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In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were tempted to take a bite out of an apple that promised them the "knowledge of good and evil." Today, a shiny apple with a bite out of it is the symbol of Apple……続きを見る

In 'Die infantile Wiederkehr des Totemismus' präsentiert Sigmund Freud eine tiefgreifende Studie über die psychologischen Ursprünge des Totemismus und dessen Wiederkehr im modernen Menschen. Mit sei……続きを見る

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen de……続きを見る

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of ……続きを見る

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die christliche Predigt eine multimodal realisierte rekonstruktiv-prospektive kommunikative Gattung ist, die die Aufgabe hat, eine Wissens-, Glaubens- u……続きを見る

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk……続きを見る

The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined,……続きを見る

The American religious scene in 1955 was a very tame and predictable world. It matched the tame, predictable world of women's clothing, where most women going out shopping wore a dress with coordina……続きを見る

When Living Together in a World Falling Apart was first published in 1974, tensions in societyーan unpopular war, racial divisions, fearful economics, the seeming futility of “success,” and widespre……続きを見る

Free audiobook link + Interactive table of contents The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to se……続きを見る

This is the first major study of the enigmatic religious society. By examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic recent expansion, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of their quasi-totalitarian mo……続きを見る

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, soc……続きを見る

This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their ……続きを見る

Over half of all American Jewish children are being raised by intermarried parents. This demographic group will have a tremendous impact on American Judaism as it is lived and practiced in the comin……続きを見る

There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for c……続きを見る

There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong……続きを見る

"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in stil……続きを見る

Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread co……続きを見る

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequent……続きを見る

This book examines 111 types of state religion policy in 177 countries between 1990 and 2008. Jonathan Fox argues that policy is largely a result of the competition between political secular actors ……続きを見る

In God vs. Darwin, Mano Singham dissects the legal battle between evolution and creationism in the classroom beginning with the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and ending with an intelligent design tria……続きを見る

In an era where church attendance has reached an all-time low, recent polling has shown that Americans are becoming less formally religious and more promiscuous in their religious commitments. Withi……続きを見る

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: Sehr gut, Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz, Veranstaltung: Fundamentaltheologie/Soziologie, Sprache: Deut……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 2,1, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit etwas, das angebl……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Körper und Geschlecht, 8 Quellen im Literatu……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Japanologie), Veranstaltung: Buddhistische Literatur im japanischen Mittelalter, 3 Quellen ……続きを見る

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: 5.5, Universität Luzern (Soziologisches Seminar), 67 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Waren d……続きを見る

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practic……続きを見る

Alfred Bellebaum beleuchtet die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen sowie soziale Ursachen und manifeste soziale und individuelle Folgen von Acedia. Die gängige Übersetzung von Acedia, griech. Wortursprun……続きを見る

Bereits die Alltagsbeobachtung zeigt, dass die Kirchen überwiegend von älteren Menschen besucht werden. Dies ist einerseits durch einen Kohorteneffekt erklärbar: Ältere Menschen wurden häufig noch i……続きを見る