Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals Books
Columbia University Press Muhammads Grave
Book SynopsisA study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society. This book describes how Muslims wailed for the deceased, prepared corpses for burial, marched in funerary processions, and prayed for the dead, highlighting the specific economic and political factors involved in these rituals as well as key religious and sexual divisions.Trade ReviewMuhammad's Grave will be warmly welcomed by scholars and students of premodern Islam, including specialists in both history and religion, and will attract the attention of European medievalists and anthropologists as well. The topic is important, the scholarship solid and original, and the presentation elegant and lucid. -- Everett K. Rowson, New York University The most exhaustive study yet on matters relating to death in early Islam. Leor Halevi meticulously demonstrates how particular beliefs and practices evolved, what sorts of contestation took place in debating these matters, how these beliefs and practices varied from one Islamic city (or community of scholars) to another, what larger questions of identity and authority were at stake, and how to interpret the literary remains that describe the beliefs and practices in question. A major contribution to our understanding of early Islamic history, Islamic religious thought, and the formation of Islam during its first centuries. -- Muhammad Qasim Zaman, professor of Near Eastern studies and religion, Princeton University Leor Halevi persuasively argues that the development of Islamic practices and beliefs relating to death, burial, and the fate of the body was a relatively extended process crucial to the eighth century. He considers a wide range of issues, including matters of sexual propriety and the restriction of the social space available to women, and the way in which a body of rituals served to create an Islamic identity. -- Gerald Hawting, professor of the history of the Near Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London "[A] signal contribution... Exceptionally rich in its documentation and evidentiary record, highly imaginative, and creative in its use of oral traditions and legal rulings, Muhammad's Grave is a seminal work. -- Albert Hourani Book Award Committee Innovative... A welcome addition to undergraduate and graduate curricula, and an important source book for scholars. -- Kathryn Kueny Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient A welcome contribution... Muhammad's Grave does more than fill the gap. -- Ian Straughn American Anthropologist A truly impressive display of textual scholarship fused with historical anthropology and lit up by enthusiasm. -- Barnaby Rogerson Times Literary Supplement The definitive history of its subject before modern times. Speculum Halevi's book is highly recommended al-Qantara A masterful, well-written work filled with original research. Middle East Quarterly Will be highly valued by anyone who works on early Islam and the process through which a distinctively Islamic community came about. -- Martyn Smith International Journal of Middle East Studies A much-needed corrective to the abstract and textual nature of much of the debate over the nature of early Islam, plunging the reader into a thoroughly imagined and painstakingly documented material world... Erudite and engaging. -- Marion Katz Islamic Law and Society An important contribution to our understanding of the crafting of social ritual in early Islamic society. -- Christine D. Baker Journal of World History A scholarly gem... a spectacular accomplishment. -- Khalid Yahya Blankinship American Historical Review All of this is exciting stuff for students of the early Muslim world, in part because Halevi has suggested and demonstrated several possible ways forward in a notoriously unyielding filed of inquiry. -- Thomas Sizgorich Journal of the American Academy of Religion Original and highly readable... Halevi showcases what historians of Islam can accomplish. Review of Middle East Studies Leor Halevi's Muhammad's Grave is a strikingly original work built on a foundation of meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship. Religion and the Arts [O]riginal and highly readable study Mesa Romes Impressive erudition, which includes a thorough familiarity with scholarship on Judaism and Christianity as well as Islam. History Workshop Journal Matchless imagination in relating the traditions and events of the past. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map Introduction. Funerary Traditions and the Making of Islamic Society 1. Tombstones: Markers of Social and Religious Change, 650-800 2. Washing the Corpse in Arabia and Mesopotamia 3. Shrouds: Worldly Possessions in an Economy of Salvation 4. Wailing for the Dead in the House of Islam 5. Urban Processions and Communal Prayers: Opportunities for Social, Economic, and Religious Distinction 6. The Politics of Burial and Tomb Construction 7. The Torture of Spirit and Corpse in the Grave Epilogue. Death Rites and the Process of Islamic Socialization List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£87.40
Columbia University Press The Body Incantatory
Book SynopsisThe Body Incantatory reveals the histories and logics of practice of deeply embodied forms of Buddhist ritual. Paul Copp vividly captures the diversity of Buddhist practice among medieval monks, ritual healers, and other individuals lost to history, offering a corrective to accounts that have overemphasized elite, canonical materials.Trade ReviewThe Body Incantatory rightly calls into question the commonplace assumption that high esoteric Buddhism 'erased' an older 'proto-esoteric' incantation culture or relegated it to obsolescence. In doubting this assumption and studying the discourses and uses of dharani 'incantations' in medieval Chinese Buddhist culture, this book significantly contributes to our understanding of Buddhism in China in several significant ways. -- Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas This book engages a wide range of new materials, primarily unstudied texts and new archaeological evidence. It advances some key discussions that have recently been occupying the field of the study of Chinese religions and is filled with some real gems of scholarship that will excite the reader and inspire reflection. -- James Robson, Harvard University This exhilarating book profoundly revises our understanding of Buddhist spells in medieval China. Both provocative and persuasive, it provides the first in-depth analysis of such spells manifested across a wide range of written, verbal, and material forms and compels us to reevaluate their fundamental importance in Buddhist practices. -- Wu Hung, University of Chicago Buddhist dharani-verbal but often unintelligible incantations that took on an astonishing array of material forms-exist at the intersection of the domain of meanings and the domain of things, making them particularly 'good to think with.' And in The Body Incantatory Paul Copp does some wonderful thinking. His comprehensive and erudite study is a major contribution not only to the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism but also to our understanding of religious ritual and material culture writ large. -- Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley Groundbreaking... I believe this book will become a classic as well as pioneering work for the study of Buddhist spells. -- Youn-mi Kim Studies in Chinese Religions An important and thought-provoking contribution... Eschewing the method of broad philological [survey] in favor of close readings of selected texts and-more importantly-material objects, Copp successfully illuminates several oft-overlooked aspects of medieval Chinese dhara?i, and in the process brings to light new insights on the permutations of both Buddhist and Chinese religious cultures. -- Josh Capitanio Journal of Chinese Religions An important contribution to the scholarly understanding of religious ritual and material culture. -- Richard D. McBride II Journal of the American Oriental Society Copp has earned a reputation as the leading expert on Chinese Buddhist dharani (incantation), and this book is likely to remain the definitive study on this topic for some time to come. Religious Studies Review An important contribution to our understanding of medieval Chinese religious life... A valuable resource for scholars working in comparative religion. Review of Religion and Chinese Society Copp is to be commended for his bid to redirect and reshape the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism in The Body Incantatory. -- Dominic Steavu Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: The Body Incantatory Thanks Abbreviations Introduction: Dharanis and the Study of Buddhist Spells 1. Scripture, Relic, Talisman, Spell 2. Amulets of the Incantation of Wish Fulfillment 3. Dust, Shadow, and the Incantation of Glory 4. Mystic Store and Wizard's Basket Coda: Material Incantations and the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhism Appendix 1. Suiqiu Amulets Discovered in China Appendix 2. Stein no. 4690: Four Spells Notes Glossary Sources Index
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Columbia University Press Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites
Book SynopsisExplores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and AlgeriaTrade ReviewA most welcome addition to the growing literature on sharing sacred spaces in the eastern Mediterranean, with special reference to practices of coexistence between Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman traditions. This collection goes beyond the dilemma of 'peaceful coexistence and syncretic practices' versus 'antagonism and conflict.' Contributions focus on interreligious relations during the transition from empire to nation and on present-day practices from Algeria to Turkey and from Bosnia to Cyprus and Israel/Palestine. They emphasize the role of political and religious actors in transforming antagonism into peaceful coexistence. -- Maria Couroucli, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative Sacred sites are ideally intimate possessions, inviolable and holy. Sharing them with other communities is like splitting an atom. This timely collection allows readers to examine the choreographies of theological politics and political theologies scripted to contain potential eruptions of violence, and these highly readable case studies will fuel discussions of the post-Ottoman era for many years to come. -- Charles Stewart, University College London Coming from a range of disciplines, the essays in Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites are compelling for specialists in interreligious relations, conflict resolution and peace studies, and religious ethnography. They are also engaging and accessible to a general audience concerned with the related issues of pluralism, coexistence, conflict, and tolerance. Understanding the complexity of shared sites is essential to grasping the ways multiple religions jointly inhabit this plural world. A valuable and timely volume in a field critical to the present moment in history. -- Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey 1. Religious Pluralism, Shared Sacred Sites, and the Ottoman Empire, by Karen Barkey Comparisons: Cyprus/Bosnia/Anatolia/Algiers 2. Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred: Choreographies of Coexistence in Cyprus, by Mete Hatay 3. Religious Antagonism and Shared Sanctuaries in Algeria, by Dionigi Albera 4. Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia, by David Henig Palestine/Israel 5. At the Boundaries of the Sacred: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem's al-Wad Street, by Wendy Pullan 6. The Politics of Ownership: State, Governance, and the Status Quo in the Church of the Anastasis (Holy Sepulchre), by Glenn Bowman 7. Choreographing Upheaval: The Politics of Sacred Sites in the West Bank, by Elazar Barkan 8. The Impact of Conflicts Over Holy Sites on City Images and Landscapes: The Case of Nazareth, by Rassem Khamaisi Museums 9. Tolerance Versus Holiness: The Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance and the Mamilla Muslim Cemetery, by Yitzhak Reiter 10. Secularizing the Unsecularizable: A Comparative Study of the Haci Bektas and Mevlana Museums in Turkey, by Rabia Harmansah, Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, and Robert M. Hayden Bibliography Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites Religion
