1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Sam D. Gill
Release : 1998
Genre : Aboriginal Australians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Storytracking by : Sam D. Gill
Download or read book Storytracking written by Sam D. Gill. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play.
Author : Linell E. Cady
Release : 2002-10-10
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religious Studies, Theology, and the University by : Linell E. Cady
Download or read book Religious Studies, Theology, and the University written by Linell E. Cady. This book was released on 2002-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between religious studies and theology and the place of each in the modern, secular university.
Author : Sam D. Gill
Release : 2021-02-24
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith by : Sam D. Gill
Download or read book The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith written by Sam D. Gill. This book was released on 2021-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a coredynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.
Author : Sam D. Gill
Release : 1998
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 872/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Storytracking by : Sam D. Gill
Download or read book Storytracking written by Sam D. Gill. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and of the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty.
Author : Sam Gill
Release : 2018-11-15
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference by : Sam Gill
Download or read book Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference written by Sam Gill. This book was released on 2018-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differences—cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability—are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. While it is laudable to nurture an environment promoting the tolerance of difference, Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference argues for the higher goal of actually appreciating difference as essential to creativity and innovation, even if often experienced as stressful and complex. Even encounters that are apparently harmful and negatively valued (arguments, conflict, war, oppression) usually heighten the potential for creativity, innovation, movement, action, and identity. Drawing on classic encounters that have played a significant role in the founding of the academic study of religion and the social sciences, this book explores in some depth the dynamics of encounter to reveal both its problematic and creative aspects and to develop perspectives and strategies to assure encounters both include the appreciation of difference and also are recognized as creative and innovative. The two examples most extensively considered show that the academic study of the peoples indigenous to North America and to Australia involved creative constructions (concoctions) of primary examples in order to establish and give authority to academic theories and definitions. Rather than damning these examples as “bad scholarship,” this book considers them to be encounters engendering creative constructions that are distinctive to academia, yet their potential for harm must be understood. Most important to the book is a persistent development of perspectives and strategies for understanding and approaching encounters in order to assure the appreciation of difference is accompanied by the potential for creativity and innovation. Specific perspectives and strategies are related to naming, moving, gesture, and play and, particularly relevant to religion, the development of an aesthetic of impossibles. Since these historical examples engage highly relevant present concerns —the distinction of real and fake, truth and lie, map and territory—the threading essays show how these more or less classic examples might contribute to appreciating these contemporary concerns that are generated in the presence of difference.
