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• The muses
• Hera
• Aphrodite
• Artemis
• Demeter
• Hestia
• Athene
• The furies.

"Here we meet Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father's brow (giving Zeus a killer headache in the process), goddess of war, guardian of the city named for her and sacred to her, and provider of wise counsel. Here, too, is Aphrodite, born of the foam (or, some sources say, sperm released from a castrated Titan's testicles), the most beautiful of all the Olympian goddesses, dispensing desire and inspiring longing but with a nasty line in brutal punishment of those who displeased her. And then there is Hera, Zeus's long-suffering wife, whose jealousy of his repeated dalliances with mortals, with nymphs, with other goddesses, led her to wreak elaborate and often painful revenge on those she felt had wronged her. Well, wouldn't you? We also meet Demeter, goddess of the harvest and mother of the hapless Persephone; Artemis, the huntress, virgin goddess of childbirth (Greek myth is full of confusion); the Muses, all nine of them; wide-bosomed Gaia, the earth goddess; and Hestia, goddess of domesticity but also of sacrificial fire"--Publisher's description.

• Resistance to British colonialism and the rise of two forms of subjectivity in 'Yamaye'
• The genealogy of Rastafari cosmology and its distinctive ethos of Blackness
• Rastafari cosmology, natural artifacts, and the ethos of Blackness
• Rastafari's theology of Blackness : a Eurocentric god can't love Africans and people of African descent
• Rastafari I-talk and Black consciousness
• The limit of Rastafari cosmology : gender inequality and the failure to liberate Rasta women.

• Preface: Taking Notes in the Field of Religious Studies: Critical Methods / Vaia Touna (The University of Alabama, USA)
• Introduction: Revisiting the Past…, Again / Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon (The University of Alabama, USA)
• Friedrich Max Muller / Brent Nongbri (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)
• William James / Emily Clark (Gonzaga University, USA)
• Edward B. Tylor/ Mitsutoshi Horii (Shumei University, Japan)
• Joseph Kitagawa / Christopher M. Jones (Washburn University, USA)
• James Frazer / Krista Dalton(Kenyon College in Gambier, USA)
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith/ Edith Szanto (The University of Alabama, USA)
• Sigmund Freud / Robyn Walsh (University of Miami, USA)
• Gerardus van der Leeuw / Tenzan Eaghll (Mahidol University, Thailand)
• Rudolf Otto / Martha Smith Roberts (Fullerton College, USA)
• Carl Jung / Lauren Griffin
• Bronislaw Malinowski / Brett Esaki (University of Arizona, USA)
• Mircea Eliade / Joseph Winters (Duke University, USA)
• Max Weber / Andrew Tobolowsky (College of William and Mary, USA)
• Afterword: Revisiting Classics and Plotting Futures for the Field of Religious Studies / Richard Newton (The University of Alabama, USA)

This book introduces students to the so-called classics of the field from the 19th and 20th centuries, whilst challenging readers to apply a critical lens. Instead of representing scholars and their works as virtually timeless, each contributor provides sufficient background on the classic work in question so that readers not only understand its novelty and place in its own time, but are able to arrive at a critical understanding of whether its approach to studying religion continues to be useful to them today. Scholars discussed include Muller, Durkheim, Freud and Eliade. Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists therefore offers a novel way into writing both a history and ethnography of the discipline, helping readers to see how it has changed and inviting them to consider what-if anything-endures and thereby unites these diverse authors into a common field. -- Publisher's website 20230814

• Introduction
• Propaganda and politics Athens
• Transforming the hero : Heracles and Athenian ideology
• Forsaking the tripod : Heracles in Athenian architecture
• Crossing boundaries : what is it to be a hero?
• Into Athens : old gods and new gods
• Conclusion.

"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece's most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the hero and the city's ideology. Though Athens needed a hero of Hellenic stature, Heracles was a deeply problematic figure: a violent hero of ancient epic, with an aristocratic nature and a murderous temper, who did not naturally fit into the new ideals of democratic society at Athens. Examining how Euripides' play fits within the space of the polis and its political ideology, Sofia Frade asks specific questions of tragedy and politics: how does Euripides' tragic drama of grief, insanity and murder reconcile this hero to a palatable, patriotic ideal? How does the tragic hero relate to his own representations and his cult within the polis? In a city so marked by iconographic propaganda, how did the imagery influence the audience? By looking at the play's larger contexts - literary, civic, political, religious and ideological - new readings are offered to the most problematic elements of the play, including the question of its unity, the nature of the hero's madness and the role of the gods"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Attitude Dimension
• A Theory of Cognitive Attitudes
• Religious Credence Is Not Factual Belief
• Evidence Around the World
• To "Believe" Is Not What You "Think"
• Identity and Groupish Belief
• Sacred Values
• The Puzzle of Religious Rationality.

