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Why Prince Charles Instead of “Princess Mononoke?” The Absence of Children and Popular Culture in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
A response to the \"Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature\" (ERN) edited by Bron Taylor drawing attention to the absence of children, adolescents and popular culture in the text. If, as is claimed by one contributor, humans are predisposed to see nature as sacred, how is this predisposition nurtured or suppressed in childhood? Three aspects of popular culture excluded from the ERN merit exploration in the context of the relationship between religion and nature: visual media aimed at a young audience; young people's literature; and youth music, especially political hardcore. (Quotes from original text)
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Hegel and the Sciences
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introductory Remarks
The ‘Construction Principles’of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
The Content of Hegel's “Mechanics” and “Physics” in Outline
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Problems Inherent in the Sciences According to Hegel
Conclusions
References
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Comments on the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
A response to the \"Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature\" edited by Bron Taylor focusing on theoretical and methodological issues, its treatment of religion in Africa and of indigenous religions generally including Aboriginal and Native American religions. It is argued that non-Western traditions are inadequately dealt with and that as a result full justice is not done the developing field of religion and nature. Spirituality is not properly differentiated; ritual is not treated with due rigour. The example of bushmeat as a topic in African religions is discussed. (Quotes from original text)
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A Response to the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
A response to the \"Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature\" edited by Bron Taylor finding it particularly rich on Christian relations to nonhuman nature and requiring systematic reading, though for that very reason it cannot be handily assigned to students. It is diverse and rounded, as encyclopaedias were originally intended to be, these qualities not projected by a smooth epistemology of level categories but by a wondrously heterogenised multiplicity of subjects and kinds of subjects. It is jammed with wisdom and unlike much encyclopaedism, alive: the overall effect is of an evolving collective of the living and the dead, the reader and the read, the human and the nonhuman, the sacred and profane. (Quotes from original text)
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Refiguring Religion
A response to Tyler Roberts, \"All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and \"Difference\" in the Study of Religion\" in this issue of \"JAAR\". Taylor explains the background to his discussion of theory in \"After God\" emphasising the centrality of Kant's idea of inner teleology, and drawing attention to his reading of Derrida, Hegel and Kierkegaard. He argues that in the development of Religious Studies as a discipline since the 1960s scholars' keenness to distinguish an academically legitimate field of study removed from theology and the practice of religion led them to appropriate, often naively and uncritically, the methods of the social and natural sciences. (Quotes from original text)
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All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Différance in The Study of Religion
The last two decades have been fascinating and productive ones for theorists of religion. Recent work has offered a remarkably wide range of theoretical perspectives and possibilities that enrich our field even as they plunge us into vigorous theoretical debates. Amidst this contest-even confusion-some basic principles for guiding future work seem to be asserting themselves. Many think that, after a century of confusion and intermingling between theology and the study of religion, scholars of religion are finally in a position to establish the study of religion on properly academic, theoretical foundations. In this story Eliade's antireductionist discourse of the \"sacred\" becomes the epitome and, it is hoped, the last gasp of religious studies as a quasi-theological discourse. Yet despite their efforts to guide the study of religion away from Eliade, many remain Eliadan insofar as they accept Eliade's \"locative\" approach to religion. Yet is it really \"theology\" that is currently limiting the way we \"imagine religion,\" or might it be instead the refusal to think beyond religion's locative function-a refusal very closely linked to the desire for academic respectability in a historicist age? Mark C. Taylor's After God provocatively disturbs the idea that religion is primarily locative and, in doing so, also disturbs the boundaries between the theological and the theoretical, religion and the study of religion. I consider the significance of this virtual map of religion, by reading After God with and against J. Z. Smith's early reflections or experiments with the ideas of chaos, incongruity, and location. I argue that Taylor's book leads us back to paths from which Smith turned in his early work.
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Back to Religion and Nature
The editor of \"The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature\" describes the bottom-up process that led to the work, the benefits of this approach and its constraints, and responds to comments by professors Sarah Pike, Jacob Olupona and Catherine Keller in this issue of \"JAAR\". He accepts that childhood experiences and perceptions of nature and religion are absent, an observation that applies equally to other groups such as the elderly, and while rejecting the notion that there is little on popular culture, accepts that an overview of this topic would be beneficial. The charges of Western bias, of inadequate distinction between religion and spirituality and of limited focus on Africa are refuted. Ideas on the ways a second edition might be improved are invited. (Quotes from original text)
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Encyclopedia of insects
Awarded Best Reference by the New York Public Library (2004), Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE (2003), and AAP/PSP 2003 Best Single Volume Reference/Sciences by Association of American Publishers' Professional Scholarly Publishing Division, the first edition of Encyclopedia of Insects was acclaimed as the most comprehensive work devoted to insects. Covering all aspects of insect anatomy, physiology, evolution, behavior, reproduction, ecology, and disease, as well as issues of exploitation, conservation, and management, this book sets the standard in entomology. The second edition of this reference will continue the tradition by providing the most comprehensive, useful, and up-to-date resource for professionals. Expanded sections in forensic entomology, biotechnology and Drosphila, reflect the full update of over 300 topics. Articles contributed by over 260 high profile and internationally recognized entomologists provide definitive facts regarding all insects from ants, beetles, and butterflies to yellow jackets, zoraptera, and zygentoma. * 66% NEW and revised content by over 200 international experts* New chapters on Bedbugs, Ekbom Syndrome, Human History, Genomics, Vinegaroons * Expanded sections on insect-human interactions, genomics, biotechnology, and ecology* Each of the 273 articles updated to reflect the advances which have taken place in entomology research since the previous edition * Features 1,000 full-color photographs, figures and tables * A full glossary, 1,700 cross-references, 3,000 bibliographic entries, and online access save research time* Updated with online access
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Encyclopedia of Texas seashells
An essential reference book for every collector and researcher of American seashells, Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells is a complete sourcebook and up-to-date identification guide, covering an unprecedented nine hundred species of seashells and mollusks that reside in the marine habitats of the Gulf of Mexico.
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