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The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith

By: Sam D. Gill

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The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith

By: Sam D. Gill

In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a coredynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197527221

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9780197527221

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Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

By: Sam D. Gill

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Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

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Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play.

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0198027540

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9780198027546

Dancing Culture Religion

By: Sam D. Gill

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Dancing Culture Religion

By: Sam D. Gill

Provocative insights into the nature of dancing as inseparable from human vitality and distinctiveness emerge from this spiraling study of specific cultural dance traditions brought into conversation with various philosophical/theoretical perspectives centering on the topics: movement, gesture, play, masking, ritual, seduction, performance, religion; each the subject of engaging innovative analysis. The author draws on experience as dancer and academic to address contemporary issues such as gender identity development and plasticity and acuity throughout the lifespan.

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Lexington Books

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0739174738

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9780739174739

Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement

By: Jack A. Naglieri,Sam Goldstein

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Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement

By: Jack A. Naglieri,Sam Goldstein

A complete guide to key intelligence and achievement tests and their effective use The tools used in the assessment process have changed dramatically in recent years. School and clinical psychologists need a comprehensive yet focused resource to which they can turn to learn the basics of key intelligence and achievement tests and how to use them in their assessments of children and adults. With its practical and straightforward presentation, Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement provides that resource. Coedited by two well-known and respected scholars and researchers, Jack Naglieri and Sam Goldstein, the content in this timely book combines traditional and new conceptualizations of intelligence as well as ways to measure achievement. Truly readable and user-friendly, this book provides professionals with a single source from which to examine ability and achievement tests along the same general criteria. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and test developer and is consistently structured for easy comparison of each test that is examined. Coverage includes: The theory underlying each test Description of each test Tips for administering and scoring each test Standardization, norms, and reliability of each scale Practical guidance for the use of each test Correspondence of each test to IDEA A practical tool designed to aid clinical psychologists in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the various tests presented, Practitioner's Guide to Assessing Intelligence and Achievement provides students and practitioners with the information they need for their practice and testing efforts to be consistent with recent updates in the field and how those assessment instruments relate to changes in the laws that influence test use.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470488166

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9780470488164

Mother Earth

An American Story

By: Sam D. Gill

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Mother Earth

An American Story

By: Sam D. Gill

Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American Figure. In this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals how the evolution of the current Mother Earth figure was influenced by prevailing European-American imagery of Americaand the Indians as well as by the rapidly changing Indian identity.

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212

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University of Chicago Press

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0226293726

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9780226293721

Dictionary of Native American Mythology

By: Sam D. Gill,Irene F. Sullivan

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Dictionary of Native American Mythology

By: Sam D. Gill,Irene F. Sullivan

Passed down from generation to generation, the myths and rituals of Native Americans form a rich religious and cultural base from which all members of each society can create and maintain a sense of community, physical and emotional health, identity, family, and self. Such traditions, handed down through stories and rites, stand as the lifeblood of every Native American culture. This thoroughly illustrated and carefully researched guide explores the amazing array of mythical beasts, heroic humans, and nurturing spirits that make up the fascinating spectrum of Native American mythology. With over one thousand alphabetically arranged entries, representing over one hundred different Native American cultures, readers can quickly explore the meaning of hundreds of elements of Native lore--from names, phrases, and symbols, to images, motifs, and themes. Accompanying essays take a closer look at other issues related to the origin, development, and perpetuation of Native American mythology, such as the Christian influence on myth, varying mythology between tribes, storytelling, and more. We learn about such mythical creatures as Apotamkin of the Maliseet-Passamaquoddy tribe of the Southeast (a bogey monster with long hair and huge teeth who, through the fear he generates, keeps small children from straying onto thin, newly frozen ice in the winter and unguarded beaches in the summer), ritual healing ceremonials such as the Southwestern Navajo's Uglyway ceremony (a ceremony to remove and protect against the forces of chaos and disorder that give rise to illness), and the Marau ceremony of the Hopi Indians of the Southeast (a complex ceremony concerned with rain, the ripening of corn, and the fertility of women, as well as rites of initiating new members into the society). This compelling volume honors the richness of the beliefs and values of the many peoples of native North America, from northern Mexico to the Artic Circle. In addition, a complete bibliography of primary sources and secondary sources points the way to further research, making this the perfect reference for anyone interested in the mythical history of America's original inhabitants.

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0195086023

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Mother Earth

An American Story

By: Sam D. Gill

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An American Story

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Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

By: Sam D. Gill

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Texts, Stories & Histories in Central Australia

By: Sam D. Gill

Featuring vivid accounts of many key players in the nineteenth-century development of Central Australia, this book argues for a multi-perspective theory of history. In offering descriptions of an important aboriginal culture--the Arrernte--it reveals the colonialist underbelly of all modern academic cultural studies. But it embraces this scenario as one of creative potential, outlining an interactivist epistemology for negotiating the classical alternatives ofobjectivism and subjectivism. Gill ponders two exemplary scholars (Mircea Eliade and Jonathan Smith) in his careful study of the emergent academic study of religion.

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0195115880

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