• Introduction
• Worshipping groups
• Priesthoods, finance, authority
• Phrygian polytheism I : Gods
• Phrygian polytheism II : Differentiated powers?
• Heavenly and imperial gods
• Consecrations and confessions at the sanctuary of Apollo Lairbenos
• Annexe : an urban or rural clientele? : city ethnics and villagers
• Phrygian gods and death
• Christianity and paganism in Phrygia
• Retrospect
• The masked ball : Interpretatio and its effects
• Envoi
• Appendix 1 : Phrygian origin myths
• Appendix 2 : 'Honoured by Hekate'
• Appendix 3 : [ton theon soi]
• Appendix 4 : Paganism and montanism
• Appendix 5 : Epitynchanos
• Appendix 6 : Iconography.

"Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed 'lived ancient religion' than any other region of the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor, in the main, issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants. It comes from farmers and herders: they have left behind numerous stone memorials of themselves and dedications to their gods, praying for the welfare of their families, their crops, and their cattle. A rare window is opened into the world of what Sir Ronald Syme called 'the voiceless earth-coloured rustics' who are 'conveniently forgotten'. The period in which Phrygian paganism flourished so visibly to our eyes was also the period in which Christianity, introduced by the apostle Paul, took root, as early and as successfully as in any part of the Roman world. In Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity, Robert Parker presents this rich body of evidence and uses it to explore one of history's great stories and enigmas: how and why the new religion overtook its predecessor, the Christian God now meeting the needs of Phrygians hitherto satisfied by Zeus and the other gods"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Worshipping groups
• Priesthoods, finance, authority
• Phrygian polytheism I : Gods
• Phrygian polytheism II : Differentiated powers?
• Heavenly and imperial gods
• Consecrations and confessions at the sanctuary of Apollo Lairbenos
• Annexe : an urban or rural clientele? : city ethnics and villagers
• Phrygian gods and death
• Christianity and paganism in Phrygia
• Retrospect
• The masked ball : Interpretatio and its effects
• Envoi
• Appendix 1 : Phrygian origin myths
• Appendix 2 : 'Honoured by Hekate'
• Appendix 3 : [ton theon soi]
• Appendix 4 : Paganism and montanism
• Appendix 5 : Epitynchanos
• Appendix 6 : Iconography.

"Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, a Jesuit priest and proto-ethnographer of the "New World" who compared the lives of the Iroquois to the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of spirits of the dead? Where do genomics and "ancestry projects" converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the US took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as an extreme form of historical knowledge production? By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logics that bring together enchantment and experiment. Throughout, Palmié is also levelling a specific anthropological challenge: he takes issue with the much-discussed "ontological turn," especially with those thinkers who promote notions of radical alterity and utter incommensurability. Instead, Palmié suggests that radical comparison with "boundary objects" can offer something new to the ethnographic enterprise"-- Provided by publisher.

• La tolerancia religiosa y la libertad de cultos : una historia difícil de contar
• Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado durante el periodo colonial
• Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado : primera mitad del siglo XIX
• Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado : segunda mitad del siglo XIX
• Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado : siglo X
• Presencia y desarrollo de las iglesias protestantes en México
• Protestantismo en el Estado de México.

• Introduction
• Canada's Professional Atheist: Marshall Gauvin in Winnipeg, 1926-1940
• The Winnipeg Rationalist Society
• The Sterry Trial and the Debate over Blasphemy
• Unbelief in Toronto the Good
• "Je suis un athée fieffé": Militant Unbelief in Interwar Montreal
• Unbelief on the Coasts
• Conclusion.

