Charisma and Canon
Author: Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary: Papers presented at a symposium held at Blaubeuren, Germany from May 17-21, 1997
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Charisma and Canon
Author: Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195666205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary: Papers presented at a symposium held at Blaubeuren, Germany from May 17-21, 1997.
Charisma and Myth
Author: Raphael Falco
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1441100474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharisma and Myth combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life. Through scores of examples ranging from Inuit myth to Christian theology, from Malinowski to martyrology, Charisma and Myth argues definitively that the survival of myth systems mirrors the survival of such charismatic groups as modern street gangs, the Anglo-Saxon comitatus, or Satan's fallen angels in Paradise Lost. Even the smallest charismatic group generates its own set of myths, and, like larger myth systems, depends on continual revolutionary change - not, as might be expected, on the stability of its myths - to survive and to achieve longevity. As this innovative study shows, group leaders must learn first to foster and then to manage the mild chaos and changing symbols of their myths. Charisma and Myth challenges myth theorists from the nineteenth through to the twenty-first century and adds a missing component to our understanding of how and why myths continue to grip our imaginations.
Routledge International Handbook of Charisma
Author: José Pedro Zúquete
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0429553803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma – first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower. It includes broad overviews of foundational theories and experiences of charisma and of associated key issues and themes. Contributors include 45 influential international scholars who approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives and utilize examples from an array of historical and cultural settings. The Handbook presents up-to-date, concise, thought-provoking, innovative, and informative perspectives on charisma as it has been expressed in the past and as it continues to be manifested in the contemporary world by leaders ranging from shamans to presidents. It is designed to be essential reading for all students, researchers, and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of the power and potential of charismatic authority in all its varieties, subtleties, dynamics, and current and potential directions.
The New Jewish Canon
Author: Yehuda Kurtzer
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1644694700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jewish Journal The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
Author: William Clark
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 0226109232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.
Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author: Reviel Netz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 906
ISBN-13: 1108580092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis of letters' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one's space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres.
The Making of the Modern Canon
Author: Jan Gorak
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1472511425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is part of a series which moves the canon debate of the 1980s forward into a new multidisciplinary and cross-cultural phase by investigating problems of canon formation across the whole humanistic field. Some volumes explore the linguistic, political or anthropological dimensions of canonicity. Others examine the historical canons of individual disciplines. The important contribution to the canon debate is remarkable in examining the actual process of canon formation from three unusual and complementary angles. The first two chapters discuss historical attitudes to canons from antiquity onwards, showing the religious, aesthetic, cultural and political interests which have shaped our modern critical canons. Each of the four succeeding chapters examines an exemplary modern defendant, interpreter, or critic of canons: Ernst Gombrich, Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, and Edward Said. A final chapter considers the origins and rationale of the contemporary debate, emphasizing the disciplinary and aesthetic problems we must confront if our cultural institutions are to meet the changing needs of the next century.
Varieties of Religious Invention
Author: Patrick Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0199359725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to call someone the "founder" of a religion? How have debates about figures such as Jesus, Muhammad, and Confucius served as proxies for broader cultural, theological, or political questions? The contributors to Varieties of Religious Invention survey the landscape shaped by these questions within the world's major religious traditions.
A History of Charisma
Author: J. Potts
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-09-04
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0230244831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in twenty-first century politics and culture, while considering how much of the word's original religious meaning persists in the contemporary secular understanding.
