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Pages: 214
Authors: Nicolas Meylan
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In Mana: A History of a Western Category Nicolas Meylan proposes a critical account of Western imaginations of mana, a word belonging originally to Oceanic lang
Sovereignty in the 21st Century
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Authors: Carl Raschke
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When God is “dead” and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive movements of peoples, transnational poli
Sovereignty and the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Robert A. Yelle
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-26 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the
The Social Origins of Thought
Language: en
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By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from
New Mana
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Authors: Matt Tomlinson
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‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and