Spiritual, magical, and "occult" aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic, ritual curing, trance, spirit possession, sorcery, and accusations of witchcraft. Material drawn from traditional nonwestern societies, medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and contemporary North America.

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The book examines the work of Terence Grieder, an early pre-Columbian art historian of wide-ranging interests and often provocative stances. His students and other intellectual descendants discuss his major ideas through examples drawn from their own work. The work of those he mentored is in the end the most important testament to his continuing influence in the field.

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This assignment is designed as a mini-research project with the purpose of having students engage with marginalized actors in history. The purpose is to help students find themselves in the archives by focusing on self-representation that is important to their own socio-economic and ethnic groups. By providing historical research in the form of primary and secondary documents on figures that have been historically "left out" of the historical narrative, the students will help fill the gaps in the archive, be active in the creation of new curriculum, and gain a better understanding of marginalization and the power of historical memory in the process.

This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender, and sexuality. It also analyzes whether contemporary western bio-medical interventions reinforce colonial or imperial power in the effort to promote global health in Africa and the African diaspora.

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This book is about Islamic history and how it pertains to us in the world forum of Christians and Muslims as well.

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Mind the Gap encourages you to be mindful of that gap that takes place in various transitions in life: when you go away to college, travel to a foreign country, move to a new city, or start a new job. Until you start to feel at home in your new environment, you must negotiate feelings of discomfort. Mindfulness draws attention to your experience of transition, enabling you to cultivate an embodied presence, receptivity, and awareness of whatever arises in yourself and your surroundings, without judging or rejecting your experience. All too often, when we feel uncomfortable or unsettled, we immediately want to alleviate our feelings of discomfort by seeking comfort or distraction. When we do this, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to grow and develop in new ways.

Lillie invites the viewer for a trip back in time to the Mogao Caves in China.

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about the daily prayer rituals of the Muslim faith and their significance in the life of a Muslim living in America.

An Open Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth

Short Description:
Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth provides undergraduate university students with free, easy access to primary source texts and images for Greek and Roman mythology. Mythoi Koinoi means "Mythology for the People" in Ancient Greek, and it is intended to give everyone who engages with it access to the writings and artistic creations of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth began with the observation that many of the texts that we study in our Greek and Roman mythology classes have translations that are available online, either in the public domain or under open access copyright, though many of them are archaic, unreadable, and therefore inaccessible to modern students. Accessibility, then, has been the guiding principle for the book. We set out to update these open access translations, providing clear introductions that situate each text according to time, place, and genre, and organizing them into thematic chapters. We have adapted all translations that are more than forty years old for readability, while maintaining the integrity of the text and its faithfulness to the original languages.

Additionally, while there are thousands of primary source images related to Ancient Greek and Roman mythology available online, they are generally uncontextualized and scattered across multiple platforms, including museum databases, open access media collections, and popular webpages. We collected and organized these images, situating them within their respective chapters and providing necessary context for identification and interpretation.

The anthology contains more than 80 primary source texts from 35 authors, along with hyperlinks to online translations of many more. It has more than 600 high-resolution images of artwork from ancient Greece and Rome. In crafting the book, we have followed best practices for Universal Design for Learning. All images come with captions, descriptions and alternate text, for those that are unable to view them. There are over 500 glossary entries that are accessible either through links within each of the primary texts, or through the glossary section at the back of the book.

The book contains 43 chapters, organized into 7 parts, starting from the myths of creation and destruction, and going through the aftermath of the Trojan War. The sixth chapter focuses specifically on mythology unique to Ancient Rome, and the seventh chapter focuses on the mythology and archaeology of cities and spaces. We have also included mythology from Mesopotamia and the Levant in two chapters, “Aphrodite” and “Flood Myths.” We hope that these chapters will give instructors and students the opportunity to explore some of the ways in which ancient Greek and Roman myth is connected to earlier mythology from ancient West Asia.

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This is a textbook by and for students at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) in Springfield, Missouri, New Testament Theology of Discipleship course. 

Excerpted primary texts from the East Asian philosophical traditions, including: Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Sikhism, and historical Zoroastrianism.

t si le choix entre l'heure d'été et l'heure d'hiver (comme les états-membres de l'UE vont devoir le faire d'ici avril) présentait des enjeux de justice sociale ?
Si on simplifiait le débat par l'opposition entre une heure de plus de clarté le soir pour les amateurs de bière en terrasse ou une heure de clarté en plus le matin pour les travailleurs matinaux, comment trancher entre ces intérêts contradictoires ?
Nous verrons comment des théories de la justice comme l'utilitarisme et le libéral-égalitarisme répondent à cette question.

