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Book SynopsisTopographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of actors—the laity, parish clergy, and unacknowledged religious minorities—in pre- and post-Westphalian Europe. Throughout this period, the laity navigated their own often-fluid religious beliefs, the expectations of conformity held by their religious and political leaders, and the complex realities of life that involved interactions with co-religious and non-co-religious family, neighbors, and business associates on a daily basis. Contributors are: James Blakeley, Amy Nelson Burnett, Victoria Christman, Geoffrey Dipple, Timothy G. Fehler, Emily Fisher Gray, Benjamin J. Kaplan, David M. Luebke, David Mayes, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, William Bradford Smith, and Shira Weidenbaum.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Prologue  Benjamin J. Kaplan Part 1 Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance 1 Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern West  Victoria Christman 2 Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss Confederation  James Blakeley 3 The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern Germany  William Bradford Smith 4 Coexistence and Confessionalization Emden’s Topography of Religious Pluralism  Timothy G. Fehler 5 Concubinaries as Citizens Mediating Confessional Plurality in Westphalian Towns, 1550–1650  David M. Luebke Part 2 Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors 6 Imagined Conversations Strategies for Survival in the Dialogues Rustiques  Shira C. Weidenbaum 7 Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands  Geoffrey Dipple 8 Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg Lutheran Churches and Remembrance Culture  Emily Fisher Gray 9 Discord via Toleration Clerical Conflict in the Post-Westphalian Imperial Territories  David Mayes 10 Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697  Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer Epilogue  Amy Nelson Burnett Index

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Book SynopsisSacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a precinct, outer doors of a temple or church, inner doors of a cella. The study of these liminal spaces within Late Antiquity – itself a key period of transition during the spread of Christianity, when cultural paradigms were redefined – demands an approach that is both interdisciplinary and diachronic. Emilie van Opstall brings together both upcoming and noted scholars of Greek and Latin literature and epigraphy, archaeology, art history, philosophy, and religion to discuss the experience of those who crossed from the worldly to the divine, both physically and symbolically. What did this passage from the profane to the sacred mean to them, on a sensory, emotive and intellectual level? Who was excluded, and who was admitted? The articles each offer a unique perspective on pagan and Christian sanctuary doors in the Late Antique Mediterranean.Trade Review"The volume has many strengths, not least its examination of a wide variety of sources, with well-known authors such as Gregory of Tours being used alongside lesser known epigrams (...) this is a nicely produced, readable, and interesting collection of essays which researchers interested in concepts of space, transition, and experience, especially in religious contexts, will find useful." - Michael Wuk, University of Nottingham, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.05.09 "Sacred Thresholds is a welcome addition to studies of architectural framing devices, spaces of initiation, and sensory perception in ritual environments (...) an excellent contribution to the burgeoning field of liminality studies." - Nathan S. Dennis, University of San Fransisco, in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78.4 (2019) "Insgesamt ist der von van Opstall herausgegebene Sammelband, der durch ein Abbildungsverzeichnis (VII–X), einen Überblick zu den Autoren (XI–XIII), einen Index (371–376) und wenige, dafür aber gut ausgewählte Abbildungen in den einzelnen Beiträgen abgerundet wird, eine sehr willkommene Ergänzung zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Liminalität in der Spätantike. (...) Dennoch wird van Opstalls Publikation vor allem dank einiger ausgezeichneter Einzelstudien für zukünftige Forschungen auf diesem Gebiet unerlässlich sein." - Sabine Feist, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, in: Plekos 22, 2020 "(...) this is an extremely interesting collection of essays that can appeal to art historians, philologists and scholars in religious studies. It fulfills its promise to consider doors and thresholds from different points of view, revealing one important aspect in the dynamics of sacred spaces from ancient Greek temples to early Byzantine churches." - Beatrice Caseau, Université Paris-Sorbonne, in: Arys 18, 2020Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors General Introduction  Emilie M. van Opstall Part 1 
Experiencing Sacred Thresholds 1 On the Threshold Paul the Silentiary’s Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia  Emilie M. van Opstall 2 Entering the Baptistery Spatial, Identity and Salvific Transitions in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Baptismal Liturgies  Juliette Day 3 From Taboo to Icon The Entrance to and the Exit from the Church in the First Three Greek Liturgical Commentaries (ca 500–730 CE)  Christian Boudignon 4 Bonus Intra, Melior Exi! ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ at Greek Incubation Sanctuaries  Ildikó Csepregi Part 2 
Symbolism and Allegory 0f Sanctuary Doors 5 Sanctuary Doors, Vestibules and Adyta in the Works of Neoplatonic Philosophers  Lucia Maddalena Tissi 6 The Paradise of Saint Peter’s  Sible L. de Blaauw 7 Imagining the Entrance to the Afterlife Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven in Early Christianity  Roald Dijkstra Part 3 
Messages in Stone 8 The Queen of Inscriptions Contextualized The Presence of Civic Inscriptions in the pronaos of Ancient Temples in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Fourth Century BCE—Second Century CE)  Evelien J.J. Roels 9 Versus De Limine and In Limine Displaying Greek paideia at the Entrance of Early Christian Churches  Gianfranco Agosti 10 The Door to the Sanctuary from Paulinus of Nola to Gregory of Tours Enduring Characteristics and Evolutions from the Theodosian to the Merovingian Period    Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard Part 4 
The Presence of the Divine 11 Filters of Light Greek Temple Doors as Portals of Epiphany  Christina G. Williamson 12 The Other Door of the Sanctuary The Apse and Divine Entry in the Early Byzantine Church  Brooke Shilling

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Book SynopsisJewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.  Trade Review"(...) this book of essays fills a needed gap in Jewish art and material culture. It is the first that provides an expansive overlook of Jewish architecture from biblical times to our days, attempting to include side by side known and well-studied monuments with lesser-known chapters of the long history and vast geography of the Jewish experience." - Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Review of Biblical Literature 08/2021.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figure  Introduction  Steven Fine 1  The Biblical Tabernacle: From Sinai to Jerusalem  Carol Meyers 2  The Temple of Jerusalem in Biblical Israel  Victor Avigdor Hurowitzז״ל 3  The Second Temple of Jerusalem: Center of the Jewish Universe  Joseph L. Angel 4  Herod’s Temple: An Ornament to the Empire  Peter Schertz and Steven Fine 5  Synagogues in the Greco–Roman World  Steven Fine 6  The Ancient Synagogues of Asia Minor and Greece  Mark Wilson 7  Synagogues in the Islamic World  Joshua Holo 8  Synagogues of Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages  Vivian B. Mann 9 Western Ashkenazi Synagogues in Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Ena Giurescu Heller 10  Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period  Batsheva Goldman-Ida 11  Christian Perceptions of Jewish Sacred Architecture in Early Modern Europe  Yaacov Deutsch 12  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese Diaspora  Ronnie Perelis 13  Jewish Sacred Architecture in the Ottoman Empire  Reuven Gafni 14  Synagogues in India and Myanmar  Jay A. Waronker 15  Italian Synagogues from 1492 to the Present  Samuel D. Gruber 16  Reimagining the Synagogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  Jess Olson 17  Modern Synagogue Architecture  Samuel D. Gruber 18  The Sacred Architecture of Contemporary Hasidism  Maya Balakirsky Katz 19  The Sukkah as Sacred Architecture  Shulamit Laderman 20  The Eruv: From the Talmud to Contemporary Art  Margaret Olin