Book SynopsisExplores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and AlgeriaTrade ReviewA most welcome addition to the growing literature on sharing sacred spaces in the eastern Mediterranean, with special reference to practices of coexistence between Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman traditions. This collection goes beyond the dilemma of 'peaceful coexistence and syncretic practices' versus 'antagonism and conflict.' Contributions focus on interreligious relations during the transition from empire to nation and on present-day practices from Algeria to Turkey and from Bosnia to Cyprus and Israel/Palestine. They emphasize the role of political and religious actors in transforming antagonism into peaceful coexistence. -- Maria Couroucli, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative Sacred sites are ideally intimate possessions, inviolable and holy. Sharing them with other communities is like splitting an atom. This timely collection allows readers to examine the choreographies of theological politics and political theologies scripted to contain potential eruptions of violence, and these highly readable case studies will fuel discussions of the post-Ottoman era for many years to come. -- Charles Stewart, University College London Coming from a range of disciplines, the essays in Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites are compelling for specialists in interreligious relations, conflict resolution and peace studies, and religious ethnography. They are also engaging and accessible to a general audience concerned with the related issues of pluralism, coexistence, conflict, and tolerance. Understanding the complexity of shared sites is essential to grasping the ways multiple religions jointly inhabit this plural world. A valuable and timely volume in a field critical to the present moment in history. -- Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey 1. Religious Pluralism, Shared Sacred Sites, and the Ottoman Empire, by Karen Barkey Comparisons: Cyprus/Bosnia/Anatolia/Algiers 2. Three Ways of Sharing the Sacred: Choreographies of Coexistence in Cyprus, by Mete Hatay 3. Religious Antagonism and Shared Sanctuaries in Algeria, by Dionigi Albera 4. Contested Choreographies of Sacred Spaces in Muslim Bosnia, by David Henig Palestine/Israel 5. At the Boundaries of the Sacred: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem's al-Wad Street, by Wendy Pullan 6. The Politics of Ownership: State, Governance, and the Status Quo in the Church of the Anastasis (Holy Sepulchre), by Glenn Bowman 7. Choreographing Upheaval: The Politics of Sacred Sites in the West Bank, by Elazar Barkan 8. The Impact of Conflicts Over Holy Sites on City Images and Landscapes: The Case of Nazareth, by Rassem Khamaisi Museums 9. Tolerance Versus Holiness: The Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance and the Mamilla Muslim Cemetery, by Yitzhak Reiter 10. Secularizing the Unsecularizable: A Comparative Study of the Haci Bektas and Mevlana Museums in Turkey, by Rabia Harmansah, Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, and Robert M. Hayden Bibliography Contributors Index
£25.00
Columbia University Press Food of Sinful Demons Meat Vegetarianism and the
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating within Tibetan religiosity. Barstow offers a detailed analysis of the debates over meat and vegetarianism from the tenth century through the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.Trade ReviewA creative and nuanced exploration of Tibetan religiosity that has heretofore remained largely in the dark. An important and exciting book. -- Andrew Quintman, Yale University A very welcome and entirely novel work on the place of vegetarianism in Tibet, Food of Sinful Demons will make a solid scholarly contribution to religious studies, Buddhist studies and Tibetan studies. Covering a topic of broad interest in fields from religion to animal rights, it offers something new for specialists but is also accessible to undergraduates as well as educated Buddhists trying to understand the role of vegetarianism and meat-eating in Tibetan Buddhism. -- Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University In this first in-depth study of the history of vegetarianism in Tibet, Geoffrey Barstow clearly shows that vegetarianism has always existed in Tibetan culture and was essentially motivated by compassion for the animals. Food of Sinful Demons is a most welcome contribution to the important debate over the relationships between and among vegetarianism, health, and religion. -- Matthieu Ricard, author of A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with CompassionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationMap of TibetIntroduction1. A Brief History of Vegetarianism in Tibet2. Meat in the Monastery3. The Importance of Compassion4. Tantric Perspectives5. A Necessary Evil6. A Positive Good7. Seeking a Middle WayEpilogue: Con temporary TibetTibetan Names and TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Mary and the Art of Prayer The Hours of the
Book SynopsisWould you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. Mary and the Art of Prayer asks readers to immerse themselves in the experience of believing in and praying to Mary.Trade ReviewA remarkable intellectual exploration fueled by a personal passion. -- Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame One of the most beautiful, well argued, and exciting pieces of Marian scholarship that I have read. -- Sarah Jane Boss, director of the Centre for Marian StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsNotes to the ReaderInvitatory1. The Hours of the Virgin2. Ave Maria3. Antiphon and Psalm4. Lesson and Response5. PrayerCompline: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and the Mystical City of GodAppendix: Handlist of Manuscripts and Printed Editions of Richard of Saint-Laurent’s De laudibus beatae Mariae virginis libri XIINotesBibliographyIndex of Scriptural CitationsIndex of Manuscripts CitedGeneral Index
£91.52
Columbia University Press Buddhism and Medicine An Anthology of Modern and
Book SynopsisA companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine covering the early modern period to the present.Trade ReviewBuddhism and Medicine is an invaluable sourcebook for the complex interplay between religion and medicine in Asia. It breaks ground on an astonishing range of topics and materials, and should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion. -- Robert H. Sharf, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, BerkeleyThis excellent volume should be an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of Buddhism and science, medicine, magic, and healing. By drawing on a wide variety of both textual and ethnographic sources from colonial critiques to modern Facebook posts from across the Buddhist world, the editor and his contributors have provided a rare view into the study of Buddhism and medicine that goes far beyond the contemporary study of mindfulness and well-being. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern ThailandIn this elegant sourcebook, C. Pierce Salguero and his collaborators demonstrate, with unprecedented scope, how very diverse are the world's Buddhisms and the world's medicines. Neither romanticizing nor dismissing the contributions of Asian religion to the history of healing, this project teaches us much about how humans have dealt with suffering, today and in the past. -- Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of ChicagoHealth and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right. -- Richard K. Payne, author of Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of MantraThe book always provides the tools the reader needs to make sense of what is being presented. Overall it succeeds wonderfully in conveying the vitality of the ongoing encounter of Buddhism and medicine. Readers with any interest in thisfield are likely tofind it a constant source of stimulation and enlightenment. * Isis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionEarly Modernity1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides, by Katja Triplett2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century), by Katja Triplett3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century China: Three Preaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664), by Volker Scheid4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785), by Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869), by Justin B. Stein6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851), by Alexander McKinley7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era, by C. Pierce SalgueroRuptures and Reconciliations8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century), by Joshua Capitanio9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920), by Gregory Adam Scott10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952), by William A. McGrath11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra, by Paula K. R. Arai12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s "Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2015) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2003), by Ben P. Joffe13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008), by Jenny Bright14. “Eat Less Meat to Save the World”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014), by Emily S. WuHybridities and Innovations15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966), by Cody R. Bahir16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969), by Anthony Lovenheim Irwin17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy, by Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014), by Levi McLaughlin19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts, by Thomas Nathan PattonMeditation and Mental Health20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979), by Clark Chilson21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016), by Nathan Jishin Michon22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group’s Mindful UK (2014), by Joanna Cook23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim, by Lina Koleilat24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013), by David L. McMahanCrossing Boundaries25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979), by Projit Bihari Mukharji26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China, by Thomas David DuBois27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer, by Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman, by Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters: Quan Yin Bodhisattva Joins the New Age Pantheon, by C. Pierce SalgueroBuddhist Healing in Practice30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional Medicine: An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer, by Assunta Hunter31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: A Conversation with Master U Shein, by Céline Coderey32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa, by Susannah Deane33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan, with a Translation of His “Edible Letters,” by Mona Schrempf34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing,” by Paula K. R. Arai35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia, by C. Pierce SalgueroAppendix: Geographic Table of ContentsGlossaryReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Imperial Mecca Ottoman Arabia and the Indian
