Religion
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
separates us from them and each epoch from the next is measured in geological terms rather than in passing empires and religions …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
| lcSh: Spirituality in literature. | lcSh: Religion in literature. | cSh: Canadian fiction (French)—Québec … too-easy conflation of the sacred with “ religion.” As religion has come into conflict with modernity, … who view themselves as having progressed beyond religion to a modern and (implicitly) secular understanding … done in its name. His focus on the sociology of religion leads him to examine the ways in which the sacred … William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon argue that religion is a folk concept, one that must always be understood …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …
themes: na- tional identity, traditional values, religion, citizenship, immigration control, social control …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …
I was a fellow at the Centre for Stud- ies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. I would …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 French
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui …
philanthropie Au fil du temps, alors que l’influence de la religion diminuait dans le Canada postcolonial, la notion … Développement et logement 4 % Environnement 4 % Religion 2 % Gouvernement 2 % Droit, plaidoyer et politique …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the Christian communities …
British Columbia, statistically reports “no religion” as the number one “religious identity.” This … of Victoria and his colleagues, pub- lished as Religion at the Edge in 2022.10 That work, however, had … contested space between Canadian sociologists of religion. For exam- ple, Joel Thiessen has recently challenged … position of his fellow-Albertan sociologist of religion Reginald Bibby who advocated for a “rational … “tap into” the unending demand of things that religion offers, including “meaning and purpose in life …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
“supernatural” was most often used in relation to religion before it accrued a more sec- ular understanding … biology, Spiritualism aimed to distance itself from religion and superstition by emphasizing the role of media …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
charts his encounters with people of faith, fame, and fortune. Growing up in a blue-collar mixed-religion family then entering a career in media, Michael Coren was, and in some ways still is, the consummate …
Jewish woman. And while she didn’t care what religion I was, I converted to Judaism because I wanted … constant theme in my life. Whether it’s race, religion, class, or pol- itics, I’ve seldom been anchored … Jewish. Intensely secular, cynical about all religion, but still Jewish. It was only after his death … international agreements and human rights codes, make religion irrelevant for citizenship qualification, invest … plenty of time for that later — I’d been exploring religion and faith for some time. It had begun so many …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
notes, who suggested that “the wider dynamic processes of society involved in the rise and fall of nations, empires, religions …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English
With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.
in the “truth” of what is “really” happening.46 Religion is the formal system of repeated signs governed …