Religion and beliefs
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An Embodied Reading of The Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and its Role in Moral Formation
The Shepherd of Hermas (70-150 CE) is one of the oldest Christian works from a major urban center. While the majority of manuscript evidence of the Shepherd is concentrated in North Africa, the work has long-standing association with the city of Rome. It consists of three major s...
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Vernacular Knowledge
This volume presents vernacular knowledge as a realm of discourses and beliefs that challenge institutional authorities and official truths. It draws attention to various genres as expressions of alternative knowledge in relation to authority, including traditional and personal experience narratives...
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Studying the Religious Mind
Leonardo Ambasciano, Esther Eidinow, Armin W. Geertz, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Luther H. Martin, Nickolas P. Roubekas, Valerie van Mulukom, Dimitris Xygalatas
The cognitive science of religion (CSR) does not have its own methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline, methodology has defined it not only in relation to the general study of religion in the humanities but also to the sciences interested in the mind. CSR scholars are using a...
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On the Subject of Religion
How is religion depicted in the academic study of religion? How do private donors selectively privilege certain descriptions of religion, and to what ends? Do the practical needs of students align or conflict with the theoretical concerns of scholars? To what extent do answers to these questions rev...
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Key Categories in the Study of Religion
Key Categories in the Study of Religion builds upon the groundwork laid by previous NAASR Working Papers titles in order to bring us full circle to the symbiotic relationship between context and critique. This volume assembles diverse sets of data to consider pertinent categories in which critique o...
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Krishnamacharya on Kundalini
Krishnamacharya on Kundalini explores a distinctive teaching of 'the father of modern yoga', T. Krishnamacharya. Whereas most yoga traditions teach that kundalini is a serpentine energy that rises, Krishnamacharya defined it differently. To him, kundalini is a serpentine blockage which prevents praa...
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The Hunt for Ancient Israel
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, Pauline A. Viviano, Thomas Romer, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter, Steinar Skarpnes, Yairah Amit, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Muller, Benedetta Rossi, Bob Becking, Maria Hausl, Lowell K. Handy, Aren Maeir, David Hamidovic, Lester L. Grabbe, Daniel Pioske, James S. Anderson, Philippe Guillaume, Jason M. Silverman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Kåre Berge, Jorunn Okland
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, Pauline A. Viviano
This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging of...
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Religion Evolving
Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Richard Sosis
The scientific study of religion has made significant advances in recent decades, explaining how the mind produces religious ideas, the motivations underlying religious behaviour, and the transmission of religious cultures within and across generations. In Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and...
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Levantine Entanglements
Terje Stordalen, Oystein S. LaBianca
This cross-disciplinary volume makes the case for the Levant, including the use of the term, as a unit of analysis for the study of cultural production and change over the long-term in the Eastern Mediterranean. It offers a new perspective on the history of this region that overcomes Orientalist app...
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Playing the Scene of Religion
Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most famous existential philosophers of the 20th century, is a confirmed atheist. Despite this, she also engages and reassigns faith, that faith that is usually associated with 'religion,' and iterates it in the service of her existential ethics. Beauvoir's ethic is fo...