Book SynopsisMichael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea.Trade ReviewButtressed by monumental archival research and charging with lively prose, this profoundly significant book steers us through intractable historiographical swells to arrive at a wholly new history of the late Ottoman Empire, one in which the Hijaz, Indian Muslims and Jawis, modern govermentality, debates over extraterritoriality, and science and technology are the main protagonists. A major achievement. -- Alan Mikhail, author of God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern WorldImperial Mecca illuminates the making of the modern Hajj and technocratic regimes in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Arabia. Dislodging conventional emphases such as European fears of the Ottoman caliphate, ‘Pan-Islamism’, or other forms of Muslim exceptionalism, Low vividly depicts how new travel, communication, and surveillance technologies, interlaced with related environmental and epidemiological factors, shaped the opportunities and limits of Ottoman and British imperial power. A tour de force on the Indian Ocean Hajj. -- Faiz Ahmed, author of Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British EmpiresImperial Mecca is an exciting contribution to the literature on the international history of the Hajj. Far beyond its religious significance, Low demonstrates on the basis of meticulous archival work that Hajj management provided the entry point for the development of a modern Ottoman governmental rationality that operated through the management of mobility, disease, environment, and the law. -- John M. Willis, author of Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni PastProvides an innovative analysis of how Istanbul maintained the Hajj during the 19th century...Recommended. * Choice *A highly engaging and readable account, this is the sort of book that could be assigned to undergraduates to give them a glimpse into the late Ottoman Empire. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsA Note on Sources, Transliteration, and DatesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Worlds: An Ottoman Island Adrift on a Colonial OceanPart I: Extraterritorial Frontiers1. Blurred Vision: The Hijaz and the Hajj in the Colonial Imagination2. Legal Imperialism: Foreign Muslims and Muslim ConsulsPart II: Ecologies of Empire3. Microbial Mecca and the Global Crisis of Cholera4. Bedouins and Broken PipesPart III: Managing Mobility5. Passports and Tickets6. The Camel and the RailEpilogue: Legacies and AfterlivesNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Imperial Mecca
Book SynopsisMichael Christopher Low analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea.Trade ReviewButtressed by monumental archival research and charging with lively prose, this profoundly significant book steers us through intractable historiographical swells to arrive at a wholly new history of the late Ottoman Empire, one in which the Hijaz, Indian Muslims and Jawis, modern govermentality, debates over extraterritoriality, and science and technology are the main protagonists. A major achievement. -- Alan Mikhail, author of God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern WorldImperial Mecca illuminates the making of the modern Hajj and technocratic regimes in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Arabia. Dislodging conventional emphases such as European fears of the Ottoman caliphate, ‘Pan-Islamism’, or other forms of Muslim exceptionalism, Low vividly depicts how new travel, communication, and surveillance technologies, interlaced with related environmental and epidemiological factors, shaped the opportunities and limits of Ottoman and British imperial power. A tour de force on the Indian Ocean Hajj. -- Faiz Ahmed, author of Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British EmpiresImperial Mecca is an exciting contribution to the literature on the international history of the Hajj. Far beyond its religious significance, Low demonstrates on the basis of meticulous archival work that Hajj management provided the entry point for the development of a modern Ottoman governmental rationality that operated through the management of mobility, disease, environment, and the law. -- John M. Willis, author of Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni PastProvides an innovative analysis of how Istanbul maintained the Hajj during the 19th century...Recommended. * Choice *A highly engaging and readable account, this is the sort of book that could be assigned to undergraduates to give them a glimpse into the late Ottoman Empire. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsA Note on Sources, Transliteration, and DatesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Worlds: An Ottoman Island Adrift on a Colonial OceanPart I: Extraterritorial Frontiers1. Blurred Vision: The Hijaz and the Hajj in the Colonial Imagination2. Legal Imperialism: Foreign Muslims and Muslim ConsulsPart II: Ecologies of Empire3. Microbial Mecca and the Global Crisis of Cholera4. Bedouins and Broken PipesPart III: Managing Mobility5. Passports and Tickets6. The Camel and the RailEpilogue: Legacies and AfterlivesNotesIndex
£28.50
Columbia University Press Conjuring the Buddha
Book SynopsisJacob P. Dalton offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. He argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways.Trade ReviewWhen we read the tantras, they often strike us as merely magic. How did these strange texts, filled with demonic deities, become the foundation for the empowering rituals and sophisticated meditations so widely practiced across the Buddhist world? This book, with its profound analyses and precise translations, finally answers that question. -- Donald S. Lopez Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of MichiganBased on a somewhat random cache of largely tenth-century Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, Jacob Dalton delivers to us a masterful new narrative of much of the history of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism. This innovative history rests on the plastic and more human genre of local ritual manuals, rather than the formalized tantric scriptures. Dalton's lens of analysis allows us to see the creative shifts in ritual practice that unfolded over the centuries, from the chanting of spells to self-visualization, the inner experiences of sexual yoga, and beyond. Replete with full translations of key works, this book is highly recommended for university courses on Buddhist ritual and tantrism, not to mention lay students of Asian religion and yogic practitioners alike. -- Janet Gyatso, author of Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern TibetThis unique, approachable and well-organized book not only mines an extraordinary number of Dunhuang manuscripts, of which Dalton is one of the acknowledged experts, but also offers excellent examinations of the practices and controversies in the development of forms of Buddhist tantra in the eighth century. -- Ronald M. Davidson, author of Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric MovementTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ritual Manuals and the Spread of the Local2. From Dhāraṇī to Tantra: The SarvadurgatipariśodhanaAppendix: A Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Initiation Manual3. Evoking Possession: The Sarvatathāgata-tattvasaṃgrahaAppendix: Tattvasaṃgraha-sādhanopāyika4. Secretory Secrets: Sexual Yoga in Early MahāyogaAppendix: The Generation of Fortune Sādhana5. Circles of Blazing Breaths: A Manual for Mantra RecitationAppendix: Samādhi Sādhana with CommentaryConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Conjuring the Buddha
Book SynopsisJacob P. Dalton offers a history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk Road. He argues that the spread of ritual manuals offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways.Trade ReviewWhen we read the tantras, they often strike us as merely magic. How did these strange texts, filled with demonic deities, become the foundation for the empowering rituals and sophisticated meditations so widely practiced across the Buddhist world? This book, with its profound analyses and precise translations, finally answers that question. -- Donald S. Lopez Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of MichiganBased on a somewhat random cache of largely tenth-century Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, Jacob Dalton delivers to us a masterful new narrative of much of the history of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism. This innovative history rests on the plastic and more human genre of local ritual manuals, rather than the formalized tantric scriptures. Dalton's lens of analysis allows us to see the creative shifts in ritual practice that unfolded over the centuries, from the chanting of spells to self-visualization, the inner experiences of sexual yoga, and beyond. Replete with full translations of key works, this book is highly recommended for university courses on Buddhist ritual and tantrism, not to mention lay students of Asian religion and yogic practitioners alike. -- Janet Gyatso, author of Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern TibetThis unique, approachable and well-organized book not only mines an extraordinary number of Dunhuang manuscripts, of which Dalton is one of the acknowledged experts, but also offers excellent examinations of the practices and controversies in the development of forms of Buddhist tantra in the eighth century. -- Ronald M. Davidson, author of Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric MovementTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ritual Manuals and the Spread of the Local2. From Dhāraṇī to Tantra: The SarvadurgatipariśodhanaAppendix: A Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Initiation Manual3. Evoking Possession: The Sarvatathāgata-tattvasaṃgrahaAppendix: Tattvasaṃgraha-sādhanopāyika4. Secretory Secrets: Sexual Yoga in Early MahāyogaAppendix: The Generation of Fortune Sādhana5. Circles of Blazing Breaths: A Manual for Mantra RecitationAppendix: Samādhi Sādhana with CommentaryConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
University of Illinois Press Ritual Encounters
Book SynopsisThe mythic roots and modern future of Ecuadorian indigenous communities in the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"An intelligent and welcome book."--Anthropology Review Database"An important addition to the literature on Andean ethnography and the anthropology of ritual."--Latin American Music Review"Ritual Encounters offers a richly textured reading of core Otavalan ritual performances and the cosmological discourse that sustains them."--Journal of Folklore Research"When I first witnessed the powerful images, music, and hypnotic rhythms of the Otavalos' Inti Raymi dances, I yearned for an ethnographer's deep analysis. Michelle Wibbelsman's eloquent ethnography has set a new standard for the study of ritual in the Andes."--Robert E. Rhoades, author of Development with Identity, Community, Culture and Sustainability in the Andes"An engaging study of diverse rituals that take place in indigenous communities in the northwestern highland region of Ecuador. Although previous ethnographic work conducted in the Otavalo area has examined ritual performances, none other focuses exclusively on ritual expression beyond a single community. Wibbelsman's work fills this gap in northern Andean ethnographic work."--Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, author of Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
£18.99
University of Illinois Press Christmas in Illinois
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those of us for whom the meaning of Christmas has been all but lost in an increasingly nasty blizzard of commercialism, this book provides a lovely and even necessary antidote. Here you will find stories of celebrations (some of them surprisingly rowdy) and Santas and parades and traditions held dear, from big towns and small, told across the years. A marvelous book that would be right at home under anyone's Christmas tree."--Rick Kogan, author, Chicago Tribune columnist, and WGN radio host"James Ballowe has captured the story of Christmas in Illinois as a 'cultural index' of the state's rich ethnic and landscape diversity as only a scholar with the heart of a poet can do. From his engaging introduction to the diverse stories he has assembled, Christmas in Illinois provides new insights into the celebration of Christmas in America."--Bonnie W. Styles, director, Illinois State Museum"James Ballowe has collected a delightful array of charming stories, interesting anecdotes, and arresting images that capture the myriad ways Illinoisans have celebrated Christmas for over two centuries."--Gordon Pruett, publisher, Crossfire Press, and author of One Hundred Years of Herrin, Illinois"It is not surprising that the phrase 'Christmas spirit' is commonly used to describe the season. As James Ballowe deftly shows with a diverse and evocative array of selections, however one celebrates the Christmas season, it is a feeling usually of ineffable joy and satisfaction that defies simple explanation."--Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian"Christmas in Illinois is like a box of chocolates. You will be surprised by the variety of essays and remembrances and delighted wherever your finger falls--John Knoepfle, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Mike Royko! Moreover, after reading editor Jim Ballowe's gracefully written and thoughtful introduction, you will be persuaded that Christmas in our state is so much more than a holiday or even a season. 'Christmas' has become a place itself--as diverse as the people who live in the state."--Kristina A. Valaitis, executive director, Illinois Humanities Council
