New book from Equinox Publishing
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes Edited by Molly Bassett and Natalie Avalos
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes aims to answer many of the questions that come to mind when we think about the religious lives of Native and Indigenous peoples of the world. Scholars from many fields answer dozens of questions about a wide variety of specific Indigenous religious traditions and an array of the ideas, practices, and beliefs many people associate with them. Do Native peoples have “creator Gods?” What is shamanism? What makes a religion “Indigenous?” Is Paganism considered an Indigenous religious tradition? We also interrogate the concept of "Indigenous religious traditions," by asking what the phrase means in relation to the larger fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Religious Studies, whether all religions were at some point "indigenous," and what the value of studying Indigenous religious traditions is today.
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Specialists respond to questions like these and many others in easily accessible language and provide references for further exploration, making this volume useful for personal study or classroom use.
Format: 216 x 140mm (8.5 x 5.5 inches) Series: Religion in 5 Minutes Readership: students and general readers Subject: Religious Studies; Indigenous Religions
The Editors Molly Bassett is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta on the traditional lands of the Muscogee/Creek. Her first bookThe Fate of Earthly Things, a study of Aztec gods and god-bodies, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2015. Natalie Avalos is an Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Ethnic Studies department at University of Colorado Boulder, which sits within Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Territories.
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Archaeology at Home Notes on Things, Life and Time Hein B. Bjerck A majestic work, full of experiment and sensuous detail. Equally haunting, melancholic, and amusing: a narrative tour-de-force. Hein Bjerck writes with a unique voice, evoking place, people, and emotion with affect seldom, if ever, found in archaeological or historic text. Part love-letter to his father, uncle, and his own past, part meditation on objects, things, memory, humanity, relationships, and the passage of time, Archaeology at Home exceeds the boundaries of any one discipline. An instant classic. Professor Doug Bailey, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University In a unique and highly readable account, the author reveals what all archaeologists know but others may not - that archaeologists make the best story-tellers and that our stories will be contemporary and they can be deeply intimate. And aren't those stories always the best?! Professor John Schofield, Archaeology, University of York
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Archaeology at Home takes a deep dive into the entanglements between humans and their things, exploring the notion that things themselves “remember” when left by “their” people and illustrating how the integration of humans and things things involves connections running all the way from the present into deep time.
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Combining methods from contemporary and deep-time archaeology and balancing scholarly archaeology with personal narrative, the author presents three case studies of homes all intimately known to him — the home of his father after his abrupt passing, the home of his uncle that was lost in a fire, and a Stone Age home he excavated many years ago.
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Pub date: July 2022 Extent: 180pp 58 colour photos Readership: scholars, students and general readers Subject: Archaeology
This evocative approach to archaeologies of memory will be appreciated by professional archaeologists as well as members of the general public who are drawn to the study of the past and things that connect us with it.
The Author Hein B. Bjerck is professor in archaeology (research and teaching) at the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim.
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Humans and Non-Humans that found their way into this book 1. When does the past begin? 2. My father’s things 3. Scorched memories from my uncle’s burnt home 4. A home from the deep past 5. Archaeology at Home – Things, Memories, Life and Time
This book will be essential reading for anybody interested in the archaeology of the contemporary past, the archaeology of domestic space and new forms of storytelling in the humanities and the social sciences. Alfredo González-Ruibal, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Spanish National Research Council) It is a deep and moving book, that seems to begin as a funny challenge: may an archaeologist do an archaeology of his/her own home? Far beyond family chronicles, Bjerck has written a remarkable and sensitive essay on things, life and time, seen from inside. Professor Laurent Olivier, Curator in chief, Musée d'Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France Archaeology at Home is inspiring, thought provoking and evocative. It also contains an ingredient rarely found in archaeological writing and research – humour. Dr. Marion Dowd, Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute of Technology Sligo Ultimately, what makes Bjerck’s solution to the paradox so compelling is that even if past lives will always elude our grasp, the situated nature of our own engagement with these remains ensures that the human dimension in this object-oriented world is never lost. It is what frames everything; these homes take on the contours they have, precisely because Hein Bjerck is part of them, he is writing from a position fully immersed within these thing-regimes. Professor Gavin Lucas, Archaeology, University of Iceland
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Thinking in Āsana Movement and Philosophy in Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga Matylda Ciołkosz Thinking in Āsanais an exploration of three popular lineages of modern postural yoga – Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga. The book describes in detail the different styles of yoga practice advocated within the three lineages, and traces the influence of this practice on the corresponding “yoga philosophies”. While Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga name the yoga of Patañjali as the source of their teachings, the interpretations of Patañjali’s system differ significantly between the three lineages. A careful examination suggests that these differences can be accounted for by referring to the differences in the kinds of movement experienced during yoga practice. Linguistic theories of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson provide methodological groundwork for such examination. By deconstructing the experience of movement specific to modern postural yoga practice, and by juxtaposing it to a linguistic analysis of a textual corpus,Thinking in Āsana argues that there is a systematic relation between how yoga is practiced and how yoga philosophy is understood. In doing so, the book not only gives a detailed, insightful look at modern postural yoga in practice and theory, but it also emphasises the role of movement in human meaning-making activity.
hb ISBN 9781800502116 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800502123 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: September 2022 Extent: 224pp 30 black and white figures Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies; Yoga Studies
The Author Matylda Ciołkosz is scholar of religions and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents Prologue Part One. Enactivism as a paradigm for yoga studies 1.1. Introduction: The legacy of Descartes and the mind-machine 1.2. Towards enactivism: Redefining the mind and cognition 1.3. Enaction and Language 1.4. The making of “Thinking in Āsana” 1.5. Summary: sea squirts, autopoiesis, and yogic contortions Part Two. Construing yoga: A sketch from a few perspectives 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Yoga: The polysemy of the term 2.3. Yoga and negotiating the boundaries between the social and the individual order 2.4. Yoga, the cosmos, and the human being 2.5. Yoga and āsana: A brief review 2.6. Hold your breath: A few remarks on prāṇāyāma 2.7. Beyond āsana and prāṇāyāma: the theory of yoga practice 2.8. The god of yoga: Who is īśvara and what does he transcend? 2.9. Summary Part Three. Thinking in āsana: Movement and philosophy in modern postural yoga 3.1. Introductory notes 2 3.2. The Legend and Legacy of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya 3.3. Viniyoga, or The Yoga of T.K.V. Desikachar 3.4. Iyengar Yoga 3.5. Ashtanga Yoga of K. Pattabhi Jois 3.6. Yogins, Their Yogas, and Their Worlds: A Summary Epilogue: Yoga, autopoiesis, and change
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Absolutization The Source of Dogma, Repression and Conflict Robert M. Ellis This is an important, original work, that should get the widest possible hearing. Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary, fellow of All Soul’s College, Oxford and a former psychiatrist
What do dogma, repression and conflict have in common? They all result from human judgement blocked from wider understanding by a false assumption of completeness. This book puts forward a theory of absolutization, bringing together a multi-disciplinary understanding of this central flaw in human judgement, and what we can do about it. This approach, drawing on Buddhist thought and practice, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, embodied meaning and systems theory, offers a rigorous introduction to absolutization as the central problem addressed in Middle Way Philosophy, which is a synthetic approach developed by the author over more than twenty years in a series of books. It challenges disciplinary boundaries as well as offering a substantial framework for practical application.
