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Superstition belief in the age of science / by Park, Robert L.

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Of superstition and enthusiasm by Hume, David, 1711-1776

Subjects: “…Superstition Early works to 1800.…”
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Inventing superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians / by Martin, Dale B., 1954-

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A dictionary of superstitions /

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A to Z world religion 175 countries - religions of the country, basic tenets, religious conflict, secularism, superstitions, religious clerics, and more / by Putzi-Ortiz, Sibylla

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Lucifer ascending : the occult in folklore and popular culture / by Ellis, Bill, 1950-

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Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought : An Analysis of Social Interaction / by Delaney, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Wright Mills, Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motives and Common Sense -- Symbolic Interactionism, Social Action and Common Sense -- William James, Pragmatism, Habits, and Consciousness -- Charles Horton Cooley, Symbols, Language, and Social Interaction -- George Herbert Mead, Pragmatism, the Social Act, Gestures, and Language -- Herbert Blumer, Meanings, Language, Gestures, and Social Action -- Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self and Common Sense -- Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Edmund Husserl, The Rudiments of Common Sense -- Alfred Schutz, The Life-World, Stocks of Knowledge and Common Sense -- Peter Berger, The Social Construction of Reality and Common Sense -- Ethnomethodology and the Commonsense World -- Harold Garfinkel, Taken-for-Granted World, Accounts and the Commonsense World -- Popular Culture Box 3: "The Heresy of Heresies was Common Sense"George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Explaining Common Sense: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Postmodern Era -- Introduction -- Contemporary Scholarship in the Study of Common Sense -- Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Martin Heidegger -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Paul Ricoeur -- Cornelius Castoriadis -- Antonio Gramsci and Common Sense -- Jurgen Habermas and Common Sense -- Immanuel Wallerstein and Common Sense -- Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory and Common Sense -- Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains and Common Sense -- McDonnell, Bail and Tavory, Resonance Theory and Common Sense -- Feminism and Post-feminism and Common Sense -- Postmodernism and Common Sense -- Posthumanism and Transhumanism -- Postcolonialism -- Popular Culture Box 4: Posthumanism and the Rise of Machines -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Learning About and Adhering to Common Sense -- Introductory Story -- Common Sense Is Learned Behavior -- The Socialization Process: A Critical Aspect of Learning About Common Sense -- Primary Groups -- Agents of Socialization -- Cyber Socialization and Social Media -- Observation and Personal Experience -- The Development of Enlightened Rational Thought and Reason -- Social Theoretical Explanations on How We Learn and Common Sense -- Social Learning Theory -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Subcultural Theory -- Anomie/Strain Theory -- Differential Association Theory -- Labeling Theory -- Control/Social Bond Theory -- Adhering to Common Sense -- Common Sense -- Common, Common Sense -- Popular Culture Box 5: "Robots Lack Common Sense, But They Will Shape Future Employment" -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Violating Common Sense: Uncommon Sense -- Introductory Story -- Impediments to Common Sense: -- Failure to Learn -- The Lack of a Formal Higher Education -- Overly Emotional and Irrational Fear -- Believing in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstitions and Other Oddities -- Ignorance and Stupidity -- People Doing Dumb and Stupid Things: The Award Goes To -- Darwin Awards -- Stella Awards -- Dumb Criminals -- Not Adhering to Common Sense -- Uncommon Sense: It's Bad for Our Health -- Common, Uncommon Sense -- Popular Culture Box 6: "If Seemingly Every Decision You Make in Life Turns Out to Be a Matter of Uncommon Sense, Do the Opposite!" …”
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Cult, culture, and authority Princess Liẽ̂u Hạnh in Vietnamese history / by Dror, Olga

Table of Contents: “…Writing hagiographies, creating history -- The appearance of Liẽ̂u Hạnh's cult -- Contending narratives in classical voices -- Vernacularization of the sublime -- From superstition to cultural tradition.…”
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Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF South Korean popular religion in motion / by Kendall, Laurel

Table of Contents: “…Shifting intellectual terrain: superstition becomes culture and religion -- Memory horizons: kut from two ethnographic presents -- Initiating performance: Chini's story -- The ambiguities of becoming: phony shamans and what are mudang after all? …”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Saving God religion after idolatry / by Johnston, Mark, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Supernaturalism and scientism -- Scientism and superstition -- Supernaturalism -- Legitimate naturalism -- Scientism versus science -- The argument for naturalism from true religion -- The phenomenological approach -- The method and the question -- Yahweh's use of the method -- A criterion, or an enclosed circle? …”
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