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Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. Gloria Flaherty's book is about the first Western encounters with shamanic peoples and practices. Flaherty makes us see the eighteenth century as an age in which explorers were fascinating all Europe with tales of shamans who accomplished a "self-induced cure for a self-induced fit." Reports from what must have seemed a forbidden world of strange rites and moral licentiousness came from botanists, geographers, missionaries, and oth...
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia before and during the Third Reich in depth and demonstrate how Nazi physicians incorporated mainstream Western philosophy, eugenics, population medicine, prevention, and other medical ideas into their ideology. This book reveals that euthanasia was neither forced upon physicians nor wantonly practiced by...
Time & Eternity
"What is time? Is there a link between objective knowledge about time and subjective experience of time? And what is eternity? Does religion have the answer? Does science? Antje Jackelén investigates the problem and concept of time. Her analysis of the subject includes: The notion of time and eternity as it is narrated through Christian hymn books stemming from Germany, Sweden, and the English-speaking world, with insights into changes of the concept and understanding of time in Christian spirituality over the past few decades; Theological approaches to time and eternity, as well as a look at Trinitarian theology and its relation to time; The discussion of scientific theories of time, including Newtonian, relativistic, quantum, and chaos theories; The formulation of a "theology of time," a theological-mathematical model incorporating relational thinking oriented towards the future, the doctrine of trinity, and the notion of eschatology"--Descripción del editor.
Which Face of Witch
For centuries, the figure of the witch represented the hostile and feared “other” on the edge of human society, placed “in between” the world of people and the world of demons. Whether she stood for the untamed powers of nature, dark powers of knowledge or magic, or evil powers derived from the devil, she was always identified with fear as a disturbance, as a danger to the order of society and to the well-being of those who understood themselves as settled within the borders of the patriarchal order and its psychological and sexual corselet. In this role, the witch appeared in numerous literary works, including, among others, writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare and Middleton. However, s...
Empty Nest
Wenn Kinder »flügge« werden und das Elternhaus verlassen, tun sich Mütter und Väter zunächst oft schwer. Wie geht es Frauen und Männern, deren erwachsene Kinder ausziehen? Und wie kommen sie »allein« klar, wie trauern sie? Welche neuen Pläne schmieden sie? Wie gelingt es Paaren, sich neu zu finden? Adelheid Müller-Lissner sprach mit Müttern, Vätern, Paaren, Alleinerziehenden, die den Auszug ihrer Kinder aus der familiären Wohnung auf verschiedene Art erlebt haben. Fast alle stehen im Berufsleben, führen ein »ausgefülltes« Leben – und spüren doch eine Lücke. Sie erzählen von den ersten Vorboten der Ablösung, über den Tag des Auszugs und darüber, wie das kinderfreie Leben zur Gewohnheit geworden ist. Es geht um »ganz normale« Mütter und Väter, die ihre erwachsen werdenden Kinder lieben, die sie unterstützen und ihnen Freiheiten lassen, die stolz auf deren Selbständigkeit sind. Zudem interviewte die Autorin Fachleute verschiedener Disziplinen: Psychologen und Paartherapeuten, Soziologen, Philosophen sowie Ethnologen, und sie holte bei einer Vogelkundlerin Auskünfte über das »Empty Nest« ein.
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