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The University of Chicago Press In Whose Image Political Islam and Urban
Book SynopsisThe author was employed as consultant for the Islamic fundamentalist Shari'a Movement's project to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in Khartoum's shanty towns. His book examines the use of Islam as a tool for political transformation and discusses religious discourse in Africa.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. 1: Struggles for the Familiar Ch. 1: Religion, Islam, and the State in Africa Ch. 2: Sudan: The Search for Political Coherency Ch. 3: The Civil War Pt. 2: Out of Bounds Islam and Transformation Ch. 4: Indigenous Solutions: Islamicization and Postcolonial Identity Ch. 5: Sociality of the Capital: Transformation of Khartoum Ch. 6: The Discursive Practices of the Islamic Movement Ch. 7: Politics of Cultural Revival Ch. 8: The Religion of Race, the Race for Religion Pt. 3: A Reference from Another Africa Ch. 9: Advantageous Marginalities: A South African Critique of the Islamic Movement in Sudan Notes Index
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Indiana University Press Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisFocuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality.Trade ReviewThis edited volume offers the reader excellent coverage on a range of issues about the social, cultural, and political aspects of Pentecostalism. With contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, and religion scholars, the editor has brought together some of the top experts in the field with cases from most regions of the world including Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, Russia, Ukraine, India, and the Philippines. * Religious Studies Review *Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century is a valuable addition to the literature on a topic that was neglected by anthropologists for too long . . . it takes the pulse of an important field of research and begins to direct our gaze toward the futures of Pentecostalisms and to whatever new religious developments may come. * Anthropology Review Database *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Unexpected Modern—Gender, Piety, and Politics in the Global Pentecostal Surge \ Robert W. Hefner1. Pentecostalism: An Alternative Form of Modernity and Modernization? \ David Martin2. The Future of Pentecostalism in Brazil: The Limits to Growth \ Paul Freston3. Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity \ David Maxwell4. Tensions and Trends in Pentecostal Gender and Family Relations \ Bernice Martin5. Gender, Modernity, and Pentecostal Christianity in China \ Nanlai Cao6. The Routinization of Soviet Pentecostalism and the Liberation of Charisma in Russia and Ukraine \ Christopher Marsh and Artyom Tonoyan7. Pentecost amid Pujas: Charismatic Christianity and Dalit Women in Twenty-First-Century India \ Rebecca Samuel Shah and Timothy Samuel Shah8. Politics, Education, and Civic Participation: Catholic Charismatic Modernities in the Philippines \ Katharine L. WiegeleAfterword \ Peter L. BergerContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisHighlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.Trade ReviewBowring, Cypess, and Malamut's collection provides valuable insights into this unique and colorful period of Jewish history, a zigzag of alternating oppression and acceptance, a complex of negotiated identities. -- Joshua R. Jacobson * Early Music America *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesList of TablesEditorial PrinciplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rebecca Cypess1. Written in Italian, Heard as Jewish: Reconsidering the Notated Sources of Italian Jewish Music , by Francesco Spagnolo2. Miriam's Timbrel: The Decameron as Exodus, by Aaron Beck3. Traces of Jewish Music and Culture at the Urbino Court of Federico da Montefeltro , by J. Drew Stephen4. The Peripatetic Career of a Converted Jew: The Music Theorist Pietro Aaron , by Bonnie J. Blackburn5. A Fire, a Fight, and a Knight: Elye Bokher in Verse and Song , by Avery Gosfield6. The Bassanos at the Court of Henry VIII: A Story of Cooperation and Protection , by Dongmyung Ahn7. Jewish and Converted Musicians and Musical Instruments Makers in Southern Italy in the Fifteenth through Early Seventeenth Centuries, by Luigi Sisto8. Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon: The Pleasures and Pains of Marginality, by Stefano Patuzzi9. Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi , by Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring10. L'Accademia degli Impediti: A Reevaluation , by Liza MalamutBibliography: Manuscript SourcesPrinted SourcesPrinted ScoresDiscographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Beyond Piety and Politics
Book SynopsisBy highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam.Trade Review"Beyond Piety and Politics is an important contribution to the study of religion and politics. This well-written, carefully documented study nuances our understanding of religiosity by considering how religious groups' standings in society and vis-à-vis the state shape individuals' attitudes. It pushes the field to dismiss blunt conceptions of religiosity, focusing on how these groups navigate state and society."—Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg"This is an excellent and sophisticated book that examines the sources of religious preferences and outlooks. It insightfully argues that communal associations shape religious outlooks and these outlooks influence political and social worldviews. The authors advance a nuanced and context-driven understanding of religion in the everyday lives of citizens in MENA."—Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsDedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religious Communities, the State, and Religious Outlooks2. Attitudes of the Devout: The Nature of the Substance or the Nurture of Relationship?3. Empirical Foundations of Religious Outlooks4. The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Muslim Religious Outlooks in MENA5. Islam and Support for Democracy6. Temporal Change in Religious Outlooks and Political Preferences7. Islam and Distributive PreferencesConclusionAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture
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MV - University of Washington Press A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe
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University of Washington Press Fire in the Ashes
Book SynopsisExplores how inquiry about the Holocaust challenges understanding, especially its religious and ethical dimensions. This book investigates differences and disagreements between religious traditions and philosophical perspectives - represents an effort to advance meaningful conversation between Jews and Christians.Table of ContentsPrologue: Flames in the Darkness / David Patterson and John K. Roth Part One: The Burden of Evil 1. Fire and Ashes: The "Tempter-God," Evil, and the Shoah / Margaret Brearley In Response --Britta Frede-Wenger --David Patterson --Margaret Brearley 2. Jean Amery: Memories of Evil and Consequences for the Representation of Jewish Identity in Christian Theology / Hanna Holtschneider In Response --Peter J. Haas --John K. Roth --Hannah Holtschneider 3. Judaism in Protestant Encounters with the Shoah / Peter J. Haas In Response --Henry F. Knight --Rochelle L. Millen --Peter J. Haas 4. Locating God: Placing Ourselves in a Post-Shoah World / Henry F. Knight In Response --Margaret Brearley --Leonard Grob --Henry F. Knight Part Two: Searching Traditions 5. "Like Pebbles on the Seashore": J. B. Soloveitchik on Suffering / Rochelle L. Millen In Response --Hannah Holtschneider --Juergen Manemann --Rochelle L. Millen 6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz? / Britta Frede-Wenger In Response --Henry F. Knight Rochelle L. Millen --Britta Frede-Wenger 7. If the Good Become the Evil: Antimonotheism in Germany after Reunification and the Problems of the Doctrine of Justification / Juergen Manemann In Response --David Patterson --Didier Pollefeyt --Juergen Manemann 8. Some Fundamental Doubts about Posing the Question of Theodicy in the Post-Holocaust World / Leongard Grob In Response --Margaret Brearley --Didier Pollefeyt --Leonard Grob Part Three: Beyond the Ruins? 9. Horror Vacui: God and Evil in/after Auschwitz / Didier Pollefeyt In Response --Britta Frede-Wenger --Peter J. Haas --Didier Pollefeyt 10. Deliver us from Evil? Kuhn's Prayer and the Masters of Death / John K. Roth In Response --Leonard Grob --Juergen Manemann --John K. Roth 11. Seeking the Fire in the Ashes: A Chasidic Accounting for Evil form the Midst of Evil after the Evil of Auschwitz / David Patterson In Response --Hannah Holtschneider --John K. Roth --David Patterson Postscript: The Disturbance of the Witness / David Patterson and John K. Roth Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index
