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Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious studies, archaeology, and spatial theory, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli aims to re-describe the formation of Christ religion as urban religion. Spanning almost four centuries of Christian literature from Paul to Augustine, the author shows that several characteristics commonly attributed to Christ religion are, in fact, outcomes of the distinct ways in which religious agents enact urbanity and interact with the urban space. The study brings the urbanity of religious agents into focus, shedding light on significant elements of religious transformation, innovation, institutionalization, empowerment, and resistance to power. Simultaneously, it explores the key urban features that shaped the emergence and development of Christ religion.

Nadie mejor que François Dosse para asumir semejante reto: escribir una narrativa, panorámica y sistemática, de la aventura histórica y creativa de los intelectuales franceses en su momento de hegemonía mundial.El primer volumen –de 1944 a 1968– abarca los años de Sartre y Beauvoir y sus refutaciones, las relaciones contrastadas con el comunismo, la conmoción de 1956, la Guerra de Argelia, los inicios del Tercermundismo, la irrupción del momento gaullista y su impugnación: una época dominada por la prueba de la historia, la influencia del comunismo y la desilusión gradual que le siguió. El segundo volumen –de 1968 a 1989– abarca desde el utopismo de izquierdas, Solzhenitsyn y la lucha contra el totalitarismo, hasta los «nuevos filósofos», el advenimiento de la conciencia ecológica y la desorientación de los años ochenta: una época marcada por la crisis del futuro y que vio afianzarse la hegemonía de las ciencias humanas. Estos son algunos de los hitos de esta saga, que abarca uno de los periodos más efervescentes y creativos de la historia intelectual francesa y global, de Sartre a Lévi-Strauss, de Foucault a Lacan.«Una panorámica fascinante de cuarenta y cinco años de las batallas libradas por los intelectuales franceses, desde la Liberación hasta la caída del Muro de Berlín». Robert Maggiori, Libération«Aquí están todos: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Raymond Aron, François Mauriac, Michel Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss y tantos otros... héroes de una auténtica saga». Gilles Heuré, Télérama«Lo que tenemos aquí es un monumento que en adelante servirá de referencia a cualquiera que desee conocer el ambiente intelectual de nuestra posguerra, hasta la caída del comunismo en 1989». Jacques Julliard, Le Figaro

When God is “dead” and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive movements of peoples, transnational political upheavals, and ecological disasters, what does sovereignty mean for the 21st century? Sovereignty in the 21st Century is Carl Raschke's deep theoretical dive into the meaning of sovereignty in both its historical and contemporary settings, showing how the idea can be expanded beyond politics and offer emancipatory strategies for previously marginalized peoples.Picking up Carl Schmitt's idea of sovereignty's'divine'associations making it an implicitly theological concern, Raschke explains how political and religious thought have always been intertwined. These intertwined strands find their relevance today in debates around class, race and domination, making the question of sovereignty not just a political but a social and economic one. Bringing to light the ways in which great transnational conflicts today are not between authoritarianism and democracy but between neoliberalism and populism, this book brings us closer to a profound understanding of what we truly mean by democracy, or'popular'sovereignty in the 21st-century.

The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism.The book focuses on population replacement conspiracy theories, that is, those imaginaries and discourses centered on the idea that the national population is under threat of being overtaken or even wiped out by those considered as “alien” to the nation and that this is the result of concerted efforts by “elites”. Replacement conspiracy theories are on the rise again: from Eurabia fantasies to Renaud Camus'The Great Replacement, white supremacist discourses are thriving and increasingly broadcasting in mainstream venues. To account for their rise and spread, this edited volume brings together research on various dimensions of population replacement conspiracy theories: different theoretical and methodological approaches, different social scientific and humanities (inter)disciplinary backgrounds, different geographical case studies (across Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania), different time periods (medieval archives, colonial archives, Nazi archives, postcolonial migrations, post-9/11), and different forms of racialization and racisms (Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism against migrants and refugees). It also explores the entanglement of population replacement discourse with gendered violence. The book is organized into four sections: (1) exploring the historical background of the current rise of demographic conspiracy theories; (2) tracing the (neoliberal) governmentalities in and through which replacement discourse operates; (3) analyzing the particularly intense focus on the threat of Muslims in contemporary replacement conspiracy theories, and (4) investigating the connection between replacement conspiracies, gender, and violence.This title is essential reading for scholars, journalists, and activists interested in the contemporary far right, conspiracy theories, and racisms.

This volume brings together senior and junior scholars from across the globe to revisit the question of myth in the history of philosophy. By exploring the structure of mythical symbolism, and focusing on the problem of mythical meaning, the volume lays bare the tautegorical approach to the philosophy of mythology, first initiated by F.W.J. Schelling in the 19th century and later by Ernst Cassirer. The authors further explore the philosophy of mythology in other key figures of 19-20th century European philosophy, including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Blumenberg, among others. Given the ubiquitous character of myth, they further investigate the intersection of European philosophy and Japanese philosophy by addressing the problem of myth in Tanabe Hajime and Kiyozawa Manshi.

