Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. — 718 p. The acclaimed New Encyclopedia of Islam comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history, and culture of the Islamic world in a single, accessible volume. Now extensively revised and updated with over 300 new entries, The New Encyclopedia of Islam describes all aspects of the religion, from its rituals, sects,...
Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2001. — 534 p. The New Encyclopedia of Islam is the only single-volume work in print which so comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history and culture of the Islamic world, in over 1300 entries. It has the further unique advantage of being written by a Western scholar of the Islamic faith, and has thus been already widely praised for...
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991. — 472 p. Comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history, and culture of the Islamic world in a single, scholarly volume. Entries cover subjects including all aspects of religious belief, ritual practices, prayer, seers, spiritual and political leaders, art, architecture, sects, laws, social institutions, history,...
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006. — 528 p. ISBN 0-7619-2883-9 The Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development is the first reference work to focus on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span. Spiritual development is an important part of human development that has links to identity development, moral development, and civic...
M.A. Thesis in English. — Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University, 2014. — 117 p. This thesis investigates the sexual construction of Lacanian fantasy in the work of David Lynch. Primary texts include Lynch's films Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Drive (2001), along with David Lynch and Mark Frost's TV show Twin...
Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2010. — 203 p. One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that would really be able to move. Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 416 p. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the late 1960s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the city of Nauvoo, which was founded along the Mississippi River in...
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. — 296 p. Using the concept of classical republicanism in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society. Rather, he maintains, both the Saints and their enemies affirmed...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. — 281 p. Among America's more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestantism. Using archives and historical materials from the 19th century, Stephen C. Taysom shows how these groups actively maintained boundaries and created their own...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. — 251 p. The Mormons have been one of the most studied American religious groups; still, no consensus exists about the essential nature of the movement or its place in American religion. In this study, Barlow analyzes the approaches taken to the Bible by key Mormon leaders, from founder Joseph Smith up to the present day. He shows that...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 320 p. The emergence of the Mormon church is arguably the most radical event in American religious history. How and why did so many Americans flock to this new religion, and why did so many other Americans seek to silence or even destroy that movement? Mormonism exploded across America in 1830, and America exploded right back. By 1834,...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 123 p. Mormonism is one of the world's fastest growing religions, doubling its membership every 15 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the formal denomination of the Mormon church) is now 10 million strong, with more than half of its membership coming from outside the United States. More than 88 million copies of...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 145 p. General editors: Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout, Yale University Mormonism is one of the world's fastest growing religions, doubling its membership every 15 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the formal denomination of the Mormon church) is now 10 million strong, with more than half of its membership coming...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. — 291 p. Edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth. The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. — 264 p. According to Joseph Smith, in September of 1823 an angel appeared to him and directed him to a hill near his home. Buried there Smith found a box containing a stack of thin metal sheets, gold in color, about six inches wide, eight inches long, piled six or so inches high, bound together by large rings, and covered with what...
University of Illinois Press, 1984. — 262 p. Winner of the David Woolley Evans and Beatrice Evans Biography Award and a History Book Club selection, 1985. The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon...
Random House, 2012. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0679644903 With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer and sometime treasure hunter named Joseph Smith...
The History Press, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-467137-52-9. Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently end their cherished plural family arrangements. While some Fundamentalists like Warren Jeffs go rogue and corrupt their beliefs in heinous crimes, most hold...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 232 p. The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood. This departure from past practice focused new attention on Brigham Young's decision to abandon Joseph Smith's more inclusive original teachings. The Mormon...
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 456 p. The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements covers key themes such as charismatic leadership, conversion and brainwashing, prophecy and millennialism, violence and suicide, gender and sexuality, legal issues, and the portrayal of New Religious Movements by the media and anti-cult organisations. Several categories of new...
London; New York: Continuum, 2011. — 465 p. The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. The book covers all the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of science - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 436 p. The Bloomsbury Companion to Islamic Studies is a comprehensive one volume reference guide to Islam and study in this area. A team of leading international scholars - Muslim and non-Muslim — cover important aspects of study in the field, providing readers with a complete and accessible source of information to the wide range of methodologies...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 320 p. What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory...
