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"Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition"--

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This article situates these two new books on the Palestinians in Israel in the broader evolution of the existing scholarship. Ghanem and Mustafa provide a comprehensive new model based on the concept of "politics of faith" in order to explain how the Palestinians have tried to advance their collective interests as a minority in Israel. Al-Atawneh and Ali trace the evolution of Islamic identity and practice among the Palestinian minority in Israel. They explain how Islam has affected social and political change within Palestinian society in Israel. While both books expand our knowledge of the Palestinians in Israel, using different approaches, they share an emphasis on synthesizing both internal and external factors in their analysis of the developments affecting the Palestinians.

Preface : the transdisciplinary significance of Red Sun, White Lotus / Roger Griffin -- Introduction : politics and religion in Japan / Roy Starrs -- Ritual, purity and power : rethinking Shinto in restoration Japan / Yijiang Zhong -- The Mikado's august body : 'divinity' and 'corporeality' of the Meiji emperor and the ideological construction of imperial rule / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Does Shinto history 'begin at Kuroda'? : on the historical continuities of political Shinto / Klaus Antoni -- Sada Kaiseki : an alternative discourse on Buddhism, modernity, and nationalism in the early Meiji period / Fabio Rambelli -- Carry the Buddha out into the street! : a sliver of resistance to Japanese militarism / Brian Daizen Victoria -- The atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan / Alan Tansman -- A naked public square? : religion and politics in imperial Japan / Kevin M. Doak -- 'The Gakkai is faith, the Komeito is action' : Soka Gakkai and 'Buddhist politics' / Erica Baffelli -- From Mishima to Aum : religiopolitical violence in late twentieth-century Japan / Roy Starrs -- Voices of rage : a critical approach to the problem of Yasukuni / John Breen -- Afterword : a comparative glance at politics and religion in Japan / Prasenjit Duara

From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: News

En Andalucía, parece darse una manifiesta disociación entre religión y comportamientos éticos y políticos. Siendo la autonomía que mayor confianza tiene en la Iglesia como institución, cuando fundamenta aspectos como la honradez o el mal, acude primariamente no a explicaciones religiosas sino humanistas; se manifiestan en contra de la prohibición de los anticonceptivos y, casi una mitad, favorable al aborto. En política mayoritariamente votan a un partido que mantiene teórica y prácticamente posiciones contrarias a las de una Iglesia a la que la mayoría de sus votantes dicen pertenecer. Y junto a estas opiniones y comportamientos, aparece el actual auge de celebraciones religiosas populares, que más parecen depender de la organización y comportamientos urbanos de la sociedad de masas que de un nuevo florecimiento del catolicismo entre los andaluces. ; In Andalusia (Spain), there seems to be an manifest dissociation between religion and ethical and political behavior. As the autonomic community with the most trust in the Church as institution, when fundamental aspects like "honesty" or "evil" are presented, they are associated primarily with humanist and not religious explanations; Andalusians are opposed to contraceptive prohibition, and nearly half are in favour of abortion. In politics, they largely vote for the party maintaining theoretical and practical positions against those of the Church, to which most of its voters say they belong. And along with these opinions and behaviors, there is a current flourish in popular religious celebrations, which perhaps depends more on urban organization and behavior in the society of the masses than on a new bloomimg of Catholicism among Andalusians. ; Grupo de Investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada