From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head ...
... Worldly Leadership ' ? David Weir Introduction The premise of this chapter is that an effective model of ' worldly lead- ership ' will not necessarily come from the uni - linear expansion of the Western model but may depend on the ...
Explores the ideas expressed in some fifty classic writings that offer the reader insight into the meaning of life and how to live it more fully.
... worldly things . Subject Verb Object ? Questioning the Relationship between Humans and Things Does the outlook articulated above , which highlights the importance of worldly things in associative democratic action , reinscribe a problem ...
... Worldly Shakespeare , I aim to extend these insights to the entire trajectory of the dramatist's career , to explore how his dramas register the moment of the Globe not as a high noon of either Western universality or authorial ...
... worldly winds in more detail, and the chapter following it discusses ways to 'sail the worldly winds' – responding to them more skilfully and ethically. Secondly, they show us the connection between ethics and wisdom. When we are swept ...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. DIVINE VERSUS WORLDLY LOVE 1. Worldly Love is an intoxication of the Astral Light . It is a state of severe mental per- turbation . 2. Divine Love is the Law of Universal Sympathy . 3. Monosexual consciousness ...
... worldly sav- iors . Unlike Amitābha's Pure Land , which was formed through his vow to become a buddha , the terrestrial utopia of a worldly savior can be formed by a bodhisattva . For example , two of the three worldly saviors Wu Zhao ...
... worldly contexts and fitting increasingly worldly contexts into local experiences . The chapters , by looking closely at the interstices often ignored or actually produced by , for example , global ' reintegration ' schemes or ...
... worldly oriented or that Buddhism is only about individualistic inner peace, the early Buddhist texts bear witness to the Buddha's highly this-worldly ethical concerns and his unconventional social visions. The early texts show that ...