Religious aspects

This groundbreaking work explores media scholar Sut Jhally's thesis that advertising functions as a religion in late capitalism and relates this to critical theological studies. Sheffield argues that advertising is not itself a religion, but that it contains religious dimensions - analogous to Durkheim's description of objects as totems.

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A fascinating exploration of the connection between profit making and morality, this book illustrates how modern accounting had its roots in the sacrament of confession. Double-entry bookkeeping (DEB), modern capitalism’s first and foremost calculative technology, was “invented” during the Middle Ages when profit making was morally stigmatized.

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In this paper, the author firstly examines the general situation of religious faith since the Renewal of religious policies of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State of Vietnam from 1990 to the present.

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Based on the point of view of religious studies, the article outlines the fundamental changes of the Buu Son Ky Huong religion (Way of the Strange Fragrance from the Precious Mountain) in the South from its foundation to the present. The article analyzes some changing trends of Buu Son Ky Huong religion on the aspects such as changes in religious awareness, changes in organizational structure and ritual practices.

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Ebook "Mutual life, limited: Islamic banking, alternative currencies, lateral reason" spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys both escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance, and reflects critically on their broader implications for scholarship.

239p loivantrinh 29-10-2023 7 4   Download

Theravada Buddhism is closely associated with the Khmer in the South West region of Vietnam and contributes to the cultural identity of this ethnic community. In recent years, Theravada Buddhism has been changing in both positive and negative aspects in the Khmer community in the South West part of Vietnam. These changes have posed many problems for the Buddhism and for the State management in the religious affairs.

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This book is about that “greater purpose” of libraries rarely discussed, or even acknowledged. And no wonder. It is difficult to see the library’s higher aspects when you spend the day clearing paper jams, refereeing fights over computers, and yelling at people to quiet their cell phones. And those are the good days. On the bad days librarians spend their time defending their profession altogether, crafting counterarguments to that oft-heard phrase, “It’s all on the Internet.

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In that context, in order to build an independent, prosperous country with a unified culture, Malaysia had to solve problems related to its ethnicity and religion. Especially in the current context, when Islam is the most prominent and complex issue in the region and the world, associated with all aspects of the political life of many countries, and Malaysia is not an exception.

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Practices for withholding or withdrawing therapy vary according to professional, cultural and religious differences. No Danish-validated questionnaire examining withholding and withdrawing practices exists, thus the aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire for surveying the views of intensive care nurses, intensivists, and primary physicians regarding collaboration and other aspects of withholding and withdrawing therapy in the ICU.

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This brief note discusses the search for spirituality in post-modern societies, mainly with reference to the Japanese context. It will become clear that the study of contemporary dynamics needs to take the religious/spiritual aspect into account, by recognizing what is happening on the border between the material and the spiritual world and what needs are being met by the various new spirituality movements.

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This study focuses on the socio-economic changes witnessed as a result of the Dogra and British administration in Ladakh during the 19th century specially the second half of this century. The ancient trade routes highlight the historical, economic, religious and cultural significance of the region. Ladakh had both internal and external divisions of trade which was carried on large scale along the several trade routes in the Northern Himalayan region.

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In recent years, the rapid expansion of Protestantism in Hmong community and some other ethnic minorities in the North-West Vietnam has caused many changes. The Hmong and the other ethnic minorities have lived in many Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, so the religious conversion has not been an issue of Vietnam but it has also been a common matter in many countries. In Vietnam, the speedy development of Protestantism in Hmong community and some other ethnic minorities has led to positive and negative impacts on many aspects of politics, culture, and society.

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Over the past decades, the Central Highlands has been experienced a tremendous transformation in many aspects such as ecological environment and mode of livelihood; ethnic composition and social structural organization, cultural style, religious life in particular. In the past, the Polytheistic and Animistic mentality was universal. Currently, there has been a colorful religious picture with harmony and contradiction or conflict at the same time.

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This struggle asks us to have the concrete and practical solutions. It is important for us to build new ethics in the process of social and economic development. We should combine social benefits with collective and individual benefits harmoniously. We should overcome and check the causes that make ethics to be downgraded. Of course, building of new ethics in a market economy is not easy and simple problem. We have the suitable means to develop values of the new ethics.

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In 2011 Protestant community in Vietnam ceremonially celebrated 100 years of Protestantism in Vietnam. After being introduced, Protestantism in Vietnam has developed quickly since 1975 up to now with above 1 million believers. The development of this religious community has been a special feature in a common picture of diversified religious life in Vietnam in opened period. Objectively, there are many different views on the success as well as the failure of Protestantism in 100 years of mission.

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2500 years ago, democracy was born in classical Athens. This collection of essays by twenty-two leading scholars from the UK, Europe, and America, is a twin celebration--it marks this occasion and also the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The essays discuss the religious, financial, and political aspects of Athenian democracy, and all offer new interpretations of the subject, paying particular attention to epigraphy, Lewis's speciality....

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Eberhard Arnold doesn't approach discipleship as a benign route to religious fulfillment, but as revolution - a transformation that begins within and spreads outward to encompass every aspect of life. Here is the raw reality of the gospel that has…

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The purpose of this book is to deal with Browning, not simply as a poet, but rather as the exponent of a system of ideas on moral and religious subjects, which may fairly be called a philosophy. I am conscious that it is a wrong to a poet to neglect, or even to subordinate, the artistic aspect of his work. At least, it would be a wrong, if our final judgment on his poetry were to be determined on such a method. But there is a place for everything; and, even in the case of a great poet, there is sometimes an advantage in...

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We decided to edit this book because we found another way to approach this problem, covering novel aspects of epilepsy without ignoring its foundation and therefore, apart from the classic issues that cannot be missing in any book about epilepsy, we introduced novel aspects related with epilepsy and neurocysticercosis as a leading cause of epilepsy in developing countries.

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