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Book SynopsisGyōnen’s Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries is the first English translation of this work and a new assessment of it. Gyōnen (1240-1321) has been recognized for establishing a methodology for the study of Buddhism that would come to dominate Japan. The three countries Gyōnen considers are India, China and Japan. Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun describe Gyōnen’s innovative doctrinal classification system (panjiao) for the first time and compare it to other panjiao systems. They argue that Gyōnen’s arrangement and what he chose to exclude served political purposes in the Kamakura period, and thus engage current scholarship on the construction of Japanese Buddhism.Trade Review"Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun have translated for the first time into English a crucial Japanese Buddhist work that had become greatly influential in dictating the approach with which Buddhist texts were interpreted and understood in Kamakura Japan. (...) The book is an outstanding addition to the existing English-language literature of Japanese Buddhism which should be of great interest to all students of East Asian religions." - Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, in: Religious Studies Review 47.1 (2021).Table of ContentsContents Preface  Ronald S. Green Abbreviations Preliminary Notes Historical Chronology (Through Gyōnen’s Time) List of Japanese Buddhist Monastic Ranks List of Tables and Diagrams Part 1: A Sketch of The Transmission of the Buddha Dharma and Related Issues Introduction: Gyōnen and the Organizational Structure of His Text  1 The Life of Gyōnen (1240-1321) and his Perspective in this Text  2 The Organizational Structure of the Text 1 Indian Foundations and Chinese Developments of the Buddha Dharma  1 Indian Foundation  2 Chinese Developments 2 Korean Contributions to Japanese Buddhism  1 Korea as the Political Bridge  2 The Introduction of Korean Buddhism into Japan  3 The Formation of Japanese Buddhism 3 Japanese Development of the Buddha Dharma  1 Historical Establishment of the Eight Older Schools of Japanese Buddhism  2 Historical Establishment of the Newer Kamakura Schools of Gyōnen’s Time Part 2: Translation of Gyōnen’s The Narrative History of Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries 4 Fascicle One   Introduction  1 Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in India  2 Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in China 5 Fascicle Two  3 Transmission of the Various Traditions in Japan 6 Fascicle Three  7 The Ritsu (Vinaya) School Colophon Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were directed by Egyptian priests educated in the traditional lore of the temples, but also conversant with Greek philosophy. Such priests, who were increasingly dispossessed with the gradual demise of the Egyptian temples, could find eager adherents among a Greek-speaking audience seeking for the wisdom of the Egyptian Hermes, who was widely considered to be an important source for the philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato. The volume contains a comprehensive analysis of the myths of Hermes Trismegistus, a reevaluation of the Way of Hermes, and a contextualization of this ritual tradition.Trade Review"Bull’s work represents an accessible yet profound and thoughtful introduction and handbook to the Hermetica, providing both a fair and thorough summary of previous work and a lucid approach to understanding them, and it is likely to become an invaluable reference work and source of further ideas in years to come." - Korshi Dosoo, Würzburg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.02.23. "Par sa qualité, ses ambitions et ses positions interprétatives, l’ouvrage ne méritait pas une collection moins prestigieuse (...) Aussi peut-on être certain que cette thèse brillante fera date dans les études sur l’hermétisme." - Florian Audureau, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, Revue de l'histoire des religions 1, 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 The Status Quaestionis  1.2 The Aim of the Present Contribution  1.3 Theoretical Considerations Part 1: Who is Hermes Trismegistus? 2 The Myth of Hermes Trismegistus  2.1 The Egyptian Pre-History of the Thrice-Greatest Thoth  2.2 Greek Sources for the Egyptian Hermes 3 The Primordial Egyptian Kings in the Hermetica  3.1 SH XXIII (Korê Kosmou): An Egyptian Account of Creation  3.2 SH XXIV: The Emanations of Royal Souls  3.3 SH XXV: Cosmology and the Location of the Royal Souls  3.4 SH XXVI: Hermes as a Royal Soul  3.5 CH I: Poimandres the King  3.6 Kmeph and Protology in the Hermetica  3.7 De Anima: The Creation of the Souls and the Primal Human  3.8 The Bronze Age in CH I: Erroneous Love and Its Remedy  3.9 The Hermetic Transmigration of Souls  3.10 Hermes, Nature, and the Royal Souls in Manilius’ Astronomica  3.11 Hermes, Nature, and the Royal Souls in Petosiris and Nechepsos  3.12 The Importance of Myth in the Hermetic Tradition Conclusion to Part 1 Part 2: What is the Way of Hermes? 4 Introduction to the Way of Hermes  4.1 Testimonies to the Existence of a “Way”  4.2 The Way of Thoth  4.3 The Order of the Tradition  4.4 Conversion  4.5 First Stage: Knowing Oneself  4.6 Second Stage: Becoming a Stranger to the World 5 The Ritual of Rebirth  5.1 CH XIII: General Remarks  5.2 The Phase of Separation  5.3 Limen: The Threshold Phase  5.4 The Aggregation or Incorporation Phase  5.5 Concluding Remarks on the Rebirth 6 Heavenly Ascent: The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI,6)  6.1 Introduction: The Sequence of the Tradition (52,1–13)  6.2 Explanation of Spiritual Generation (52,14–55,23)  6.3 The Visionary Ascent (55,24–61,17)  6.4 Epilogue: Erection of a Votive Stela (61,18–63,32) Conclusion to Part 2 Part 3: Who Were the Hermetists?—Situating the Way of Hermes 7 The True Philosophy of Hermes  7.1 The Way of Hermes as a Philosophical School  7.2 Philosophy as a Hermetic Self-Designation  7.3 The Hermetic Science of the Stars  7.4 Priestly Philosophers 8 The Magician and the Temple  8.1 On the Term ‘Magic’  8.2 The Thebes-Cache  8.3 Hermetism in the Thebes-Cache?  8.4 Thessalos and Thebes  8.5 Vision and Divination  8.6 Rebirth and Ascent: The Mithras or Pšai-Aion Liturgy 9 The Egyptian Priesthoods and Temples  9.1 Egyptian Priests as Purveyors of Native Tradition  9.2 The Idealized Priests of Chaeremon and the Perfect Discourse  9.3 The Temple as a Dwelling-Place of Priests and Gods  9.4 Egypt as the Temple of the World and The Twilight of Its Gods  9.5 The New Law  9.6 The Hermetic Sitz-im-Leben: A Suggestion Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Arnhem Mystical Sermons: Preaching Liturgical Mysticism in the Context of Catholic Reform, Ineke Cornet presents the first in-depth study of this sermon collection from the canonnesses of St. Agnes in Arnhem. Through a careful analysis of sources and parallels, this book demonstrates how the sermons creatively integrate both Rhineland and Brabantine mysticism into a unique commentary on the liturgical year. The sermons, which contribute to the Catholic Reform, systematically explore the mystical celebration of the liturgy which underpins every aspect of the collection’s theology of inner ascent. Together with the Evangelical Pearl and the Temple of Our Soul, the sermons are part of a wider literary network that plays a significant part in the history of Dutch mysticism.Trade Review"Cornet’s fine-grained reading and explication of them is a welcome addition to the historiography of early modern Netherlandish religious and literary studies." Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History Volume 70.4 (2019). "Very laudable is Cornet's commitment to a systematic, source-based investigation of the spiritual core of these sermons. Explaining key concepts, schemes, and metaphors with great theological competence, she offers a clear treatment of the main message of this sixteenth-century mystical text." - Krijn Pansters,Tilburg University, in: The Medieval Review (14 September 2019). "There were many [...] connections with this “mystical circle” that are deeply relevant to the fertile ground in which self-understanding of the early Jesuit order developed, but which have not yet been the subject of extensive research. Cornet’s careful study may be considered an invitation and stimulation to pursue this further research." - Rob Faesen, S.J., Catholica University Leuven in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019), pp. 336-337.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Introduction to the Arnhem Mystical Sermons  1.1The Manuscript: Copy and Original  1.2Audience of the Arnhem Mystical Sermons  1.3Authorship of the Sermons  1.4Function of the Arnhem Mystical Sermons  1.5Context: The St. Agnes Monastery  1.6Context: Sixteenth-Century Spirituality and Literary Networks 2 Textual and Conteptual Parallels with Ruusbroec and Eckhart  2.1Ruusbroec and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons  2.2Eckhart and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons 3 Parallels with Liturgical Mysticism  3.1Sixteenth-Century Literary Networks  3.2The Mystical Dimension of the Liturgy in the Pearl  3.3The Mystical Dimension of the Liturgy in the Temple  3.4A Textual Parallel between the Temple and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons  3.5Tauler on the Inner Celebration of the Liturgy  3.6The Institutiones Taulerianae and the Gaesdonck Treatises 4 The Mystical Understanding of the Liturgy  4.1The Mystical Dimension of the Church Dedication Liturgy  4.2The Inner Celebration of the Liturgy  4.3Mystical Dimensions of the Scriptures and Liturgical Texts  4.4Mystical Dimensions of Priesthood, Symbols, and the Eucharist  4.5The Origins of the Genre of Liturgical Mysticism 5 The Structure of the Human Person and the Inner Ascent  5.1The Structure of the Human Person and Ascent in the Church Dedication Sermon  5.2The Tripartite Structure of the Human Person  5.3The Inner Ascent and Imitation of Christ  5.4The Concept of Spirit  5.5The Concept of Ground  5.6The Concepts of Mind and Memory  5.7The Image of God in the Person 6 The Understanding of Union with God  6.1Union with God in the Church Dedication Sermon  6.2Attaining Union with God  6.3Mutual Enjoyment and Experience of God  6.4The Transformative Aspect of Union  6.5Indistinct Union with God  6.6Contemplating Trinity and Unity  6.7Christocentrism and Christ’s Uniqueness Appendix 1 Sermon 128 (fol. 286r–291r) Appendix 2 Manuscripts from St. Agnes Appendix 3 Hapax Legomena Appendix 4 Texts in Marginal Decorations in the Arnhem Mystical Sermons Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 12 (CMR 12) covering the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 12, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Sinéad Cussen, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten WalbinerTrade Review'The much-praised patience of Job surely applies to the contributors to this superb work of erudition edited by two scholars of Christian-Muslim relations at the University of Birmingham, David Thomas and John Chesworth. Their twenty-four scholarly collaborators on several continents have managed to track down nearly every eighteenth-century mention of Christian-Muslim encounters in the Ottoman and Persian empires, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China and Japan, Africa, and the Americas. [...] If all the volumes in this bibliographical history of Christian-Muslim relations are as scholarly as volume 12, no serious university library should neglect buying them. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., Fordham University, in Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019) 371-373Table of ContentsForeword List of illustrations List of maps Abbreviations The Ottoman and Persian Empires Umar Ryad, Introduction: the Ottoman and Persian Empires in the 18th century Charbel Nassif, Ottoman and Arab influences on Melkite art in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries Ines Aščerić-Todd, Religious diversity and tolerance in Ottoman guilds Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1700-1800 The Ottoman and Arab World  Buṭrus Ḍūmīṭ Makhlūf Joseph Moukarzel  Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ghassānī Doaa Baumi   lim Muhammed ibn Hamza Emine Nurefşan Dinç  Isṭifān al-Duwayhī Joseph Moukarzel  Vahdetî Necmettin Kızılkaya  Derviş Ali Nakşibendî Betül Avcı  Theodor Krump Jaco Beyers  Suâl-i Osmânî ve cevâb-ı Nasrânî Marinos Sariyannis  Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Bākirjī Mariam M. Shehata  ʿAbd Allāh Zākhir Ronney el Gemayel  ʿAbd al-Ghanī l-Nābulusī Lejla Demiri  Temeşvarlı Osman Ağa Emine Nurefşan Dinç  Jirmānūs Farḥāt Elena Sahin  Fī mabādī wa-uṣūl al-adyān al-mutafarriqa fī l-sharq al-khārija ʿan dīn al-Masīḥ Carsten Walbiner  İskender ibn Ahmed Feylesof et-Trabzonî Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince  ʿAbbūd Ṣaydaḥ Souad Slim  İbrahim Müteferrika Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince  Isṭifān Ward Joseph Moukarzel  Makirdīj al-Kassīḥ Carsten Walbiner  Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Yūsuf ibn Ṣiyām al-Damanhūrī Muhammad Fawzy Abdelhay  The martyrdom of Ibrāhīm al-Dallāl Carsten Walbiner  Buṭrus al-Lādhiqī Carsten Walbiner  Isṭifānūs Akīllī Joseph Moukarzel  Niqūlāwus al-Ṣāʾigh Hilary Kilpatrick  Ibn al-Amīr al-Ṣanʿānī Mohamed A. Moustafa  Būlus Yūyāqīm Carsten Walbiner  ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿUmarī l-Ṭarābulusī l-Ḥanafī Abdullah Omran  Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb R.A. Leo  Patriarch Yuʾannis XVIII Carsten Walbiner  Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi Irena Fliter  Ottoman slave manumission documents Joshua M. White  Islam and Muslims in the works of Christian Arab historians of the 18th and early 19th centuries Hayat el Eid Bualuan Persia  Mīrzā Ẓahīrā Tafrishī Mohammed Alsulami  Mīr Muḥammad Bāqir Khātūnābādī Rasūl Jaʿfariyān  Abgar ʿAlī Akbar Armanī Alberto Tiburcio  Hovhannēs Mrk‘uz J̌ułayec‘i Dennis Halft  ʿAlī Qulī Jadīd al-Islām, António de Jesus Alberto Tiburcio  Muḥammad Khalīl Qāʾinī Ebrahim Ashk Shirin  Sulṭān Ḥusayn, Shah of Persia Rudolph Matthee  Nādir Shah Ernest Tucker  Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī Dennis Halft  A chronicle of the Carmelites and the papal mission in Persia Rudolph Matthee  ʿAlī-Murād Khān Zand Alberto Tiburcio Armenia and Georgia  King Arch‘il Nana Kharebava  Iakob Shemok‘medili Khatuna Baindurashvili  Martyrology of Loys Grigor S. Peter Cowe  Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Irina Natsvlishvili  Grigol Vakhvakhishvili-Dodorkeli Merab Ghaghanidze  King Vakht‘ang VI Nana Mrevlishvili  Step‘anos Kafayec‘i S. Peter Cowe  Besarion Orbelishvili Eka Chikvaidze  Łukas Sebastac‘i S. Peter Cowe  T‘eimuraz II Saba Metreveli  Abraham III, Kretats‘i George Bournoutian  Abraham Erewants‘i George Bournoutian  Vakhushti Bagrationi Ani Letodiani  Sēfērołli T‘okat‘c‘i S. Peter Cowe  Verse martyrologies of Xanum Vkayuhi S. Peter Cowe  Timote Gabashvili Nana Gonjilashvili  Simeon of Yerevan George Bournoutian  Catholicos Anton I Gocha Kuchukhidze  Hazar erku hariwr t‘vakan S. Peter Cowe  Samuēl Anets‘i and his continuators Seta B. Dadoyan  Davit‘ Guramishvili Ivane Amirkhanashvili  Besiki Lia Karichashvili  Sayatnova Zoia Tskhadaia South Asia, South East Asia, China and Japan Douglas Pratt, Introduction: South Asia, South East Asia and China. 18th-century contexts Karel Steenbrink, No (longer) fear, but control and care. Europeans and Muslims in South East Asia, 17th and 18th centuries Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1700-1800 South Asia  Daniel Havart Gijs Kruijtzer  Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg Daniel Jeyaraj  Benjamin Schultze Heike Liebau  Shāh Walī Allāh Charles M. Ramsey  Muḥmammad ʿAlī Ḥazīn Lāhījī Reza Pourjavady  Alexander Dow Joslyn De Vinney  Iʿtiṣām al-Dīn Gulfishan Khan  Murtaḍā Ḥusain Bilgrāmī Gulfishan Khan  Charles Hamilton Alan Guenther  William Jones Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh South East Asia  François Valentijn Karel Steenbrink  José Torrubia Isaac Donoso  Juan de Arechederra y Tovar Isaac Donoso  Muḥammad ʿAẓīm al-Dīn I of Sulu Isaac Donoso  Muḥammad Muʿizz al-Dīn Pangiran Bantilan Isaac Donoso  Pedro Martínez de Arizala Isaac Donoso  Onno Zwier van Haren Gé Speelman  Nederlandsch-Indisch Plakaatboek Karel Steenbrink  ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Palimbānī Peter G. Riddell  De Kerckenraeds van Gereformeerde Kerk te Batavia Yusak Soleiman  Corpus Diplomaticum Karel Steenbrink  Javanese court chronicles on the rising power of the Dutch, 17th and 18th centuries Karel Steenbrink China and Japan  Ma Zhu Wai Yip Ho  Liu Zhi James Frankel  Eusèbe Renaudot Stuart Vogel  The Yongzheng Emperor James Harry Morris  Arai Hakuseki James Harry Morris  Mémoires concernant les Chinois James Harry Morris Africa and the Americas Martha Frederiks, Introduction: 18th century Africa and the Americas R.A. Leo, North American perceptions of Islam in the 18th century (freed from European influences) Karoline Cook, Contesting belonging: Relationships between Muslims and Christians in colonial Latin America Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1700-1800 Africa  Hiob Ludolf Andreu Martínez  Michel Jajolet de la Courbe Philip Jan Havik  Jean Barbot Adam Jones  Jean-Baptiste Gaby Martha Frederiks  Charles-Jacques Poncet Andreu Martínez  Johann Heinrich Michaelis David D. Grafton  Bwana Mwengo bin Athman Clarissa Vierke  Francis Moore Martha Frederiks  Chronicler of Iyasu II Solomon Gebreyes Beyene  Nicholas Owen Martha Frederiks  Abbé Demanet Martha Frederiks  Joseph Alexandre Le Brasseur Martha Frederiks  ʾAlaqā Gabru Solomon Gebreyes Beyene  Georg Forster and Carl Peter Thunberg Jaco Beyers The Americas  Cotton Mather Sara Harwood  Jonathan Edwards R.A. Leo  Peter Markoe Fuad Shaban  New England Puritans and Islam R.A. Leo  Bryan Edwards Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Shea McElroy  Legislation restricting Muslim presence in colonial Spanish America Karoline Cook Contributors Index of Names Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between religion and dance is as old as humankind. Contemporary methods for studying this relationship date back a century. The difference between these two time frames is significant: scholars are still developing theories and methods capable of illuminating this vast history that take account of their limited place within it. A History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance takes on a primary challenge of doing so: overcoming a conceptual dichotomy between “religion” and “dance” forged in the colonial era that justified western Christian hostility towards dance traditions across six continents over six centuries. Beginning with its enlightenment roots, LaMothe narrates a selective history of this dichotomy, revealing its ongoing work in separating dance studies from religious studies. Turning to the Bushmen of the African Kalahari, LaMothe introduces an ecokinetic approach that provides scholars with conceptual resources for mapping the generative interdependence of phenomena that appear as “dance” and/or “religion.”Trade Review"Through her interdisciplinary approach, LaMothe opens the field in manifold directions. Her work stimulates a need for more research on the complex relationship between dance and religion." Tatjana K. Schnütgen, University of Regensburg, Reading Religion, May 2019.Table of ContentsA History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance Past, Present, and Future  Kimerer L. LaMothe  Abstract  Keywords  1 Where and How to Begin?  2 Defining Religion, Excluding Dance: A Prehistory of the Study of Religion  3 Founding a Field: Max Müller and Lilly Grove  4 Cracks in the Case for Colonialism  5 Dancing into the Future: Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis  6 The Bible Says Do It: W.O.E. Oesterley and the Task for Christian Theology  7 Better Together: Émile Durkheim and the Sociology of Religion  8 Religion and/or/is/not Dance: Gerardus van der Leeuw and The Phenomenology of Religion  9 Branching and Crossing 1: Religious Studies and Dance Studies  10 Branching and Crossing 2: Art Dance and Sacred Dance  11 An Ecokinetic Approach: Learning from the Bushmen of the African Kalahari  12 Shaking for God: The Bodily Act of Becoming Human  Coda. Moving On: A Call for More  References

