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Today's Woman in World Religions
This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Australian aboriginal religion. This volume completes the trilogy devoted to women in world religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. The second book in the series is entitled Religion and Women. The present work surveys the position of women in the religious traditions covered in the first volume of the trilogy, Women in World Religions, placing these traditions in contemporary context.
Reintroducing Marcel Mauss
This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time. Since his work regained attention in social sciences in the later 20th century, Reintroducing Marcel Mauss also emphasises the progression of research on Mauss’s thought, bringing to light various neglected aspects of his scientific project, including his political commitment and writings. With a review of the contemporary research on Mauss’s legacy, it offers a fuller understanding of the questions with which he was concerned – questions which converged in the challenge of working out alternative ways for a social life that promotes a genuinely social society inspired by socialist and cooperative values. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in the history and development of sociology, and the contemporary importance of classical social theory.
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Die Spur der Macht im Verhältnis der Geschlechter
Durch die Jahrhunderte und die Jahrtausende zieht sich die Spur der Macht im Verhältnis der Geschlechter. Durch sie sind bedeutsame Möglichkeiten des Daseins unterdrückt und zunichte gemacht worden. Denn wir müssen davon ausgehen, dass zu allen Zeiten und in allen Gesellschaften die Intimität der frühen Kindheit in das Verhältnis der Geschlechter überführt und von dem Verlangen bestimmt wurde, deren Leben einander zu verbinden. Eben dadurch wurde die Chance geschaffen, die eigene Lebensform durch die des andern zu bereichern und an ihr abzustützen. Man wird die dadurch ermöglichte Beziehung in einem nicht erst durch die Romantik bestimmten Sinne als Liebe verstehen. Ein Einschlag der Macht in das Verhältnis der Geschlechter, durch den eines der Geschlechter in dieser Beziehung an der Entfaltung seiner Persönlichkeit gehindert wird, erweist sich als widersinnig. Woher rührt er? Das ist die Frage, um deren Klärung es in diesem Buch geht.
What Is Art For?
Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biologi...