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Yale University Press Americas Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Sands] writes of a long-standing conflict between ‘anti-modernist religion and anti-religious modernism.’”—E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post“A new way of framing public debate that transcends the culture wars and forces us to grapple with the complexities of the actual interests, identities, histories, and desires at stake. A welcome and timely contribution from a scholar at the top of her game.”—Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion"This is an outstanding entry into the controversies surrounding religion in American life. Insightful, provocative, and accessible, it makes a powerful case for the obfuscation, ambiguities, even incoherence that stalk religion talk."—Linell Cady, Arizona State University“Kathleen Sands transcends false dualism and instead charges us to use conflicts as opportunities to reveal the living principles, the living heart, of our shared democracy. Her timely analysis is a refreshing and principled contribution to American democracy.”—Nathan C. Walker, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education“In crystalline language and with a deeply informed historical sensibility, Sands traces the tangled intellectual roots of America’s religious wars, showing what a dreadful and consequential mess Americans have made of one of their ostensibly deepest social values.”—Robert Orsi, author of History and Presence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Its Monsters
Book SynopsisReligious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror, and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters, and monsters have their religion. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy Beal explores how religion, horror, and the monstrous are deeply intertwined. This new edition has been thoughtfully updated, reflecting on developments in the field over the past two decades and highlighting its contributions to emerging conversations. It also features a new chapter, Gods, Monsters, and Machines, which engages cultural fascinations and anxieties about technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they relate to religion and the monstrous at the dawn of the Anthropocene.Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students and scholars of religion and popular culture, as well as for any readers with an interest in horror theory or monster theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition: Religion and Its Monsters, Monsters and Their Religion Part One: Religion and Its Monsters 1. Chaos Gods: Cosmic Horrors from the Ancient Near East 2. The Bible and Horror: Making and Unmaking the World 3. The Sleep of Wisdom: Job and the Abyss of Suffering 4. From the Whirlwind: Where God Outmonsters Job 5. Dinner and a Show: Watching and Eating Monsters with the Rabbis 6. To the Devil: John’s Great Red Dragon Part Two: Monsters and Their Religion 7. New Monsters in Old Skins: Modern Awe and Order 8. Other Gods: Colonialism and Its Monsters 9. The Blood Is the Life: Ritual Purity and Danger in Dracula 10. Screening Monsters: Movie Time, Sacred Time 11. Ecomonsters: The Return of the Ecologically Repressed 12. Our Monsters, Ourselves: Sacred Horror Culture 13. Gods, Monsters, and Machines: Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene Conclusion: Here Be Monsters. Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What is Antisemitism
What is Antisemitism? offers a history of anti-Jewish animosity from antiquity to the present - including a discussion of the difficulties of defining antisemitism and three case studies illustrating the diverse and wide-ranging nature of the phenomenon in the present-day.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) After Empire Melancholia or Convivial Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing on texts from the writings of Fanon and Orwell to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire, Paul Gilroy explores Britain's failure to come to terms with the loss of its empire and pre-eminent global standing.Trade Review'This is a work of startling range, insight and originality' - Stephen Howe, The Independent'[A] perceptive book.' - Andy Beckett, The GuardianTable of ContentsPart 1: The Planet 1. Race and the Right to be Human 2. Cosmopolitanism Contested Part 2: Albion 3. Has it Come to This? 4. The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality
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Cambridge University Press Jews in the Russian Army 18271917
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Cambridge University Press Islamic Historiography 1 Themes in Islamic
Book SynopsisHow did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.Trade Review'He is to be commended for the outstanding effort he has invested and the solid scholarship he exhibits in this work, which earns his Islamic Historiography a place beside distinguished recent studies on the subject … Robinson's notes are exceptionally informative, and offer a rich guide to further specialized readings on a wide range of topics not at all restricted to Islam. It makes an outstanding textbook for students of Islamic studies, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.' Islam and Christian-Muslim RelationsTable of ContentsList of plates; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Chronology I: the historians of the formative period; Chronology II: the historians of the classical period; Preface; Part I. Origins and Categories: 1. Origins; 2. The emergence of genre; 3. Consequences and models; 4. Three categories: biography, prosopography, chronography; Part II. Contexts: 5. Historiography and traditionalism; 6. Historiography and society; 7. God and models of history; 8. Historians and the truth; Part III. How Historians Worked: 9. Vocations and professions; 10. Writing history; Conclusion; Suggestions for further reading; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History Religion
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the Jewish experience, from its ancient origins to its impact on contemporary popular culture. The twenty-one historical and thematic essays examine the ongoing diversity and creativity of the Jewish experience, including the lives and contributions of women.Table of ContentsIntroduction Judith R. Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin; 1. The Hebrew Bible and the early history of Israel Marc Zvi Brettler; 2. The Second Temple Period Alan F. Segal; 3. The rabbinic movement Hayim Lapin; 4. The Jewish experience in the Muslim world Norman A. Stillman; 5. Jewish life in Western Christendom Robert Chazan; 6. Jews and Judaism in early modern Europe Adam Shear; 7. European Jewry: 1800–1933 Marsha L. Rozenblit; 8. Jews and Judaism in the United States Pamela S. Nadell; 9. The Shoah and its legacies Peter Hayes; 10. The founding of modern Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict Bernard Reich; 11. The centrality of Talmud Michael S. Berger; 12. Judaism as a religious system Harvey E. Goldberg; 13. Jewish worship and liturgy Ruth Langer; 14. Jewish private life: gender, marriage, and the lives of women Judith R. Baskin; 15. Jewish philosophy Kenneth Seeskin; 16. Jewish mysticism Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; 17. Modern Jewish thought Leora Batnitzky; 18. Contemporary forms of Judaism Dana Evan Kaplan; 19. Jewish popular culture Jeffrey Shandler; 20. Aspects of Israeli society Judith R Baskin; 21. The futures of world Jewish communities Calvin Goldscheider; Glossary; Timeline.