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The Author Robert M. Ellis, PhD, is the founder of the Middle Way Society and author of a range of books on Middle Way Philosophy including Red Book, Middle Way: How Jung Parallels the Buddha’s Method for Human Integration (Equinox, 2020) and The Buddha’s Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in his Life and Teaching (Equinox, 2019).
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Foreword to the Middle Way Philosophy Series Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary, fellow of All Soul’s College, Oxford and a former psychiatrist Preface Introduction Early Buddhism Mental Proliferation Craving, Hatred and Delusion The Absoluteness of Negations Excluding the Options Systems Theory Assumed System Independence Fragility Embodied Meaning The Denial of Embodiment Discontinuity Interpretation Philosophy The Absoluteness of Deductive Logic Foundationalism and Circularity Infinite Rationalization of Experience The Claim that Metaphysics is Inevitable Inflation of Metaphysics and Logic Psychology Projection Confirmation Bias Substitution Group Binding Archetypal Function The Unity of Absolutizing Phenomena Clarifying the Relationships The Use of Synthesis The Practical Arguments Criteria for a Response: Practicality Embodiment Responsibility Effectiveness Criteria for a Response: Universal Aspiration Normativity Systematicity Universality across Groups Universality across Space Universality across Time Criteria for a Response: Judgement Focus Diversions from Judgement Focus Criteria for a Response: Error Focus Refining Shadow Avoidance Emotionally Positive Context
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Studying the Religious Mind Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion Edited by Armin W. Geertz, Leonardo Ambasciano, Esther Eidinow, Luther H. Martin, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Nickolas P. Roubekas, Valerie van Mulukom and Dimitris Xygalatas The cognitive science of religion (CSR) does not have its own methodology, and yet from the very beginnings of the discipline, methodology has defined it not only in relation to the general study of religion in the humanities but also to the sciences interested in the mind. CSR scholars are using a wide range of methodologies, borrowing mostly from the cognitive sciences and experimental psychology, but also from biology, archaeology, history, philosophy, linguistics, the social and statistical sciences, neurosciences, and anthropology. This multi-disciplinarity, in fact, defines the cognitive science of religion. Such multi-disciplinarity requires hard work and truly interdisciplinary teams, but also continual reflections on and debates about the methodologies being used. In fact, no CSR study worth its name can rely on only one methodology. Triangulation is standard, but often even more approaches are used. This book consists of selected papers from the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion and the Journal of Cognitive Historiography. Each chapter demonstrates a particular method or group of methods and how those methods advance our knowledge of the religious mind from the ancient past up to today.
hb ISBN 9781800501607 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800501614 £26.95 / $34 Pub date: August 2022 Extent: 520pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Advances in the Cognitive Science of Religion Readership: scholars Subject:
The Editors Armin W. Geertz is Emeritus Professor in the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark. Leonardo Ambasciano completed his Ph.D. on the cognitive and deep-historical re-evaluation of the ancient Roman cult of Bona Dea at the Department of Historical Studies, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. In 2016, he was Visiting Lecturer of Religious Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Luther H. Martin is Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Vermont. Kristoffer L. Nielbo is a researcher and infrastructure manager at the Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University. Nickolas P. Roubekas is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Valerie van Mulukom is Research Associate in the Brain, Belief, and Behaviour group at CABS, Coventry University. Dimitris Xygalatas holds a joint position between the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, where he is directing the Experimental Anthropology Lab.
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents Introduction: Studying the Religious Mind Armin W. Geertz Part I. Fieldwork Chapter One: Go WILD, Not WEIRD Martha Newson (University of Oxford), Michael Buhrmester (University of Oxford), Dimitris Xygalatas, and Harvey Whitehouse (University of Oxford) Chapter Two: Cognitively Informed Ethnography: Using Mixed Methods to Capture the Complexity of Religious Phenomena in Two Ecologically Valid Settings Hugh D. Turpin (Queens University Belfast and University of Oxford) and Mark Stanford (University of Oxford) Part II. Experimental Study of Religion Chapter Three: Introduction to Experimental Research of Religion Dimitris Xygalatas Chapter Four: The Experimental Study of Religion: or There and Back Again Jesper Sørensen (Aarhus University) and Kristoffer L. Nielbo Chapter Five: Fast and Slow: Questions and Observations in the Psychology of Religion Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (University of Haifa) Chapter Six: The Embodiment of Worship: Relations among Postural, Psychological, and Physiological Aspects of Religious Practice Patty Van Cappellen and Megan E. Edwards (both at Duke University) Chapter Seven: Past Its Prime? A Methodological Overview and Critique of Religious Priming Research in Social Psychology Shoko Watanabe (University of Illinois) and Sean M. Laurent (Pennsylvania State University) Part III. Cognitive Neuroscience Chapter Eight: Religious Experience in Mediterranean Antiquity Istvan Czachesz Chapter Nine: Ritual Mourning in Daniel’s Interpretation of Jeremiah’s Prophecy Angela K. Harkins (Boston College) Chapter Ten: Tours of Heaven in Light of the Neuroscientific Study of Religious Experience Istvan Czachesz Chapter Eleven: (Religious) Language and the Decentering Process: McNamara and De Sublimitate on the Ecstatic Effect of Language Christopher T. Holmes (Emory University) Chapter Twelve: Do You Need Cognitive Neuroscience to Understand Religious Cognition, Experience and Texts? Patrick McNamara (Boston University School of Medicine) Part IV. Cognitive Historiography Chapter Thirteen: What Is Cognitive Historiography, Anyway? Method, Theory, and a Cross-Disciplinary Decalogue Leonardo Ambasciano Chapter Fourteen: The Rites of the Day of Blood (dies sanguinis) in the GraecoRoman Cult of Cybele and Attis: A Cognitive Historiographical Approach Panayotis Pachis (Aristotle University) Chapter Fifteen: The Gendered Deep History of the Bona Dea Cult Leonardo Ambasciano Chapter Sixteen: Defilement and Moral Discourse in the Hebrew Bible: An Evolutionary Framework Yitzhaq Feder (University fo Haifa) Part V. Big Data Chapter Seventeen: Exploring the Challenges and Potentialities of the Database of Religious History for Cognitive Historiography Brenton Sullivan (Colgate University), Michael Muthukrishna (LSE), Frederick S. Tappenden (University of Alberta), and Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia) Chapter Eighteen: An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank Part VI. Computational Approaches Chapter Nineteen: Mining the Past – Data-Intensive Knowledge Discovery in the Study of Historical Textual Traditions Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Ryan Nichols (California State University), and Edward Slingerland Chapter Twenty: Method, Theory, and Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence: Creating Computer Models of Complex Social Interaction
Justin E. Lane (NORCE, Norway) Chapter Twenty One: The Computational Science of Religion Justin Lane and F. LeRon Shults (University of Agder) Part VII. Open Science Chapter Twenty Two: Advancing the Cognitive Science of Religion through Replication and Open Science Suzanne Hoogeveen (University of Amsterdam) and Michiel van Elk (VU University) Chapter Twenty Three: Promoting the Benefits and Clarifying Misconceptions about Preregistration, Preprints, and Open Science for the Cognitive Science of Religion Christopher Kavanagh (University of Oxford) and Rohan Kapitány (keele University) Part VIII. Consilience Chapter Twenty Four: The Arts Transform the Cognitive Science of Religion Joseph Bulbulia (Victoria University of Wellington) Chapter Twenty Five: Toward a Second Wave of Consilience in the Cognitive Scientific Study of Religion Edward Slingerland
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The Economy of Deuteronomy's Core Philippe Guillaume
The Economy of Deuteronomy’s Core contributes to the current debate over the date and purpose of the biblical book of Deuteronomy to advance the discussion beyond the Josianic hypothesis of Wilhelm M. L. de Wette that has dominated the field for the last two centuries. It is the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the economy of the laws of Deuteronomy 12-26. Three major institutions are identified: the local autonomous settlement (“your gates”), the yearly gathering of all Israel to eat and drink joyfully in front of YHWH (“the Place”), and a guild-like brotherhood involving Israelite, Edomite and third generation Egyptian associates (“qehal-YHWH”). Grounded in the text itself, The Economy of Deuteronomy’s Core reads Deuteronomy 12–26 in light of what we know about Ancient Near Eastern economies. The results open new horizons regarding the origins of the Deuteronomic laws.