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Book SynopsisSortilege—the making of decisions by casting lots—was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.Trade Review"The present volume with contributions from well-established scholars of the field is a timely addition to the scholarship of sortition in late antiquity and middle ages and a valuable instrument for further research." - Florin Filimon, University of Münster, in: The Byzantine Review 2019.009 "The volume offers several important correctives to prevailing scholarly biases about sortes, especially their relationship to late antique Christianity (...) the editors ought to be congratulated for producing an excellent volume that will certainly serve as an essential guide for future scholarship on late antique sortilege and its practitioners." - Joseph E. Sanzo, University of Warwick, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2019 "En conclusion, ce volume collectif présente habilement les différentes facettes de la divination par le sort." - Fabio Spadini, in: Kernos 32, 2019 "This volume offers a necessary and helpful roadmap for the study of sortilege in late antiquity. (...) It compiles ancient lot texts and bibliography and addresses the subfield’s status quaestionis from various angles." - Carson Bay, in: Review of Biblical Literature 12, 2020Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 The Literature of Lot Divination  AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination  William E. Klingshirn 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination  Salvatore Costanza 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John’s Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy  Kevin Wilkinson 5 Hermeneutics and Magic: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation  Jeff W. Childers 6 Secondhand Homer  Michael Meerson 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae  Pieter W. van der Horst 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts  Randall Stewart 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity  Alexander Kocar 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt  David Frankfurter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and “Secular” Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt  Franziska Naether 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt  David M. Ratzan 13 “I Do Not Wish to Be Rich”: The ‘Barbarian’ Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes  Laura Salah Nasrallah 14 “Only Do Not Be of Two Minds”: Doubt in Christian Lot Divination  AnneMarie Luijendijk Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReligions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on teaching and learning in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions. Beginning with an overview of religious education in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds, editor Alex Damm and the contributors together demonstrate the mutual influence of religion and education on each other; the relevance of educational traditions in addressing (for instance) historical or exegetical issues; and the thoroughgoing importance of education to religious life across time and space in antiquity. Highly useful to scholars of religion, theology, classics and education, this volume affords a state of the art study on pedagogy and learning in ancient religious contexts.Trade Review"Scholars of ancient and late antique adult instruction find interesting conversation partners in this stimulating volume." - Monika Amsler, University of Maryland/University of Zürich, Zeitschrift für Religions-Wissenschaft 27.2, 2019. "The present collection of essays is a worthwhile contribution toward the future realization of such a comprehensive overview. Further, in accordance with the twofold expertise of its dedicatee Michel Desjardins, the Festschrift not only offers theoretical insights into the history of ancient religious education but also contains practical didactical ideas that can be helpful to teachers as they prepare their classes, lectures, or seminars." - Boris Paschke, Royal Athenaeum Emanuel Hiel, Belgium.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Religions and Education in Antiquity: An Introduction  Alex Damm 1 Wisdom from the Wise: Pedagogical Principles from Proverbs  John L. McLaughlin 2 Education in the Sacrospace of Qumran Judaism  Wayne O. McCready 3 Late Second Temple Judaism: A Reconstruction and Re-description as a Religio-Cultural System  Jack N. Lightstone 4 Techne in Plato and the New Testament  Joseph A. Novak 5 Why Not to Pity Rome: Revelation 18:22-23a in its Ancient Educational Context  Alex Damm 6 Those Who Hear: The Power of Learners in 1 Timothy  Mona Tokarek LaFosse 7 Translation Matters: The Coptic Translation of Thomas  John Horman 8 Pedagogy, Text and the Solitary Self in the Gospel of Thomas  William Arnal 9 Praises and Rebukes in the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues  Michael Kaler Index

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Book SynopsisEvolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

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Book SynopsisFrom the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It shows how, in the Chinese church-state, elite processes of rationalization, interiorization, and secularization are at work in every period of major change and how popular religion gradually emerges to a position of dominance by means of a long history of at once resisting, adapting to, and collaborating with elite-driven change. Topics covered include ritual, scripture, philosophy, state policy, medicine, sacred geography, gender, and the economy. It also serves as the basis for an on-line Coursera course.Trade Review"The book is a fertile source of reliable information on many aspects of religious history." -Barbara Hendrischke, University of Sydney, in Religious Studies Review, Volume 45, Number 2, June 2019 'The book covers essentially all the main aspects of Chinese religiosity in a nutshell and it constitutes an invaluable guide for extant academic research on Chinese thought.' - R.Tatu, (Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, South Africa), Pharos Journal of Theology, 102 (2021). 'By preparing an invaluable synthetic overview that presents many of the field’s most important intellectual breakthroughs, Paradigm Shifts can help scholars take stock of where we stand as well as consider new directions for future research.' - Paul R. Katz, Academia Sinica, Taipei, T’oung Pao 105 (2019) 649-652. 'Quoi qu’il en soit, Paradigm Shifts est un livre brillant, utile et provocant, qui contribue à insérer l’étude des religions – et de la religion – chinoises dans une approche globale du fait religieux en régime de modernité et post-modernité.' - Benoît Vermander, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 188 (2019), 353-356.

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the English Dominican Province offers an account of Dominican activities in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from their arrival in 1221 until their dissolution at the Reformation. Over the three centuries covered in this volume, the Friars Preachers not only devoted themselves to the cure of souls via preaching and hearing confessions, but they also represented English kings on diplomatic missions, influenced politics and society, and contributed to cultural, intellectual, and religious life across the British Isles. Contributors include: Janet Burton, Alexander Collins, Eleanor J. Giraud, Anne-Julie Lafaye, J. Cornelia Linde, Nigel J. Morgan, Richard Oram, Andrew Reeves, Jens Röhrkasten, John T. Slotemaker, Karen Stöber, Steven Watts, and Jeffrey C. Witt.Trade Review"This outstanding volume contains twelve substantial chapters by leading scholars on the growth and life of the medieval English and Scottish Dominican Provinces in the British Isles [...] The work is particularly to be commended for not limiting itself to England but in covering the entirety of the province. Each chapter is meticulously researched, generally up-to-date, and has its own bibliography at the end [...] an essential reference work for English mendicant studies and a worthy marker of the Province’s eight hundredth anniversary of foundation." Richard Finn OP, in New Blackfriars, 102-1100Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 The English Dominican Province from Its Beginnings to the Reformation: An Introduction   Eleanor J. Giraud and J. Cornelia Linde PART 1 Space and Place 2 Dominicans in England and Their Relations with the Crown   Jens Röhrkasten 3 Dominican Friaries in the Medieval Landscapes of Britain and Ireland: A Comparative Study   Anne-Julie Lafaye 4 The Dominicans in Scotland, 1230–1560   Richard Oram 5 The Dominicans in Wales   Janet Burton and Karen Stöber PART 2 Preaching and Pastoral Care 6 Master Jordan of Saxony and Early Dominican Preaching in England (1229–1230)   Steven Watts 7 Pastoral Care: Dominican Friars as Confessors and Catechists in 13th-Century England   Andrew Reeves PART 3 Education and Intellectual Life 8 The Educational Landscape of the English Dominican Province   J. Cornelia Linde 9 The English Dominican Intellectual Tradition   John T. Slotemaker and Jeffrey C. Witt PART 4 Devotional Cultures 10 “Do It Well and Thoroughly, for It Will Be Shown to Important People”: Art in the English Dominican Province, ca.1221–ca.1540   Alexander Collins 11 Dominican Chant and Liturgical Practices in the English Province   Eleanor J. Giraud 12 The Liturgical Manuscripts of the English Dominicans, ca.1250–ca.1530   Nigel J. Morgan Index

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Book SynopsisNew Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal development in the Middle Ages and the divergent interests of the actors involved. The contributors address the still dominant ‘master narrative’, mainly developed by Paul Fournier and enshrined in his magisterial Histoire de collections canoniques. They present new research on pre-Gratian canon collection, Gratian’s Decretum, decretal collections, but also hagiography, theology, and narrative sources challenging the standard account; a separate chapter is devoted to Fournier’s model and its genesis. New Discourses thus brings together specialized research and broader questions of who to write the history of church law in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Greta Austin, Katheleen G. Cushing, Stephan Dusil, Tatsushi Genka, John S. Ott, Christof Rolker, Danica Summerlin, Andreas Thier and John C. Wei.Trade Review"...the valuable historiographical and methodological reflection provided in this volume makes it a must-read for anyone interested in canon law, theology, and church history in the eleventh and twelfth centuries". John Burden, in The Medieval Review 20.05.05 (2020). The full review is accessible at this link: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/index. "Christof Rolker has edited an excellent volume of essays on research on canon law in the long twelfth century [...] this volume represents an important engagement and challenge to long-standing assumptions. Every scholar of law and the papacy in this period should consult the volume, and it should give sobriety and pause to those wishing to make a long-lasting mark on scholarship". Atria A. Larson, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Christof Rolker and Andreas Thier 1 Fournier’s Model and Its Merits  Christof Rolker 2 Law and Reform: The Transmission of Burchard of Worms’ Liber decretorum  Kathleen G. Cushing 3 New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform  Greta Austin 4 Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The Beauvais Election Controversy of 1100–04  John S. Ott 5 The Role of Hagiography in the Development of Canon Law in the Reform Era  Tatsushi Genka 6 Of Scholasticism and Canon Law: Narratives Old and New  John C. Wei 7 The Decretum of Gratian: A Janus-Faced Collection  Stephan Dusil 8 Using the ‘Old Law’ in Twelfth-Century Decretal Collections  Danica Summerlin 9 Canon Law before Gratian: A Bibliographical Appendix  Christof Rolker General Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the diversity of Adolf Deissmann’s work as philologist, theologian and ecumenist and attempts to contextualise contemporary debates on his contribution historically. Dieser Sammelband würdigt das facettenreiche Schaffen Adolf Deissmanns als Philologe, Theologe und Ökumeniker und versucht, die zeitgenössischen Debatten um seine Leistungen historisch zu kontextualisieren.Trade Review"The whole volume, however, forms a treasury of information – and of judicious and stimulating judgements. The editors deserve warm thanks for their focus on a life and work which have suffered the iniquity of oblivion, but have also had longterm influence." - William Horbury, University of Cambridge, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 71: 2, 2020. "Overall, this volume is valuable as an example of the intellectual history of the discipline and consequences of past research on our current questions. The book does not make a hero out of Deissmann in an effort to resuscitate the positive aspects of his work; the treatment here is balanced, well researched and thoughtful. (...) [A] significant reminder that in order to advance critical biblical scholarship, we must also know the contours of the discipline that have led us to ask the critical questions that now engage us." - Garrick V. Allen, Dublin City University, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42:5, 2020.Table of ContentsVorwort Abbildungsverzeichnis 1 Deissmanns Wochenbriefe: Ein Vorbild für unsere Zeit  Albrecht Gerber 2 Adolf Deissmann und Nathan Söderblom  Dietz Lange 3 Der verhinderte Lexikograph: Adolf Deissmanns Beitrag zur Lexikographie des Griechisch des frühen Christentums  David S. du Toit 4 Adolf Deissmann as a Philologist  G.H.R. Horsley 5 Deissmann als Paulusexeget  Barbara Aland 6 Adolf Deissmann als Historiker des antiken Christentums  Cilliers Breytenbach 7 Deissmann und die Unterschichtenthese  Alexander Weiß 8 Adolf Deissmann und die Nassauer Lande  Karl Dienst 9 Gustav Adolf Deissmann als Rektor der Berliner Universität 1930/31  Christoph Markschies Autorenverzeichnis Register

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of “sacred scripture” traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. "This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system." - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard UniversityTrade ReviewIsabel Laack’s Aztec Religion and Art of Writing makes an important departure from the way aesthetics, semiotics, and studies of religion have been applied to our understanding of Aztec civilization and culture. Furthermore, by relocating the epicenter of scholarly “gaze,” to religion and regions beyond Christianity and Anglo-American or European contexts, Laack offers an innovative postcolonial aesthetic approach to religion. Laack’s bold methodological departure from her own graduate training provides encouragement for scholars of all stages to chart similar pathways for themselves. - Jury of the AAR 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Introducing the Subject  2 Indicating Sociopolitical Relevance  3 Realizing the Aesthetics of Religion  4 Outlining the Chapters 1 Methodology  1 Doing Research in a Postcolonial World  2 Writing History  3 Clarifying Perspectives and Objectives  4 Summary 2 Living in Cultural Diversity  1 Drawing on History  2 Living in the Central Highlands  3 Living in Religious Diversity  4 Conclusion: Diversity within the Nahua Tradition 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan  1 How the World Came to Be  2 How the Human World Came to Be  3 How the Cosmic Dynamics Unfold  4 Living in Cosmic Relations  5 Living in Social Relations  6 Living Properly—Living in Balance 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology  1 Aztec Notions of “Divinity”  2 The Nature of Teotl  3 Teotl’s Realization: Nahualli and the Layers of Reality  4 A World in Motion: The Fifth Era  5 The Problem of Ephemerality: What Is Really Real? 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology  1 Epistemology  2 Knowledge Experts: Wise (Wo)Men and Scribes  2 People with Special Insights  3 The Inspiration of Knowledge and Its Expression 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics  1 Human Agency: Seeking Balance  2 Human Duties  3 Interacting with Rituals  4 Involving the Senses and Aesthetic Media  5 The Concept of the Teixiptla 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory  1 Nahua Oral Tradition  2 Reconstructing Nahua Songs  3 Thinking in Nahuatl  4 Nahua Imagery  5 The Relationship between the Spoken Sign and Reality in Nahuatl  6 Nahua Imagery and the Problem of Rationality 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography  1 The History of Writing Systems in Mesoamerica  2 The Writing System of the Nahuas  3 Social Text Practice  4 Books and Authors  5 Nahua Culture between Orality and Literacy 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics  1 The History of Evaluating Aztec Writing  2 Different Kinds of Meaning and Knowledge  3 Seeing Reality: Nahua Semiotic Theory  4 Interpreting Nahua Pictography 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality  1 From Religion to Being-in-the-World  2 From Scripture to Semiotics  3 Interrelationships: Semiotic Theory and Embodied Meaning Conclusion References Index Plates

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Book SynopsisEdited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe offers an expansive view of the Protestant reception of medieval mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century. Providing a foundation and impetus for future research, the chapters in this handbook cover diverse figures from across the Protestant traditions (Lutheran, Reformed, Radical), summarizing existing research, analysing relevant sources, and proposing new directions for study. Each chapter is authored by a leading scholar in the field. Collectively, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe calls for a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship of Protestantism to its medieval past, to Roman Catholicism, and to the enduring mystical element of Christianity.Trade Review“[An] excellent and coherent monograph, which I find indispensable for any further research on the topic.” Martin Žemla, Palacký University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 670–672.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Vincent Evener and Ronald K. Rittgers 1 The Mystics the Protestants Read  Volker Leppin 2 Martin Luther  Ronald K. Rittgers 3 Thomas Müntzer  Hans-Jürgen Goertz 4 Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt  Vincent Evener 5 Leo Jud  Bruce Gordon 6 Sebastian Franck  Patrick Hayden-Roy 7 Hans Denck, Hans Hut, and Caspar Schwenckfeld  Geoffrey Dipple 8 Argula von Grumbach, Katharina Schütz Zell, and Anabaptist and Jorist Women  Christina Moss and Gary K. Waite 9 John Calvin  G. Sujin Pak 10 Andreas Musculus and Michael Neander  Markus Matthias 11 Martin Moller and Philipp Kegel  Eric Lund 12 Valentin Weigel  Douglas H. Shantz 13 Jacob Boehme  Jeff Bach 14 Philipp Nicolai and Johann Gerhard  Thomas Illg 15 Johann Arndt  Thomas Illg 16 George Herbert and English Protestants  Liam Peter Temple 17 Richard Greenham and William Perkins  Randall J. Pederson 18 Paul Baynes and Richard Sibbes  Tom Schwanda 19 Willem Teellinck and Gisbertus Voetius  Willem J. op ’t Hof 20 Robert Bruce, William Cowper, and John Forbes  David George Mullan Epilogue  Vincent Evener Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome investigates the lives and stories of the many groups and individuals in Rome, between 1500 and approximately 1750, who were not Roman (Latin) Catholic. It shows how early modern Catholic people and institutions in Rome were directly influenced by their interactions with other religious traditions. This collection reveals the significant impact of Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rite Christians; the influence of the many transient groups and individual travelers who passed through the city; the unique contributions of converts to Catholicism, who drew on the religion of their birth; and the importance of intermediaries, fluent in more than one culture and religion. Contributors include: Olivia Adankpo-Labadie, Robert John Clines, Matthew Coneys Wainwright, Serena Di Nepi, Irene Fosi, Mayu Fujikawa, Sam Kennerley, Emily Michelson, James Nelson Novoa, Cesare Santus, Piet van Boxel, and Justine A. Walden.Trade Review“Each of the essays of this volume is meticulously researched and provides new insights on the presence of religious minorities in papal Rome. As a whole, they build on previous scholarship, push research in new directions, and offer a nuanced picture of how different religious minorities encountered Rome and Catholicism. Furthermore, each essay concludes with a brief suggestion for new avenues of research. […] The editors and the contributors have given us an excellent starting place to uncover the voices of religious minorities living in the very heart of the Catholic world.” John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 2021), pp. 678–681.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Emily Michelson and Matthew Coneys Wainwright 1 Papal Ceremonies for the Embassies of Non-Catholic Rulers   Mayu Fujikawa 2 Pope as Arbiter  The Place of Early Modern Rome in the Pan-Mediterranean Ecumenical Visions of Eastern Rite Christians   Robert John Clines 3 Non-Catholic Pilgrims and the Hospital of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1575–1650)   Matthew Coneys Wainwright 4 Between Conversion and Reconquest  The Venerable English College between the Late 16th and 17th Centuries   Irene Fosi 5 Ethiopian Christians in Rome, c.1400–c.1700   Sam Kennerley 6 A Faith between Two Worlds  Expressing Ethiopian Devotion and Crossing Cultural Boundaries at Santo Stefano dei Mori in Early Modern Rome   Olivia Adankpo-Labadie 7 Being a New Christian in Early Modern Rome   James Nelson Novoa 8 Wandering Lives  Eastern Christian Pilgrims, Alms-Collectors and “Refugees” in Early Modern Rome   Cesare Santus 9 Saving Souls, Forgiving Bodies  A New Source and a Working Hypothesis on Slavery, Conversion and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome (16th–19th Centuries)   Serena Di Nepi 10 Muslim Slaves in Early Modern Rome  The Development and Visibility of a Labouring Class   Justine A. Walden 11 Jews in 16th-Century Italy and the Vicissitudes of the Hebrew Book   Piet van Boxel 12 Resist, Refute, Redirect  Roman Jews Attend Conversionary Sermons   Emily Michelson Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisAfter their restoration of 1814, the Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology. This narrative provides a history of the Jesuit institutions in which these discoveries were made, many of which were established in countries that previously had no scientific institutions whatsoever, thus generating a scientific and educational legacy that endures to this day. The article also focuses on the teaching and research that took place at Jesuit universities and secondary schools, as well as the order’s creation of a worldwide network of seventy-four astronomical and geophysical observatories where particularly important contributions were made to the fields of terrestrial magnetism, microseisms, tropical hurricanes, and botany.Trade Review“By establishing the who’s who and what’s what of modern Jesuit science, Udías is effectively clearing the ground for other scholars, much in the spirit of the series in which it appeared […]. For those who are venturing for the first time on the territory of modern Jesuit science, I recommend this work as a mine of research topics.” - Jean-Olivier Richard, University of Toronto, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 694-697Table of ContentsJesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014  Agustín Udías  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 A New Beginning  3 Science in the Training of Jesuits and the Tension between Scholastic Philosophy and Modern Science  4 Science in Jesuit Universities, Colleges, and Secondary Schools  5 The New Observatories  6 The Earth’s Magnetism  7 Jesuit Meteorological Stations  8 Tropical Hurricanes  9 Earthquakes and Seismology  10 The Tradition in Mathematics  11 The New Naturalists and Biologists  12 Jesuit Scientists in Non-Jesuit Institutions  13 Recent Developments  14 Jesuit Scientists and Ignatian Spirituality  15 Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this new commentary on the controversial Gospel of Thomas, Simon Gathercole provides the most extensive analysis yet published of both the work as a whole and of the individual sayings contained in it. This commentary offers a fresh analysis of Thomas not from the perspective of form criticism and source criticism but seeks to elucidate the meaning of the work and its constituent elements in its second-century context. With its lucid discussion of the various controversial aspects of Thomas, and treatment of the various different scholarly views, this is a foundational work of reference for scholars not just of apocryphal Gospels, but also for New Testament scholars, Classicists and Patrologists.Trade Review"Gathercoleʼs style, his soberness, the clear and direct interaction with earlier scholarship, his admirably confident treatment of speculations and “traditional” theories about the Gospel of Thomas, and, above all, the authorʼs meticulous handling of the critical Greek and Coptic texts and the authorʼs concise and sound conclusions make this book a landmark commentary on this highly controversial and fascinating piece of Christian literature." - Thomas J. Kraus, University of Zürich, in: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (2017) "The most erudite commentary on the Gospel of Thomas to date." - Ian Phillip Brown, University of Toronto, in: Religious Studies Review 42:2 "Gathercole steers readers through a complex web of highly contested issues. [...] In the future, every scholarly work on Thomas will take Gathercole's work both as a starting point and as an able guide." - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, in: The Expository Times 126:4 "All in all, this is an excellent commentary, well worth the cost to purchase and the space it will occupy on a bookshelf." - Llewellyn Howes, University of Johannesburg, in: Neotestamentica 50:3 "....einen Kommentar zum Thomasevangelium [...] der als ein Grundlagen- und Referenzwerk aller weiteren Diskurse zu diesem Zeugnis des frühen Christentums verstanden werden kann." - Enno Edzard Popkes, Kiel, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 142 (2017) 7-8

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Book SynopsisTheology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The volume consists of a separate Bibliography, a General Index, an Index of Names, an Index of Works and an Index of Other Sources.

