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So What's New About Scholasticism?
In So What’s New about Scholasticism? thirteen international scholars gauge the extraordinary impact of a religiously inspired conceptual framework in a modern society. The essays that are brought together in this volume reveal that Neo-Thomism became part of contingent social contexts and varying intellectual domains. Rather than an ecclesiastic project of like-minded believers, Neo-Thomism was put into place as a source of inspiration for various concepts of modernization and progress. This volume reconstructs how Neo-Thomism sought to resolve disparities, annul contradictions and reconcile incongruent, new developments. It asks the question why Neo-Thomist ideas and arguments were put i...
The Problematic Science
Psychologie / Geschichte.
La Llorona's Children
Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are rema...
De Vives a Yela: antología de textos de historia de la psicología en España
Este libro constituye una introducción a la historia de la psicología en España a través de los escritos de algunos de sus autores más significativos. La selección se ha llevado a cabo con un criterio amplio que ha permitido incluir textos de muy diversa índole: académicos y profesionales, filosóficos y científicos, teóricos y aplicados. El libro ofrece así, a vista de pájaro, un panorama de los principales temas y problemas que, a lo largo de más de setecientos años, han ido proporcionando al saber psicológico de nuestro país su característico perfil. Cada uno de los fragmentos que componen esta antología va precedido además de un breve texto redactado por los compiladores, que pretende poner al lector sobre la pista de la significación del autor, de su obra y del fragmento mismo seleccionado. Se incluyen asimismo sumarias indicaciones bibliográficas para animar a seguir leyendo.
El Niño Fidencio and the Fidencistas
El Nio Fidencio and the Fidencistas: Folk Religion on the U.S.-Mexican Borderland, is an biographical ethnography examining the life of Mexicos most famous folk healer as well as the folk religious healing cult that has followed him since his death in 1938. Dr. Zavaleta examines curanderismo, the transmigrational patterns of Mexicans in the United States as well as Latino/a social psychology and importance of folk beliefs and practices in their daily lives. In 2009, Zavaletas lifetime of research supporting Mexican nationals living abroad, Mexicanos en el Extranjero earned him the prestigious Ohtli, a Nahuatl(Aztec) word meaning pathfinder. The Ohtli is regarded as the highest community-mind...
Programas de Doctorado. Curso 91-92
Recoge los programas de doctorado impartidos por las universidades españolas durante el curso indicado.
Cultures of Devotion
Spanish America has produced numerous "folk saints" -- venerated figures regarded as miraculous but not officially recognized by the Catholic Church. Some of these have huge national cults with hundreds -- perhaps millions -- of devotees. In this book Frank Graziano provides the first overview in any language of these saints, offering in-depth studies of the beliefs, rituals, and devotions surrounding seven representative figures. These case studies are illuminated by comparisons to some hundred additional saints from contemporary Spanish America. Among the six primary cases are Difunta Correa, at whose shrines devotees offer bottles of water and used auto parts in commemoration of her tragi...
Curandero Conversations
"The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College"--T.p.
HISTORIA DE LA PSICOLOGÍA
Este manual está ideado para servir de texto básico para la asignatura de Historia de la Psicología, y proporciona claves para entender cómo esta disciplina se ha ido constituyendo en el tiempo hasta configurar el panorama contemporáneo. El relato toma la figura de Wilhelm Wundt y la creación del primer laboratorio de psicología experimental como eje organizador de los contenidos. A través de ellos se identifican algunos elementos decisivos del pensamiento filosófico y científico que precedieron a la sistematización wundtiana. El manual presenta también las principales perspectivas y escuelas surgidas inmediatamente después de la institucionalización de la Psicología, a finale...