hb ISBN 9781800501997 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800502000 £29.95 / $40 Pub date: October 2022 Extent: 224pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies; Biblical Studies
The Author Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
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Introduction Part I: Reading Deuteronomy 12-26 Economically 1. Expenses and Incomes 2. Deuteronomy’s Economic Actors: Beyond a Single People of Brothers 3. Three Institutions and their Interplay: Beyond the Temple of Jerusalem Part II: Focussing on Tithes 4. Yearly Tithes for Whom and How Much? 5. Claiming a Greater Share of Deuteronomic Tithes 6. Outlines of an Older Deuteronomic Core Part III: Probing the History of the Deuteronomic Core 7. Urdeuteronomium After de Wette Conclusion
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New book from Equinox Publishing
Muslim Identities An Introduction to Islam Second Edition Aaron W. Hughes
Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (Second Edition) presents a fully updated introduction to the religion of Islam and the various social groups who define themselves as Muslim. Unlike other such works, it presents both insider and outsider accounts with the aim of striking a unique balance between overly apologetical and overly Orientalist perspectives. With the first edition described as a “truly outstanding book”, and “the very best introduction currently available in English for non-Muslims seeking a sound approach to Islam” (Journal of Islamic Studies), this new edition offers both students and general readers a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the world’s secondlargest religion
hb ISBN 9781800502086 £75.00 / $100.00 pb ISBN 9781800502093 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: October 2022 Extent: 320pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.21 x 6.14 inches) Readership: students
The Author Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
Subject: Islamic Studies
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Preface to Second Edition Introduction: Religious Studies and the Academic Study of Islam Part I. Origins Chapter 1. Arabia Prior to the Advent of Islam Chapter 2. The Making of the Last Prophet Chapter 3. The Quran: The Foundation Part II. Identity Formations Chapter 4. The Spread of Islam Beyond the Arabian Peninsula Chapter 5. Early Sectarianism and the Formation of Shiʿism Chapter 6. Legal Developments and the Gradual Emergence of Sunni Islam Chapter 7. Sufism: The Mystical Strain in Islam Part III. Beliefs and Practices Chapter 8. The Maintenance of Muslim Identities: Beliefs and Schools Chapter 9. The Performance of Muslim Identities Part IV. Modern Variations Chapter 10. Encounters with Modernity Chapter 11. Constructing Muslim Women Chapter 12. Islam and “the West” Chapter 13. The Inconvenient Muslim: From Majority to Minority Glossary
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Love in the Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabī Hany Talaat Ahmed Ibrahim This book aims to explore the theory of love in the writings of the Great Andalusian Sufi Sheikh, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī (558-638/1165-1240). It begins by examining Divine and human love as found in the works of many Sufi masters that preceded Ibn ‘Arabī, and then turns to the views of Ibn ‘Arabī himself. The Sufis from the early centuries of Islam (9th-10th) sometimes defined love as their “religion,” by which they meant, their way to God. Ibn ‘Arabī not only expanded on these earlier Sufi theories, but also detailed his own original insights. He openly declared the primacy of love over all else and argued that love is the dynamic force behind creation. The present study is focused primarily on outlining the importance of Divine love in Ibn ‘Arabī’s thought, which is accomplished through an in-depth reading and a close textual analysis of selected works on Divine love in several of his key works including: The Interpreter of Longings (Turjumān al-Ashwāq), The Ringstones of Wisdom (Fuṣūṣ alḤikam), and The Meccan Openings (al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya). The approach taken in Love in the Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabī demonstrates the centrality of love in Ibn ‘Arabī’s worldview. Additionally, the monograph offers certain interpretive keys to help unlock the meanings embedded in the imagery and symbolism of Ibn ‘Arabī’s unique language.
hb ISBN 9781800502154 £75 / $100 Pub date: October 2022 Extent: 220pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies; Islamic Studies
The Author Hany Talaat Ahmed Ibrahim completed his PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. He is teaching at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University, Canada. He specializes In pre-modern Islamic thought, Arabic Sufi literature, and Islamic art and architecture.
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Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Love in the Qur’ān, the Sunnah, and Early Sufism Chapter 3: Background Texts to Ibn ‘Arabī’s Doctrine of Love Chapter 4: Ibn ‘Arabī’s Metaphysics in Context Chapter 5: A Case Study of Chapter 178 of al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya (The Meccan Openings) Chapter 6: Conclusion Addendum 1 Addendum 2 Addendum 3
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Cooperative Learning through a Reflective Lens George M. Jacobs, Anita Lie and Siti Mina Tamah
Cooperative Learning through a Reflective Lens explores cooperative learning through the lens of reflective language teaching, delving into a wide range of issues on which teachers will want to reflect and suggesting ways that they could do that reflection. The book begins with background on cooperative learning including its theoretical roots and the research which supports its use. Next, eight principles for using cooperative learning are explained and examples are given as to how to implement those principles. Further highlighting the book’s practical focus is a chapter on nuts and bolts matters that need to be considered when teachers help their students do cooperative learning. Of course, the light of reflection shines throughout the book, including in a chapter on how to encourage reflection among students on their own learning and on the functioning of their cooperative learning groups. Another chapter offers guidance on how reflection can inform teachers’ use of cooperative learning with their students, as well as teachers’ cooperation with their colleagues. The book finishes with example lessons which bring to life the principles and practicalities discussed in earlier chapters of the book.
hb ISBN 9781800502253 £65 / $80 pb ISBN 9781800502260 £22.95 / $29.95 Pub date: November 2022 Extent: 160pp 5 figures Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Reflective Practice in Language Education Readership: language teachers
The Authors George M. Jacobs received their PhD in Educational Psychology in 1991 from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and has taught in Singapore since 1993. Anita Lie is a professor at Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, Indonesia. She teaches at the Faculty of Teacher Training and the Graduate School. Siti Mina Tamah teaches in the English Department of Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, Indonesia. She has been working in the field of education since 1988.
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Introduction – Horray for Cooperation 1. Background on Cooperative Learning 2. Eight Principles of Cooperative Learning 3. Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Learning 4. Assessment in Cooperative Learning 5. Reflection and Cooperative Learning in the Student Centered Paradigm 6. Teachers Cooperatively Reflecting on Their Students’ Use of Cooperative Learning 7. Putting It All Together: Cooperative Learning and Teacher Reflection in Language Lessons Conclusion – Horray for Cooperative Learning Through a Reflective Lens
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On the Subject of Religion Charting the Fault Lines of a Field of Study Edited by James Dennis LoRusso
How is religion depicted in the academic study of religion? How do private donors selectively privilege certain descriptions of religion, and to what ends? Do the practical needs of students align or conflict with the theoretical concerns of scholars? To what extent do answers to these questions reveal shared challenges or fault lines across the field of study? Previous volumes in the NAASR Working Papers series have made critical reflections on key domains such as theory, method, data, and categories. On the Subject of Religion takes a step back to consider syncretically how religion is imagined or invented through several lenses. On the Subject of Religion takes as its inspiration the work of the late Jonathan Z. Smith, who challenged scholars to be mindful of the ways in which they imagine religion and religious data. Building on this crucial insight, this book brings together a range of early-career and established scholars of religion to explore how various domains of society—the classroom, academic literature, public debates, and private fundraising—shape, and are shaped, by the contours of the academic study of religion.