London; New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009. — 437 p. The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film offers the definitive guide to study in this growing area. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field — areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as...
London; New York: Continuum, 2011. — 424 p. ISBN 978-0-8264-9966-0 The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies offers the definitive guide to Hinduism and study in this area. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field — areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active...
М.: Философская книга, 1998. — 296 с. — ISBN: 5-8205-0003-2. Сборник адресован всем интересующимся современной религиозной ситуацией в России. В нём освещаются проблемы обеспечения свободы совести и гармоничных межконфессиональных отношений на примере Общества сознания Кришны. Отличительной чертой книги является её документальность. Большинство документов публикуется впервые. В...
М.: Издание Либерально-демократической партии России, 1997. – 95 с. Практически все уже наши сограждане или слышали о кришнаитах, или видели их шествия в застиранных оранжевых балахонах, или видели распространяемые ими цветастые томики каких-то экзотических книг. В сознании среднего россиянина кришнаиты являются чем-то таким совершенно безобидным и чудаковатым, чем-то средним...
Автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени кандидата философских наук. Москва, Гуманитарная академия Вооружённых Сил, 1993. — 21 с. Специальность 09.00.11 — социальная философия. Научный консультант — доктор философских наук, профессор Дорогова Людмила Николаевна. Цель диссертационного исследования заключается в осуществлении комплексного социально-философского анализа...
Автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени доктора философских наук: 09.00.11 — социальная философия. — Москва, Современная гуманитарная академия, 2008. — 54 с. Научный консультант — доктор философских наук, профессор Шингаров Георгий Христович. Цель исследования — всесторонний социально-философский анализ гражданской религии в США и выявление её специфики,...
Диссертация на соискание учёной степени кандидата политических наук: 23.00.02.― политические институты и процессы. — Москва, Московский государственный институт международных отношений (университет) Министерства иностранных дел Российской Федерации, 2000. — 193 с. Научный руководитель: кандидат исторических наук, доцент Симонов Юрий Петрович. Целями исследования являются:...
СПб.: ЛГУ имени А. С. Пушкина, 2024. – 188 с. ISBN 978-5-8290-2183-2 В монографии показаны основные результаты работы автора по религиоведческой тематике за последнее десятилетие. Содержание открывается вступительным текстом «Вместо введения. Религиоведение как профессия и призвание», где представлено понимание автором религиоведения как профессиональной деятельности. В книге...
М. : Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2022. — 289 с. — ISBN 978-5-7598-2429-9. Моды и рокеры, скинхеды, дизайнерские наркотики, фальшивые беженцы и парни в толстовках… У каждой эпохи – своя моральная паника. Именно благодаря классической работе Стэнли Коэна, впервые опубликованной в начале 1970-х годов и с тех пор неоднократно перерабатывавшейся, термин «моральная...
М.: Аквилон, 2024. — 488 с. — ISBN 978–5–6052889–5–4. В предлагаемой читателю книге изучаются литературные формы, в которые облекается опыт богообщения в разных христианских традициях, на материале христианских мистических текстов, созданных в широкой хронологической перспективе (Поздняя Античность-XX век). Авторы рассматривают тексты, оформляющие обращение христианина к...
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 702 p. Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of religion available in paperback. Written by an expert team of contributors, the volume contains over 8,200 entries, an extensive topic index, and an original and in-depth introductory essay. The...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. — 359 p. An A-Z dictionary edited by John L. Esposito for general readers on the faith, institutions, movements, and concepts of the modern Islamic world. Approximately 2000 entries span the religious, political, and social spheres of modern Islam with back ground historical entries and particular emphasis on Islam and the West. Designed...
