The Spellbinders

The Spellbinders
Author: Ann Ruth Willner
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1985-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300034059

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Examines how charismatic leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, and Franklin Roosevelt have come into power and produced great changes in their countries

Religious Cognition in China

Religious Cognition in China
Author: Ryan G. Hornbeck,Justin L. Barrett,Madeleine Kang
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783319629544

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Are human tendencies toward religious and spiritual thoughts, feelings, and actions outcomes of “natural” cognition? This volume revisits the “naturalness theory of religious cognition” through discussion of new qualitative and quantitative studies examining the psychological foundations of religious and spiritual expression in historical and contemporary China. Naturalness theory has been challenged on the grounds that little of its supporting developmental and experimental research has drawn on participants from predominantly secular cultural environments. Given China’s official secularity, its large proportion of atheists, and its alleged long history of dominant, nonreligious philosophies, can any broad claim for religion’s psychological “naturalness” be plausible? Addressing this empirical gap, the studies discussed in this volume support core naturalness theory predictions for human reasoning about supernatural agency, intelligent design, the efficacy of rituals, and vitalistic causality. And yet each study elucidates, expands upon, or even challenges outright the logical assumptions of the naturalness theory. Written for a non-specialist audience, this volume introduces the naturalness theory and frames the significance of these new findings for students and scholars of cultural psychology, the psychology of religion, the anthropology of religion, and Chinese Studies.

Recent Dissertations on Indonesia

Recent Dissertations on Indonesia
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 634
Release: 1994
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN: STANFORD:36105006058379

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Indonesian Bronzes in the Domela Nieuwenhuis Collection

Indonesian Bronzes in the Domela Nieuwenhuis Collection
Author: Nandana Cūṭivoṅgs
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Bronzes, Buddhist
ISBN: UOM:39015029041442

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The Primitive Mind and Modern Man

The Primitive Mind and Modern Man
Author: John Alan Cohan
Publsiher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781608050871

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This book is in the field of trans-cultural psychology, and is intended for college courses in anthropology and psychology, and general readership. the book focuses on intriguing facts about primitive cultures around the world, and provides insights into living traditions and different world views. a principal theme of the book is that we can gain a better understanding of ourselves by a "detour" to other cultures. the book shows how modern ways of thinking are parallel to those of primitive cultures, and engages readers to become more aware of who they are. As shown throughout the book, there is not, after all, a very wide gulf between primitive and modern cultures. the book covers many topics including animism, shamanism, totemism, hunting and cultivation rituals, altered states of consciousness, envy and the evil eye, how people deal with conflicts, potlatches, cargo cults, how people satisfy the need for social approval, culture-bound syndromes, folk medicine, treatment of women, raising of children, nomadic peoples, treatment of the dead, and other topics.

Reformist Muslims in Yagyakarta Village

Reformist Muslims in Yagyakarta Village
Author: Hyung-Jun Kim
Publsiher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781920942359

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This study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers' construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the 'good Muslim' and 'Muslim-ness', on their efforts to incorporate an (reformist) Islamic framework to question taken-for-granted practices and ideas, on the position of traditional practices and ideas and their relation to reformist Islam, and on the interplay of villagers who show a strong commitment to reformist Islam with those who do not. Another topic investigated in this study is the interactions between Muslim and Christian villagers and the impacts of Christian presence on the process by which Muslims define themselves, their neighbours, their religion and their religious community.

Inside Indonesia

Inside Indonesia
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2004
Genre: Indonesia
ISBN: UOM:39015066176515

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A Life of Miracles

A Life of Miracles
Author: Bill Johnson
Publsiher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 835
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780768494648

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Combining the most inspiring of three best-selling books, this 365-day guide to prayer and miracles feeds you daily manna from Heaven. Your spirit will be enlightened and your soul strengthened as you face each day's glories and glooms. You are the God who performs miracles; You display your power among the peoples (Psalm 77:14). The best from The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind, Dreaming With God, and When Heaven Invades Earth gives you the power to daily walk out of religious boundaries toward your Christian inheritance of healing, signs and wonders, and infinite possibilities. You can experience A Life of Miracles one beautiful day at a time!