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Book SynopsisThe growth of the megachurch (generally defined as a regular attendance of over 2,000 people) is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional religious trends of recent times, certainly within the Christian sphere. Spreading from the USA, megachurches have now become common globally - reaching different national and cultural contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives: sociology, religious studies, religious history and religious studies among them. Topics covered include: the historical developments and growth, typologies, theology, popular culture, revivalism, social engagement, and the manifestation of megachurches in such countries as Canada, Russia, India and Africa.Table of ContentsForeword  David G. Bromley Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Megachurch Phenomenon  Stephen Hunt Part 1: Megachurches in Perspective  1 Seeking Souls, Selling Salvation: A History of the Modern Megachurch  Charity Rakestraw  2 The Growth of the Megachurch  David E. Eagle  3 Toward a Typology of the Megachurch  J. Gordon Melton  4 Megachurches and Popular Culture: On Enclaving and Encroaching  Simon Coleman and Saliha Chattoo  5 “Your Church Can Grow!” – A Contextual Theological Critique of Megachurches  Martyn Percy Part 2: Dynamics and Trajectories  6 Megachurches in the Religious Marketplace  Marc von der Ruhr  7 Megachurches as Total Environments  James K. Wellman Jr., Katie E. Corcoran and Kate J. Stockly  8 Megachurches as Educational Institutions  Mark J. Cartledge  9 Horse and Carriage? Megachurches and Revivalism  Stephen Hunt  10 ‘The Evangelisation of the Nation, the Revitalisation of the Church and the Transformation of Society’: Megachurches and Social Engagement  Andrew Davies Part 3: Global Contexts  11 Megachurches and ‘Reverse Mission’  Richard Burgess  12 Megachurches in Canada  Michael Wilkinson and Peter Schuurman  13 Megachurches in Russia and Other parts of the former Soviet Union  Torsten Löfstedt  14 Global, ‘Glocal’ and Local Dynamics in Calvary Temple: India’s Fastest Growing Megachurch  Jonathan D. James  15 Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness: The Salvation Economy of African Mega-Churches  Asonzeh Ukah  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Separating Abram and Lot: The Narrative Role and Early Reception of Genesis 13, Dan Rickett presents a fresh analysis of two of Genesis’ most important characters. Many have understood Lot as Abram’s potential heir and as an ethical contrast to him. Here, Rickett explores whether these readings best reflect the focus of the story. In particular, he considers the origin of these readings and how a study of the early Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis 13 might help identify that origin. In turn, due attention is given to the overall purpose of Genesis 13, as well as how Lot and his function in the text should be understood.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Abram’s Problematic Taking of Lot and the Beginnings of Separation 2 Brotherhood, Separation and Settlement 3 Solving Abram’s Problems: Reception of Genesis 13 in LXX, Jubilees and Genesis Apocryphon 4 Creating an Unrighteous Outsider: Later Jewish Reception of Genesis 13 5 Lot as In-between: Early Christian Reception of Genesis 13 6 Lot as Brother Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices, Elijah Hixson assesses the extent to which unique readings reveal the tendencies of the scribes who produced three luxury manuscripts of Matthew’s Gospel. The manuscripts, Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N 022), Codex Sinopensis (O 023) and Codex Rossanensis (Σ 042), were each copied in the sixth century from the same exemplar. Hixson compares the results of a modified singular readings method to the number of actual changes each scribe made. An edition of the lost exemplar and transcriptions of Matthew in each manuscript follow in the appendices. Of particular relevance to New Testament textual criticism is the observation that the singular readings method does not accurately reveal the habits of these three scribes.Trade Review"This volume will be greatly appreciated by specialists as a model of careful and detailed textual analysis. [...] At the same time, the study is set out clearly and written in an approachable style, meaning that casual readers may also appreciate the quality and value of this book as an example of the best new research in this field." - H.A.G. Houghton, University of Birmingham, in: The Expository Times 131(8) 2020 "Hixson’s work is an exceptional piece of textual scholarship and a necessary volume for text-critical libraries worldwide. One cannot image any future work being conducted on the purple codices or the singular readings method without consulting this text. It is the kind of work many academics should desire to produce, and it will make a substantial contribution to its field for many years to come." - Clark R. Bates, University of Birmingham, in: RBL 2022Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures, Plates and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction to Purple Codices and the 022-023-042 Family  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Brief Descriptions of 022, 023 and 042  1.3 History of Research on the Purple Manuscripts as a Family  1.4 Do 022, 023 and 042 Constitute a Family?  1.5 Conclusion 2 Method and Methodology  2.1 Singular Readings Method: A Brief History  2.2 Criticisms of the Singular Readings Method  2.3 Alternative and Parallel Methods for Assessing Scribal Habits  2.4 Method and Modification 3 Comparing Scribes: Textual and Paratextual Features Where All Three Manuscripts Are Extant  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N 022)  3.3 Codex Sinopensis (O 023)  3.4 Codex Rossanensis (Σ 042)  3.5 Observations on Each Aspect  3.6 Preliminary Conclusions about Each Scribe  Appendix to Chapter 3: Unique Unit Divisions in 042 4 Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N 022)  4.1 Singular and Family Readings in 022  4.2 Deviations from the Exemplar in 022  4.3 The Scribe of 022 and the Singular Readings Method 5 Codex Sinopensis (O 023)  5.1 Singular and Family Readings in 023  5.2 Deviations from the Exemplar in 023  5.3 The Scribe of 023 and the Singular Readings Method 6 The Rossano Gospels (Σ 042)  6.1 Singular and Family Readings in 042  6.2 Deviations from the Exemplar in 042  6.3 The Scribe of 042 and the Singular Readings Method 7 Conclusions  7.1 The Scribes and Their Exemplar  7.2 The Singular Readings Method  7.3 Scribes as Editors?  7.4 022-023-042 and New Testament Textual Criticism  7.5 Conclusion Appendix 1: The Exemplar of 022-023-042 Appendix 2: Transcription of 022 in Matthew Appendix 3: Transcription of 023 Appendix 4: Transcription of 042 in Matthew Appendix 5: Data for 042, Where Neither 022 nor 023 Is Extant Appendix 6: Reconstructions of the Structures of 022, 023 and 042 Appendix 7: Kephalaia and titloi for Matthew in 022, 023 and 042 Bibliography Scripture Index Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period. During these eventful centuries friars of the Franciscan establishment in Jerusalem increasingly sought to cultivate strong ideological ties between themselves and the Holy Land, participating actively in contemporary literatures of geographia sacra and Levantine pilgrimage and travel. It becomes clear how the friars constructed a collective memory using the ideological canon of their order – featuring Bonaventurian theology, marvels of the east, cartography, apocalyptic visions of history, calls for Crusade, and finally a pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land by Francis.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transcriptions, Orthography, and Documentation List of Figures  1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches  1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space  2The “Holy” Land  3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality  4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise  5Synopsis  2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos  1Guglingen Sets the Scene  2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle  3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing  4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centre ss  5Conclusion  3Holy Places, Sacred Travel  1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage  2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space  3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective  4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion  5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant  6Conclusion  4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century  1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem  2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land  3Guglingen’s call for Crusade  4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons  5St Francis in the Holy Land  6Conclusion  5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem  2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century  3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land  4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land  5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism  6Conclusion  6Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the “long fifteenth century” in Iberian history, between the 1391 pogroms and the forced conversions of Aragonese Muslims in 1526, a period characterized by persecutions, conversions and social violence, on the one hand, and cultural exchange, on the other. It was a historical moment of unstable religious ideas and identities, before the rigid turn taken by Spanish Catholicism by the middle of the sixteenth century; a period in which the physical and symbolic borders separating the three religions were transformed and redefined but still remained extraordinarily porous. The collection argues that the aggressive tone of many polemical texts has until now blinded historiography to the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, above all in dialogue and cultural transfer in later medieval Iberia. Contributors are Ana Echevarría, Gad Freudenthal, Mercedes García-Arenal, Maria Laura Giordano, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Eleazar Gutwirth, Felipe Pereda, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, Katarzyna K. Starczewska, John Tolan, Gerard Wiegers, and Yosi Yisraeli.Table of ContentsIntroduction Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond  Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers 1 Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle Ages  John Tolan 2 The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)  Gad Freudenthal 3 Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy Around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century Castile  Ana Echevarría 4 The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat Revisited  Yonatan Glazer-Eytan 5 Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias Romanceadas  Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto 6 From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso Dialogue Jewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium Scripturarum  Yosi Yisraeli 7 The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth Century  Eleazar Gutwirth 8 The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)  Maria Laura Giordano 9 Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the Qurʾān  Katarzyna K. Starczewska 10 Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600  Felipe Pereda Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Volume 13 (CMR 13) covering Western Europe in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and appraisals of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 13, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.Table of ContentsForeword List of illustrations List of maps Abbreviations Clinton Bennett, Introduction: Western Europe and Islam in the long 18th century. Demonisation to dialogue Jan Loop, Islam and the European Enlightenment Avner Ben Zaken, Intellectual, scientific and technological relations between Christian and Muslim civilisations 1580-1822 Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1700-1800 North-west Europe British Isles Scandinavia Netherlands South-West Europe France Iberia Italy and Malta Contributors Index of Names Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisSacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the dissemination and development of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Exploring the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their ambivalent effect on the observer, the book focuses on literary and visual testimonies produced from the emergence of a distinctive vernacular voice through to the formalization of Bartholomew’s saintly identity and his transformation into a key expression of Iberian consciousness. Drawing on and extending advances in cultural criticism, particularly theories of selfhood and the complex ontology of the human body, its five chapters probe the evolution of hagiographic conventions, demonstrating how flaying poses a unique challenge to our understanding of the nature and meaning of identity. See inside the book.Trade Review"Beresford’s richly detailed study proves that Bartholomew is much more than his skin, and that carefully woven, historically grounded interdisciplinary studies can underpin theoretical contributions (and vice versa). At once an extraordinarily deep dive into a very particular case of martyr cult in a particular region and also a wide-ranging study that covers over a dozen centuries of narrative and art alongside insights from contemporary theories of embodiment, Beresford’s Sacred Skin will reward both the specialist in medieval Iberia and any historian of art, body, or religion who seeks a model for how technical reconstruction of the evolution of a saint (or any influential figure) can address crucially broad questions such as identity, inter-religious conflict, or global historiography. [...] the true achievement of this text is to model the extraordinary range of methodologies, theories, and historical contexts it requires to fully probe a cultic devotion and its expression over centuries in a particular region. Beresford’s work is breathtaking in its methodological scope and profoundly comprehensive in its historical precision. No careful reader can end up anything less than an expert in the skin of the saint." Jessica A. Boon, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in La Corónica, 49.3 (2021)Table of Contents Preface  List of Figures  Abbreviations  1Hagiographic Tradition and the Transformation of Identity: The Origin and Evolution of the Cult of St. Bartholomew  1Bartholomew and the Classical Inheritance  2Bartholomew in Iberian Literature and Culture  3Bartholomew’s Hagiographic Legacy  2The Infant on the Mountainside: The Abduction of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art  1The Legend of the Infant in Early Iberian Art  2Bartholomew and the Diabolical Double  3Prelapsarian Providence and the Infant on the Mountainside  4The Cult of the Infant  3St. Bartholomew’s Evangelical Ministry and the Cosmic Drama of Conversion  1Bartholomew’s Threefold Ministry  2Bartholomew’s Exorcistic Drama  3Idolatry and Iconoclash: Bartholomew as Double-Edged Sword  4Holy Water: Bartholomew as Baptizer  4The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in Early Iberian Art  1From Ministry to Martyrdom  2Flaying in Early Iberian Art  3Flayed Skin and the Fragmented Self: Bartholomew as Dermaphore  4Flaying, Decapitation, and Bartholomew as Devotional Icon  5St. Bartholomew and the Formalization of Hagiographic Identity: Spanish Art in the Seventeenth Century  1Bartholomew and the Early Iberian Legacy  2Bartholomew: Portraits and Apostolates  3Flaying as Narrative Representation  4Colophon: Beyond Ribera, Tradition and Innovation Appendixes  Texts and Sources  Appendix 1: A Fourteenth-Century Castilian Reworking of Pseudo-Abdias’sActa fabulosa  Appendix 2: The Gran flos sanctorum (Compilation A)  Appendix 3: The Leyenda de los santos (Compilation B)  Appendix 4: Flos sanctorum from Fundación Casa de Alba MS 30 (Alternative Reading Related to Compilation B)  Appendix 5: Locations in Spain with Bartholomew as Patron  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisGerd Althoff´s new book collects fifteen of his more recent contributions, most of them previously published in German, which elucidate the functioning of prestate societies. Examples from the Frankish and later German realm (800-1200) are used to clarify how rules and political rituals governed behavior in the power games between kings, churchmen and nobles. Such rules (Spielregeln) and rituals guided public and private behavior despite the fact that they existed only as unwritten customs. The long-overlooked significance of this way of establishing order has sparked a vivid and controversial international discussion in the last decades which continues today.Trade Review"This volume is a welcome contribution. Gerd Althoff is a major German historian of the early Middle Ages whose generation of scholars developed a new perspective on German political history [...] The value of the cultural turn as found in the work of Gerd Althoff and his generation of historians has provided a signal service – most especially in German historiography – of separating medieval German history from the awfully destructive legacy of an intense nationalistic modern historiography centered on the German state. For helping provide this specific »German Perspective« we are in his debt and can appreciate the import of this volume in his honor." Joseph P. Huffman, in Francia 2020 (4).Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Original Publications Part 1: Introduction 1 What Exactly Are Spielregeln? 2 Spielregeln and Rituals 3 Spielregeln, Order of Rank and Conflicts Part 2: Rules 4 Authority and Violence of Kings in Tenth and Eleventh Century Germany 5 Rules of Conflict among the Warrior Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages 6 Openness and Secrecy: Two Fundamental Categories of Medieval Communication 7 Saxon Bishops in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Strategies and Rules of Their Political Activities 8 The Perspective of an Expert: Gislebert of Mons Part 3: Rituals 9 Rituals and Their “Spielregeln” in the Middle Ages 10 The Variability of Rituals 11 Rituals as Lingua Franca? Joint Cultural Practises at the Eastern Borders of the Realm 12 Symbolic Communication and Medieval Order: Strengths and Weaknesses of Ambiguous Signs Part 4: Gregorian Revolution 13 Papal Authority in the High Middle Ages 14 Communicating Papal Primacy: the Impact of Gregory VII’s Ideas (11th–13th Century) 15 Examples of Justifying and Rejecting Churchly Violence at the Time of the Gregorian Revolution Part 5: History in Literature 16 Do Poets Play with the Rules of Society? 17 Heroes Who Break the Mould: Duke Ernst and the Emperor Otto Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a sample of the many ways that medieval Franciscans wrote, represented in art, and preached about the ‘model of models’ of the medieval religious experience, the Virgin Mary. This is an extremely valuable collection of essays that highlight the significant role the Franciscans played in developing Mariology in the Middle Ages. Beginning with Francis, Clare, and Anthony, a number of significant theologians, spiritual writers, preachers, and artists are presented in their attempt to capture the significance and meaning of the Virgin Mary in the context of the late Middle Ages within the Franciscan movement. Contributors are Luciano Bertazzo, Michael W. Blastic, Rachel Fulton Brown, Leah Marie Buturain, Marzia Ceschia, Holly Flora, Alessia Francone, J. Isaac Goff, Darrelyn Gunzburg, Mary Beth Ingham, Christiaan Kappes, Steven J. McMichael, Pacelli Millane, Kimberly Rivers, Filippo Sedda, and Christopher J. Shorrock.Trade Review"Si può dire che questo volume rappresenta una buona raccolta che segnala la documentazione critica su alcuni autori francescani medioevali che trattano della Vergine maria. Ciò è corredato da una estesa bibliografia (441-53) utile per una visione generale delle diverse produzioni letterarie in ambito francescano e non solo". Stefano Cecchin, in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, June 2020.Table of Contents List of Figures  Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Foundations of Franciscan Marian Reflection: Francis, Clare, and Anthony 1 The Virgin Mary in the Writings of Francis and Clare of Assisi  Michael W. Blastic 2 Maria Oliva Benedicta: A Reflection on the Mariology of Anthony of Padua/Lisbon  Luciano Bertazzo Part 2: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Theology 3 Mulier Amicta Sole: Bonaventure’s Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the Annunciation  J. Isaac Goff 4 The Mariology of Conrad of Saxony (d. 1279) as Presented in His Speculum Beatae Maria Virginis  Christopher Shorrock 5 Mary and the Body of God: Servasanctus of Faenza and the Psalter of Creation  Rachel Fulton Brown 6 Marian Devotion in Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Tertiary and Franciscan Mystic  Marzia Ceschia 7 ‘Fired France for Mary without Spot’: John Duns Scotus and the Immaculate Conception  Mary Beth Ingham 8 Francis of Meyronnes and the Immaculate Conception  Christiaan Kappes Part 3: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Vita Christi Tradition 9 ‘Beholding’ the Virgin Mary in Imitatio Mariae: Meditationes vitae Christi’s Spiritual Exercises for Sacramental Seeing of the Annunciation  Leah Marie Buturain 10 A Medieval Franciscan Meditation on the Mother of Jesus  Pacelli Millane, OSC Part 4: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Art 11 Cimabue’s Santa Maria degli Angeli at Assisi  Holly Flora 12 Reflecting on Mary: The Splendor of the Madonna in the Lower Church of Assisi  Darrelyn Gunzburg Part 5: The Virgin Mary in Medieval Franciscan Preaching 13 The Virgin Mary in Latin and German Sermons of Berthold of Regensburg  Alessia Francone 14 The Virgin Mary is Taken to the Throne of God: The Assumption of Mary in the Sermons of Bernardino da Siena  Steven J. McMichael 15 The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450)  Kimberly Rivers 16 John of Capistrano and the Virgin Mary: Preliminary Research on the Marian Sermons  Filippo Sedda  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America.Trade Review“This book will be a necessary purchase for academic libraries with holdings in Jesuit Studies, Atlantic world studies, early Canadiana, and North American history, including First Nations/Native American history.” - Lisa J. M. Poirier, DePaul University, Chicago, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 681-683Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Bibliographical Abbreviations  List of Illustrations  Summaries of the Contents of Charlevoix’s Letters  Introduction  Preliminary Essay on the Origin of the Americans  Letter 1  Letter 2  Letter 3  Letter 4  Letter 5  Letter 6  Letter 7  Letter 8  Letter 9  Letter 10  Letter 11  Letter 12  Letter 13  Letter 14  Letter 15  Letter 16  Letter 17  Letter 18  Letter 19  Letter 20  Letter 21  Letter 22  Letter 23  Letter 24  Letter 25  Letter 26  Letter 27  Letter 28  Letter 29  Letter 30  Letter 31  Letter 32  Letter 33  Letter 34  Letter 35  Letter 36  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other scholars analyse the reception history of images and ideas about Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.). They consider representations of Jesus in the liturgy of the medieval church, Psalters and psalm commentaries, bestiaries, the Glossa ordinaria, and Middle English vitae Christi as well as among the English, the Irish, and Europeans, adherents to the cult of the Holy Name, participants in the Feast of Corpus Christi, and medieval contemplatives, including Bede, Theophylact of Ochrid, Saint Francis, Gertrude the Great, Dante, Julian of Norwich, and medieval English and European visionaries, among others. Contributors are Jane Beal, George Hardin Brown, Aaron Canty, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Thomas Cattoi, Andrew Galloway, Julia Bolton Holloway, Michael Kuczynski, Rob Lutton, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paul Patterson, Linda Stone, Lesley Sullivan Marcantonio, Larry Swain, Donna Trembinski, Nancy van Deusen, and Barbara Zimbalist.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Illustrations Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages Jane Beal 1 Jesus and the Psalms: The Witness of the Latin Liturgical Sequence Nancy van Deusen 2 The Miracles of Jesus in the Writings of the Venerable Bede George Hardin Brown 3 The “Hælend” and Other Images of Jesus in Anglo-Saxon England Larry Swain 4 Christ as an Early Irish Hero: The Poems of Blathmac, Son of Cú Brettan Tomás Ó Cathasaigh 5 The Teaching Logos: Christology and Tropology in Theophylact of Ochrid’s Interpretation of New Testament Parables Thomas Cattoi 6 “I Am”: The Glossa Ordinaria on John’s Gospel Linda Stone 7 Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West Rob Lutton 8 The Unicorn as a Symbol for Christ in the Middle Ages Jane Beal 9 Godly Bridegroom and Human Bride Andrew Galloway 10 Medieval Affective Piety and Christological Devotion: Juliana of Mont Cornillon and the Feast of Corpus Christi Barbara Zimbalist 11 Imitatio Christi and Authority in the Lives of St. Francis Donna Trembinski 12 Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of Helfta Aaron Canty 13 Christ as Turning Point in Dante’s Commedia Victorio Montemaggi and Lesley Sullivan 14 Jesus and the Christ in Two Middle English Psalm Commentaries Michael P. Kuczynski 15 Jesus as ‘Mother’ in Julian of Norwich’s Showing of Love Julia Bolton Holloway 16 Translation Debates and Lay Accessibility in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and Middle English Lives of Christ Paul J. Patterson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn international team of twenty scholars under Edmondo F. Lupieri’s direction produced Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond. While the historical figure of the Magdalene may be lost forever, the construction of her literary images and their transformations and adaptations over the centuries are a lively testimony to human creativity and faith. Different pictures of Mary travelled through time and space, from history to legend and mythology, crossed religious boundaries, going beyond the various Christianities, to become a “sign of contradiction” for many. This book describes a special case of biblical reception history, that of the New Testament figure of a woman whose presence at the side of Jesus has been disturbing for some, but proves to be inspiring for others.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Edmondo Lupieri Part 1: New Testament through Late Antiquity 1 The Earliest Magdalene: Varied Portrayals in Early Gospel Narratives  Edmondo Lupieri 2 The Apocryphal Magdalene: Expanding and Limiting Her Importance  Trent A. Rogers 3 The Gnostic Magdalene: Mary as Disciple and Revealer  Cambry G. Pardee 4 The Vine and the Net-Caster: Mandaean and Manichaean Transformations of Mary Magdalene  Emiliano Fiori 5 The Patristic Magdalene: Symbol for the Church and Witness to the Resurrection  Amanda Kunder 6 A Whore from Bethany? A Note on Mary Magdalene in Early Non-Christian Sources  Bas van Os 7 The Magdalene Yesterday and Today in the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife  David A. Creech Part 2: The Middle Ages through the Modern Age 8 The Cult of Mary Magdalene in the Medieval West  Theresa Gross-Diaz 9 The Magdalene of Medieval Hagiography  Seth J.A. Alexander 10 Suspended between Sacred and Profane: the Iconography of Mary Magdalene from Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century  Marcello Mignozzi 11 The Divided Magdalene: the Three Magdalenes Debate (1517–1519): between Humanism and Enlightenment  Jeffrey M. Tripp 12 The Uncontainable Sexuality of a Penitent Woman: the Magdalene between Baroque and Contemporary Art  Jayna Hoffacker Part 3: Contemporary Period 13 The Magdalene of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship  Teresa J. Calpino 14 From Disciple to Deviant: the Magdalene in Contemporary Popular Film  Erica-Lyn Saccucci 15 The Magdalene of Internet: New Age, Goddess, and Nature Spiritualities  James S. Mastaler 16 Wife, Queen, Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the New Religious-Spiritual Movements (19th–21st Centuries)  Carla Ricci 17 From Galilee to India: There Is Something about Mary (Magdalene)  Pierluigi Piovanelli 18 Why the Church Needs a Prostitutes’ Saint  Mary Setterholm 19 The Marys in the Contemporary Liturgical Practice of the Mary Magdalene (the) Apostle Catholic Community  Jane Via 20 The Legionaries of Mary Magdalene? Regarding Recent News  Ludovica Eugenio Index

