Chambers / Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Reli
Author | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Publisher | : Chambers |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780550150011 |
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Author | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Publisher | : Chambers |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780550150011 |
Author | : Frank Whaling |
Publisher | : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
"A comprehensive outline of spiritual concepts from prehistory to the present"--Cover.
Author | : Hans E. Bynagle |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0897899792 |
A newly reorganized, up-to-date overview of key reference works in philosophy, reflects a veritable explosion of reference sources, both print and online, published over the past decade. Nearly 300 of the 700+ entries consist of new material, with an additional 50 entries substantially revised and updated. English-language sources are emphasized, but important non-English works are also well represented. For professional philosophers, philosophy educators, students from beginning to graduate, and librarians. This guide represents a substantial updating and complete re-organization of the author's 1997 Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature, 2nd edition (1st edition, 1986). It reflects a veritable explosion of reference sources, both print and online, in the field of philosophy over the past decade. Nearly 300 entries (or 40 percent) are entirely new. An additional 50 or so entries have substantial revisions recording new editions, changes in serial publications, series, and websites, or additional volumes completed in multi-volume sets. In addition, it has been entirely re-organized along topical lines. Each of its twenty-three chapters is divided into four sections: (1) general sources, (2) history of philosophy, (3) branches of philosophy, and (4) miscellanea. This new arrangement accords better with the greatly expanded range of philosophy reference sources and makes it easier for the user to identify related sources of different types (bibliographies, dictionaries, web gateways, etc.) on the same topic. Like its predecessor Guide to Reference Sources in Philosophy, the 3rd edition aims to serve a diverse audience of professional philosophers, philosophy educators, students from beginning to graduate, and librarians. All entries include generous annotations that are often evaluative as well as descriptive. English-language sources are emphasized, but non-English works important to researchers or of interest to users with facility in other languages are also well-represented.
Author | : Rose Arny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1306 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2023-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496844130 |
Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers. Debies-Carl argues that legend trips are important social practices. Unlike traditional rites of passage, they reflect the modern world, revealing both its problems and its virtues. In society as well as in legend tripping, there is ambiguity, conflict, crisis of meaning, and the substitution of debate for social consensus. Conversely, both emphasize individual agency and values, even in spiritual matters. While people still need meaningful and transformative experiences, authoritative, traditional institutions are less capable of providing them. Instead, legend trippers voluntarily search for individually meaningful experiences and actively participate in shaping and interpreting those experiences for themselves.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2248 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
A world list of books in the English language.
Author | : Rosemary Goring |
Publisher | : Chambers |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1994-12 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
ISBN | : 9780752350073 |
More comprehensive than any other single volume reference on this subject, the dictionary covers all the world's major religions and beliefs, both current and historical. With 2,900 concise and informative entries, the dictionary spans all periods and places. It provides coverage of today's Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, along with the rites of ancient civilizations, as well as less mainstream beliefs such as scientology and pantheism. Supplements include a subject index, a calendar of festivals, and a chart detailing the population distribution of the major faiths.
Author | : Alim Braxton |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024-04-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1469678721 |
Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as a form of therapy and to advocate for prison reform, particularly by calling attention to the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated. This book, a hip-hop-rich prison memoir, chronicles Braxton's struggles and triumphs as he attempts to record an album while on death row, something no one has done before. Braxton's world is complex: full of reflections on guilt, condemnation, incarceration, religious awakening, and the redemptive power of art. Ultimately, Braxton shows us that even amid the brutality of our prison system there are moments of joy, and on death row joy may be the most powerful form of resistance.