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The Editor James Dennis LoRusso currently serves as Vice President of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. He is a former Associate Research Scholar in the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, USA and is the author of Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business: The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital (Bloomsbury, 2017).
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Response: Developing the Field Yasmina Burezah, University of Bonn
Introduction Patchwork or Mosaic? The Fabric of Religious Studies James Dennis LoRusso Part I: Teaching the Field On the Grammar of Teaching Religious Studies Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University Response: Can't Live with it, Can't Drop it: World Religions Rita Lester, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Jacob Barrett, University of Alabama Response: Practising Theory Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Dawson College Response: The Gaze from Somewhere: Teaching Situated Writing about Religion Leonie Geiger, University of Bonn Response: Weaponizing Religious Literacy: Religionizing as Revitalizing the Field or Reinforcing Neoliberal Values? Martha Smith Roberts, Fullerton College Part II: The History of the Field The Enduring Presence of Our Pre-Critical Past Or, the Same As it Ever Was, the Same As it Ever Was Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama Response: The Vocation of a Scientist of Religion D. Jamil Grimes, Middle Tennessee State University Response: Historicizing Endurance Andrew Durdin, Florida State University Response: Intercepted Dispatches: A Speculative History of the Future of Religious Studies Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University Part III: The Role and Influence of Private Funding in the Field Private Money and the Study of Religion: Problems, Perils, and Possiblities Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College Response: Drugs, Dog Chow, and Dharma Michael Altman, University of Alabama Response: Between Wittgenstein and Zuckerberg: Selling the Academic Study of Religion in a Buyer’s Market John W. McCormack, Aurora University Response: Religious Studies: A Pawn in the Culture Wars Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado, Boulder Part IV: International Perspectives on the Field International Perspectives on/in the Field Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Response: Field of Dreams: What Do American Scholars of Religion Really Want? F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, and Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University Response: The Benefit of Compassion Vaia Touna, University of Alabama
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System in Systemic Functional Linguistics A System-based Theory of Language Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Systemic Functional Linguistics is unique among linguistic theories in treating the concept of system as the central organising principle of language (and also of other semiotic systems, including context), most theories being focussed on syntagmatic structure. This book introduces the notion of system as the foundation of the systemic functional architecture of language, relating the general notion of system in systems thinking (holistic approaches) to the principle that language is organised as a system of systems (the polysystemic principle) and, by another step, to the technical sense of system in SFL as the basic category of paradigmatic patterning - i.e. the organisation of language as a resource for making meaning. The concept of system is then used to explore the emergence of complexity in language (within different semogenetic timeframes), to show how it is manifested in the organisation of all subsystems of language (the fractal principle), to illustrate the system at work in the development of language descriptions and in the process of text analysis, to reveal the power of the system in different areas of application, e.g. in computational modelling, in educational analysis and curriculum development, in multilingual and multimodal studies. Finally, challenges are identified e.g. in the relationship between the paradigmatic axis and the syntagmatic one, in the representation of logical iteration and interpersonal continua; and current and new opportunities are suggested.
hb ISBN 9781781799017 £75.00 / $100.00 pb ISBN 9781781799024 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: August 2022 Extent: 256pp 104 figures Format: 254 x 178mm (10 x 7 inches) Series: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics Readership: students Subject: Linguistics
The Author Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, in the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Guest Professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University.
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1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Language Systemically 2. The System in Semogenesis: Emergence of Complexity 3.The System as a Fractal Principle – the System in Relation to Other Dimension of Organization 4. The System as a Navigational Tool in Language Description and Text Analysis 5. The System in Different Domains of Application 6. The System: Challenges and Possibilities 7. Conclusion Appendix: Systemic Conventions
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Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic Janina Mołczanow
This book develops an Optimality-theoretic model of the interaction of phonological tone with segmental sonority, arguing that tone can interact directly with vowel quality without mediating factors such as syllable structure or duration. The proposal is tested against rich and complex patterns of vowel reduction in East Slavic dialects. Though the idea that tone constitutes a part of the phonological system of some Slavic languages has been around for decades, the relationship between tone and vowel reduction has not been systematically explored in previous studies. A tone-based model developed in this book unifies many apparently disparate phenomena by proposing a limited set of constraints, whose minimal re-rankings yield the attested East Slavic vocalic patterns. On the descriptive side, this study formulates novel generalisations and presents linguistic data not previously discussed in generative linguistics. This book will be of use to students and scholars interested in phonology, Slavic languages, and the theory of grammar in general.
hb ISBN 9781800502345 £75 / $100 Pub date: November 2022 Extent: 240pp 4 figures Format: 234 x 156mm (9.21 x 6.14 inches) Series: Advances in Optimality Theory Readership: scholars
The Author Janina Mołczanow is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw.
Subject: Linguistics
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1. Theoretical Background 2. East Slavic Vowel Patterns: Basic Generalisations 3. East Slavic Metrical System 4. Extreme Reduction 5. Tone-driven Reduction 6. Harmonic Systems 7. Vowel Reduction in the Context of Palatalized Consonants 8. Concluding Remarks
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Hinduism in Five Minutes Edited by Steven W. Ramey
Hinduism in Five Minutes provides an accessible and lively introduction to common questions about the practices, ideas, and narratives commonly identified as Hindu. Suitable for beginning students and the general reader, the book offers more than 70 brief essays on a wide range of fascinating questions about Hinduism and its study, such as: How did Hinduism begin? How many gods / goddesses do Hindus worship? Which scriptures are important in Hinduism? Why are many Hindus vegetarian? What is the role of women in Hindu rituals? What do Hindus believe? What is caste, and why are some people treated differently because of it? How do Hindus celebrate festivals like Holi? Is yoga Hindu? What makes arranged marriage appealing to some Hindus? Do you have to be Indian to be a Hindu? Each essay is written by a leading authority and offers succinct, insightful answers along with suggestions for further reading, making the book an ideal starting point for classroom use or personal browsing.
hb ISBN 9781800502390 £70 / $90 pb ISBN 9781800502406 £16.99 / $21.95 Pub date: August 2022 Extent: 240pp Format: 216 x 140mm (8.5 x 5.5 inches) Series: Religion in 5 Minutes Readership: students and general readers Subject: Religious Studies; Hinduism
The Editor Steven W. Ramey is a Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, where he also directs the Asian Studies Program.
