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Leppert, Richard D. Art and the committed eye: The cultural functions of imagery. Westview Press, 1996.

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Sapogova, Elena, Irina Dubrovina, Lyudmila Obuhova, and Yuriy Karandashev. General psychology. Workshop. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/975142.

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The textbook contains a set of educational tasks grouped into six substantive sections ("Introduction to psychology", "Formation of the psyche and consciousness", "Socio-cultural formation of a person", "Person, individual, personality, personality, subject", "Individual psychological characteristics of a person", "Higher mental functions") and organized according to the level of conditional complexity. The tasks are aimed at in-depth mastering of knowledge in the discipline "General Psychology", the development of skills and abilities of free operation of psychological material, stimulating t

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Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (Netherlands). Focus op functies: Uitdagingen voor een toekomstbestendig mediabeleid. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

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Bertell, Maths, Frog, and Kendra Willson, eds. Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982635.

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Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum — a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics, literary studies, religious studie

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Sokolova, Elena, and Aleksandra Ushakova. Old Slavonic language. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1870286.

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The textbook is devoted to theoretical and practical issues of studying the Old Slavic language, which appeared in the middle of the IX century and had a significant impact on the development of Slavic cultures in general and the emergence of book-written Slavic languages on a national basis in particular. The manual includes educational and methodological materials on the analysis of phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax; texts of the Old Slavic language from glagolitic and Cyrillic monuments, tasks for the analysis of texts, a dictionary. The educational and methodological material

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Polyakova, Anna, Tat'yana Sergeeva, and Irina Kitaeva. The continuous formation of the stochastic culture of schoolchildren in the context of the digital transformation of general education. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1876368.

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The material presented in the monograph shows the possibilities of continuous teaching of mathematics at school, namely, the significant potential of modern information and communication technologies, with the help of which it is possible to form elements of stochastic culture among students. Continuity in learning is considered from two positions: procedural and educational-cognitive. In addition, a distinctive feature of the book is the presentation of the digital transformation of general education as a way to overcome the "new digital divide". Methodological features of promising digital t

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Kovadlo, Lyudmila. Russian language and speech culture. Theory. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1013721.

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Russian Russian Language and Culture of Speech textbook consists of two books: "Russian language and culture of speech. Theory" and "Russian language and speech culture. Practicum". The study of the Russian language in professional educational organizations implementing the educational program of secondary general education has its own characteristics depending on the profile of vocational education, which is expressed through the content of training. When mastering the professions of technical, natural-scientific, socio-economic profiles of vocational education, the Russian language is

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Muhaev, Rashid. State and municipal administration. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2125206.

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What kind of public administration system should be in order to be effective in conditions of uncertainty? How should the mechanism of public administration function in order to promptly respond to the growing variety of requests and expectations of the population? The textbook answers these and other questions. It offers a discursive analysis of the current problems of the history, theory and practice of modern public and municipal administration, which is based on a generalization of the world and domestic experience in the functioning of public administration systems. Within the framework o

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Kovadlo, Lyudmila. Russian language and speech culture. Workshop. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1014771.

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The textbook is a didactic material for the textbook "Russian language and culture of speech. Theory". Russian Russian vocabulary and stylistics are outlined in the books, which instills the skills of using the norms of Russian speech. The study of the Russian language in professional educational organizations implementing the educational program of secondary general education has its own characteristics depending on the profile of vocational education, which is expressed through the content of training. When mastering the professions of technical, natural-scientific, socio-economic prof

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Cevelev, Aleksandr. Strategic development of railway transport logistics. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1194747.

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The monograph is devoted to the methodology of material and technical support of railway transport. According to the types of activities, the nature of the material and technical resources used, technologies, means and management systems, Russian railways belong to the category of high-tech industries that must have high quality and technical level, reliability and technological efficiency in operation. For this reason, the logistics system itself, both in structure and in the algorithm of the functions performed as a whole, needs a serious improvement in the quality of its work. The economic

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Gross, Peter. Cultural Core of Media Systems. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978728639.

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This book offers an alternative perspective to the reigning socio-political and economic approaches to evaluating media systems and why and how they function. Peter Gross outlines a cultural model, a "kaleidoscopic cultural prism," for assessing the nature and functioning of these systems. By testing this model in one Eastern European country, Romania, Gross contributes to existing scholarship on media theory, media and transformation, East and Central European media, Romanian media, and East and Central European transformations in general. Awareness of the inherent negatives in the cultural b

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Autora, Grupa. Psychology in the function of the well-being of the individual and society - BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. Filozofski fakultet Niš, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/awb.2021.

