Isaac Stern : Life's virtuoso

“…Life's virtuoso.…”

The religious order; a study of virtuoso religion and its legitimation in the nineteenth-century Church of England. by Hill, Michael, 1943-

A comparative sociology of world religions : virtuosos, priests, and popular religion / by Sharot, Stephen

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Religio stoici.. by Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691

“…Virtuoso, or stoick…”
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A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royall Society, as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England : whereunto is added the letter of a virtuoso in opposition to the censure, A reply unto the letter aforesaid, and A reply unto the præfatory answer of Ecebolius Glanvill, chaplain to Mr.... by Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676

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Enduring identities : the guise of Shinto in contemporary Japan / by Nelson, John K. 1953-

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Virtuosity, charisma, and social order : a comparative sociological study of monasticism in Theravada Buddhism and medieval Catholicism / by Friedrich-Silber, Ilana

Table of Contents: “…Virtuosi and society : elements of a comparative macrosociological approach -- The Weberian legacy -- Monasticism and social order : a multidimensional comparative perspective -- Virtuosi and society in Theravada Buddhism -- Ideological groundings : hierarchy and ritualized exchange -- Virtuosity institutionalized : the Sangha in social context -- Virtuoso radicalism : the triumph of a sociological complex -- Virtuosi and society in medieval Catholicism -- Ideological groundings : plurality and conditional exchange -- Virtuosity institutionalized : monasticism in social context -- Virtuoso radicalism : a self-defeating triumph -- Virtuosity, charisma, and social order -- Virtuosity and the virtuoso-society complex -- The virtuoso complex compared -- Conclusion : religious virtuosity as ideological power : some implications for the comparative study of civilizations.…”
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The promise of salvation : a theory of religion / by Riesebrodt, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Religion as discourse: on the critique of the concept of religion -- Modern religious discourses -- The indispensability of the concept of religion -- On discourse-theory criticism -- On postcolonial criticism -- On the necessity of analytical concepts -- From language to social reference -- Religion as social reference: on justifying the concept of religion -- Demarcation -- Superimposition -- Assimilation -- The politics of religion -- Travelers' reports -- Conclusions -- Scholarly imaginations of religion -- Religion as a divine gift of reason -- Religion as an experience of revelation -- Religion as projection -- Religion as protoscience -- Religion as affect -- Religion as a function of the brain -- Religion as sacralized society -- Religion as an interest in salvation -- Religion as a commodity -- Outlook -- Religious practice and the promise of salvation: outline of a theory of religion -- Defining religion -- Understanding religion -- Explaining religion -- Averting misfortune: general religious practices -- Religious calendars -- Life-cycle practices -- Variable practices -- The radical quest for salvation: the practices of religious virtuosos -- On the concept of virtuosity -- Shamans -- Christians -- Jews -- Muslims -- Buddhists -- Japanese virtuosos -- Daoists -- On the logic of virtuoso practices -- Turning toward salvation: religious propaganda -- Conversion and propaganda -- Conversion narratives -- Reports of enlightenment -- Prophetic promises -- The future of religion -- On the universality of religion -- Secularization, disenchantment, and deinstitutionalization -- The return and the future of religion.…”
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Fingerprints of God : the search for the science of spirituality / by Hagerty, Barbara Bradley

Table of Contents: “…-- Searching for the God spot -- Spiritual virtuosos -- Out of my body or out of my mind? -- Are we dead yet? …”

The Judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel / by Ling, Timothy J. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Problem of incommensurability -- Social structures and religious aspirations -- "Poor" -- Transcending Johannine sectarianism -- The New Testament world -- Honour, public in nature -- Honour, Mediterranean and pivotal -- Honour, rooted in gender distinctions -- Honour, essentially agonistic -- Judaea and 'virtuoso religion' -- Religious actor -- Judaean social world -- Judaean "poor" -- Social approaches to the "poor" -- Social world of the ptōchoi -- John's social world -- Johannine sectarianism -- Johannine virtuosity.…”
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The Judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel / by Ling, Timothy J. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Problem of incommensurability -- Social structures and religious aspirations -- "Poor" -- Transcending Johannine sectarianism -- The New Testament world -- Honour, public in nature -- Honour, Mediterranean and pivotal -- Honour, rooted in gender distinctions -- Honour, essentially agonistic -- Judaea and 'virtuoso religion' -- Religious actor -- Judaean social world -- Judaean "poor" -- Social approaches to the "poor" -- Social world of the ptōchoi -- John's social world -- Johannine sectarianism -- Johannine virtuosity.…”
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The Judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel / by Ling, Timothy J. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Problem of incommensurability -- Social structures and religious aspirations -- "Poor" -- Transcending Johannine sectarianism -- The New Testament world -- Honour, public in nature -- Honour, Mediterranean and pivotal -- Honour, rooted in gender distinctions -- Honour, essentially agonistic -- Judaea and 'virtuoso religion' -- Religious actor -- Judaean social world -- Judaean "poor" -- Social approaches to the "poor" -- Social world of the pt寣hoi -- John's social world -- Johannine sectarianism -- Johannine virtuosity.…”

Norman McLaren : The Collector's edition

A convert's tale art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy by Herzig, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The convert's tale -- I. The virtuoso Jew: a moneylender's son turned goldsmith -- The Jewish widow's testament -- Eleonora of Aragon's court goldsmith -- A murdered child -- Friends and foes -- II. …”
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John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea scrolls : sixty years of discovery and debate /

Table of Contents: “…Brooke -- John, Qumran, and virtuoso religion / Brian J. Capper -- Purification in the fourth gospel in light of Qumran / Hannah K Harrington -- "Protect them from the evil one" (John 17:15) : light from the Dead Sea scrolls / Loren T. …”
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A convert's tale : art, crime, and Jewish apostasy in Renaissance Italy / by Herzig, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The convert's tale -- I. The virtuoso Jew: A moneylender's son turned goldsmith -- The Jewish widow's testament -- Eleonora of Aragon's court goldsmith -- A murdered child -- Friends and foes -- II. …”
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Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / by Corneanu, Sorana

Table of Contents: “…Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as Paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.…”

Investigating pristine inner experience : moments of truth / by Hurlburt, Russell T.

Table of Contents: “…Multiple autonomous experience in a virtuoso musician (with Ricardo Cobo) -- 15. Unsymbolized thinking (with Sarah A. …”
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Investigating pristine inner experience : moments of truth / by Hurlburt, Russell T.

Table of Contents: “…Multiple autonomous experience in a virtuoso musician (with Ricardo Cobo) -- 15. Unsymbolized thinking (with Sarah A. …”
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Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / by Corneanu, Sorana

Table of Contents: “…Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.…”
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