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents (selected) Preface Steven Ramey General questions Is Hinduism a religion or something else? Prea Persaud, University of North Carolina What are the primary ideas in Hinduism? Brian K. Pennington, Elon University What is the ultimate purpose or goal of Hinduism? Varun Khanna, Swarthmoe College Beginnings What is the creation story in Hinduism? Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida Where and when did Hinduism originate? Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State University Where does the name Hinduism come from? Will Sweetman, University of Otago Where did the concept of caste begin? Gil Ben-Herut Development Are there different denominations like Christianity? Vincent Burgess, Cornell University What are the regional differences in Hinduism across India? Bhakti Mamtora, Wooster College How does someone become a guru? Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University Does violent extremism exist in Hinduism? Jimi Wilson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Texts and Stories How many ‘sacred texts’ does Hinduism have? Steven Ramey What are the Vedas? Varun Khanna What is the Bhagavad Gita? Vincent Burgess Gods and Goddesses How many gods are in Hinduism? Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Which deities are most popular? Vasudha Narayanan What does each god represent? Thomas B. Ellis Personal practices What are the daily practices that Hindus try to follow? Bhakti Mamtora What does someone have to believe to be a Hindu? Richard S. Weiss, Victoria University of Wellington Do Hindus still have arranged marriages? Susan Prill, Juniata College Why do Hindus not eat beef? Will Sweetman
Rituals and Worship Are there any ceremonies that Hindus hold very sacred? Thomas B. Ellis How is caste determined? Maharshi Vyas, University of California What does worship in Hinduism look like? Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville Hindus in relation to non-Hindus How do Hindus live in Muslim countries like Pakistan, if any do? Jürgen Schaflechner, Freie Universtät Berlin What is the main difference between Hinduism and the more popular religions in America? Michael J. Altman, University of Alabama What do Hindus think about Christianity? Collin Sibley, University of California Current Issues What are some values taught to children? Varun Khanna Do you have to be Indian to be a Hindu? Collin Sibley How do Hindus respond to environmental issues? Vincent Burgess Do men and women have equality in Hinduism? Antoinette E. DeNapoli What is the Hindu response to people who identify as LGBTQ? Maharshi Vyas Why does Hinduism seem to have spread less around the world than other major religions? Prea Persaud
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Worth More than Many Sparrows Essays in Honor of Willi Braun Edited by Sarah E. Rollens and Patrick Hart
When it comes to the study of religion, Willi Braun is a paragon of what a methodologically rigorous and epistemologically modest academic ought to look like. Braun’s career began in the 1990s, when he studied among a cadre of other notable graduate students at the Centre for the Study of Religion at University of Toronto—what is often referred to as the “Toronto School.” There, Braun and his comrades maintained a fidelity to a particular methodological ethos: that religion should be studied as a fundamentally human phenomenon and that scholars should examine how the “data” of religions (texts, artifacts, rituals, etc) reveal the interests, concerns, and values of the humans who imbue that same data with something divine or transcendent. The Toronto School’s commitment to this ethos led to the inauguration of the North American Society for the Study of Religion and fostered the development of the now-renowned journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Braun was a catalyst in these discipline-changing initiatives and brought them to bear in his own work on antiquity and early Christianities. Yet beyond that, Braun’s career also involved an unwavering commitment to pedagogy, as he selflessly endeavored to pass on his exceptional professional and personal qualities to his students. In an effort to honor Braun’s work and mentorship, this volume is focused on exploring, probing, and theorizing ancient religious data as reflections of human interests and activities.
hb ISBN 9781800501966 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800501973 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: July 2022 Extent: 256pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies
The Editors Sarah E. Rollens is the R.A. Webb Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. She is the author of Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project of the Sayings Gospel Q. Patrick Hart is a lecturer in the areas of religious studies and law at the University of Alberta. He is the author of A Prolegomenon to the Study of Paul.
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents Introduction Sarah E. Rollens and Patrick Hart 1. Partaking in the Great Supper of God: Figuring Birds in the Apocalypse of John Sarah E. Rollens 2. Authority and Canon: I Fight Authority, but Does Authority Always Win? Patrick Hart 3. Ornitheology Francis Landy, University of Alberta 4. Shipwrecked on a Desert Island: The Barren Isolation of “Christian Origins” William Arnal, University of Regina 5. The Ontological and Zoomorphic Semiotics of Two Hellenistic Saviour Deities Compared Darlene Juschka, University of Regina 6. From Liturgy to Polemic and Back: Social Identity Issues in the Use of Two Psalms Steven Muir, Concordia University of Edmonton 7. “The Spirit Descended like a Dove”: Bird Divination, Carrier Pigeons, and the Baptism of Jesus Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University 8. Syriac Dialogue Hymns and New Comedy Robyn Faith Walsh, University of Maimi 9. Diamonds and Rust: Q, Mythic Marcion, and the (De)Contextualization of Divine Wisdom Glen Fairen, Oklahoma State University 10. The Past as Simulacrum: Shifting Our Focus in Studying “Religion” in the Ancient World Vaia Touna, University of Alabama 11. The Corinthian Funerary Cultural Context and Baptism on Behalf of the Dead Ritual Mark Wheller, University of Alberta 12. Reconstructing Socio-Cultural Institutions in the Gospel of Mark Allan Wright, Universit of Alberta 13. “After This, Nothing Happened”: Historical Vulnerability and the End of (Cultural) Time in the Gospel of Mark John Parrish, University of Alberta 14. Farm to (School)table: The Cultivation of Paideia in the Gospel of Thomas Ian P. Brown, University of Regina 15. Transgressing New Testament Classrooms with Thecla Anna Cwikla, University of Toronto
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John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity Joshua Daniel Schachterle John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monestary there by writing monastic manuals, the Institutes and the Conferences. These seminal writings represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic traditions from Eqypt, long understood to be the cradle of monasticism, to the West. In his Institutes, Cassian comments that “a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops” (Inst. 11.18). This is indeed an odd comment from a monk, apparently casting bishops as adversaries rather than models for the Christian life. This book argues that Cassian, in both the Institutes and the Conferences, is advocating for a distinct separation between monastics and the institutional Church. In Cassian’s writings and the larger corpus of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities; instead, they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier, venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as Cassian’s formed a closed discursive system, consciously excluding the hierarchical institutional Church. Furthermore, Cassian argues for a separate monastic authority based not on apostolic succession but rather on apostolic praxis, the notion that monastic practices such as prayer and asceticism can be traced back to the primitive church. This study of Cassian’s writings is supplemented with Michel Foucault’s analysis of the creation of subjects in order to examine Cassian’s formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience, the monks of Gaul. Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power and pastoral power are also employed to demonstrate the effect Cassian’s rhetoric would have upon his direct audience, as well as many other monks throughout history.
hb ISBN 9781800501485 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800501492 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: September 2022 Extent: 200pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Series: Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies
The Author Joshua Daniel Schachterle recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint Doctoral Program.
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1. Introduction 2. Cassian’s Context and Asceticism as Basis for Valid Authority 3. Foucault, Cassian, and the Creation of Subjects 4. Conflicts Between Monasticism and the Church 5. Cassian’s Rhetorical Attempts to Separate Monasticism from the Church 6. Conclusion
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Desperado An Autobiography Tomasz Stańko With Rafał Księżyk Translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska
Tomasz Stańko is arguably the greatest jazz musician Poland has ever produced. His career spanned almost 60 years until his death in 2018. A visionary trumpeter and composer, a protégé of Krzysztof Komeda and a colleague of musicians from Poland, Sweden, Norway, Britain, Cuba and the USA, his impact on jazz internationally was profound, proving that jazz was not exclusively an American art form but truly world-wide. In 2014 he was awarded the Polytika Passport in Poland, the Prix de musician Européan in Paris and the Preis der deutschen schallplattenkritik. The book is a no-holds-barred extended interview with broadcaster Rafał Księżyk originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie.
hb ISBN 9781800502222 £25 / $40 Pub date: July 2022 Extent: 320pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) photos
The Authors and Translator Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018) was a Polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Rafał Księżyk is a Polish journalist and music critic. He co-founded magazines on pop culture and on music and in 2019 he was nominated for the Gdynia Prize for Literature for his book On Dandies, Hipsters and Mutants. Halina Maria Boniszewska has translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebałkowska (Equinox, 2020) and Krystian Brodacki’s chapter on Polish Jazz in History of European Jazz (Equinox, 2018), among other works.
