Mervyn F Bendle
Biographic Data
| ID | 300109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mervyn F Bendle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mervyn F |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendle |
| SIGNATURE | BENDLE M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Existential Terrorism
This paper explores the attitude of contemporary terrorism towards civil society, the intermediate realm between the family and the state that accommodates the free play of economic and cultural forces and individual and group interests. Terrorism now targets not only people and institutions that operate within civil society but civil society itself , i.e., terrorism increasingly targets the very possibility of an autonomous realm of everyday lif…
Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘spirit’ of Capitalism (1905)
This article explores the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘spirit’ of Capitalism (hereafter PESC) in 1905. One of the great masterpieces in the study of religion and sociology, Weber’s argument has penetrated deeply into the scholarly and popular culture of the West, proving to be one of the most influential insights into role of religion and the nature of modernity, and an inspiration for a vast amount of academic work, e…
The Apocalyptic Imagination and Popular Culture
Popular culture is awash with images and narratives of the apocalypse in various forms. These range from war and acts of terrorism involving “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” to religious, science-fiction, horror and fantasy representations of the “End Times,” depicted in a wide range of media including novels, comics, film, television and video games. They include also “biblically based” presentations, notably the Left Behind series of 12 best-sell…
Teleportation, Cyborgs and the Posthuman Ideology
This paper is concerned with a set of phenomena that lies at the intersection of popular culture, genetics, cybertechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and other advanced technologies, bio-ethics, science speculation, science ction, mythology, the New Age Movement, cults, commerce and globalization. At the centre is a radical technophilia that nds representative expression in posthumanism, an Internet-based social movement driven by an extreme…
The crisis of 'identity' in high modernity
The concept of 'identity' is central to much contemporary sociology, reflecting a crisis that manifests itself in two ways. Firstly, there is a view that identity is both vital and problematic in this period of high modernity. Secondly, while this awareness is reflected in sociology, its accounts of identity are inconsistent, under-theorized and incapable of bearing the analytical load required. As a result, there is an inherent contradiction bet…
Trajectories of anti-globalism
This paper seeks to distinguish between secular and militant religious oppo-sition to globalization, focusing on Islamism and reviewing its roots in the Muslim experience in the contemporary world. It seeks also to explore the challenges facing sociology as it attempts to develop the new non-eurocentric theoretical paradigms that are required if the present shifts in global power are to be most fully comprehended. There is much to be said for the…
Being critical in a globalised world
Critical psychology in Australia must realise its intellectual promise as a critical discourse within psychology and the human sciences generally. This task is made imperative by the rise of globalisation and the social and political challenges it is producing, and by the genetic determinism associated with the Human Genome Project. Critical psychology must also analyse and critique the recent sharp turn towards scientism and the increasing relia…
The death of the sociology of deviance
Psychology and Sociology James Cook University
Beyond Eclecticism
The contention that all religious expressions are culturally specific phenomena that should be accepted as nonpathological is rejected in terms of a cultural-semiotic model of limited relativism that is able to recognize pathological behavior across cultures. Such an approach is able to critique a given culture's way of being at the same time that it accepts the embeddedness of all religious traditions in a deep- seated tradition
The crisis of 'identity' in high modernity
The concept of 'identity' is central to much contemporary sociology, reflecting a crisis that manifests itself in two ways. Firstly, there is a view that identity is both vital and problematic in this period of high modernity. Secondly, while this awareness is reflected in sociology, its accounts of identity are inconsistent, under-theorized and incapable of bearing the analytical load required. As a result, there is an inherent contradiction bet…
The Apocalyptic Imagination and Popular Culture
Popular culture is awash with images and narratives of the apocalypse in various forms. These range from war and acts of terrorism involving “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” to religious, science-fiction, horror and fantasy representations of the “End Times,” depicted in a wide range of media including novels, comics, film, television and video games. They include also “biblically based” presentations, notably the Left Behind series of 12 best-sell…
Teleportation, Cyborgs and the Posthuman Ideology
