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Ritualisierende Agency in Todesritualen : Eine Untersuchung der Positionierun…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand von ethnographischen Fallbeobachtungen mit 16 Ritualleiter*innen folgende Fragen beantwortet: Wie positionieren sich Leitende von Todesritualen, die ausserhalb einer religiösen Gemeinschaft in der Deutschschweiz stattfinden? Welches Selbstbild vertreten die Ritualleiter*innen? Welche Aufgaben verbinden sie mit ihrer Tätigkeit? Wem sprechen sie Handlung…
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- 978-3-658-43572-1
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- XI, 310
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- Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGSRELIGION)
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Religiöse Rituale und soziale Ordnung
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen des Sozialen erarbeitet: Interaktion, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft.
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- 978-3-658-27594-5
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- XVII, 484
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- Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGSRELIGION)
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Between Psychology and Philosophy : East-West Themes and Beyond
This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is superior to the Western concept of mind, but then, more even-handedly, the relative strengths and weaknesses of Chine…
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- 9783030225032
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Religion und Sozialkapital in der Schweiz : Zum eigenwilligen Zusammenhang zw…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch unterzieht Anastas Odermatt die weitverbreitete Annahme, dass sowohl Religion als auch freiwilliges Engagement förderlich für soziales Vertrauen und damit für gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt und Demokratie seien, einer empirischen Überprüfung. Wirkt Religion eher konflikthaft und negativ auf unsere Gesellschaft oder wirkt sie eher brückenbildend, stabilisierend …
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- 978-3-658-41147-3
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- XVII, 283
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- Politik und Religion (PUR)
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Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
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- 9783030921408
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- XIII, 305 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthr…
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offe…
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- 978-3-030-63523-7
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- XV, 579
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Exploring Islamic Social Work : Between Community and the Common Good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 978-3-030-95880-0
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- XII, 284
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- Muslims in Global Societies Series (MGSS, volume 9)
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- 297 EXP
The Nation Form in the Global Age
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nat…
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- 978-3-030-85580-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Global Diversities
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- 306
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey
This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national…
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- 978-3-031-48723-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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- XIX, 184
Delusions In Context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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