Series: Popular Music History Readership: general readers Subject: Popular Music; Jazz
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Chapter 17: Short-cut
Reviews of the Polish Edition:
Chapter 18: Empathy for the Devil
Until I picked up this autobiography my favourite thriller was the film Elevator to the Scaffold. Because that too has wild love, wild passion and a wonderful unpredictable screenwriter that we call fate. And towering above it all, we have the heavenly Miles. Now that I've plunged into the story of Tomasz Stańko's life, wherever I turn it's exactly the same. Kuba Wojewódzki
Chapter 19: A Peruvian and a Minor Sixth
Interviewing Tomasz Stańko, Rafał Księżyk is the right person in the right place – a competent, indeed equal partner for a discussion on music, since it is the subject-matter relating to creativity that is the most interesting aspect of this book. It is the passages where Stańko links evolutionism to improvisation, and also his discussions on place and meaning and the confines thereof in jazz (and beyond it) that are the most interesting passages in Desperado... there is also much to admire in his stories about celebrities which often end in the traditional jazz compliment: 'He was a great cat. Bartek Chaciński in Polityka
Chapter 23: Maldoror’s War Song
Stańko speaks as he plays. His phrasing is a little dirty, but honest and poignant. The fascinating confessions of one of the greatest Polish artists. Doroto Subbotko
Chapter 20: View from the high-wire Chapter 21: The Feminist Chapter 22: A Prim, Bluish Man
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Chapter 1: Born Twice Chapter 2: First Cigarette, First Bottle Chapter 3: Komeda Chapter 4: Poetry and Jazz Chapter 5: Stańkomania Chapter 6: A Proust-reading Boxer Chapter 7: ‘I was Marlene Dietrich’ Chapter 8: Jazz in the Ruhr Area Chapter 9: ‘The Full Catastrophe!’ Chapter 10: Green Face Chapter 11: Bending the Note Chapter 12: Whistling in the Temple Chapter 13: A White Black Man in Communist Poland Chapter 14: At Remont Chapter 15: Purple Liquor Chapter 16: ‘Hamulczyki, namulczyki, amulczyki’
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Atheism in Five Minutes Edited by Teemu Taira
Atheism in Five Minutes offers insights into a number of commonly held questions about the ideas, practices and attitudes concerning atheism and atheists. The volume highlights approaches based on the study of religion, sociology, history, anthropology, politics and psychology. It also examines the implications and assumptions in common questions about atheism. Ideal for both classroom use and personal study, some of the questions asked include: Are atheists immoral? Are children born atheist? Do atheists have rituals? How has atheism related to politics? Why do some atheists remain members of religious groups? Is it difficult to be an atheist in Muslim countries? Do atheist parents have atheist children? Why are there so few black atheists? What are the most atheistic societies? Has the Internet made atheism more popular?
hb ISBN 9781800502369 £70 / $90 pb ISBN 9781800502376
Each essay is based on the latest research written by a leading scholar in the field. They offer concise and thoughtful answers along with suggestions for further reading.
£16.99 / $21.95 Pub date: November 2022 Extent: 200pp Format: 216 x 140mm (8.5 x 5.5 inches) Series: Religion in 5 Minutes Readership: students and general readers Subject: Religious Studies; Atheism
The Editor Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents (selected) Preface Teemu Taira Conceptual and Historical Issues What Does the Term “Atheism” Mean? Nathan G. Alexander What Is the Difference Between Atheism, Agnosticism, Nonreligion and Secular? Christopher R. Cotter, University of Edinburgh Have All Great Scientists Been Atheists? Aku Visala, Univesity of Helsinki Were There Atheists in Ancient Greece and Rome? Ramón Soneira Martinez, University of Erfurt What Is the Relationship Between Judaism and Atheism? Daniel Langton, University of Manchester Why Has Buddhism Been Perceived as Atheistic? Jens Schlieter, University of Bern Is It Difficult to Be an Atheist in Muslim Countries? Karin van Nieuwkerk, Radboud University Society, Politics and Media What Are the Most Atheistic Societies? Isabella Kasselstrand, University of Aberdeen Why Are Some Societies More Atheistic than Others? Teemu Taira Are Atheists Typically Young People? Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, University of Waterloo, & Joel Thiessen, Ambrose University Why Are Men More Likely to Be Atheists than Women? Tiina Mahlamäki, University of Turku Why Are There So Few Black Atheists? Daniel Swann, Goucher College and University of Maryland College Park How Has Atheism Related to Politics? Steven Kettell, Univesity of Warwick Does Atheism Promote Peace? Stacey Gutkowski, King's College London How Has Atheism Related to Communism? Atko Remmel, University of Tartu Is Contemporary Atheism Leaning Politically to Right or Left? Stuart McAnulla, University of Leeds Do Laws About Religion Take Atheism into Account? Lori Beaman, University of Ottawa What Do Religious People Think of Atheists? Petra Klüg, Universität Bremen How Are Atheists Organized? Richard Cimino, Religion Watch, & Christopher Smith Do Atheists and Feminists Support Each Other? Tiina Mahlamäki How Are Atheists Represented in the Media? Teemu Taira What Is the Historical Role of Atheism in Literature and the Arts? James B. Reeves, Texas State University Beliefs, Values and Practices Do Atheist Parents Have Atheist Children? Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University How Does One Become an Atheist? Julia Martínez-Ariño, University of Groningen How Do Atheists Deal with the Problem of Evil?
Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki How Do Atheists Cope with Mortality? Jacob S. Sawyer, Pennsylvania State University Where Do Atheists Get Their Values? Kyle Thompson, Harvey Mudd College and MiraCosta College Do Atheists Have Religious Experiences? Abby Day, Goldsmiths, University of London Do Atheists Have Sacred Scripture? Ethan G. Quillen Do Atheists Have Rituals? Richard Cimino & Christopher Smith Can an Atheist Be Spiritual? Atko Remmel Are Atheists Immoral? Kyle Thompson Are Atheists Intolerant? Filip Užarević, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb Do Atheists Value Some Religions More than Other Religions? Joel Thiessen & Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme What Do Atheists Value in Religion, If Anything? Teemu Taira Is Atheism Good for Your Health? Kevin McCaffree & Anondah Saide, both at University of North Texas Future What is the Future of Atheism? Teemu Taira
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What My Grandchildren Taught Me about Alzheimer's Disease Dana Olivia Dunn Territo I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It reminded me of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series as well as those “what to expect when you’re expecting” novels for new parents, except the focus here is on people living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Fayron Epps, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, NHCGNE Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University The author paints such beautiful personal stories and ties it all together so well with the concepts she is conveying. She knows the challenges of being an Alzheimer’s caregiver. It would be a beautiful resource to those tackling this difficult struggle. I can see it even being utilized as a companion resource for Alzheimer’s support groups. Robert M. Brouillette, MS, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
hb ISBN 9781800502192 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781800502208 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: August 2022
How does a polar bear pooping on a rug turn into a lesson on Alzheimer’s behaviors of paranoia and hallucinations? Or a pregnant aunt turn into a lesson about long-term care decisions? The innocent dialogue and anecdotes the author has recorded for years between her and her grandchildren serve as introductions—and lessons learned– to managing the daily responsibilities in Alzheimer’s care. These poignant stories and insightful perspectives from the author serve as a fresh approach in understanding the disease. Thought-provoking, humorous, and endearing, the content in the chapters will have you experiencing the journey of Alzheimer’s disease in a most light-hearted and non-threatening way, so much so that you will hardly realize how much knowledge and skills you are acquiring along the way. From understanding the components of the disease, to discovering various ways to communicate, to coping with difficult behavioral expressions; from weaving through all the emotions experienced by the caregiver, to understanding person-centered care, to the importance of social engagement, and much, much more, this book is a vital and very handy resource for all those affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The Author Dana Olivia Dunn Territo has advocated for those with Alzheimer's and their caregivers for over 30 years. She served as an advisor to build Louisiana’s first Alzheimer’s Social Model Day Respite Center and subsequently was director of this nationally recognized facility. She has served on local, state, and national organizations promoting quality care for those affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and has developed programs and training curricula for caregivers and healthcare professionals.
