D Goodman: 16 books
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality
Religion in a Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1988
An important book which deserves the careful attention of serious students of religion." —Religious Studies Review
Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind
Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1990
The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures." —Theological Book Review
... a case study in experiential anthropology...
How about Demons?
Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1988
Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review
It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist
... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject."...
Social Work with Groups
Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...
by Jerome D. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
The authors incorporate the neurologic examination into a play framework, wherein they can analyze a child's personality and development, searching for 'soft' signs of postural or motor incoordination, and for 'hard' signs of childrens' mental status.
Coming to Mind
The Soul and Its Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal...
Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s
The Return of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This title was first published in 1988: In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social and spiritual milieu in which they were created. He describes the turning point in Japanese thinking about the nature and limitations of a Western-oriented...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by David Cooper, Stokely Carmichael, R.D. Laing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades
The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists,...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Observing the User Experience
A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail to conduct user research. The book...
by Seymour E. Goodman, Abraham D. Sofaer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In December 1999, more than forty members of government, industry, and academia assembled at the Hoover Institution to discuss this problem and explore possible countermeasures. The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism summarizes the conference papers and exchanges, addressing pertinent...
by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily...
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