Search Results - "Secularity"

Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger.…”
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The hostess hospitality, femininity, and the expropriation of identity / by McNulty, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the uncanny guest -- Israel, divine hostess -- Cosmopolitan hospitality and secular ethics: Kant today -- Under the sign of the hostess: Pierre Klossowski's laws of hospitality -- Hospitality after the death of God -- Welcoming Dionysus, or, The subject as corps morcelé -- The other jouissance, a gay sçavoir: feminine hospitality and the ethics of psychoanalysis.…”
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George Rochberg, American Composer : Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity / by Wlodarski, Amy Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Rochberg : 1938-48 -- The long road to Ars combinatoria : 1943-63 -- Entropic suffering and Ars combinatoria : 1962-70 -- Jewish secularism as Ars combinatoria : 1954-87 -- A moral education for the future : 1948-2005 -- Afterword : on trauma, moral injuries, and aesthetic recoveries.…”
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George Rochberg, American Composer : Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity / by Wlodarski, Amy Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Rochberg : 1938-48 -- The long road to Ars combinatoria : 1943-63 -- Entropic suffering and Ars combinatoria : 1962-70 -- Jewish secularism as Ars combinatoria : 1954-87 -- A moral education for the future : 1948-2005 -- Afterword : on trauma, moral injuries, and aesthetic recoveries.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Thorstein Veblen and the enrichment of evolutionary naturalism by Tilman, Rick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Veblen, evolutionary naturalism, and secular humanism -- The theory of cultural lag revisited -- Veblen's cultural lag applied and compared -- On sports, religion, and gambling -- Aesthetician of the commoners -- Veblen and the sociology of control -- Veblen, Darwin, and sociobiology -- Veblen and the sociologists of knowledge -- Veblen's anthropology and structural-functional theory -- Evolutionary naturalism : its progressive enrichment.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Thorstein Veblen and the enrichment of evolutionary naturalism by Tilman, Rick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Veblen, evolutionary naturalism, and secular humanism -- The theory of cultural lag revisited -- Veblen's cultural lag applied and compared -- On sports, religion, and gambling -- Aesthetician of the commoners -- Veblen and the sociology of control -- Veblen, Darwin, and sociobiology -- Veblen and the sociologists of knowledge -- Veblen's anthropology and structural-functional theory -- Evolutionary naturalism : its progressive enrichment.…”
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Self-Help, Inc makeover culture in American life / by McGee, Micki

Table of Contents: “…From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered notions -- From power! to personal power! …”
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Unaffected by the Gospel Osage resistance to the Christian invasion (1673-1906) : a cultural victory / by Rollings, Willard H.

Table of Contents: “…The Osage : unaffected by the Gospel -- Osage hegemony on the prairie-plains -- The Protestants prepare for the Osage -- The Protestants arrive, 1821 -- Peaceful resistance and the co-option of the Protestants, 1821-1839 -- Spiritual victories, secular compromises, 1838-1859 -- The Catholics return, 1820-1870 -- Resisting the Catholics -- Ga-ni-tha, "move to a new country" -- Epilogue.…”
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The burden of democracy the claims of cultures, public culture, and democratic memory / by Souillac, Geneviève, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The burden of difference: pluralist justice and the public sphere -- Moral conversations and democratic hermeneutics -- Particularism versus universalism: a false debate? -- Secularism, culture, and critique -- Laïcité and the memory of public culture -- The ties that bind: public culture and the debt to the past -- Normative solidarity and public hermeneutics -- From intersubjectivity to encounter -- Exit of religion, debt of meaning.…”
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Unaffected by the Gospel Osage resistance to the Christian invasion (1673-1906) : a cultural victory / by Rollings, Willard H.

Table of Contents: “…The Osage : unaffected by the Gospel -- Osage hegemony on the prairie-plains -- The Protestants prepare for the Osage -- The Protestants arrive, 1821 -- Peaceful resistance and the co-option of the Protestants, 1821-1839 -- Spiritual victories, secular compromises, 1838-1859 -- The Catholics return, 1820-1870 -- Resisting the Catholics -- Ga-ni-tha, "move to a new country" -- Epilogue.…”
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The burden of democracy the claims of cultures, public culture, and democratic memory / by Souillac, Geneviève, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The burden of difference: pluralist justice and the public sphere -- Moral conversations and democratic hermeneutics -- Particularism versus universalism: a false debate? -- Secularism, culture, and critique -- Laïcité and the memory of public culture -- The ties that bind: public culture and the debt to the past -- Normative solidarity and public hermeneutics -- From intersubjectivity to encounter -- Exit of religion, debt of meaning.…”
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Self-Help, Inc makeover culture in American life / by McGee, Micki

Table of Contents: “…From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered notions -- From power! to personal power! …”
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When colleges sang the story of singing in American college life / by Winstead, J. Lloyd, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…College singing amid the Puritan culture, 1636-1700 -- Sacred and secular college singing, 1700-1800 -- Singing in student organizations, 1800-1850 -- The first college songbooks, 1850-1890 -- College singing at the turn of the century, 1890-1910 -- Warring, roaring, and scoring, 1910-1930 -- Sounds of college life, 1930-1950 -- Singing traditions, 1950-present.…”
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When colleges sang the story of singing in American college life / by Winstead, J. Lloyd, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…College singing amid the Puritan culture, 1636-1700 -- Sacred and secular college singing, 1700-1800 -- Singing in student organizations, 1800-1850 -- The first college songbooks, 1850-1890 -- College singing at the turn of the century, 1890-1910 -- Warring, roaring, and scoring, 1910-1930 -- Sounds of college life, 1930-1950 -- Singing traditions, 1950-present.…”
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European others queering ethnicity in postnational Europe / by El-Tayeb, Fatima

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".…”
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The martyrs of Karbala Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran / by Aghaie, Kamran Scot

Table of Contents: “…A brief historical background of Shi'ism and Moharram -- The Qajar elites and religious patronage (1796-1925) -- Qajar society and religious culture : Tehran as a case study -- The Pahlavi regime and the emergence of secular modernism (1925-1979) -- Religious rituals, society and politics during the Pahlavi period -- Hoseyn "the prince of martyrs" -- Fatemeh, Zeynab, and emerging discourses on gender -- The Islamic republic.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture / by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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The rise of modern Yiddish culture / by Fishman, David E., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The rise of modern Yiddish culture : an overview -- The politics of Yiddish -- Language and revolution : Hevrat mefitse haskalah in 1905 -- The Bund's contribution -- Reinventing community -- New trends in interwar Yiddish culture -- The Judaism of secular Yiddishists -- Commemoration and cultural conflict : the Vilna Gaon's bicentennary -- Max Weinreich and the development of YIVO -- Embers plucked from the fire : the rescue of Jewish cultural treasures in Vilna.…”
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