This paper is concerned with a set of phenomena that lies at the intersection of popular culture, genetics, cybertechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and other advanced technologies, bio-ethics, science speculation, science ction, mythology, the New Age Movement, cults, commerce and globalization. At the centre is a radical technophilia that nds representative expression in posthumanism, an Internet-based social movement driven by an extreme…
The death of the sociology of deviance
Psychology and Sociology James Cook University
Trajectories of anti-globalism
This paper seeks to distinguish between secular and militant religious oppo-sition to globalization, focusing on Islamism and reviewing its roots in the Muslim experience in the contemporary world. It seeks also to explore the challenges facing sociology as it attempts to develop the new non-eurocentric theoretical paradigms that are required if the present shifts in global power are to be most fully comprehended. There is much to be said for the…
Beyond Eclecticism
The contention that all religious expressions are culturally specific phenomena that should be accepted as nonpathological is rejected in terms of a cultural-semiotic model of limited relativism that is able to recognize pathological behavior across cultures. Such an approach is able to critique a given culture's way of being at the same time that it accepts the embeddedness of all religious traditions in a deep- seated tradition
Beyond Eclecticism
The contention that all religious expressions are culturally specific phenomena that should be accepted as nonpathological is rejected in terms of a cultural-semiotic model of limited relativism that is able to recognize pathological behavior across cultures. Such an approach is able to critique a given culture's way of being at the same time that it accepts the embeddedness of all religious traditions in a deep- seated tradition
The death of the sociology of deviance
Psychology and Sociology James Cook University
Being critical in a globalised world
Critical psychology in Australia must realise its intellectual promise as a critical discourse within psychology and the human sciences generally. This task is made imperative by the rise of globalisation and the social and political challenges it is producing, and by the genetic determinism associated with the Human Genome Project. Critical psychology must also analyse and critique the recent sharp turn towards scientism and the increasing relia…
Teleportation, Cyborgs and the Posthuman Ideology
This paper is concerned with a set of phenomena that lies at the intersection of popular culture, genetics, cybertechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and other advanced technologies, bio-ethics, science speculation, science ction, mythology, the New Age Movement, cults, commerce and globalization. At the centre is a radical technophilia that nds representative expression in posthumanism, an Internet-based social movement driven by an extreme…
The crisis of 'identity' in high modernity
The concept of 'identity' is central to much contemporary sociology, reflecting a crisis that manifests itself in two ways. Firstly, there is a view that identity is both vital and problematic in this period of high modernity. Secondly, while this awareness is reflected in sociology, its accounts of identity are inconsistent, under-theorized and incapable of bearing the analytical load required. As a result, there is an inherent contradiction bet…
Trajectories of anti-globalism
This paper seeks to distinguish between secular and militant religious oppo-sition to globalization, focusing on Islamism and reviewing its roots in the Muslim experience in the contemporary world. It seeks also to explore the challenges facing sociology as it attempts to develop the new non-eurocentric theoretical paradigms that are required if the present shifts in global power are to be most fully comprehended. There is much to be said for the…
Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘spirit’ of Capitalism (1905)
This article explores the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘spirit’ of Capitalism (hereafter PESC) in 1905. One of the great masterpieces in the study of religion and sociology, Weber’s argument has penetrated deeply into the scholarly and popular culture of the West, proving to be one of the most influential insights into role of religion and the nature of modernity, and an inspiration for a vast amount of academic work, e…
The Apocalyptic Imagination and Popular Culture
Popular culture is awash with images and narratives of the apocalypse in various forms. These range from war and acts of terrorism involving “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” to religious, science-fiction, horror and fantasy representations of the “End Times,” depicted in a wide range of media including novels, comics, film, television and video games. They include also “biblically based” presentations, notably the Left Behind series of 12 best-sell…
Existential Terrorism
This paper explores the attitude of contemporary terrorism towards civil society, the intermediate realm between the family and the state that accommodates the free play of economic and cultural forces and individual and group interests. Terrorism now targets not only people and institutions that operate within civil society but civil society itself , i.e., terrorism increasingly targets the very possibility of an autonomous realm of everyday lif…
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