Peter S Cahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 91497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter S Cahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahn |
| SIGNATURE | CAHN P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7872-3335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defusing Land Mines
BACKGROUND: The call for nurse educators to facilitate conversations about racism with learners has become inescapable. Yet, nurse educators in the United States indicate they feel unprepared or uncomfortable leading classroom conversations about race. METHOD: Keyword analysis maps the multiple meanings of vocabulary, creating a common foundation for productive dialogue. Selection of keywords is subjective, but each keyword must meet three criter…
Introducing the language of antiracism during graduate school orientation
Uncrunching’ time
Although relatively few medical schools have embraced social media to promote faculty development, the present range of such uses demonstrates the flexibility and affordability of the tools. The most popular tools incorporate well into faculty members' existing use of technology and require minimal additional effort. Additional research into the benefits of engaging faculty through social media may help overcome hesitation to invest in new techno…
Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America
Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonst
The Sun God and the Savior
Using and Sharing
The Re-Enchantment of the World
Reviewed by: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age Peter S. Cahn Joshua Landy and Michael Saler (eds.) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 357 pp. After the fall of the Soviet Union, market capitalism replaced socialism in Eastern Europe. Supposedly, the new economic logic would allocate resources impartially, allowing the possibility of prospe…
Consuming Class
Since the 1980s, Mexican leaders have followed other Latin American countries in pursuing neoliberal economic policies designed to stimulate foreign investment, reduce public spending, and promote free trade. Recent studies of indigenous movements and popular protests challenge the idea that these market-based economic reforms enjoy a broad consensus and suggest that elites impose them by force. By turning the focus to middle-class Mexicans, I ar…
Building down and dreaming up
Scholars and journalists have heralded the spread of direct sellers like Avon and Amway in the developing world as providing a training ground for capitalist entrepreneurs. By examining ethnographic evidence from Omnilife, a Mexican producer of nutritional supplements, I argue that person-to-person marketing is not a rationalist response to neoliberal economic reforms but, rather, a spiritual one. Quasi-religious organizations like Omnilife promi…
Response to Commentaries on "A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics…"
A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics
Response to Commentaries on "A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics…"
A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics
Saints With Glasses
Observers of religion in the contemporary United States have interpreted participation in quasi-religious organizations as evidence of dissatisfaction with traditional religious institutions. In Latin America, the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of AA New York Alcoholics Anonymous World Services 1983 [Google Scholar] are associated with Protestant spirituality and membersh…
Zum Gedenken an Helmut Hucke (1927-2003)
Commentary
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
Since the 1960s, evangelical Christian denominations have made converts throughout much of Roman Catholic Latin America, causing clashes of faith that sometimes escalate to violence. Yet in one Mexican town, Tzintzuntzan, the appearance of new churches has provoked only harmony. Catholics and evangelicals alike profess that "all religions are good," a sentiment not far removed from "here we are all equal," which was commonly spoken in the communi…
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. Philip E. Coyle. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 263 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index
Frankfurt
Conservatories
All Business Is Like Show Business
Consuming Class
Since the 1980s, Mexican leaders have followed other Latin American countries in pursuing neoliberal economic policies designed to stimulate foreign investment, reduce public spending, and promote free trade. Recent studies of indigenous movements and popular protests challenge the idea that these market-based economic reforms enjoy a broad consensus and suggest that elites impose them by force. By turning the focus to middle-class Mexicans, I ar…
Building down and dreaming up
Scholars and journalists have heralded the spread of direct sellers like Avon and Amway in the developing world as providing a training ground for capitalist entrepreneurs. By examining ethnographic evidence from Omnilife, a Mexican producer of nutritional supplements, I argue that person-to-person marketing is not a rationalist response to neoliberal economic reforms but, rather, a spiritual one. Quasi-religious organizations like Omnilife promi…
The Re-Enchantment of the World
Reviewed by: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age Peter S. Cahn Joshua Landy and Michael Saler (eds.) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 357 pp. After the fall of the Soviet Union, market capitalism replaced socialism in Eastern Europe. Supposedly, the new economic logic would allocate resources impartially, allowing the possibility of prospe…
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. Philip E. Coyle. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 263 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index
All Business Is Like Show Business
Frankfurt
Conservatories
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash. Philip E. Coyle. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. ix. 263 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index
All Religions Are Good in Tzintzuntzan
Since the 1960s, evangelical Christian denominations have made converts throughout much of Roman Catholic Latin America, causing clashes of faith that sometimes escalate to violence. Yet in one Mexican town, Tzintzuntzan, the appearance of new churches has provoked only harmony. Catholics and evangelicals alike profess that "all religions are good," a sentiment not far removed from "here we are all equal," which was commonly spoken in the communi…
Zum Gedenken an Helmut Hucke (1927-2003)
Commentary
Response to Commentaries on "A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics…"
A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics
Response to Commentaries on "A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics…"
A Standoffish Priest and Sticky Catholics
Saints With Glasses
Observers of religion in the contemporary United States have interpreted participation in quasi-religious organizations as evidence of dissatisfaction with traditional religious institutions. In Latin America, the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of AA New York Alcoholics Anonymous World Services 1983 [Google Scholar] are associated with Protestant spirituality and membersh…
Building down and dreaming up
Scholars and journalists have heralded the spread of direct sellers like Avon and Amway in the developing world as providing a training ground for capitalist entrepreneurs. By examining ethnographic evidence from Omnilife, a Mexican producer of nutritional supplements, I argue that person-to-person marketing is not a rationalist response to neoliberal economic reforms but, rather, a spiritual one. Quasi-religious organizations like Omnilife promi…
Consuming Class
Since the 1980s, Mexican leaders have followed other Latin American countries in pursuing neoliberal economic policies designed to stimulate foreign investment, reduce public spending, and promote free trade. Recent studies of indigenous movements and popular protests challenge the idea that these market-based economic reforms enjoy a broad consensus and suggest that elites impose them by force. By turning the focus to middle-class Mexicans, I ar…
Using and Sharing
The Re-Enchantment of the World
Reviewed by: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age Peter S. Cahn Joshua Landy and Michael Saler (eds.) The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 357 pp. After the fall of the Soviet Union, market capitalism replaced socialism in Eastern Europe. Supposedly, the new economic logic would allocate resources impartially, allowing the possibility of prospe…
The Sun God and the Savior
Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America
Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonst
Uncrunching’ time
Although relatively few medical schools have embraced social media to promote faculty development, the present range of such uses demonstrates the flexibility and affordability of the tools. The most popular tools incorporate well into faculty members' existing use of technology and require minimal additional effort. Additional research into the benefits of engaging faculty through social media may help overcome hesitation to invest in new techno…
Introducing the language of antiracism during graduate school orientation
Defusing Land Mines
BACKGROUND: The call for nurse educators to facilitate conversations about racism with learners has become inescapable. Yet, nurse educators in the United States indicate they feel unprepared or uncomfortable leading classroom conversations about race. METHOD: Keyword analysis maps the multiple meanings of vocabulary, creating a common foundation for productive dialogue. Selection of keywords is subjective, but each keyword must meet three criter…
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Library science (4 works)