In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies cultural engagements that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity, and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by traditio...Loe edasi...
This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
Updated throughout and now featuring examples from the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, this new edition of The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories shows us that while such beliefs are not always irrational and are not a pathological...Loe edasi...
Over the last thirty years, religious leaders in Tanzania have increasingly been recruited to participate in sensitive health programs like family planning. Providing an innovative and nuanced theorization of development, religion, and health, this...Loe edasi...
Myths and Heroes in Creative Writing: Re-reading and Remaking offers a comprehensive overview of myth throughout history. Exploring a variety of forms, Adrian May provides a framework for the practice and process of writing myths....Loe edasi...
Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances provide a window into the diversity of human culture. It is an essential textbook for...Loe edasi...
This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the Q account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the mo...Loe edasi...
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right-wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories....Loe edasi...
This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece....Loe edasi...
Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English....Loe edasi...
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribu...Loe edasi...
Folklore & Zoology accessibly reviews the science of DNA samples; film and photograph analysis; hair and footprint examination; and the statistics behind alleged animals as Sasquatch and the Yeti, Nessie and Champ, the Griffin and the Thunderbirds,...Loe edasi...
This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the discursive weaponization of conspiracy theories. This text examines the interplay between populism and conspiracism, probing their impact on democratic processes and exploring their broader political implications....Loe edasi...
Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatizati...Loe edasi...
The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism....Loe edasi...
This book offers a historically-sensitive ethnography of the zr umbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world....Loe edasi...