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iUniverse Spiritual Fitness Training In Valor Crisis
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Edinburgh University Press Medieval Islamic Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions.Trade ReviewA volume that is bound both to set a standard and to cause some controversy! Crone's contribution ought to achieve iconic status as a volume of broad scope and, based on her outstanding scholarly reputation will set a standard for all such subsequent works. This rich and wide-ranging book ! is stimulating and provocative ! Crone's lucid style aims to make a complex, ostensibly alien, tradition intelligible to the general reader as well as to the Islamic specialist. The book combines erudition with analytical brilliance. The author knows how to make sense of things, highlight them, and put them in perspective. Readers should come away with a satisfying depth of understanding of the full range of medieval Islamic political thought. -- Professor Michael Cook, Princeton University 'Patrica Crone's wide-ranging study is a substantial achievement, as it succeeds in clarifying the political thought of six centuries ... Written in a lively and unpretentious style, this is an excellent introduction to the subject which deserves to be widely read outside academic circles. -- Abeer Al-Abbasi, University of Leeds British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies A volume that is bound both to set a standard and to cause some controversy! Crone's contribution ought to achieve iconic status as a volume of broad scope and, based on her outstanding scholarly reputation will set a standard for all such subsequent works. This rich and wide-ranging book ! is stimulating and provocative ! Crone's lucid style aims to make a complex, ostensibly alien, tradition intelligible to the general reader as well as to the Islamic specialist. The book combines erudition with analytical brilliance. The author knows how to make sense of things, highlight them, and put them in perspective. Readers should come away with a satisfying depth of understanding of the full range of medieval Islamic political thought. 'Patrica Crone's wide-ranging study is a substantial achievement, as it succeeds in clarifying the political thought of six centuries ... Written in a lively and unpretentious style, this is an excellent introduction to the subject which deserves to be widely read outside academic circles.Table of ContentsPreface; Part 1: The Beginnings; 1. The Origins of Government; 2. The First Civil War and Sect Formation; 3. The Umayyads; Part 2: The Waning of the Tribal Tradition, c.700-900; 4. General; 5. The Kharijites; 6. The Mu'tazilites; 7. The Shi'ites of the Umayyad Period; 8. The 'Abbasids and Shi'ism; 9. The Zaydis; 10. The Imamis; 11. The Hadith Party; Part 3: Coping with a Fragmented World; 12. General; 13. The Persian Tradition and Advice Literature; 14. The Greek Tradition and 'Political Science'; 15. The Ismailis; 16. The Sunnis; Part 4: Government and Society; 17. The Nature of Government; 18. The Functions of Government; 19. Visions of Freedom; 20. The Social Order; 21. Muslims and Non-Muslims; (a) Infidels; (b) Muslisms as Infidels; 22. Epilogue: Religion, Government and Society Revisited; Bibliography, Abbreviations and Conventions; Index and Glossary.
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Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture. The author argues that it is essential for the results of archaeological research to be more fully integrated into the wider historical study of the Islamic world. His organisation of the book into broad themes allows a focus on issues that are relevant across different regions and periods, and the broad geographical scope reflects the main focus of archaeological work in the Islamic world to the present day.Trade ReviewMilwright's introduction is a sound, balanced and scrupulously fair review of the field that will be immensely useful to lecturers and students of Islamic archaeology. It is carefully written to be accessible to a general audience, and the material discussed is generally well chosen to illustrate the full range and current state of Islamic archaeology. -- Jeremy Johns, Antiquity Milwright's introduction is a sound, balanced and scrupulously fair review of the field that will be immensely useful to lecturers and students of Islamic archaeology. It is carefully written to be accessible to a general audience, and the material discussed is generally well chosen to illustrate the full range and current state of Islamic archaeology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on transliteration and dating; List of abbreviations; List of figures; 1 Introduction; 2 Early Islam and late antiquity; 3 New directions in the early Islamic period; 4 The countryside; 5 Towns, cities and palaces; 6 Religious practice in the Islamic world; 7 Crafts and industry; 8 Travel and trade; 9 The 'post-medieval' Islamic world; 10 Conclusion; Glossary; Dynasties and periods; Bibliography; Index
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Edinburgh University Press Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic
Book SynopsisDid you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? This book deals with these questions.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Command and Creation A Shii Cosmological Treatise
Book SynopsisDaryoush Mohammad Poor is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London, and he is a lecturer for its Department of Graduate Studies. His first monograph, Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate (2014), is a fresh theoretical engagement with contemporary institutions of the Ismaili imamate. As part of the Diamond Jubilee publications of the IIS, with Daniel Beben he edited and translated the autobiography of Aga Khan I, under the title of The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam (2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction English translation Persian edition of the text Index
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McFarland & Company Jewish Edinburgh
Book SynopsisThis first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots.
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McFarland and Company, Inc. The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales A
Book SynopsisArgues that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Among those the authors suggest were of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell.
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Stanford University Press Sharia Compliant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this original and thought-provoking book, Rumee Ahmed shows how law and practice can interact to shape as well as reflect a community's collective wisdom. He tackles with authority a highly complex and contested set of concepts in Islamic law, making them highly accessible."—Ziba Mir-Hosseini, University of London"A superb introduction to changing and reforming Islamic law from within the tradition."—Ziauddin Sardar, author of Mecca: The Sacred City and Editor of Critical Muslim"This book is a must-read for believers as well as researchers—those tired of being apologists, those who have exhausted the dull repertoire of arguments that Islam is a religion of peace, and those facing an onslaught of hatred, discrimination, and misrepresentation. Rumee Ahmed honors a timeless faith, a Holy Book, a wise Prophet, and generations of enlightened acolytes who do not defend the faith as much as they uphold its very tenets."—Azza Karam, UN Population Fund and UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Development"A creative and accessible exploration of Islamic law and tradition. I learned a lot from this book." —Eboo Patel, Founder and President of the Interfaith Youth Core, and author of Acts of Faith and Interfaith Leadership"Nothing is trickier than convincing believers that religious law evolves—and that they should try to shape its evolution. Sharia Compliant takes on this task with verve and optimism...by busting myths and urging development the book makes a meaningful contribution to contemporary Islamic thought and politics." —Noah R. Feldman, Harvard Law School and author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State"In this superbly written work, Rumee Ahmed skillfully turns complex notions into accessible ideas. He shows the reader how to independently connect classical Islamic law with the challenges of contemporary life, using real-life examples. This book is for the scholar, activist, and lay person alike. It achieves the difficult task of democratizing the production of Islamic legal knowledge today by making it possible for all to participate in its creation. A considerable and much-needed feat!"—Marwa Sharafeldin, Musawah: Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family"In a book aimed mainly at fellow Muslims, Ahmed (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) suggests that more efficient solutions can recapture the ability of Islamic law to adapt to contemporary needs. He speaks of patching (accommodating) and hacking (revising) as vehicles through which temporary and long-lasting applications can be made to a variety of domestic, commercial, and criminal proceedings....Recommended."—L. Rosen, CHOICE"Ahmed's in-depth book demonstrates how flexible Islamic law can be as it evolves to tackle the issues of 21st century life and will appeal to lay readers interested in the textual origins of popularly held beliefs about the Koran."—Publisher's Weekly"Rumee offers us hope that change is not only feasible in Islamic law but is integral to it, as that is how it has survived through centuries of Muslim communities in all times, places and context....I am grateful for his book."—Junaid Jahangir, Maydan"Rumee Ahmed has provided a spirited, accessible (and no doubt in some corners controversial) handbook for harmonizing proposed ethical and moral components in the Islamic tradition. The book should be required reading for those who want to understand how modern thinkers in Islamic law grapple with legitimacy, tradition, and a changing world."—Ian M. Hartshorn, Terrorism and Political Violence
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University of Pennsylvania Press Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Book SynopsisWestern admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the architects of the great gardens of the Islamic world, from medieval Morocco to contemporary India.Just as Islamic culture is historically dense, sophisticated, and complex, so too is the history of its built landscapes. Islamic gardens began from the practical need to organize the surrounding space of human civilization, tame nature, enhance the earth''s yield, and create a legible map on which to distribute natural resources. Ruggles follows the evolution of these early farming efforts to their aristocratic apex in famous formal gardens of the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in Agra.Whether in a humble city home or a royal courtyard, the garden has several defining chaTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Islamic Landscape Place and Memory Chapter 2: Making the Desert Bloom Transforming an Inhospitable Earth Chapter 3: The Science of Gardening Agricultural and Botanical Manuals Chapter 4: Organizing the Earth Cross-axial Gardens and the Chahar Bagh Chapter 5: Trees and Plants Botanical Evidence from Texts and Archaeology Chapter 6: Representations of Gardens and Landscape Imagery in Manuscript Paintings, Textiles, and Other Media Chapter 7: Imaginary Gardens Gardens in Fantasy and Literature Chapter 8: The Garden as Paradise The Historical Beginnings of Paradisiac Iconography Chapter 9: The Here and Hereafter Mausolea and Tomb Gardens Chapter 10: A Garden in Landscape The Taj Mahal and Its Precursors Chapter 11: Religion and Culture The Adoption of Islamic Garden Culture by Non-Muslims List of Gardens and SitesSpain Sicily Morocco Algeria Tunisia Egypt Turkey Syria and Region Oman Iraq Iran Central Asia Pakistan India United States Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Maimonides and the Merchants
Book SynopsisThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality.In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already established legal practice, Cohen uncovers the extensive reformulations that further inscribed commerce into Jewish law. Maimonides revised Talmudic partnership regulations, created a judicial method to enable JewishTrade Review"Maimonides and the Merchants opens a new window onto Maimonides' unprecedentedly systematic and comprehensive code of law. Cohen's exceptionally clear and cogent readings of Mishneh Torah, balanced against previous rabbinic legal writings on the one hand and Geniza evidence on the other, successfully establish Mishneh Torah as a social-political endeavor addressed to a real-life audience." * Islamic Law and Society *Table of ContentsNotes and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha Chapter 4. Partnership Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Suhba) Chapter 6. Suhba-Agency in the Code Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency Chapter 8. Sale and Contract Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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The University Press of Kentucky Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky
Book SynopsisReveals how Jewish and Arab women have navigated the intersection of tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Woman's Director and Women's Friendships Collaboration and Chastisement Tone, Genre, and the Actor's Director Masculinity and the Man Who Drinks Edelkayt The Theatricality of Gender and Drag Performance Queer Musical Excess Race, Nation, and Gendered Noir Anxiety Ethnic Assimilation and 1950s Hollywood Conclusion
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Wayne State University Press On the Margins of a Minority Leprosy Madness and
Book SynopsisIn medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalised within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal and external sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these “others”.
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Wayne State University Press Israeli Salvage Poetics
Book SynopsisThrough thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the negation of the diaspora as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day. Author Sheila E. Jelen considers the way that Israeli writers from eastern Europe or of eastern European descent incorporate pre-Holocaust eastern European culture into their own sense of Israeliness or Jewishness. Many Israelis interested in their eastern European legacy live with an awareness of their own nation''s role in the repression of that legacy, from the elevation of Hebrew over Yiddish to the ridicule and resentment directed at culture, text, and folk traditions from eastern Europe. To right the wrongs of the past and reconcile this conflict of identity, the Israeli authors discussed in this book engage in what Jelen calls salvage poetics they read Yid
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Islamic Foundation Hamza attends a Janaza
