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This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an im

Mainstream psychology emanated from European-American and Judeo-Christian philosophical and scientific traditions. The application of this viewpoint, which embeds colonial and imperialist concepts is less relevant to Asian and other indigenous cultures. Although it has been accepted by non-Western scholars in an attempt to emulate Western scientific practice, the mainstream viewpoint is in a process of transformation to accommodate geographically relevant perspectives. In this light, Foundations of Chinese Psychology, bridges the gap between western and eastern traditions and elaborates on the

Building on the progress of those who have come before, women in the last two decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century have seen the first female justices of the Supreme Court, the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the first female in serious contention for a presidential nomination. Women of Today explores the role of the modern woman and her depiction in popular culture, and how women's roles vary across cultural boundaries

When has using the term "lesbian" not been considered an anachronistic gesture? This question lies at the heart of this important new collection of essays. The Lesbian Premodern engages key scholars in lesbian studies and queer theory in an innovative conversation in print. Transgressing traditional period boundaries, The Lesbian Premodern challenges those interested primarily in contemporary lesbian theory, history and literature to pay full attention to significant and often overlooked theoretical, empirical and textual work on female same-sex desire and identity in premodern cultures. This

Numerous sociologists suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. Kemper, however, argues that status and power structure social relations, determine emotions and link individuals to the reference groups that deliver culture and administer preferences, actions, beliefs and ideas. An important contention is that allegiance to fundamental ideas is primarily faithfulness to the reference groups that foster them, not to the ideas themselves. This triggers the counter-intuitive deduction that the concept of the self is both feckless and irrelevant.

This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meaningful and appropriate culturally-based learning resources and are also designed to enhance understandin

"...Extending some important strains of his previous award-winning work, Selfhood and Authenticity (2001)...Anton breaks new ground by bringing the works of Ernest Becker, Kenneth Burke and Hans Jonas into resolute dialog, allowing each to interpret and extend the other. What emerges is a truly original perspective, emphasizing the universality in human affairs of ǹatural guilt' and the various avenues provided by culture for its expiation."--Daniel Liechty, Illinois State University, is Vice President of The Ernest Becker Foundation

ch. 1. Interrogating criminal justice / Deborah Drake, John Muncie and Louise Westmarland -- ch. 2. Punitiveness and cultures of control / Deborah Drake -- ch. 3. Conflict resolution, restoration and informal justice / Ross Fergusson and John Muncie -- ch. 4. Risk prediction, assessment and management / Deborah Drake and John Muncie -- ch. 5. Surveillance and social ordering / Roy Coleman -- ch. 6. Transnational policing and security / Louise Westmarland -- ch. 7. Justice, globalisation and human rights / James Mehigan, Reece Walters and Louise Westmarland.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Space-Times of the Nation-State and the Effacement of the Body~Place~Commons -- 2. Reclaiming the Democratic Republic: Historical Retrieval and Political Reconstruction -- 3. De-toggling "Consumer Republic" Dreamworlds -- 4. Regenerating Public Culture: Ecological Ontology for Democratic Publics -- 5. Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the Political -- 6. Participatory Reason and Democratic Professionalism -- 7. Translocal Politics, Ecological Hermeneutics, Democratic Struggles -- 8. Learning from the Global Justice Movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The decade of the 1920s was a good time to be an American; wealth and luxury were on the rise, culture and music was roarin', and the world was returning to normalcy following World War I. All this changed after the stock market crash of 1929 slammed the United States into the Great Depression, which would last more than a decade. This book covers the causes that led up to this event that affected, not only the United States, but many other countries

1. 1 Background of the Study: Ef?ciency in Cross-Cultural International Business Management Ef?cient business management is crucial in achieving corporate (national or int- national/multinational) goals such as higher value, comprehensiveness, corporate governance, etc. Ef?cient business management can be achieved by resolving agency problems existing among different stakeholders in corporations. In inter- tional business, agency problems may exist between managers, owners, staff, and other stakeholders who come from different cultures. Therefore, there is a need in designing ef?cient manageme

Introduction: What is an African American intellectual? -- The emergence of the black public intellectual : race, class, and the struggle against racism -- Black intellectuals and the quest for legitimacy : civil rights, black power, and the expenditure of moral capital -- The conservative revolution and its impact on Afro America, 1980-1992 -- Popular culture and the African American intellectual search for a new American identity -- A new century and new challenges : the visibility of African American intellectuals and the construction of diasporic diversity

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Medicine, Commerce, and Culture -- 1 Blockbuster Drugs in the Age of Anxiety -- 2 Listening to Miltown -- 3 Wonder Drugs and Drug Wars -- 4 The Valium Panic -- 5 Prozac and the Incorporation of the Brain -- Conclusion. Better Living through Chemistry? -- Appendix A. Medications Mentioned -- Appendix B. Prescriptions for Psychiatric Drugs, 1955-2005 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X

Key Concepts in Human Resources Management is an essential guide to the theories and issues that define the field - from the critical debates to the more practical considerations that every student should be aware of. 52 short entries will serve to orientate the student round the need-to-know essentials. Entries will include Employment Tribunals, Benefits, Corporate Social Responsibility, Discipline and Grievance, Control, Employee relations, Incentive schemes, Motivation, Organizational culture, Strategic HRM, Victimisation.A range of relevant HR applications will be given for each term.A

Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - Why Is American Poverty Still Colored in the Twenty-First Century? / Ann Chih Lin and David R. Harris -- Part I - Group Identity and Group Outcomes -- Chapter 2 - The Dynamics of Discrimination / Devah Pager -- Chapter 3 - Justifying Inequality: A Social Psychological Analysis about Poverty and the Poor / Heather E. Bullock -- Chapter 4 - How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty / Michèle Lamont and Mario Luis Small -- Part II - Nonracial Explanations for Racial Disparities in Poverty