Author : Gebhard Fartacek
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category :
ISBN : 9783631850527
This book is concerned with conceptions of rebirth among the Druze in the Middle East. Based on ethnographic field research and interviews with interlocutors, the book explores constructions of personal and collective identities from the perspectives of social anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, cultural geography, and political science.
Author : Shireen Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131746124X
In recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons for the failure of reformist movements to sustain broad support in the Islamic world today. Richly detailed regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Maghreb, South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Europe, and North America. The editor's introductory chapter traces the roots of reformist thinking both in Islamic tradition and as a response to the challenge of modernity for Muslims struggling to reconcile the requirements of modernization with their cultural and religious values. The concluding chapter identifies commonalities, comparisons, and trends in the modernizing movements.
Author : Nissim Dana
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
A general discussion of the Druze in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Druze relationship with the State of Israel.
Author : Dina Matar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2024-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0755654285
Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palestinians. Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – crossing genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries. It offers sixteen 'cases' which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization. These cases cover a wide array of spaces of production such as poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos and many more. Producing Palestine contends that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines.
Author : Richard Bullivant
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781517443665
Have you lived before?Suddenly the idea of reincarnation has produced a wave of resonance in modern society and struck a chord. This book documents the growing public acceptance of the possibility that all of us will live again after we finish our present 'go-around' on the planet Earth. The ancient concept of reincarnation and past lives has not only re-emerged into our modern consciousness, but seems to have become a more natural and accepted part of our world view.Some studies show that twenty-five percent of people in modern western countries now agree that reincarnation is not only possible, but a reality. The implications of this are enormous.Imagine a population that has been released from the fear of death. Suddenly, we have all the time in the world - eternity, in fact! Life now takes on a new dimension of meaning. We realize that this is not all there is and we also understand that we are more than our physical bodies and because we are more than our physical bodies, we can access that which is beyond the physical. Our potential is virtually unlimited.Freedom from the fear of death is a kind of universal freedom that can flow across all aspects of life and living. Knowing that we are not mere physical lumps of biological matter, but indestructible souls constructed of pure consciousness is a magnificent vision for humanity.Knowing that we are 'souls' means that we can live out our lives from that basic understanding. It is the ultimate empowerment. No doubt many will remain sceptical about the possibility of reincarnation. But it seems this is a concept and a phenomenon that is not going away. Those amazing headlines in the media just keep coming. Every day more people - average, ordinary everyday people - are discovering that they have an undeniable connection to something larger, something infinite and something absolutely amazing.Table of Contents Bentreshyt - A Priestess of Isis The Reawakening of Marty Martyn Past Lives on Other Planets The Interesting Case of Sherrie Lea Laird and Marilyn Life on Mars Group Reincarnation The Druze The Genius Connection The Science of Reincarnation
Author : John Gledhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000190072
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology’s eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the subject’s relevance to the contemporary world.Based on contributions to the ASA-sponsored IUAES World Anthropology Congress in Manchester, UK, this truly global book brings together a wide range of international scholars who might otherwise not talk to each other. Featuring articles from leading figures in the field such as Yolanda Moses, Winnie Lem, Carmen Rial, Miriam Grossi, and Cristina Amescua, the volume covers topics as diverse as the mobility of Brazilian football players, toilets in South Africa, trade unions in Nepal and South Africa, peace-building in southern Thailand, museological approaches in China, the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, immigration and race in the United States, and many more. Edited by John Gledhill, the text offers a much-needed insight into the way in which anthropology is developing worldwide and makes a tremendous contribution to the discussion of ‘world anthropologies’. An important, timely work for students and researchers.
Author : Ian Stevenson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813908724
Cases of responsive xenoglossy thus add to the evidence concerning the survival of human personality after death.
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Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Ian Stevenson, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1476601151
Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Westerners have traditionally rejected the idea. Recently, however, surveys conducted in Europe indicate a substantial increase in the number of Europeans who believe in reincarnation, and numerous claims of reincarnation have been reported. This book examines particular cases in Europe that are suggestive of reincarnation. The first section provides a brief history of the belief in reincarnation among Europeans. The second section considers eight cases from the first third of the twentieth century that were not independently investigated, but were reported and sometimes published by the persons concerned. The third section covers 32 cases from the second half of the twentieth century that were investigated by the author. Many of these cases involved either children who exhibited unusual behavior attributed to a previous life, or adults who experienced recurrent or vivid dreams attributed to a previous life. In the fourth section, the author compares European cases suggestive of reincarnation with those of other countries and cultures.
Author : Tom Shroder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0743218922
A riveting firsthand account of one man’s mission to investigate and document some of the most astonishing phenomena of our time—children who speak of past life memory and reincarnation. All across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken “home,” pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from another life, and know things that there seems to be no normal way for them to know. From the moment these children can talk, they speak of people and events from the past—not vague stories of centuries ago, but details of specific, identifiable individuals who may have died just months, weeks, or even hours before the birth of the child in question. For thirty-seven years, Dr. Ian Stevenson has traveled the world from Lebanon to suburban Virginia investigating and documenting more than two thousand of these past life memory cases. Now, his essentially unknown work is being brought to the mainstream by Tom Shroder, the first journalist to have the privilege of accompanying Dr. Stevenson in his fieldwork. Shroder follows Stevenson into the lives of children and families touched by this phenomenon, changing from skeptic to believer as he comes face-to-face with concrete evidence he cannot discount in this spellbinding and true story.