Book SynopsisHamza's usual fun Saturday is cancelled when his family receives the sad news that Uncle Sameer has died. Follow Hamza through the day as he learns about the various aspects of a janaza. This story is a gentle introduction to attending an Islamic funeral, told from a child's perspective. It familiarises children with the etiquettes and some of the rituals surrounding a funeral and provides an opportunity for important discussions around death and the afterlife in an age-appropriate manner. Trade ReviewThe author’s gentle story is geared toward Muslim children but contains a universal message about honor and respect. - Elisabeth Egan, The New York TimesFor years it has been noted how few children’s Islamic books about grief and loss are available, and while numerous titles have come out in the last few years, it wasn’t until I saw this new book, did I realize how desperately we were in need of a book on janaza. I love that the author establishes on the first page that this book is not focused on grief, but rather about death, the burial, and preparing to meet Allah (saw) in the hereafter with our deeds. The beauty is that while the topic is critical and needed, the story is also well done. It may not focus on emotion, but it has a lot of heart and tenderness, thus making it a wonderful addition to all book shelves for children preschool and up as a brief introduction to how Islam views death, the rituals of burial, and the worship that surrounds it. Packaged with clear text, robust backmatter and absolutely adorable illustrations, I am very happily impressed with this book.The book starts with Hamza telling about his favorite day of the week, Saturday, the day he spends with his Nano-ji and cousins, but one day all that changes when his mom gets a phone call about the loss of a community Uncle. Mom says, inna lillahi wa inna illahi rajioon quietly in to the phone and Hamza knows something is wrong, but doesn’t quite understand why the passing of Uncle Sameer, the owner of the local sweet shop, means he has to attend a janaza instead of going to his grandfather’s house.Hamza’s parents explain the reward of going, and remind him that we all have to leave this world one day. They recall Uncle Sameer helping bandage his knee when he got hurt and gave him a lollipop. Once in the car, Hamza wants to know what is going to happen. His parents explain the ghusl and the body being wrapped in the kafan and the body being put in the ground.When they get to the masjid there are a lot of aunties on the women’s side, including Auntie Salma who everyone is hugging and reassuring. After dhuhr the janaza begins, but it is a standing up namaz, and is very short, and Hamza is confused. Later outside the long box is loaded into the car, duas are made, and the body taken to the cemetery.At the graveside, more duas are made, and Hamza worries that Uncle will be lonely. When his father explains that his good deeds will keep him company, Hamza remembers the kindness Uncle Sameer has shown him and makes duas.The backmatter contains hadith about what still benefits those that have died, reward for attending a janaza, a glossary, discussion points, suggested activities, and duas. The book is a great starting point to introducing death, rituals, and answering questions any child might have in a gentle manner. - The Islamic School Librarian
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Taylor & Francis God After the Church Lost Control
Book SynopsisThis book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical critique of churches. Here the authors argue for the necessity of rethinking God-talk in a pluralist and changing context and for thinking critically about hegemonic ways of speaking about God from a moral and experiential perspective, not only from the point of view of abstract theology. Drawing on empirical material from a Norwegian setting, the book advocates a critical-constructive theology with a notion of God that takes human experience and social change seriously. It depicts a God who is an enabler of moral maturity rather than an authoritarian moral instructor, a God who is on the side of the marginalized and poor, and a challenge to unjust hierarchies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why this Book? 1 On God and change2 Religious trends in Northern Europe – an overview3 Does society shape God?4 The changing Christian God5 The crisis of theology – and why it matters for speaking about God6 The morally intolerable God – and the alternative7 The politically dangerous God – a God of love8 God as she? Why can’t she be?9 Pluralism challenges notions of God and religious truth10 When God becomes irrelevant to society’s challenges11 God as vulnerable love?Bibliography
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Routledge Jewish Women
Book SynopsisJewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency examines the concepts of gender and sexuality through the primary lens of visual and material culture from antiquity through to the present day.The backbone of this transhistorical and transcontextual study is the question of Jewish womenâs agency in four different geographical, chronological, and methodological contexts, beginning with womenâs dress codes in Roman-Byzantine Syro-Palestine, continuing with rituals of purity in medieval Ashkenaz, worship in papal Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, and ending with marriage and divorce in Israeli film. Each of these explorations is interested in creating a dialogue between the patriarchal legacy of the traditional texts and the chronologically corresponding visual and material culture. The author challenges traditional approaches to the study of Jewish culture by employing tools from art history, archaeology, and film and media studies. In each of these different contexts, there is ample evidence that womenâdespite persistent overall structural discriminationâhave found ways to challenge male constructs of gender norms. Ultimately, these examples from past and present times highlight womenâs eminence in shaping Jewish history and culture.Bringing a new interdisciplinary lens to the study of the history of gender and sexuality, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish history and culture, art history, archaeology, and film studies.
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Cambridge University Press Institutional Origins of Islamist Political
Book SynopsisMuslim countries experience wide variation in levels of Islamist political mobilization, including such political activities as protest, voting, and violence. Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization provides a theory of the institutional origins of Islamist politics, focusing on the development of religious common knowledge, religious entrepreneurship, and coordinating focal points as critical to the success of Islamist activism. Examining Islamist politics in more than 50 countries over four decades, the book illustrates that Islamist political activism varies a great deal, appearing in specific types of institutional contexts. Detailed case studies of Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal demonstrate how diverse contexts yield different types of Islamist politics across the Muslim world.Trade Review'Mecham himself raises the question of the increasing pluralism of political Islam. As the events of recent years have shown, Islamist actors may not necessarily have common goals or visions. Might Islamist mobilization sometimes be productive for the development of civil society or democracy? Is it still useful to consider Islamist political mobilization as a single conceptual category? Such are the questions and conundrums that naturally arise from such an insightful analysis.' Rachel Rinaldo, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Islam and political mobilization; 2. From the sacred to the state: a theory of Islamist mobilization; 3. A political geography of the sacred: variation in Islamist political mobilization across space and time; 4. Explaining low Islamist mobilization: Muslims and politics in Senegal; 5. Voting for welfare and virtue: Islamist electoral mobilization in Turkey; 6. When Islam defines politics: from voting to violence in Algeria; 7. Conclusion; Epilogue; References.
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Cambridge University Press Trust and the Islamic Advantage
Book SynopsisIn much of the Muslim world, Islamic political and economic movements appear to have a comparative advantage. Relative to similar secular groups, they are better able to mobilize supporters and sustain their cooperation long-term. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Turkey, a historically secular country that has experienced a sharp rise in Islamic-based political and economic activity. Drawing on rich data sources and econometric methods, Avital Livny challenges existing explanations - such as personal faith - for the success of these movements. Instead, Livny shows that the Islamic advantage is rooted in feelings of trust among individuals with a shared, religious group-identity. This group-based trust serves as an effective substitute for more generalized feelings of interpersonal trust, which are largely absent in many Muslim-plurality countries. The book presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity.Trade Review'One of the central obsessions of scholars of the Muslim world has been to explain why many of that world's most successful political parties have been ones dedicated to legislating Islamic law. Avital Livny offers a fresh answer to this old question: Religion matters, not by shaping what voters want, but by providing group members with a shared identity. Drawing on a variety of data both qualitative and quantitative, observational and experimental, Livny demonstrates that Islamists' shared religious identity enables them to overcome the mistrust that plagues developing societies, rendering them in turn more capable than their opponents of acting collectively and of garnering the votes of their compatriots. This is a deeply impressive work of social science that speaks powerfully to anyone interested in understanding how religion and religious identity function in political life.' Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts'… Trust and Islamic Advantage makes an empirically rich and theoretically engaging contribution to the scholarship on religion and politics and Middle Eastern politics. With its meticulous empirical analyses, it will stimulate high-quality scholarly discussions on the role of identity-based trust in political processes in Muslim-majority countries and beyond.' Güneş Murat Tezcür, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Development: 1. Understanding the rise of Islamic-based movements in the Muslim world; 2. Evaluating existing theories of the Islamic advantage; 3. Generalized distrust and the participation gap in the Muslim world; 4. Muslim identity and group-based trust; Part II. Applications and Empirics: 5. Explaining the Islamic advantage in political participation; 6. Islam, trust, and strategic voting in Turkey; 7. The quasi-integration of firms in an Islamic community: the case of MÜSİAD; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism
Book SynopsisA History of Anti-Semitismexamines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long history of antisemitism starting with ancient Greece and Egypt, through the anti-Judaism of early Christianity, and the medieval era in both the Christian and Muslim worlds whenJews were defined as ''outsiders,'' especially in Christian Europe. This portrayal often led to violence, notably pogroms that often accompanied Crusades, as well as to libels against Jews. The volume also explores the roles of Luther and the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the debate over Jewish emancipation, Marxism, and the social disruptions after World War 1 that led to the rise of Nazism and genocide. Finally, it considers current issues, including the dissemination of hate on social media and the internet and questions of definition and method.Trade Review'an important resource - though frequently an unsettling read.' Alexander Faludy, Church TimesTable of ContentsPart I. The Classical Period: 1. Antisemitism in the pagan world Erich Gruen; 2. New Testament origins of Christian anti-Judaism Adele Reinhartz; 3. Anti-Judaism in early Christian writings Pierluigi Piovanelli; 4. Church fathers and antisemitism from the second century through Augustine (end of 450 CE) Joshua Garroway; 5. Christians, Jews, and Judaism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, c. 150–400 CE Andrew Jacobs; 6. Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE Andrew Jacobs; 7. Antisemitism in Byzantium, fourth-seventh centuries Steven Bowman; Part II. Medieval Times: 8. The medieval Islamic world and the Jews Reuven Firestone; 9. Medieval Western Christendom Robert Chazan; 10. Christian theology and papal policy in the Middle Ages Jeremy Cohen;11. Crusades, blood libels, and popular violence Emily Rose; 12. Jews and money: medieval origins of a modern stereotype Julie Mell; 13. Jews and anti-Judaism in Christian religious literature Miri Rubin; 14. Antisemitism in medieval art Debra Higgs Strickland; Part III. The Modern Era: 15. Martin Luther and the Reformation Debra Kaplan; 16. The enlightenment and its negative consequences Alan Arkush; 17. Modern antisemitism in Western Europe: romantic nationalism, racism, and racial fantasies Shulamit Volkov; 18. Antisemitism in late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe up to 1920 Laura Engelstein; 19. Marxism, socialism, and antisemitism Jack Jacobs; 20. Antisemitism in modern literature and theatre: 20A. French literature Maurice Samuels; 20B. German literature Michael Mack; 20C. English literature Bryan Cheyette; 21. Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020 Jonathan Sarna; 22. Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich Steven T. Katz; 23. New Islamic antisemitism: mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century Esther Webman; 24. Anti-Zionism as antisemitism Dina Porat; 25. New issues Deborah Lipstadt; 26. Antisemitism in social media and on the Web Mark Weitzman; 27. Theories on the causes of antisemitism Bruno Chaouat.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Muslim Women Social Movements and the War on
Book SynopsisThe post-September 11th British anti-war movement brought together Muslim activists, organizations and leftist groups in opposition to the 'War on Terror'. This book offers an analysis of the political conditions through which Muslim and leftist engagement emerges within this movement, highlighting the decisive leadership played by Muslim women.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Identity politics and social movements3. Background: Muslim political mobilizations in Britain4. The anti-war movement: new alliances, old challenges?5. Opposing movements and Islamophobia in Guardian Comment is Free 6. 'Talking back' to the gendered 'War on Terror'7. Towards an oppositional consciousness?8. Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors IndexTrade Review"Sex is not just sex. As anyone who has deeply engaged the history of religions knows, human sexuality runs the gamut from the most mundane fetish or fantasy to the profundities of charismatic authority, mystical experience, discarnate erotic encounter, alien abduction, even human deification. The essayists in this new volume demonstrate this still ill-understood truth in abundance and with astonishing historical and psychological detail. They thus take us further down the road toward a genuine understanding of our real situation in this weird, weird world." - Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Reflexivity and Eroticism in the Study of MysticismTable of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis Chapter 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Empowerment in Mormon Fundamentalist Communities Jennifer Lara Fagen and Stuart A. Wright Chapter 3: Gender Among the Branch Davidians Martha Sonntag Bradley Chapter 4: Sex and Gender in the Words and Communes of Osho (nee Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Roshani Cari Shay and Henrik Bogdan Chapter 5: Sexual Practice, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Self-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam Michael (Anthony) Costabile Chapter 6: Gurdjieff on Sex: Subtle Bodies, Si 12, and the Sex Life of a Sage Johanna J. M. Petsche Chapter 7: Sex Magic or Sacred Marriage? Sexuality in Contemporary Wicca Chas S. Clifton Chapter 8: Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, eroticism and gender in contemporary Satanism Per Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen Chapter 9: Rael's Angels: The First Five Years of a Secret Order Susan J. Palmer Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume Two
Book SynopsisThe Roots of Jewish Consciousness, Volume Two: Hasidism is the second volume, fullyannotated, of a major, previously unpublished, two-part work by Erich Neumann (19051960). It was written between 1940 and 1945, after Neumann, then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung, fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published it, he kept it the rest of his life.Volume Two, Hasidism, is devoted to the psychological and spiritual wisdom embodied in Jewish spiritual tradition. Relying on Jung's concepts and Buber's Hasidic interpretations, Neumann seeks alternatives to the legalism and anti-feminine bias that he says have dominated collective Judaism since the Second Temple. He argues that modern Jews can develop psychological wholeness through an appropriation of Hasidic legends, Talmudic texts, and Kabbalistic mysteries, including especially the Zohar. ExclusivelTrade Review"Erich Neumann is cited more than any single psychoanalytic writer in the ever-growing exploration of Kabbalah and psychology. So it is gratifying that his work on Kabbalah and Hasidism can now enrich this vibrant discussion. Neumann’s especial contribution is the development of the theme of dual transformation, of the world and of the soul, for Jewish mystical psychology, and highlighting the Hasidic move away from moralism towards radical embracing of the full range of psychic manifestation. This exquisitely crafted project will be of profound interest to all who are concerned with the religious life as such." - Professor Jonathan Garb, Gershom Scholem Chair in Kabbalah; Chair, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelTable of ContentsList of Ilustrations; Foreword: On Erich Neumann and Hasidism, by Moshe Idel; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume Two, by Ann Conrad Lammers; Hasidism: Its Psychological Meaning for Judaism; Chapter 1: The Structure of the World as Inwardness; Chapter 2: The Transformation of Souls; Chapter Three: Life in this World; Chapter Four: The Human Being and the New Image of God; Chapter Five: Hasidism and the Birth of the Modern Jew; Appendix A: Passages from the Zohar in English Translation; Appendix B: The Importance of Consciousness in the Experience of Depth Psychology (Four-lecture series, 1942-43); Editorial Note; Bibliography; Index; Scriptural Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Jews in Old Poland 10001795
