Faces In The Clouds
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Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Stewart Elliott Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-06
Faces In The Clouds written by Stewart Elliott Guthrie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-06 with Religion categories.
Religion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory. Guthrie says religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism--that is, the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events. Many writers see anthropomorphism as common or even universal in religion, but few think it is central. To Guthrie, however, it is fundamental. Religion, he writes, consists of seeing the world as humanlike. As Guthrie shows, people find a wide range of humanlike beings plausible: Gods, spirits, abominable snowmen, HAL the computer, Chiquita Banana. We find messages in random events such as earthquakes, weather, and traffic accidents. We say a fire "rages," a storm "wreaks vengeance," and waters "lie still." Guthrie says that our tendency to find human characteristics in the nonhuman world stems from a deep-seated perceptual strategy: in the face of pervasive (if mostly unconscious) uncertainty about what we see, we bet on the most meaningful interpretation we can. If we are in the woods and see a dark shape that might be a bear or a boulder, for example, it is good policy to think it is a bear. If we are mistaken, we lose little, and if we are right, we gain much. So, Guthrie writes, in scanning the world we always look for what most concerns us--livings things, and especially, human ones. Even animals watch for human attributes, as when birds avoid scarecrows. In short, we all follow the principle--better safe than sorry. Marshalling a wealth of evidence from anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art, and animal behavior, Guthrie offers a fascinating array of examples to show how this perceptual strategy pervades secular life and how it characterizes religious experience. Challenging the very foundations of religion, Faces in the Clouds forces us to take a new look at this fundamental element of human life.
Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Stewart Guthrie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Faces In The Clouds written by Stewart Guthrie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Anthropomorphism categories.
Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Denise Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-06-01
Faces In The Clouds written by Denise Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-01 with categories.
Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Matt Nable
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2011-05-25
Faces In The Clouds written by Matt Nable and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Twin brothers Stephen and Lawrence Kennedy are army kids; theirs is a world of barracks, bunks and barbecues. But then their parents are killed in a car accident and the boys are sent to stay with people they barely know. How the boys live with their grief and with each other defines the rest of their lives. They move through adolescence and into adulthood, via girlfriends, jobs, sibling rivalry and loyalty. And somewhere deeply buried within them both is the question of how one deals with the past in order to live in the present and embrace the future. The answer is surprising.
Faces In A Cloud
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Author : George E. Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Release Date : 1993
Faces In A Cloud written by George E. Atwood and has been published by Jason Aronson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Psychology categories.
Illuminating the subjective origins of a personality theory does not invalidate the theory, according to Atwood and Stolorow, but rather contributes to establishing the scope of the theory as well as its applicability to particular clinical situations.
Faces In A Cloud
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Author : Robert D. Stolorow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Faces In A Cloud written by Robert D. Stolorow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Faces In The Clouds
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Author : Ama Birch
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-03-03
Faces In The Clouds written by Ama Birch and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-03 with Poetry categories.
Faces in the Clouds is a collection of 10 poems that were written in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. The poems were then completed in Seoul, South Korea and were originally published in 2009 in Los Angeles. The second edition contains three original photographic poems.
Clouds
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Author : Jenny Markert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Clouds written by Jenny Markert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Clouds categories.
Describes different kinds of clouds and explains how rain, snow, hail, and thunderstorms are formed.
The Big Cloud
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Author : Camille Seaman
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2018-05-01
The Big Cloud written by Camille Seaman and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Photography categories.
Our culture is addicted to weather: hourly forecasts, apps, radio, TV channels, alerts, warnings, and watches. And understandably—our food, clothing, livelihoods, and, increasingly, safety are tied directly to the weather and climate change. In The Big Cloud, photographer Camille Seaman stands in front of tornados, at the edges of lightning storms, and in pelting hail under pitch-black skies to capture supercells and mammatus clouds in their often sublime and terrifying splendor. In these awe-inspiring photographs, Seaman's work is a potent reminder that there is no art more dramatic, in scale or emotion, than that created by nature. Big Cloud includes an introduction by award-winning New Yorker science writer and author Alan Burdick (Out of Eden, Why Time Flies).
Book Of Clouds
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Author : Chloe Aridjis
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-31
Book Of Clouds written by Chloe Aridjis and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-31 with Fiction categories.
Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...