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  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ...
    This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How Things Count as the Same

    Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller ...
    In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Religion and Charity

    The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

    by Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...
    Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Power and Protest in the Countryside

    Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

    Edited by Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim ...
    “Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has taken through the past three centuries.”—Pacific Affairs ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • It Happens Among People

    Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

    Edited by Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series Book 8 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia

    Organizing between Family and State

    Edited by Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In *Civil Life,*Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject, whose chapters address these ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Read more

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  • God in Pain

    Inversions of Apocalypse

    by Slavoj Zizek, Boris Gunjevic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac ...
    A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger reveals five signs that point to the supernatural and its place in a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief. Using five signs evident in ordinary life—order, play, hope, damnation, and humor—Berger ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Theology

    by John Caputo ...
    A highly engaging essay that will draw students into a conversation about the vital relationship between philosophy and theology.In this clear, concise, and brilliantly engaging essay, renowned philosopher and theologian John D. Caputoaddresses the great and classical philosophical questions as they inextricably intersect with theology--past, present, and future. Recognized as one of the leading ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    by Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... Read more

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