Sociology
epub |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]

Symbolic War “That was the most marvellous experience of my life,” explained Richard Butler, describing his first reaction to the Christian Identity theory of cosmic war. “The lights started turning ...
( Category: Specific Topics January 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [Jr., Eddie S. Glaude]

African Americans from every sector of life were drafted to fight the battle against fascism in World War II. More than 3 million African American men enlisted in the armed ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chun-chieh Huang & John Allen Tucker

12His disenchanted metaphysics was certainly not accompanied by the enthusiasm that the disappearance of the old cosmology provoked in the first modern European minds – Giordano Bruno or Bacon. 13Seiryō, ...
( Category: Religious December 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-12-10 | Author:Joseph A. Massad [Massad, Joseph A.]

13 See Leila Ahmed’s discussion of Montagu in Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 121–22. 14 Quoted in Andrea, “Islam, Women, and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-24 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

The anthropological record tells us that in moving from the smallest scale human societies to largest and most complex human societies, the following patterns emerge: • Big Gods go from ...
( Category: Sociology October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Mark Juergensmeyer [Juergensmeyer, Mark]

A process like the removal of the primal father by the band of brothers must have left ineradicable traces in the history of mankind and must have expressed itself the ...
( Category: Psychology July 31,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:James M. Nelson [Nelson, James M.]

11.2.2.2 Islamic View of the Person While there is not a single Islamic view of the human person, in general Islamic theory rejects reductionistic and dualistic models that focus just ...
( Category: Sociology July 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Jennifer Percy [Percy, Jennifer]

PART IV THE WAR ON TERROR IN BIBLICAL TERMS Bobby says he was bullied in elementary school, middle school, and high school. He has a sweet, singsongy voice. He says ...
( Category: Veterans June 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carla Power

10 Reading “The Women” When I told a Muslim friend of mine that I was to be studying with a sheikh, she had one request. “Ask him,” she said, “why ...
( Category: Sociology June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]

13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category: General June 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Hitchens Christopher [Christopher, Hitchens]

Chapter Eleven "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. —SIGMUND ...
( Category: Sociology June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Lewis, James R., Cusack, Carole M.

Chapter 8 So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes Mattias Gardell Introduction In the biblical story of Samson (Judges 13–16), the ...
( Category: Suicide June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Tippett, Krista [Tippett, Krista]

I began to find my way to do this at a Benedictine monastery, Saint John’s Abbey, and its sister community, Saint Benedict’s, down the road in central Minnesota—a part of ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 11,2015 )