The Demons of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Demons of Modernity write by John Orr. This book was released on 2014-03-01. The Demons of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman’s critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so doing, it demonstrates how Ingmar Bergman’s films illustrate the demonic struggle in modernity between faith and secularity through “his intense preoccupation with the malaise of intimacy.”
The Demon in Democracy
The Demon in Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Demon in Democracy write by Ryszard Legutko. This book was released on 2018-06-26. The Demon in Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period
Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period write by Siam Bhayro. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between ‘demonic’ illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume’s Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013. "Ultimately, Demons and Illness admirably performs the important task of reminding modern scholars of premodern health of the integral role played by these complex and shifting entities in the lives of people across the globe and through the centuries." -Rachel Podd, Fordham University, in: Social History of Medicine 32.3 (2019) "Given the sheer breadth of its scope, the volume is, of course, illustrative rather than comprehensive in its coverage, yet there is a definite coherence to its content, aided by the introduction and afterword which bookend the work and help begin to draw out the threads of commonality and difference. As such it constitutes a significant and welcome resource for comparative explorations of historical-cultural links between demons, illness, medicine, and magic, while offering a clear invitation to future work." -Matthew A. Collins, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)
Demon Capital Shanghai
Demon Capital Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demon Capital Shanghai write by Kenki Ryū. This book was released on 2012. Demon Capital Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the role of Shanghai during its treaty-port era in Japanese ventures abroad, as a place for the Japanese to interact with the Chinese, and as ispiration for Japanese intellectuals, authors, songwriters, and poets.
Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity
Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity write by Giuseppe Giordan. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities. It argues that exorcism has become a religious commodity with the potential to strengthen a religion’s attraction to adherents, whilst also ensuring its hold. It shows that due to intense competition between religious groups in our multi-faith societies, religious groups are now competing for authority over the supernatural by ‘branding’ their particular type of exorcism ritual in order to validate the strength of their own belief system. Sociology of Exorcism in Late Modernity features a detailed case-study of a Catholic exorcist in the south of Europe who dealt with more than 1,000 cases during a decade of work.
