07989-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seir as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795018003321 |
| University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] | ||
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Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers
| Magic in the modern world : strategies of repression and legitimization / / edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 208 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.430903 |
| Collana | The magic in history series |
| Soggetto topico |
Magic
Magic - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Wiccan
disenchantment legitimization modernity supernatural superstition twentieth century witchcraft |
| ISBN | 0-271-07989-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bad habits, or how superstition disappeared in the modern world / Randall Styers -- Descartes' dreams, the neuropsychology of disbelief, and the making of the modern self / Edward Bever -- Why magic cannot be falsified by experiments / Benedek Láng -- Witches as liars : witchcraft and civilization in the early American republic / Adam Jortner -- Loagaeth, q consibra a caosg : the contested arena of modern Enochian angel magic / Egil Asprem -- Babalon launching : Jack Parsons, rocketry, and the 'method of science' / Erik Davis -- Manning the high seat : Seir as self-making in contemporary Norse neopaganisms / Megan Goodwin -- Reviving dead names : strategies of legitimization in the Necronomicon of Simon and the dark aesthetic / Dan Harms. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821249103321 |
| University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] | ||
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Magical house protection : the archaeology of counter-witchcraft / / Brian Hoggard
| Magical house protection : the archaeology of counter-witchcraft / / Brian Hoggard |
| Autore | Hoggard Brian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.430941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Protection magic
Architecture, Domestic Magic Witchcraft Dwellings Housing |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Archaeology
Counter-Witchcraft ancient beliefs anthropology of religion anthropology archaeology curses dried cats historical history horse skulls magic studies magic magical house protection magical practices protection marks protection religion social science supernatural witchcraft witches |
| ISBN | 1-78920-206-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I Context and Discussion of Principal Find Types -- Chapter 1 Folklore, Witchcraft, Religion -- Chapter 2 Witch-Bottles -- Chapter 3 Concealed Shoes -- Chapter 4 Dried Cats -- Chapter 5 Horse Skulls -- Chapter 6 Written Charms -- Chapter 7 Protection Marks -- Chapter 8 Other Concealed Objects -- Chapter 9 Evidence of Darkness -- Conclusion -- PART II Evidence and Examples -- Case Studies -- Finds Gazetteer -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793449503321 |
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Hoggard Brian
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| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , [2019] | ||
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Magical house protection : the archaeology of counter-witchcraft / / Brian Hoggard
| Magical house protection : the archaeology of counter-witchcraft / / Brian Hoggard |
| Autore | Hoggard Brian |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.430941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Protection magic
Architecture, Domestic Magic Witchcraft Dwellings Housing |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Archaeology
Counter-Witchcraft ancient beliefs anthropology of religion anthropology archaeology curses dried cats historical history horse skulls magic studies magic magical house protection magical practices protection marks protection religion social science supernatural witchcraft witches |
| ISBN | 1-78920-206-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I Context and Discussion of Principal Find Types -- Chapter 1 Folklore, Witchcraft, Religion -- Chapter 2 Witch-Bottles -- Chapter 3 Concealed Shoes -- Chapter 4 Dried Cats -- Chapter 5 Horse Skulls -- Chapter 6 Written Charms -- Chapter 7 Protection Marks -- Chapter 8 Other Concealed Objects -- Chapter 9 Evidence of Darkness -- Conclusion -- PART II Evidence and Examples -- Case Studies -- Finds Gazetteer -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822557203321 |
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Hoggard Brian
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| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , [2019] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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