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Superstition belief in the age of science /
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Of superstition and enthusiasm
Published 2001Subjects: “…Superstition Early works to 1800.…”
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Inventing superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians /
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Jewish magic and superstition a study in folk religion /
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A to Z world superstitions and folklore 175 countries : spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and the dead, animals, food, marriage, good luck, bad luck, totems and amulets and ancestor spirits /
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Lucifer ascending : the occult in folklore and popular culture /
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Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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Enchanted Europe superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750 /
Published 2010Subjects: “…Superstition Europe History.…”
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The superstitious muse thinking Russian literature mythopoetically /
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The devil and commodity fetishism in South America
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The reform of time magic and modernity /
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Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought : An Analysis of Social Interaction /
Published 2018Table 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 /
Published 2007Table 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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The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? …”
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Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF South Korean popular religion in motion /
Published 2009Table 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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