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Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts
This volume explores practices and experiences in Chinese popular religion. The research adds new materials and new approaches to well-known worships such as the cults of doomsday, underworld, and Lord Guan on the one hand, and draws attention to under-the-radar deities and holy figures hiding in the mountainous countryside or among the urban crowd. While this book centers on Chinese popular religion, it will be of use to non-China scholars in folklore, religious art, and ritual studies as well as China scholars in popular culture from late-medieval to contemporary times.
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A new anthropology of Islam
\"In this powerful but accessible new study John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Indonesia, Africa, Pakistan and Western Europe to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Religion in Chinese Society
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.
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The American Soul Rush
Yoga. Humanistic Psychology. Meditation. Holistic Healing. These
practices are commonplace today. Yet before the early 1960s they
were atypical options for most people outside of the upper class or
small groups of educated spiritual seekers. Esalen Institute, a
retreat for spiritual and personal growth in Big Sur, California,
played a pioneering role in popularizing quests for
self-transformation and personalized spirituality. This \"soul rush\"
spread quickly throughout the United States as the Institute made
ordinary people aware of hundreds of ways to select, combine, and
revise their beliefs about the sacred and to explore diverse
mystical experiences. Millions of Americans now identify themselves
as spiritual, not religious, because Esalen paved the way for them
to explore spirituality without affiliating with established
denominations The American Soul Rush explores the concept of
spiritual privilege and Esalen's foundational influence on the
growth and spread of diverse spiritual practices that affirm
individuals' self-worth and possibilities for positive personal
change. The book also describes the people, narratives, and
relationships at the Institute that produced persistent, almost
accidental inequalities in order to illuminate the ways that gender
is central to religion and spirituality in most contexts.
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Latino Protestants in America
Researchers estimate that by 2030 half of all Latinos in America will be Protestant. Latino Protestants in America takes readers inside the numbers to highlight the many reasons Latino Protestants are growing, the diversity of this group, and the implications of this growth on politics, economics, religion, and more.
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century. The book is one of those rare works of scholarship which no informed citizen can afford to ignore.
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