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  • The Movement for Global Mental Health

    Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by William Sax, Claudia Lang ...
    Series series Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
    In The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that mental disorders can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Problem of Ritual Efficacy

    Edited by William Sax, Johannes Quack, Jan Weinhold ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies. For "modern" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture. ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Afternoon of Christianity

    The Courage to Change

    by Tomáš Halík ...
    Translated by Gerald Turner ...
    Tomáš Halík provides a poignant reflection on Christianity’s crisis of faith while offering a vision of the self-reflection, love, and growth necessary for the church to overcome and build a deeper and more mature faith.In a world transformed by secularization and globalization, torn by stark political and social distrust, and ravaged by war and pandemic, Christians are facing a crisis of faith. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Depression in Japan

    Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

    by Junko Kitanaka ...
    A study of the effect of depression and psychiatry on Japanese society—"A triumph, perhaps even a classic" ( Times Higher Education, UK)."Fully engaged with the scholarly literature, and steeped in detail and description, this exemplary book is clearly the product of great care and careful listening and observation. With its high quality, simplicity, and eloquence, it is bound to become the book ... Read more

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  • A Human History of Emotion

    How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

    by Richard Firth-Godbehere ...
    A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along with us. "Eye-opening and thought-provoking!” (Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain)We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Esotericism in Western Culture

    Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge

    by Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
    This accessible introduction by the world's leading expert explains why the study of esotericism is not a marginal pursuit but belongs at the center of modern research in the humanities. Reflecting updates in the field since the foundational publication Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2013), Wouter J. Hanegraaff demonstrates that the exclusion of “rejected knowledge” from normative ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Adieu to God

    Why Psychology Leads to Atheism

    by Mick Power ...
    Adieu to God examines atheism from a psychological perspective and reveals how religious phenomena and beliefs are psychological rather than supernatural in origin.Answers the psychological question of why, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, do religions continue to prosper?Looks at atheism and religion using a fair and balanced approach based on the latest work in ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by David Hicks ...
    Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On The Neurobiology of Sin

    by Lazar Puhalo ...
    Archbishop Lazar explores the inner human suffering aspect of sin and the passions. Seeking to bring more compassion and less ideology into the Church, dispelling some of the more cruel and destructive primitive "models of reality" His Eminence calls upon us to come to terms with the realities of the human condition in a compassionate and healing way, rather than making their wounds more deep and ... Read more

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  • Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD

    Edited by Andreas Maercker, Eva Heim, Kirmayer Laurence J. ...
    This book, written and edited by leading experts from around the world, looks critically at how culture impacts on the way posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorders are diagnosed and treated. There have been important advances in clinical treatment and research on PTSD, partly as a result of researchers and clinicians increasingly taking into account how "culture matters." For ... Read more

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