Book SynopsisThis book describes the establishment, growth and partial decline of one of the most important Jewish communities in the world. In the late 15th century the Polish-Lithunaian commonwealth became the centre of Jewish intellectual and legal activity. The culture created by the Polish Jews survived the decline and partition of the Polish state in the 19th century, and the area that was formerly the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth became a seedbed for further Jewish intellectual developments. The essays in this book provide a picture of the Jewish community in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth during the periods of its finest flowering and initial decline.Table of ContentsJews in medieval Poland, Jerzy Wyrozumski; Judaizers in Poland in the second half of the 16th century, Zdzislaw Pietrzyk; the Jewish population in the light of the resolutions of dietines in the 16th-18th centuries, Andrzej Link-Lenczowski; the private life of Polish Jews in the Vasa period, Daniel Tollet; Jews and Armenians in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th & 17th centuries, Krystyn Matwijowski; the four years' sejm and the Jews, Artur Eisenbach; the council of the four lands, Shmul Ettinger; the pinkas of the council of the four lands, Israel Bartal; the language of documents relating to Jewish autonomy in Poland, Moshe Altbauer; the terminology of the bodies of Jewish self-government, Anatol Leszczynski; the Jewish sejm - its origins and functions, Jacob Goldberg; regional aspects of the autonomy of Polish Jews - the history of the Tykocin Kehilla, 1670-1782, Mordekhai Nadav; the kehilla and the municipality in private towns at the end of the early modern period, Gershon David Hundert; Hasidism and the Kehilla, Chone Shmeruk; the Krakow Voivode's jurisdiction over Jews, Stanislaw Grodziski; the individual versus the Community in Jewish Law in pre-eighteenth century Poland, Shmuel Shilo; the condition of the Jewish population of Wschowa at the start of the second half of the 18th century, Jacek Sobczak; the chronology & distribution of Jewish craft guilds in old Poland 1613-1795, Maurycy Horn; Jewish trade at the end of the 16th century & in the first half of the 17th century, Jan M. Malecki; Jewish trade in the century of Krakow's decline, Janina Bieniarzowna; Jews & the village in the Polish Commonwealth, Antoni Podraza; the Jewish population in the towns on the West Bank of the vistula in Sandomierz Province from the 16th to the 18th centuries, Zenon Guldon & Karol Krzystanek.
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Amberley Publishing Around the Tents of Torah
Book SynopsisIn this book I do not propose to delve to the great depths of our Torah; what I merely desire to do is to focus light on some aspect or other of the area âœAround the Tents of the Torahâ.
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Edinburgh University Press British Muslims Ethnicity and Health Inequalities
Book SynopsisPresents a pioneering collection studying religion as a wider determinant of health in Britain
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Temple University Press,U.S. Understanding Muslim Political Life in America
Book Synopsis “Muslim Americans are at a political crossroads,” write editors Brian Calfano and Nazita Lajevardi. Whereas Muslims are now widely incorporated in American public life, there are increasing social and political pressures that disenfranchise them or prevent them from realizing the American Dream. Understanding Muslim Political Life in America brings clarity to the social, religious, and political dynamics that this diverse religious community faces. In this timely volume, leading scholars cover a variety of topics assessing the Muslim American experience in the post-9/11 and pre-Trump era, including law enforcement; identity labels used in Muslim surveys; the role of gender relations; recognition; and how discrimination, tolerance, and politics impact American Muslims. Understanding Muslim Political Life in America offers an update and reappraisal of what we know about Muslims in American political life. The editors and contributors also con
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Bristol University Press Islam in Prison
Book SynopsisThis overview of Islam and prison provides a thorough understanding of Muslim prisoners' experiences in Britain and Europe. It explores issues including conversion to Islam, rehabilitation and the extent to which prisons foster extremism, and gives practitioners and policy-makers ideas for better engagement and achieving positive outcomes.Table of ContentsForeword – Sir David Calvert-Smith and Eoin McLennan Murray Introduction: A tale of three prisoners 1. Where does Islam come from and who are Muslim prisoners? 2. What is Islam in prison? 3. Finding their faith: why do prisoners choose Islam? 4. What types of Islam do prisoners follow? 5. Mainstream Islam in prison 6. Islamism and Islamist Extremism in prison 7. The lives of Muslim prisoners: opportunities and risks 8. Caring for Muslim prisoners: Muslim prison chaplaincy 9. Managing Muslim prisoners: treading a middle path between naivety and suspicion 10. Conclusion: The Virtuous Cycle of Rehabilitation and Avoiding the Vicious Cycle of Extremism
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Guilford Publications The Psychology of Religion Fifth Edition
Book SynopsisKeeping up with the rapidly growing research base, the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. It takes a balanced, empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Integrating research on numerous different faith traditions, the book addresses the quest for meaning; links between religion and biology; religious thought, belief, and behavior across the lifespan; experiential dimensions of religion and spirituality; the social psychology of religious organizations; and connections to coping, adjustment, and mental disorder. Chapter-opening quotations and topical research boxes enhance the readability of this highly instructive text. New to This Edition *New topics: cognitive science of religion; religion and violence; and groups that advocate terrorist tactics. *The latest empirical findings, including hundreds of new references. *Expanded discussionTrade Review"This volume offers a depth of understanding and intellectual engagement rarely found in a textbook. In the fifth edition, Hood, Hill, and Spilka once again provide an authoritative study of the psychology of religion, integrating new perspectives and research findings. Drawing on evolutionary theory; neuroscience; and contemporary personality, social, and developmental psychology, the text examines religion as a vital force in individual and societal life. Scholars, applied scientists, and anyone yearning to better understand the psychological nature of religion will appreciate this book’s sophistication and accessibility."--Edward P. Shafranske, PhD, ABPP, Professor and Muriel Lipsey Chair in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Pepperdine University "Kudos to Hood, Hill, and Spilka--an all-star author team--for this comprehensive overview of the roots and fruits of religious experience. The fifth edition explores religion’s contribution to meaning, self-control, and social connections. It reveals insights into the biological, cognitive, and social psychology of religion, across the lifespan. And it discloses what psychological science has learned about fascinating topics, from gay conversion therapy to prayer to deconversion. A definitive yet accessible synopsis of a growing field."