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Concise, focused chapters on authority, ritual, functionalism,
essentialism, and classification in this new edition create a more
user-friendly and accessible text. New examples and case studies on
engaging subjects. An essential text for students approaching the
field of religious studies for the first time.
Concise, focused chapters on authority, ritual, functionalism,
essentialism, and classification in this new edition create a more
user-friendly and accessible text. New examples and case studies on
engaging subjects. An essential text for students approaching the
field of religious studies for the first time.
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One Life (DVD)
Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes, George Fenton, Daniel Craig, Martin Pope, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Daniel Craig narrates this feature-length BBC wildlife documentary
celebrating the diversity and tenacity of life on earth. Edited
together from some 10,000 hours of footage from the BBC's natural
history archives, the film focuses on the cyclical journey taken by
all living things, from their own birth to the moment they deliver
youngsters of their own and the next generation is born.
In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a
growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The
move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise
nature of the disease and concerned about the economic and
political impact of the closure. A tribunal of physicians was
summoned by the Doge, among them Girolamo Mercuriale, professor of
medicine in nearby Padua and perhaps the most famous physician in
all of Europe. Whatever the disease was that was affecting Venice,
Mercuriale opined, it was not and could not be plague, for it was
neither fast-moving nor widespread enough for that diagnosis.
Following Mercuriale's advice and against the objections of the
Health Office of the Republic, the quarantine was lifted. The
rejoicing of the Venetian populace was short-lived. By July 1577,
when the outbreak had run its course, the plague had killed an
estimated 50,000 Venetians, or approximately a third of the city's
population. In January 1577, in the midst of a plague he now
recognized he had misdiagnosed, Mercuriale offered a series of
lectures from his seat in Padua. Published under the title On
Pestilence, the work surveyed past epidemics, including the
Justinianic Plague of the sixth century and the Black Death of the
fourteenth, and accounts of plague in Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna,
and other sources. Plague, Mercuriale pronounced, was characterized
by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. He
contended it was primarily airborne and was not caught through
microbial transmission, but because the air itself became
pestiferous and promoted putrefaction. Using his observations, he
evaluated recently developed theories of contagion and concluded
that pestiferous vapors could also emanate from the diseased bodies
of its victims, and that one might also contract the disease from
the contaminated clothing or bedding of the ill. In Craig Martin's
translation, On Pestilence appears for the first time in English,
accompanied by an introduction that places the work within the
context of sixteenth-century Italy, the history of medicine, and
our own responses to epidemic disease.
Masking Hegemony is a critical evaluation of the use of the
public/private and religion/state binaries in liberal political
thought from the Protestant Reformation to the present. The book
demonstrates that liberalism's public/private and religion/state
binaries, designed to separate "religion" from the "state," are
about as sophisticated as talk about the "four humours" in the
human body, and may in fact mask or make invisible the influence of
dominant religious institutions on state policies. Following
theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault and Pierre
Bourdieu, each of which demonstrates that dominant ideologies and
social norms can circulate indirectly and operate invisibly, Craig
Martin argues that there is inevitably a circulation of power and
authority from the so-called "private sphere" to the "public
sphere" in a liberal democracy, but that the public/private and
church/state language prevents us from bringing that circulation of
power into relief.
In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a
growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The
move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise
nature of the disease and concerned about the economic and
political impact of the closure. A tribunal of physicians was
summoned by the Doge, among them Girolamo Mercuriale, professor of
medicine in nearby Padua and perhaps the most famous physician in
all of Europe. Whatever the disease was that was affecting Venice,
Mercuriale opined, it was not and could not be plague, for it was
neither fast-moving nor widespread enough for that diagnosis.
Following Mercuriale's advice and against the objections of the
Health Office of the Republic, the quarantine was lifted. The
rejoicing of the Venetian populace was short-lived. By July 1577,
when the outbreak had run its course, the plague had killed an
estimated 50,000 Venetians, or approximately a third of the city's
population. In January 1577, in the midst of a plague he now
recognized he had misdiagnosed, Mercuriale offered a series of
lectures from his seat in Padua. Published under the title On
Pestilence, the work surveyed past epidemics, including the
Justinianic Plague of the sixth century and the Black Death of the
fourteenth, and accounts of plague in Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna,
and other sources. Plague, Mercuriale pronounced, was characterized
by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. He
contended it was primarily airborne and was not caught through
microbial transmission, but because the air itself became
pestiferous and promoted putrefaction. Using his observations, he
evaluated recently developed theories of contagion and concluded
that pestiferous vapors could also emanate from the diseased bodies
of its victims, and that one might also contract the disease from
the contaminated clothing or bedding of the ill. In Craig Martin's
translation, On Pestilence appears for the first time in English,
accompanied by an introduction that places the work within the
context of sixteenth-century Italy, the history of medicine, and
our own responses to epidemic disease.
Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion,
arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but
that these are always secondary to the original experience itself.