£12.34
Indiana University Press Praying with the Senses
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume is as enriching as it is ground-breaking. It will definitely be a companion to students of religion and Eastern Orthodoxy from various disciplines, complementing the theological and historical approaches to Eastern Christianity. * Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies *These essays advance the understanding of Eastern Orthodox spiritual practices from a religious studies perspective, and they will likely stimulate new directions for research and teaching in this largely neglected area. * Reading Religion *This collection could well be a principal text in courses on contemporary spirituality and church life. And equally it could be used for retreats and for personal spiritual reading as well. It is a welcome addition to other fine work that explores popular spirituality. * St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly *[T]he contributors to this volume offer a number of valuable insights into questions of personhood, mediation, tradition, authority, publicity, intimacy, belonging, and the theological valences we attach to the human sensorium. Their collective labor demonstrates that Eastern Christianity is rich soil for anthropological inquiry from a number of vantage-points and for a host of theoretical interests. * AnthroCyBib *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Senses of Prayer in Eastern Orthodox Christianity / Sonja Luehrmann Part I: Senses1. Becoming Orthodox: The Mystery and Mastery of a Christian Tradition / Vlad NaumescuA Missionary Primer / Ioann Veniaminov 2. Listening and the Sacramental Life: Degrees of Mediation in Greek Orthodox Christianity / Jeffers Engelhardt Creating an Image for Prayer / Sonja Luehrmann3. Imagining Holy Personhood: Anthropological Thresholds of the Icon / Angie HeoSyriac as a lingua sacra: Speaking the Language of Christ in India / Vlad Naumescu4. Authorizing: The Paradoxes of Praying by the Book / Sonja LuehrmannPart II: Worlds5. Inhabiting Orthodox Russia: Religious Nomadism and the Puzzle of Belonging / Jeanne Kormina Baraka: Mixing Muslims, Christians, and Jews / Angie Heo6. Sharing Space: On the Publicity of Prayer, between an Ethiopian Village and the Rest of the World / Tom Boylston Prayers for Cars, Weddings, and Well-Being: Orthodox Prayers en route in Syria / Andreas Bandak7. Struggling Bodies at the Crossroads of Economy and Tradition: The Case of Contemporary Russian Convents / Daria Dubovka Competing Prayers for Ukraine / Sonja Luehrmann8. Orthodox Revivals: Prayer, Charisma, and Liturgical Religion / Simion PopEpilogue: Not-Orthodoxy/Orthodoxy's Others / William A. Christian Jr.GlossaryIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Praying with the Senses Contemporary Orthodox
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume is as enriching as it is ground-breaking. It will definitely be a companion to students of religion and Eastern Orthodoxy from various disciplines, complementing the theological and historical approaches to Eastern Christianity. * Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies *These essays advance the understanding of Eastern Orthodox spiritual practices from a religious studies perspective, and they will likely stimulate new directions for research and teaching in this largely neglected area. * Reading Religion *This collection could well be a principal text in courses on contemporary spirituality and church life. And equally it could be used for retreats and for personal spiritual reading as well. It is a welcome addition to other fine work that explores popular spirituality. * St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly *[T]he contributors to this volume offer a number of valuable insights into questions of personhood, mediation, tradition, authority, publicity, intimacy, belonging, and the theological valences we attach to the human sensorium. Their collective labor demonstrates that Eastern Christianity is rich soil for anthropological inquiry from a number of vantage-points and for a host of theoretical interests. * AnthroCyBib *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Senses of Prayer in Eastern Orthodox Christianity / Sonja Luehrmann Part I: Senses1. Becoming Orthodox: The Mystery and Mastery of a Christian Tradition / Vlad NaumescuA Missionary Primer / Ioann Veniaminov 2. Listening and the Sacramental Life: Degrees of Mediation in Greek Orthodox Christianity / Jeffers Engelhardt Creating an Image for Prayer / Sonja Luehrmann3. Imagining Holy Personhood: Anthropological Thresholds of the Icon / Angie HeoSyriac as a lingua sacra: Speaking the Language of Christ in India / Vlad Naumescu4. Authorizing: The Paradoxes of Praying by the Book / Sonja LuehrmannPart II: Worlds5. Inhabiting Orthodox Russia: Religious Nomadism and the Puzzle of Belonging / Jeanne Kormina Baraka: Mixing Muslims, Christians, and Jews / Angie Heo6. Sharing Space: On the Publicity of Prayer, between an Ethiopian Village and the Rest of the World / Tom Boylston Prayers for Cars, Weddings, and Well-Being: Orthodox Prayers en route in Syria / Andreas Bandak7. Struggling Bodies at the Crossroads of Economy and Tradition: The Case of Contemporary Russian Convents / Daria Dubovka Competing Prayers for Ukraine / Sonja Luehrmann8. Orthodox Revivals: Prayer, Charisma, and Liturgical Religion / Simion PopEpilogue: Not-Orthodoxy/Orthodoxy's Others / William A. Christian Jr.GlossaryIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Singing Yoruba Christianity Music Media and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBrennan's ethnography is a wonderful contribution to the scholarship on African Christianity. * Ingernational Journal of African Historical Studies *Given the ever-expanding scope of the study of the visual and expressive arts of Africa, this book offers another perspective and one that accesses the activities of one of Africa's adapted churches. * African Studies Association *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Language and Translation1. Singing the Same Song2. Onward Christian Soldiers3. The Voice of the Spirit4. Take Control5. Straight to Heaven6. In His Steps7. Living in the Spirit8. Show the Glory of GodEpilogueGlossary of Yoruba TermsBibliographyIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press Singing Yoruba Christianity Music Media and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBrennan's ethnography is a wonderful contribution to the scholarship on African Christianity. * Ingernational Journal of African Historical Studies *Given the ever-expanding scope of the study of the visual and expressive arts of Africa, this book offers another perspective and one that accesses the activities of one of Africa's adapted churches. * African Studies Association *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Language and Translation1. Singing the Same Song2. Onward Christian Soldiers3. The Voice of the Spirit4. Take Control5. Straight to Heaven6. In His Steps7. Living in the Spirit8. Show the Glory of GodEpilogueGlossary of Yoruba TermsBibliographyIndex
£22.79
Indiana University Press Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam will be very useful to several broad categories of scholars, particularly ethnomusicologists, scholars of Central Asia, and scholars of Islam. Harris makes important connections to the research in each field, and fills a gap in knowledge with valuable new content and analyses."—Nathan Light, Uppsala University"This book does more to explain the relationship between Uyghurs and Islam in the 21st century than any other scholarship to date. By juxtaposing and interweaving ethnographic analyses of secret Sufi rituals, Quranic recitation, horror-film-influenced supernatural rumors, and state-enforced dance, Harris reveals the mutable stratigraphy of Islams under China's colonial rule. An utterly necessary book, and a fascinating, nuanced read that deserves the attention of scholars, policy makers, and general readers alike."—Rian Thum, author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History"Through her innovative ethnographic approach to religious soundscapes, Harris makes a landmark contribution to the study of ethnomusicology, Islam, and identity."—Ildikó Bellér-Hann, author of Community Matters in Xinjiang"Rachel Harris's work on social justice and the power of music in times of trouble models the kind of activist ethnomusicology that has become a beacon in our field and a pre-requisite for the future of our discipline. Over two decades of research, Harris has witnessed the Uyghur soundscape flourish and shrivel in response to the systematic oppression of people, exercised in part through sonic engineering, by the Chinese authorities, alongside the institutional coercion of the faithful, by the forces of globalized, Islamic conservatism. In response to the mounting dangers of extreme political upheavals in the region, Harris shifts from in-situ fieldwork among an ethnic population in Xinjiang province, to work in the Uyghur borderland sites of migration in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, and finally to the mode of ethnotextual analysis via the internet where social media platforms convey both the construction of individual and collective subjectivities as well as the destructive forces of globalized, radical, Islamism. From Quranic recitation, to Uyghur music and dance, to the use of insidious song as torture for the incarcerated, Harris invokes notions of repetition and layering to intertwine the ways in which sounds are produced and embodied. Her long-standing interest in music and gender is reflected in a woman-centered approach to ethnography that acknowledges her family fieldwork team, prioritizes collaborative relationships with female colleagues and interlocutors, and foregrounds the multiple perpetrators of slow violence to women and women's ways by both religion and the state. Beautifully theorized and fluidly written, Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam is a model for ethnomusicology in the 21st century."—Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, William & Mary"Rachel Harris's timely ethnography explores the sounded expressions of the Uyghur people—particularly women—and the impact of two external factors: the flow of Islamic revival from the West, and the tightening of Chinese state control from the East. This is essential reading on the trauma suffered by the Uyghur people, and carries important lessons for all of us on the profound significance of sonic and embodied practices."—Martin Clayton, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of DurhamTable of Contents1. Sound, Place, and Religious Revival Interlude 1: Rabiya Acha's Story 2. Affective Rituals in a Uyghur Village3. Text and Performance in the Hikmät of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi 4. Style and Meaning in the Recited Qur'an Interlude 2: Tutiwalidu (They'll Arrest You) 5. Mobile Islam: Mediation and Circulation 6. Song-and-Dance and the Sonic Territorialization of Xinjiang 7. Erasure and TraumaReferences
£56.10