--David G. Myers, PhD, Department of Psychology, Hope College "Hood, Hill, and Spilka have done it again with this fifth edition! This clear, thoughtful, and balanced text is full of wisdom informed by the authors' decades of scholarly work. The book is unbiased and objective, without being detached; it explores what we know about the psychology of religion, while also pointing out the holes in our current understanding. It considers the ways that religion is a central source of meaning, while paying attention to how this meaning affects all other aspects of a person's life. This text can be used well in both undergraduate classes and graduate seminars. It is a gem!"--Jeanne M. Slattery, PhD, Department of Psychology, Clarion University of Pennsylvania "The rapid expansion of the psychology of religion makes it critical to discern what is valuable among 'new' ideas in relation to past accomplishments. This updated fifth edition helps both junior and senior scholars in this evaluative task. Spanning classic and emergent psychological topics, and tapping into an increasingly global literature, the authors highlight what is known and what remains to be investigated. For a survey course with upper-level undergraduates, the material can introduce the great breadth of the field. Seasoned graduate or postgraduate readers will find that a close reading reveals complex nuances of both theory and methodology and yields a long list of potential research projects. Students learn about the wide range of ways that scientific psychological principles can be applied to understanding religious beliefs, emotions, and behaviors."--Kevin L. Ladd, PhD, Department of Psychology, Indiana University South Bend "Each of the authors has done pioneering work in the psychology of religion, making this one of the most comprehensive, respected, and valuable texts in the field. The fifth edition demonstrates that the authors have remained current and contemporary in their treatment of religion and spirituality, which renders this book ideal for psychology of religion coursework and for scholars interested in an overview of the subject. The authors are unapologetically empirical and scientific in their approach, which they present with an engaging, lively writing style. This classic text has just become even better."--Mark R. McMinn, PhD, ABPP, Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, George Fox University -There is much here for parish clergy and chaplains, especially in the four chapters discussing the psychological aspects of faith formation through developmental stages and the opportunity to reflect upon patients' lives along the denomination/sect/cult continuum….This text belongs in the libraries of Clinical Pastoral Education centers and behavioral health care facilities.--Association of Professional Chaplains Forum Resource Reviews, 1/1/2020Table of Contents1. The Psychological Nature and Functions of Religion 2. Foundations for an Empirical Psychology of Religion 3. Evolution, Neuropsychology, and Other Biological Aspects of Religion 4. Religion in Childhood 5. Religion in Adolescence and Young Adulthood 6. Adult Religious Issues 7. Religion, Aging, and Death 8. Conversion, Spiritual Transformation, and Deconversion 9. Relationships between Individuals and Religious Groups 10. Religious and Spiritual Experience 11. Mysticism 12. Religion, Morality, and Prejudice 13. Religion, Health, Psychopathology, and Coping 14. Epilogue References Author Index Subject Index
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Little, Brown Book Group Heavens Bankers
Book SynopsisA trillion dollar financial industry is revolutionising the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world are increasingly turning to finance that complies with Sharia law in order to fund economic growth. Even in the West, Islamic finance is rapidly becoming an important alternative source of funding at a time when the conventional finance industry is reeling from the effects of the financial crisis.From its origins in the seventh century, Islamic finance has sought to develop core ethical principles that are based in the foundations of Islam and Shari'a. By engaging critically with the complexities of international finance, it has evolved and adapted into a world emerging from the economic and moral aftermath of a global financial crisis. But with an increasing Western interest, is it able to remain true to the principles of its faith? Can it maintain its ideals of social justice? Or is Islamic finance guilty of the very dangers it seeks to avoid?Trade ReviewIrfan uses his own professional and personal experiences to weave together an accessible and interesting story -- Monica Siddiqui, The Daily TelegraphIn the aptly-titled Heaven's Bankers, Harris Irfan weaves together personal anecdotes with explanations of some of the crucial aspects of the subject - and its controversies * Financial Times *Heaven's Bankers [is] more than just a good read and will become a major primary source for historians and financiers in researching and understanding this fascinating area * The Huffington Post *[Irfan opens] a window into this fascinating world * Wall Street Journal *
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Edinburgh University Press Secularism in the Arab World
Book SynopsisThis book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Matzpen
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Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
Book SynopsisApproaching religious identity with an emphasis on agency and contestation, this book offers a historical perspective on the development of Muslim identities in Asia. It examines the contingent politics that influence how Muslims constitute themselves as modern subjects.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Conflict on Mount Lebanon
Book SynopsisExplores the course and the nature of the conflict between the Druze and the Maronites arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon.
£81.00
McFarland & Co Inc Is Superman Circumcised
Book Synopsis Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he''s Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero''s origin story on Moses, his strength on Samson, his mission on the golem, and his nebbish secret identity on themselves. They made him a refugee fleeing catastrophe on the eve of World War II and sent him to tear Nazi tanks apart nearly two years before the US joined the war. In the following decades, Superman''s mostly Jewish writers, artists, and editors continued to borrow Jewish motifs for their stories, basing Krypton''s past on Genesis and Exodus, its society on Jewish culture, the trial of Lex Luthor on Adolf Eichmann''s, and a future holiday celebrating Superman on Passover. A fascinating journey through comic book lore, American history, and JeTrade ReviewRoy Schwartz has done a deep dive into the history, mythology and cultural folklore of America’s super-heroes and his conclusions are indisputable. The contemporary concept of the super-hero, as old as the story of Moses, was birthed by Jewish immigrants and first generation Jewish kids from the tales, morals and ethics of their Jewish ethnical roots. The majority of the creators from 1938’s Golden Age of Comics through the 1960’s Marvel Age of Comics were Jewish. Whether it was Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster turning Moses into Superman or Stan Lee and Jack Kirby transforming The Golem into The Hulk, their heroes embodied their Jewish experience. Roy Schwartz analysis is scholarly yet broadly entertaining. He answers many questions and leaves the readers with but one: “If there were no Jews on Krypton where Superman was born, and if he was therefore circumcized on earth, did the moyal have to use a Kryptonite scalpel?" —Michael Uslan, Comic Book Historian and Originator and Executive Producer of the Batman movie"A deep-dive into arguably the world’s most famous and iconic fictional character and his Jewish influences...This book is a must-have for any fan of superheroes, comic books and Jewish history and literature." —Jerusalem Post, 19th May 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionMethodologyPart I. Scriptural Superheroes: The Ancient Roots of the Man of TomorrowSamson, Solomon and Other SupermenParadigmatic Parallels: Superman as MosesSent by His Father: Superman as JesusWorld's Finest: Settling the Denominational DebatePart II. Shticks from the Shtetl: How Jews Created Comics and Caped CrusadersHitler, Hollywood and HoudiniFamous Funnies and Other Firsts: The Birth of Comic BooksThe Big BangPart III. Mensch of Steel: Fulfilling Jewish Fantasy and FaithThe Jewish Experience: Context Is ContentBirthrightThe Secret Identities of Heroes and HebrewsThe Galactic GolemThe Brave and the Bold: Superman vs. ÜbermenschPhone Booth, Voting Booth, Confession Booth: Superman's Religion and PoliticsPart IV. Postwar to Postmodern: Redefining Superman, Comics and JudaismSuperman vs. the Mad Scientist: The Postwar EraIf I Were a Superman: The Silver AgeNazis in Space and Superman on Screen: The Bronze AgeSecond Coming: The Dark AgeSuperman Supernal: The Modern AgeChapter NotesBibliographyIndex
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