New Books By CIIS Faculty
By CIIS Staff
Professor Matthew C. Bronson of Social and Cultural Anthropology has coedited So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis, issued by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The coeditor, Tina R. Fields (EWP '01), earned her PhD at CIIS. In the volume, Bronson and Fields state their belief that "the greatest crisis of our times is a failure of the human imagination."
Professor Angana Chatterji of Social and Cultural Anthropology has authored Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present: Narratives from Orissa, published by Three Essays Collective. The book offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations and their impact on people of other religious heritages in the Indian state of Orissa.
Professor Allan Combs in Transformative Inquiry has written Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness, published by Paragon House. The book is a clear explanation of consciousness in its many facets and forms.
Professor Renée Emunah, chair of the Drama Therapy program, co-edited Current Approaches in Drama Therapy, published by Charles Thomas. This second edition of a basic textbook provides a compilation of drama therapy methods and models used and taught in North America.
Professor Jorge Ferrer (EWP '99), chair of the East-West Psychology program, has co-edited The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies, from SUNY Press. The contributors to this volume discuss the "participatory turn," which proposes that individuals and communities have a vital role in bringing forth ontologically rich religious worlds.
Adjunct Professor Judy Grahn is one of several members of the CIIS community who authored chapters in the three-volume Goddesses in World Culture, due out in November 2010 from Praeger Press. The contributors also include alums Miri Hunter Haruach (WSD '99) and Margaret (Peggy) Grove (WSD '98), Margaret Kruszewska (current PhD student in ACS), and Vicki Noble (member, Council of Sages).
Professor Robert McDermott of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness has edited two books on Rudolf Steiner, both from Steinerbooks. The first, The New Essential Steiner: An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner for the 21st Century, gives an overview of anthroposophy, with an introduction by McDermott. The second, The Bhagavad Gita and the West: The Esoteric Significance of the Bhagavad Gita and Its
Relation to the Epistles of Paul, represents two volumes of The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner.
Associate Professor Carol Whitfield in East-West Psychology has authored The Jungian Myth and Advaita Vedanta, issued by Arsha Vidya Centre Publications. This book examines C.G. Jung's ideas about the loss of a containing myth in the Western psyche and the need for a new myth in
the modern world.
