Religious Diversity in Asia, Jorn Borup, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Lene Kuhle

Автор: Young, Francis (independent Scholar, Uk)
Название: Magic as a political crime in medieval and early modern england
ISBN: 0755602757 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755602759
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Описание: Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.

Автор: Broyde Michael J., C. Pill Shlomo
Название: Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein`s Arukh Hashulhan
ISBN: 1644690705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644690703
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Описание: Explains the major jurisprudential factors driving the halakhic jurisprudence of Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein, twentieth-century author of the Arukh Hashulchan - the most comprehensive, seminal, and original modern restatement of Jewish law since Maimonides.

Автор: Tieszen Charles
Название: Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World
ISBN: 0755601254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755601257
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in accusations of idolatry. How did Christians respond to these allegations? Why did they advocate the preservation of a practice that was often met with confusion or even contempt? To shed light onto these questions, Charles Tieszen looks at every known apologetic or polemical text written between the eighth and fourteenth centuries to include a relevant discussion. With sources taken from across the Mediterranean basin, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, the result is the first in-depth look at a key theological debate which lay at the heart of these communities' religious identities. By considering the perspectives of both Muslim and Christian authors, Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World also raises important questions concerning cross-cultural debate and exchange, and the development of Christianity and Islam in the medieval period.
This is an important book that will shine much needed light onto Christian-Muslim relations, the nature of inter-faith debates and the wider issues facing the communities living across the Middle East during the medieval period.

Автор: Glucklich Ariel
Название: Joy of Religion
ISBN: 110846016X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108460163
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Exploring religion as a psychological factor in improving life, this book describes the pervasive and diverse uses of pleasure in religious literature and practice. It argues that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion seeks to strengthen social bonds at the same time that it enhances the individual`s pursuit of meaning.

Автор: Gadsby Blair Alan
Название: Religious Delusions, American Style: Manipulations of the Public`s Mind
ISBN: 1634242831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634242837
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Americans would be shocked to understand just how their religious beliefs have been used against them in the political elites efforts to engineer society and public policy. In this historical overview of key moments in American religious history, Gadsby demonstrates that what we are commonly-taught in our education systems, mass-media and the political world about religions role in any number of events, is anything but. In the spirit of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Religious Delusions, American Style discusses eight areas in American history ranging from turn-of-the-nineteenth-century eugenics and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, to the mind-control program known as Jonestown, to the implausible two-planes-three-buildings-straight-down operation called 9/11, we have been deceived in a big way about what has been done in the name of religion.

Автор: Braund, David (university Of Exeter)
Название: Greek religion and cults in the black sea region
ISBN: 1316633594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316633595
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Описание: The first integrated study of Greek religion and cults in the region, showing familiar goddesses in a new light and discussing much new data. It sheds light on many historical issues and processes from the era of archaic Greek colonization to that of the Roman Empire down to the Byzantine era.

Автор: Gabra Gawdat, Takla Hany N.
Название: Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts
ISBN: 9774169611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789774169618
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Описание: The legacies of the Coptic Christian presence in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts from the fourth century to the present day

Contributors Elizabeth Agaiby, Fr. Anthony, David Brakke, Jan Ciglenečki, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Bishop Epiphanius, Lois M. Farag, Frank Feder, C cilia Fluck, Sherin Sadek El Gendi, Mary Ghattas, Gis le Hadji-Minaglou, Intisar Hazawi, Karel Innem e, Mary Kupelian, Grzegorz Majcherek, Bishop Martyros, Samuel Moawad, Ashraf Nageh, Adel F. Sadek, Ashraf Alexander Sadek, Ibrahim Saweros, Mark Sheridan, Fr. Bigoul al-Suriany, Hany Takla, Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Jacques van der Vliet, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Ewa D. Zakrzewska, Nader Alfy Zekry

The great city of Alexandria is undoubtedly the cradle of Egyptian Christianity, where the Catechetical School was established in the second century and became a leading center in the study of biblical exegesis and theology. According to tradition St. Mark the Evangelist brought Christianity to Alexandria in the middle of the first century and was martyred in that city, which was to become the residence of Egypt's Coptic patriarchs for nearly eleven centuries. By the fourth century Egyptian monasticism had begun to flourish in the Egyptian deserts and countryside. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine the various aspects of Coptic civilization in Alexandria and its environs and in the Egyptian deserts over the past two millennia. The contributions explore Coptic art, archaeology, architecture, language, and literature. The impact of Alexandrian theology and its cultural heritage as well as the archaeology of its university are highlighted. Christian epigraphy in the Kharga Oasis, the art and architecture of the Bagawat cemetery, and the archaeological site of Kellis (Ismant al-Kharab) with its Manichaean texts are also discussed.

Автор: Ron Geaves
Название: Glastonbury and the Making of New Age Spirituality: An Indian Guru and Esotericism in 1971
ISBN: 1350090875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350090873
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Описание: Ron Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Guru Maharaj Ji and Glastonbury Fayre 1971 reveals an important piece in the jigsaw that forms the bricolage that came to be known as ‘New Age’, or, more neutrally, contemporary spirituality. The book charts the “discovery” of Guru Maharaj Ji in India in 1969 by a small number of British, and then, North American ‘hippies’, and how his arrival in Britain in June 1971 and his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years of age, escalated his activities to become one of the key players influencing 1970s counter-culture spirituality. Both Glastonbury and Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji’s actual given name) have gone on to re-emerge in significantly different identities to the one presented in 1971. The meeting between the two demonstrates how alternative spiritualities were being formed in the 1960s and went on to develop into the ‘New Age’ counter-culture and eventually permeated mainstream cultures in Britain and the USA.

Автор: Emily Suzanne Clark, Brad Stoddard
Название: Race and New Religious Movements in the USA: A Documentary Reader
ISBN: 1350063975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350063976
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more. The voices included come from both men and women.

Each chapter focuses on a different new religious movement and features:

- an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding
- two to four primary source documents about or from the movement
- suggestions for further reading.

Автор: Stephen K. Sanderson
Название: Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
ISBN: 1350123072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350123076
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ancient civilizations, and then to the salvation religions of the Axial Age.

Stephen K. Sanderson draws on ideas from new cognitive and evolutionary psychological theories, as well as comparative religion, anthropology, history, and sociology. He argues that religion is a biological adaptation that evolved in order to solve a number of human problems, especially those concerned with existential anxiety and ontological insecurity.

Much of the focus of the book is on the Axial Age, the period in the second half of the first millennium BCE that marked the greatest religious transformation in world history. The book demonstrates that, as a result of massive increases in the scale and scope of war and large-scale urbanization, the problems of existential anxiety and ontological insecurity became particularly acute. These changes evoked new religious needs, especially for salvation and release from suffering. As a result entirely new religions-Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism-arose to help people cope with the demands of the new historical era.

Автор: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Название: Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth
ISBN: 1644690144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644690147
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Описание: Deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. The book provides a missing link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and contributes to the understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic literature until the Zohar.

Автор: Robert McKim
Название: Religious Diversity and Religious Progress
ISBN: 110845755X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108457552
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Описание: What is someone who has a perspective on religious matters to say about those who endorse other perspectives? What should they say about other religions? What stage are we human beings at in our religious development? This Element addresses all these questions about religious diversity and progress.