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This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious ideation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-23
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This book presents key conceptualizations of violence as developed by Norbert Elias. The authors explain and exemplify these concepts by analyzing Elias’s late texts, comparing his views to those of Sigmund Freud, and by analyzing the work of filmmaker Michael Haneke....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-20
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Written by a leading sociologist of Scotland, this ground-breaking new introduction is a comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
At a time of major uncertainty and transformation The New...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-03-20
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The book focuses on the history of Elias' most famous and important work "Process of Civilization" in close relation to the historical and biographical context. It starts with Elias' childhood and intellectual background and paints a detailed picture of the development...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-17
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Bernhard Schäfers erläutert in diesem essential die Entstehung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft aus dem Geist von Aufklärung und den bürgerlichen Revolutionen, zumal der französischen 1789 und ihrer Folgen. Vorwärts treibende Elemente waren neben den Parolen von Freiheit...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-16
Collection :
essentials
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Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization. It moves beyond the now largely sterile and theoretical debates about the validity of the secularization thesis or paradigm....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-16
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In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism...
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Polity
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2017-03-16
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The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.The...
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Polity
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2017-03-16
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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In diesem Band wird das gesellschaftspolitisch bedeutsame Themenfeld Diskriminierung umfassend dargestellt. Dabei wird von einem interdisziplinär tragfähigen Begriffsverständnis ausgegangen. Dargestellt werden der Stand der Forschung der relevanten wissenschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-15
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This book is novel not only in its theoretical framework, which places racialisation in post-communist societies and their modernist political projects at the centre of processes of global racism, but also in being the first account to examine both these new national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book gathers five papers presented to the ECAS’ 2013 proceedings. Following the theme of the Congress “African dynamics in a multipolar world”, the challenge was to select among the 118 papers presented those which focused in the subjects of informality and space...
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Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-03-09
Collection :
ebook'IS
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Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization. It moves beyond the now largely sterile and theoretical debates about the validity of the secularization thesis or paradigm....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-09
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This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-06
Collection :
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in the social sciences regarding the Balkans and the Near East written by researchers from several different universities and institutions. The studies include a wide range of topics from economic,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-03
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The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting – constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression are at an...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-02-27
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This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-24
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This collection examines the impact of East Asian religion and culture on the public sphere, defined as an idealized discursive arena that mediates the official and private spheres. Contending that the actors and agents on the fringes of society were instrumental in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book explains how gossip contributes to knowledge. Karen Adkins marshals scholarship and case studies spanning centuries and disciplines to show that although gossip is a constant activity in human history, it has rarely been studied as a source of knowledge....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-22
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Theoretische Ausgangspunkte der Studie bilden Einsichten aus den frühen rechtssoziologischen Arbeiten Niklas Luhmanns, nach denen sich sowohl Rechtsbildungsprozesse auf den Systemebenen von Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft als auch Rechtsstrukturen...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-20
Collection :
Organisationsstudien
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Thomas Klinger analysiert das Verhalten von Menschen, die nach einem Wohnumzug mit einer andersartigen Mobilitätskultur in Kontakt kommen, also etwa aus einem autoorientierten in ein fahrradfreundliches Umfeld wechseln. Dabei steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, ob die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-20
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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