Libros de Mary Douglas

In The Active Voice (routledge Revivals)

• 322 páginas

Implicit Meanings

• 342 páginas
• Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as food, pollution, risk, animals...

Obsession

• In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing

Einleitung In Das Neue Testament

• 928 páginas

Collective Amnesia

• 132 páginas
• The poems and commentaries within these pages are an expression of a collection of individuals (everyday people), who have suffered from a partial or total loss of memory. They have forgotten how to love, how to temper justice with mercy. Theyâ€...

Evolution And The Nature Of Good

• People have inherited from their animal ancestors a natural urge to help and co-operate with their fellow-humans. But the advance of our culture has made us selfish. Modern humans need co-operation, goodwill and a charitable attitude more than ever, becau...

Evolution And The Nature Of Good

• 208 páginas
• People have inherited from their animal ancestors a natural urge to help and co-operate with their fellow-humans. But the advance of our culture has made us selfish. Modern humans need co-operation, goodwill and a charitable attitude more than ever, becau...

James

• The NLT Study Series is based on the NLT Study Bible. Each of the 13-week studies provide an in-depth study of a particular Bible book. The entire text of that book from the NLT Study Bible is included. The study provides participants with five scripture...

Romans

• 160 páginas
• "The Bringing the Bible to Life series, a companion to Zondervan's NIV Application Commentary, illuminates both the historical meaning of the biblical text and its contemporary significance for today's reader. Each guide provides an introduction...

Risk And Culture

• 224 páginas
• Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most...

The Old Testament In The Gospel Passion Narratives

An Introduction To The New Testament

• 781 páginas
• An Introduction to the New Testament focuses on 'special introduction' that is historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, destination, and so forth. This approach stands in contrast to recent texts that concentrate more...

Purity And Danger

• Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean?

Evans-pritchard

• First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain.

Romans

• This book, part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the message of Romans can have the same powerful impact today that it did when it was first written.

2 Peter, Jude

• This volume of the NIV Application Commentary helps readers learn how the message of 2 Peter and Jude can have the same powerful impact today that they did when they there were first written.

Sexual Homicide: Patterns And Motives- Paperback

• 256 páginas
• Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene...

How Institutions Think

• 158 páginas
• Do institutions think? If so, how do they do it? Do they have minds of their own? If so, what thoughts occupy these suprapersonal minds? Mary Douglas delves into these questions as she lays the groundwork for a theory of institutions. Usually the human...