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  • Urban Religious Events

    Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt, Julia Martinez-Ariño ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities.This book argues that religious events – including rituals, processions, and festivals – are not only choreographies of sacred ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization / Reflect 8

    Edited by nai010 uitgevers/publishers ...
    Should artists be activists? Is activist art one of an artists primary responsibilities or a pointless sideshow on the fringes of serious politics? The philosopher, writer and art historian Lieven de Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck explore this theme in collaboration with other thinkers and doers in his new book Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. In a time of globalization ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • THE CULTURE WAR

    How the West Lost Its Greatness & Was Weakened From Within

    by Hanne Nabintu Herland ...
    The Culture War. How the West lost its greatness and was weakened from within outlines how the West lost its values, causing its current decline. It is a forceful attack on the extreme liberal, anti-religious ideology which since the 1960’s has permeated the Western culture and weakened its very core. The West is now characterized by strict elitist media censorship, hedonism, a culture of drug ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • If God Were a Human Rights Activist

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better ... Read more

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  • The Subversive Imagination

    The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity

    by Carol Becker ...
    In The Subversive Imagination , professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the ... Read more

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  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    Edited by Gordon Lynch, Jolyon Mitchell, Anna Strhan ...
    This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:Religion, spirituality and consumer cultureMedia and the transformation of religionThe sacred senses: visual, material and audio cultureReligion, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • World Literature in Theory

    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Why Study Religion?

    Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine

    by Terry Muck ...
    Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic ContextThis brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains how it can be approached by Christian students. He explores the contemporary significance of studying ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation

    by Liz Bucar ...
    “Bucar’s sharp insights, shot through with humor and self-awareness, are exactly what we need the next time we reach over to borrow from someone else’s religion for our own therapeutic, political, or educational needs.”—Gene Demby, cohost and correspondent for NPR’s Code Switch“So finely written, so intelligent and fair, and laced with such surprising discoveries that it deserves a reader’s full ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Making Place

    Space and Embodiment in the City

    Edited by Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman ...
    An analysis of how city dwellers interact with their social and materials worlds in everyday life and how this affects their bodies.Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are ... Read more

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