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Book SynopsisIn Alfonso de Cartagena’s 'Memoriale virtutum' (1422), María Morrás and Jeremy Lawrance offer a critical edition of an anthology of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, compiled and significantly altered by the major Castilian intellectual of the day, Bishop Alfonso de Cartagena, and addressed to the heir to the throne of Portugal, Crown Prince Duarte. The work is a speculum principis, an education of a future king in the virtues suitable to a statesman. Cartagena’s choice of Aristotle was a harbinger of Renaissance ideas. The “memorial” sheds light on a society in transition, setting new ethical guidelines for the ruling class at the crossroads between medieval feudalism and Renaissance absolutism.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1 The book and its milieu  2 Courses for horses: Aristotle for lay princes  3 Memoriale’s paratexts: political and cultural ideas  4 Style and Latinity Prolegomena to the critical edition  1 Description of MSS  2 Recension  3 Editorial criteria  4 Translation Memoriale virtutum: Text and translation Stemma and sigla Tabula (addita ad initium A) Liber i Liber ii Apparatus of minor variants Works cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton uses extensive, original archival research to provide the first history of a unique and controversial papal privilege that allowed the first Jesuits to absolve heretics in sixteenth-century Italy without involving bishops or inquisitors. Dalton uses the story of this remarkable privilege to reconsider two central aspects of Jesuit history: their role in the Counter-Reformation and their relationship with the papacy. She convincingly argues that, in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, the Jesuits were valued collaborators of popes, inquisitors and princes not for their obedience and subservience but rather because they worked with an autonomy and flexibility that allowed them to convert heretics where political barriers and popular hostility hindered inquisitors and prelates.Trade Review“In summary, this book provides some good and original scholarship. […] Dalton is to be congratulated for […] mining numerous archival sources, some not previously used.” Paul F. Grendler, Emeritus, University of Toronto. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021), pp. 501–503.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Conventions Introduction 1 Historiography: the Story So Far 2 Sources 3 Overview 1 The Confident Society: Mission Building 1540–1555  1 Finding Supporters in Tridentine Italy  2 The Council of Bologna, 1547  3 Beyond Papal Obedience  4 Privileges and Pragmatism in the Mission Field  5 Conclusion 2 Collaboration, Competition and Conflict: the Jesuits and the Roman Inquisition  1 Competitors and Collaborators with the Holy Office  2 Popes, Empires and the Politics of Conversion  3 Good Cop/Bad Cop: Conversion Strategies in the 1560s  4 Conclusion 3 Between the Prince and the Pope: Pius v and the Rise of the Roman Inquisition  1 Pius v and the Rise of the Roman Inquisition  2 A Jesuit Spy in the Papal States  3 ‘A Firm Garrison to Resist Heresy’ in Savoy-Piedmont  4 Conclusion 4 Bargaining for Autonomy: Challenges and Change at the Close of the Sixteenth Century  1 Internal Conflicts and External Controversies  2 Troubles Abroad: Controversies in France and Spain  3 Defending the Privilege in the Late 1580s  4 Conclusion 5 All Roads Lead to Rome: Jesuit Agents and Rebels at the Close of the Sixteenth Century (1587–1605)  1 The Politics of Conversion at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century  2 Jesuit Disobedience  3 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisColonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangs’ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.Trade Review"This lengthy book draws on Bangs’s four decades of research into the Pilgrims. The range of topics is wide, including discussions and analyses of intellectual and religious history, the divisions of land in the colony, relevant portraits, old town records, and reception history, among other things. This book is not for beginners, and there is no summarizing narrative of the Pilgrims before and after their voyage to the New World. The basics are assumed. But those who know the story and are interested in digging more deeply will want to consult this informative volume, which is a fitting example of Bangs’s prolific work on the Pilgrims and does in fact shed new light." Keith D. Stanglin, Austin Graduate School of Theology, in Church History and Religious Culture CHRC 101.1, pp 119-120 "One problem with Pilgrim history is that everyone thinks they already know it. This book makes clear that in forty years of studying the Pilgrims, Bangs has discovered plenty that is new. Historians of early America owe it to themselves to listen." Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, in the Journal of Early American History, volume 10, pp. 112-115.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Section 1: The Old Colony Part 1: The Colony  1Plymouth’s Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth  1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colony’s Society  2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?  3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth  4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism  5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices  6Plymouth’s Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government  7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers  8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches  9Conclusion  2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony  1Empty New England  2Not Really Empty  3Pokanoket  4Nauset  5Nemasket  6The Massachusetts  7Narragansetts  8Intrigue and Death  9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses  10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve  11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve  12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve  13The Wampanoag  3William Bradford’s Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren  1Civil Marriage in Holland – Edward Grimeston  2King James i and Church Reform – Emanuel van Meteren  3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration  4Constructing History  4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony  1Death Preceded Them  2Bibles  3Psalm Books  4Theology  5Exegesis  6Piety  7Religious Polemics  8History  9Other  5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures  1Background  2A New Departure  3A New Plymouth?  4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow Part 2: The Towns  6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts  1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism  2Scituate’s Reality and Historiographical Myths  3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers  4Topics of Conversation  5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping  6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work  7Misbehavior  8Prices, Wages, and Livestock  9Some Conclusions  7Eastham Town Records Introduction  1Eastham’s Native Leaders and the First Colonists  8Sandwich Town Records Introduction  9Marshfield Town Records Introduction  1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland Section 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration  10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615–1699  1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance  2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution – 1614  3Dutch Aid Begins (1640’s)  4Isaac Hattavier’s Attempts to Help (1637–1658)  5Hans Vlamingh’s Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650’s and 1660’s)  61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners  7Philipp von Zesen’s Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)  8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671–1672  9The Disaster Year, 1672  10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb  11Philippus van Limborch and John Locke’s ‘Letter on Toleration’ (1685–1689)  12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance  11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration  1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland  2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?  3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island  4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants  5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration Section 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration  12The Triumph of the Pilgrims  1First-Person Fun  13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantation’s Architecture  1Fashionable Modes of Memory  2The background  31947–1966: Plimoth Plantation’s Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites  41967–1985: Pilgrims as Folk  51986–2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic  62000–now: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class  7Hypothetical Nature  8Hypothetical Future  9Postscript 2019  14Always More Pilgrim Books  1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story  2Nineteenth-century Histories  3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision  4Into the Future – Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond  5Where Do We Go Next?  15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce  1Talking Turkey  2The Text  3Thanking Whom?  4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!  5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves “Pilgrims.”  6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623  7The Libertarian’s First Thanksgiving  8A Cornucopia of Grievances  9The National Day of Mourning  10Genocide  11Lies My Teacher’s Telling Me Now  Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony  Books – Author or editor of  Book Chapters  Lemmas  Articles  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context. After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations, Tables and Map Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Origins of Isis, Goddess of the Seas  1.1 The Masters of the Waves in Ancient Egypt  1.2 Isis, Navigation, and the Aquatic Element during the Pharaonic Period  1.3 Isis, the Phoenicians, and the Greeks  1.4 Arsinoe, Aphrodite, Isis and the Marine Element 2 The Canonization of A New Prerogative 3 Representations of Isis, Goddess of the Seas  3.1 The Isis-with-a-Sail Type  3.2 The Problem of Sculpted Representations of the Isis-with-a-Sail Type  3.3 Other Representations of Isis, Goddess of the Seas 4 The Names of Isis, Goddess of the Seas  4.1 Isis Eὔπλοια  4.2 Isis πελαγία  4.3 Isis σώτειρα  4.4 Isis Φαρία  4.5 Isis κυβερνῆτις and ὁρμίστρια 5 A Cult for Isis, Goddess of the Seas  5.1 The Cult Sites of Marine Isis  5.2 Ritual Practices  5.3 Festivals in Honor of Isis, Goddess of the Seas 6 Sarapis and the Sea  6.1 Sarapis: Fulfilling the Need for a God  6.2 A New Field of Action for Sarapis  6.3 Isis and Sarapis, Figureheads and Names of Ships 7 Disappearance and Renaissance of Marine Isis and Sarapis Conclusion General Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Living under the Evil Pope, Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian Jewish moneylender Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan (alias Guglielmo di Diodato) from Civitanova Marche. The text remained in manuscript for about four centuries until the Galician scholar Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) published a Hebrew annotated edition of the chronicle in the 1930s. This remarkable source offers an account of the events of the Papal States during Paul IV’s pontificate (1555-59). Making use of broad archival materials, Martina Mampieri reflects on the nature of this work, its historical background, and contents, providing a revised edition of the Hebrew text as well as the first unabridged English translation and commentary. Martina Mampieri has been granted a special mention of excellence in the Alberigo Award 2021 by the European Academy of Religion and Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose. (https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/alberigo-award) "Martina Mampieri provides scholars with a source of great interest, which helps better understand the complex period following the election of Pope Paul IV Carafa from a Jewish perspective. This is undoubtedly an important book that contributes to the advancement of our knowledge regarding that historical moment." -Alessandra Veronese, AJS Review 45/1 (2021) "This valuable source is now available to the many – the many including, and this is no small thing, those who study the history of historical writing for itself as that writing began emerging from the shadows at just this time. We are deeply indebted." -Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa, Emeritus, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 20/1 (2021) "By triangulating important themes in early modern history with a rich and lengthy narrative source, Mampieri has produced an outstanding contribution to the ever-growing literature on interreligious and intercultural relations in the Papal States." -Frank Lacopo, Sixteenth Century Journal LIII/2 (2022)Trade Review"The first half of Mampieri’s edition of this work provides a detailed background for everything discussed by Benjamin in his chronicle. (...) This thoroughness will enable novices in Jewish studies, early modern Catholicism, or Italian history to catch up easily on context they need. (...) The second half of the book provides an English translation and Hebrew transcription of the text itself, annotated and presented with superlative linguistic skill. Mampieri has also furnished the volume richly with maps, useful tables, a luxurious number of plates and figures, and a full facsimile of the only surviving copy of the original manuscript (a transcription made in the nineteenth century). These all enhance its use as a teaching tool and give the chronicle solid purchase and context." - Emily Michelson, University of St Andrews, in: Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 44 No.1 (2021). "Thanks to Martina Mampieri’s exhaustive research and careful analysis, however, we now have a much fuller perspective on this work and its context. Mampieri’s Living under the Evil Pope, a revision and expansion of her PhD dissertation, offers a new critical edition of the chronicle, an English translation, critical and historical notes, a facsimile of the manuscript (now at the National Library of Israel), and some of the key archival documents. Mampieri also offers a full-scale monograph that uses the chronicle and archival sources to shed new light on the Jews of Civitanova Marche and the status of Jews in the Papal States during the papacy of Paul IV, 1555-1559. (...) Indeed, one of the most fascinating aspects of Mampieri’s work is her account of the modern traces of the work’s history—including a 1943 novelistic reworking of the Merchant of Venice based on Benjamin’s account. Mampieri also notes some of her research on the nachlass of Sonne here. We can look forward to her future publications that will tell us more about both twentieth-century scholarship and the Jews of sixteenth-century Italy. In the meantime, we have Mampieri’s careful study and excellent edition of an important primary source that offer us considerable advances in understanding the second half of the 1550s, a crucial moment in Italian Jewish history and Jewish-Christian relations." - Adam Shear, University of Pittsburg, in: Annali d’italianistica, Vol. 39 (2021). "Martina Mampieri provides scholars with a source of great interest, which helps better understand the complex period following the election of Pope Paul IV Carafa from a Jewish perspective. This is undoubtedly an important book that contributes to the advancement of our knowledge regarding that historical moment." - Alessandra Veronese, University of Pisa, in: AJS Review, Vol. 45 No. 1 (2021). "(...) even Hebrew speakers will benefit from the translation. This valuable source is now available to the many – the many including, and this is no small thing, those who study the history of historical writing for itself as that writing began emerging from the shadows at just this time. We are deeply indebted." - Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa, Emeritus, in: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2021). "This thorough volume makes available for the first time the diplomatic edition and English translation of an extraordinary sixteenth-century Hebrew source on the pontificate of Paul IV Carafa (1555–59), written by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche in the Papal States. (...) Benjamin’s chronicle was previously known—the Galician scholar Isaiah Sonne published a version of the text in 1930–31 with Hebrew annotations—but Mampieri corrects several mistakes from Sonne’s first, partial edition, and she accompanies the text with a meticulously researched introduction built on a veritable wealth of archival and literary sources. The volume also includes a facsimile of the only extant copy of Benjamin’s work, housed at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem; a documentary appendix; maps; and plates. (...) Not only is the publication and translation of Benjamin’s chronicle a very welcome addition for Jewish historians, but her detailed introduction will be essential reading for any scholar interested in the pontificate of Paul IV." - Francesca Bregoli, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74 No. 4 (2021). "Mampieri provides almost 200 pages of historical background placing the Hebrew chronicle in its context before offering a revised edition and an English translation, followed by a facsimile of the only surviving copy of the chronicle done in the 19th century. Recommended to all academic libraries." - Roger S. Kohn, Silver Spring, MD, in: AJL News and Reviews, Vol II, No 2 (2020-2021).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Bibliographical Notes Notes on Currency, Measures, and Time List of Maps and Plates Transliteration from Hebrew The Popes of the Roman Catholic Church (16th Cent.) Introduction Part 1: The Work and Its Context 1 The Jews in Civitanova Marche (15th–16th Cent.)  1.1 At the Origins of the Jewish Settlement  1.2 Networks of Credit: Moneylending, Trade, and Other Jewish Businesses  1.3 Jewish Life, Jewish Spaces  1.4 Family, Dowry, and Inheritance  1.5 Observant Preaching and the Rise of the Monte di Pietà (1556)  1.6 Crisis and Decline of the Jewish Presence in Civitanova Marche 2 Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan and His Chronicle of Pope Paul IV  2.1 The Author between Fiction and History  2.2 Narrative Structure  2.3 Sources, Language, and Style  2.4 The Legacy of Amalek and the Writing of History Part 2: A Reading of Paul IV’s Pontificate (1555–59) 3 Paul IV and Papal Policy towards the Jews  3.1 Marcellus II and the Alleged Blood Libel against the Jews of Rome  3.2 Paul IV’s Election to the Papal Throne (1555)  3.3 “Since It Is Absurd …”  3.4 The Burning at the Stake of the Portuguese Conversos in Ancona (1556) 4 Between the Centre and the Periphery of the Papal States  4.1 The Strengthening of the Roman Inquisition  4.2 The Pope’s War with Spain (1556–57)  4.3 The Exile of the Carafas and the Creation of the Sacro Consiglio  4.4 The Government of the Marca and Its Jews (1557–59) 5 Arrest and Imprisonment of the Jews of Civitanova Marche  5.1 “Dangerous Bonds”: Neophytes, Slanderers, and “Jewish Dogs”  5.2 From Civitanova Marche to Rome  5.3 The Inquisition Prisons at Ripetta 6 From Paul IV “the Evil” to Pius IV “the Merciful”  6.1 Sickness and Death of Paul IV  6.2 The Vacancy of the Holy See  6.3 Pius IV’s Election and the Fall of the House of Carafa Part 3: The Text Preface to the Edition and Annotated English Translation  The Manuscript and Isaiah Sonne’s Edition  Notes and Abbreviations  List of Hebrew Abbreviations (רשימת הקיצורים) Hebrew Text and English Translation Facsimile of NLI, Ms. Heb. 8°984 Documentary Appendix  Archival Documents  Chronology of the Events Reported in the Chronicle Bibliography  Archival and Manuscript Sources  Primary Sources  Studies and Reference Works Index of Names and Places

