Ban of the Bori: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North by A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman) Tremearne

By A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman) Tremearne

Absolutely illustrated. Chapters contain: The starting place of the Hausa Colonies in North Africa; Totemism and King-killing; own Enhancement and get dressed; Habitations and family lifestyles; beginning and Puberty; demise and the After-Life; Magic. The Saints and the Magicians; Magic within the House—Love Charms; Magic within the House—Self-Preservation; Magic within the Fields—^Agriculture, and so forth; Magic within the Fields—Hunting, and so on; Superstitions and Omens; Bori - The Black Spirits; Bori - The Temples and the Sect, and extra.

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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (Hellenistic Culture and by Julia E. Annas

By Julia E. Annas

Hellenistic Philosophy of brain is a chic survey of Stoic and Epicurean principles in regards to the soul--an advent to 2 historic colleges whose trust within the soul's physicality supply compelling parallels to fashionable techniques within the philosophy of brain. Annas accommodates fresh considering on Hellenistic philosophy of brain so lucidly and authoritatively that experts and nonspecialists alike will locate her booklet rewarding.In half, the Hellenistic epoch used to be a "scientific" interval that broke with culture in ways in which have an affinity with the fashionable shift from the 17th and eighteenth centuries to the current day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is actually a philosophy of brain, particularly within the therapy of such issues as belief, idea, and motion.

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Scripture, Reason, and the Contemporary Islam-West by Steven Kepnes, Basit Bilal Koshul

By Steven Kepnes, Basit Bilal Koshul

As a spiritual culture of the “East,” Islam has frequently been portrayed as “other” to the Western Traditions of Judaism and Christianity. The essays during this assortment use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to underscore the deep affinities among the 3 monotheistic traditions whilst that admire for ameliorations among the traditions are preserved. The essays are specific in trying to collect either modern educational and standard scholarship on scriptural texts to heal the rift among culture and the modern international.

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Alterity and Facticity: New Perspectives on Husserl by Vincenzo Costa (auth.), Natalie Depraz, Dan Zahavi (eds.)

By Vincenzo Costa (auth.), Natalie Depraz, Dan Zahavi (eds.)

Husserl's phenomenology has frequently been criticized for its Cartesian, fundamentalistic, idealistic and solipsistic nature. this present day, this frequent interpretation needs to be considered as being superseded, because it offers yet a really partial and constrained photo of Husserl's pondering. the ongoing ebook of Husserl's examine manuscripts has disclosed analyses that have made it essential to revise and adjust a couple of regular readings.
This anthology files the hot improvement in Husserl study. It includes contributions from a few younger phenomenologists, who've all defended their dissertation on Husserl within the nineties, and it offers a brand new kind of interpretation which emphasizes the scale of facticity, passivity, alterity and ethics in Husserl's thinking.

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Policing Football: Social Interaction and Negotiated by M. O'Neill

By M. O'Neill

This publication provides a severe portrait of the British police via a close ethnography in their paintings at soccer suits. Megan O'Neill not just sheds gentle on an issue of extreme media curiosity, soccer hooliganism, but additionally offers the police in a wholly clean standpoint. by utilizing the paintings of Erving Goffman, she demonstrates how the police are a much from unified strength. Their casual interplay "teams" divide them operationally and socially.

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La infancia recuperada by Fernando Savater

By Fernando Savater

«Este es un libro sobre libros: un libro sobre el amor a los libros y sobre los angeles fuerza absorta de leer.»
Fernando Savater

La infancia recuperada es un conjuro literario para evocar l. a. huella gozosa dejada en l. a. memoria del escritor por los relatos que animaron su adolescencia y primera juventud. Un proyecto que Fernando Savater continuaría desarrollando más adelante en Criaturas del aire. Porque las hermosas historias inventadas por Robert L. Stevenson, Julio Verne, Zane gray, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Karl might y Conan Doyle, las heroicas hazañas de Sandokan o las divertidas aventuras de Guillermo Brown forman parte de un universo mítico situado por encima de las modas y de las edades.

En el prólogo que escribiera en su día para l. a. edición de bolsillo (aparecida diez años después de su publicación original), Fernando Savater explica los motivos que le impulsaron a escribir esta obra «sobre el amor a los libros y sobre l. a. fuerza absorta de leer» y aclara algunos malentendidos en torno a sus propósitos.

«Es descabellado suponer que mientras haya gente afectada por esta maldición del ansia insaciable de cuentos, incapaces de considerar l. a. sabiduría o el amor fuera del prisma de lo narrativo, inútiles para otra perspectiva de l. a. acción que no sea el punto de vista del héroe, es descabellado suponer que mientras haya enfermos incurables del mito, como lo soy yo, las historias perdurarán aunque se hunda l. a. literatura y los angeles cultura toda que conocemos?»
Fernando Savater

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