"In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago, Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and '30s, groups of militant unbelievers formed across Canada to push back against the dominance of religion. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition unbelievers faced from Christian Canada during the interwar period. Despite Christianity's prominence, anti-religious ideas were propagated by lectures in theatres, through newspapers, and out on the streets. Secularist groups in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver actively tried to win people away from religious belief. In the first two cities, they were met with stiff repression by the state, which convicted unbelievers of blasphemous libel, broke up their meetings, and banned atheistic literature from circulating. In the latter two cities unbelievers met social disapproval rather than official persecution. Looking at interwar controversies around religion, such as arguments about faith healing and fundamentalist campaigns against teaching evolution, Elliot Hanowski shows how unbelievers were able to use these conflicts to get their skeptical message across to the public. Challenging the stereotype of Canada as a tolerant, secular nation, Towards a Godless Dominion returns to a time when intolerant forms of Christianity ruled a country that was considered more religious than the United States."-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Confronting the Techno-Vision Historical and Philosophical Analysis
• 1. From Living Souls to Software Selves: The Movements of Enchantment through Western Metaphysics
• The Narrative Trope: The Lure of Self-Enchantment
• The Hellenist Cosmos
• The Judeo-Christian Difference: Enchantment Lite
• The Collapse of the Ontotheological Synthesis
• The Late Medieval Theological Debates and the Demise of the Thomist Synthesis
• The Rise of Mechanistic Science: Disenchantment Standardized
• A World Formatted for Manipulation
• Descartes' Dualism_ The Evaporation of the Life-World
• Transforming Mechanics into Information: Re-enchanting Reality by Mind-Upload
• 2. Oh, That We Might Learn to See Everything Differently: Interrogating a Baconian Spirit, Confessing (In)humanity
• Introduction
• Confessing Peddlers and Propaganda, Potentialities and Politics: A Cult of Youth, a Cooperative Marketplace, and a Call to Action
• Confessing Transhumanist Aspirations Conformed to a Baconian Spirit: Pursuing Control and Choice toward Extinction
• Confessing Inhumanity: Nothing to Lose and Nothing New to See Here, Folks! Technology, Sin, and Disorientation
• That We Might Learn to See Everything Differently: Follow Me
• 3. Personhood and Technology
• Introduction
• Hermeneutic Frameworks
• Imago Dei and the Mystery of the Person
• Examples of Depersonalizing Techno-Vision
• 4. The Icon and the Idol: A Christian Perspective on Sociable Robots
• Introduction
• Robots, Functional Masks, and Relational Persons
• God, the Created World, and the Person
• The Person, the Artifact, and the Robot
• The Robot as Extending the Personal
• Conclusions.

• 5. Becoming Human in a Technological World
• Witnessing Life
• Beyond the Human?
• 6. Remaining Focused: Human Flourishing and the Mundane in the Emergent Technoculture
• Introduction
• Human Flourishing
• The Necessity of the Ordinary
• The Allure of the Extraordinary
• Distraction
• Part II: Practical Implications of Technology for Human Flourishing
• 7. The Evolution of Wisdom in a Technological World: An Exploration in Nature and Grace
• The Ends of Technology
• Theology and Ethics of Wisdom
• Nature and Grace
• Case Study: De-Extinction
• Conclusions
• 8. Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Psychiatry Thomas Fuchs
• Introduction
• Mind-Uploading
• Critique of Functionalism
• Critique of Neuroreductionism
• Psychiatry between Psyche and Brain
• Against Reductionism
• Psychiatry as Relational Medicine: An Integrative Concept
• Conclusion
• 9. Leisure in a Technological World
• Introduction
• Work as Self-Identification
• Recovering Leisure in a Technological World of Work
• The Three Elements of Genuine Leisure
• Friendship, Technology, and Human Flourishing
• Conclusion
• 10. Education, Enhancement, and the Pursuit of the Good
• Introduction
• Treatment and Enhancement
• Education
• Education and Technology
• Conclusion
• 11. Human Flourishing, Disability, and Technology
• Introduction
• Relationality and Flourishing
• Disability and the Historical Breakdown of Relationality in the Church
• Limits and Limitedness: What It Means to Be Human
• Technology, Disability, and Human Flourishing
• Conclusion
• 12. Living in the Midst of Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Aging and Identity
• Bonhoeffer's Theological Anthropology
• Jean Améry's Phenomenology of Aging
• Conclusion
• 13. Death and Glory in a Technological World
• Death and Glory for Techno-Scientific People.

• Death and Glory for Secular Humanism
• Death and Glory for Transhumanism
• Death and Glory for Christians
• Conclusion
• Part III: Demystifying AI: Toward the Dignified Use of Modern Technology
• 14. Personhood and Human Flourishing in a Technological World
• Origins of the Message
• The Goal of the Message
• A More Dignifying Use of Technology
• Conclusion
• 15. Personhood, Consciousness, and Technology: A Dialogue with Jaron Lanier
• Bibliography
• Index of Biblical Citations
• Name Index
• Subject Index.

