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  • THE CULTURE OF CYNICISM
    RICHARD STIVERS
    Richard Stivers received an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to write this wide-ranging and thought-provoking book on American morality. The book places American morality in its historical and cultural context.His research uncovered an ersatz morality that has supplanted traditional Judaic-Christian and humanistic moralities, which placed some limitations on the exercises...

    $532.00

  • RELIGION IN AMERICA TODAY
    RICHARD STIVERS / J. M. VAN DER LAAN
    Religion in American Today describes how sacred powers and secular religions have overtaken and infiltrated Christianity. Secular religion is now dominant in America: It assumes the forms of personal religion and political religion. Christianity makes its living within the confines of these secular religions.The point of the book is to identify the idolatry in what now passes f...

    $337.00

  • THE MEDIA CREATES US IN ITS IMAGE AND OTHER ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
    RICHARD STIVERS
    The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture proposes that modern technology seriously influences every aspect of culture and personality. Technology shapes our beliefs and values and even how we think of ourselves. It affects religion, morality, education, language, communication, and sexual identity. Every institution, every organization, is br...

    $479.00

  • HAIR OF THE DOG
    RICHARD STIVERS
    "Not only is this study meticulous in its methodology and insightful in its perceptions, but it is remarkable in its very successful interdisciplinary approach. A must for students of Irish and Irish American Studies." --Emmet Larkin, The University of Chicago "A work of great significance in studies of American immigrant history and in studies of American drinking patterns. It...

    $461.00

  • EVIL IN MODERN MYTH AND RITUAL
    RICHARD STIVERS
    Richard Stivers' concern is with the social construction of evil, that is, with how modern societies, in a partly unconscious way, create evil as a category of the sacred and how symbols, myths, and rituals of evil are related to this. He is interested, moreover, in how modern societies provoke individuals to commit evil actions. This fascinating and stimulating book is the fir...

    $408.00