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Batawat By The Sea: The Wiyot In Mckinleyville, California, Dorothy Lavalle Jan 1998

Batawat By The Sea: The Wiyot In Mckinleyville, California, Dorothy Lavalle

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This thesis is an interpretive ethnography using a heuristic approach in reconstructing the history of the Wiyot people through analysis of pertaining historical and anthropological literature, broadened with information from ethnographic interviews done in the last ten years with Indian and non-Indian community members. Batawat is the northern Wiyot district, located on the Mad River in Humboldt County, California, interrupted and eventually destroyed by American colonization in the 1850s and 1860s. The surviving Batawats returned after removal, to live in far more sparse and restricted circumstances in McKinleyville, the site of Batawat sacred and residential areas. Some Batawats remained on …


Toward A Synthesis Of Perspectives In The Sociology Of Religion, Tony Randall Gragg Jan 1998

Toward A Synthesis Of Perspectives In The Sociology Of Religion, Tony Randall Gragg

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Sociology has been notoriously bereft of theory dedicated to explaining the emergence and perpetuation of the social phenomenon of religion. Berger’s sacred canopy contention and Stark and Bainbridge’s theory of religion are the most salient, if not sole, exceptions. Berger claims that religion functions by giving significance to an otherwise meaningless world. Stark and Bainbridge, on the other hand, insist that religion functions by compensating folks for those things which secular society cannot provide them. In sum, Berger’s approach is holistic yet lacks a program for empirical study, and Stark and Bainbridge’s approach is too tangled up with the embattled …


The Torah: Theology And Social History Of Old Testament Law [Review] / Frank Crüsemann; Translated By Allan W. Mahnke., Eric L.O.R. Henry Jan 1998

The Torah: Theology And Social History Of Old Testament Law [Review] / Frank Crüsemann; Translated By Allan W. Mahnke., Eric L.O.R. Henry

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.


Jesus And The Victory Of God [Review] / By N. T. Wright., Paul L. Maier Jan 1998

Jesus And The Victory Of God [Review] / By N. T. Wright., Paul L. Maier

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Armageddon In Waco: Critical Perspectives On The Branch Davidian Conflict [Review] / Edited By Stuart A. Wright., Paul E. Mcgraw Jan 1998

Armageddon In Waco: Critical Perspectives On The Branch Davidian Conflict [Review] / Edited By Stuart A. Wright., Paul E. Mcgraw

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.