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Author |
: Mayfair Yang |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2020-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478009245 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478009241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-enchanting Modernity by : Mayfair Yang
In Re-enchanting Modernity Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou, China. Drawing on twenty-five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Yang shows how the local practices of popular religion, Daoism, and Buddhism are based in community-oriented grassroots organizations that create spaces for relative local autonomy and self-governance. Central to Wenzhou's religious civil society is what Yang calls a "ritual economy," in which an ethos of generosity is expressed through donations to temples, clerics, ritual events, and charities in exchange for spiritual gain. With these investments in transcendent realms, Yang adopts Georges Bataille's notion of "ritual expenditures" to challenge the idea that rural Wenzhou's economic development can be described in terms of Max Weber's notion of a "Protestant Ethic". Instead, Yang suggests that Wenzhou's ritual economy forges an alternate path to capitalist modernity.
Author |
: Joshua Landy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000124484498 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Re-enchantment of the World by : Joshua Landy
The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of strategies for re-enchantment, each fully compatible with secular rationality. It has to, because God has many "aspects"--or to put it in more secular terms, because traditional religion offers so much in so many domains. From one thinker to the next, the question of just what, in religious enchantment, needs to be replaced in a secular world receives an entirely different answer. Now, for the first time, many of these strategies are laid out in a single volume, with contributions by specialists in literature, history, and philosophy.
Author |
: Jeffrey L. Kosky |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226451060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226451062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arts of Wonder by : Jeffrey L. Kosky
Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.
Author |
: C. Mathews Samson |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2007-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817354275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817354271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-Enchanting the World by : C. Mathews Samson
In considering the interplay between contemporary Protestant practice and native cultural traditions among Maya evangelicals, this work documents the processes whereby some Maya have converted to different forms of Christianity and the ways in which the Maya are incorporating Christianity for their own purposes.
Author |
: Jane Bennett |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2016-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400884537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400884535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantment of Modern Life by : Jane Bennett
It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.
Author |
: Eugene McCarraher |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 817 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674242777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674242777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Enchantments of Mammon by : Eugene McCarraher
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Author |
: Ana Paulina Lee |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2018-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781503606029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1503606023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mandarin Brazil by : Ana Paulina Lee
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual culture, as well as archival documents and Brazilian and Qing dynasty diplomatic correspondence about opening trade and immigration routes between Brazil and China. In so doing, she reveals how Asian racialization helped to shape Brazil's image as a racial democracy. Mandarin Brazil begins during the second half of the nineteenth century, during the transitional period when enslaved labor became unfree labor—an era when black slavery shifted to "yellow labor" and racial anxieties surged. Lee asks how colonial paradigms of racial labor became a part of Brazil's nation-building project, which prioritized "whitening," a fundamentally white supremacist ideology that intertwined the colonial racial caste system with new immigration labor schemes. By considering why Chinese laborers were excluded from Brazilian nation-building efforts while Japanese migrants were welcomed, Lee interrogates how Chinese and Japanese imperial ambitions and Asian ethnic supremacy reinforced Brazil's whitening project. Mandarin Brazil contributes to a new conversation in Latin American and Asian American cultural studies, one that considers Asian diasporic histories and racial formation across the Americas.
Author |
: Stratford Caldecott |
Publisher |
: Brazos Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2017-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493410606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493410601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beauty for Truth's Sake by : Stratford Caldecott
Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, the author explains that unity is present within diversity. Now repackaged with a new foreword by Ken Myers, this book will continue to benefit parents, homeschoolers, lifelong learners, Christian students, and readers interested in the history of ideas.
Author |
: Maciej Musiał |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2019-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030125790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030125793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enchanting Robots by : Maciej Musiał
This book argues that robots are enchanting humans (as potential intimate partners), because humans are enchanting robots (by performing magical thinking), and that these processes are a part of a significant re-enchantment of the “modern” world. As a foundation, the author examines arguments for and against intimate relationships with robots, particularly sex robots and care robots. Moreover, the book provides a consideration of human-robot interactions and philosophical reflections about robots through the lens of magic and magical thinking as well as theoretical and practical re-evaluations of their status and presence. Furthermore, the author discusses the abovementioned issues in the context of disenchantment and re-enchantment of the world, characterizing modernity as a coexistence of these two processes. The book closes with a consideration of future scenarios regarding the meaning of life in the age of rampant automation and the possibility that designing robots becomes a sort of new eugenics as a consequence of recognizing robots as persons.
Author |
: Robert M. Geraci |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2018-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498577755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149857775X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Temples of Modernity by : Robert M. Geraci
Temples of Modernity uses ethnographic data to investigate the presence of religious ideas and practices in Indian science and engineering. Geraci shows 1) how the integration of religion, science and technology undergirds pre- and post-independence Indian nationalism, 2) that traditional icons and rituals remain relevant in elite scientific communities, and 3) that transhumanist ideas now percolate within Indian visions of science and technology. This work identifies the intersection of religion, science, and technology as a worldwide phenomenon and suggests that the study of such interactions should be enriched through attention to the real experiences of people across the globe.