М.: Московский рабочий, 1992. — 224 с. — ISBN 5-239-01376-4. Эта книга о профессии историка. По отголоскам прошлого историк судит о настоящем и даже о будущем. Тайна — спутник этой профессии, а любопытство движущая сила. Профессия историка требует особых умений и навыков, но не меньше того чистоты помыслов. Эта книга — о трагической судьбе науки истории в наше время, о людях,...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 318 p. In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church...
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. — 381 p. More than two decades after its original publication, Thomas G. Alexander’s Mormonism in Transition still engages audiences with its insightful study of the pivotal, early years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Serving as a vital read for both students and scholars of American religious and social history,...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 493 p. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train...
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987. — 196 p. In this exciting new book, O. Kendall White, Jr., contrasts Mormon neo-orthodoxy, an emerging theological movement within the Mormon church today, with traditional Mormonism and examines the cultural context out of which Mormon neo-orthodoxy developed. While White argues that traditional Mormonism characterized by doctrines of a...
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993. — 245 p. Provides brief information on people, movements, ideas, and other topics relating to the world religions, popular religions such as New Age and Wicca, and the study of religion. Over 2000 definitions of world religions, new religions, worldviews, religious leaders, cults, beliefs and practices, doctrines and ideas,...
Javelin Books, 1990. — 181 p. Jack the Ripper still causes a shudder, synonymous as it is with violent murder and mutilation. But also of mystery and speculation - for the gruesome series of killings in London's East End in that horrific Autumn of 1888 have never been finally solved.The identity of the Ripper, his motives and his association have been the subject of endless...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 310 p. Thoroughly examines existing evidence in the notorious nineteenth-century London killing spree, providing a historical setting, popular mythology surrounding the case, and a chilling portrait of the killer. A complete case-book on the theories, facts and conclusions of the Whitechapel murders.
Penguin Books, 2013. — 372 p. Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions, and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected...
Summersdale Publishers, 1997. — 192 p. A psychological and pictorial account of the gruesome "Ripper" murders which shocked a nation. The mystery behind the world's most infamous serial killer is revealed through photographs of the victims, suspects and atmospheric images of the crime scenes as they are today.
Mainstream Publishing, 2005. — 192 p. In February 1889, a shocking and savage murder took place in Dundee, Scotland. Written in chalk at the scene of the crime were the words “Jack the Ripper is at the back door.” When he was arrested, William Bury admitted that he was “afraid he would be arrested as Jack the Ripper.” The police investigation uncovered some disturbing details:...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2012. — 352 с. — (Подлинное преступление). — ISBN 978-5-386-04822-8. В 1888 году Лондон замер в немом ужасе: уайтчепельский убийца вышел на охоту. Тот, кого впоследствии прозвали Джеком Потрошителем, жестоко расправился с пятью проститутками – и исчез. Вот уже более века загадка самого известного в истории серийного убийцы будоражит умы по всему миру. Кто...
Автореферат дис... кандидата философских наук : 09.00.04 — Владимир. гос. ун-т. — Москва, 1999. — 21 с. Цель исследования: осуществление коммуникации эстетического в конкретном традиционном обществе. Гипотеза: Поскольку, согласно новоевропейской традиции, одним из существенных атрибутов эстетического является неутилитарное отношение, связанное с возбуждением религиозного...
Автореферат дис... доктора философских наук : 24.00.01 — Нижегор. гос. архитектур.-строит. ун-т. — Нижний Новгород, 2007. — 46 с. Цель исследования заключается в создании фундамента аналитической теории традиционной культуры на основе изучения ее сущностных аспектов и параметров ее существования. Для реализации вышеупомянутой цели в исследовании ставятся следующие задачи: 1)...
Диссертация... доктора философских наук: 24.00.01 / Нижегор. гос. архитектур.-строит. ун-т. — Нижний Новгород, 2007. — 402 с. Цель исследования заключается в создании фундамента аналитической теории традиционной культуры на основе изучения ее сущностных аспектов и параметров ее существования. Для реализации вышеупомянутой цели в исследовании ставятся следующие задачи: 1)...