Between Sacrifice And Desire

Author : Ashley Pettus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135945500
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Sacrifice and Desire written by Ashley Pettus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the role of women in the politics of national identity in Vietnam. Drawing on diverse primary resources--including state news media, government contests, tabloid journalism, and extensive interviews--the author examines the intimate connection between notions of Vietnamese femininity and the cultural quandaries of modernity in post-colonial Vietnam. The book covers the socialist and market reform periods (from the 1950s through the 1990s) and examines women's central place--as both symbols and disciplined subjects--in Vietnam's socialist modernization and ongoing capitalist transition.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226548197
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire written by Carol Ann Muller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226548201
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire written by Carol Ann Muller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.

Author : Charles H. Stocking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107164265
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry written by Charles H. Stocking and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of sacrifice based on Greek myth and poetics in conjunction with recent research in anthropology.

Author : Dennis King Keenan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217691
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Question of Sacrifice written by Dennis King Keenan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical exploration of the ethics and politics of sacrifice.

Author : Robert Petkovsek
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643909179
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice written by Robert Petkovsek and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various fundamental and vital areas and aspects of human life are in some way crucially interwoven with the ideas, ideals, and practices of sacrifice. As an attention-grabbing example of how importantly sacrifice may influence society, let us mention (suicide) terrorist attacks that by spreading sorrow, panics, and fear have changed the face of today's world. But the importance of sacrifice reaches broader and deeper. The authors of this book show that it is connected with the origins of human culture and its transformations. This interdisciplinary book brings the results of the research in the areas of humanities and social science. Various aspects of sacrifice are considered and connected. The book is an important contribution to the formation of a culture of sacrifice and offering, appropriate for the modern world. Professor Robert Petkovsek is the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana. Research Professor Bojan Zalec is the Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

Author : Joshua Nunziato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481396
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Economy of Sacrifice written by Joshua Nunziato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first book-length treatment of what Augustinian thought has to offer contemporary economic theory.

Author : Julia Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199659281
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice and Modern Thought written by Julia Meszaros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories, theological controversies, philosophical interpretations, and literary uses of sacrifice.

Author : Jon Pahl
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814768954
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Sacrifice written by Jon Pahl and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.

Author : Clayton Fordahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000046435
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Sacrifice written by Clayton Fordahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical, and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behavior and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death, it provides a novel interpretation of Western political and religious history. In addition to thus redressing the disproportionate attention given to the concept’s relationship to Islam, the author offers a new perspective on two defining historical processes: secularization and the rise of modern sovereignty in the form of the nation-state. An innovative analysis of the role of sacrifice in contemporary culture, which constitutes a timely critique of long-dominant theories of disenchantment and the privatization of religion, The Ultimate Sacrifice will appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in religion, politics, and the connection between the two.