First English translation of the French cult classic L'Homme Superlumineux which offers a mind-blowing account of human consciousness and the nature of reality that will change the way readers see the world.The Superluminal Universe reveals, for the first time in English, the incredible insights of French quantum physicist Professor Régis Dutheil. Thanks to the development of particle accelerators, physicists are now able to propel particles (tachyons) at a speed close to that of light (300,000 km per second). At these extreme speeds, the laws that govern our universe no longer apply. Professor Dutheil's work has shown that the theory of relativity is not incompatible with that of tachyons, provided that we allow for the possibility of a double reality: that alongside our sub-luminous universe, which follows the law of time, is a superluminal universe. This second reality is another universe, complementary to and symmetrical with ours, governed by superluminal space-time in which light moves 300,000 km/s to infinity.In the superluminal universe, everything is instantaneous. It is possible to conceive of a superluminal being capable of moving from one end of space to the other. This parallel universe consists only of information and consciousness: all information (past, present, future) and the consciousness of all humanity. Professor Dutheil's thesis joins the intuitions of ancient philosophers with current quantum physics to blow our current notions of time, of past and present, of the nature of consciousness, of birth and death right out of the water.

Este libro presenta las bases conceptuales sobre el concepto de cultura en general y de cultura organizacional en particular y discute ampliamente los paradigmas de la cultura organizacional, profundizando en el paradigma dominante de la Corporate Culture, contrastándolo con el paradigma Humanista Radical. El Modelo de Análisis de la Cultura Organizacional que presenta, contiene 13 dimensiones que permiten a profesores, estudiantes, dirigentes y empresarios, comprender la dinámica de la cultura y, a partir del diagnóstico situacional de la misma, formular estrategias de intervención y transformación para alinearla con los propósitos, la misión, la visión y las estrategias de la empresa o institución. Producto de más de 25 años de rigurosa investigación sobre gestión de la cultura organizacional por parte de sus autores, quienes a una completa indagación teórica han sumado decenas de investigaciones, asesorías y consultorías exitosas en las últimas tres décadas, constituye, sin lugar a dudas, una herramienta de primer orden en su campo.

As citações deste Dicionário, retiradas do vasto acervo de 17 volumes da Enciclopédia das Religiões, conduzida por Mircea Eliade em colaboração com Ioan P. Couliano, e elaboradas pelos maiores especialistas internacionais, enfatizam a origem e a persistência dessa criatividade, não somente em ocasiões solenes, mas também em observações, gestos e objetos do cotidiano. Por séculos, os símbolos foram vividos como portadores de um significado capaz de ultrapassar os limites humanos e se projetar em uma presença que se colocava como'outra'. Descobre-se assim que até mesmo os objetos mais usuais – uma chave, um tecido, um espelho, uma joia – ou os gestos mais comuns como comer, dormir, oferecer um presente, brincar, não são aspectos triviais de nossa vida: na história da humanidade, foram carregados de um sentido que podemos ter esquecido, mas que atesta como a busca por significado está impressa nas profundezas do desejo humano. As grandes articulações dessa busca são traçadas no ensaio do historiador das religiões Jacques Vidal, que introduz esta obra.

Una raccolta di saggi per tracciare un itinerario ideale nella storia del libertinismo italiano, da Paolo Sarpi a Gregorio Leti. Venezia rappresenta il centro di questa tradizione, scettica e irriverente, che investe in una polemica incessante i costumi conformistici degli italiani, le aspirazioni politiche del papato, il dominio esercitato dagli spagnoli attraverso le massime della Ragion di Stato. Le vicende di questi scrittori, spesso avventurose, sono poste in relazione con quelle degli esprits forts d'oltralpe che scrivono di politica all'ombra del cardinale Richelieu. Nel loro rapporto ambivalente con il potere, i libertini sperimentano una continua tensione tra necessità del segreto e volontà di disinganno, prudente ricorso alla dissimulazione e consapevolezza della nascita dell'opinione pubblica. Le filosofie libertine, infine, offrono una riflessione realistica e disincantata sui limiti dell'agire politico e sulle cause occasionali e fortuite che ne sono alla radice.

Ever since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus'Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a comprehensive and up-to-date tour of the work for a global audience. Attention is given to the unity of Saxo's massive chronicle, whether he is dealing with a legendary pagan past or events from his own time. Saxo's world and views are explored in ways that shed new light on all of northern Europe. Contributors are Bjørn Bandlien, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Michael H. Gelting, Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm, Lars Hermanson, Lars Kjær, Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Annette Lassen, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, Lars Boje Mortensen, Mia Münster-Swendsen, Erik Niblaeus, Roland Scheel, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, and Helle Vogt.

To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, forming the core of belonging and group identity.In 1999 Quebec classicist Louis-André Dorion published a series of French conversations with Brisson on the idea of myth. In Making Sense of Myth Gerard Naddaf offers an extended and updated English translation of these conversations, as well as a new set of discussions between himself and Brisson. Beginning with Brisson's childhood in the village of Saint-Esprit, Quebec, through his education as a gifted child in minor seminaries starting at age eleven, and continuing with his years in Paris, first as a graduate student and later at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Brisson tells the story of his escape from an all-encompassing myth – the one promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church. The philosopher situates Quebec society as inseparable from the history of the Catholic Church in Quebec, and argues that this correlation offers a perfect paradigm of myth and mythmaking. Naddaf's introduction and afterword contextualize the conversations by discussing Brisson's and Plato's understanding of the origin and meaning of myth, elaborating on the role of myth in anthropogeny, in the creation of selfhood, and in multiculturalism.Making Sense of Myth promises both a philosophy of myth and a philosophy of life, one inspired by Brisson's lifelong engagement with the great Western philosopher Plato.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars.