History of religion Books

Book SynopsisIn The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy (1564–1733), Els Agten studies the impact of Jansenism and anti–Jansenism on the ideas regarding vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book provides a review of book censorship during this time. Furthermore, it analyses the ideas and the writings of ten protagonists, including theologians, Bible translators, ecclesiastical authorities and representatives of Port-Royal. In particular, the author demonstrates how, even as their opponents took a more cautious position, the Jansenists encouraged the laity, including women and children, to read the Bible without any restrictions.Trade Review“the book certainly delivers. Its main strength lies in the fact that it is based on thorough research and provides a detailed and nuanced analysis and comparison of the textual output of each of the book’s ‘stakeholders’.” Jaap Geraerts, Leibniz Institute of European History, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 72 (2021).

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Book SynopsisCultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600–1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed Church of Scotland was heavily reliant on informal, domestic modes of self-help throughout the seventeenth century. The existence and widespread acceptance of informal care dramatically changes our understanding of the impact of the Calvinist Reformation. Local ecclesiastical and secular leaders did not have a concerted policy to affect or ameliorate informal networks of care. Reformed authorities were members of these networks, as well as agents to police them, collapsing distinctions between informal and formal modes of Calvinist authority.Trade Review“The strengths of Langley’s work lie in its readability. The prose is engaging and the various specific examples allow for connection with the individuals living in the distant past. He takes a broad concept—‘care’—and makes it more digestible.” Charlotte Holmes, in: Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 2 (August, 2021), pp. 287–288. “This book provides a significant step forward in early modern Scottish social history. However it also has important implications for the history of the Reformed Kirk in demonstrating that kirk sessions did not seek to marginalise, downgrade, or control informal care.” John McCallum, Nottingham Trent University. In: Scottish Church History, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2021), pp. 171–173.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Poor Relief 2 Non-Institutional Charity, Domesticity and Reformed Intervention 3 Method and Sources 4 Charity and the Kirk Session 1 Kindness and the Parish  1 Carers and Care Acts  2 Petitioning 2 Childcare  1 Fosterage and Wet Nursing  2 Childcare and Sermons 3 Illegitimacy  1 Parish Networks  2 Fostering Bastards  3 Negligence and Infanticide 4 Illness  1 Neighbourly and Kin Assistance  2 Disciplinary Consequences  3 Charming 5 Disability  1 Attitudes towards Disability  2 Parish Stability 6 Death  1 Providing Deathbed Care  2 Clerics and Carers  3 Post-Mortem Practices Conclusion 1 Informality 2 Social Capital Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.

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Book SynopsisNarrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion presents the aesthetics of narrativity in religious contexts by approaching narrative acts as situated modes of engaging with reality, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances. Introducing narrative cultures as an integrative framework of analysis, the volume builds a bridge between classical content-based approaches to narrative sources and the aesthetic study of religions as constituted by sensory and mediated practices. Studying stories in conjunction with the role that performative acts of storytelling play in the cultivation of the senses, the contributors explore the efficacy of storytelling formats in narrative cultures from ancient times until today, in regions and cultures across the globe.Trade Review“Readers interested in any aspect of religious narrative, embodiment, and performance are sure to find this volume important and thought provoking. By foregrounding sensory and aesthetic experience, the contributors to this volume productively expand the possibilities of thinking about the work of narrative in religious studies. The book should also be praised for the impressive diversity of material covered.” Gregory M. Clines. Trinity University, Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion 52, 2020Table of ContentsContents Preface Dirk Johannsen, Anja Kirsch and Jens Kreinath List of Figures Notes on Contributors Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion: An Introduction Dirk Johannsen and Anja Kirsch Encounters: Vernacular Religious Storytelling 1 One Ritual—Many Stories: On Making Sense of a Hindu Ritual Brigitte Luchesi 2 Narrating Spirit Possession Katharina Wilkens 3 How to Sense a Ghost: On the Aesthetics of Legend Traditions Dirk Johannsen 4 Studying Religions as Narrative Cultures: Angel Experience Narratives in the Netherlands and Some Ideas for a Narrative Research Program for the Study of Religion Markus Altena Davidsen and Bastiaan von Rijn Identities: Narrating and Counter-Narrating Gods and People 5 Feeling Narrative Cultures: Analyzing Emotions in Religious Narratives with Examples from Old-Babylonian Ninurta Myths Laura Feldt 6 Aztec Pictorial Narratives: Visual Strategies to Activate Embodied Meaning and the Transformation of Identity in the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 Isabel Laack 7 Transmedial Narrative Cultures: Upanishadic Spirituality in the Indian Tele-Serial ``Upanishad Ganga'' Annette Wilke 8 Storytelling and Mediation: The Aesthetics of a Counter-Narrative of Atheism in South India Stefan Binder Arts: Narrative Craft Beyond Words 9 Braiding Ropes, Weaving Baskets: The Narrative Culture of Ancient Monasticism Ingvild Sælid Gilhus 10 Immersing in the World of Radha and Krishna: Visual Storytelling in the Context of Religious Practice Caroline Widmer 11 Foundational Narratives in Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Observation of the Ineffable: Two ``Public Cases'' (gong'an/kōan) of the Gateless Barrier of Chan Lineage Martin Lehnert 12 Poetic Imagination in Scientific Practice: Grand Unification as Narrative Worldmaking Arianna Borrelli 13 What Happens When the Story Is Told? Reflections on the Aesthetics of Narrative Worldmaking and Aesthetic Sensation—Afterthoughts Jens Kreinath Index

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Book SynopsisEssays in Christian Teachers in Second-Century Rome situate Christian teachers in the social and intellectual context of the Roman urban environment. The teaching and textual work of well-known figures such as Marcion, Justin, Valentinus, and Tatian are discussed, as well as lesser-known and appreciated figures such as Theodotus the Cobbler. Authors probe material and visual evidence on teachers and teaching activity, adopting different theoretical perspectives that go beyond the traditional “church – school” dichotomy: comparative looks at physicians, philosophers and other textual experts; at synagogues, shops and other sites where students gathered around religious entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, the volume makes a strong case for the sheer diversity of Christian teaching activity in second-century Rome.

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Book SynopsisCalvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548–1648 offers an in-depth history of the Reformed Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in their first hundred years. Kazimierz Bem analyses church polity, liturgy, the practices of Calvinist church discipline and piety, and the reasons for conversion to and from Calvinism in all strata of the society. Drawing on extensive research in primary sources, Bem challenges the dominant narrative of Protestant decline after 1570 and argues for a continued flourishing of Calvinism in the Commonwealth until the 1630s.Trade Review"This handsome volume is a pleasure to handle (---) The attractive presentation is enhanced by the clarity of the work’s structure. (---) [Bem's] unconcealed sympathies and convictions have not hindered him from writing the first modern historical synthesis in any language of Calvinism, broadly understood, in the entire Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It can be recommended to all scholars and advanced students interested in the history of the Reformation in Europe." - prof. Wioletta Pawlikowska Butterwick, Journal of Ecclesiastical History "This is the first scholarly monograph of the Reformed Churches in Poland-Lithuania in the period of the Reformation’s growth down through the beginning of its decline. (...) It is also a merit of the book to have drawn our attention to the manifold roles women played in Reformed congregations of the Commonwealth." - prof. Waldemar Kowalski, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Name and Place Conventions Timeline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Maps and Illustrations PART 1 The Commonwealth in the Age of the Reformation 1 Introduction 2 The Land of Many Sects  2.1 The People and Their Religions  2.2 The Territories and Their Governance  2.3 The Reformation in Poland and Lithuania before 1548 PART 2 The Reformed Churches 3 Church Polity  3.1 The Early Years: 1548–1595  3.2 Growing Together: 1595–1630s  3.3 The 1634 Wlodawa General Convocation and Its Aftermath 4 The Liturgy  4.1 The Early Years 1550–1595  4.2 Krainski’s Forma of 1599 and the 1601 Agenda in Lesser Poland  4.3 Liturgical Developments in the Greater Poland Brethren Churches  4.4 Reformed Liturgy in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1550–1621  4.5 Toward a Unified Reformed Liturgy in Poland and Lithuania 5 Church Discipline  5.1 Theological Background of Reformed Church Discipline before 1634  5.2 The Practice of Reformed Church Discipline before 1634  5.3 Reformed Church Discipline after the 1634 Wlodawa Convocation 6 The Ministry 7 Patterns of Piety PART 3 The Reformed Faithful 8 The Nobles Convert 9 A Few Sheep Are Better than a Herd of Pigs 10 Calvinists in Royal Towns 11 Calvinist Fishing in Lutheran Waters 12 “Most Fanatical Champions of Their Perfidious Dogmas”— Women and Calvinism in the Commonwealth 13 The Ambiguity of Numbers 14 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign. Muller shows that Elizabeth’s excommunication was a crucial turning point for both Catholics and Protestants, one that irrevocably changed attitudes towards the queen, widened political participation and resistance, and posed a destabilising threat to her regime. The Excommunication of Elizabeth I demonstrates how this event exacerbated religious tensions in England’s foreign and domestic politics, and how Elizabeth’s conflict with the papacy shaped the development of anti-Catholicism in post-Reformation England.Trade Review“The Excommunication of Elizabeth I presents an arresting narrative of queried legitimacy, reactive politics, and subversion that informs of the wider tumults of the revolutionary age and stands as an object lesson in maintaining cordial relations.” Patrick J. Murray, in: Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2021), pp. 261–263.Table of ContentsAAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Note on the Text  Introduction  1 Queen Elizabeth’s Excommunication in Post-Reformation Politics  2 Elizabeth’s Excommunication in Surviving Records 1 The Excommunication of Elizabeth I in International Politics  1 Making the Case for Elizabeth's Illegitimacy, 1558–1569  2 Interpreting and Executing Regnans in Excelsis 2 Transmitting the Excommunication of Elizabeth I  1 Distribution and Reception in the 1570s  2 Catholic Missions and the Circulation of Regnans in Excelsis, ca. 1580–1603  3 Debating the Excommunication’s Legitimacy 3 Spreading the Word? Regnans in Excelsis in Protestant Discourse  1 Humour, History, and Anxiety in Printed Responses to Regnans in Excelsis  2 Protestant Translations of Regnans in Excelsis 4 The Excommunication in Foreign and Domestic Policy  1 Threats from Spain and Scotland, ca. 1570–1579  2 Regnans in Excelsis and the Coming of War, ca. 1580–1588  3 Wars with Spain, France, and Ireland, ca. 1589–1603 5 Political Engagement, Subversion, and Resistance in England and Ireland  1 Sedition as Resistance: Perceptions of Elizabeth after 1570  2 Alternatives to Violence: Prohibited Objects, Recusancy, and Public Disobedience  3 Regnans in Excelsis and Resistance in Ireland Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe full significance of Cecil Henry Polhill (1860-1938), the wealthy squire of Howbury Hall, is known to few, yet he was one of the founding fathers of the Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition in Britain, and his impact and legacy stretch far beyond British shores to North America, the Far East and elsewhere. In Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist John Usher comprehensively connects Polhill's early life and former experiences as an Evangelical Anglican missionary in China, a member of the Cambridge Seven, with his time as a pioneer of early Pentecostalism, and in doing so reveals a much more richly contoured and multifaceted picture of the development of early Pentecostalism than previously achieved.Trade Review"Usher’s book has left few bibliographic stones unturned. The scope of the research is amazing... Usher, the editors of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, and Brill are to be thanked for producing what will long be a crucial standard work for the study of UK Pentecostalism, Pentecostal mission, and more generally of global Pentecostalism." - David Bundy, Manchester, UK, in: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association (2022). “It is extremely rare to find, among those who have written on early Pentecostal figures, many who have taken the time to work in such detail and it may be the first such study that I have found on a British figure. It is first rate.” – Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., Professor Church History and Ecumenics, Fuller Seminary. “Undoubtedly highly original and a significant contribution to knowledge…some truly excellent archival research underpinning the writing….” – Andrew Davies, University of Birmingham.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Foreword  List of Illustrations  Abbreviations  Introduction 1 From Eton to China (1860–1885) 2 Imperial China: Frequent Danger and the Power of the Holy Spirit (1885–1888) 3 Mysterious Tibet: The Land “in Gross Darkness with Hardly a Gleam of Light” (1888–1900) 4 Life in England, “for China and Tibet, and for Worldwide Revival,” Prayer and Activism between Leaving China and Discovering Pentecostalism (1900–1907) 5 Embracing and Leading Early British Pentecostalism (1908–1910) 6 A Vision Realised, “The Tribes Abound and Are Clamouring for the Gospel,” Polhill and the Pmu at the Tibetan Border (1910–1914)  Appendix 1 The Testimony of Wang Tsuan Yi (Uang-Ts’Ong-I)  Appendix 2 Full Text of the “Memorandum of Agreement between the China Inland Mission and the Tibetan Band” 1896  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a series of new perspectives on the political, military, and religious history of the reign of Fernando III, king of Castile-León, from 1217-1252. The essays collected here address the conquest of al-Andalus and the policies of Fernando III, Christian-Muslim relations in the Peninsula, the creation and curation of royal networks of power, the role of women at the Castilian court, and the impact of religious change in Castile-León. Assembling an international group of eleven leading scholars on this period of Iberian history, this volume combines military and religious history with a variety of novel approaches and methodologies to ask new and exciting questions about the reign of Fernando III and his place in medieval European history. Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Figures and Tables  Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors  Fernando III and His World   Edward L. Holt and Teresa Witcombe 1 Empire and Crusade under Fernando III   Carlos de Ayala Martínez 2 The Man “Who Broke and Destroyed All of His Enemies”: The Military Action of Fernando III   Francisco García Fitz 3 Fernando III and Muḥammad I of Granada: A Time of Collaboration between Two “Incompatible Worlds”   Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo 4 In exercitu loco eius pontificalia exercet: Warrior Clerics in the Era of Fernando III   Kyle C. Lincoln 5 Dilecta consanguinea mea: Fernando III’s Donation to a Nun of Fontevraud   Martín Alvira 6 Laudes regiae: Liturgy and Royal Power in Thirteenth-century Castile-León   Edward L. Holt 7 “At the Command of the Infantas”: Royal Women at Las Huelgas in the Thirteenth Century   Janna Bianchini 8 Family and Friends: Women at the Court of Fernando III   Miriam Shadis 9 The Peculiarities of Frontier Religious Authority in the Age of Fernando III   Francisco García-Serrano 10 Literary Expressions of Pastoral Reform during the Reign of Fernando III   Cristina Catalina  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars. Together, these studies offer a fascinating view on the evolution of the Decretum Gratiani, as well as granting new insights on the complex dynamics and processes by which legal knowledge was first created and then transferred in medieval jurisprudence. Contributors are Enrique de León, Stephan Dusil, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Atria A. Larson, Titus Lenherr, Philipp Lenz, Kenneth Pennington, Andreas Thier, José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, John C. Wei, and Anders Winroth.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors1 Part 1: Introducing the Debate 1 Exploring the Evolution of Legal Knowledge in the Middle Ages: The Manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 as Challenge and Chance  Andreas Thier Part 2: The Origin of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 2 The Codicology, the Palaeography, and the Glossing of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, 673 (Sg)  Philipp Lenz Part 3: Creating Legal Knowledge 3 The Formation of Marriage according to the Sg-Codex = Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673, 166–169  Enrique de León 4 The Uniqueness of Prima Causa in Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673  Melodie H. Eichbauer 5 ‘aliis in carceribus et latumiis reclusis’, ‘aliis carcere et ergastulo reclusis’: Special Language Features in the Exserpta ex decretis sanctorum patrum and Their Interpretation  Titus Lenherr 6 A Miracle Story Allegedly in decretis Bonifacii pape  John C. Wei Part 4: Sharing Legal Knowledge 7 Nota: What the Scribes of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 Found Noteworthy in Gratian’s Decretum  Atria A. Larson 8 Teaching Canon Law in the Early Twelfth Century: The Evidence of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673  Kenneth Pennington 9 The Exserpta in the Origins of the Science of Canon Law  José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez Part 5: Sg in Its Context 10 Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 in Context: Twelfth-Century Transformations and Abbreviations of Gratian’s Decretum  Anders Winroth Part 6: Summarizing Observations 11 Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 673: a Copy of Gratian’s Decretum at the Beginning of Decretistic Teaching. Fresh Perspectives, New Insights, and Open Questions  Stephan Dusil Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim’s experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years.Table of ContentsPreface Author Biographies List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Embedded Economies of Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage  Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen part 1: Movements 2 Movement, Labour and Devotion: a Virtual Walk to the Sanctuary at Mount Kasios  Anna Collar 3 Braided Networks: Pilgrimage and the Economics of Travel Infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land  Marlena Whiting part 2: Communities 4 Gathering in the Panhellenic Sanctuary at Delphi: an Archaeological Approach  Hélène Aurigny 5 Hellenistic Festivals: Aspects of the Economic Impact on Cities and Sanctuaries  Marietta Horster 6 Housing Pilgrims in Late Antiquity: Patrons, Buildings, and Services  Robin M. Jensen part 3: Transactions 7 The Monetisation of Sacrifice  F.S. Naiden 8 ‘What Will You Give Me?’: Narratives of Religious Exchange  Esther Eidinow 9 Space, Exchange and the Embedded Economies of Greek Sanctuaries  Troels Myrup Kristensen 10 Pricing Salvation: Visitation, Donation and the Monastic Economies in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt  Louise Blanke 11 Do ut des: the Function of Eulogiai in the Byzantine Pilgrimage Economy  Max Ritter part 4: Sociological and Comparative Perspectives 12 Festivals, Fairs and Foreigners: Towards an Economics of Religion in the Mediterranean Longue Durée  Barbara Kowalzig 13 Gods of Trust: Ancient Delos and the Modern Economics of Religion  Dan-el Padilla Peralta Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola: Contexts, Sources, Reception, Terence O’Reilly examines the historical, theological and literary contexts in which the Exercises took shape. The collected essays have as their common theme the early history of the Spiritual Exercises, and the interior life of Ignatius Loyola to which they give expression. The traditional interpretation of the Exercises was shaped by writings composed in the late sixteenth century, reflecting the preoccupations of the Counter-Reformation world in which they were composed. The Exercises, however, belong, in their origins, to an earlier period, before the Council of Trent, and the full recognition of this fact, and of its implications, has confronted modern scholars with fresh questions about the sources, evolution, and reception of the work.Trade Review“This book is an important tool for those wishing to engage critically and at depth with Ignatius Loyola and his legacy.” Timothy W. O’Brien S.J., in: Studies, Vol. 111, No. 441 (Spring 2022), pp. 100–102. “The book is to be strongly recommended to all interested in the Spiritual Exercises. Joseph A. Munitiz S.J., in: The Way, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 2021), pp. 111–114.Table of Contents Preface  List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Introduction Part 1:Contexts 1 Ignatius Loyola and the Counter-Reformation: the Hagiographic Tradition  1.1 Protestantism   1.1.1The Early Years   1.1.2Jerusalem   1.1.3The Society of Jesus  1.2 The Papacy   1.2.1The Early Years   1.2.2The Society of Jesus   1.2.3General of the Society   1.2.4Conflict  1.3 The Medieval Orders   1.3.1The Founding of the Society   1.3.2General of the Society 2 Ignatius Loyola and Martin Luther: The Origins of the Spiritual Exercises in Spain  2.1 The Reform  2.2 Works and Grace  2.3 Manresa  2.4 The Exercises  2.5 The Spirituali 3 Saint Ignatius Loyola and Spanish Erasmianism 4 The Spiritual Exercises and Illuminism in Spain: dominican Critics of the Early Society of Jesus  4.1 The Attack on the Spiritual Exercises  4.2 Melchor Cano  4.3 Contemplation  4.4 Consolation  4.5 The Holy Spirit  4.6 Conclusion Part 2: Sources 5 Early Printed Books in Spain and the Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola  5.1 Loyola  5.2 Vita Christi  5.3 Flos Sanctorum  5.4 Montserrat  5.5 Libros de horas  5.6 Contemptus Mundi  5.7 Erasmus  5.8 Conclusion 6 Fear and Love in the Spiritual Exercises  6.1 The Conversion of Ignatius and Discretion  6.2 The Rules and the Reading of Ignatius in Spain   6.2.1The Vita Christi   6.2.2The Golden Legend   6.2.3The Imitation of Christ  6.3 Conclusion 7 Consolation without a Preceding Cause  7.1 France and Italy (1529–41)  7.2 Spain (1521–22)  7.3 John Helyar  7.4 Sister Teresa Rejadell  7.5 The Final Recension (1539–40)  7.6 Conclusions 8 Devotional Writing: the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola  8.1 The Grades of Fear  8.2 Imagery  8.3 Other Schemata  8.4 Conclusion Part 3: Reception 9 Joseph Veale and the History of the Spiritual Exercises  9.1 Factors of Change  9.2 The Text  9.3 Context  9.4 Reception 10 Melchor Cano and the Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola: the Censura y parecer contra el Insituto de los Padres Jesuitas  10.1 History of the Text  10.2 Cano and Ignatius  10.3 The Spiritual Exercises  10.4 The Society of Jesus  10.5 The British Library Manuscript  10.6 [92r] Censura y parecer que dio el Padre Maestro Fray Melchor Cano de la Orden de Predicadores contra el Instituto de los Padres Jesuitas 11 Saint Teresa and Her First Jesuit Confessors  11.1 Teresa’s Experience of Prayer  11.2 A Divided Heart  11.3 The Humanity and Divinity of Christ  11.4 Discernment of Spirits  11.5 Diego de Cetina  11.6 Juan de Prádanos  11.7 Conclusion 12 The Spiritual Exercises and the Diario espiritual of St. Ignatius  12.1 Context  12.2 The First Fascicule   12.2.1 The First Attempt (February 2–13)  12.2.2 The Second Attempt (February 13–18)  12.2.3 Third Attempt (February 19–24)  12.2.4 Pardon and Reconciliation (February 24–March 5)  12.2.5 Poverty of Spirit (March 6–12)  12.3 The Second Fascicule  12.4 The Diary and the Spiritual Exercises  12.5 Mysticism Index

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Book SynopsisChán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, and Tangut Buddhism, the edited volume is based on a thorough study of manuscripts from Dūnhuáng, Turfan, and Karakhoto, tracing the particular features of Chán in the Northwestern and Northern regions of late medieval China.Trade Review"Indeed, the volume is an extremely apt dedication to the late John R. McRae (1947–2011). Those with an interest in Chán Buddhism would find this volume utterly invaluable. Moreover, those with a wider interest in Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the general study of religious texts have much to gain from reading this." - Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review47:2, 2021.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Chán Buddhism in an Inter-religious and Cross-linguistic perspective  Christoph Anderl Part 1 Early Chán History Revisited 1 Early Chán Revisited: A Critical Reading of Dàoxuán’s Hagiographies of Bodhidharma, Huìkě and Their Associates  John Jorgensen 2 Northern Chán and the Siddhaṃ Songs  Christoph Anderl and Henrik H. Sørensen Part 2 The Spread of Chán in the Northwestern Region 3 The Old Uigur Translation of the Siddhaṃ Songs  Peter Zieme 4 Reconsidering Tibetan Chán  Sam van Schaik 5 The Great Master Tōnglǐ: The Texts by a Liáo Buddhist Master among the Khara-Khoto Findings  Kirill Solonin Part 3 Chán in an Interreligious Perspective 6 The Meeting and Conflation of Chán and Esoteric Buddhism during the Táng  Henrik H. Sørensen 7 Buddho–Daoist Interaction as Creative Dialogue: The Mind and Dào in Twofold Mystery Teaching  Friederike Assandri John R. McRae: A Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisApproaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship.Table of ContentsContents Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644) Creative Environment, Creative Subjects  Ying Zhang  Abstract  Keywords  Cast of Characters  Introduction  Part 1  1 Creative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry  2 The Self in Nature, Ritual, and Poetry  Part 2  3 The Literati Art of Living in Confinement  4 The Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the Form  Acknowledgments  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that time, Susan Karant-Nunn’s work challenged established orthodoxies, pushed the envelope of historical genres, and opened up new avenues of research and understanding, which came to define the contours of the field itself. Like this rich career, the chapters in this volume cover a broad range of historical genres from social, cultural and art history, to the history of gender, masculinity, and emotion, and range geographically from the Holy Roman Empire, France, and the Netherlands, to Geneva and Austria. Based on a vast array of archival and secondary sources, the contributions open up new horizons of research and commentary on all aspects of early modern life. Contributors: James Blakeley, Robert J. Christman, Victoria Christman, Amy Nelson Burnett, Pia Cuneo, Ute Lotz-Heumann, Amy Newhouse, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Helmut Puff, Lyndal Roper, Karen E. Spierling, James D. Tracy, Mara R. Wade, David Whitford, and Charles Zika.Trade Review"this is a collection that will be of great interest to all scholars of the Reformation. These essays are astonishingly engaging. The essays [...] may seem to be super-specific (and they are), but potential readers ought not let that scare them off. These contributions are festooned with incredibly interesting historical facts.[...] Reformation scholars, persons interested in gender studies, and those inclined to the investigation of the minutest details of early modern European history will all enjoy making their way through this collection. I think you will enjoy it. And so I recommend it to you." Jim West (ThD), Ming Hua Theological College / Charles Sturt University, in Zwinglius Redivivus (https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2021/04/17)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Prologue  James J. Blakeley and Robert J. Christman part 1: The Early Reformation in Saxony 1 Simultaneously Bride and Whore: Martin Luther, the Bride of Christ, and the Limits of Hyperbole  David M. Whitford 2 Luther and Gender  Lyndal Roper 3 High Noon on the Road to Damascus: A Reformation Showdown and the Role of Horses in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Conversion of Paul (1549)  Pia F. Cuneo 4 Aging and Retirement of Former Nuns after the Reforming of the Convent in Ernestine Saxony  Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer part 2: Devotional Ritual and Popular Religion 5 Streitkultur Meets the Culture of Persuasion: The Flensburg Disputation of 1529  Amy Nelson Burnett 6 How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany  Ute Lotz-Heumann 7 Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?  Kathryn A. Edwards part 3: Cultural History and the Religious and Political Self 8 Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad’s Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576  James Tracy 9 Emblematic Strategies in the Devotions and Dynasty of Dorothea, Princess of Anhalt  Mara R. Wade 10 “Rebellious Sister?” Mary of Hungary, Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, 1531–1555  Victoria Christman part 4: Culture in Motion: Emotion, Space, and Gender 11 Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary  Charles Zika 12 Above the Skin: Cloth and the Body’s Boundary in Early Modern Nuremberg  Amy Newhouse 13 Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Imagery: A Contribution to Early Modern Gender History  Helmut Puff 14 ‘One Must Speak the Truth Rather than Staying Silent’: Women, Scandal, and the Genevan Consistory  Karen E. Spierling Epilogue: A Festival of Festschriften  Merry Wiesner-Hanks Index

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Book SynopsisMighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as powerless, the combined archaeological, iconographic, and literary evidence makes it clear that Baal was worshipped throughout the Levant as a god whose powers rivalled any deity. Mighty Baal brings together eleven essays written by scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. Essays in part one focus on the main collection of Ugaritic tablets describing Baal’s exploits, the Baal Cycle. Essays in part two treat Baal’s relationships to other deities. Together, the essays offer a rich portrait of Baal and his cult from a variety of methodological perspectives. The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.Trade Review“This important volume containing eleven essays by colleagues and pupils of Mark Smith presents the reader an excellent overview of recent research on the Ugaritic god Baal as a fitting tribute to Mark Smith, celebrating his sixtyfifth birthday. In offering this gift to him as an expert in this field the editors ran the risk of bringing owls to Athens. However, the different contributions are in most cases renewing and sometimes also take up the discussion with previous work of Smith.(…) This well-edited volume, which is concluded by an index on subjects, can be regarded as a good mix of a Festschrift and a collection of coherent contributions focussing on one subject.” - Klaas Spronk, Protestant Theological University Amsterdam, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N° 5-6, oktober-december 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Vii List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Stephen C. Russell Part 1: Baal’s Story 1 The Baal Cycle as a Myth of Cosmic Unification  Robert S. Kawashima 2 Fight Like a Girl: the Performance of Gender and Violence in the Baal Cycle  Corrine Carvalho 3 Male Agency and Masculine Performance in the Baal Cycle  Martti Nissinen 4 Active and Reactive Bodies in the Baal Cycle  Deena Grant 5 The Grammar of Baal’s Epithets  Steven E. Fassberg 6 Where Are All the Colophons? Colophons in the Ancient Near East and in the Dead Sea Scrolls  Sidnie White Crawford Part 2: Baal’s Peers 7 Gods in Translation and Location  Ronald Hendel 8 Ugaritic Athtartu Šadi, Food Production, and Textiles: More Data for Reassessing the Biblical Portrayal of Aštart in Context  Theodore J. Lewis 9 Yahweh among the Baals: Israel and the Storm Gods  Daniel E. Fleming 10 Who Is the Baal of Peor?  Susan Ackerman 11 Baal’s Legacy: Echoes of Ugarit in Papyrus Amherst 63  Karel van der Toorn Index

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Book SynopsisMany Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century Quakers were now found wanting, especially those emphasising the supreme authority of the Bible and doctrines of atonement, whereby the wrath of God is appeased through the blood of Christ. Liberal Quakers sought a renewed sense of reality in their faith through recovering the vision of the first Quakers with their sense of the Light of God within each person. They also borrowed from mainstream liberal theology new attitudes to God, nature and service to society. The ensuing Quaker Renaissance found its voice at the Manchester Conference of 1895, and the educational initiatives which followed gave to British Quakerism an active faith fit for the testing reality of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsThe Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895–1930 Seeking a Real Religion  Joanna Dales Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Quakers and a Wider World  3 Leaving Evangelicalism  4 Challenges to Christian Faith  5 The Manchester Conference (1895) and Beyond  6 The Light Within  7 Conclusion  Appendix: Areas for Further Research  Abbreviations  References

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Book SynopsisMystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis. Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa have gathered experts on visual language in order to illuminate cultic rituals renowned for both their “mysteries” and their images. This book tackles three interrelated questions. Focusing on the cult of Dionysus, it analyses whether, and how, images are used to depict mystery cults. The relationship between historiography and images of mystery cults is considered with a focus on the Mithraic and Isiac cults. Finally, turning to the cults of Dionysus and the Mother of the Gods, this work shows how depictions of specific cultic objects succeed in expressing mystery cults.Trade Review"In conclusione, sono molti gli interrogativi e gli stimoli che il volume di Belayche e Massa offre sul linguaggio visuale che ruota intorno ai misteri. Il volume è molto ben curato editorialmente, pochissime le sviste e buono l’apparato iconografico (...). La sfida nel rintracciare testimonianze visuali sui misteri ovviamente prosegue, ma questa raccolta costituisce di certo un utile punto di partenza." - Margherita Facella, Università di Pisa, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.10.29Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1 Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: an Introduction  Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa part 1: Do Images Depict Mystery Cults, and If So, How? 2 Sub-Introduction 3 Comment figurer l’ineffable, comment lire les images ?  Cornelia Isler-Kerényi 4 Le phallus qui cache le mystère ? Les images dionysiaques dans les décors romains : à propos d’une fresque de la Domus Transitoria  Stéphanie Wyler 5 Échos de la Télétè dionysiaque dans la mosaïque romaine tardive  Janine Balty part 2: Historiography and Images of Mystery Cults 6 Sub-Introduction 7 ‘The Seven Grades of Mithraism’, or How to Build a Religion  Philippa Adrych 8 Les mystères isiaques et leurs expressions figurées. Des exégèses modernes aux allusions antiques  Richard Veymiers part 3: Depicting Objects to Signify Mystery Cults 9 Sub-Introduction 10 The Liknon and the Bundle: Does the Ritual ‘Initiatory’ Object Make the Mystery?  Anne-Françoise Jaccottet 11 The Cista, a Hallmark of Mater Magna’s Mysteries in the Roman World?  Françoise Van Haeperen Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn exploring ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visits to Britain, Brendan McNamara expands the jigsaw of our knowledge of how “the east came west”. More importantly, by exploring the visits through the motives of those that received him, The Reception of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West demonstrates that the “cultic milieu” thesis is incomplete. Focusing on a number of well-known Edwardian Protestant reformers, the book demonstrates that the arrival of eastern forms of religions in Britain penetrated more mainstream Christian forms. This process is set within significant developments in the early formation of the study of religions, the rise of science and orientalism. All these elements are shown to be linked together. Significantly the work argues that the advent of World War One changed the direction of new forms of religion leading to a ‘forgetfulness’ that has lasted until the present time.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction  1 “East Comes West”  2 ʿAbdu’l-Bahá and the Baháʾí Faith  3 Documenting Missionary Travels  4 Protestant Discourse  5 Recovering the Obscure  6 Sources and Materials  7 Orientalism  8 Forgetting the Past  9 A New World  10 The View from Where 2 Religious and Intellectual Milieu  1 Comparative Religion  2 Foundations  3 Joseph Estlin Carpenter  4 Political and Cultural Resonance  5 The Cult of Omar  6 Narratives Subjoined  7 Conclusion 3 Establishing Parameters for East-West Encounters: Chicago and Oxford  1 Filter and Grid  2 Third International Congress for the History of Religions  3 Oxford  4 Cheyne’s Cosmology  5 Conclusion 4 The Curious: the Celtic Dimension to Pre-First World War Religious Discourse  1 Dean’s Yard  2 Tudor Pole’s Quest  3 The Celtic Revival  4 Discovering ʿAbdu’l-Bahá  5 Conclusion 5 New Protestant Theodocies: R.J. Campbell, “the Disturber of Our Comfortable Peace”  1 The New Theology  2 One of the Great Let Downs of the World  3 Uncharted Dimensions of Early 20th Century Protestant Discourse  4 Implications for the Religious Field  5 Conclusion 6 ʿAbdu’l-Bahá in Britain  1 What Was Understood  2 In London  3 At Westminster  4 Indirect Admonishment  5 Missionary Reaction  6 Conclusion 7 The Elision of Memory: Forgetting Aspects of Early Twentieth Century Discourse  1 Now Time and Afterlife  2 A Dialectic of Rejection and Fascination  3 Religion and War  4 Religious Reformers at War  5 Conclusion Appendix 1: Significant Baháʾí Dates Appendix 2: Arabic Notation in The Christian Commonwealth Appendix 3: Tudor Pole, Campbell and the Glastonbury Cup Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s juxtaposes translations of texts written in Latin by arguably the finest early Quaker theologians, George Keith and Robert Barclay. A commentary provides philological, historical, and theological perspectives. The works by Keith are two substantial letters to German polymath and Christian Kabbalist, Baron Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. The chief concerns of these letters are Christian appropriation of concepts from Jewish mysticism and eschatology. In the year before Keith began this correspondence, Barclay wrote his Animadversiones, a response to an attack from the Dutch Calvinist, Nikolaus Arnold, on his Theses Theologicae. Thus, both writers illustrate how a Quaker might write to a non-Quaker, even non-British, audience, one in a persuasive tone, and the other in a more polemical mode. Together, these texts cast new light on Quakerism in the 1670s.Table of ContentsQuakeriana Latina: Quaker Texts in Latin from the 1670s  Michael Birkel and Charlotte Northrop Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Letters from George Keith to Christian Knorr von Rosenroth  3 Robert Barclay’s Animadversiones  References

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Book SynopsisThe four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in view of ancestral traditions and cultural heritage (the past), and inspired outlooks assuring hope, deliverance, and restoration (the future). Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel includes thirteen essays that explore the reach and redeployment of the motif in classical and ancient Near Eastern writings, Jewish and Christian scriptures, texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, depictions in European architecture and cartography, as well as patristic, rabbinic, Islamic, and African writings from antiquity through the Mediaeval eras.Trade Review“Die einzelnen Studien sind aus im open access zugänglich, was den hohen Preis des Bandes leichter erträglich macht. Lesenswert ist er in jedem Fall für alle, die sich für das Danielbuch und seine Wirkungsgeschichte interessieren.” – Martin Rösel, Universität Rostock, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 148 (2023).Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction to the Four Kingdoms as a Time Bound, Timeless, and Timely Historiographical Mechanism and Literary Motif  Andrew B. Perrin The Four Kingdoms and Other Chronological Conceptions in the Book of Daniel  Michael Segal Five Kingdoms, and Talking Beasts: Some Old Greek Variants in Relation to Daniel’s Four Kingdoms  Ian Young The Four (Animal) Kingdoms: Understanding Empires as Beastly Bodies  Alexandria Frisch The Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Tradition-Historical Context  Loren T. Stuckenbruck Expressions of Empire and Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls  Andrew B. Perrin The Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4  Olivia Stewart Lester The Generation of Iron and the Final Stumbling Block: The Present Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 106–201 and Barnabas 4  Kylie Crabbe The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Hippolytus’s Commentary on Daniel  Katharina Bracht Persia, Rome and the Four Kingdoms Motif in the Babylonian Talmud  Geoffrey Herman The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in the Early Mediaeval Apocalyptic Tradition  Lorenzo DiTommaso The Four Kingdom Schema and the Seventy Weeks in the Arabic Reception of Daniel  Miriam L. Hjälm Conflicting Traditions: The Interpretation of Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Ethiopic Commentary (Tergwāmē) Tradition  James R. Hamrick The Politics of Time: Epistemic Shifts and the Reception History of the Four Kingdoms Schema  Brennan Breed Index of Primary Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisIn Force of Words, Haraldur Hreinsson examines the social and political significance of the Christian religion as the Roman Church was taking hold in medieval Iceland in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. By way of diverse sources, primarily hagiography and sermons but also material sources, the author shows how Christian religious ideas came into play in the often tumultuous political landscape of the time. The study illuminates how the Church, which was gathering strength across entire Europe, established itself through the dissemination of religious vernacular discourse at the northernmost borders of its dominion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations List of Figures 1 Introduction 1.1 Historiographical Context  1.1.1 History of Medieval Christianity in Iceland: A Fragmented Field  1.1.2 Church and Society in Medieval Iceland 1.2 Theoretical Considerations  1.2.1 Ecclesiastical Discourse   1.2.1.1 Discourse   1.2.1.2 Discourse: Religious and Ecclesiastical  1.2.2 Perspective of Empire   1.2.2.1 The Roman Church as an Empire in Medieval Iceland   1.2.2.2 The Perspective of Empire: A Text Oriented Approach 1.3 Source Material  1.3.1 Textual Sources  1.3.2 Material Sources 2 The Roman Church in Free State Iceland 2.1 Christianization of Iceland  2.1.1 The Roman Ecclesiastical Empire   2.1.1.1 The Rise of the Papal Center   2.1.1.2 From Center to the Periphery   2.1.1.3 On the Outskirts  2.1.2 Expanding Boundaries: Christianization of Scandinavia  2.1.3 Christianization of Iceland  2.1.4 Conclusion: Becoming Christian 2.2 Christianization and the Production of Religious Texts  2.2.1 Background: The Roman Church as a Cultural Hegemon  2.2.2 Iceland’s Earliest Religious Manuscripts   2.2.2.1 Collections of Hagiographic Material   2.2.2.2 Collections of Sermonic Material   2.2.2.3 Manuscripts with Mixed Content  2.2.3 Beyond the Manuscripts: The Materiality of Religious Discourse  2.2.4 Conclusion: Texts in Motion 2.3 Icelandic Ecclesiastics and Their Audiences  2.3.1 Representing Rome: Ecclesiastics in Iceland   2.3.1.1 Clerics in the Free State: Socially Diverse or Homogenous?   2.3.1.2 Clerical Education: Practical but International   2.3.1.3 In Whose Authority?  2.2.2 Audiences of All Kinds   2.2.2.1 Audience according to Religious Source Material   2.2.2.2 Audience According to Contemporary Narrative Sources  2.3.3 Pastor and Flock: Points of Encounter   2.3.3.1 Translatio Ecclesiae: A Medieval Icelandic Textual Community   2.3.3.2 Social Significance of the Church: Panopticon or a Heterotopia  2.3.4 Conclusion: Conflicts of Interests 2.4 Ecclesiastical Imagination  2.4.1 Icelanders in the Sixth Age  2.4.2 Typological Thought  2.4.3 Typological Thought in Medieval Icelandic Literature  2.4.4 Conclusion: Beyond the Written Word 3 Force of Words: Constructing a Christian Society 3.1 Authority  3.1.1 Teaching   3.1.1.1 The Original Teaching   3.1.1.2 Teaching in the Icelandic Free State  3.1.2 Apostolic Authority   3.1.2.1 Apostolic Mandate   3.1.2.2 Apostolic Domination  3.1.3 Hierarchy   3.1.3.1 Primatus Petri   3.1.3.2 Church Hierarchy  3.1.4 Conclusion: Powering Over 3.2 The ‘Other’  3.2.1 Enemies of the Church  3.2.1.1 Heretics   3.2.1.2 Heathens   3.2.1.3 Jews  3.2.2 Encountering the ‘Other’   3.2.2.1 Expansion of Error   3.2.2.2 Becoming Other  3.2.3 Conclusion: Making Enemies 3.3 Perish or Prosper  3.3.1 Peace or Unrest?   3.3.1.1 Performing Peace   3.3.1.2 Peace of the Church   3.3.1.3 Fighting for Peace   3.3.1.4 The Danger of Unrest  3.3.2 Heaven or Hell?   3.3.2.1 War   3.3.2.2 Anger of God   3.3.2.3 Justice   3.3.2.4 Punishment   3.3.2.5 Rewards  3.3.3 Conclusion: The Only Way 4 Rome Goes North 4.1 In the Beginning   4.1.1 Chaotic Beginnings   4.1.2 Echoes from Rome   4.1.3 Gizurr’s Age of Peace   4.1.4 Conclusion: The Chieftain Church Rises 4.2 The Reform of Bishop Þorlákr  4.2.1 Libertas Ecclesiae in Iceland   4.2.1.1 Backdrop: Libertas Ecclesiae in Norway   4.2.1.2 The First Clash of Church and Chieftains   4.2.2 The Authority of the Archbishop   4.2.3 Enemies of the Church   4.2.4 Conclusion: On the Other Side 4.3 Reform and Violence: The Rule of Bishop Guðmundr   4.3.1 Guðmundr’s Rise to the Episcopacy   4.3.2 Religious Fervour and Armed Battles   4.3.3 Iceland’s Salvation   4.3.4 Conclusion: Framing Violence 5 Conclusion Appendix Manuscript Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisApocryphal traditions, often shared by Jews and Christians, have played a significant role in the history of both religions. The 26 essays in this volume examine regional and linguistic developments in Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Balkans, and Italy. Dissenting groups, such as the Samaritans, followers of John the Baptist, and mediæval dualists are also discussed. Furthermore, the book looks at interactions of Judaism and Christianity with the religions of Iran. Seldom verified or authorized, and frequently rejected by Churches, apocryphal texts had their own process of development, undergoing significant transformations. The book shows how apocryphal accounts could become a medium of literary and artistic elaboration and mythological creativity. Local adaptations of Biblical stories indicate that copyists, authors and artists conceived of themselves as living not in a post-Biblical era, but in direct continuity with Biblical personages.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Esoteric Writing and Esoteric Cults in the Biblical Religions 1 The Exoteric Settings of Jewish Esotericism  Ithamar Gruenwald 2 The Gospel of Peter between the Synoptics, Second Century, and Late Antique ‘Apostolic Memoirs’  Tobias Nicklas 3 All Mysteries Revealed? On the Interplay between Hiding and Revealing and the Dangers of Heavenly Journeys according to the Ascension of Isaiah  Joseph Verheyden 4 Early Christianity and the Pagan Mysteries: Esoteric Knowledge?  Jan N. Bremmer 5 The Medieval Dualist Nachleben of Early Jewish and Christian Esoteric Traditions: The Role of the Pseudepigrapha  Yuri Stoyanov 6 The Esoteric Cardinal: Giorgios Gemistos, Bessarion and Theurgy  Ezio Albrile Part 2 Bridging the Account of the Origins and the Messiah’s Advent 7 La création d’ Adam à Noravank̔: Théologie et narrativité  Jean-Pierre Mahé 8 Translatio corporis Adæ: Trajectories of a Parabiblical Tradition  Sergey Minov 9 Apostles, Long Dead ‘Heretics’, and Monks: Noncanonical Traditions on Angels and Protoplasts in Two Late Antique Coptic Apocalypses (7th–8th Century CE)  Daniele Tripaldi 10 Face as the Image of God in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha  Andrei A. Orlov 11 On the Perdition of the Higher Intellect and on the Image of Light: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary  Maria V. Korogodina and Basil Lourié 12 Bridging the Gaps in the Samaritan Tradition  Abraham Tal 13 ‘On the Mountains of Ararat’: Noah’s Ark and the Sacred Topography of Armenia  Nazénie Garibian 14 The Historian’s Craft and Temporal Bridges in Apocrypha and in Early Christian Art: Para-Biblical Sources in the Light of the Work of Marc Bloch  Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev Part 3 Symbols and Figures of the Messianic Expectation 15 Quellen der nichtbiblischen Mose-Überlieferung in der Kratkaja Chronografičeskaja Paleja  Dieter Fahl and Sabine Fahl 16 Whether Lamb or Lion: Overlapping Metaphors in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism  Abraham Terian 17 Rescuing John the Baptist  Albert I. Baumgarten 18 The Esoteric Legacy of the Magi of Bethlehem in the Framework of the Iranian Speculations about Jesus, Zoroaster and His Three Posthumous Sons  Antonio Panaino 19 Visual Apocrypha: The Case of Mary and the Magi in Early Christian Rome  Felicity Harley 20 Gnostic and Mithraic Themes in Sefer Zerubbabel  Yishai Kiel Part 4 Angels, Heavenly Journeys and Visions of Paradise 21 1 Enoch 17 in the Geneva Papyrus 187  David Hamidović 22 Enochic Traditions in Slavia Orthodoxa  Florentina Badalanova Geller 23 Visions of Paradise in the Life of St Andrew the Fool and the Legacy of the Jewish Pseudepigrapha in Byzantium  Emmanouela Grypeou 24 Eternal Chains and the Mountain of Darkness: The Fallen Angels in the Incantation Bowls  Yakir Paz 25 Iconography of Angels: Roots and Origins in the Earliest Christian Art  Cecilia Proverbio 26 The Gardens of Eden: Compositional, Iconographic and Semantic Similarities between the ‘Birds Mosaic’ of the Armenian Chapel in Jerusalem and the Mosaic of the Synagogue at Maʿon (Nirim)  Zaruhi Hakobyan Postscript: Border-Crossing Texts  Hartmut Leppin Index

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Book SynopsisThe Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period. By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective. Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Editors List of Contributors Introduction: Searching for Compromise  Maciej Ptaszyński PART 1: Terms of Coexistence between Law and Tradition 1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking  Christopher Voigt-Goy 2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries  Bogumił Szady 3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century  Uladzimir Padalinski 4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century  Kazimierz Bem 5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century  Melchior Jakubowski PART 2: Theology, Communication, Politics 6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517)  Jan Červenka 7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church  Bryan D. Kozik 8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk  Sławomir Kościelak 9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland  Maciej Ptaszyński Part 3: Radical Century or Age of Toleration? 10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe  Alexander Schunka 11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut  Wolfgang Breul 12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI  Stephan Steiner 13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)  Paul Shore Afterword  Luise Schorn-Schütte Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ritual traditions that go back to Mediterranean antiquity, this book argues for a global approach that significantly expands the scope of esotericism and highlights its relevance for broader theoretical and methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences. The contributors offer critical interventions on aspects related to colonialism, race, gender and sexuality, economy, and marginality. Equipped with a substantial introduction and conclusion, the book offers textbook-style discussions of the state of research and makes concrete proposals for how esotericism can be rethought through broader engagement with neighboring fields.Trade Review"The book argues for a global approach to the study of esotericism and emphasizes its relevance for broader theoretical and methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences to encourage an open and serious exchange with other perspectives. This is indeed an essential contribution to the study of esotericism, which will undoubtedly elicit fruitful further discussion within and beyond the field." - Nicole Maria Bauer, University of Innsbruck, in: Religious Studies Review 47.1 (2021).Table of ContentsContent List of Schematics Notes on Contributors Esotericism’s Expanding Horizon: Why This Book Came to Be Egil Asprem and Julian Strube Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity Dylan Burns Towards the Study of Esotericism without the “Western”: Esotericism from the Perspective of a Global Religious History Julian Strube “That I Did Love the Moor to Live with Him”: Islam in/and the Study of “Western Esotericism” Liana Saif The Occult among the Aborigines of South America? Some Remarks on Race, Coloniality, and the West in the Study of Esotericism Mariano Villalba “Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels”: Western Esotericism, Yoga, and the Discourse of Authenticity Keith Cantú Rejected Knowledge Reconsidered: Some Methodological Notes on Esotericism and Marginality Egil Asprem Race and (the Study of) Esotericism Justine Bakker “What Can the Whole World Be Hiding?” Exploring Africana Esotericisms in the American Soul-Blues Continuum Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. Finley Double Toil and Gender Trouble? Performativity and Femininity in the Cauldron of Esotericism Research Manon Hedenborg White What do Jade Eggs Tell Us about the Category “Esotericism”? Spirituality, Neoliberalism, Secrecy, and Commodities Susannah Crockford Interpretation Reconsidered: The Definitional Progression in the Study of Esotericism as a Case in Point for the Varifocal Theory of Interpretation Dimitry Okropiridze Afterword: Outlines of a New Roadmap Egil Asprem and Julian Strube Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 18 (CMR 18), covering the Ottoman Empire in the period 1800-1914, 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 the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They 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 new and leading scholars, CMR 18, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a fundamental tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel.Table of ContentsForeword   x List of Illustrations and Maps   xv Abbreviations   xvii Umar Ryad, Introduction: The Ottoman Empire in the 19th century   1 Heleen L. Murre-van den Berg, Syriac literature and Muslim-Christian relations under the Ottomans, 16th-19th centuries   27 Barbara Henning and Taisiya Leber, Print culture and Muslim-Christian relations   39 Florian Krobb, Framing Muslim fanaticism at the end of the 19th century. German accounts of the Mahdist uprising   63 Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1800-1914   81 Anatolia and South Eastern Europe   83 Molla Mustafa Bašeskija Kerima Filan   85 Işkodravî Necmettin Kızılkaya   91 Şaban Kâmi Efendi midî Ayşe İçöz   95 Pertev Edhem Paşa Emine Nurefşan Dinç   100 Hacı Abdi Petricî Lejla Demiri   105 Harputlu Ishak Efendi M. Sait Özervarlı   110 Mustafa Şevket Ayşe İçöz   115 Ibrāhīm Faṣīḥ al-Ḥaydarī Mehmet Karabela   118 Namık Kemal Michelangelo Guida   122 Ahmed Şükrizâde Ali Haydar Serkan Ince   127 İbnü’r-Reşâd Ali Ferruh Serkan Ince   131 Sırrı Paşa Giridī Ayşe İçöz   135 Ahmet Mithat Efendi Scott Rank   138 Sava Pasha Ferhat Koca   154 Lewis Wallace Amina Nawaz   163 Abdullah Edib Bayramzâde Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   176 Bosnian discussions concerning hijra Dženita Karić   179 Halil Halid Refik Bürüngüz   186 Tevfikîzâde İsmail Tevfik Matthew Sharp   195 Ahmed Kemal İlkul Serkan Ince   201 Mahmud Esad ibn Emin Seydişehrî Serkan Ince   204 Hasan Sabri Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   225 ʿAbd al-Aḥad Dāwūd Betül Avcı   229 Celal Nuri İleri Lejla Demiri and Serkan Ince   237 Mehmed Esad Serkan Ince   246 Sırât-ı Müstakîm Serkan Ince   250 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Jāwīsh Selva Yildirim   257 Turkish State Archives Serkan Ince   2667 Hohannes Kara Krikorian Elif Tokay   273 Greater Syria and environs   287 Būlus ibn Ilyās Sarjoun Karam   289 The ‘Incident of the martyrs’ in Aleppo (1818) Feras Krimsti   295 Fatḥallāh al-Ṣāyigh Johann Buessow and Lisa Wolfgarten-Kolmorgen   307 Maksīmūs Maẓlūm Ronney el Gemayel   321 Buṭrus Karāma and other poets of the Khāliyya controversy Hilary Kilpatrick   330 The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo Feras Krimsti   337 Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq Rana Issa   351 Nuʿmān al-Alūsī Mahmoud Nagah Khalaf   356 Rizqallāh Ḥassūn Souad Abouelrousse Slim   360 John Wortabet Carsten Walbiner   367 The massacre in Damascus, July 1860 Feras Krimsti   378 Kitāb yashtamil ʿalā ajwibat ahl al-kanīsa Carsten Walbiner   407 Nawfal Niʿmat Allāh Nawfal Caleb McCarthy   411 Rushayd al-Daḥdāḥ Carsten Walbiner   415 Jirjī Yannī Souad Abouelrousse Slim   421 Khrisṭūfūrus Jibāra Carsten Walbiner   428 Christian Arab prophecies on the doom of Islam, 16th-19th centuries Carsten Walbiner   448 Bāsīliyūs Khirbāwī Carsten Walbiner   456 Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Tannīr Ahmed Ragab Abdelhay   467 Luwīs Shaykhū  Rafaël Herzstein   475 Egypt, Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula   483 Yūsāb, bishop of Jirja and Akhmīm Joseph Faragalla   485 Jawād ibn Ibrāhīm Sābāṭ Nile Green   489 Al-Shawkānī Awad Al-Nahee   495   495 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Shaykh Ḥamad ibn Nāṣir Ᾱl Muʿammar Umar Ryad and Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour   500 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī Ibrahim Gemeah   505 Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī Daniel L. Newman   512 Muḥammad ʻAyyād al-Ṭanṭāwī Mohammed Sayed   522 Muḥammad al-Ṭayyibī Mohamed A. Moustafa   528 Muḥammad ibn ʿIllīsh Muhammad al-Marakeby   535 Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī Ahab Bdaiwi   540 Muḥammad al-Mahdī Ömer Koçyiğit   548 ʿAlī l-Baḥrānī Umar Ryad   555 Muḥammad Zakī l-Dīn Sanad Elsayed Z. Abuamer   559 Buṭrus Dinyāsiyūs Joseph Faragalla   563 Aḥmad Shafīq Pasha Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   566 Comboni Fathers and Comboni Missionary Sisters Jaco Beyers   571 Hasan Hüsnü Toyrânî Lejla Demiri   580 Muḥammad Ḥasan Faraḥāt Umar Ryad   585 Muḥammad Ḥabīb Wael Hegazy   587 Al-Tamīmī l-Darī Simon A. Wood and Abla Hasan   590 Yūsif ʿAṭiyya Deanna Ferree Womack   597 Yaʿqūb Nakhla Hiroko Miyokawa   604 Aḥmad Zakī Pasha Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   613 Ḥanna Maqār Joseph Faragalla   618 Muḥammad Bakhīt al-Muṭīʿī Junaid Quadri   622 Ṣubḥī Qūnyāwī Ossama A.S. Abdelgawwad and Mohamed A. Moustafa   628 Nīqūlā Ghabriyāl Simon A. Wood and Abla Hasan   636 Mikhāʾīl ʿAbd al-Sayyid Michael Ghattas   645 Muḥammad ʿAbduh Ammeke Kateman   651 Faraḥ Anṭūn Marco Demichelis   664 Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf al-Nabhānī Amal Ghazal   670 ʿAlī Aḥmad al-Jirjāwī Ines Soussou   675 Muṣṭafā l-Ghalāyīnī Ali Mohamed   680 Iskandar Effendi ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Bājūrī Umar Ryad   685 Nūr al-Dīn al-Sālimī Valerie J. Hoffman   692 Temple Gairdner Michael T. Shelley   702 ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥusaynī Carsten Walbiner   734 Arthur Thomas Upson Serkan Ince   745 Cairo Study Centre Michael T. Shelley   760 Yūsuf al-Dijwī Mahmoud Ali Gomaa Afifi   768 Muḥammad Tawfīq Ṣidqī Umar Ryad   783 Nile Mission Press Michael T. Shelley and John Chesworth   795 Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā Umar Ryad   801 Aḥmad ʿAlī l-Malījī l-Kutubī Mariam M. Shehata and Umar Ryad   825 Muḥammad ʿAlī Mohamed A. Moustafa   832 Maghreb   837 al-Ghazzāl Nabil Matar   839 Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī Nabil Matar   844 Abū l-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī l-Tusūlī Mahammed Bouabdallah   853 Ferdinand Christian Ewald Carsten Walbiner   858 Emir Abdel Kader Tim Winter   867 Sulaymān al-Ḥarāʾirī Muhammad Almarakeby   875 Muḥammad al-Ḥashāyishī Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed   880 Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Aṭfiyyash Valerie J. Hoffman   884 Ismaÿl Urbain Roland Laffitte and Naïma Lefkir-Laffitte   901 Māʾ al-ʿAynayn Arjan Post   913 Jaʿfar ibn Idrīs al-Kattānī Mahammed Bouabdallah   919 Muḥammad Bayram V Abdullah Ibrahim Omran   925 Charles Lavigerie Diego Sarrió Cucarella   934 French officials in Algeria Kamel Chachoua, Alain Messaoudi and John Chesworth   959 Isabelle Eberhardt Renée Champion   978 Charles de Foucauld Barbara Bürkert-Engel   997 Contributors   1003 Index of Names   1015 Index of Titles   1031

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, this book reconstructs the fascinating story of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" published in Germany in the early eighteenth century. The texts stage fictional debates between some of the most famous thinkers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Leibniz, Thomasius and Bekker. The dialogues were originally published as cheap prints and very few copies now survive; until today the links between these texts and the very existence of this textual corpus have remained unknown. Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of these texts in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment. The German edition of this book was awarded the prestigious Geisteswissenschaften international prize.Trade ReviewReviews of the German edition: "[A] fascinating study (...). Quite apart from the mass of interesting information she provides, Riccarda Suitner can be credited with having salvaged a genre, not only neglected but on the verge of complete disappearance."- Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, in: Church History and Religious Culture, Volume 97 (2017). "The dialogues studied in her book shed new light on the early German Enlightenment (…). Suitner’s book tells a lot about how things really went." - Andreas Blank, Alpen‐Adria‐Universität Klagenfurt, in: Renaissance Quarterly Volume 71 (2018).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Cheap Prints, Dialogues of the Dead, Pamphlets: The Anonymous World of the Early 18th-Century German Book Trade  2 The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment (1729–1734): An Unknown Corpus of Sources 1 From Antiquity to the Enlightenment  1 Lucian of Samosata (c. 120–180/192 CE): The Νεκρικοί διάλογοι  2 Fontenelle: The Nouveaux dialogues des morts (1683)  3 David Fassmann: The Gespräche im Reich der Toten (1718–1739) 2 The Examen Rigorosum  1 The Judgment of Apollo  2 The Business of “Pirated Editions”  3 Student Rivalries 3 The War of the Biographers  1 The Pietist Front: Christian Gerber and the Historia derer Wiedergebohrnen in Sachsen  2 The First Literary Depictions of the Lives of Christian Thomasius and August Hermann Francke  3 The World of the Copper Engravers  4 The Harsh Laws of Competition  5 Eulogies, Dialogues of the Dead, (Auto)Biographies: The “Instability” of Literary Genres 4 The Wolffian Leibniz  1 S. W.  2 The Argument with Johann Franz Budde  3 Eclecticism, the Mathematical Method, Atheism  4 How Many Authors? 5 The Two Faces of Leibniz  1 1745: Leibniz Becomes the Protagonist of a Dialogue of the Dead Once Again  2 The Conversation with Ludwig Philipp Thümmig  3 Gottsched, Mylius, Hagedorn, the “Swiss” Poets: The Disputes of the 1740s 6 The Argument between Descartes and Rüdiger  1 Arriving among the Stars  2 Descartes as a Wolffian Philosopher  3 Pietism and Materialism  4 The Background of the Dialogue  5 Role Play 7 The Restoration of All Things  1 Prefaces to Dialogues of the Dead: The Dialogue between Mayer and Petersen  2 Ἀποκατάστασις πάντων: Origen, Leibniz, and Petersen 8 Balthasar Bekker’s Remorse  1 The Exorcism on Peter Otte  2 Cartesianism and Demonology in 18th-Century Germany  3 The Pact with the Devil  4 More on the Engravers: The Identity of “M. B.”  5 Some Deliberations on the Origin, Authorship, and Dissemination of the Dialogue  6 Necromancy and Conversations in the Realm of Spirits Conclusion  1 The “Underworlds” of the Dialogues of the Dead: Which Level of Clandestineness?  2 Four Reasons for Anonymity  3 “Material” Evidence and Intellectual History  4 The Question of Authorship Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino: Italian Perspectives on Apocalypse and Rebirth in the Modern Study of Religion, Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy’s most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino’s dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de Martino’s perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of crisis.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Let the Earth Shake: From Crisis-Born Hero to Master of Civilizational Crisis 1 The Decline of the West (1908–1929): The Rupture of Time in Modernity and the Rise of the Prophets of Crisis  1 Student Years under Fascism and the Guidance of a Spiritual Prophet of Crisis  2 The Arrow of Progress and the Unification of a Ruptured Modernity in Need of Orientation  3 The Crisis of the First World War and the Rise of Oswald Spengler’s Cultural Pessimism 2 Civil Religion (1929–1335): The Return to Something New as Modernist Alternative to Mircea Eliade’s Politics of Nostalgia  1 Rudolf Otto and the Return to Religion as Experience  2 Mircea Eliade’s Politics of Nostalgia and the Rebirth of Western Civilization  3 An Alternative to the Politics of Nostalgia: Modernism and the Dialectic Conception of Palingenesis as the Return to Something New  4 Questioning the Rupture of Modernity from a Dialectical Perspective: The Self-Secularization of Religion and the Self-Mythicization of Politics 3 The Crisis of the Presence (1936–1944): The Antifascist Sacralization of Politics and the Rise of Magical Thinking during WWII  1 The Antifascist Turn in the Laterza Circle and the Continued Sacralization of Politics  2 The Crisis of the Presence: Extreme States of Consciousness in Primitive Societies and the Shamanizing of Hitler in Europe  3 The Dark Side of the Soul Resurfaces in Religious Studies: The Split between the Insider-Phenomenological and the Outsider-Explanatory Approaches  4 The Savior of the European Sciences: The Redemption of the Presence and the Unifying Power of Magic 4 De-Historification (1944–1948): Shamanic Magic and the Dialectic Movement between Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss  1 The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-Historification  2 Historicizing the De-Historifying Tendencies of the Modern Magicians in the Study of Religion  3 The Magic Christ of Science: Heroic Historicism and the Active Provocation of Crisis in Pursuit of Critical Thinking 5 Critical Ethnocentrism (1949–1959): The Southern Period and the Articulation of a Post-Colonial Anthropology alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss  1 Notoriety without Success: Controversies with the Philosopher and Intellectual Isolation within the Roman School of History of Religions  2 Shaking Earth and Intellectual Transitions: Political Militancy and Ethnographic Journeys in the Italian South  3 The Rise of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm and Self-Reflexive Anthropology  4 Tristes Tropiques, Critical Ethnocentrism, and the Anticipation of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm 6 Loyalty to the Cultural Homeland (1960–1965): Critical Ethnocentrism as an Anticipatory Defense against Relativism and Interpretative Anthropology  1 A Critic of Interpretative Anthropology Ante Litteram: The Anthropologist of Guilt Becomes a Philosopher of the Apocalypse of Relativism  2 Moving with and Beyond Antonio Gramsci: From Progressive Folklore to a More Successful Colonialization  3 Nostalgia for the Lost Homeland: An Anticipatory Analysis of the Cultural Turn and the Surprising Parallels between Cultural Relativism and the Insider-Phenomenological Approach  4 Science Is Not for the Stateless: An Anticipatory Critique of the Cultural Turn Based on the Ethnocentric Imperative 7 The Ethos of Transcendence (1965–1977): Decision and the Moral Imperative as Anticipatory Response to Postmodernism  1 The Philosophical Afterlife of The End of the World: Enzo Paci’s Existentialist Historicism and the Moral Imperative Grounded in the Contemporaneity of History  2 Impossible Nostalgia and the Anticipatory Analysis of the Discursive Turn  3 The Ethos of Transcendence of Life in Value as an Anticipatory Critique of the Discursive Turn Conclusion: Let the Earth Shake (Again) or Why Rebirth Must Lead to a New Crisis References Index

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Book SynopsisSENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman world, they explore the many ways in which smell and taste, sight and sound, separately and together, involved participants in religious performance. Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of light and dark played as great a role as belief or observance in generating religious experience. Together they contribute to an original understanding of the Roman sensory universe, and add an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived Ancient Religion. Contributors are Martin Devecka; Visa Helenius; Yulia Ustinova; Attilio Mastrocinque; Maik Patzelt; Mark Bradley; Adeline Grand-Clément; Rocío Gordillo Hervás; Rebeca Rubio; Elena Muñiz Grijalvo; David Espinosa-Espinosa; A. César González-García, Marco V. García-Quintela; Jörg Rüpke; Rosa Sierra del Molino; Israel Campos Méndez; Valentino Gasparini; Nicole Belayche; Antón Alvar Nuño; Jaime Alvar Ezquerra; Clelia Martínez Maza.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction  Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Greg Woolf 1 Faces of Death: Lucretius, Religio, and Vision at Rome  Martin Devecka 2 Lucretius and the Body-Environment Approach  Visa Helenius 3 Hirpi Sorani and Modern Fire-Walkers: Rejoicing through Pain in Extreme Rituals  Yulia Ustinova 4 Empowered Tongues  Attilio Mastrocinque 5 Favete linguis and the Experience of the Divine: A Cognitively Grounded Approach to Sensory Perception in Roman Religion  Maik Patzelt 6 The Triumph of the Senses: Sensory Awareness and the Divine in Roman Public Celebrations  Mark Bradley 7 Sensorium, Sensescapes, Synaesthesia, Multisensoriality: A New Way of Approaching Religious Experience in Antiquity?  Adeline Grand-Clément 8 Day and Night in the Agones of the Roman Isthmian Games  Rocío Gordillo Hervás 9 Multisensory Experiences in Mithraic Initiation  Rebeca Rubio 10 Imperial Mysteries and Religious Experience  Elena Muñiz Grijalvo 11 Pro consensu et concordia civium: Sensoriality, Imperial Cult, and Social Control in Augustan Urban Orientations  David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García, and Marco V. García-Quintela 12 Finding Religion in Reported Sensorial Experiences: A Case Study of Propertius 4.6  Jörg Rüpke 13 Sensory Experiences in the Cybelic Cult: Sound Stimulation through Musical Instruments  Rosa Sierra del Molino and Israel Campos Méndez 14 Isis’ Footprints: The Petrosomatoglyphs as Spatial Indicators of Human-Divine Encounters  Valentino Gasparini 15 Assiduo sono and furiosa tibia in Ovid’s Fasti: Music and Religious Identity in Narratives of Processions in the Roman World  Nicole Belayche 16 Total Sensory Experience in Isiac Cults: Mimesis, Alterity, and Identity  Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, and Clelia Martínez Maza Index of Literary Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia) Index of Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia) General Index (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)

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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 SynopsisJesuits have been in Africa since the founding of their order, yet their history there remains poorly researched. Although scholars have begun to focus on specific regions such as Congo, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe, a comprehensive picture of the entire Jesuit experience on the continent has hitherto been lacking. In a condensed yet accessible way, Jesuits in Africa fills that lacuna. Narrating the story century by century from the time of St. Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491–1556), founder of the Jesuits, to that of Pedro Arrupe (1907–91, in office 1965–83), twenty-eighth superior general of the Society, this book makes Jesuit history in Africa available to a general readership while offering scholars a broad view in which specialized topics can be conceived and deepened.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments  Introduction  1 Sixteenth Century: Kongo, Ethiopia, Mozambique/Zimbabwe, and Angola  2 Seventeenth Century: West Africa, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, and Kongo  3 Eighteenth Century: Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Angola  4 Nineteenth Century: Algeria, Fernando Pó, Sudan, Egypt, Madagascar, Zambezi, and Congo  5 Twentieth Century: Continuation, Consolidation, and Expansion  Conclusion  Bibliography   Documents in the Monumenta historica Societatis Iesu (MHSI) Series   Other Published Primary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Jesuit Art, Mia Mochizuki considers the artistic production of the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) from a global perspective. Geographic and medial expansion of the standard corpus changes not only the objects under analysis, it also affects the kinds of queries that arise. Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to assess the signature structural innovations pioneered by Jesuits in the history of the image. When the question of a ‘Jesuit style’ is rehabilitated as an inquiry into sources for a spectrum of works, the Society’s investment in the functional potential of illustrated books reveals the traits that would come to define the modern image as internally networked, technologically defined, and innately subjective.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction  1.1 Jesuit Art  1.2 Context  1.3 Resources  1.4 Rationale Part 2: Sources  2.1 A “Jesuit Style”?  2.2 The Spiritual Exercises (Exercitia spiritualia)  2.3 The Evangelicae historiae imagines  2.4 The Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesv Part 3: Contributions  3.1 The Networked Image  3.2 The Technological Image  3.3 The Subjective Image Part 4: In Place of a Conclusion  4.1 What If There Was No Jesuit Art? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian peripheries. Based on a comparative perspective, this book examines the interconnections between the Jesuit proselytizing activities and the imperial projects of the Iberian crowns in Asia, highlighting the role of the Jesuit missionaries operating in Asian Islamic settings as diplomatic and cultural mediators. It is aimed at researchers and students working on Jesuit missions in South Asia, the Portuguese and Spanish empires in Asia, early modern cross-cultural diplomacy, early modern travel accounts, and early modern ethnography.Table of ContentsContents Preliminary Note Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Jesuits and Islam in the Portuguese Estado the Índia  3 Diplomacy and Proselytizing in the Deccan: The Jesuit Missions to Bijapur (c.1561–1667)  4 Hoping for a New Constantine: the Jesuit Mission to the Mughal Court (1580–1773)  5 Jesuit–Islam Interaction in the Southern Philippines and the Moluccas (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)  6 Mindanao, Sulu, and the Spanish–Moro Wars (Seventeenth Century)  7 Mindanao, Sulu, and the Spanish–Moro Wars (Eighteenth Century)  8 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis work contains two parts. Part I constitutes a guide to the corpus of Greek sacred law and its contents. A discussion of the history of the corpus and the principles governing its composition is followed by a detailed review of its contents, in which the evidence is classified according to subject matter. Part II contains inscriptions published since the late 1960s from all around the Greek world excluding Cos and Asia Minor (checklists for these are appended). The text of each inscription is presented alongside restorations, epigraphical commentary, translation, and a comprehensive running commentary. Most of the inscriptions are illustrated. The volume should prove useful to scholars of Greek religion, historians, and epigraphists.Trade Review"...an effective research tool with many sound commentaries ... a welcome addition" – Jan-Mathieu Carbon, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2005

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Book SynopsisThe traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.Trade Review"It investigates the reception, transformation, and socioreligious roles of the cults of Mater Magna (Cybele), Isis and Serapis, and Mithras in the complex culture of the Roman Empire and their relationship to emergent Christianity." New Testament Abstracts 53:2

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Book SynopsisFlourishing in the centuries around the birth of Christ, the Nabataean kingdom covered a large swathe of the north-western Arabian Peninsula and was shaped by cultural influences from the Mediterranean, Arabian and wider Semitic worlds. The Religious Life of Nabataea examines the inscriptions, sculptures and architectural remains left by worshippers in every corner of the kingdom, from the spectacular remains of the desert city of Petra to the fertile plains of southern Syria. While previous scholarly approaches have minimised the diversity of cultic practices and traditions found in Nabataea, this study reveals a vibrant religious landscape dominated by a variety of local traditions.Trade Review"Alpass displays a good grasp of the material and manages to present it clearly and coherently, as well as exploring current issues and debates concerning the topic." Lucy Wadeson, Université Libre de Bruxelles, STRATA: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, Vol. 32 "This volume examines the religious, social, and geographical background of the Nabataean kingdom that covered a large swathe of the northwestern Arabian peninsula and flourished around the 1st-centuries B.C. and A.D." New Testament Abstracts 58:2

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Book SynopsisWorlds Full of Signs compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome. It argues that the character of Greek divination differed fundamentally from that of the two comparanda. Ample attention is given to background and method at first. Subsequent chapters discuss the divinatory elements – sign, homo divinans, and text, relating divination to time and uncertainty. This book brings together sources originating from various times and places, questioning these to consider both generalities of ancient divination and specifics of Greek divination. Greek divination was inherently flexible on many levels: these findings should be connected to Greek views on time and the future as well as the relatively low level of divinatory institutionalization.Table of ContentsContents Preface ................................................................................................................. vii List of Abbreviations ....................................................................................... ix Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1 Part One Introduction to ancient divination 1 Historiography ........................................................................................... 9 2 Defining Divination .................................................................................. 19 3 Comparison ................................................................................................. 43 Part Two Elements of ancient divination 4 T he Homo Divinans: Layman and Expert .......................................... 55 5 Significance of Signs ................................................................................. 107 6 Playing by the Book? Use of a Textual Framework ........................ 139 Part Three Function of ancient divination 7 T ime and Divination—Divination and Time ................................... 173 8 Dealing with Uncertainty ....................................................................... 195 Conclusion ......................................................................................................... 223 Select Bibliography .......................................................................................... 231 Index of Modern Authors .............................................................................. 237 Index of Subjects .............................................................................................. 243

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Book SynopsisIn Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

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Book SynopsisA monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book. In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.Table of ContentsForeword  Rosemary J. Cramp Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times  Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth List of Illustrations List of Tables Contributors Introduction  Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool 1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles  Donncha MacGabhann 2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts  Christina Lee 3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F  Gale R. Owen-Crocker 4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England  Maren Clegg Hyer 5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey  Penelope Walton Rogers 6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries  Frances Pritchard 7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography  Alexandra Lester-Makin part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript 8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture  Jane Hawkes 9 The Thread of Ornament  Catherine E. Karkov 10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire  David A. Hinton 11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition  Éamonn Ó Carragáin 12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction?  Richard N. Bailey 13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised  Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes) Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the work of Anselm of Canterbury, theologian and archbishop, in light of the communities in which he participated. Featuring thirteen essays from leading historians, theologians, and literary scholars, the collection ranges from Anselm’s immediate contemporaries to the reception of his work, and formation of his posthumous reputation, by later medieval readers. Individual essays consider the role of friendships in his career, his relations with students, correspondence with women, interventions in the political sphere, and influence as leader of the monastic communities at Bec and Canterbury. Together, these essays present a new profile of the archbishop, revealing an individual whose work emerged from a vibrant culture of debate, criticism, and collaboration. Contributors are: Giles E. M. Gasper, Bernard van Vreeswijk, David Whidden, Hiroko Yamazaki, Bernd Goebel, Thomas Barrows, Hollie Devanney, Stephanie Britton, Sally Vaughn, George Younge, Christian Brouwer, Daniel Coman, Margaret Healy-Varley, and Severin Kitanov.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Notes on Editions and Translations of Anselm’s Works and Other Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction  Margaret Healy-Varley, Giles E. M. Gasper and George Younge prologue: Anselm in Community 1 Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia Context, Structures, and Community  Giles E. M. Gasper part 1: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Justice, Evil, and Love 2 Anselm of Canterbury and Gilbert Crispin about Justice and Redemption Tracing Developments in Soteriological Thinking at the End of the Eleventh Century  Bernard J. D. van Vreeswijk 3 The Proslogion, Gilbert Crispin, and the Cur Deus homo Anselm and the Problems of the Incarnation  David L. Whidden 4 Anselm and Odo of Tournai on God and Evil  Hiroko Yamazaki 5 Anselmian Themes and Anti-Anselmian Stances in Ralph of Battle’s Philosophical Theology  Bernd Goebel Part 2: Reading Anselm’s Environment: Politics, Canterbury and Literature 6 St Anselm and Gundulf of Rochester Brothers of Bec, One in Heart and Soul  Thomas R. Barrows 7 St Anselm and Friendship with Women Matilda of Tuscany  Hollie Devanney 8 Reading Eadmer of Canterbury in Light of Anselm  Stephanie C. Britton 9 Leading Everything Irregular in England Back to Due Order The Probable Theories behind Archbishop Anselm’s Political Endeavours  Sally N. Vaughn 10 Old English Literary Culture and the Circle of Saint Anselm  George Younge Part 3: Reading Anselm in the Later Middle Ages 11 How Did Robert Grosseteste and Thomas Aquinas Read Anselm’s Definition of Truth?  Christian Brouwer 12 Cistercians and the Assimilation of Anselm in the Late 14th Century A Case Study of the Quaestio in vesperiis fratriis Chunradi de Ebrako (†1399)  Daniel Coman 13 The Admonitio morienti and a Vernacular Anselm  Margaret Healy-Varley 14 Beatitudo est sufficiencia sine omni indigentia St Anselm’s Compositional Model of Beatitude and its Reception in Late Medieval Scholastic Theology  Severin V. Kitanov Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn European and Global Christianity, ca. 1500-1789 ten internationally known scholars reflect on the historical factors that have made Christianity a truly global religion that interacts creatively with the myriad ventures that form cultures, societies, and civilizations. This volume concentrates both on the expansion of Christianity that emanated from Europe and the reality of that religion in every part of the world.Trade Review"It will be indispensable for early modern historians, global historians and scholars of religious history alike. (...) illustrate[s] the fascinating and breathtaking spectacle of the spread and nature of global Christianity in the early modern age, and mark[s] both the achievements as well as the challenges for researchers in the field.", David Onnekink, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History Volume 70 (2019). "Focusing more on movements, institutions, and geographical regions than on individual personalities, this resource will help nonspecialists and specialists alike map out topics for further research in the last 500 years of global church movements." - M.S. Hill, Liberty University in *Choice*, November 2018. "Drie eeuwen christendom, past dat in één boek? Elf kerkhistorici is het gelukt om een spade dieper te gaan dan veel andere auteurs doen in hun kerkhistorische overzichten. Zo is er aandacht voor een breed scala aan onderwerpen, zoals het katholicisme in Spanje, Portugal en de nieuw ontdekte gebieden in Amerika en de Filipijnen (Delgado); de groeiende macht van de Russische kerk (Brüning); het christendom in Afrika (Ward) en Azië (Hsia) en de christelijke gemeenschappen in Noord-Amerika (Stievermann)." [English translation:] "Three centuries of Christianity, does that fit into one book? Eleven church historians have managed to go a bit deeper than many other authors do in their church historical overviews. The [first] volume includes a wide range of topics, such as Catholicism in Spain, Portugal and the newly discovered areas in America and the Philippines (Delgado), the growing influence of the Russian church (Brüning), Christianity in Africa (Ward) and Asia (Hsia) and the Christian communities in North America (Stievermann)." Maarten Stolk, in: Reformatorisch Dagblad, March 23, 2018.Table of ContentsForeword Volume 1 Introduction: European and Global Christianity in the Early Modern Period, ca. 1500–ca. 1800  Hartmut Lehmann 1 Catholicism in Spain, Portugal, and their Empires  Mariano Delgado 2 The Russian Church, 1448–1701  Alfons Brüning 3 Christians under Ottoman Rule, 1453–1800  Bruce Masters 4 Christianity in Africa, 1500–1800  Kevin Ward 5 Latin-European Christianity in the 16th Century  Thomas Kaufmann 6 Christianity in Asia, ca. 1500–1789  Ronnie Po-chia Hsia 7 European and Global Christianity, 1500–1789  Andreas Holzem 8 Famine, Epidemics, War: The Triple Challenge of Central European Christianity, 1570–1720  Hartmut Lehmann 9 Christian Churches and Communities in North America to 1800  Jan Stievermann 10 Christianity in 18th Century Europe  Carsten Bach-Nielsen Summary and Prospective  Hartmut Lehmann Index

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 19th century, “Christendom” was still largely restricted to Europe and the Americas. But by the end of the century this picture had been radically transformed. Spreading the Christian message through mission and colonialism had changed the map of global Christianity. Moreover, challenged by new political ideologies such as Liberalism and Socialism, as well as encounters with other religions, the face of Christianity had changed towards the beginning of the 20th century. This volume relates the dynamics of Christianity during the 19th century in ten chapters, addressing parts of the world where Christianity played a role of significance, such as Russia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as the confrontations with different ideologies. Contributors are: Margaret Bendroth, Martin Dreher, Christian Gottlieb, Andreas Holzem, Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig, Hugh McLeod, Mitri Raheb, Ulrike Schröder, Kevin Ward. This is part of a three volume work on the history of global Christianity. The first volume covers the period from 1500-1789 (Brill, 2017); the third volume, on the 20th century, will be published in 2018.Trade Review"Focusing more on movements, institutions, and geographical regions than on individual personalities, this resource will help nonspecialists and specialists alike map out topics for further research in the last 500 years of global church movements." - M.S. Hill, Liberty University in *Choice*, November 2018. "[T]his is an important book because of its ambition to present an international, if not ‘global’, overview. As Kevin Ward rightly points out in the chapter on Africa, by 1900 Christianity may have become global, but in many parts of the world, Christianity, despite its missionary zeal and revivalist momentum, was still a religion of minorities.At its core, History of Christianity in the 19th century remains a fairly classical retreading of older historiographical paths that lead through the Christian nineteenth century, which will be a useful scholarly introduction for students of history and religion and a valid work of reference for researchers." - Kristof Smeyers, University of Antwerp, in: British Catholic History 34:3, pp. 521-523. "The volumes take a fresh approach in presenting historical research from a global angle, so as to not be constrained by the typical European ethnocentric tunnel vision. Too often Church history was written and prescribed from a Eurocentric perspective, which is as much apparent in its terminology (e.g. Middle East, Near East) as in its proportional selection (more attention for the Atlantic axis). In this regard the series is a ‘Fundgrube’ of data, narratives, and historical reflections not hindered by cultural biases given with the false assumption that modernity and civilisation only started with the wake of Europe." - Henk Bakker, Free University Amsterdam, JEBS 21:1 (2021), pp. 201-203.Table of ContentsForeword Volume 2 List of Contributors Introduction to Volume 2  Hugh McLeod 1 Revolutions and the Church: The New Era of Modernity  Hugh McLeod 2 Roman Catholicism, European Ultramontanism, and the First Vatican Council  Andreas Holzem 3 The Protestant Missionary Movement in the Nineteenth Century (Late 18th Century to 1914)  Kevin Ward 4 Christianity in Russia, 1700–1917  Christia0n Gottlieb 5 Christianity in Nineteenth-Century North America  Margaret Bendroth 6 Latin America and the Caribbean in the 19th Century  Martin N. Dreher 7 Christianity in Africa: The Late 18th  Kevin Ward 8 Christianity in the Middle East, 1799–1917  Mitri Raheb 9 Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries  Klaus Koschorke 10 Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions: Interreligious Dynamics and Developments in the 19th  Ulrike Schröder and Frieder Ludwig Concluding Reflections/Outlook  Hugh McLeod Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of History of Global Christianity addresses the 20th century. An international cast of (Church) historians and Religious Studies scholars relate the developments in this century, from the World Wars into postmodern times. The century is discussed along chronological and geographical lines, as the other volumes, but also focuses on more thematical issues such as Ecumenism, Antisemitism and Human Rights. Contributors are: Andrew Chandler, Melanie Duguid-May, Siegfried Hermle, Katharina Kunter, Frieder Ludwig, Gerard Mannion, Harry Oelke, Jens Holger Schjørring, Ulrike Schröder, Kevin Ward. This is part of a three volume work on the history of global Christianity. The first two volumes cover the periods from 1500-1789 and the 19th century (published 2017).Trade Review"Focusing more on movements, institutions, and geographical regions than on individual personalities, this resource will help nonspecialists and specialists alike map out topics for further research in the last 500 years of global church movements." - M.S. Hill, Liberty University in *Choice*, November 2018. "The volumes take a fresh approach in presenting historical research from a global angle, so as to not be constrained by the typical European ethnocentric tunnel vision. Too often Church history was written and prescribed from a Eurocentric perspective, which is as much apparent in its terminology (e.g. Middle East, Near East) as in its proportional selection (more attention for the Atlantic axis). In this regard the series is a ‘Fundgrube’ of data, narratives, and historical reflections not hindered by cultural biases given with the false assumption that modernity and civilisation only started with the wake of Europe." - Henk Bakker, Free University Amsterdam, JEBS 21:1 (2021), pp. 201-203.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Volume iii List of Contributors Introduction, 20th Century, Volume iii  Jens Holger Schjørring Part 1 
Decades 1 Christianity in the First World War  Jens Holger Schjørring 2 Christianity in Europe and North America between the World Wars, 1918–c. 1939  Andrew Chandler 3 Second World War  Harry Oelke 4 Christianity in Europe and North America in the Age of the Cold War  Andrew Chandler Part 2 
Themes 5 Christianity, Human Rights, and Socio-Ethical Reorientations  Katharina Kunter 6 The Ecumenical Movement  Melanie Duguid-May 7 Vatican II: How the First Global Council Transformed Catholicism  Gerard Mannion 8 Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and Reorientation  Siegfried Hermle 9 Christianity in the Context of Other World Religions: Interreligious Dynamics and Developments in the 20th Century  Frieder Ludwig and Ulrike Schröder Part 3 
Continents 10 The Christian Century? A History of Christianity in North America, 1900–2000  Heath W. Carter 11 Christianity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th Century  Veit Strassner 12 African Christianity in the Twentieth Century  Akintunde E. Akinade 13 African Christianity in the 20th Century – Part Two  Kevin Ward 14 Christianity in the Middle East, 1917–2017  Mitri Raheb 15 Christianities in Asia in the Twentieth Century (1910–2010)  Peter C. Phan 16 Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania  Geoffrey Troughton 17 Christianity in Russia and Eastern Europe  Thomas Bremer 18 Christianity in Europe  Grace Davie Conclusions  Kevin Ward Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, 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 the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They 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 new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel

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Book SynopsisIn the second half of the fifteenth century, Roberto Caracciolo’s preaching touched the most important cities of Italy, and met with wide and resounding success. His sermons were read and diffused throughout Italy and Europe, propelled by the emergence of the printing press industry. This book provides a new and comprehensive study of his life, preaching and writing, replacing outdated resources and adding new and hitherto unknown data. It offers a reference work on a relevant social, intellectual and religious actor of Renaissance Italy and a reading of those times through the life and works of a celebrated preacher.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Biographical Chronology Introduction PART 1: An Image Shaped Over the Centuries: Fame and the Historiographical Tradition of a Preacher 1 Franciscan Historiography Concerning a Controversial Friar 2 The Influence of Defaming Comments and the Waning of a Style of Preaching PART 2: The Life 3 Youth and Family (1425–c. 1446) 4 First Successful Preaching in Umbria (c. 1446–1448) 5 Itinerant Preaching in Central and Southern Italy (1448–1450) 6 Preaching in Padua (1450–1451) 7 Brescia, Milan, and Forlì (1451) 8 Roberto’s Break from the Observant Family (1452–1453) 9 Renewed Attacks against the Observant Reform (1453–1455) 10 Preaching the Crusade in Rome (1455–1457) 11 Preaching in Milan (1457–1458) 12 Florence and Rome (1459–1461) 13 Preaching the Crusade in Northern Italy (1463) 14 Rome, Bologna, Ferrara, Naples and Genoa (1464–1467) 15 The Devil’s Activity in the World (1467–1470) 16 Preacher in Naples and Ecclesiastical Career in Rome (1470–1480) 17 From the Siege of Otranto to the Last Years in Lecce (1480–1495) PART 3: The Works and Fame 18 Preaching between Action and Intellectual Debate 19 Preaching, Writing, and Printing Sermons in Fifteenth-Century Italy 20 The Editorial History of Roberto’s Sermon Collections 21 Outlines of the Manuscript Diffusion of Roberto’s Sermons 22 The Readers of Roberto’s Sermon Collections 23 The Fame of the Celebrated Preacher PART 4: Appendix Appendix I: A Catalogue of Roberto’s Printed Sermon Collections Appendix II: A Current Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Roberto’s Works Appendix III: A Guide to Roberto’s Sermon Collections: Tables of Contents of His Latin Printed Works Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProfessor Geo Widengren (1907–1996), holder of the chair in History of Religions and Psychology of Religions at Uppsala University between 1940 and 1973, is one of Sweden’s best-known scholars in the field of religious studies. His involvement in the start of the IAHR and publications on topics such as the phenomenology of religions, Iranian studies and Middle Eastern Religions make Widengren one of the founding fathers of the History of Religions as an academic discipline. This volume pays tribute to Widengren’s academic achievements and critically discusses his work in light of the latest academic findings and research.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors part 1: Thesis and International Work 1 Geo Widengren: A Portrait of a Swedish Historian of Religions  Göran Larsson 2 Hebrew Laments in the Light of Mesopotamian Material  Göran Eidevall 3 Professor Geo Widengren, IAHR Vice-President 1950–1960, IAHR President 1960–1970, IAHR Honorary Life Member 1996  Tim Jensen and Satoko Fujiwara part 2: Iranian Cultures, Languages and Religions 4 Geo Widengren and the Study of Iranian Religion  Anders Hultgård 5 The Eclipse of Geo Widengren in the Study of Iranian Religions  Albert de Jong 6 “King and Saviour”: Geo Widengren’s Early Contributions (1938–1955) to the History of Iranian Religions  Mihaela Timuş part 3: A Phenomenological Approach 7 Geo Widengren and Swedish Phenomenology of Religion versus Italian Comparative Historical Typology  Giovanni Casadio 8 The World of Religion: A Reevaluation of Geo Widengren’s Phenomenology of Religion  Clemens Cavallin part 4: Method, Criticism and a Public Intellectual 9 The Reception and Criticism of Geo Widengren in the Nordic Countries: The Debate over the Origin of Religion  René Gothóni and Göran Larsson 10 Before the Bible: Middle-Eastern Religions and the Origins of Christianity in the Works of Geo Widengren  Christer Hedin 11 Tor Andræ and Geo Widengren: Perspectives and Purposes of the Study of the History of Religions  Jan Hjärpe 12 Africa and America Revisited: A Critical Analysis of Widengren’s Comparative Method  Daniel Andersson Part 5: Manichaeism and Gnosticism 13 Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule  Einar Thomassen 14 Geo Widengren and Manichaeism  Chiara O. Tommasi Part 6: Postscript 15 Geo Widengren as Researcher and Public Intellectual: A Meta-Reflection  Göran Larsson Appendix A: Letters between Raffaele Pettazzoni and Geo Widengren (1948–1959) Appendix B: Letters between Helmer Ringgren, Geo Widengren and Ugo Bianchi (1959–1970) Geo Widengren’s Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe chapter about idol worship in Maqrīzī’s Universal History includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship.Table of ContentsPreface List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction  1 Idols in Conversion Reports  2 Mecca  3 Medina (Yaṯrib) (§ 110–117)  4 Idols and Treasuries Notes on the Edition and the Translation Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, vol. IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs Section on the Idols of the Arabs [Their aṣnām and awṯān]  Wadd  Suwāʿ  Yaġūṯ  Yaʿūq  Nasr  Hubal  Isāf and Nāʾilah  Saʿd  ʿĀʾim  Ḏū l-Šará  Ruḍā  Ḍamār  Al-Ḥarīš, Ṣaḫr, Šams, al-Bihām, al-Qayn, Šafr, al-Ḥibs, Ġayyān, Isāf, Samūl, Ḥusā, al-Ṭimm, al-Samḥ  Sāf, al-Dībāǧ, al-Zabr  Huzzam  Manāf  Dawār  Al-Fals  Nuhm  Al-Suʿayr  Al-Uqayṣir  Al-ʿUrayf  Al-Ḥalāl  Aḥmas  ʿAmm Anas  Al-Šurayr, Ġanm, Ḏū l-Kaffayni  Al-Šāriq  Marsūġ  Al-Bayḍāʾ  Kulāl  Al-Ḫamīs  Al-Mukaymin  Yalīl  Barkulān  Qurs  Al-ʿAbd  Al-Ǧuṯā  Farrāḍ  Zaʿbal  Al-Ǧalsad  Ḥumām  ʿAwḍ  Saqb Section on al-ǧibt and al-ṭāġūt  Al-ʿUzzá  Allāt  Manāt  Ḏū l-Kaʿabāt  Ḏū l-Ḫalaṣah  The Kaʿbah of Naǧrān  Riyām  Al-Qalīs/al-Qullays  Al-Huǧam  The account of Ḏāt Anwāṭ  Anṣāb  Ruḍā  Buss  Fire Temple  Al-Saʿīdah Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Verses of Poetry Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Technical Terms Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Facsimile of MS Fatih 4339 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 30a–48b

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together the disciplines of history and psychology. It is the first study to apply attachment theory to self-narratives of the past, namely examples of life-writing (letters and proto-autobiographies) from medieval England, written in broad religious contexts. It examines whether God could appear as an adequate attachment figure in times of high mortality and often inadequate childrearing practices, and whether the emphasis on God’s proximity to believers benefited their psychological reorganisation. The main method of enquiry is discourse analysis based on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) coding.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Attachment Theory and Its Application to Historical Material  2 Case Studies from Medieval England  Conclusions  Bibliography

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