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Changing Trajectories of Religion and Popular Culture
Cultural diversity and cultural change make it difficult to define and theorize cultural phenomena. This is especially apparent in the case of such cultural areas as religion and popular culture. This book presents ways to understand and explain the diversity and variability of religious and popular culture phenomena. The first part of this book focuses on the cognitive foundations and cultural dimensions of religious phenomena. The cognitive science of religion provides a new theoretical framework for explaining religious diversity and variability. The second part is dedicated to the study of selected phenomena of popular culture from the perspective distinctive to cultural anthropology. It attempts to bring into light this features of popular culture phenomena that have direct impact on cultural subjects.
Religion and Realism
This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real. Religion remains one of the most significant social forces and cultural constituencies, and it can even be said that religion and religious truths are becoming increasingly important in these so-called “post-secular” times, when the sphere of the (secular) social/political and the sphere of the religious have to be reconsidered. The relevancy of religious truths and the way they structure our understanding of “reality” overcomes the sphere of theology and particular religious practices. Religion, truth, and reality, and the way these concepts are approached and understood, continue to be vital for a broader cultural discourse as well, from philosophy and science to politics, mass media and show-business. The book presents ten essays that offer methodologically diverse and intellectually challenging analyses of various aspects of the topics of Religion and Realism. The essays are based on papers presented at the international conference on Religion and Realism, which took place at the American University of Rome in 2014.
Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion
Mocked, vilified, blamed, and significantly misunderstood - the 'Baby Boomers' are members of the generation of post-WWII babies who came of age in the 1960s. Parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be respectable church-attendees, and yet in some ways demonstrated an ambivalence that permitted their children to spurn religion and eventually to raise their own children to be the least religious generation ever. The Baby Boomers studied here, living in the UK and Canada, were the last generation to have been routinely baptised and taken regularly to mainstream, Anglican churches. So, what went wrong - or, perhaps, right? This study, based on in-depth interviews and comp...
Glimpses into the World of Mathematics
Essays collected in this volume deal with various problems from the philosophy of mathematics. What connects them are two questions: how mathematics is created and how it is acquired. In 'Three Worlds of Mathematics' we are familiarized with David Tall's ideas pertaining to the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematics. In 'Basic Ideas of Intuitionism', we focus on an epistemological approach to mathematics which is distinctive to constructive mathematics. The author focuses on the computational content of intuitionistic logic and shows how it relates to functional programming. 'The Brave Mathematical Ant' carefully selects mathematical puzzles related to teaching experiences in a way that the solution requires creativity and is not obtainable by following an algorithm. Moreover the solution gives us some new insight into the underlying idea. 'Degrees Of Accessibility Of Mathematical Objects' discusses various criteria which can be used to judge accessibility of mathematical objects. We find logical complexity, range of applications, existence of a physical model as well as aesthetic values.
Higher Education Institutions in the Process of Transformation and Modernization
This book is dedicated to the problems faced by universities. The author frequently refers to those events from the past that resulted in universities becoming institutions of public benefit. This benefit is of course understood in various ways, but in ways always involving the institutions’ function of serving. What is debatable is whom and what they were and are meant to serve, and how they can and how they should fulfil these functions. Although such questions are global in character, the answers to them can be both global and local, meaning that they may relate to both the most general tasks of universities and to those that might be or are to some degree only performed by institutions of a particular type.
Essays on Mathematical Reasoning
This volume contains four essays which may attract the attention of those readers, who are interested in mathematical cognition The main issues and questions addressed include: How do we achieve understanding of mathematical notions and ideas? What benefits can be obtained from mistakes of great mathematicians? Which mathematical objects are standard and which are pathological? Is it possible characterize the intended models of mathematical theories in a unique way?
Nauki o polityce publicznej
W 1928 r. Florian Znaniecki postulował utworzenie w Polsce instytutu socjologii stosowanej; uważał, że socjologia ma największe walory praktycznej przydatności, także dla polityk publicznych, dla projektowania rozwiązań problemów społecznych. W pewnym sensie postulat Znanieckiego urzeczywistniony został w 1972 roku przez powołanie w Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, z inicjatywy Adama Podgóreckiego, Czesława Czapówa i Marii Łoś oraz Sekcji Socjotechniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego, pozawydziałowego Instytutu Profilaktyki Społecznej i Resocjalizacji, którego zadaniem miało być prowadzenie badań i sporządzanie ekspertyz problemów społecznych dla potrzeb polityki i...
The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field ...
Formułowanie kategorii pojęciowej bezpieczeństwa
Przedstawiona do recenzji monografia stanowi pogłębione analityczno-porównawcze studium semantyczne postrzegania oraz definiowania bezpieczeństwa w zmieniającym się środowisku bezpieczeństwa. Jest niezwykle cennym materiałem poznawczym dla studentów, wykładowców i badaczy w dyscyplinie nauk o bezpieczeństwie i obronności, a także wszystkich zainteresowanych bezpieczeństwem w obszarze nauk społecznych, przyrodniczych, medycznych i technicznych jak i praktyków służb, inspekcji, straży i wojska... Z recenzji prof. dr hab. Jerzego Koniecznego
