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Deicide in Ch’orti’ Maya Myth and Ritual
Among the Ch’orti’ Maya, turkeys are associated with ritual sacrifice and deicide. In this study, I discuss the intimate links between the turkey and...
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Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica has long been identified with a range of ritualized practices or ritual diversity centered on both animal and human sacrifices. In...
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Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico
This chapter reports on evidence of large-scale ritual violence recovered at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, the Postclassic (1300–1522 A.D.) Tarascan civic...
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The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrificial Victim: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism
Mesoamerican scholarship is a collaborative effort that consistently delivers fresh theoretical interpretations based on new findings, but on...
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Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico
Traditions of human sacrifice among the peoples of the Northern Mixteca survived the Spanish Conquest. The Postclassic period’s emphasis on warrior...
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Beyond Consciousness in Early Christian Mysticism
Late antique Christian mysticism is a way of transcending consciousness. The culmination of the approaches of the time is represented by the writings...
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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal...
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Religion, Leadership, and Consciousness: Interactions and Opportunities
Effective leadership is not about profit, goals, and vision alone – it is also about the curation of shared values and their implementation in the...
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Consciousness and Implicit Self-Awareness: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Some contemporary Western theories of consciousness, such as the higher-order thought (HOT) theory and self-representationalism, hold that there is...
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Comparison of Issues and Data Curation Strategies
This chapter synthesizes the literature reviewed in Chaps. 3 and 4, comparing key issues relating to qualitative data reuse and big social research,...
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Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents
Unorganised collectives that are interesting in terms of moral responsibility are a set of individuals picked out by some normatively relevant fact....
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The Volume of Coverage of Religion Overall, Christianity, and Islam in British and Turkish Newspapers
In this study’s first empirical chapter, I provide and analyse quantitative data about the volume of coverage of religion overall, Christianity, and...
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The Other Modern Séances
This chapter is a philosophical exploration of the topic specifically sidestepped in Patočka’s paper: the survival of the soul after the death of the...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Investigating Religion in the British and Turkish Press
As this research significantly draws on its empirical part, Chap. 4 discusses why the author employs a...
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Pentecostalism, Theology of Survival and Food Security in Zimbabwe
This chapter examines some of the controversial Zimbabwean Pentecostal beliefs and practices, enshrined in their theology of survival. The deployment...
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Catholicism, Climate Change and Pests in Africa
The threat posed by insect pests is one of the major challenges to food production in Africa. By feeding on plant tissues and transmitting viral...
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Eating as a Wrong Relationship
This first chapter will be looking at our relationship with food and drink. Usually, such relationship is appreciated and valued either for the...
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The Sacred Meal. Religion and Secularism, Amidst Need and Desire
In this chapter, we are going to show how our relationship with food and drinks encompasses not only material elements but also cultural and symbolic...