Selon le libertarisme, la justice consiste à garantir l'exercice de la liberté individuelle par un système cohérent de droits de propriété. Si la variante "de droite", la plus influente politiquement, permet de justifier une version radicale de capitalisme de laissez-faire, nous verrons également qu'il existe un libertarisme de gauche, plus influent dans le débat académique, qui soutient des conclusions égalitaristes en se fondant sur l'idée d'un droit égal de chaque être humain aux ressources de la Terre.
Nous discuterons principalement de la tentative la plus aboutie d'articuler une théorie éthique libertarienne par l'auteur étatsunien Robert Nozick, dans son livre Anarchy, State & Utopia. Nous verrons en quoi les libertariens présente leur théorie comme une réponse à la fois à l'utilitarisme et au libéral-égalitarisme, qui ne respecteraient pas suffisamment la dignité fondamentale de chaque être humain.
Nous finirons par discuter l'attractivité du libertarisme comme théorie de la justice, en se posant en particulier la question de savoir si la liberté de choix défendue par les libertariens correspond à nos intuitions sur ce que devrait être une société libre.

Même si Marx était très critique envers l'idée même de justice, on peut interpréter le projet éthique implicite du marxisme comme visant l'abolition de deux injustices inhérentes au capitalisme : l'exploitation et l'aliénation. En nous inspirant de l'école du Marxisme analytique (G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, John Roemer) nous discuterons ces deux idées et verrons en quoi elles peuvent continuer de guider nos réflexions contemporaines sur la justice. Nous expliquerons d'abord la raison des réticences de Marx et Engels envers la philosophie normative par leur critiques des socialistes "utopiques" (comme Charles Fourier), et un bref exposé du projet marxisme d'élaborer un socialisme scientifique (matérialisme dialectique et matérialisme historique). Nous discuterons enfin ce que pourrait être les principes de justice d'une théorie éthique Marxiste centrée sur l'abolition de l'exploitation et de l'aliénation, qui nous amènera à clarifier la différence entre le stade du "socialisme" et du "communisme". Nous discuterons l'actualité de la critique de l'aliénation en lien avec la critique des "bullshit jobs" avancée par le sociologue David Graeber.

La théorie de la justice de John Rawls, qui a fondé la grande famille du "libéral-égalitarisme", est certainement une des plus influentes théories éthiques aujourd'hui. Une des ambitions radicales de cette théorie est de compenser non seulement l'influence de l'origine sociale, mais également celle de la répartition naturelle des talents. Nous présenterons deux arguments en faveur des principes de justice : premièrement, l'expérience de pensée bien connue dite du "voile d'ignorance", et deuxièmement un argument plus méconnu sur le caractère arbitraire de la "loterie naturelle". Nous présenterons les trois principes de justice de Rawls (égale liberté, égalité équitable des chances, et principe de différence), et nous lèverons certains malentendus, en voyant notamment en quoi l'égalitarisme du Maxi-min (principe de différence) se distingue d'une hypothèse empirique sur l'efficacité des inégalités (théorie du ruissellement).

Dans cette vidéo on va parler de la théorie utilitariste, issue d'auteurs comme Jeremy Bentham ou John Stuart Mill, selon laquelle la justice consiste à maximiser le bien-être agrégé.

The Digital Theological Library provides free high-quality content (scholarly articles, theses, ebooks, book chapters, images, newspapers, manuscripts, and more) in religious studies and related disciplines from institutional repositories, publisher websites, scholarly societies, archives, digital collections, including the Library of Congress Digital Collections, the Vatican Library's digitized collections, Australian Islamic Library, Encyclopedia Iranica, and many more.

About 15% of the world’s population lives with some form of disability.  Many are not having their needs met because of barriers to participation in rituals, worship and faith community activities at their places of worship. To truly empower people with disabilities to become agents of positive change in their local communities, we recognize that everyone has a role to play. Our Doors Are Open seminar helps all faith communities to understand how to open their mind, hearts, and doors to people with all kinds of abilities. Traditionally, faith communities position people with disabilities as recipients of care and not as givers. Most faith communities do not have proper representation of people with disabilities throughout their activities despite a desire to be open and inclusive. This disparity is often the result of lack of understanding of how to think about disability differently. In this seminar, students will learn the social model of disability, which positions disability as a function of exclusively designed environments rather than a lack of ability. Our Doors Are Open Seminar will guide students on how to see their activities and situations through an inclusive lens as well as how to take actions to improve inclusion and achieve the welcoming goals of congregations.

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This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

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This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

It will be of interest to anyone who: 1) is or has been on the cancer continuum as a patient, caregiver, family member, or friend; 2) is or strives to be a health professional (oncologist, GP, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, physio- or exercise therapist, etc.); 3) is an administrator, instructor, teaching assistant, or student at a post-secondary institution interested in health sciences, English literature (memoir writing, creative non-fiction, and narratives of illness), Women’s and Gender Studies, Spirituality Studies, Religious Studies, and the Fine Arts; 4) fellow authors and/or readers who like to give writers from the Canadian prairies a chance.

The Appendix includes “Leading Reading Questions” meant to increase everyone’s reading experience and lighten the load of fellow university professors who wish to adopt this book, or part of this book, for a class.

Word Count: 53928

ISBN: 978-0-7731-0764-9

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Translated by Christopher St. John

Word Count: 6998

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