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Religious studies: The making of a discipline. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
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Reinventing religious studies: Key writings in the history of a discipline. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2013.
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Monastic discipline: Vinaya and Orthodox monasticism : an attempt at comparison. Chiang Mai: Knowledge Center, 2002.
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The Catholic parish: Institutional discipline, tribal identity, and religious development in the English Church. London: Sheed & Ward, 1996.
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Press, Modoc, ed. Guide to schools and departments of religion and seminaries in the United States and Canada: Degree programs in religious studies. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
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Schilling, Timothy Peter. Conflict in the Catholic hierarchy: A study of coping strategies in the Hunthausen affair, with preferential attention to discursive strategies = Conflicten binnen de Katholieke hiërarchie : een studie naar strategieën in het hanteren van de kwestie Hunthausen, met bijzondere aandacht voor discursieve strategieën : (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands). Utrecht, the Netherlands: Printed by Labor Grafimedia BV, 2002.
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Ferry, James. In the courts of the Lord: A gay minister's story. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993.
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1898-, Wasson R. Gordon, ed. Persephone's quest: Entheogens and the origins of religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
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Ferry, James. In the courts of the Lord: A gay minister's story. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993.
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In the courts of the Lord: A gay priest's story. New York: Crossroad, 1994.
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Kanke, Viktor. Modern ethics. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/975126.
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The textbook analyzes the status of modern ethics, its liberation from metaphysical layers. From these positions, the place of ethics in the system of modern scientific knowledge is consistently considered. It is interpreted as a result of the development of axiological sciences. Great importance is attached to the latest ethical concepts and their philosophical foundations. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for students studying within the group of bachelor's degree courses 47.03.00 "Philosophy, Ethics and Religious studies". It is also of interest to everyone, including students, postgraduates, philosophers, scientists, and a wide range of readers who are interested in the latest achievements of modern science, including philosophy.
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Gordon, Robert P. Degree Course Guides: Theology and Religious Studies: 1992 / 1993 (CRAC Degree Course Guides). Hobsons PLC, 1992.
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Ready, Jonathan L. Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835066.001.0001.
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This book queries from three different angles what it means to speak of Homeric poetry together with the word “text.” Scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies on the relationship between orality and textuality motivates and undergirds the project. Part I uses work in linguistic anthropology on oral texts and oral intertextuality to illuminate both the verbal and oratorical landscapes our Homeric poets fashion in their epics and what the poets were striving to do when they performed. Looking to folkloristics, Part II examines modern instances of the textualization of an oral traditional work in order to reconstruct the creation of written versions of the Homeric poems through a process that began with a poet dictating to a scribe. Combining research into scribal activity in other cultures, especially in the fields of religious studies and medieval studies, with research into performance in the field of linguistic anthropology, Part III investigates some of the earliest extant texts of the Homeric epics, the so-called wild papyri. Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE. By looking at oral texts, dictated texts, and wild texts, this book traces the intricate history of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, long before the emergence of standardized written texts. Researchers in a number of disciplines will benefit from this comparative and interdisciplinary study.
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Theology and Religious Studies (CRAC Degree Course Guides 2000/2001). Hobsons PLC, 2000.
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Theology and Religious Studies (CRAC Degree Course Guides 1998/1999). Hobsons PLC, 1998.
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Classics, Theology and Religious Studies (CRAC Degree Course Guides: Series 1). Trotman, 2005.
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Elliott, Scott S. Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Elliott, Scott S. Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Elliott, Scott S. Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Elliott, Scott S. Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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DCG: Theology and Religious Studies: 2002/2003 (The CRAC Series of Degree Course Guides). Hobsons PLC, 2002.
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(Editor), William M. Bodiford, and Stanley Weinstein (Editor), eds. Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya (Studies in East Asian Buddhism). University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
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Applying Buddha's Teachings in Modern Society: A Thesis Presented For the Degree of Ph. D in Religious Studies. United Buddhist Publisher, 2019.
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Press, Modoc. Guide to Schools and Departments of Religion and Seminaries in the United States and Canada: Degree Programs in Religious Studies. MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987.
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Press, Modoc. Guide to Schools and Departments of Religion and Seminaries in the United States and Canada: Degree Programs in Religious Studies. MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987.
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Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy. Labour Grafimedia, 2002.