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As the guidelines of human attitudes and behavior, the values are extremely important for individuals and for the society. All major societal flaws (violence, war, aggression, criminal, delinquency, lawlessness, corruption, ecological devastation, terrorism, totalitarianism, exploitation, misery, poverty, hunger, starvation, ignorance, fanaticism and others) are result of behavior that is as odd with basic human values. Thus, a value-congruent behavior is a necessary condition for stable and successful society and the strengthening of value-aligned behavior is a planetary task. Psychological r

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Harrison, Douglas. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036972.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter offers a scholarly glimpse into the world of southern gospel music from both a sacred and secular point of view. Here the author positions himself as both a gospel-music insider and outsider in discussing methods for how this book approaches and understands southern gospel's cultural functions. In addition, this chapter also functions as a primer on southern gospel music. Broadly defined, southern gospel songs fall into four general types. There are songs of celebration, as well as more commonplace toe-tappers and other upbeat feel-good songs; patriotic and political

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Art and the committed eye: Cultural functions of imagery. Westview, 1996.

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Suikkanen, Jussi. Contractualism and the Counter-Culture Challenge. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808930.003.0010.

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T. M. Scanlon’s contractualism attempts to give an account of right and wrong in terms of the moral code that could not be reasonably rejected. Reasonable rejectability is then a function of what kind of consequences the general adoption of different moral codes has for different individuals. It has been shown that moral codes should be compared at a lower than 100% level of social acceptance. This leads to the counter-culture challenge. The problem is that the cultural background of the individuals who have not internalized the majority code affects the consequences of the codes and furthermo

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Baumbach, Manuel. Poets and Poetry. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.23.

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This chapter gives an overview of the production and reception of Greek poetry in the Second Sophistic. It addresses questions of its performance and “setting in life,” looks at the generic tradition and creative innovation of epic, drama, melic poetry, epigram, and fable, and takes into account different cultural backgrounds and literary functions. Poetry was at the core of Greek paideia, functioned as a code for the educated elite, was regarded as an essential element of rhetoric, helped to shape Greek identity, and could be used for propaganda by poets belonging to the imperial court. Educa

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Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Janik, Vicki K. Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400652790.

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Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular cul

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Aelshire, Daniel O. Theological Education. Edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199386819.013.30.

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Theological education in the United States has developed as a function of religious practice, American culture, and conventions of higher education. It began with the general study of classics in colleges and universities during the colonial period and the early decades of nationhood. It developed through a process of specialization that involved the founding of freestanding theological schools and seminaries and the development of a specialized curriculum and theological disciplines and patterns of scholarly work. By the mid-twentieth century, the education of ministers had developed into a n

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John, Vera P., and Courtney B. Cazden. Functions of Language in the Classroom. Waveland Press, 1985.

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Riggs, Amanda M. Working in the Middle East. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216038733.

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Presenting the firsthand account of an American woman working several jobs in Egypt over a four-year period, this book analyzes the cross-cultural business environment between the United States and the Middle East and North Africa. It provides recommendations to enable anyone—male or female—to successfully navigate commercial activities in the region. As the American workforce evolves and more women seek leadership roles in business, a growing number of women—and men—are seeking international business experiences to advance their careers and set themselves apart from their competition. Conduct

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Walter, Mariko Namba, and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, eds. Shamanism. ABC-CLIO, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216014140.

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A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that ma

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Harper, Krista, Aline Gubrium, and Marty Otañez. Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Harper, Krista, Aline Gubrium, and Marty Otañez. Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Participatory visual and digital research in action. Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015.

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MariAnna, Cara. Abortion. www. praeger. com, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216188384.

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Stories about abortion provide a rich ground for looking at the relationship between narrative, experience, and meaning because in many ways abortion has come to be a defining issue for American culture—one that touches on the value we attribute to human life, liberty, and freedom. Using personal stories and interviews, MariAnna seeks to show the contours of a vital and diverse collective story—a narrative that emphasizes the discursive dynamics at work in any account of the significance of abortion. MariAnna seeks to show the contours of a vital and diverse collective story—a narrative that e

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Fox, Alistair. The Coming-of-age Film as a Genre: Attributes, Evolution, and Functions. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0001.

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This chapter outlines the generic characteristics, categories, and dominant tropes of the coming-of-age film, relating it to the Bildungsroman in literature, and showing the influence on its evolution of the French New Wave and European art cinema. The chapter concludes by speculating on why coming-of-age films are such a prominent feature in national cinemas, arguing that they play an important role in the development of collective memory and the transmission and reshaping of cultural values.

