Sacred, Mundane, Profane

Sacred, Mundane, Profane
Author: Scott Rutledge
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 162894451X

The ideal of religious liberty enshrined in the Constitution of the United States stands in vivid contrast to today’s idea of a living constitution. Here the author compares the two. In the book’s centerpiece he points out the religious decisions and policies incorporated by the American founders into the text of 1787, and into subsequent Amendments. The Constitution is examined as a secular scripture, so to speak: as an expression of its framers’ convictions about the sacred and the profane — and, about the various topics of public policy which straddle that spiritual dichotomy, or perhaps escape it. The entire discussion is framed and illustrated by analyses of selected Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Justices of the Supreme Court necessarily appear in this context as the principal constitutional actors: a role not intended for them, a judicial role not even envisioned by the Constitution-makers of the late eighteenth century. For nearly a century now the Justices have been dismantling — sometime piecemeal, sometimes wholesale — the religious policies prescribed for the nation by its founding statesmen. Their ambitions now seem so vast, and their jurisdiction so comprehensive, that the appointment of each new Justice is an occasion for nationwide alarm and struggle. What is going on when the Court issues constitutional decisions not plausibly grounded in any provision of the constitutional text? Decisions which frequently ignore limitations plainly expressed in other provisions of that text? What are the presuppositions and biases implicit in the Justices’ lawyerly rhetoric? When are those presuppositions and biases fairly said to be religious in character? The reader will find these fundamental and controversial questions addressed in an original manner. The author brought to his legal career a background in mathematics and logical studies. Those studies have given him an unusual perspective on the vitally important topic of religious liberty.

The Sacred and the Profane

The Sacred and the Profane
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1959
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780156792011

Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.

Is Nothing Sacred?

Is Nothing Sacred?
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Sacred in the Modern World

The Sacred in the Modern World
Author: Gordon Lynch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199557012

Re-interpreting Durkheim's theory of the sacred, this book sets out a theory of the sacred for use across a range of humanities and social science disciplines and draws on contemporary case study material to show how sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology
Author: Wayne Brekhus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2019
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190273380

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology will serve as a resource for social researchers interested in how cognitive sociology can contribute to research within their substantive areas of focus, and for faculty and graduate students interested in cognitive sociology's main contributions and the central debates within the field. In particular, the volume includes a broad range of cognitive sociological perspectives as the classical sociological and newer interdisciplinary approaches to cognition are often covered separately by scholars.

Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane

Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane
Author: Zane Robinson Wolf
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1988-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780812212662

Based on a doctoral dissertation, "Nursing rituals in an adult acute care hospital : and ethnography"--Preface.

Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader

Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader
Author: George Nash
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2018-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784915610

Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating.

New Perspectives in Sociology and Allied Fields

New Perspectives in Sociology and Allied Fields
Author: Shashikant Nishant Sharma
Publisher: EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1535065222

Sociology is the study of the society and the interaction of the individual to individual, community to community, individual to the community and vice versa. The interplay of this social interaction takes place in the playground of the human settlements. Albert J. Reiss has defined, “sociology is the study of social aggregates and groups in their institutional organization, of institutions and their organization, and of the causes and consequences of changes in institutions and social organization.” Another sociologist, Parson defined sociology, “Sociology is concerned "...With the phenomena of the institutionalization of patterns of value-orientation in the social system, with the conditions of that institutionalization, and of changes in the patterns, with conditions of conformity with and deviance from such patterns, and with motivational processes insofar as these- are involved in all of these.” So, we find that social systems and social institutions play an important role in the society which acts as a cohesive tool to sustain the social structure and society. Human settlement is the complex entity of the physical habitable space wherein the social interaction in the term of economics and social relationship. But we can simply define, human settlement is an organized grouping of human habitation with basic facilities for sustenance of life. An individual is a part of the family and the family is the part of a community which in term is a part of the locality which might be a part of rural or urban centre. Further, Albert J. Reiss stated, “A society is an empirical social system that is territorially organized, whose members are recruited by sexual reproduction within it, and persists beyond the lifespan of any individual member by socializing new members to its institutions. India is a land of diversity and this diversity can be seen in the social structures too. Our society has religious groups and each religious groups are further sub-divided into caste. Caste is an Indian social phenomenon which might not be in existence in other countries. Before moving further, it's necessary to understand the difference between caste and class. Caste is an inherent social structure prevalent in our society which has been further strengthened through the provision of caste based reservation in our society through the government. Whereas class is an acquired differential status of an individual and a larger community who has acquired particular qualification or proficiency in a particular field or acquired economic status in society through individual or collective endeavour. For example, the association of lawyers, association of architects, organization of planners, Institution of engineers etc. The broad based class in terms of the economic status is the low income group, middle income group and high income group. Community is the collective sense of the group of the families which share some common religious, social and economic status. In some society the community can be based on class or caste. For example, community of Brahamins, community of Muslims, community of Christians, etc.

Aztec Philosophy

Aztec Philosophy
Author: James Maffie
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607322234

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.