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Goodman, Martin, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish studies in universities throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all international contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish studies is a comparatively young discipline which has grown over the past fifty years in a somewhat undisciplined way. In a period of great upheaval for Jews following the Holocaust, the creation of the State of Israel, the emergence of new forms of dialogue between Jews and Christians, deepening divisions between secular and religious Jews, and unprecedented assimilation by diaspora Jews to the wider culture, the study of Jewish traditions and history has rarely been dispassionate. There have been some attempts in recent years to encapsulate current conclusions about particular aspects of Jewish studies, but these other works aim to provide compendia of agreed facts rather than a survey of interests and directions such as is found in this text. The book begins with an examination of Jewish studies as an academic discipline in its own right. The first half of the volume is organized chronologically, followed by sections on languages and literature, general aspects of religion, and other branches of Jewish studies which have each accumulated a considerable corpus of scholarship over the past half-century.
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Adler, Eliyana, and Antony Polonsky, eds. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 30. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764500.001.0001.
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An emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience. Historians of the early modern and modern era frequently point to the centrality of educational institutions and pursuits within Jewish society, yet the vast majority treat them as merely a reflection of the surrounding culture. Only a small number note how schools and teachers could contribute in dynamic ways to the shaping of local communities and cultures. This volume addresses this gap in the portrayal of the Jewish past by presenting education as an active and potent force for change. It moves beyond a narrow definition of Jewish education by treating formal and informal training in academic or practical subjects with equal attention. In so doing, it sheds light not only on schools and students, but also on informal educators, youth groups, textbooks, and numerous other devices through which the mutual relationship between education and Jewish society is played out. It also places male and female education on a par with each other, and considers students of all ages, religious backgrounds, and social classes. The book spans two centuries of Jewish history, from the Austrian and Russian empires to the Second Republic of Poland and the Polish People’s Republic. It highlights the centrality of education in the vision of numerous Jewish individuals, groups, and institutions across eastern Europe, and the degree to which this vision interacted with forces within and external to Jewish society. In this way, the book highlights the interrelationship between Jewish educational endeavours, the Jewish community, and external economic, political, and social forces.
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Buchak, Lara, and Dean W. Zimmerman, eds. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862976.001.0001.
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This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. As with earlier volumes, these essays follow the tradition of providing a non-sectarian and non-partisan snapshot of the subdiscipline of philosophy of religion. This subdiscipline has become an increasingly important one within philosophy over the last century, and especially over the past half-century, having emerged as an identifiable subfield at the same time as other emerging subfields such as the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. This volume continues the initial intention behind the series: attracting the best work from philosophers well known for their work in philosophy of religion, while also including essays by philosophers working mainly in other subfields when their research addresses religious matters. This inclusive approach to the series provides an opportunity to mitigate some of the costs of greater specialization in our discipline, while at the same time inviting wider interest in the work being done in the subfield. Volumes also typically contain the winner of the Sanders Prize in the Philosophy of Religion and other essays submitted to that competition.
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Lokshyna, Olena, Oksana Glushko, Alina Dzhurylo, Svitlana Kravchenko, Nina Nikolska, Marija Tymenko, and Oksana Shparyk. The state and trends in the development of school education in the EU, USA and China: a textbook. Institute of Pedagogy of NAES of Ukraine, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32405/978-617-8124-19-9-2021-143.
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The publication contains materials of the training course “and trends in the development of school education in the EU, USA and China” for educational use in the process of training of applicants for the degree of “Doctor of Philosophy” in the specialties 011 “Educational, Pedagogical Sciences”, 013 “Primary Education”, 014 “Secondary education” (by subject specializations). The mastering of the course involves the formation of holistic comparative and pedagogical competence of a researcher - a qualified specialist who has a high level of readiness for professional activity in the field of comparative education studies. In the manual the purpose and objectives of the course are defined, a description of the study discipline done (Appendix A), thematic information, dictionary of foreign terms and concepts are provided (Appendix B).
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Margolin, Leslie. The Etherized Wife. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190061203.001.0001.
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The Etherized Wife provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. The book makes the argument that in sex therapy, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they match men’s expectations. What is particularly striking about this bias is that it contradicts therapists’ overt identification with feminism and the battle against women’s inequality. To support these claims, Leslie Margolin maps a series of case studies drawn from the discipline’s own literature—the articles and books that have been, and continue to be, treated as exemplars of the discipline’s collective consciousness. Through examination of case studies that focus on discrepancies in sexual desire, where the man wants more sex and the woman less, the book shows how therapists have favored the man’s side. The Etherized Wife shows how the sex therapy discipline has unintentionally enshrined male sexuality as the model of normal, healthy sexuality.