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Burke, Kevin J., and Ruth M. Harman. Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis: Embodied Inquiry with Multilingual Youth. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Burke, Kevin J., and Ruth M. Harman. Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis: Embodied Inquiry with Multilingual Youth. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Burke, Kevin J., and Ruth M. Harman. Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis: Embodied Inquiry with Multilingual Youth. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Burke, Kevin J., and Ruth M. Harman. Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis: Embodied Inquiry with Multilingual Youth. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Thaut, Michael H., and Donald A. Hodges, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198804123.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain is a compendium of current research on music in the human brain. An international roster of 54 authors from 13 countries have written over 350,000 words that are organized into 33 chapters. Major themes include Music, the Brain, and Cultural Contexts; Music Processing in The Human Brain; Neural Responses to Music; Musicianship and Brain Function; Developmental Issues in Music and the Brain; Music, the Brain, and Health; and the Future. Each chapter offers a thorough review of the current status of research literature as well as an examination of limit

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Zolov, Eric, ed. Iconic Mexico. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400667886.

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Going far beyond basic historical information, this two-volume work examines the deep roots of Mexican culture and their meaning to modern Mexico. In this book, readers will find rich, in-depth treatments by renowned as well as up-and-coming scholars on the most iconic people, places, social movements, and cultural manifestations—including food, dress, film, and music—that have given shape and meaning to modern Mexico and its people. Presenting authoritative information written by scholars in a format that is easily accessible to general audiences, this book serves as a useful and thorough ref

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Parrington, John. Mind Shift. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801634.001.0001.

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This book draws on the latest research on the human brain to show how it differs strikingly from those of other animals in its structure and function at molecular and cellular level. It argues that this ‘shift’, enlarging the brain, giving it greater flexibility and enabling higher functions such as imagination, was driven by tool use, but especially by the development of one remarkable tool—language. The complex social interaction brought by language opened up the possibility of shared conceptual worlds, enriched with rhythmic sounds and images that could be drawn on cave walls. This transfor

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Yelle, Robert A. Semiotics. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.15.

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Within those disciplines pursuing semiotic approaches to religion, recent decades have been characterized by a shift toward the pragmatic and performative dimensions of discourse. Roman Jakobson’s analysis of the poetic function of language has been extended to ritual, which in some cases deploys poetry to enhance rhetorical performance. The metricalization of ritual often constructs indexical icons that mirror and converge with real-world events that ritual seeks to bring about. The ability of the sign to figure something absent intersects with the general problem in religion concerning how (

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Vietnam tourism: policies and practices. CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242782.0000.

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Abstract This book is a unique work offering an emic view of tourism in Vietnam. Thirteen chapters in the book cover a broad range of tourism development issues with reference to the historical, political, cultural and economic background of the country. This book also provides a comprehensive review of tourism development in Vietnam. Part I of the volume includes four chapters, introducing and outlining the history of Vietnam tourism and the role and function of the public sector in tourism policy making, planning and governance of the industry. Part II, with five chapters, offers analysis an

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d'Hubert, Thibaut. The Formation of Bengali Literature in Arakan (ca. 1430–1638). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190860332.003.0002.

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This chapter sets a frame for understanding a composite literary tradition. I give a general overview of how the Bengal–Arakan continuum has been defined in terms of geographical and cultural features. I then turn to an Arakanese Islamicate idiom in official documents from the foundation of Mrauk U in 1430 up to Ālāol’s lifetime. After the study of the use of an Islamicate idiom, I identify the centers in which Bengali literature was produced in Arakan during the same period. I distinguish two trends in the Bengali literature of Arakan, one represented by the works of provincial authors and th

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Domoney-Lyttle, Zanne. The Bible and Comics. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567687982.

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This interdisciplinary volume seeks to trace the diverse ways in which stories of biblical women have been reimagined in and as comic books. Feminist biblical scholarship has previously addressed the tradition that relegates female biblical characters to secondary roles, merely enabling the male characters to attain their own goals. Using examples from both secular and religious comic Bibles, and comic Bibles aimed at children and older audiences, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle now fully considers contemporary remediations of biblical narratives to the same degree. Remediating ancient, biblical text int

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Mehta, Samira K. Beyond Chrismukkah. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636368.001.0001.

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The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation’s religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Mehta’s eye-o

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Garipzanov, Ildar. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815013.003.0001.

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The first section discusses definitions of the graphic sign and its typologies, and provides an overview of relevant academic literature. The second section highlights major historiographic trends in the study of graphic signs in the humanities from the early twentieth century to the present day. The next section outlines the relation of graphic signs to a wider corpus of graphic non-figurative data in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe with reference to the overarching methodological framework of visual thinking and graphic visualization and the related concept of early

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Koch, Anne. Economy. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.26.

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Religion is in many ways an economic phenomenon and can be analyzed as such. By economy most economists understand systems for the allocation of resources. In this light, this chapter notes various ways in which religious organizations are engaged in sectoral markets and produce private and public goods, entailing products and services. Religion and economy are interdependent and relate to each other in distinct ways across societal subsystems. Economy both permeates religious structures and is a co-system. This is generally studied by political economy: recent moves beyond neoclassical econom

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Kloos, John. Constructionism and Its Critics. Edited by John Corrigan. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195170214.003.0027.

