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Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology (Hardcover): William C Olsen, Thomas J Csordas Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology (Hardcover)
William C Olsen, Thomas J Csordas
R2,939 Discovery Miles 29 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology (Paperback): William C Olsen, Thomas J Csordas Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology (Paperback)
William C Olsen, Thomas J Csordas
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Language, Charisma and Creativity - Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (Paperback, 1st paperback ed): Thomas J... Language, Charisma and Creativity - Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
Thomas J Csordas
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar appear strange. Csordas describes the movement's internal diversity and traces its development and expansion across 30 years. He offers insights into the contemporary nature of rationality, the transformation of space and time in Charismatic daily life, gender discipline, the blurring of boundaries between ritual and everyday life, the sense of community forged through shared ritual participation, and the creativity of language and metaphor in prophetic utterance. Charisma, Csordas proposes, is a collective self-process, located not in the personality of a leader, but in the rhetorical resources mobilized by participants in ritual performance. His examination of ritual language and ritual performance illuminates this theory in relation to the postmodern condition of culture.

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment - Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (Paperback): Janis H. Jenkins, Thomas J... Troubled in the Land of Enchantment - Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (Paperback)
Janis H. Jenkins, Thomas J Csordas
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system.  The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

Embodiment and Experience - The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Paperback, New): Thomas J Csordas Embodiment and Experience - The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Paperback, New)
Thomas J Csordas
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are inscribed on the body. The unifying theme of these essays is that the body is at once a fount of symbols and the instrument of experience. This more complex and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self.

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment - Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (Hardcover): Janis H. Jenkins, Thomas J... Troubled in the Land of Enchantment - Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (Hardcover)
Janis H. Jenkins, Thomas J Csordas
R1,884 Discovery Miles 18 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

Transnational Transcendence - Essays on Religion and Globalization (Paperback): Thomas J Csordas Transnational Transcendence - Essays on Religion and Globalization (Paperback)
Thomas J Csordas
R858 R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Save R89 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. "Transnational Transcendence "challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship--in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.

The Sacred Self - A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (Paperback, New ed): Thomas J Csordas The Sacred Self - A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (Paperback, New ed)
Thomas J Csordas
R799 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R100 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. This is not only a book about healing, however, but also one about the nature of self and self- transformation. Blending ethnographic data and detailed case studies, Csordas examines processes of sensory imagery, performative utterance, orientation, and embodiment. His book forms the basis for a rapprochement between phenomenology and semiotics in culture theory that will interest anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, physicians, and students of comparative religion and healing.

Language, Charisma, and Creativity - The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement (Hardcover): Thomas J Csordas Language, Charisma, and Creativity - The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement (Hardcover)
Thomas J Csordas
R2,827 Discovery Miles 28 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 1997.

Language, Charisma, and Creativity - The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement (Paperback): Thomas J Csordas Language, Charisma, and Creativity - The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement (Paperback)
Thomas J Csordas
R1,561 Discovery Miles 15 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 1997.

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