Indiana University Press Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam will be very useful to several broad categories of scholars, particularly ethnomusicologists, scholars of Central Asia, and scholars of Islam. Harris makes important connections to the research in each field, and fills a gap in knowledge with valuable new content and analyses."—Nathan Light, Uppsala University"This book does more to explain the relationship between Uyghurs and Islam in the 21st century than any other scholarship to date. By juxtaposing and interweaving ethnographic analyses of secret Sufi rituals, Quranic recitation, horror-film-influenced supernatural rumors, and state-enforced dance, Harris reveals the mutable stratigraphy of Islams under China's colonial rule. An utterly necessary book, and a fascinating, nuanced read that deserves the attention of scholars, policy makers, and general readers alike."—Rian Thum, author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History"Through her innovative ethnographic approach to religious soundscapes, Harris makes a landmark contribution to the study of ethnomusicology, Islam, and identity."—Ildikó Bellér-Hann, author of Community Matters in Xinjiang"Rachel Harris's work on social justice and the power of music in times of trouble models the kind of activist ethnomusicology that has become a beacon in our field and a pre-requisite for the future of our discipline. Over two decades of research, Harris has witnessed the Uyghur soundscape flourish and shrivel in response to the systematic oppression of people, exercised in part through sonic engineering, by the Chinese authorities, alongside the institutional coercion of the faithful, by the forces of globalized, Islamic conservatism. In response to the mounting dangers of extreme political upheavals in the region, Harris shifts from in-situ fieldwork among an ethnic population in Xinjiang province, to work in the Uyghur borderland sites of migration in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, and finally to the mode of ethnotextual analysis via the internet where social media platforms convey both the construction of individual and collective subjectivities as well as the destructive forces of globalized, radical, Islamism. From Quranic recitation, to Uyghur music and dance, to the use of insidious song as torture for the incarcerated, Harris invokes notions of repetition and layering to intertwine the ways in which sounds are produced and embodied. Her long-standing interest in music and gender is reflected in a woman-centered approach to ethnography that acknowledges her family fieldwork team, prioritizes collaborative relationships with female colleagues and interlocutors, and foregrounds the multiple perpetrators of slow violence to women and women's ways by both religion and the state. Beautifully theorized and fluidly written, Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam is a model for ethnomusicology in the 21st century."—Anne K. Rasmussen, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, William & Mary"Rachel Harris's timely ethnography explores the sounded expressions of the Uyghur people—particularly women—and the impact of two external factors: the flow of Islamic revival from the West, and the tightening of Chinese state control from the East. This is essential reading on the trauma suffered by the Uyghur people, and carries important lessons for all of us on the profound significance of sonic and embodied practices."—Martin Clayton, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of DurhamTable of Contents1. Sound, Place, and Religious Revival Interlude 1: Rabiya Acha's Story 2. Affective Rituals in a Uyghur Village3. Text and Performance in the Hikmät of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi 4. Style and Meaning in the Recited Qur'an Interlude 2: Tutiwalidu (They'll Arrest You) 5. Mobile Islam: Mediation and Circulation 6. Song-and-Dance and the Sonic Territorialization of Xinjiang 7. Erasure and TraumaReferences
£25.19
University of Notre Dame Press Conflicts of Devotion
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role poetry played in England after religious reformation and shows that the liturgical character of poetry is essential to comprehending the shifts in English spiritual attitudes and practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Trade Review“Conflicts of Devotion is exceptionally well written and is subtly and persuasively argued, advancing scholarship in such important ways as to change our ways of thinking about the major poets of this period. It will have special value to graduate students and young academics looking for an approach to their own writing.” —Gerard Wegemer, University of Dallas"Cogent, clear and beautifully written, Conflicts of Devotion looks at how early modern English poets and prelates negotiate the threshold of religious identity in a religiously pluralist society. Ranging from Spenser to Southwell, from Cranmer to Crashaw, this book revises our understanding of generic conventions from the pastoral to the metaphysical. While Gibbons does not eschew controversy, he focuses on the strategies of compromise: liturgy, and the poetics that proceed from it, accommodate diverse religious belief in the rituals that give structure to the social world. Conflicts of Devotion provides stunning close readings and sound insights into the ecumenical design of early modern English poetry." —Kimberly Anne Coles, University of Maryland"Although Daniel Gibbons' Conflicts of Devotion engages with the tensions suggested by his title, he incisively emphasizes the countervailing searches for spiritual unity and community. The argumentation is original and persuasive, the scholarship impeccable, and the prose elegant." —Heather Dubrow, Fordham University“. . . a valuable addition to the work being done on the intersection of literature and religion in early modern literary studies. The book’s approach, in contrast to the somewhat indistinct title, is specific and illuminating. . . . Gibbon’s approach to the complexities of early modern religious identities and to the nuances of the poets’ engagements with the religious controversies and subjects of their day is skillful, generous, and in this reviewer’s opinion, exemplary.” —Renaissance and Reformation“The book treads a careful path between emphasizing the religious discord and fragmentation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and producing the kind of ecumenical account of the period that has become more common in recent years and that has tended sometimes to overlook difference in the interest of affirming continuities among those of distinct religious persuasions. Gibbons locates the efforts of a wide range of writers to foster community specifically in the rhetorical techniques that they employ to accommodate difference.” —Modern Philology
£45.00
University of Notre Dame Press The Miracle of Amsterdam
Book SynopsisCaspers and Margry present a cultural biography of the Amsterdam Eucharistic Miracle that led to the rise of Amsterdam as a city and religious contention during the Reformation.Trade Review"The subtitle 'Biography of a Contested Devotion' aptly describes The Miracle of Amsterdam. This is the account of a devotional cult in Amsterdam from its origins in 1345 to the present day, thus a period of almost six hundred years. Despite the fact that the book has two authors, its authorial voice is remarkably uniform and consistent. The book is impeccably researched, elegantly written, and judicious in its handling of sometimes very tricky evidence. I found it to be a deeply insightful, balanced, humane treatment of an important topic." —Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame"The book is the first to provide a synthesis of the historical work on the Amsterdam cult and the curious religious practices that developed around it. It is one of the great achievements of this book that the authors can convince their readers of how the ritual has its own chapters. The scholarly work is impressive. The authors combine well-known historical facts and figures with smaller stories and testimonies by lay Catholics that might seem trivial at first but prove to be particularly meaningful and telling." —Tine Van Osselaer, Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp"In their marvelously detailed account, Charles Caspers and Peter Jan Margry show how deeply embedded sacred matters are in the history of a place. Excavating layer upon layer of political, civil, and religious history, the authors bring to light the deeply structured cultural memory of a miracle, demonstrating in the process just how richly creative tradition can be. The miracle of a fourteenth-century Eucharistic host is as persistent as Dutch Catholicism and as vivacious as the city of Amsterdam. Extensively researched and clearly written, this book is a model of how to do the cultural history of religion." —David Morgan, Duke University"This 'cultural biography' recounts the fascinating life of a religious devotion that has persisted from the Middle Ages to today. Repeatedly changing form and meaning, veneration of the Miracle of Amsterdam has been an important part of Dutch Catholic identity for almost seven centuries. Through the lens of the Miracle, Caspers and Margry offer a compelling view of a much wider story of religious and social change." —Ben Kaplan, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1. Creation and expansion of a cult (1345-1500) 1.1. The rise of Amsterdam 1.2. Religious context 1.3. The Miracle 1. 1.4. Corpus Christi and Sacraments of Miracle 1.5. The bishop and the count 1.6. Miracles of the Miracle 1.7. Processions through the city Part 2. In the Habsburgs’ Favor (1500-1600) 2.1. Royal interest in the Holy Stead 2.2. The Habsburgs and national consciousness 2.3. Eucharistic symbolism 2.4. The Reformation comes to Holland 2.5. A women’s resistance movement and the city’s identity 2.6. The failed coup of the Anabaptists in 1535 2.7. Disciplining faith and cult 2.8. 1566, the “miraculous year” 2.9. The end of Amsterdam as an international place of pilgrimage Part 3. The Miracle on the margins (1600-1795) 3.1. Hidden devotion 3.2. Catholic hope and Reformed fear 3.3. The Miracle expressed 3.4. The Miracle celebrated 3.5. The Miracle weighed up Part 4. The battle for public space (1795-1881) 4.1. A velvet revolution: change and continuity 4.2. 1845: the “Feast of Folly” 4.3. Antipapism and the ban on public space 4.4. The “Ultramontane miracle disease” Part 5. The Silent Walk as a national symbol of identity (1881-1960) 5.1. The construction of the Silent Walk 5.2. Cult versus cultural heritage 5.3. A national cult 5.4. The practice of the Walk 5.5. The international Eucharistic movement 5.6. Politics and ideology: the interwar years and the Second World War 5.7. The post-war cult: climax and catharsis Part 6. Revolution and the reinvention of tradition (1960-2015) 6.1. Reconstruction and affluence 6.2. Revolution in the long 1960s 6.3. Religion, market, and tradition 6.4. Ecumenical harmony? 6.5. Continuing, broken, restored, and new traditions Part 7. Conflict or consensus? Route of the Silent Walk Timeline Sources and literature Index
£48.60
Penn State University Wandering Monks Virgins and Pilgrims Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World AD 300800
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Pennsylvania State University Press AfroCatholic Festivals in the Americas
Book SynopsisExplores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.Trade Review“This multidisciplinary study of acculturation participates in a turn in postcolonial studies away from questions of the imposition of Christianity to black reinvention.”—Victor Houliston Heythrop Journal“A compelling collection of essays that map out the transplantation of Kongo and Central African Christian traditions in the Americas by exploring the crucial role African Christian festivals played in the Americas. This is a timely multidisciplinary text that invites readers to explore representation and performance expressed in ideas, music, and art deployed by Africans to assert the will to thrive in the context of domination and to forge a vibrant Christian presence and practice.”—Elias Bongmba,author of The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa“This remarkable set of essays and their accompanying images bring to life the dynamic interactions of central Africa and the Americas as expressed in music, dance, artistic representation, and spirituality. It does not resolve the great debate over African continuities versus creole creativity, but it enriches and enlivens it and makes it fundamental to an understanding of the Atlantic world.”—Stuart B. Schwartz,author of All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World “[This volume] offers a much-needed contribution to the study of African, Afro-Latino/a and African-American Catholics. While the field of Black Atlantic religions has exploded in the past decade, the study of Black Atlantic Catholicism has been one of the most understudied areas in the field of religion.”—Michelle A. Gonzalez Reading Religion“The authors critically address the modes of disciplinary engagement that have dominated discussion and evaluation to date. These essays are useful references for understanding the renegotiation necessary for comprehending processes and celebrations that excavate meaning far below the surface and, in turn, provide valuable information on the legacy of Catholic religiosity that has been simmering for centuries on the African continent.”—7/24/2020 Early American Literature“By including festivals from New Orleans and Mexico City, and by framing the volume as in direct conversation with scholarship on African American art and culture in the United States, Fromont takes an important stride toward bridging the historiographical divide between scholarship on North and South America.”—Ximena A. Gómez Art History“The volume challenges some established theories about the origins of Afro-diasporic cultural traditions, which many will welcome. This line of research has led to important and lasting insights.”