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Since the 1970s, social scientists increasingly have cast human emotions in the arenas of culturally or linguistically constructed expression. A wide spectrum of theoretical terminology has been employed, including “constructionism” and “constructivist.” This essay reviews constructionist theories that bear on the study of religion and emotion. It analyzes constructionist theories as both determinist and relativist. It focuses on the recent historical ethnographic work of an important anthropologist of emotion, William M. Reddy. It also examines how religious emotions get constructed and what

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Tutino, Stefania. The Building Blocks. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694098.003.0001.

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This chapter is an introduction to the general approach that this book takes in understanding probabilism, and to the intellectual categories and theological vocabulary that early modern probabilists used and built upon, including Aquinas’s elaboration on the nature of the conscience, Aristotle’s and Cicero’s understanding of probability, and the post-Reformation developments of the sacrament of confession. This chapter also sets the debates on moral theology in a wider historical context, characterized by the emergence of new scientific, economic, and cultural phenomena, and by the increasing

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Weinel, Jonathan. Ancient Ways. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190671181.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses shamanism, explaining the ethos and mythology of several indigenous societies, and how these belief systems relate to the design of art and music. First, a general overview of shamanism is provided, which outlines the typical role and function of a shaman. An explanation of the shamanic visionary experience, a type of altered state of consciousness, is then provided. Following this, the chapter explores a variety of visual art from indigenous shamanic cultures, including examples from San, Native American, Huichol, Tukano, and Shipibo traditions. The sound and music of s

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Davidson, Jenny. Restoration Theatre and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0026.

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This chapter explores the broad cultural transition from drama to novel during the Restoration period, which triggered one of the most productive periods in the history of the London stage. However, when it comes to the eighteenth century proper, the novel is more likely to be identified as the century's most significant and appealing popular genre. The chapter considers why the novel has largely superseded drama as the literary form to which ambitious and imaginative literary types without a strong affinity for verse writing would by default have turned their attention and energies by the mid

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Frisk, Liselotte, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, and Siv Ellen Kraft. The New Age. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.35.

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This chapter provides an overview of the research field of New Age. After presenting a brief research history, the second part of the chapter discusses undeveloped areas and contested issues in need of future research. Five areas are singled out for scrutiny: 1) the concept of New Age and a general model of religion; 2) the delimitation of New Age and how it relates to religious processes, secularization and functional differentiation in contemporary societies; 3) the global and the local, especially the historical and contemporary processes of cultural and religious embedding and translation

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Domhoff, G. William. The Emergence of Dreaming. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673420.001.0001.

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This book presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams that documents the similarities of dreaming to waking thought, demonstrates that personal psychological meaning can be found in a majority of dream reports, has a strong developmental dimension based on excellent longitudinal and cross-sectional studies carried out in sleep labs with children ages 3–15, locates the neural substrate for dreaming in the same brain network active during mind-wandering and daydreaming, and marshals the evidence that shows it is very unlikely that dreaming has any adaptive function. These claims are based on

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Scroggs, Stephen K. Army Relations with Congress. www.praeger.com, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216186649.

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Relying on extensive candid interviews from members of Congress and staff on defense authorization committees and senior Army general officers, Scroggs provides a strong insider analysis with recommendations. He examines the impact of culture on the varying abilities of public agencies, specifically the Army, to pursue its organizational interests through lobbying or liaising Congress. Scroggs argues that despite structural similarities in how the four military services approach Congress, differences in service culture affect their relative success in achieving their goals on the Hill. Scroggs

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Gardner, Jared. The Literary Museum and the Unsettling of the Early American Novel. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036705.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter discusses the intertwined histories of novel and magazine publications and how certain authors, generally attributed to the “rise of the novel,” have made a significant shift from novel-writing to periodical culture. In particular, the chapter examines the career of Charles Brockden Brown as he draws influences from other writers during the time while also developing an editorial function which he would work to define in his last fictions and in his periodical work of his final years. This chapter also explores the writings of a particular author whom Brown has read—H

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Beg, Mirza Sangin. This Is an Abridged Account of Delhi Which Is an Old City and One of the Chosen Ones amongst the Cities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477739.003.0002.

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The second part of the translation has three segments. The first is dedicated to the history of Delhi from the time of the Mahabharat to the periods of Anangpal Tomar to the Mughal Emperor Humayun as also Sher Shah, the Afghan ruler. In the second and third segments Mirza Sangin Beg adroitly navigates between twin centres of power in the city. He writes about Qila Mubarak, or the Red Fort, and gives an account of the several buildings inside it and the cost of construction of the same. He ambles into the precincts and mentions the buildings constructed by Shahjahan and other rulers, associatin

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