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Book SynopsisThe ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as “sacred space and pilgrimage.”Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction—Piety, Power, and Place in Central and East Asian Buddhism  Carmen Meinert and Henrik H. Sørensen  Part 1: Patronage and Legitimation  1 Who Is Legitimating Whom? On Justifying Buddhism’s Place in the Body Politic  Sem Vermeersch  2 Images of Patronage in Khotan  Erika Forte  3 Uyghur Royal Patronage and the Buddhist Legitimation  Yukiyo Kasai  4 Donors and Esoteric Buddhism in Dunhuang during the Reign of the Guiyijun  Henrik H. Sørensen  5 The Formation of Tangut Ideology: Buddhism and Confucianism  Kirill Solonin Part 2: Sacred Space and Pilgrimage  6 From Padmasambhava to Gö Tsangpa: Rethinking Religious Patronage in the Indian Himalayas between the 8th and 13th Centuries  Verena Widorn  7 Sacred Space in Uyghur Buddhism  Jens Wilkens  8 Pilgrims in Old Uyghur Inscriptions: A Glimpse behind Their Records  Simone-Christiane Raschmann  9 Looking from the Periphery: Some Additional Thoughts on Yulin Cave  Max Deeg  10 Creation of Tantric Sacred Spaces in Eastern Central Asia  Carmen Meinert Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe religious landscape in Asia has long been diverse, with various forms of syncretic traditions and pragmatic practices continuously having been challenged by centrifugal forces of differentiation. This anthology explores representations and managements of religious diversity in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and diaspora religions originating in these countries, seen through the lenses of history, identity, state, ritual and geography. In addition to presenting empirical cases, the chapters also address theoretical and methodological reflections using Asia as a laboratory for further comparative research of the relevance and use of 'religious diversity'. Religious Diversity in Asia was made possible by a framework grant from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation allowing the grant holder (Jørn Borup) and two colleagues (Marianne Q. Fibiger and Lene Kühle) to host a workshop at Aarhus University and to co-arrange workshops in Delhi and Nagoya. We would like to thank professors Arshad Alam and Michiaki Okuyama for hosting these latter workshops at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Nanzan University, and we would like to thank Professor Chong-Suh Kim for the invitation for Jørn Borup to visit Seoul National University. We would also like to extend our gratitude to all the scholars who participated in the workshops and to all the authors we subsequently invited to contribute to our endeavor to create this academically relevant volume.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Jørn Borup and Marianne Q. Fibiger Part 1: Religious Diversities – Past and Present 1 Religious Diversity on the Korean Peninsula, Past and Present  Don Baker 2 Religious Diversity in Japan  Ugo Dessì 3 The Double-Layered Diversification of Religion in Post-Renovation Vietnam  Chung Van Hoang PART 2: Identities 4 Some ‘Side Effects’ of Religious Diversity: Exploring Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular State  Ayelet Harel-Shalev and Noa Levy 5 The Challenge of Diversity: Evangelical Missionaries and Ethno-Christianity in Reform Era Yunnan  Gideon Elazar 6 From Syncretism to Split: Ethnographic Insights from a Socio-Religious Movement in India  Santosh K. Singh Part 3: Education 7 Religious Diversity with Chinese Characteristics? Meanings and Implications of the Term ‘Religious Diversity’ in Contemporary Chinese Dissertations  Yu Tao and Ed Griffith 8 How Religious Diversity Is Represented and Taught in Asian School Textbooks  Satoko Fujiwara Part 4: Ritual 9 Worshipping Durga(s) Dasara, Durga Puja and the Dynamics of Goddess Worship in a Former Princely State in Odisha, India  Uwe Skoda 10 Religious Diversity and Interreligious Contestations in Sri Lanka: the Encounter between Buddhism and Islam in the Galebandara Cult in Kurunagala  Kalinga Tudor Silva Part 5: Diaspora 11 La Caridad, Oshún, and Kuan Yin in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba  Martin A. Tsang 12 Religious Diversity among Asians in Old Diasporas  Jorn Borup and Marianne Q. Fibiger Conclusion  Lene Kühle Index

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Book SynopsisChina’s Old Churches, by Alan Sweeten, surveys the history of Catholicism in China (1600 to the present) as reflected by the location, style, and details of sacred structures in three crucial areas of north China. Closely examined are the most famous and important churches in the urban settings of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as lesser-known ones in rural Hebei Province. Missionaries built Western-looking churches to make a broad religious statement important to themselves and Chinese worshippers. Non-Catholics, however, tended to see churches as sociopolitically foreign and culturally invasive. The physical-visual impact of church buildings is significant. Today, restored old churches and new sacred structures are still mostly of Western style, but often include a sacred grotto dedicated to Our Lady of China--a growing number of Catholics supporting Marian-centered activities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Special Terms and Acronyms List of Abbreviations 1 An Introduction to Old Churches 2 Church Building and Church Buildings 3 The Historic Churches of Central Beijing 4 Greater Beijing’s Old Church Sites and Churches 5 Tianjin’s Old Sacred Structures 6 Old Churches in Hebei’s Small Cities, Towns, and Villages 7 The Churches of Rural Zhuozhou, Past and Present 8 The Catholic Legacy Appendix 1: Chinese Catholics, Estimates by Year and Place Appendix 2: Additional Ecclesiastical Divisions for Zhili/Hebei Appendix 3: Currency Exchange Rate Estimates Appendix 4: The South Church’s Stelae Appendix 5: The North Church’s Stelae Appendix 6: The West Church’s Stone Tablets Appendix 7: The Government Memorial at Tianjin’s Wanghailou Church Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess Gerald V. Lalonde offers the first comprehensive history of the martial cult of Athena Itonia, from its origins in Greek prehistory to its demise in the Roman imperial age. The Itonian goddess appears first among the Thessalians and eventually as the patron deity of their famed cavalry. Archaic poets attest to "Athena, warrior goddess" and her festival games at the Itoneion near Boiotian Koroneia. The cult also came south to Athens, probably with the mounted Thessalian allies of Peisistratos. Hellenistic decrees from Amorgos tell of elaborate festival sacrifices to Athena Itonia, likely supplications for protection of the islanders and their maritime trade when piracy plagued the Cyclades after collapse of the Greek naval forces that policed the Aegean Sea. This will be an indispensable volume for all interested in the social, political, and military uses of ancient Greek religious cult and the geography, chronology, and circumstances of its propagation among Greek poleis and federations.Trade Review"The study by Gerald Lalonde is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to this subject and will thus provide a reference book for any future work connected with this goddess (...) One of the merits of Lalonde's investigation is his ability to argue for his thesis with the full range of extant evidence, rather than relying on hypothetical and unattested connections." - Salvatore Tufano, Sapienza Università di Roma, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.06.06.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Thessaly  1 The Thessalian Precedence of Athena Itonia  2 The Military Character of Athena Itonia in Thessaly  3 The Itonian Cult in the Political and Military Traditions of Thessaly  4 The Geography and Archaeology of the Thessalian Cult of Athena Itonia 2 Boiotia  1 Introduction  2 Source, Chronology, and Circumstances of the Establishment of the Itonian Cult in Boiotia  3 The Question of Identification of the Itonian Sanctuary Near Koroneia  4 Relation of Other Boiotian Sanctuaries of Athena to the Itoneion Near Koroneia  5 The Character of Boiotian Athena Itonia and her Cult  6 Iodama  7 Functions of the Boiotian Itoneion 3 Athens  1 Introduction  2 The Epigraphic Evidence  3 Location of the Sanctuary of Athena Itonia at Athens  4 Origins of The Itonian Cult at Athens: Chronology and Circumstances  5 Summary 4 Amorgos  1 Introduction  2 The Source of the Itonian Cult on Amorgos  3 Archons for the Itonia  4 Functions of the Honored Archons  5 Rituals of the Itonia on Amorgos  6 Archontic Monetary Contributions and the Finance of the Itonia  7 Honors for the Archons for the Itonia  8 Itonian Sanctuary and Festival: Were They Shared by Arkesine and Minoa?  9 Facilities Related to the Itonian Festival  10 Prosopography and Wealth of Archons for the Itonia  11 The Character of Athena Itonia in the Amorgian Cult  12 Summary Appendix: Athena Itonia Indigenous to Athens? Illustrations Bibliography Index of Passages Cited Index of Inscriptions Cited Index of Important Greek Words Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians, Jerome Teelucksingh offers a revisionist perspective of the role of the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad. He is particularly interested in social mobility as regards the Indo-Caribbean diaspora in the era following the First World War. He argues that the Presbyterian Church in the Caribbean was particularly interested in women’s rights. As such, he examines the dynamic between local expertise and Canadian missionary work in such social uplift processes.Trade Review"Teelucksingh must be commended for bringing attention to the investments, challenges, and achievements of the Presbyterian mission among Trinidad Indians. The book deserves a place in the historiography of Caribbean Indians and will be useful to researchers, instructors, and students who are interested in how a Canadian Christian religious mission has been successful in transforming the lives of an immigrant group in Trinidad." - Lomarsh Roopnarine, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 95: Issue 1-2, Pages: 166–167Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Conversion and Education of the Indians 1 Rural Schools 2 Conversion   3 Ordinances and Progress   4 Ethnicity and Integration   5 Secondary Schools   2 Caribbean Missions: The Spread of Presbyterianism in British West Indian colonies 1 Presbyterianism in Grenada  2 Presbyterianism in Jamaica   3 Presbyterianism in St. Lucia   4 Presbyterianism in Guyana (British Guiana)  5 Global and Regional Linkages   3 Rebuilding a Society: Preparing Foundations 1 Co-curricular Activities   2 Myths and Realities   3 Beacon in South Trinidad   4 Naparima Training College   5 Importance of Hindi  6 Turbulent Thirties  7 Church and School Linkages   8 More Beacons   4 Uneasy Transitions: Presbyterian Schools and Excellence 1 Brewing Trouble: Denominational versus Government Schools   2 Growth of the Presbyterian Schools   3 Primary Schools   4 Emergence of Hindu and Muslim Schools   5 Naparima Training College 1956–1975   6 Shortcomings of the Church   5 Culture, Ethnicity and Administration 1 Return to Cultural Roots   2 Primary School Administration   3 Allegations   4 Involvement in Pre-schools   5 Work Ethic in Secondary Schools   6 Church Administration and Women’s Liberation 1 Early Church Administration   2 Sense of Belonging   3 Catechists   4 Women’s Work, Teenagers and Children   5 Boards of Education   Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Complexity of Hispanic Religious Life in the 16th–18th Centuries, Doris Moreno has assembled a team of leading scholars to discuss and analyze the diversity of Hispanic religious and cultural life in the Early Modern Age. Using primary sources to look beyond the Spanish Black Legend and present new perspectives, this book explores the realities of a changing and plural Catholicism through the lens of crucial topics such as the Society of Jesus, the Inquisition, the Martyrdom, the feminine visions and conversion medicine. This volume will be an essential resource to all those with an interest in the knowledge of multiple expressions of tolerance and cultural dialectic between Spain and the Americas.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors First Version and Edition of These Works Introduction  Doris Moreno and Ricardo García Cárcel 1 The Jesuits, the Inquisition and the Spiritual Frontier of 1559 in Spain  Doris Moreno 2 Martyrdom and Mission in the Early-Modern Iberian World  José Luis Betrán 3 Tolerance and Intolerance in the Ecclesiastical Discourse on the Feminine Visions  Rosa María Alabrús Iglesias 4 The Other Forms of Tolerance in Early Modern Spain  Ricardo García Cárcel 5 Inquisitorial Memory and Everyday Life in the Hispanic World  Manuel Peña Díaz 6 The Convent as a Space for Novohispanic Medical Culture  José Pardo-Tomás 7 Transfer of Knowledges: Written Culture and Books in the Hispanic Atlantic World  Pedro Rueda Ramírez 8 Against the Black Legend: The Justification of the Conquest of America in the Origins of Spanish Conservative Thought  Bernat Hernández Index of Places Index of Names Index of Subject Matter

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Book SynopsisHagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500 shows the historical value of texts celebrating saints—both the most abundant medieval source material and among the most difficult to use. Hagiographical sources present many challenges: they are usually anonymous, often hard to date, full of topoi, and unstable. Moreover, they are generally not what we would consider factually accurate. The volume’s twenty-one contributions draw on a range of disciplines and employ a variety of innovative methods to address these challenges and reach new discoveries about the medieval world that extend well beyond the study of sanctity. They show the rich potential of hagiography to enhance our knowledge of that world, and some of the ways to unlock it. Contributors are Ellen Arnold, Helen Birkett, Edina Bozoky, Emma Campbell, Adrian Cornell du Houx, David Defries, Albrecht Diem, Cynthia Hahn, Samantha Kahn Herrick, J.K. Kitchen, Jamie Kreiner, Klaus Krönert, Mathew Kuefler, Katherine J. Lewis, Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, Charles Mériaux, Paul Oldfield, Sara Ritchey, Catherine Saucier, Laura Ackerman Smoller, and Ineke van ‘t Spijker. See inside the book.Trade Review"Bilan bienvenu des avancés de la recherche dans le domaine des textes hagiographiques, souvent anonymes et mal datés, mais qui nous renseignent sur la ville, la violence, l’autre, le monachisme ... et l’évolution de l’idéal de sainteté qui reflète l’évolution de la société.Les chapitres écrits par les spécialistes qui résument leurs travaux s’organisent dans des thématiques: création des textes, développement des pratiques, efforts des hagiographes pour moraliser la politique, place des cités et de l’environnement". Anne Wagner, in Francia Recensio, 2020 | 3. "In this book, Samantha Kahn Herrick offers a brief and invaluable introduction to modern critical encounters with the genre [of hagiography], starting with Hippolyte Delehaye, and collecting insights from Marc Bloch, Peter Brown, Patrick Geary, and Felice Lifschitz, to set a platform for the chapters to follow. The book doesn’t disappoint in showcasing current trends in the study of the hagiography of Latin Christendom, understood in its broadest sense, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries. [...] A strong theme of the book is that medieval politics was in considerable part a liturgical phenomenon, a fact that only increases our need to engage with this vast literature as evidence for political history, as well as ecclesiastical history and the history of religious cultures. In all three areas, the book makes a satisfying contribution." Simon Yarrow, in The Medieval Review, 23.03.21. See the full review here.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Samantha Kahn Herrick Part 1 Creating and Transmitting Texts 1 Constructing the Text: a Comparative Study of Two Saints’ Lives Written c.1200  Helen Birkett 2 From “Real Life” to Saint’s Life: Biography and Hagiography in the Vitae of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer  Laura Ackerman Smoller 3 Understanding Pictorial Hagiography (with Comments on the Illustrated Life of Wandrille)  Cynthia Hahn 4 Saints’ Lives on the Move: the Circulation of Apostolic Legends  Samantha Kahn Herrick 5 Thirteenth-Century Legendae Novae and the Preaching Orders: a Communication System  Giovanni Paolo Maggioni Part 2 Constructing Religious Life, History and the Self 6 Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages  Albrecht Diem 7 Bishops, Monks and Priests: Defining Religious Institutions by Writing and Rewriting Saints’ Lives (Francia, 6th–11th centuries)  Charles Mériaux 8 Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship  Catherine Saucier 9 “Impressed by Their Stamp”: Hagiography and the Cultivation of the Self  Ineke van ’t Spijker Part 3 Power and Violence 10 Gaul’s Insiders: Hagiography and Entitlement  Jamie Kreiner 11 St Gerald of Aurillac, Sex and Violence in Medieval Hagiography  Mathew Kuefler 12 The Unconvincing Martyrdom of William Longsword, Norman Count of Rouen (r. 928–42)  David Defries 13 Hagiography, Relics and Secular Politics in Western Europe 6th–13th Centuries  Edina Bozóky Part 4/b> Urban Life and the Natural World 14 Hagiography and Inter-Urban Rivalry: the Vita of St Eucharius, First Bishop of Trier, and Its Use in “Political” Quarrels during the Tenth Century  Klaus Krönert 15 Hagiography and Urban Life: Evidence from Southern Italy  Paul Oldfield 16 Hagiography and the Exotic: “Foreign Saints” in High Medieval Lucca  Adrian Cornell du Houx 17 Environmental History and Hagiography  Ellen Arnold Part 5/b> Gender, Health and Beauty 18 Hagiography, Gender, and the Power of Social Norms  Emma Campbell 19 A King, Not a Servant: the Prose Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and Ideologies of Masculinity in Late Medieval England  Katherine J. Lewis 20 Health, Healing, and Salvation: Hagiography as a Source for Medieval Healthcare  Sara Ritchey 21 The Beautiful Dead: Materiality, Resurrection and the Aesthetics of Holy Corpses  J.K. Kitchen Hagiography Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this collection of essays is to bring together new comparative research studies on the place and role of the Bible in early modern Europe. It focuses on lay readings of the Bible, interrogating established historical, social, and confessional paradigms. It highlights the ongoing process of negotiation between the faithful congregation and ecclesiastical institutions, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. It shows how, even in the latter, where biblical translations were eventually forbidden, the laity drew upon the Bible as a source of ethical, cultural, and spiritual inspiration, contributing to the evolution of central aspects of modernity. Interpreting the Bible could indeed be a means of feeding critical perspectives and independent thought and behavior. Contributors: Erminia Ardissino, Xavier Bisaro, Élise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sabrina Corbellini, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim François, Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Concetta Pennuto.Trade Review“This fine collection of essays conveys different perspectives on the relationship of the laity to the Bible throughout the early modern period. […] Sprawling throughout this volume are a number of interconnected issues that make this collection especially useful as a guide to the ways the Bible connected people across Europe.” Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1026–1028. "La ricchezza e varietà di esame da casi singoli a riflessioni più generali rendono il volume molto interessante e promettente di altri sviluppi, grazie all’ottima scelta di temi e alla caratura degli studiosi invitati." Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369 "The richness and variation of the research, from single cases to more general reflections, make this volume very interesting and promising for other developments, due to the excellent choice of themes and the caliber of the invited scholars." Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: Introduction  Erminia Ardissino and Élise Boillet PART 1: The Bible in the European History: a Constant Exposition and an Essential Reference 1 Fides ex auditu: Hearing and Reading the Bible  Gordon Campbell 2 Under the Sign of Jonah: the Bible in Early Modern Europe  François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles 3 Some Irreligious Uses of the Bible in the Early Modern Period  Jean-Pierre Cavaillé PART 2: To Read or Not to Read the Bible: Instructions and Prohibitions about Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe 4 The Debate Surrounding Lay Bible Reading in Spain in the Sixteenth Century  Ignacio J. García Pinilla 5 Lay Debates about the Sacrality of the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Geneva  Max Engammare 6 The Bible and the Early Modern Catholic Tradition: from Rome to the Margins of Europe  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin PART 3: Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: a Plurality of Books, Uses, and Interpretations 7 Reading the Gospels in the Life and Passion of Christ in French (ca. 1400–ca. 1550)  Margriet Hoogvliet 8 For Early Modern Printed Biblical Literature in Italian: Lay Authorship and Readership  Élise Boillet 9 Bible Production and Bible Readers in the Age of Confessionalisation: the Case of the Low Countries  Wim François 10 The Other Psalm Singing: Biblical Training in the Catholic Petites Écoles during the Late Renaissance  Xavier Bisaro PART 4: Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: the Formation of Social and Professional Identities 11 Francisco Vallés’ De Sacra Philosophia: a Medical Reading of the Bible  Concetta Pennuto 12 The Finger and the Tongue of God: Johannes Kepler, Reformation Theology, and the New Astronomy  Stefano Gattei 13 Women Interpreting Genesis in Early Modern Italy: Arguments Supporting Gender Equality  Erminia Ardissino PART 5: Afterword 14 Afterword: the Bible and the Laity in Long-Term Perspective  Sabrina Corbellini Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis monograph offers a full inventory and analysis of all of the extant correspondence between the bishops of Hispania and Rome from the third to the seventh century. No such study has been executed in any language. The study intends to enlighten the reader on how the bishops of Hispania and the Roman pontiffs interacted with each other. Of interest is the development of the Petrine Primacy and how it was applied in many situations where Rome was asked to intervene in Hispania, dealing with issues including the liturgy, creeds, heresy, sacraments, episcopal authority, ecclesiology, papal authority and more.Trade Review“This is a well informed book, with some innovative observations and offering a healthily critical stance free of methodological and ideological prejudices. It will become a companion for anyone interested in issues such as Priscillianism, the primacy of Rome in the western Church in Late Antiquity, and the importance of the Church in the construction of the Suevic and Gothic kingdoms in Spain in this period." - Luis A. García Moreno, Real Academia de la Historia, Spain "This is a detailed and independent-minded study of the various theological issues discussed in the surviving papal letters that were sent to recipients in the Iberian Peninsula between the third and seventh centuries. It pays particular attention to the use in them of claims of Petrine primacy and how these developed over the course of this period. In stressing the way in which the popes consistently combined the assertion of their own unique apostolic responsibility with reference to other sources of authority, notably ecumenical councils, this book illuminates the key episodes in the history of relations between the Spanish church and the Papacy in these centuries." - Roger Collins, Honorary Fellow School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Book SynopsisIn Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant’s Attempt to Reform Christianity, Francesco Quatrini offers a reassessment of the life and thought of Adam Boreel, a leading member of the Dutch nonconformist Collegiant movement. Usually regarded as a less important member of this religious group, Boreel is described as a forerunner whose ideas influenced later Collegiants. Drawing on both archival and published sources, Francesco Quatrini provides the first modern biography of Boreel as well as a critical analysis of his writings. He corrects misconceptions about Boreel, who appears here as an intriguing figure who drew his views from several different sources. In this way, Francesco Quatrini revealed that Boreel was a major leader in the era’s intellectual discourse.

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