Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2489522.pdf

Possessions and the extended self.

Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/201/4359/899.2.full.pdf

Phenomenology of perception.

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

Religion and Social Theory: A Materialist Perspective

Secular and Religious Citizenship

Akbar Ahmed's important and wide-ranging discussion of the place of Islam within the debate over postmodernism has to be understood against the background of the complex analysis of the cultural roots of modernity. In speculating about the origins of the modern (western) world, social philosophers from David Hume onwards have been impressed by the cultural impact of the Abrahamic religions in shaping modern social reality. However, the intellectual problem, which was also an ideological one, has been to decide which of these world religions has been most significant in determining the contours of modernity. It is well known within the sociology of religion, following Max Weber's two famous essays of 1905 in the Archivfur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik on the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, that the ascetic Protestant sects were regarded as fundamental in the push towards rational modernity. The inner-worldly asceticism of Calvinistic Protestantism transformed western culture towards an antimagical, disciplined life-world. The Protestant ethic thesis has remained a controversial argument for nearly nine decades. The alternatives to this Weberian thesis suggested that it was Greek culture (according to Nietzsche) or Jewish prophetic religion (according to Sombart) which had provided the roots of modernist rationality, but this debate has remained fundamentally unresolved.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0026749X00001335

Postmodernism and Islam. Predicament and Promise. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Routledge: London, 1992. Pp. x, 294.

Selected Essays B.S. Turner 368pp Custom and Myth A. Lang 320pp The Making of Religion A. Lang 384pp Anthropological Religion Max Mueller 496pp Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion Max Mueller and Friedrich Mueller 496pp Lectures on the Religion of the Semites W. Robertson Smith 512pp The Threshold of Religion R.R. Marett Primitive Religion R.H. Lowrie 368pp

The early sociology of religion

The article examines illustrations from ancient and modern societies to consider the connections between power, social elites and knowledge of techniques to promote longevity. In pre-modern societies, knowledge of practices and substances to promote longevity were cultivated by elites such as the Chinese imperial court. In modern societies, new technologies—cryonics, cloning, stem-cell applications and nanotechnology—will offer exclusive and expensive methods for prolonging life for the rich. However one important difference between the ancient and modern world is that with secularization longevity is no longer connected with a moral life; longevity is not a reward for sanctity. We have democratized the ambition for long life but not necessarily its realization. The modern quest for longevity appears to be connected with the desire of Baby Boomer generations to hold on to their assets, but while modern medicine may help us to survive forever, it cannot tell us how to live forever.

Bryan S. Turner

Papers

Religion and Social Theory: A Materialist Perspective

Secular and Religious Citizenship

Postmodernism and Islam. Predicament and Promise. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Routledge: London, 1992. Pp. x, 294.

The early sociology of religion

Longevity Ancient and Modern