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Reinventing Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Reinventing Religions

Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the mixing and interpenetration of religious beliefs and practices, primarily from Africa and Europe, highlighting the ways in which religions and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic have been assimilated and innovatively changed. Divided into four sections, the book focuses on religious syncretism in Brazil, Jamaica, and other parts of the Caribbean and West Africa. Greenfield and Droogers have brought together an array of outstanding international scholars whose rich and varied essays on specific geographical locales and customs comprise an innovative and comprehensive view of the transference of religious traditions and their continuity and reformulation on two continents.

Time and Space
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 739

Time and Space

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-30
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Time and Space has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.

A Research Agenda for the Social Impacts of Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

A Research Agenda for the Social Impacts of Tourism

This timely Research Agenda explores the crucial need to understand the social impact of tourism in order to manage industry growth sustainably. Highlighting the multifaceted nature of tourism, chapters uncover the intricate relationships between tourists and host communities and investigate this complex social fabric.

Difficult People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

Difficult People

This time, you will say what needs to be said, in the right moment! · Would you like to be respected and heard? · Do you want to be more assertive in dialogues? · Are you afraid to tell the truth and end up with a rejection, or a negative reaction? · Do you want to have more emotional intelligence? All difficult people are just people, and knowing the fundamental aspects of brain functioning and emotions, facilitates the development of more tense and hostile conversations. You no longer need to "run away" from the inevitable, knowing that you will be psychologically and emotionally safe with these argumentative "powers". By discovering what happens in the brain during the confrontation, ...

Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 701

Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75

The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.

Neur007
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141

Neur007

Mindtrioska is a "neuro Bond girl" with a mission that seems impossible: Discover the brain's "secret agenda" Despite the challenges, Mindtrioska continued his mission, gathering important information and making detailed notes. When she finally emerged from the brain, exhausted but victorious, having successfully completed her mission and obtained valuable information, she compiled the report now in her hands. These Dialogues are the complete report of the cerebral program, from the mode of self-preservation, passing through a series of conditioning factors and biases of our brain. She discovered what the brain does with us, how it boycotts us, what it wants, what it abhors and, how to "brin...

Global Design and Local Materialization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Global Design and Local Materialization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2013, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital aids to design creativity, concepts, and strategies; digital fabrication and local materialization; human-computer interaction, user participation, and collaborative design; modeling and simulation; shape and form studies.

Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Portugal

National Geographic Traveler guidebooks contain must-know travel information, inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice you won’t find on the internet for bucket-list destinations around the world. One of the oldest nations in Europe, Portugal is a must for every travel enthusiast. This newly updated guidebook, part of a best-selling series, provides everything you need to know to plan an unforgettable experience in this fascinating country. Whether you’re in search of natural wonders—like the endless beaches that beckon the world’s best surfers or the rugged mountains of the Serra da Estrela—or want to explore the extraordinary legacy of Portugal’s ancient tradition...

ORIGAMI OF THE MIND
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 121

ORIGAMI OF THE MIND

When we uncover the neuronal "templates" of our identity, we also uncover the "Invisible templates" of imagination. Is it possible to be "addicted" to a life you don't want? To a personality you don't like? And "slave" to adverse thoughts, in a kind of self-bullying? By discovering what happens in the brain during change, or when creating a new habit, using creativity and other exercises based on neuroscience, you will know how to take your mind to another level, so that the brain does not create resistance. Dare to "Refold" Some thoughts, knowing the neuronal structures to recover the potential of human sublimation, leading to new experiences full of meaning. Procrastination stops, almost m...

Leaving a Violent Relationship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Leaving a Violent Relationship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-06
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, sexual, emotional, and economic abuse and controlling behaviors inflicted within intimate partner relationships, is a global crisis that extends beyond national and sociocultural boundaries, affecting people of all ages, religions, ethnicities, and economic backgrounds. Though studies exist that seek to explain how people become trapped within violent relationships and what factors facilitate survival, escape and safety, this book provides fresh insights into this complex and multifaceted issue. People often ask of women in abusive relationships “why does she stay?” Critics suggest that this question carries implicit notions of victim...