Transforming Bodies and Religion, 

Автор: Frazer, James George
Название: The Golden Bough
ISBN: 0199538824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538829
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience. In it some of the more controversial passages were dropped, including Frazer's daring speculations on the Crucifixion of Christ. For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer's bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes. A seminal work of modern anthropology, The Golden Bough also influenced many twentieth-century writers, including D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis. Its discussion of magical types, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, and the scapegoat is given fresh pertinence in this new edition.

Автор: MacKenzie Donald
Название: Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
ISBN: 0691211388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691211381
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading-automated high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the world.

HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a nanosecond the fastest possible signal-light in a vacuum-can travel only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges' systems and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals between computer datacenters.

Drawing from more than 300 interviews with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff, regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the future.

Автор: Zivkovic
Название: Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
ISBN: 1138575585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138575585
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Contextualising the seemingly esoteric and exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture within the everyday, embodied and sensual sphere of religious praxis, this book centres on the social and religious lives of deceased Tibetan Buddhist lamas. It explores how posterior forms - corpses, relics, reincarnations and hagiographical representations - extend a lama's trajectory of lives and manipulate biological imperatives of birth and death.

The book looks closely at previously unexamined figures whose history is relevant to a better understanding of how Tibetan culture navigates its own understanding of reincarnation, the veneration of relics and different social roles of different types of practitioners. It analyses both the minutiae of everyday interrelations between lamas and their devotees, specifically noted in ritual performances and the enactment of lived tradition, and the sacred hagiographical conventions that underpin local knowledge.

A phenomenology of Tibetan Buddhist life, the book provides an ethnography of the everyday embodiment of Tibetan Buddhism. This unusual approach offers a valuable and a genuine new perspective on Tibetan Buddhist culture and is of interest to researchers in the fields of social/cultural anthropology and religious, Buddhist and Tibetan studies.

Автор: Tsentourou, Naya
Название: Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion
ISBN: 036788738X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367887384
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton`s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses. Naya Tsentourou demonstrates Milton`s profound engagement

Автор: Gail P. Streete
Название: Violated and Transcended Bodies
ISBN: 1009054155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009054157
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, Martyrdom and asceticism as Christian performances that overcome human limitations, and analyses the relationship of gender to status in martyrologies, hagiographies, and apocryphal early Christian literature.

Автор: H. Chong
Название: In Search of God`s Power in Broken Bodies
ISBN: 1349462772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349462773
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological perspectives, while exploring the centrality of body in theological discourse.

Автор: Douglas Kelly Brown
Название: Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant
ISBN: 1349297429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349297429
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Описание: Blues is absolutely vital to black theological reflection and to the black church`s existence. In Black Bodies and the Black Church , author Kelly Douglas Brown develops a blues crossroad theology, which allows the black church to remain true to itself and relevant in black lives.

Автор: Bird, Darlene
Название: Bodies in Question
ISBN: 1032099887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032099880
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Описание: Exploring a range of subjects from the human genome project to Kierkegaard`s Fear and Trembling, the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian art, the contributors pose questions around the theme `Body and Voice`. Questions raised include: `Who speaks for the foetus and on what basis?`; `What effect does the near-sacrifice of Isaac have on mo

Автор: Eboni Marshall Turman
Название: Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation
ISBN: 1349477826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349477821
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Описание: The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women`s oppression persists in black churches? This book engages the Chalcedonian Definition as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma.

Автор: Margi Prideaux
Название: Global Environmental Governance, Civil Society and Wildlife: Birdsong After the Storm
ISBN: 0367264609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367264604
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The world faces unprecedented environmental and political change and if we are not alert, international triage decisions about species and local ecosystems will be made without local perspective or accountability. This book illuminates a clear pathway for the environmental, non-governmental community to transition into a co-governance role.

Название: Transforming bodies and religions
ISBN: 0367559676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367559670
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on `transforming bodies`: bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

Автор: Adriaan van Klinken
Название: Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS
ISBN: 1409451143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409451143
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Описание: This book draws attention to men and constructions of masculinity, particularly important in light of the HIV epidemic which has given rise to a critical investigation of dominant forms of masculinity. These are often associated with the spread of HIV, gender-based violence and oppression of women.