—Patricia Barker Lerch Nova Religio“Readers seeking a historical introduction to the public expression of Afro-Catholic cultures in the African Diaspora or an inspiration for methods to carry the historical study of Black Atlantic religions forward will find Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas an essential text that fulfills both purposes.”—Ras Michael Brown International Journal of African Historical Studies“An amazing collection of essays about the traces of Kongolese Catholicism in the New World, focusing on festivals in particular. It is a great extension of the work by prior scholars of Kongolese Catholicism.”—Adam Mohr African Studies Review“Through attention to the subjectivity and cultural specificity of texts, translations, and images, and, crucially, to ‘embodied social memory’ that decenters the written record, the volume presents a complex and vital tale of American Christianity rooted in central Africa while underscoring trans-generational Black agency in the unfolding of festive traditions within the post-Columbian Americas.”—Adrienne Rooney Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic TraditionCécile Fromont and Michael IyanagaPart 1 Ritual Battles from the Kongo Kingdom to the Americas1. Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New OrleansJeroen Dewulf2. Moros e Christianos Ritualized Naval Battles: Baptizing American Waters with African Spiritual MeaningKevin Dawson3. A Mexican Sangamento? The First Afro-Christian Performance in the AmericasMiguel A. ValerioPart 2 America’s Black Kings and Diplomatic Representation4. Representing an African King in BrazilLisa Voigt5. Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in the Eighteenth CenturyJunia Ferreira FurtadoPart 3 Reconsidering Primary Sources6. Envisioning Brazil’s Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz RugendasCécile Fromont7. The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built: Africana Antecedents to Yoruba Religious Formation in TrinidadDianne M. StewartPart 4 Aurality and Diasporic Traditions8. On Hearing Africas in the Americas: Domestic Celebrations for Catholic Saints as Afro-Diasporic Religious TraditionMichael IyanagaList of ContributorsIndex
£68.81
SPCK Publishing Five Events That Made Christianity
Book SynopsisExamination of how lives can be enriched by engaging with the great Christian festivals.Trade ReviewVividly elucidates the familiar but often not-quite-understood beliefs at the centre of the Christian faith. -- Dominic Barrington, Dean of ChicagoSome books are worth their weight in gold: this is one such. John Pritchard has a great gift of finding words that go deep, that affect the spirit, that touch with freshness. -- Denis Blackledge SJ[On Living Faithfully] This is a very good book by an exceptional leader. John Pritchard puts himself into what he writes, and the result is accessible, encouraging and fun, with a steel core that not only makes one think but takes one back to the face of Christ and the realities of Christian discipleship. John is never cheaply comfortable but always reassuringly real. I am very glad to have read Living Faithfully. -- Justin Welby, Archbishop of CanterburyWise, honest and realistic, Living Faithfully joins the dots in a lively and compelling way between the core of Christian teaching and contemporary human experience. -- Christina Rees, broadcaster and writer[On God Lost and Found] This is an unusually honest book. Its analysis is plain-spoken and compassionate, and what Bishop John has to say about finding ways to live constructively with times of emptiness is superbly well focused. You'll emerge from reading this with – probably – relief that a widespread set of challenges has been so sensitively identified and – certainly – with gratitude for sensible, durable advice on how to go on making friends with the mystery we can never digest or contain. -- Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalen College, CambridgeAmid church scandals, destructive natural disasters and terrorist atrocities committed in the name of religion, it is not surprising that many have stopped believing in God, lost their faith and go through the physical motions like church-going but with no belief. Pritchard's book is a useful, practical guide for those seeking reconnection with the spiritual aspects of their daily lives. * The Bookseller *What a courageous book! . . . full of hope and full of God. -- Elaine Storkey. . . a gracious and ultimately encouraging study of why we sometimes find maintaining a relationship with God so difficult, and what we can do to restore it. * 5* review in Christianity *
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SPCK Publishing Reconciliation The Archbishop of Canterburys Lent
Book SynopsisThe Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2019Trade ReviewA thoroughly biblical guide to reconciliation – its passions and problems, its complexity and utter cruciality. Dr Swamy offers new angles on old stories, prophetic messages, and a gospel wisdom on becoming people of peace. -- Professor David F. Ford, University of CambridgeSwamy has valuable things to say... clear and meticulous... would reward those used to serious Bible reading. * Church Times *Beautifully written... you will have difficulty finding a better book than this to deepen your loving knowledge of scripture, and its focus on the core topic of reconciliation. I cannot recommend it too highly. * Denis Blackledge SJ, Catholic South West Magazine *We are offered key texts, key themes, substantial exposition of those texts and themes, solid biblical and theological reflection with living examples and then left with questions with which to challenge ourselves. * Methodist Recorder *For those able to sustain a daily devotion through Lent, this is a rich resource. For weekly discussion groups who like to wrestle with big issues, there is more than enough here to see them through Lent, and some way beyond. * Reform Magazine *Table of ContentsA scene-setting introduction is followed by 6 chapters: (1) Christians and reconciliation today (2) God has reconciled with us - the foundation of reconciliation (3) Impediments to reconciliation (4) Risking the self (5) Humility, self-criticism and reconciliation (6) Radical openness to the other (7) Reconciliation as peace with justice
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The WileyBlackwell Companion to the Anglican
Book SynopsisThis uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith.Trade Review“The authors, as one might expect from an episcopal church, include three present or former archbishops, 13 bishops, 20 or so priests and 40-odd academics, many of them professors (with some overlap between the last two groups), so there is plenty of authoritative scholarship and expertise here.” (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) “The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion (WBCAC) is an unprecedented work on global Anglicanism. It offers a thorough account of the history, structures, members and major themes in Anglican thought, which is as comprehensive as it is comprehensible. As a guide to the Anglican Communion, it leaves no notable stone unturned.” (Churchman, 1 August 2014) “This is a valuable contribution to understanding the Anglican Communion. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers.” (Choice, 1 December 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Preface xxiii Acknowledgements xxv Part I History 1 1 Locating the Anglican Communion in the History of Anglicanism 3 Gregory K. Cameron 2 The History of Mission in the Anglican Communion 15 Titus Presler 3 The Emergence of the Anglican Communion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 33 William L. Sachs Part II Structures of the Communion 45 4 The Instruments of Unity and Communion in Global Anglicanism 47 Norman Doe 5 The Archbishops of Canterbury, Past and Current 67 Nancy Carol James 6 The Book of Common Prayer 81 J. Robert Wright 7 The Lambeth Conferences 91 Robert W. Prichard 8 Anglican Consultative Councils 105 Samuel Van Culin and Andrew Bennett Terry 9 The Anglican Communion Covenant 119 Andrew Goddard Part III Provinces 135 Africa 136 10 The Anglican Church of Burundi 137 Katherine L. Wood 11 The Church of the Province of Central Africa 143 Katherine L. Wood 12 The Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo 148 Emma Wild-Wood and Titre Ande 13 The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean 159 Cameron J. Soulis 14 The Anglican Church of Kenya 162 J. Barney Hawkins IV 15 The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 165 Benjamin A. Kwashi 16 L’Eglise Episcopale au Rwanda 184 Emmanuel Mukeshimana 17 The Anglican Church of Southern Africa 194 Ian S. Markham 18 The Episcopal Church of Sudan 199 Abraham Yel Nhial 19 The Anglican Church of Tanzania 204 Phanuel L. Mung’ong’o and Moses Matonya 20 The Church of the Province of Uganda 221 Christopher Byaruhanga 21 The Church of the Province of West Africa 232 John S. Pobee Asia 239 22 The Church of Bangladesh 240 Shourabh Pholia 23 The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui 253 Paul Kwong 24 The Nippon Sei Ko Kai (The Anglican Communion in Japan) 263 Renta Nishihara 25 The Episcopal/Anglican Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East 272 Mouneer Hanna Anis 26 The Anglican Church of Korea 289 Yang Guen-Seok 27 The Church of the Province of Myanmar (Burma) 300 Katharine E. Babson and Saw Maung Doe 28 The Church of North India (United) 319 Dhirendra Kumar Sahu 29 The Church of Pakistan (United) 329 Azad Marshall 30 The Episcopal Church in the Philippines 341 Mary Jane L. Dogue-is 31 The Church of the Province of South East Asia 344 Justyn Terry 32 The Church of South India (United) 355 Ian S. Markham 33 The Church of Ceylon (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) 359 Duleep de Chickera Australia and Oceania 373 34 The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia 374 Christopher Honoré 35 The Anglican Church of Australia 387 Robert Tong 36 The Church of the Province of Melanesia 407 J. Barney Hawkins IV 37 The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea 410 J. Barney Hawkins IV Europe 412 38 The Church of England 413 Mark Chapman 39 The Church of Ireland 426 Robyn M. Neville 40 The Scottish Episcopal Church 441 Brian Smith 41 The Church in Wales 452 Barry Morgan Extra-Provincial to Canterbury 464 42 Dioceses Extra-Provincial to Canterbury (Bermuda, the Lusitanian Church, the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, and Falkland Islands) 465 John A. Macdonald North America 474 43 The Anglican Church of Canada 475 Alan L. Hayes 44 Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América 489 Ricardo F. Blanco-Beledo 45 The Anglican Church of Mexico (La Iglesia Anglicana de México) 500 John A. Macdonald 46 The Episcopal Church in the United States of America 508 J. Barney Hawkins IV 47 The Church in the Province of the West Indies 516 Noel Titus 48 The Episcopal Church of Cuba 526 A. Hugo Blankingship, Jr. South America 538 49 Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil) 539 Gustavo L. Castello Branco and Marcus Throup 50 La Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur (The Anglican Province of the Cono Sur) 547 John A. Macdonald Part IV Themes 553 51 Theology in the Anglican Communion 555 Justyn Terry 52 The Anglican Communion and Ecumenical Relations 569 Michael Nazir-Ali 53 Music in the Anglican Communion 585 William Bradley Roberts 54 Liturgy in the Anglican Communion 594 Nancy Carol James 55 Preaching in the Anglican Communion 606 George L. Carey 56 Women in the Anglican Communion 617 Janet Trisk 57 Human Sexuality in the Anglican Communion 627 Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo 58 Theological Education in the Anglican Communion 643 Leon P. Spencer 59 Interreligious Relations in the Anglican Communion 657 Ian S. Markham 60 Globalization of the Anglican Communion 666 Grant LeMarquand 61 Missionary Work in the Anglican Communion 677 Timothy J. Dakin 62 Cross Communion Organizations 700 Julian Linnell 63 The Spirituality of the Anglican Communion 714 Elizabeth Hoare 64 Views of Colonization Across the Anglican Communion 726 Robert S. Heaney 65 The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) 739 Mark D. Thompson Index 750
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University of California Press Absent Lord Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual
Book SynopsisThe ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities.
