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  • A Year in White

    Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States

    par C. Lynn Carr ...
    In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices—called iyawo—endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent this initiation ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Introducing Buddha

    A Graphic Guide

    par Borin Van Loon, Jane Hope ...
    Collections series Graphic Guides
    Meditation, Karma, Zen, Tantric and Nirvana are some of the many Buddhist ideas Westerners hear of frequently, even if their meaning has been lost in translation. This vast and complex non-theistic religion is woven into the fabric of Asian civilisations. from India to the Himalayan regions, China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan and elsewhere. What is Buddhism really all about?Introducing Buddha describes ... En savoir plus

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  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    par J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • Spirited Things

    The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

    Modifié par Paul Christopher Johnson ...
    The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes

    Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond

    par Susan Rasmussen ...
    This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and in stratified but ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0

    par S. Fuller ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be. ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Visions of Zion

    Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land

    par Erin C. MacLeod ...
    In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. “Repatriation is a must!” they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. They consider it the Promised Land, and repatriation is a cornerstone of their faith. Though Ethiopians see Rastafari as immigrants, the Rastafari see ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • African Religion Defined

    A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship among the Akan

    par Anthony Ephirim-Donkor ...
    African religion is ancestor worship; it revolves around the dead, now thought to be alive and well in heaven (the Samanadzie) and propitiated by the living on earth. For the Akan, the ancestors’ stool is the emblem of the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo). Led by their kings and queen mothers as living ancestors, the Akan periodically propitiate the ancestors’ stools housing their ancestors. In return ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Neighborhood and Boulevard

    Reading through the Modern Arab City

    par K. Ziadeh ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

    The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

    Modifié par M. Yamaguchi, D. Tay, B. Blount ...
    Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Modifié par M. Kortmann, K. Rosenow-Williams ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America

    par Masood Ashraf Raja ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This highly original book suggests that the practices of Taliban and the American far right, two very significant and poorly understood groups, share common features. This commonality can be found in the philosophical basis of their ideological beliefs, in their comparative worldviews, and in their political practices. As Raja argues, the Taliban are much less the product of an irrational ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD