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Practicing and Preaching Quakerism: Creating a Religion of Peace on a Slavery‐Era Plantation
(University of Illinois PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-03)
A meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”) formed in the British Virgin Islands in the 1740s offers a window onto broader practices of religion making. Equality, simplicity, and peace form a basis for Quaker ...
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness Distinguished Lecture: Consciousness, “Symbolic Healing,” and the Meaning Response
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.John Murray, 2012-09)
Symbolic healing, that is, responding to meaningful experiences in positive ways, can facilitate human healing. This process partly engages consciousness and partly evades consciousness completely (sometimes it partakes ...
Half-Lives and Half-Truths, Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War. by Barbara Rose Johnston
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2010-12)