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University of California Press Contentious Traditions
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. This book argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1 Equivocations in the Name of Tradition: The Official Debate on Widow Burning 2 Abstract Disquisitions: Bhadralok and the Normative Violence of Sati 3 Missionaries and Subalterns: Belaboring Tradition in the Marketplace 4 Traveling Texts: The Consolidation of Missionary Discourse on India 5 The Female Subject, the Colonial Gaze: Eyewitness Accounts of Sati AFTERWORD NOTES GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Harvard University, Asia Center Identity Reflections
Book SynopsisThroughout history, Mount Tai has been a magnet for both women and men from all classesemperors, aristocrats, officials, literati, and villagers. This book examines the behavior of those who made the pilgrimage to Mount Tai and their interpretations of its sacrality and history, as a means of better understanding their identities and mentalities.Trade ReviewProbably no one understanding of why the mountain mattered would have been shared by all the pilgrims Dott describes. But all visitors would have been aware that people unlike themselves shared the view that this particular place mattered, and that visitors over the centuries had deposited many different layers of meaning. They would have recognized themselves as part of an ‘us’ for whom Taishan was a crucial site. Understanding that ‘us’ remains an important task for scholars who want to probe the mountain’s significance or paint a general picture of late imperial culture. Scholars interested in either task will benefit greatly from reading this book. -- Kenneth Pomeranz * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Spectacle and Sacrifice
Book SynopsisThis book describes the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. The great festivals were their supreme collective achievements, carried out virtually without aid from local officials or educated elites. Newly discovered manuscripts allow Johnson to reconstruct the festivals in unprecedented detail.Trade ReviewMainstream culture has traditionally ignored ordinary Chinese farmers, viewing them as simple, ignorant, and incapable of performing complex cultural activities. The rural festivals displayed by Johnson, however, illustrate a totally contrary picture. The rituals and operas of the temple festivals reveal the rich spiritual and religious activities and achievements of local communities, and the villagers' performances demonstrate their dazzling artistic capability and creativity. Supported by plentiful oral and written materials, Johnson utilizes this long-ignored local knowledge to discover and reveal the scope, depth, variations, and complexity of the local reality. This classic anthropological study of local communities should be a precious addition to the study of traditional Chinese society. -- A. Y. Lee * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Washington Haggadah
Book SynopsisAfter the Bible, the Passover haggadah is the most widely read classic Jewish text. Few editions are as exquisite as the Washington Haggadah in the Library of Congress. A stunning facsimile edition, meticulously reproduced in full color, brings this illuminated fifteenth-century manuscript to life for a new generation of readers.Trade ReviewBelknap Press of Harvard University Press has published an absolutely gorgeous volume, complete with a facsimile edition (in full color!) of The Washington Haggadah...Anyone who comes to the seder with The Washington Haggadah will easily win "most beautiful haggadah of the seder" award, and it'll make an absolutely delightful bar/bat mitzvah present. -- Menachem Butler * The Michtavim blog *If you're interested in deepening your Seder with a visual testimony of the ritual's antiquity, [The Washington Haggadah] can be a beautiful addition to your table. -- Jay Michaelson * Forward *The work is illuminating in more ways than one, and includes a color facsimile of the original 38 pages, as well as a description and explanation of each of the 11 illustrations. This academic review leaves one excited about medieval manuscripts, and wanting to delve into additional works created by ben Simeon. -- Mark Rebacz * In Jerusalem *No run-of-the-mill haggadah is quite as effective at making the past present as The Washington Haggadah. This beautifully produced book is a detailed facsimile of a 500-year-old haggadah in the collection of the Library of Congress, which explains the name...[Joel ben Simeon] is described by David Stern, in the introduction to this edition, as one of the most important and prolific scribes and illustrators in the history of the Jewish book...More powerful still, however, are the illustrations that Joel ben Simeon added to the margins of the text (usefully, The Washington Haggadah includes a descriptive catalog of all these illustrations)...The publishers have reproduced the manuscript so accurately that you can see wine and food spots on several pages, as well as places where the ink has smeared after being touched with a wet hand...From the Exodus to the Rabbis to 1478 to 1879 to 2011--in these pages, if anywhere, the past is present and the present past. -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *The illustrations of contemporary Jewish life in the margins of the text draw one back into a lost world, shifting between medieval and modern. Even after all these years, the text is remarkably readable...David Stern provides a concise and enlightening introduction to the development of the Haggadah and ben Simeon's work, while Katrin Kogman-Appel reveals a sharp-eyed attention to detail in her examination of the Washington Haggadah itself and its place in the context of the artistic development revealed in other Haggadah manuscripts of the time. -- Ralph Amelan * Jerusalem Report *Belknap Press [is] to be complimented on bringing out a reasonably priced, attractively presented and scholarly facsimile of one of the treasures of the art of the illuminated Hebrew manuscript in its golden period. -- Yerachmiel Rubin * Jewish Tribune *This facsimile edition of one of Joel's best preserved manuscripts opens many doors on the Jewish world of the late Middle Ages...The pleasure in this facsimile lies in its delightful illustrations and innovative calligraphy, graced with Joel's unique decorative touches, and the wine stains and notes left by its various owners, indicating that the haggadah was actually used. In turning the pages of Joel's haggadah at leisure, readers may well imagine its use for over four centuries. * Jewish Book World *
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Harvard University Press Palaces of Time Jewish Calendar and Culture in
Book SynopsisPalaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.Trade ReviewA remarkable and pioneering study of the Jewish calendar and its significance. Brilliantly researched, gracefully written, and timely -- in every sense of the word. -- Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A HistoryIn a brilliant tour de force, Carlebach presents a masterful and penetrating analysis of the Jewish calendar as literature and material object, and as a dynamic, complex expression of cultural values, religious competition, social discipline, and personal meaning. -- Lois Dubin, author of The Port Jews of Habsburg TriesteFocusing on the measure and meaning of time, Elisheva Carlebach has produced a work of enormous importance for all those interested in the convergence of humanistic and scientific knowledge. -- Jay Berkovitz, author of Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860This study of fascinating, richly illustrated manuscripts and early printed books opens up new horizons in the history not only of the Jewish calendar but also of the Hebrew book, Jewish daily life, personal piety, and the engagement of early modern Jews with surrounding Christianity. -- Sacha Stern, author of Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CECarlebach takes a narrow subject--sifrei evronot (European Jewish calendars/almanacs) of the 15th to 18th centuries--and mines it for its considerable riches. She demonstrates how these works reflected both Jews' values and beliefs and their interaction with the external Christian society...Carlebach is also particularly good at delving into Jewish folk beliefs as found in the calendars. She is equally illuminating on the calendars' iconography, illustrated by a 1716 calendar that shows the biblical Jepththah's daughter as a teenage European aristocrat...This well-organized and extensively researched book is a magnificent piece of scholarship and a pleasure to read, demonstrating the calendars' importance "as mirrors and agents of change,...indexes of acculturation, and...matchless reflections of the Jewish experience." * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *If you've ever wondered about the Jewish year and its history, Elisheva Carlebach's marvelous new book, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, has much to offer you. A preeminent specialist on the Jews of early modern Germany, Carlebach concentrates on what became of the calendar in the early modern period. In the 16th century and after, technical literature about time, which had once been treated as an esoteric knowledge reserved for an elite, became widely available to Jews for the first time, and Carlebach traces this process in detail. But as she reaches back to explain the distant origins of early modern debates and practices and sets the calendars into their larger contexts, Palaces of Time provides even more than it promises: a fascinating and provocative introduction, full of surprises, to the Jewish experience of time. Richly documented and sumptuously illustrated, the book tells a sinuous and sometimes wild story, one in which books of many kinds, in all their grubby materiality, play central roles...The book is exemplary. Palaces of Time is cultural history at its finest: a minutely observant, vivid, and passionately enthusiastic guide book to a world of experience that we--or at least most of us--have lost. -- Anthony Grafton * Tablet Magazine *Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, shows that Jews developed some of the most important theories and discovered some of the most fundamental mathematical underpinnings of early calendar setting. -- Menachem Wecker * Jewish Press *Calendars are the kind of object that are usually taken for granted, that are almost invisible to our everyday glance; therefore they are a perfect subject of analysis for cultural history. Very little good cultural history has been produced about Jewish subjects, and Elisheva Carlebach's book sets a very high standard for the field. Tackling a subject that is ubiquitous but also obscure, Carlebach looks at the topic of Jewish calendars from a number of perspectives. The actual calendrical aspects of the Jewish calendar, the references to non-Jewish dates that were incorporated into many calendars, the startling artistic traditions that are found in many early modern Jewish calendars--each subject is analyzed on its own, and placed in a diachronic and synchronic historical context, explaining how it developed from internal Jewish traditions while incorporating and responding to outside occurrences. Highlights include handwritten calendars from colonial America, symbolic pictures of elephants and bare-bottomed men, informative curses of Christian saints and statistics of fair attendance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite the ostensibly obscure subject matter, Palaces of Time is as far from arcane as can be, written in language that is enjoyable and accessible. The numerous color photographs of Jewish calendars make the volume even more enjoyable and easier to follow. -- Pinchas Roth * Jewish Book Council *This meticulous study of manuscripts and printed books deals with Jewish ways of keeping time, especially during the 16th to l8th centuries in Western and Central Europe. -- R.S. Kohn * Choice *[An] admirable book, beautifully produced and brimming with fascinating pictures and extraordinary facts...[Carlebach] weaves a thoroughly-researched tale of adventures and frequent mishaps in cross-cultural negotiation between Jewish communities and their host societies over several centuries; dealing also with ideological battles, where Christian polemicists attacked Judaism through calendar issues. Anti-Semitic coercion even extended to calendar censorship which could prohibit publicizing rival foreign trade fairs and the sometimes amusing if not plain derogatory nicknames given to gentile festive days. The ubiquitous pocket luach, now so often replaced by an electronic version or a glance at the inside cover of a newspaper for notification of upcoming times and dates, is also dealt with in fascinating detail, its humble transience marked by tribulation and the acute survival instinct of our people under Nazi occupation in Tunisia in 1940 in Judaeo-Arabic and French, or secretly printed in Soviet-ruled Vilna. The book deals with much else of interest, giving a unique view and one of visual delight, ranging from weird and wonderful manuscript illustrations to a table with appropriately depicted "Zodiac man" giving propitious dates for bloodletting from a calendar published in Sulzbach as late as 1789. A worthy contribution to an under-researched subject presented with brio and elegant erudition, certainly one of the most important works of its kind to appear in recent years. -- Yerachmiel Rubin * Jewish Tribune *
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Harvard University Press On the Liturgy Volume I Books 12
Book SynopsisAmalar of Metz's On the Liturgyone of the most widely circulated texts of the Carolingian eraaddresses Christian worship from prayers to vestments to bodily gestures of celebrants. This volume adapts the text of Jean-Michel Hanssens's 1948 edition and provides the first complete translation into a modern language.