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Stausberg, Michael. History. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.51.
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This chapter deals with the history of the study of religion as an academic discipline rather than as a field of research. Disciplinary history is often self-justificatory: different narratives emphasize continuity or discontinuity and engage tropes of progress or nostalgia. As an academic discipline, the history of the study of religion is embedded in the wider field of religious studies and in institutional and societal developments. For its emergence, it required an operative concept of ‘religion’ and the institutional setting of the modern research university. The discipline emerged in an international network of scholarly interaction. A new wave of institutional growth and expansion occurred from the 1960s onwards, in the context of a worldwide expansion of tertiary education. Both in institutional and intellectual terms, the study of religion remains a marginal branch of the academy. The development of journals evidences accelerated growth and diversification of publication activities in recent decades.
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Clark, David. Social Science, Nursing, Social Work (1938 – 1951). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637934.003.0003.
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Following teenage schooling at Roedean, the late 1930s saw Cicely Saunders begin studies in politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford just before the outbreak of the Second World War. The chapter proceeds through her eventual decision to abandon her degree and train as a nurse in London and describes her wartime work, her deepening religious life, and the eventual switch (following a back injury) from nursing to social work — as a hospital almoner. It explores the family reactions to these decisions and experiences. Key to the chapter is a critical exploration of the foundational story about her encounter in 1948 with the dying Jewish émigré David Tasma whilst working at the London Hospital. This precipitated a growing curiosity about the care of the dying — and the crucial decision in her early thirties to read Medicine.
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Constantakopoulou, Christy. Aegean Interactions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787273.001.0001.
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This book addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during the third century BC. The main focus is the island of Delos and its important regional sanctuary. Through a thorough investigation of the Delian epigraphic and material evidence, it explores how and to which degree the islands of the southern Aegean formed active networks of political, religious, and cultural interaction. The book aims to show that this kind of regional interaction in the southern Aegean resulted in the creation of a regional identity, which was expressed, among other things, in the existence of a federal union of the islands, the so-called Islanders’ League. It is structured along the lines of four case studies which explore different types of networks around Delos: the federal organization of islands (Islanders’ League), the participation of Delian and other agents in the processes of monumentalization of the Delian landscape, the network of honours, and the social dynamics of dedication through the record of dedicants in the Delian inventories.
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Raffe, Alasdair. Multiconfessional Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427579.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the nature of religious coexistence and competition in Scotland in the years 1687–90. It argues that previous studies of the period have paid too little attention to the rival confessional groups’ attempts to win worshippers in a pluralistic religious marketplace. It then examines some of the results of multiconfessionalism, in compromising the effectiveness of the registration of marriages and baptisms, poor relief and church discipline. By emphasising the ways in which James’s toleration undermined crucial social institutions, the chapter uncovers hitherto neglected results of multiconfessional coexistence.
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Makarychev, Andrey, and Alexandra Yatsyk. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433853.003.0005.
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The chapter addresses Russian national identity by applying the concept of biopolitics. This approach constitutes a departure from dominant schools of thought, which view contemporary Russian political and social concepts through traditional lenses: institutional change, state–society relations, centre–periphery controversies, etc. Biopolitics offers a specific way of anchoring the uncertain Russian identity in a set of consensually understood nodal points that encapsulate bodily practices of corporeal discipline and control. The chapter argues that Putin’s regime utilises such a biopolitical approach to consolidate its rule, drawing on conservative norms that can be asserted through religious, gender-based or ‘Russian World’-grounded discourses. It examines this point through case studies of school education, anti-adoption legislation, the penitentiary system, family and reproductive health and other aspects.
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Wilcher, Robert. Keeping the Ancient Way. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859746.001.0001.
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This book sets Henry Vaughan in the context of his own time and in the context of the development of Vaughan studies since his work was rediscovered during the first half of the nineteenth century. Each chapter contains a relatively free-standing treatment of a single topic, but the ten main chapters are organized into a structure that progressively opens up biographical, intellectual, political, religious, and literary aspects of the man and his work. The topics chosen for consideration are areas of current research and ongoing critical debate. Part One deals with Vaughan’s relation to the world in which he lived: the topography and social context of his native Breconshire; his ideas about God and Nature; his royalist affiliation during the civil wars; his opposition to the Puritan regime imposed upon South Wales; and his encouragement of members of the outlawed Church of England during the Interregnum. Part Two explores literary features of his practice of the art of poetry: the unusual degree of intertextuality with the poetry of George Herbert and other poets; his use of typology and scriptural allusion; nature imagery and description of the natural world; and elements of poetic craftsmanship, such as rhyme, rhythm, and form.