Extent: 260pp 10 figures Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Readership: caregivers for those affected by Alzheimer's disease Subject: Healthcare
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FOREWORD PREFACE Chapter 1: A Year of Learning Everything; Years of Losing Everything Learned Chapter 2: “I Know EVERYTHING, NoNo!” Getting Educated about the Alzheimer's Disease Journey Chapter 3: “It's Not A Hamburger Without a Bun” Getting the Correct Alzheimer's Diagnosis Chapter 4: “I'm Pretty Good” - The Practice of Caregiving Chapter 5: “Is That a Horsie in Your Hand?” Communication and Listening Skills Chapter 6: “LIAR, LIAR!” When What They Say Hurts Chapter 7: “The Polar Bear Poops on the Rug” Paranoia and Hallucinations Chapter 8: “You Gotta Sleep With Your Friend” Alzheimer's Sleep, Sundowning and Wandering Patterns Chapter 9: “I Don’t Take a Bottle” Agitation and Aggression & Person-centered Alzheimer's Care Chapter 10: “Let's Dance, YaYa!” The Importance of Activities for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 11: “It’s Their Business" - Dignity and Respect and the Dining Experience Chapter 12: And Then There's Collin's little sister, Brynn The Decision for Long-Term Care Chapter 13: “You Should Be Spending More Time with Me” Overcoming Guilt (and other emotions of caregiving Chapter 14: “Needing a Little Something More” Respite Care and Alzheimer's Chapter 15: “Did the Horses Do Something Wrong?” Environment Matters in Alzheimer's Care Chapter 16: “God Never Prays Back” Spirituality: God IS "Praying back" with the Individual with Alzheimer's Chapter 17: “Mommy Will be Back!” Necessary Attachments and Detaching Chapter 18: “It Doesn't Work That Way” There’s a Fixer in all of us! Chapter 19: “There's More to Alabama than Football!” Looking at the Person with Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 20: “After Everything I've Done for You...” A thank-less job Chapter 21: “A Funeral is a Really Sad Party!” The dual experiences of Alzheimer's disease and death Chapter 22: “THIS IS ME!” - The Greatest Showmen are Individuals & Caregivers affected by Alzheimer’s Disease Chapter 23: “You Gotta Use Your Brain!” Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 24: “Life is Unfair!” - The Injustices of Alzheimer’s disease Chapter 25: “What's Next, Daddy?” The Future of Alzheimer's disease Epilogue
[Dana] takes a complicated, detailed topic of Alzheimer’s, and humbly teaches us that through a more simplistic viewpoint profound lessons can be learned. Dana can make you laugh and she can make you cry, but above all she will prepare you to confront dementia head on, and you’ll be the better for it. Read on, and share what you discover. From the Foreword by Jack York, President and Co-Founder, IN2L - “It’s Never Too Late"
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Vernacular Knowledge Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs Edited by Ülo Valk and Marion Bowman
This volume presents vernacular knowledge as a realm of discourses and beliefs that challenge institutional authorities and official truths. It draws attention to various genres as expressions of alternative knowledge in relation to authority, including traditional and personal experience narratives, life stories, ditties, and jokes. These are transmitted through a wide range of vehicles of expression including online, face to face, social media, forums, networks, and conferences, which are shared and shaped communally but individually articulated and actualised. Vernacular knowledge and vernacular authority also underpin a variety of material culture, rituals and other practices. The volume covers various realms of the supernatural, such as ghosts, saints, spirits, magic, energy lines, and divinations. However, it also discusses beliefs that do not involve the supernatural such as conspiracy theories, politically and ideologically determined creeds, stereotypes and other cases where beliefs appear as socially compelling ideas and challenge prevailing received wisdom. Vernacular religion is examined not only in relation to institutional religion but also to secularism, state sponsored atheism, scientific rationalism and official medicine. Vernacular Knowledge proceeds from the premise that in contrast to institutionally established discourses with monological voicing, the expressive field of vernacular is always heteroglot; it eludes regulation and supervision.
hb ISBN 9781781792360 £75 / $100 pb ISBN 9781781792377 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: October 2022 Extent: 256pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies
The Editors Ülo Valk is Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu. Marion Bowman is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University. Table of Contents Overleaf
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents An Introduction to Vernacular Knowledge Ülo Valk Politics and Vernacular Strategies of Resistance 1. In Quest of Lost Heritage, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy: The Belarusian Case Anastasiya Astapova, University of Tartu 2. Humour and Resistance in Russia’s Ecological Utopia: A Look at the Anastasia Movement Irina Sadovina, Univesity of Sheffield 3. Visual Media and the Reconfiguration of Divinity in Moldovan Radical Religion James A. Kapaló, University College Cork
Afterlife and Afterdeath 14. Dealing with the Dead: Vernacular Belief Negotiations Among the Khasi of North Eastern India Margaret Lyngdoh, University of Tartu 15. An Immured Soul: Contested Ritual Traditions and Demonological Narratives in Contemporary Mongolia Alevtina Solovyeva, Russian State University for the Humanities 16. Ghosts in Belief, Practice and Metaphor Paul Cowdell, University of Hertfordshire 17. Afterword: 25 Years of Vernacular Religion Scholarship Marion Bowman
Narrating and Creating the Past 4. Blessings beyond Time and Place: The Fluid Nature of Narrative Tradition in Contemporary Hinduism Martin Wood, University of Gloucestershire 5. Truth, Variation and the Legendry: The Case of Saint Madhavadeva’s Birth Place in Assam Ülo Valk 6. Unearthing the Narratives of the Róngkups of Sikkim: From Vernacular Alternatives to Institutionalised Beliefs Reep Pandi Lepcha, Nar Bahadur Bhandari Government College, Sikkim Renegotiating Tradition and Authority 7. When a Cosmic Shift Fails: The Power of Vernacular Authority in a New Age Internet Forum Robert Glenn Howard, University of Wisconsin-Madison 8. Making Sense: The Body as a Medium to Supernatural Reality Kristel Kivari, University of Tartu 9. Seeking as a Late Modern Tradition: Three Vernacular Biographies Steven J. Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh 10.Practices of Niggunim: Contemporary Jewish Song in a Vernacular Religion Perspective Ruth Illman, The Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture Vernacular Knowledge and Christianity 11. Feminist Folk, Christian Folk and Black Madonnas Melanie Landman, Independent scholar 12. Negotiating Vernacular Authority, Legitimacy and Power: Creativity, Ambiguity and Materiality in Devotion to Gauchito Gil Marion Bowman 13. The Upper Room: Domestic Space, Vernacular Religion, and the Observant University Catholic Leonard Norman Primiano†, Cabrini College
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Reconstructing the Variant Generation Process of Hadith Based on the Quantitative and the Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis Hiroyuki Yanagihashi This monograph is dedicated to the analysis of hadiths for the purpose of reconstructing the process of variant generation. Medieval authors seemingly did not devote many pages to the question of textual variation, certainly because they had little interest in the question of how individual hadiths were historically formed. Several contemporary researchers have shown interest in the issue of textual variation in hadith. They agree that many hadiths were reformulated since their initial circulation and aim to trace the process of reformulation with regard to individual hadiths. Methodologically, the most successful is the isnād-cum-matn analysis proposed by Harald Motzki and Gregor Schoeler. This method consists of determining whether a correlation lies between the transmission process of a hadith, obtained from the analysis of isnāds (chains of transmission), and its textual development, obtained from the examination of its matn (text), sometimes complemented by biographical sources. However, despite the existence of many excellent studies based on this method, presenting the general pattern of variant generation with accuracy is far from being achieved. This study, which contains four chapters, seeks to precisely reconstruct the process of variant generation by analyzing isnāds from various quantitative perspectives, in addition to using the isnād-cum- matn analysis.
