Search Results - "Myth"

The essential Dürer

Table of Contents: “…Dürer : man, media, and myths / Larry Silver -- 2. Dürer's drawings / Christiane Andersson and Larry Silver -- 3. …”
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The essential Dürer

Table of Contents: “…Dürer : man, media, and myths / Larry Silver -- 2. Dürer's drawings / Christiane Andersson and Larry Silver -- 3. …”
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Israeli and Palestinian narratives of conflict history's double helix /

Table of Contents: “…/ Mordechai Bar-On -- Narratives and myths about Arab intransigence toward Israel / Mark Tessler -- The bridging narrative concept / Ilan Pappe -- The psychology of better dialogue between two separate but interdependent narratives / Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan -- Contesting national identity in Palestinian education / Nathan J. …”
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Levinas and the ancients

Table of Contents: “…Gonzalez -- Getting under the skin : Platonic myths in Levinas / Tanja Stähler -- Lending assistance always to itself : Levinas' infinite conversation with Platonic dialogue / Michael Naas -- Ethics as first philosophy : Aristotelian reflections on intelligence, sensibility, and transcendence / Claudia Baracchi -- Aristotle and Levinas on war and peace : the one against the other / Catriona Hanley -- Stoic ethics and totality in light of Levinasian alterity / Julie Piering -- Of a non-saying that says nothing : Levinas and Pyrrhonism / Pierre Lamarche -- The time and language of messianism : Levinas and Saint Paul / Bettina Bergo -- Proximity in distance : Levinas and Plotinus / John Izzi -- A trace of the eternal return? …”
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Biblical argument in Manichaean missionary practice the case of Adimantus and Augustine / by Berg, Jacob Albert van den, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Relevance -- Method -- The Contra faustum and the Capitula -- Writings against the superstitio of the Jews -- Writings against the deceit of the 'semi-christiani' -- Faustus' introduction to his Capitula -- Adimantus' fame as 'Paraclete' -- Adimantus' criticism of Christ's genealogies -- Adimantus' criticism of positive references to the Hebrew Bible -- Concluding remarks -- Other works -- The Modion -- Adimantus on the Manichaean myth -- The Kephalaia -- Evaluation -- Conclusions and suggestions for further research.…”
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Beyond September 11 an anthology of dissent /

Table of Contents: “…: corporate moralism and the 'war against terrorism' / Dave Whyte -- Markets, regulation and risk : the US Airlines industry and some fallout from September 11 / Steve Tombs -- Dangers of the armed response at home / Mick North -- Terrorism, neighbours and Nuremberg / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Pledging allegiance : the revival of prescriptive patriotism / Cecilia O'Leary and Tony Platt -- My fellow Americans : looking black on red Tuesday / Jonathan David Farley -- Neither pure nor vile / Mike Marqusee -- The lion, the witch and the warmonger : 'good', 'evil' and the shattering of imperial myth / Howard Davis -- Beyond September 11 : certainties and doubts / Barbara Hudson -- Could Osama Bin Laden have been a woman? …”
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Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…"When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan -- Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick -- Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan -- "The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto -- "The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas -- Uncanny Catholicism. …”
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Crimes against women

Table of Contents: “…The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian -- The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand -- Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti -- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak -- Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: legal aspects / Eileen Servidio-Delabre -- Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins -- Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner -- Imperial Japan and its comfort women / David Wingate Pike -- Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov -- Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr -- The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto -- Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba -- Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. …”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…Nitschke -- The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels -- Shifting worldviews -- Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf -- The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine -- The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs -- Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru.…”
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Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations /

Table of Contents: “…hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources of philosophical anthropology -- Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical anthropology at work -- Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral -- Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought -- Heidrun friese -- Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.…”
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The "Good War" in American memory / by Bodnar, John E., 1944-

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Biblical argument in Manichaean missionary practice the case of Adimantus and Augustine / by Berg, Jacob Albert van den, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Relevance -- Method -- The Contra faustum and the Capitula -- Writings against the superstitio of the Jews -- Writings against the deceit of the 'semi-christiani' -- Faustus' introduction to his Capitula -- Adimantus' fame as 'Paraclete' -- Adimantus' criticism of Christ's genealogies -- Adimantus' criticism of positive references to the Hebrew Bible -- Concluding remarks -- Other works -- The Modion -- Adimantus on the Manichaean myth -- The Kephalaia -- Evaluation -- Conclusions and suggestions for further research.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Beyond September 11 an anthology of dissent /

Table of Contents: “…: corporate moralism and the 'war against terrorism' / Dave Whyte -- Markets, regulation and risk : the US Airlines industry and some fallout from September 11 / Steve Tombs -- Dangers of the armed response at home / Mick North -- Terrorism, neighbours and Nuremberg / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Pledging allegiance : the revival of prescriptive patriotism / Cecilia O'Leary and Tony Platt -- My fellow Americans : looking black on red Tuesday / Jonathan David Farley -- Neither pure nor vile / Mike Marqusee -- The lion, the witch and the warmonger : 'good', 'evil' and the shattering of imperial myth / Howard Davis -- Beyond September 11 : certainties and doubts / Barbara Hudson -- Could Osama Bin Laden have been a woman? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…"When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan -- Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick -- Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan -- "The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto -- "The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas -- Uncanny Catholicism. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Crimes against women

Table of Contents: “…The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian -- The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand -- Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti -- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak -- Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: legal aspects / Eileen Servidio-Delabre -- Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins -- Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner -- Imperial Japan and its comfort women / David Wingate Pike -- Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov -- Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr -- The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto -- Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba -- Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…Nitschke -- The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels -- Shifting worldviews -- Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf -- The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine -- The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs -- Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations /

Table of Contents: “…hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources of philosophical anthropology -- Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical anthropology at work -- Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral -- Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought -- Heidrun friese -- Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.…”
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The "Good War" in American memory / by Bodnar, John E., 1944-

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Challenging Multiculturalism : European Models of Diversity /

Table of Contents: “…. / Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood ; The Dutch Multicultural Myth / Peter Scholten ; Immigrant Integration and Multiculturalism in Belgium / Marco Martiniello ; The Political Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Sweden / Karin Borevi. -- Part III: Multicultural Societies without Multiculturalism?. …”
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Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…Chunnu -- How Fear, Once Created and Spread, Is Used for Political Ends -- 8.A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin: The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran / Lukasz Kamienski -- 9.The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Brecht De Smet -- 10.Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors: Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left / Jeffrey A. …”
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