Changing Religious Worlds Dr Martijn Derks

Changing Religious Worlds Dr Martijn DerksAssesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion. Changing Religious Worlds measures the nature and significance of Mircea Eliade's contribution to the understanding and academic study of religion in North America today. It includes the perspectives of the continent's leading experts on Eliade and his thought, both critical and supportive. It also includes previously unpublished

This chapter analyses PHM practices

The Face of Truth exposes the theology of language - the understanding of religious language and God

An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor

animals (including plant shoot symbionts and pathogens)

and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008

Methodist evangelical Christianity

democracy within trade unions

It is based on a course offered at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and will serve other universities well

Balancing these conflicting objectives is a challenge

but they are often opposed and mutually hostile

the archaic was undergoing its transformation into modernity

Otto Meinardus examines the popular traditions and beliefs of the Copts