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Pleijel, Richard, and Malin Podlevskikh Carlström, eds. Paratexts in Translation : Nordic Perspectives. Frank & Timme, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26530/20.500.12657/58048.
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As something that surrounds, extends, and presents a text to the world, the phenomenon of paratext is gaining more and more attention within the discipline of Translation Studies. This edited volume, with contributions by five Nordic scholars, aims to build on that attention by presenting five case studies on paratexts in translations into Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. A special focus lies on the paratextual mechanisms at play when works from different source cultures are translated into a Nordic target context. The translated works under scrutiny belong to genres such as literary novels, non-fiction works, and religious texts, and the paratexts surveyed include footnotes, covers, blurbs, introductions, and literary reviews. The scholars represented in the volume all work in Translation Studies, or at the intersection between Translation Studies and other disciplines.
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Boxall, Ian, and Bradley C. Gregory, eds. The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.
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This Cambridge Companion offers an up-to-date and accessible guide to the fast-changing discipline of biblical studies. Written by scholars from diverse backgrounds and religious commitments – many of whom are pioneers in their respective fields – the volume covers a range of contemporary scholarly methods and interpretive frameworks. The volume reflects the diversity and globalized character of biblical interpretation in which neat boundaries between author-focused, text-focused, and reader-focused approaches are blurred. The significant space devoted to the reception of the Bible – in art, literature, liturgy, and religious practice – also blurs the distinction between professional and popular biblical interpretation. The volume provides an ideal introduction to the various ways that scholars are currently interpreting the Bible. It offers both beginning and advanced students an understanding of the state of biblical interpretation, and how to explore each topic in greater depth.
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Della Pergola, Sergio. Demography. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0032.
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The scientific study of the Jewish population, also known as demography of the Jews or Jewish demography, does not actually claim the status of a distinct discipline. It is an area of specialization focusing on the changing size and composition of Jewish populations and on the determinants and consequences of such changes. This article outlines some of the main concepts, interpretative frameworks, and methodological issues in the field, followed by a short outline of substantive patterns and applied uses of available knowledge. The main scientific rationale for the study of Jewish populations rests with the growing interest in understanding the demography of religious, ethnic, and cultural groups and minorities. Demographic changes provide an important and occasionally indispensable background for an appraisal of Jewish history and cultural experience. Hence, the study of Jewish demography is organically tied to the development of Jewish studies.
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Seele, Peter, and Lucas Zapf. Economics. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.8.
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The chapter provides an overview of economics as an academic discipline, particularly with regard to the study of religion. Three of economics’ driving forces are explored with regard to religion: (a) the household and its productions, (b) the market and its miraculous workings, and (c) the self-interested Homo oeconomicus and his actions. In each field, the inclusion of religion expands the understanding of the respective economic phenomenon. The authors present paradigms and axioms of economics and give a critical assessment, and provide a brief overview of alternative models (New Institutional Economics) that serve well for describing religious topics while benefitting from a religious-studies perspective to analyze the economy. With it, the economist’s perspective broadens and the endeavor becomes interdisciplinary. This approach is subsumed as Economics of Religion, with a multitude of topics, and theoretical/methodological diversity. The chapter presents basic concepts and scientific opportunities within this field of research.
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Domhoff, G. William. The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14679.001.0001.
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A comprehensive neurocognitive theory of dreaming based on the theories, methodologies, and findings of cognitive neuroscience and the psychological sciences. G. William Domhoff's neurocognitive theory of dreaming is the only theory of dreaming that makes full use of the new neuroimaging findings on all forms of spontaneous thought and shows how well they explain the results of rigorous quantitative studies of dream content. Domhoff identifies five separate issues—neural substrates, cognitive processes, the psychological meaning of dream content, evolutionarily adaptive functions, and historically invented cultural uses—and then explores how they are intertwined. He also discusses the degree to which there is symbolism in dreams, the development of dreaming in children, and the relative frequency of emotions in the dreams of children and adults. During dreaming, the neural substrates that support waking sensory input, task-oriented thinking, and movement are relatively deactivated. Domhoff presents the conditions that have to be fulfilled before dreaming can occur spontaneously. He describes the specific cognitive processes supported by the neural substrate of dreaming and then looks at dream reports of research participants. The “why” of dreaming, he says, may be the most counterintuitive outcome of empirical dream research. Though the question is usually framed in terms of adaptation, there is no positive evidence for an adaptive theory of dreaming. Research by anthropologists, historians, and comparative religion scholars, however, suggests that dreaming has psychological and cultural uses, with the most important of these found in religious ceremonies and healing practices. Finally, he offers suggestions for how future dream studies might take advantage of new technologies, including smart phones.
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Lamas, Carmen E. The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871484.001.0001.
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This book argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures, as they are currently understood, but reveals their fundamentally interdependent natures, politically, socially, historically, and aesthetically, thereby recognizing the degree of mutual imbrication of their peoples and literatures of the period. Largely archived in Spanish, it addresses concerns palpably felt within (and integral to) the US and beyond. English-language works also find a place on this continuum and have real implications for the political and cultural life of hispanophone and anglophone communities in the US. Moreover, the central role of Latina/o translations signals the global and the local nature of the continuum. For the Latino Continuum embeds layered and complex political and literary contexts and overlooked histories, situated as it is at the crossroads of both hemispheric and transatlantic currents of exchange often effaced by the logic of borders—national, cultural, religious, linguistic, and temporal. To recover this continuum of Latinidad, which is neither confined to the US or Latin American nation states nor located primarily within them, is to recover forgotten histories of the hemisphere, and to find new ways of seeing the past as we have understood it. The figures of Félix Varela, Miguel Teurbe Tolón, Eusebio Guiteras, José Martí, and Martín Morúa Delgado serve as points of departures for this reconceptualization of the intersection between American, Latin American, Cuban, and Latinx studies.
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Panchuk, Michelle, and Michael Rea, eds. Voices from the Edge. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848844.001.0001.
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Over the past several decades, scholars working in biblical, theological, and religious studies have increasingly attended to the substantive ways that our experiences and understanding of God and God’s relation to the world are structured by our experiences and concepts of race, gender, disability, and sexuality. These personal and social identities and their intersections serve as a hermeneutical lens for our interpretations of God, self, the other, and our religious texts and traditions. However, they have not received nearly the same level of attention from analytic theologians and philosophers of religion, and so a wide range of important issues remain ripe for analytic treatment. The papers in this volume address the various ways in which the aforementioned social identities intersect with, shape, and might be shaped by the questions with which analytic theology and philosophy of religion have typically been concerned, as well as what new questions they suggest to the discipline. We focus on three central areas of analytic theology: methodological principles, the intersection of social identities with religious epistemology, and the connections among eschatology, ante-mortem suffering, and ante-mortem social perceptions of bodies.
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Ferreira, Daniela Filipa de Freitas. Os Deuses foram honrados : o contributo da epigrafia votiva para o entendimento das manifestações religiosas no contexto da ocupação romana da Beira Interior Portuguesa. Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/978-989-9082-09-0/deu.
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The understanding of religious manifestations is assumed as one of the most relevant studies in the dynamics inherent to the process of acculturation occurred between indigenous and Romans in the Portuguese territory. The primary source for this view lies with the votive epigraphy, understood as a provider of divine names, rituals of worship, models of worshiping and forms of thought organization. The Portuguese Beira Interior, possessor a large number of epigraphic testimonies and repository of a remarkable diversity of theonyms and unique words in the region, appears as a singular area for the study of indigenous religious expressions and, consequently, for the study of pre-Roman communities. Taking into account this singularity and based on the joint analysis of the sum of votive monuments dedicated to indigenous deities; we have formulated a proposal of organization of the pre-Roman religious pantheon based on the degree of exclusivity from the theonyms recorded in the region under study. The ultimate goal focused the understanding of regionalism and religious thought established between the different deities, and the organization, in consequence, of the apparent disorder subsequent to such a marked diversity of theonyms. The result of this interpretation has expressed in the individualization of theonyms only mentioning in Beira Interior, in the particularization of regional theonyms which confirm to the possibility of a votive pantheon extended to adjacent regions, and in the distinction of these specifications in relation to a wider geographical scope of theonyms, i.e., in relation to the designations of the divine, widely represented in the rest of Hispanic territory. The proposed organization allowed us to perceive specific geographical areas of each of these groups, thus contributing to the definition of the fields of action of each evoked deities and the consequent definition of their attributes
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von Kellenbach, Katharina, and Matthias Buschmeier, eds. Guilt. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197557433.001.0001.
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The book investigates the role of guilt in the global discussion of locally specific legacies of mass violence and injustice. Guilt is an indispensable element in human social and emotional life that surfaces as a central phenomenon in the cultural politics of memory, transitional justice, and the aftermath of violence. The nuances and complexities of various national and historical guilt configurations foster insights into guilt’s transformative possibilities. The book interweaves specific case studies with broader theoretical reflections on the conditions that turn the emotional, legal, and cultural phenomenon of guilt into a culturally transformative dynamic that repairs relationships, equalizes power dynamics, demands new social orders, and creates literary, artistic, and religious productions and performances. The authors examine different case studies on the basis of discipline-specific definitions of guilt, ranging from psychology to law, philosophy to literature, religion to history and anthropology. The contributors generally approach guilt less as a personal emotion than as a socio-legal, moral, and culturally ambivalent force that mandates ritual performance, political negotiation, legal adjudication, artistic and literary representation, and intergenerational transmission. The book calls for a more nuanced understanding of the world’s—and history’s—diversity of guilt concepts and the cultivation of cultural strategies to negotiate guilt relations in specific religious, cultural, and local ways.
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Freiberger, Oliver. Considering Comparison. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965007.001.0001.
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This book seeks to rehabilitate the comparative method in the study of religion by highlighting its fundamental role for the academic mission of religious studies and by proposing both a responsible theoretical approach and a methodological framework. Analyzing the ways in which comparison is used in the study of religion, the book identifies the primary goals of this method and argues that it is constitutive for religious studies as an academic discipline. Revisiting various critiques of comparison—decontextualization and essentialization charges, postcolonialist and postmodernist critiques, and the perspectives of recent naturalistic approaches—the book incorporates insights gained from such debates into an approach that is based upon thorough epistemological analysis of comparison and that takes the scholar’s situatedness and agency seriously. Few scholars have reflected deeply upon how comparison works in practice. The book argues, and tries to demonstrate, that such reflections are useful both for producing and for evaluating comparative studies. It proposes a methodological framework for the analysis of comparison that is meant to prove relevant both for theoretical reflections and for the pragmatics of comparative work. In addition, it suggests a comparative approach—discourse comparison—that helps to confront the omnipresent risks of decontextualization, essentialization, and universalization. Arguing that the comparative method is indispensable for a deeper analytical understanding of what we call religion, this book makes a case for comparison. It seeks to enrich the considerations of both aspiring and seasoned comparativists, stimulate much-needed further discussions about methodology, and encourage scholars to produce responsible comparative studies.
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Davies, Michael, Anne Dunan-Page, and Joel Halcomb, eds. Church Life. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753193.001.0001.
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These original essays from ten leading experts in early Dissenting history, literature, and religion address the rich, complex, and varied nature of ‘church life’ experienced by England’s Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century. Spanning the period from the English Revolution to the Glorious Revolution, and beyond, they examine the social, political, and religious character of England’s ‘gathered’ churches and reformed parishes: how pastors and their congregations interacted, how Dissenters related to their meetings as religious communities, and what the experience of church life was like for ordinary members as well as their ministers, including notably John Owen and Richard Baxter alongside less well-known figures, such as Ebenezer Chandler. Moving beyond the religious experience of the solitary individual, often exemplified by conversion, this volume redefines the experience of Dissent, concentrating instead on the collective concerns of a communally-centred church life through a wide spectrum of issues: from questions of liberty and pastoral reform to matters of church discipline and respectability. With a substantial ‘Introduction’ that puts into context the key concepts of ‘church life’ and the ‘Dissenting experience’, these studies offer fresh ways of understanding Protestant Dissent in seventeenth-century England: through differences in ecclesiology and pastoral theory, and via the buildings in which Dissent was nurtured to the building-up of Dissent during periods of civil war, persecution, and revolution. To do so, they draw on a broad range of printed and archival materials: from the minutes of the Westminster Assembly to the manuscript church books of early Dissenting congregations.
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Urban, Hugh, and Greg Johnson, eds. Irreverence and the Sacred. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190911966.001.0001.
