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This anthropological work thoroughly illustrates the novel
synthesis of Christian religion and New Age spirituality in Greece.
It challenges the single-faith approach that traditionally ties
southern European countries to Christianity and focuses on how
processes of globalization influence and transform vernacular
religiosity. Based on long-term anthropological fieldwork in
Greece, this book demonstrates how the popular belief in the 'evil
eye' produces a creative affinity between religion and spirituality
in everyday practice. The author analyses a variety of significant
research themes, including lived and vernacular religion,
alternative spirituality and healing, ritual performance and
religious material culture. The book offers an innovative social
scientific interpretation of contemporary religiosity, while
engaging with a multiplicity of theoretical, analytic and empirical
directions. It contributes to current key debates in social
sciences with regard to globalization and secularization, religious
pluralism, contemporary spirituality and the New Age movement,
gender, power and the body, health, illness and alternative
therapeutic systems, senses, perception and the supernatural, the
spiritual marketplace, creativity and the individualization of
religion in a multicultural world.
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores
connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in
fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy
tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and
wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with
science and reality understood as objective and true. But the
skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from
diverse perspectives - including but not limited to anti-racist,
decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing - renders this
binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of
magic and science has shifted through history and across location.
Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly
through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by
making magic real and reality magical. Reality, Magic, and Other
Lies consists of an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion,
with the first section, "Studio, Director, and Writer Oeuvres",
addressing how fairy-tale films engage with and challenge
scientific or factual approaches to truth and reality, drawing on
films from the stop-motion animation company LAIKA, the independent
filmmaker Tarsem, and the storyteller and writer Fred Pellerin. The
second section, "Themes and Issues from Three Fairy Tales", shows
fairy-tale film magic exploring real-life issues and experiences
using the stories of "Hansel and Gretel", "The Juniper Tree\2, and
"Cinderella". The concluding section, "Moving Forward?" suggests
that the key to facing the reality of contemporary issues is to
invest in fairy tales as a guide, rather than a means of escape, by
gathering your community and never forgetting to believe. Reality,
Magic, and Other Lies-which will be of interest to film and
fairy-tale scholars and students-considers the ways in which fairy
tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer
alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and
intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human
animals, and the rest of the environment.
In the neoliberal world, rising individualism has frequently been
linked to rising inequality. Drawing on social theory, philosophy,
history, institutional research and a wealth of contemporary
empirical data, this innovative book analyzes the tangled
relationship between individualism and inequality and explores the
possibilities of rediscovering individualism's revolutionary
potential. Ralph Fevre demonstrates that a belief in individual
self-determination powered the development of human rights and
inspired social movements from anti-slavery to socialism, feminism
and anti-racism. At the same time, every attempt to embed
individualism in systems of education and employment has eventually
led to increased social inequality. The book discusses influential
thinkers, from Adam Smith to Herbert Spencer and John Dewey, as
well as the persistence of discrimination despite equality laws,
management and the transformation of individualism, individualism
in work and mental illness, work insecurity and intensification.
This multi-disciplinary book will be essential reading for students
and scholars of sociology, economics, philosophy, political
science, management science and public policy studies, among other
subjects. It will also be of use to policymakers and those who want
to know how the culture and politics of the neoliberal world are
unfolding.
Technology is rapidly advancing, and each innovation provides
opportunities for such technology to mesh with the human enactment
of physical intimacy or to be used in the quest for information
about sexuality. However, the availability of this technology has
complicated sexual decision making for young adults as they
continually navigate their sexual identity, orientation, behavior,
and community. Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age is a
pivotal reference source that improves the understanding of the
combination of technology and sexual decision making for young
adults, examining the role of technology in sexual identity
formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and
dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual communities and
activism. While highlighting topics such as privacy management,
cyber intimacy, and digital communications, this book is ideally
designed for therapists, social workers, sociologists,
psychologists, counselors, healthcare professionals, scholars,
researchers, and students.
This innovative book provides the first in-depth analysis of
participatory income and its potential role in countering endemic
poverty and unemployment in high-income countries. Heikki Hiilamo
reviews the concept of basic income and specific basic income
experiments before presenting participatory income as a viable
alternative in the fight against poverty. Highly topical, chapters
explore pressing issues such as the effects of automation on the
future of work and the links between social protection and
eco-social transition. Putting forward the argument that any reform
of social assistance should continue to enforce reciprocity with
reduced means-testing, Hiilamo explores the practical advantages of
the participation income model in reducing poverty and developing
an eco-social welfare model. Tackling one of the most heated
current debates in social policy, this book will be a key resource
for scholars and students in this field, particularly those with a
focus on welfare and labour economics, labour policy and the
sociology of work. Its use of examples and case studies will also
benefit practitioners and policy makers.
In the field of socio-legal studies or law and society scholarship,
it is rare to find empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated
understandings of actual legal practice. This book, in contrast,
connects the conceptual and the empirical, the abstract and the
concrete, and in doing so shows the law to be an irreducibly
social, material and temporal practice. Drawing on cutting-edge
work in the social study of knowledge, it grapples with conceptual
and methodological questions central to the field: how and where
judgment empirically takes place; how and where facts are made; and
how researchers might study these local and concrete ways of
judging and knowing. Drawing on an ethnographic study of how
narratives and documents, particularly case files, operate within
legal practices, this book's unique and innovative approach
consists of rearticulating the traditional boundaries separating
judgment from knowledge, urging us to rethink the way truths are
made within law.
Jeanne Pitre Soileau, winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize and
the 2018 Opie Prize for Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and
Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play, vividly
presents children's voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of
South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants,
jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book
takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it
has influenced children's lives. What the Children Said affirms
that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network
of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers
with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and
rhymes, and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words
of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and
sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their
own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one
another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a
conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part
of the family interchange. Among second grade boys and girls at a
Catholic school another transcript presents numerous examples in
which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and
girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression.
Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and
Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child
lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England,
Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest
of the United States.
For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, we have lived
alongside the multitude of other creatures with which we share our
planet. However it is undoubtedly true that today most of us are
not as close to the animals around us as our forebears were, and
that many of the world's best loved large mammals and most
beautiful birds are in danger of becoming extinct. The threats of
the 21st century to the animal world make it even more pertinent to
explore the many legends and folktales, myths and superstitions
that reflect this past closeness, highlight our desire to explain
nature's wonders and mysteries, and underline the necessity to
preserve for future generations all creatures great and
small.Gathered together in this fascinating book are the lore and
legends of the animal world, alongside the realities of nature. Yet
whatever their natural attributes, in folklore animals can do
almost anything. They can be our friends and foes - and of course
they can talk to each other. They can be evil witches and devils in
disguise, they can bring good luck and bad. And in real life they
can be our dearest companions, to the point of sheer worship.An
amazing collection of fanciful superstitions, intriguing tales and
amusing anecdotes, which any animal lover will truly relish.
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