The Atlantic World

The Atlantic World

Author: D'Maris Coffman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 1317576055

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As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters, scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world, such as slaves, European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded, and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field, and lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.


Public Sphere and Religion

Public Sphere and Religion

Author: Carl Antonius Lemke Duque

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3487159503

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Das Verhältnis zwischen Öffentlichkeit und Religion ist einer der großen Klassiker der Geistesgeschichte, der bis heute nichts von seiner Bedeutung eingebüßt hat. Mit großer Regelmäßigkeit rekurrieren Soziologen und Politikwissenschaftler auf eine Rückkehr der Religionen in den öffentlichen Raum. Im Zuge von Säkularisierung, Globalisierung und Digitalisierung stehen moderne Öffentlichkeiten und Religionen in einem stetig komplexeren Netz wechselseitiger Transformation. Einen besonderen Kristallisationspunkt dieses intensiven Wechselverhältnisses bilden die beiden großen Schlüsselthemen öffentliche Bildung und universitäre Forschung. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten Beiträge beleuchten schlaglichtartig einige ausgewählte Aspekte in diesem weiten Feld vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart. ******** The relationship between the public sphere and religion is one of the great classics of the history of humanities. To this day, it has lost none of its topicality. Sociologists and political scientists continue to refer with great frequency to a return of religions to the public sphere. In the course of secularization, globalization and digitalization, modern public spheres and religions find themselves in an increasingly complex web of mutual transformation. Public education and university research represent two key issues of this intensive interrelation. The contributions collected in the present volume illuminate selected aspects of this broad field from the end of the 18th century to the present.


Antropología de la religión

Antropología de la religión

Author: Lluís Duch Álvarez

Publisher: Herder Editorial

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 8425430437

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A partir del interés que en el momento actual suscitan los fenómenos religiosos, la intención primera de la Antropología de la religión es ofrecer a un público amplio una introducción asequible y, al mismo tiempo, bien fundamentada y crítica al estudio de los mismos. La discusión en torno a los aspectos metodológicos e ideológicos de la problemática ocupa un lugar importante en esta obra. Los numerosos avatares que, desde el siglo XIX, han experimentado los estudios científicos de la religión constituyen una de las aventuras intelectuales más características de la modernidad occidental. En el ambiente evolucionista de aquel tiempo ("darwinismo social"), la fundación de cátedras laicas para el estudio de las religiones fue uno de los puntos calientes que expresaba el contencioso político, cultural y social entre el estudio científico y el teológico de los fenómenos religiosos. De alguna manera, la llamada "querella anticristiana" se polarizó en torno a esta cuestión, cuyos protagonistas fueron, por un lado, las iglesias y, por el otro, el estado liberal. Afortunadamente y por lo general, ese estado de cosas ha sido superado y, en la actualidad, tanto desde la ciencia como desde la teología, se afirma la necesidad del estudio cultural, político y social de los fenómenos religiosos. A lo largo y ancho del texto, el autor mantiene la opinión que la religión constituye una parte irrenunciable de cualquier tipo de praxis antropológica, que expresamente no se someta a una reducción injustificable y, al propio tiempo, sumamente nociva de los planteamientos de esta disciplina. En los nueve capítulos de que consta el escrito, Duch, después de esbozar brevemente los antecedentes históricos del estudio no teológico de la religión, traza a grandes rasgos algunos de los elementos más significativos de las diferentes propuestas que se han hecho para aproximarse a los variopintos universos religiosos.


World Anthropologies

World Anthropologies

Author: Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1000184498

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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.


Tourism Imaginaries

Tourism Imaginaries

Author: Noel B. Salazar

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1782383689

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It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology’s grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.