However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire
from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents
writings from both those who assume the existence and possible
universality of religious experience and those who question the
very rhetoric of "experience". Bringing together both classic and
contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary
approaches to the study of religious experience: philosophy,
literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology;
feminist theory; as well as writings from within religious studies.
The essays are structured into pairs, with each essay separately
introduced with information on its historical and intellectual
context. The ultimate aim of the Reader is to enable students to
explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize
social identities. The book will be an invaluable introduction to
the key ideas and approaches for students of Religion, as well as
Sociology and Anthropology. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Desjarlais, Diana
Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne
Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach,
Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams
Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion,
arguing that narratives might be created and rituals invented but
that these are always secondary to the original experience itself.
However, the concept of "experience" has come under increasing fire
from a range of critics and theorists. This Reader presents
writings from both those who assume the existence and possible
universality of religious experience and those who question the
very rhetoric of "experience". Bringing together both classic and
contemporary writings, the Reader showcases differing disciplinary
approaches to the study of religious experience: philosophy,
literary and cultural theory, history, psychology, anthropology;
feminist theory; as well as writings from within religious studies.
The essays are structured into pairs, with each essay separately
introduced with information on its historical and intellectual
context. The ultimate aim of the Reader is to enable students to
explore religious experience as rhetoric created to authorize
social identities. The book will be an invaluable introduction to
the key ideas and approaches for students of Religion, as well as
Sociology and Anthropology. CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Desjarlais, Diana
Eck, William James, Craig Martin, Russell T. McCutcheon, Wayne
Proudfoot, Robert Sharf, Ann Taves, Charles Taylor, Joachim Wach,
Joan Wallach Scott, Raymond Williams
Masking Hegemony is a critical evaluation of the use of the
public/private and religion/state binaries in liberal political
thought from the Protestant Reformation to the present. The book
demonstrates that liberalism's public/private and religion/state
binaries, designed to separate "religion" from the "state," are
about as sophisticated as talk about the "four humours" in the
human body, and may in fact mask or make invisible the influence of
dominant religious institutions on state policies. Following
theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault and Pierre
Bourdieu, each of which demonstrates that dominant ideologies and
social norms can circulate indirectly and operate invisibly, Craig
Martin argues that there is inevitably a circulation of power and
authority from the so-called "private sphere" to the "public
sphere" in a liberal democracy, but that the public/private and
church/state language prevents us from bringing that circulation of
power into relief.
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Doozers: Meet the Pod Squad (DVD)
Jacob Ewaniuk, Trek Buccino, Scott McCord, Jenna Warren, Millie Davis; Contributions by …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Nine episodes of the children's animated spin-off of 'Fraggle
Rock'. The series follows the four young Doozers Daisy Wheel,
Spike, Flex and Mollybot who make up the inventive Pod Squad,
living and working in the self-sustaining, green community of
Doozer Creek. The episodes are: 'An Itch You Can't Scratch',
'Project Radish-a-pult', 'Jetpack Away', 'Zip It', 'Doozer
Amusers', 'A Stick Situation', 'Hiccup-a-majig', 'Doozermahoozit'
and 'Trouble Below'.
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Drawing (Hardcover)
Michael Craig-Martin
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R1,070
Discovery Miles 10 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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As one of the key figures in the first generation of British
conceptual artists and a crucial force behind many of the Young
British Artists, Michael Craig-Martin has dedicated a career to
complicating the practice and reception of drawing. Often
considered the 'high priest of the everyday', he is engaged with
the methodical exploration of those objects and design classics
that are so often taken for granted: the tap, the clothes hanger,
the petrol pump, the Anglepoise lamp. For Craig-Martin, those
objects that we value least, simply for their ubiquity, are often
the most extraordinary. His is a world of revelation.
Talk of 'spirituality' and 'individual religion' is proliferating
both in popular discourse and scholarly works. Increasingly people
claim to be 'spiritual but not religious, ' or to prefer
'individual religion' to 'organized religion.' Scholars have for
decades noted the phenomenon - primarily within the middle class -
of individuals picking and choosing elements from among various
religious traditions, forming their own religion or spirituality
for themselves. While the topics of 'spirituality' and 'individual
religion' are regularly treated as self-evident by the media and
even some scholars of religion, "Capitalizing Religion" provides
one of the first critical analyses of the phenomenon, arguing that
these recent forms of spirituality are in many cases linked to
capitalist ideology and consumer practices. Examining cases such as
Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now," and Karen Berg's "God Wears
Lipstick," Craig Martin ultimately argues that so-called
'individual religion' is a religion of the status quo or, more
critically, 'an opiate of the bourgeoisie.'"Capitalizing Religion:
Ideology and Opiate of the Bourgeoisie" is a landmark publication
in critical religious studies.
