Author: Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: modernity, traditions, religious, indigenous, primitivism
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-12-18
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415273196
ISBN-13: 9780415273190

At a time when local traditions across the world are forcibly colliding with global culture, Beyond Primitivism explores the future of indigenous religions as they encounter modernity and globalisation. Under the auspices of Jacob K. Olupona and the brightest international commentators including Charles Long, David Chidester and Bruce Lincoln, the book offers an essential historical and comparative analysis of the significance of indigenous faiths today.

Author: David Appelbaum
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Keywords: traditions, esoteric, western, series, stop
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1995-04
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0791423816
ISBN-13: 9780791423813

This book is about the turn toward consciousness by which we pass from ignorance to knowledge. The stop is the spark of initiation that arouses our habitual inattentiveness, motivating us toward a higherunderstanding. The central axis of The Stop is the secret turn of awareness by which we pass from ignorance to knowledge. The stop, then, is the spark of initiation, intense enough to arouse consciousness from its slumber and to motivate the difficult journey to a higher understanding. To stop is to begin a movement toward consciousness.

Author: John Cowley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: making, traditions, calypso, canboulay, carnival
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1999-02-13
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0521653894
ISBN-13: 9780521653893

Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and beyond. Calypso emerged as the preeminent Carnival song form at the end of the nineteenth century and its association with the festival is investigated, as are the first commercial recordings by Trinidad performers. Considerable use is made of contemporary newspaper reports, colonial documents, travelogues, oral history and folklore, providing an authoritative treatment of a fascinating story in popular cultura

Author: Barbara Freyer Stowasser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: interpretation, traditions, qur, women
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1996-08-22
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0195111486
ISBN-13: 9780195111484

Islamic ideas about women and their role in society spark considerable debate both in the Western world and in the Islamic world itself. Despite the popular attention surrounding Middle Eastern attitudes toward women, there has been little systematic study of the statements regarding women in the Qur’an. Stowasser fills the void with this study on the women of Islamic sacred history. By telling their stories in Qur’an and interpretation, she introduces Islamic doctrine and its past and present socio-economic and political applications. Stowasser establishes the link between the fem

Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: traditions, language, text, homer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-10-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252029836
ISBN-13: 9780252029837

As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy’s essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies, there has been an ongoing debate centering on different ways to establish the text of Homer and the different ways to a

Author: C. H. Van Rhee
Publisher: Intersentia
Keywords: commune, europaeum, ius, procedure, traditions, civil, european
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-09
List price: $92.50
ISBN-10: 905095491X
ISBN-13: 9789050954914

Author: William Lewis
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: marxism, french, traditions, althusser, louis
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2005-10-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0739113070
ISBN-13: 9780739113073

In a careful exposition of French Marxism, William Lewis places Althusser and his thought alongside the pre- and post-war French communist intellectual climate: the result is an excellent and unique work. Part theoretical treatise on some of Althusser’s more complicated and less explored ideas, part intellectual history, Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism is, in total, an important text for philosophy, French and francophone studies, political thought, cultural studies, marxist thought, and several other disciplines interested in the intellectual life and times of the t