Conceptualizing Religion
Conceptualizing Religion

Author: Benson Saler

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781571812193

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How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.

Selected Writings: Taboo, truth, and religion
Selected Writings: Taboo, truth, and religion

Author: Franz Baermann Steiner

Publisher: Methodology & History in Anthropology

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Steiner's (1909-52) classic study Taboo and three other essays, on superstition, enslavement and the early Hebrew lineage system, and Chagga law and truth comprise the first of two volumes collecting the work of the Prague-born social and cultural anthropologist who ended his brief career at Oxford. Adler (German, King's College, London) and Fardon (West African anthropology, School of Oriental and African studies, London) examine his life and critique his work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Taboo
Taboo

Author: Franz Steiner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1136543406

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Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur. This book contains chapters on: · Taboo as a Victorian invention · The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch · Taboos in Polynesia Originally published in 1956.

Talking Taboo
Talking Taboo

Author: Erin Lane

Publisher: I Speak for Myself

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781935952862

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American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why do they feel like their young voices still aren't being heard? And if they found the courage to speak, what would they want to say? The latest book in theI Speak For Myself series addresses the experiences of faith, gender, and identity that remain taboo for American Christian Women Under 40. Is it our desire to remain childless in a Catholic tradition that largely defines women by their ability to reproduce? Is it our struggle with pornography in an evangelical subculture that addresses it only as the temptation of unsatisfied men? From masturbation, miscarriage, and menstruation to ordination, co-habitation, and immigration, this collection of essays explores the most provocative topics of faith left largely unspoken in 21st century American faith life. For women and their partners, faith leaders and their members, historians and their students, this book documents the voices of young Christian women and their refusal to be silent any longer.

The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons

Author: T.V. Paul

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009-01-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0804761310

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An exploration of the rise, persistence, and impact of the tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons followed by nuclear powers for well over sixty years.

Anyone
Anyone

Author: Nigel Rapport

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0857455230

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The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.