• Intro
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Copyright acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Farewell: Andromache in the Iliad
• The spectacle of goodbye
• 'The war shall be the men's concern': Andromache and Hector
• Practical preparations: Penelope and Odysseus
• When the farewell is final
• 2. Sacrifice: Clytemnestra in Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
• 'Greedy institutions': the competing obligations of family life and the military
• Resentment and revenge: Aeschylus' Clytemnestra

• When the women pay the price for war: Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
• 3. Separation: Penelope in the Odyssey
• Penelope: a first encounter
• Ambiguous loss and the wait for news
• Pressures on the spouse left behind
• 'Keeping busy': Penelope's loom
• 4. Infidelity: Clytemnestra in Homeric poetry and Athenian tragedy
• To stay or to stray? Penelope's dilemma
• Unfaithful soldiers and sexual double standards
• Wives who will not wait
• Aeschylus' Clytemnestra
• The Clytemnestras of Sophocles and Euripides
• 5. Reunion: Penelope, Clytemnestra, and Trojan War homecomings

• Military homecomings: ideal versus reality
• Emotional confusion
• Disguise and the problem of recognition
• Reopening communication
• Homecoming rituals distorted
• 6. Aftermath: Euripides' Trojan Women and Andromache, and the Tecmessa of Sophocles' Ajax
• Rape as a weapon of war
• War's immediate aftermath: Euripides' Trojan Women
• Longer-term repercussions: Euripides' Andromache
• Living with a wounded warrior: Sophocles' Tecmessa
• Epilogue
• References
• Index of passages discussed
• General Index

• 1. L'héritage de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Âge
• L'héritage constantinien
• L'héritage médiéval
• 2. Autour de l'édit de Nantes et de sa révocation
• Le pouvoir royal et la Réforme
• L'édit de Nantes
• Vers la révocation de l'édit de Nantes
• 3. L'émergence de la laïcité à la fin de l'époque moderne
• Un préalable : l'autonomie des réalités terrestres
• La notion de tolérance à l'époque moderne
• L'édit de tolérance de 1787-1788
• Rousseau et Condorcet
• La laïcité est-elle impossible )
• 4. De la Révolution à la mise en place des cultes reconnus (1789-1815)
• L'époque révolutionnaire (1789-1799)
• Le contexte de l'élaboration du concordat napoléonien
• Le contenu des textes
• La mise en œuvre du concordat
• Les cultes non-catholiques
• L'accentuation du poids de l'État dans un contexte défavorable à l'Église catholique
• 5. Les évolutions du modèle des cultes reconnus (1815-1880)
• La Restauration (1814-1830)
• La Monarchie de Juillet (1830-1848)
• La Seconde République et le Second Empire (1848-1870)
• Le régime d'Ordre moral (1870-1879)
• 6. La laïcisation au sein du système des cultes reconnus (1880-1905)
• Les premières mesures
• Les lois sur l'enseignement public
• Le domaine funéraire
• Un répit
• Nouvelles mesures contre les congrégations religieuses
• 7. À l'époque de la Séparation (1905-1918)
• Le cheminement des idées séparatistes
• L'itinéraire vers la loi de Séparation
• La loi de Séparation
• La mise en application de la loi
• La Première Guerre mondiale
• 8. Le XXe siècle (1918-1989)
• Les dernières décennies de la Me République
• Le régime de "l'État français"
• La déclaration de l'épiscopat de 1945 sur la laïcité
• Le retour de la question scolaire de 1940à 1960
• La persistance de la question scolaire
• 9. Les dernières décennies
• L'enseignement du "fait religieux"
• Le retour du religieux sur la scène publique française
• L'affaire du voile à l'école
• L'idée du retour de l'Europe à l'Évangile
• La question du "baptême de la France"
• La référence divine pour l'Union européenne
• Le retour du religieux et la laïcité.

"Pour être abordée de manière dépassionnée, la notion de laïcité, essentielle à notre vivre-ensemble social, a besoin d'être éclairée par l'histoire. Dans cet ouvrage de taille relativement réduite, nous proposons un parcours allant de l'Empire romain, qui propose une religion civile, jusqu'à la loi du 24 août 2021 sur les séparatismes, qui apparaît comme une nouvelle charte, fondée sur un nouvel aménagement de la loi de Séparation de 1905. Chemin faisant, on voit s'élaborer des notions comme la liberté de conscience, la liberté des cultes, la neutralité religieuse de la puissance publique, la liberté de l'enseignement, dans le respect de la diversité des convictions, notions essentielles pour éclairer celle de la laïcité et aboutir à une juste compréhension de celle-ci."--Page 4 of cover.

"The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it leads one to desire that the answer to life's mystery might reveal itself in some way. Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions. Part of the so-called new religious revival, The Religious Sense avoids any sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience. It is a forthright and refreshing call to reassess our lives. In this second edition, John Zucchi offers a new translation of one of Giussani's seminal works."-- Provided by publisher.