hb ISBN 9781800502178 £75 / $100 Pub date: November 2022 Extent: 224pp Format: 234 x 156mm (9.2 x 6.1 inches) 76 graphs, 27 tables Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies Readership: scholars Subject: Religious Studies; Islamic Studies
The Author Hiroyuki Yanagihashi is a professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo.
Table of Contents Overleaf
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents Preface 1.
Variant Generation of Hadiths in al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ
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Hadiths Related to Pre-emption
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Hadiths Related to Several Prohibited Transactions
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Synthesis
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Chinese Buddhism Today Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha's Light Mountain Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich Whether we are considering the extravagant, yet sensitive and perceptive FGS of Hsing Yun or the more sober but impressively productive Tzu Chi of Cheng Yen, suffice it to say that the authors present us with a wide-ranging, informed and sensitive picture of Humanistic Buddhism. From the Foreword by Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion, London School of Economics
Fo Guang Shan, “Buddha’s Light Mountain”, is a Buddhist movement founded in Taiwan in 1967 and led by the Ven Hsing Yun (b.1927), who had fled to Taiwan from mainland China in 1949. It stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism and more specifically is a form of Buddhism which in English is usually referred to as “Humanistic Buddhism” or as “engaged Buddhism”. Humanistic Buddhism owes its origin to the Chinese monk Tai Xu (1890-1947). He found the Buddhism which surrounded him in China dreary and moribund, preoccupied with rituals for the dead, and offering nothing to help or guide people living in the world outside monasteries. His determination to reverse this decay centred on the idea that it was the vocation of a Mahayana Buddhist to do good to others, finding their own spiritual benefit in benefitting society.
hb ISBN 9781800502314
Hsing Yun has been a devoted disciple of Tai Xu. It is telling that he founded a seminary before he founded a monastery, and has laid huge emphasis on education. As the sub-title of this book indicates, in order to make Buddhism widely attractive and relevant he has incorporated every influence available. Gifted with a benign personality, he has turned his seemingly boundless energy and prodigious versatility to creating an institution which presents Buddhism as potentially a source for benefitting society through making life enjoyable. This book hopes to convey the movement’s ethos primarily by focusing on his views and activities.
Readership: students and scholars
The Authors Yu-Shuang Yao is a Professor at Fo Guang University, Taiwan, specializing in contemporary religions of Taiwan. Richard Gombrich is founder and President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Before his retirement in 2004, he held the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College for 28 years.
£75.00 / $100.00 pb ISBN 9781800502321 £24.95 / $32 Pub date: July 2022 Extent: 140pp 8 colour figures Format: 234 x 156mm (9.21 x 6.14 inches) Series: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs Subject: Buddhist Studies
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Foreword by Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion, London School of Economics Chapter 1: Preamble: Previous Work Chapter 2: Introduction: Our Title Chapter 3: Karma, Death and Ancestors Chapter 4: Hsing Yun’s ethos and activities Chapter 5: FGS and Education Chapter 6: Public Ritual at FGS main monastery, Kaohsiung Chapter 7: Ritual as Symphony Chapter 8: Fo Guang Shan’s activities: Edification through Spectacle and Entertainment Chapter 9: Offshoots of FGS
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New book from Equinox Publishing Table of Contents (selected) Preface Molly Bassett and Natalie Avalos Indigeneity and Religion Why does the title of this book use the phrase “Indigenous Religious Traditions” rather than “Indigenous Religions?” Tisa Wenger, Yale University What makes a religion an ‘Indigenous religion’? Graham Harvey, The Open University Were all religions at one time ‘Indigenous’? Tyler Tully, University of Oxford Are Indigenous religions only those practiced by Indigenous people? Angela Puca, Leeds Trinity University Why is "religion" a problematic category for understanding Indigenous traditions? Philip Arnold, Syracuse University How do ideas about race shape understandings of Native American religious life? Sarah Dees, Iowa State University Why Are Indigenous African and Afro-Diasporic Religions Relevant to You? Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College, & Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia What makes Vodou an Indigenous tradition? James Padilioni, Jr., Swarthmore College What’s the difference between Vodou, Voudou, and Voodoo? Emily Clark, Gonzaga University Is Adivasi religion the same as Hinduism? William Elison, University of California Is Neo-Paganism an Indigenous religious tradition? Abel R. Gomez, University of Oklahoma The Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions What moral responsibilities do scholars and students have in studying Indigenous religions? Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary Why is repatriation a religious issue for many Native communities? Greg Johnson, University of California Is an academic approach to Indigenous religions innately colonizing? Afe Adogame What is animism? Graham Harvey How do archaeologists study religion in the Indigenous past? Mallory Matsumoto, University of Texas What’s the deal with cultural appropriation? Gregory Alles, McDaniel College Was the Washington R*dskins cultural appropriation? Matt Sheedy, Universität Bonn Indigenous Religious Traditions What is a Land-based religious tradition? Dana Lloyd, Villanova University Do Indigenous Peoples believe plants, animals, and waters have personhood? Meaghan Weatherdon, University of San Diego What does it mean when Indigenous peoples say animals are sacred? Kelsey Dayle John, University of Arizona What role does pilgrimage play in Indigenous religious life? Paul Gareau & Jeanine LeBlanc, both at University of Alberta Are Indigenous peoples inherently environmentalists?
Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri Why is the public expression of Indigenous Religion political? Stacie Swain, University of Victoria What are Native American foodways, and how are they religious? Andrea McComb Sanchez, University of Arizona What do Indigenous religious traditions in the Americas have in common? Inés Hernandez-Avila, University of California What are ancestor spirits, and what role do they play in Hawaiian religious life? Marie Alohalani Brown, University of Hawai'i What is the Ghost Dance? Tiffany Hale, Barnard College, Columbia University How are Indigenous narratives and oral traditions like “texts?” Dennis Kelley What do trickster tales tell us about human beings, and why are they important in Indigenous cultures? Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University How do Indigenous religions approach disability? Zara Surratt, University of North Carolina Are Indigenous religious traditions patriarchal? Donnie Begay, University of Divinity, Australia Did Indigenous people really honor LGBT/Two-Spirit people? Lisa Poirier, DePaul University Indigenous Futurity Indigenous futurism … is that like science fiction? Matt Sheedy
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