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Harvard University Press A Mahzor from Worms
Book SynopsisIn the Leipzig Mahzor, one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time, Kogman-Appel has discovered a fascinating portal into the life of the fourteenth century Jewish community in Worms. A prayer book used only during holidays, it brings to life the religious culture and customs of medieval Ashkenazi Jews.Trade ReviewKatrin Kogman-Appel has established herself as perhaps the foremost expositor of medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts today. Her treatment of the Leipzig Mahzor demonstrates once again that she is a scholar of formidable erudition who peels away the layers of these magnificent manuscripts to reveal the rich complexity of medieval society and the important role that visual culture plays in it. -- Adam S. Cohen, University of TorontoAn authoritative study of a stunning manuscript, Katrin Kogman-Appel’s A Mahzor from Worms illuminates one of the great masterpieces of medieval Hebrew book painting. With great learning and historical imagination, Kogman-Appel unravels the Mahzor’s intricate integration of ritual and pietistic practice in Worms, one of the great centers of medieval Ashkenazi culture. -- Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard UniversityA Mahzor from Worms offers a notably learned and thoughtful examination of a fascinating manuscript that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Conceptually sophisticated and thoroughly interdisciplinary, it convincingly reads the Mahzor as a kind of self-portrait created by and for the Worms Jewish community. The sensitive analysis reveals a still vibrant but increasingly pressured community struggling to honor sometimes-conflicting traditions and reconcile a proud heritage with contemporary needs. It is a significant contribution to cultural history as well as art history and Judaic Studies. -- Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony BrookIn this meticulously researched book, Kogman-Appel casts new light on the religious concepts, ideas, rituals, and values in 14th-century Worms and in Ashkenaz in general. Her work provides us with historical insights about one of the important Jewish communities of medieval Europe about which we still know too little. We learn how the Jews of Worms ‘saw’ the Mahzor, how they saw themselves, and how they perceived their community in a time of decline. -- Shmuel Shepkaru, University of Oklahoma
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Harvard University Press The Worship of Confucius in Japan
Book SynopsisHow has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten.Trade ReviewA major contribution to understandings of Japanese political and cultural history as mediated by ritual and forms of apparent religiosity related to Confucius and company…Future sekiten studies will certainly have strong shoulders on which to stand. -- John A. Tucker * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Scholars of Japanese history have been looking forward to James McMullen’s book on the worship of Confucius in Japan for a long time…By far the most comprehensive study of sekiten in Japan in any language. It is a must-read for teachers and students of Japan-China studies, Japanese Confucianism, and Sinosphere studies…This is a great work. -- Benjamin Wai-ming Ng * Journal of Japanese Studies *Rigorously researched and enriched by a useful set of appendixes, this volume is an indispensable tool for a better understanding of Confucianism in Japanese cultural history and its enduring influence in the present despite the lack of institutional developments. It is warmly recommended to established specialists and students of East Asian religions. -- Ugo Dessì * Religious Studies Review *
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Harvard University Press The British Empire and the Hajj
Book SynopsisThe British Empire governed more than half the world’s Muslims. John Slight traces the empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. He gives voice to pilgrims and officials alike.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book… It will be indispensable for anyone interested in the Hajj. -- William Roger Louis * Times Literary Supplement *[Slight] explores this important but largely neglected history of Hajj and does so by tracing British involvement with the regulation and performance of this Islamic ritual from early 1860s until the Suez Crisis of 1956… Based on a combination of archival and secondary sources, this is an unusually informative, meticulously researched and highly readable book… This book will prove to be a useful source of reference on the subject for future researchers and writers alike. -- Muhammad Khan * Muslim News *Impressively lucid, this is a ‘must-buy’ addition for anyone interested in the Hajj and Western involvement in it. -- John Darwin, University of OxfordThe ambit of this book is formidable. The British were almost everywhere, globally, between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and this book tells of their activities vis-à-vis the Hajj. Slight has done a wonderful job of making a huge subject transparent and understandable. -- Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell UniversityThis is a wildly ambitious book, covering a mind-bogglingly complex array of geographies and periods, requiring deep familiarity with African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and Southeast Asian histories. Slight balances all of this with tremendous ease and an engaging style. He is among the very few scholars with the skill set needed to speak to scholars of the British Empire, the Islamic world, and global history with virtually equal authority. The result is the most wide-ranging and significant book on the colonial-era hajj to date. -- Michael Christopher Low * Journal of British Studies *This is a fascinating book, and particularly timely for those who ponder the nature of the West’s relationship with the Muslim world…This is a valuable, intellectually robust but still highly accessible work that does much to elevate our understanding of a truly significant phenomenon within the history of the British Empire. More importantly, Slight has done much to clarify our understanding and recognition of the inherently Islamic nature of that empire in significant respects. -- Christian Tripodi * American Historical Review *
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Harvard University Press The Korean Buddhist Empire A Transnational
Book SynopsisKorean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own identities—to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism.
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Princeton University Press The Passover Haggadah
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating, short history of the Haggadah."---Simon Rocker, Jewish Chronicle"For anyone interested in the emergence and complex evolution of the Haggadah, this biography offers a trove of information in engaging and inviting language." * Jewish Book Council *
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Princeton University Press Mount Wutai
Book SynopsisThe northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist ruleTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Chou’s study, like the many examples of maps, gazetteers, paintings, murals, sculptures, and temples discussed in her work, continues to shape, guide, and construct our visions of Mount Wutai."---William J. Ma, Religion and the Arts"richly detailed and beautifully illustrated. . . . a major contribution to the growing corpus of studies on Wutai shan."---Natalie Köhle, Journal of Chinese Religions
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Pluto Press A Jewdas Haggadah
Book SynopsisPublished just in time for Passover 5779, this Haggadah from the Jewdas collective is a satirical, political and downright hilarious take on a Jewish tradition. With a multitude of dangerous ideas such as workers’ rights, liberation of the oppressed and the dismantling of nation-states, this Haggadah is for every left-wing Jewish household.Trade Review`I learnt a lot ... a lovely time' -- Jeremy Corbyn, on the 2018 Jewdas seder `They raised a beetroot in the air and shouted f*** capitalism!' -- Daily Mail, on the 2018 Jewdas seder
£14.24
Baker Publishing Group The Daniel Fast for Spiritual Breakthrough
Book SynopsisThis guide to fasting for renewal answers practical questions: what to eat, how to pray effectively, how to encounter God, how to worship through self-discipline. Includes Daniel Fast recipes from executive chef John P. Perkins.
£10.44
Baker Publishing Group AncientFuture Worship Proclaiming and Enacting
Book SynopsisRooted in historical models and patristic church studies, Ancient-Future Worship examines how early Christian worship models can be applied to the postmodern church.
£14.24
Baker Publishing Group - Baker Books Grace from the Cross
Book SynopsisPastor and bestselling author Kyle Idleman helps readers prepare their hearts for Easter by showing how the seven sayings of Jesus from the cross reveal the power of God's grace.
£6.83
University of Toronto Press Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office
Book SynopsisMany books discuss the theology and doctrine of the medieval liturgy: there is no dearth of information on the history of the liturgy, the structure and development of individual services, and there is much discussion of specific texts, chants, and services. No book, at least in English, has struggled with the difficulties of finding texts, chants, or other material in the liturgical manuscripts themselves, until the publication of Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office in 1982.Encompassing a period of several centuries, ca 1200-1500, this book provides solutions for such endeavours. Although by this period the basic order and content of liturgical books were more or less standardized, there existed hundreds of different methods of dealing with the internal organisation and the actual writing of the texts and chants on the page. Generalization becomes problematic; the use of any single source as a typical example for more than local detail is impossible. Taking for
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Stanford University Press Harmony and Counterpoint Ritual Music in Chinese
Book SynopsisThis volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context.Table of ContentsIntroduction Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, Rubie S. Watson 1. The nature of Chinese ritual sound Bell Yung Part I. Behind the Scenes: Creating Legitimacy: 2. Ritual and musical politics in the court of Ming Shizong Joseph S. C. Lam 3. State sacrificial music and Korean identity Robert C. Provine 4. Musical assertion of status among the Naxi of Lijiang County, Yunnan Helen Rees Part II. Musical Transformations: Rites of Passage: 5. Chinese bridal laments: the claims of a dutiful daughter Rubie S. Watson 6. Processional music in traditional Taiwanese funerals Ping-Hui Li 7. The creation of an Emperor in eighteenth-century China Evelyn S. Rawski 8. Sing to the spirits of the dead: a Daoist ritual of salvation Judith Magee Boltz 9. Ritual opera and the bonds of authority: transformation and transcendence Ellen R. Judd Notes Index.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Images Iconoclasm and the Carolingians
Book SynopsisIn eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages of art-texts, laws, letters, and poems, this book examines the wider context of the debate by providing the first comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm.Trade Review"[An] immensely scholarly and interesting book on the Carolingian response to the drama of iconoclasm in Byzantium." * TLS *"A magisterial reexamination of a period in which long-lived ideas about the power and limitations of Christian images were first articulated in the medieval West. . . . The book skillfully explores Carolingian discourses about images in relation to Byzantine and papal positions in the eighth and ninth centuries." * Journal of Church History *"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians presents a rich detailed history of the written debate over religious imagery in the early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the West, while deemphasizing the violence, destruction, and change so often included by historians in discussions of iconoclasm." * Journal of Religion *"This learned, incisive and readable book has made an important contribution to the study of early medieval art, and more particularly of a whole religious culture." * Early Medieval Europe *"A deeply impressive, powerfully argued, and extraordinarily interesting book. Noble establishes the centrality of the Carolingian period and its writers to the development of ideas about sacred art. He offers a new interpretation of the understanding of images in both the western and eastern empires in the early Middle Ages." * Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge *"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is remarkably scholarly, surveying secondary literature in both Byzantine East and Latin West, and in many different disciplines, including theology and art history as well as history. It is a splendid book. It will be a standard reference for many years to come." * Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Art, Icons, and Their Critics and Defenders Before the Age of Iconoclasm Chapter Two: Byzantine Iconoclasm in the Eighth Century Chapter Three: Art and Art Talk in the West in the First Age of Iconoclasm Chapter Four: The Franks and Nicaea: Opus Caroli Regis Chapter Five: Tradition, Order, and Worship in the Age of Charlemagne Chapter Six: The Age of Second Iconoclasm Chapter Seven: Art and Argument in the Age of Louis the Pious Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Shame and Honor
Book SynopsisWith steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter.Trade Review"Trigg's combination of chronological and thematic approaches results in a dynamic study. Rather than a merely biographical or celebratory work, this history of a medieval chivalric order offers a history of medievalism itself, which ingeniously reveals how the slipperiness of the Order's motto allows it to function as a touchstone for each epoch's world view. The motto recalls a moment whose meaning was transformed by a king's words, but the words themselves would take on new and varied meanings in the centuries to come. And like the Order's motto, Stephanie Trigg's book urges us to be aware of what our attitudes towards medieval alterity reveal about ourselves." * Times Literary Supplement *"Because of its theoretical expansiveness, Trigg's invaluable contribution to the history of the Garter should prove of interest to scholars with a wide range of interests, and demonstrates that the still-developing fields of ritual criticism and medievalism studies have much to offer one another." * Comitatus *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. RITUAL HISTORIES Chapter 1. Ritual Theory and Medievalism Chapter 2. Origins: Motto, Emblem, and Myth Chapter 3. Histories: Love, Honor, and Medievalism PART II. RITUAL PRACTICES Chapter 4. Honor, Shame, and Degradation Chapter 5. Ritual, Change, and Tradition Chapter 6. Bodies, Clothes, and Medievalism PART III. RITUAL MODERNITIES Chapter 7. Royalty and Medievalism, Medieval to Postmodern Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Liturgical Subjects
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Liturgical Subjects is a pioneering examination of the medieval religious subject that adds texture and nuance to studies that, so far, have tended to emphasize only the Western Christian tradition. . . . Krueger's is the first study to examine how Orthodox liturgy functioned as a mechanism for the formation of the Byzantine Christian's perception of self." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *"Liturgical Subjects marks another important step in Krueger's enduring progress as a religious historian . . . The breadth is impressive, the juxtaposition of sacred text and ritual custom is significantly novel, the sensitive reading of hymns and prayers is a constant invitation to explore, and the easy style is a sustained pleasure." * Reading Religion *"A thrilling tour of Byzantine culture through wholly unexpected routes. With beautifully crafted prose, Krueger presents a trajectory lucidly drawn, filled with arresting insight and searing, poignant imagery; yet the account is concrete and concise, moving deftly through its chapters with impressive economy and formidable command of a wide array of textual and material evidence." * Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University *
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