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marketsIn today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions.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.

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: Palaver Wolfgang
Название: Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness
ISBN: 1108728227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108728225
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Rene Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred. This element explores some of Girard`s main features of saintliness. Girard pleaded for the transformation of the sacred into holy, not their separation.

Автор: Adriaan van Klinken
Название: Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS
ISBN: 1409451143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409451143
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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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.

Автор: Klinken
Название: Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity
ISBN: 1138253197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138253193
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Studies of gender in African Christianity have usually focused on women. 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. Against this background Christian theologians and local churches in Africa seek to change men and transform masculinities. Exploring the complexity and ambiguity of religious gender discourses in contemporary African contexts, this book critically examines the ways in which some progressive African theologians, and a Catholic parish and a Pentecostal church in Zambia, work on a 'transformation of masculinities'.

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: Charlotte Walker-Said
Название: Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon
ISBN: 1847013279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847013279
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana ReligionsAn innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939.

Автор: Emelyn Cereno Wagan
Название: Critical Religious Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 1773613324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773613321
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Today`s architects of buildings that reach the dizzy heights where eagles dare, respectfully acknowledge the building inspiration of those who had gone before them. So it is with the building blocks of religious education and the study of history. This book is dedicated to those who continue to study the inseparable disciplines of religious studies and history.

Автор: Katharina Pyschny, Sarah Schulz
Название: Transforming Authority: Concepts of Leadership in Prophetic and Chronistic Literature
ISBN: 3110646315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110646313
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Human leadership is a multifaceted topic in the Hebrew Bible from a synchronic as well as diachronic perspective. A large range of distributions emerges from the successive sharpening or modification of different aspects of leadership. While some of them are combined to a complex figuration of leadership, others remain reserved for certain individuals. Furthermore, it can be considered a consensus within scholarly debate, that concepts of leadership have a certain connection to the history of ancient Israel which is, though, hard to ascertain. Following a previous volume that focused on the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets (BZAW 507), this volume deals with different concepts of leadership in selected Prophetic (Hag/Zech; Jer) and Chronistic literature Ezr/Neh; Chr). They are examined in a literary, (religious-/tradition-) historical and theological perspective. Special emphasis is given to phenomena of transforming authority and leadership claims in exilic/post-exilic times. Hence, the volume contributes to biblical theology and sheds new light on the redaction/reception history of the texts. Not least, it provides valuable insights into the history of religious and/or political “authorities” in Israel and Early Judaism(s).

Автор: Valliere Paul, Poole Randall
Название: Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia
ISBN: 0367861313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367861315
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book focuses on a vibrant central current within the history of Russian legal thought: how Christianity, and theistic belief generally, has inspired the aspiration to the rule of law in Russia, informed Russian philosophies of law, and shaped legal practices.

Автор: Zivkovic
Название: Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
ISBN: 1138575585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138575585
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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.