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Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studies in important, sometimes controversial ways. Retracing the history of the discipline of religious studies, Lincoln argues that the field has consistently championed a “validating, feel-good” approach to religion rather than posing more critical questions about religious claims to authority and their role in history, politics, and social change. A critical approach to the history of religions, he suggests, would focus on the human, temporal, and material aspects of phenomena that are claimed to have a superhuman, eternal, or transcendent status. This volume takes up Lincoln’s challenge to “do better” by engaging in critical analyses of four key themes in the study of religion: myth, ritual, gender, and politics. A reflexive volume, the book also interrogates the “politics of scholarship” itself, critically examining the relations of power and material interests at work in the study as well as the practice of religion. The scholars involved in this project include not only some of the most important figures in the American study of religion—such as Wendy Doniger, Russell McCutcheon, Ivan Strenski, and Lincoln himself—but also European scholars whose work is hugely influential overseas but not well known in the United States—such as Stefan Arvidsson, Claude Calame, Nicolas Meylan, and others.
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Nikiforov, Konstantin V., Anna K. Aleksandrova, Ella G. Zadorozhnyuk, Ilgar M. Mamedov, and Olga E. Petrunina, eds. Russia — Turkey — Greece: Dialogue opportunities in the Balkans. Nestor-Istoriia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4469-2030-3.
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This monograph is the product of an international conference entitled “Russia — Turkey — Greece: Opportunities for Dialogue in the Balkans”, which was held on September 15, 2020. The conference was conducted by the Department of Modern History of Central and South-Eastern Europe of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors of the monograph studied a wide range of issues related to the roles of Russia, Turkey, and Greece in the Balkans. Researchers have examined both the history and future perspectives; namely, how their mutual interactions have affected their overall relations and how they may contribute to the dialogue and cooperation amongst the three nations. The topics examined include: wars and diplomatic relations in general, religious ties and their impact, historical memory and modern images, regional issues and migration, the ties among the three countries and their influence on mutual relations. The first part of the monograph entitled “Russian-Turkish-Greek relations in historical retrospect” deals with such topics as the historical memory of the Balkans between the Byzantine, Ottoman, and Russian Empires and the current foreign policy practices of several countries in the region; the first Russian consuls in the Ottoman Empire during peace and war of 1776–1787; the fate of Russians, Bulgarians, and Turks in the crucible of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878; and Khilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Russian diplomacy in the context of Russian-Serbian relations in 1850–1870s, and the history of the relations between Russia and Mount Athos in the second half of the 19th century using the examples of Archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin) and St. Panteleimon Monastery. The authors offer a historical context of imperial relations which serves as a “bridge” to understanding later events. In the second part, “Russia, Turkey, Greece at the present stage: opportunities for cooperation and partnership”, experts consider a number of regional problems, namely: political relations between the USSR, Turkey, and Greece on the Cyprus issue between 1950 and 1970; a comparative analysis of the policies of Turkey, the Russian Federation, and Greece towards the Kosovo issue from 1999 to 2008; Turkey’s policy in the Balkans and Turkish approaches to interaction with Russia and Greece; and Greek-Turkish disagreement over the Aegean Sea. Other chapters examine bilateral relations and their effects on the third party: Greece and Turkey, cooperation or rivalry in the migration sphere; the Turkish factor in Greek-Russian relations in the 2010s; problems and prospects of development of cooperation in the Balkans: Russia’s role. Two chapters explore the historical memories of the Balkan people: Friend forever — unfriend forever: Russia and Turkey as seen by modern Greeks, and “Revival Process” in the modern Bulgarian Turk’s memory according to the results of an expedition to Slavjanovo village. Finally, a chapter on mathematical tools for measuring the level of multilingualism of the population in the Russian Federation, the Turkish Republic, Greece, and the Republic of Cyprus concludes the monograph. In the last decades there has been a steady rapprochement in Russian-Turkish relations and a deepening of cooperation both at the bilateral and regional levels. In Greece, traditional cultural and historical ties with Russia have been preserved, and public opinion continues to demonstrate a high degree of trust in modern Russia and its leadership. In this context, the monograph is an important contribution to the study of the Balkans, has promoted the exchange of views and cooperation among scholars, and may further strengthen mutual understanding among the peoples of Russia, Turkey, and Greece. These works may be of interest to researchers of the history of the Balkans, Greece and Turkey, university students, and practitioners and experts interested in the region.