Key concepts and theories from religious studies are explored to illuminate the intricate relationships between religious and cultural institutions and their societal impacts. This introduction offers a critical framework for understanding how these elements shape beliefs, practices, and social dynamics, making it essential for anyone looking to grasp the complexities of religion in contemporary society.
Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by scholars and students to understand these central elements in the study of culture. The book shows how discourses are used to construct social institutions-often classist, sexist, or racist-and that those social institutions always entail a distribution of resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and method to racist ideologies in the United States, which systematically function to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy that has always existed in the US.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight.... 90% of the goods and materials that move around the globe do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and where is it going? Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”—including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Featuring Michael Craig-Martin's characteristic outline drawings from earlier points in his career to those conceived in recent months, this book is the definitive companion to the preferred medium of one of our most significant living artists.
Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Challenging traditional views, this book reexamines the scientific revolution and highlights the significant influence of Renaissance humanism on the development of modern thought. It explores how these historical movements shaped contemporary understandings, offering fresh insights into their interconnectedness and impact on modernity.
A critical account of 'spirituality' or 'individual religion', arguing that much of what is labelled as 'spirituality' can be understood as consumerist ideology.
Focusing on Renaissance theories of weather, this study provides a fresh perspective on traditional natural philosophy and its influence on the evolution of modern science. It highlights the significance of historical meteorological concepts and their role in shaping contemporary scientific thought, marking a significant contribution to the field after a five-decade gap in research.
Find Compatibility and Create a Lasting Relationship
Focusing on personal desires, this guide offers readers practical tools to identify and harness their unique wants in relationships. Dr. Martin, a counselor and astrologer, combines insights from his diverse background to help individuals attract and maintain their ideal romantic partners.
A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion and the Private Sphere
The book examines the interplay between public/private and religion/state distinctions in liberal political theory, tracing their evolution from the Protestant Reformation to contemporary debates. It critically evaluates how these binaries have shaped political thought and influenced the relationship between individual freedoms and state authority, offering insights into their implications for modern governance and societal structures.
* Offers hikes for all fitness levels and a "Trails-at-a-Glance" feature to help select the right hike for you * Hikes for all of New Mexico in this popular guidebook New Mexico offers a surprising variety of terrain to explore through its trails, from the Chihuahuan Desert in the south to remarkable alpine lakes in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the north. In this guidebook to New Mexico's impressive trails, author Craig Martin includes easy 1- and 2-mile day hikes, numerous 8- to 12-mile hikes, and difficult 20-plus-mile backpacking trails for the more ardent adventurers. Interesting on-the-trail information such as the history of old mining camps, homesteads, and ghost towns is provided. Most hikes are quickly accessible from the urban centers of Santa Fe and Albuquerque.