From the majestic San Juan Mountains to the wide-open expanses of
the San Luis Valley, few fishing areas rival the pristine beauty,
diversity, and solitude of southern Colorado's rivers and trout
streams. This guide thoroughly explores the region's watersheds:
the Conejos, Rio Grande, San Juan, Piedra, Los Piños, Animas, and
Dolores, as well as the still waters of high mountain areas.
Included are detailed maps of the region and each watershed; area
regulations and conservation policies; safety precautions, weather,
and wildlife information; and a list of the region's important
aquatic insects. For those willing to hoof it, southern Colorado's
streams and rivers offer old fashioned, have-the-river-to-yourself
fly fishing. But with this guide, even the roadside angler can find
idyllic spots to cast a fly, making Fly Fishing Southern Colorado
an essential guide for any angler interested in knowing and fishing
""the Little Switzerland of Colorado.""
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing
Clichés, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread
stereotypes and clichés about religion, focusing on clichés that
a new generation of students are most familiar with. Each chapter
includes: - A description of a particular cliché - Discussion of
where it appears in popular culture or popular media - Discussion
of where it appears in scholarly literature - A historical
contextualization of its use in the past - An analysis of the
social or rhetorical work the cliché accomplishes in the present
Clichés addressed include: - "Religion and science naturally
conflict" - "All religions are against LGBTQ rights" - "Eastern
religions are more spiritual than Western religions" - "Religion is
personal and not subject to government regulation" - "Religious
pluralism gives everyone a voice" Written in an easy and accessible
style, Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés is suitable
for all readers looking to clear away unsophisticated assumptions
in preparation for more critical studies.
Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of
design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and
illicit, the legal and illegal, in a variety of ways. Martin argues
that design is not necessarily for the social good, but that it is
immersed in the social realm in all its contradictions and
confusions. Through a series of case studies he explores a wide
range of social practices that employ illicit forms of design
thinking, including: early computer hacking and present-day hacker
culture in which everyday objects are repurposed and deliberately
misused; the cultures of reproduction, counterfeit and pirated
versions of classic and luxury designs; and the use of material
practices by smugglers to conceal drugs within consumer goods and
luggage. Deviant Design contends that these amateur and illicit
practices challenge the normative idea of the professional designer
or maker. Rather than being reliant on the services of
institutionalized design professionals, the adhocist practitioner
displays forms of innovative design knowledge in understanding how
artefacts have an inherent potential to be misused or repurposed.
Craig Martin addresses the transgressive or deviant aspects of
design: design that straddles the divide between the licit and
illicit, the legal and illegal, in a variety of ways. Martin argues
that design is not necessarily for the social good, but that it is
immersed in the social realm in all its contradictions and
confusions. Through a series of case studies he explores a wide
range of social practices that employ illicit forms of design
thinking, including: early computer hacking and present-day hacker
culture in which everyday objects are repurposed and deliberately
misused; the cultures of reproduction, counterfeit and pirated
versions of classic and luxury designs; and the use of material
practices by smugglers to conceal drugs within consumer goods and
luggage. Deviant Design contends that these amateur and illicit
practices challenge the normative idea of the professional designer
or maker. Rather than being reliant on the services of
institutionalized design professionals, the adhocist practitioner
displays forms of innovative design knowledge in understanding how
artefacts have an inherent potential to be misused or repurposed.
Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a
theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by
scholars and students to understand these central elements in the
study of culture. The book shows how discourses are used to
construct social institutions-often classist, sexist, or racist-and
that those social institutions always entail a distribution of
resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject
positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often
obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of
why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a
method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the
last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and
method to racist ideologies in the United States, which
systematically function to discourage white Americans from
sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to
reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy
that has always existed in the US.
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar,
Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume
covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex
natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology,
demonology, mineralogy, and botany. By moving beyond the
established influence of Aristotle’s texts on his work, Andrea
Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich
influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas.
Cesalpino’s relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are
traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and
medicine. In combining Cesalpino’s reception of these traditions
alongside his connections to early modern science, this book
provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both
positive and negative. Many people uncritically assume that
religion is intrinsically violent, or that religion makes people
moral, or that it is simply "bullshit". This concise volume tackles
10 of these stereotypes, addresses why scholars of religion find
them to be cliched, describes their origins, and explains the
social or political work they rhetorically accomplish in the
present. Cliches addressed include the following: - Religions are
belief systems - I'm spiritual but not religious - Religion
concerns the transcendent - Learning about religions leads to
tolerance and understanding - Religion is a private matter. Written
in an easy and accessible style, Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing
Cliches will be of interest to all readers looking to clear away
unsophisticated assumptions in preparation for more critical
studies.
Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a
theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by
scholars and students to understand these central elements in the
study of culture. The book shows how discourses are used to
construct social institutions-often classist, sexist, or racist-and
that those social institutions always entail a distribution of
resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject
positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often
obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of
why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a
method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the
last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and
method to racist ideologies in the United States, which
systematically function to discourage white Americans from
sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to
reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy
that has always existed in the US.
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