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This new selection of myths offers a broad insight into the nature
and lifestyle of the ancestral lands of the Native American tribes
that once stretched from the tip of Alaska, down to the Bay of
Mexico. Hundreds of languages, with traditions and folkore, grew
independently across the continent, flourishing in deserts,
mountains and lush valleys of a vast land. The loss of such ancient
traditions is a reminder of the damage humans can wreak through
ignorance, desperation and greed, as settlers from Europe swept
imperiously across the newly discovered, but long-populated lands
of the so-called New World. From 'The Great Deeds of Michabo' to
'The Legend of Hiawatha', from trickster creator-deities, heroes
and supernatural beings to epic voyages and an affinity with
animals, there is so much to discover in this comprehensive new
book. It's the latest addition to Flame Tree's Epic Tales series of
deluxe anthologies and brings together a thoughtful selection of
myths and tales from across the ancient plains of North America.
A short and succinct explanation of the Environmental Tracking
concept: a system which, if adopted at scale, will bring about a
seismic shift in our ability to harness the power of the investment
system to place us on a more sustainable trajectory. This mechanism
offers a framework by which we can create a financial incentive to
reduce emissions within the global economy via the 'trojan horse'
of the index model. It is a means by which the 'externality' of
climate change can finally be 'internalised', decisively changing
corporate behaviour throughout the world.. By influencing a company
at the share price level, Environmental Tracking seeks to provide
the platform for a smooth transition to a low carbon economy
parallel to, and independent of, government action.
Across the world from personal relationships to global politics,
differences-cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability-are
at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. While
it is laudable to nurture an environment promoting the tolerance of
difference, Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference argues for
the higher goal of actually appreciating difference as essential to
creativity and innovation, even if often experienced as stressful
and complex. Even encounters that are apparently harmful and
negatively valued (arguments, conflict, war, oppression) usually
heighten the potential for creativity, innovation, movement,
action, and identity. Drawing on classic encounters that have
played a significant role in the founding of the academic study of
religion and the social sciences, this book explores in some depth
the dynamics of encounter to reveal both its problematic and
creative aspects and to develop perspectives and strategies to
assure encounters both include the appreciation of difference and
also are recognized as creative and innovative. The two examples
most extensively considered show that the academic study of the
peoples indigenous to North America and to Australia involved
creative constructions (concoctions) of primary examples in order
to establish and give authority to academic theories and
definitions. Rather than damning these examples as "bad
scholarship," this book considers them to be encounters engendering
creative constructions that are distinctive to academia, yet their
potential for harm must be understood. Most important to the book
is a persistent development of perspectives and strategies for
understanding and approaching encounters in order to assure the
appreciation of difference is accompanied by the potential for
creativity and innovation. Specific perspectives and strategies are
related to naming, moving, gesture, and play and, particularly
relevant to religion, the development of an aesthetic of
impossibles. Since these historical examples engage highly relevant
present concerns -the distinction of real and fake, truth and lie,
map and territory-the threading essays show how these more or less
classic examples might contribute to appreciating these
contemporary concerns that are generated in the presence of
difference.
Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's
Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and
accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history
of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to
enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the
future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past.
Creatively considered in some depth are a wide range of specific
examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television, as
well as from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature,
classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture,
technology, and futurist studies. This book is distinctive, in
part, in drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the
indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials.
Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly
interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop
culture, art, and film. Written for general as well as academic
readers, it offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we
are and where we are going.
In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the
interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in
discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller,
Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard.
As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to
the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a
perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves
into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing,
self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on
the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his
experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on
dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and
phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of
dancing, the structurality of all dances.
In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the
interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in
discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller,
Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard.
As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to
the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a
perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves
into the many factions of dancing: moving, gesturing,
self-othering, playing, seducing, and masking. Gill also draws on
the analysis of contemporary dance films and musicals, his
experience as a dancer and dance teacher, his extensive research on
dance traditions, and his interest in neurobiology and
phenomenology to develop the core of this rich exploration of
dancing, the structurality of all dances.
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