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Verlag Herder Schott Messbuch Fur Die Sonn- Und Festtage Des
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Verlag Herder Schott Advent Und Weihnachtszeit
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Verlag Herder Schott Kantorale: Antwortpsalm, Ruf VOR Dem
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Verlag Herder Schweigen: Eine Theologie Der Stille
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Verlag Herder Im Klangraum Der Messe: Wie Musik Und Glaube Sich
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Kundenhabitus und Gottesdienst: Zur Logik
Book SynopsisSind Menschen im Gottesdienst Kunden? Ist der Gottesdienst eine Dienstleistung? Eine große Mehrheit der Gottesdienstbesucher beantwortet diese Fragen mit Nein. Solche ökonomischen Kategorien widersprechen offenbar stark dem eigenen Selbstverständnis als Kirchgänger und dem Verständnis des Gottesdienstes als ein Geschehen, in dem theologisch gesehen vor allem Gott handelt. Eine Sache aber ist die Einschätzung und Beurteilung von Kundenvokabular und Dienstleistungsbegrifflichkeit eine andere Sache demgegenüber das tatsächliche Denken und Verhalten von Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern an Sonntagsgottesdiensten. Der Autor der vorliegenden Studie hat einen Fragebogen entwickelt, um vorher theoretisch erarbeitete Merkmale eines Kundenhabitus auch beim Kirchgang zu verifizieren. Dabei geht es um Wahlverhalten, Bedürfnis- und Nutzenorientierung sowie Ansprüche an Professionalität und Qualität. Es zeigt sich, dass auch bei häufigen Kirchgängern ein entsprechender Kundenhabitus deutlich erkennbar ist und zwischen gottesdienstlichen Stamm- und Laufkunden unterschieden werden kann. Der Studie liegt die Befragung von knapp 2000, der Kirche überwiegend nahestehende Personen zugrunde. Die empirischen Auswertungen werden in der Arbeit gerahmt durch eine kurze Geschichte des Kundenbegriffs, einen Überblick über seine theologische Bewertung im Zuge der Diskussion um das sog. Kirchenmanagement und praktisch-theologische Erwägungen zum Verhältnis von Auftrags- und Bedürfnisorientierung im Gottesdienst.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die Zukunft des Gottesdienstes beginnt jetzt: Ein
Book SynopsisIn its standard form, worship has started to falter - a sign that ecclesiastical forms and rituals have to be considered. Because the future of worship begins now, here and today. In addition to general and special considerations on worship - from the state of affairs to ideas for the future of worship - information on details in normal agendaric worship, such as Readings, Lord's Supper or prayer, as well as the casual worship services. In addition, Thomas Hirsch-Hüffell provides quickly applicable exercises for liturgy and sermons, tried and tested many times in his many years of training at the church service institute of the North Church - including presence, lectures, experiencing the room , public prayer and much more. All exercises are available for download as digital material. The rule is: try new things and live with success as well as failure, because trial and error are vital for the worship service.
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Matthias Grunewald Verlag Gottes Schweigen: Auferweckungssehnsucht Und
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Theater der Zeit Passion Play: Oberammergau: 2022
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Koren Publishers Sacks Hebrew Haggada
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Koren Publishers Koren Classic Yom Kippur Mahzor, Sepharad
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Koren Publishers Koren Tanakh Hama'alot Edition, Jeans
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Koren Publishers Passover Haggada with Commentary by Rabbi Adin
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Koren Publishers Koren Yamim Noraim Mahzor
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Koren Publishers The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel: Esther (Hebrew
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Koren Publishers Tanakh de Koren Recit Graphique: Esther
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Koren Publishers Tanaj Koren La Novela Grafica: Ester
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The University of Chicago Press Blessing SameSex Unions
Book SynopsisWhy are so many churches vehemently opposed to blessing same-sex unions? This title shows how carefully selected ideals of Christian marriage have come to dominate recent debates over same-sex unions. It is suitable for both sides of the ongoing American debate over gay marriage.Trade Review"A powerful, at times brilliant, brief for Christian churches blessing same-sex unions. This is not merely a contribution to gay studies; any Christian who wants to think more clearly about marriage should read Mark D. Jordan." (Publishers Weekly) "Documenting his case colorfully from both popular media and scholarly sources, Mark D. Jordan asks: if all that marriage entails is following the etiquette advice from a professional weding planner, what is the point? Jordan digs deep as he examines the historical and theological origins of Christian marriage." (Christian Century)"
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The University of Chicago Press Rethinking Modern Judaism Ritual Commandment
Book SynopsisThis text explores the central role of practice in Judaism, tracing five key phenomena which have crucially influenced Jewish practice over the past two centuries: politics; explanation of the commandments; nostalgia; the unending quest for authority; and appeals to the sanctity of tradition.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Founding Theories of Modernity and the Critique of Jewish Practice 2: Twentieth-Century Theories of Modernity and the Study of Jewish Practice 3: The Distinctiveness of Modern Jewish Practice 4: The Politics of Jewish Ritual Observance 5: New Reasons for Old Commandments: The Strategy of Symbolic Explanation 6: Nostalgia as Modern Jewish Mitzvah 7: Buber, Rosenzweig, and the Authority of the Commandments 8: The Reconstruction of Jewish Tradition in Twentieth-Century America Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Megachurch and the Mainline Remaking
Book SynopsisReligious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, this title provides understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions.Trade Review"This book is an important contribution to the study of innovation in religion from one of the rising stars in the sociology of American religion. It will challenge both scholars and church leaders who think megachurches are the answer to the problems faced by mainline denominations and those who think they are the problem." - William McKinney, president and professor of American religion, Pacific School of Religion"
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The University of Chicago Press The Victim Its Masks Paper An Essay on Sacrifice
Book SynopsisThe Ait Mazine of northern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of submission to the divine. After comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. This study reunites them as a single ritual process.
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The University of Chicago Press Blessing SameSex Unions
Book SynopsisJordan also argues that no matter what the courts do, Christian churches will have to decide for themselves whether to bless same-sex unions. No civil compromise can settle the religious questions surrounding gay marriage.
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The University of Chicago Press Kingship and Sacrifice Ritual and Society in
Book SynopsisValeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian societyand a central focus for Valeriis the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
£83.60
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
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
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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 Hindu Goddesses
Book SynopsisGoddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book, the author sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1997 Printing Introduction 1. Goddesses in Vedic literature Usas Prthivl Aditi Sarasvatl Vac Nirrti Ratri Minor Vedic Goddesses Conclusion 2. Sri-Lak~mi The Early History of Sri-Lak~ml Sri-Lak~ml in Later Hinduism Sri-Lak~ml in the Pancaratra and Sri Vai~r;tava Schools The Worship of Sri-Laksmi 3. Parvatl Early References to Parvatl The Mythology of Sati The Mythology of Parvatl Tension and Resolution Devotion and Grace 4. Sarasvati Sarasvati as a River Sarasvati in Later Hinduism 5. Sila The Early History of Slta Kings and the Fertility of the Earth The Ideal Wife Ideal Devotee and Intermediary 6. Radha The Early History of Radha The Gop!Tradition Radha as Belonging to Another (Paraklya) Radha as Belonging to Kn•Da (Svak!ya) 7. Durga The Warrior Goddess The Worship of Durga 8. Kall Early History The Later History and the Significance of Kall 9. The Mahadevl Central Theological and Philosophical Characteristics Mythological Characteristics and Functions Auspicious and Terrible Forms 10. The Matrkas The Early History of the Matrkas The Matrkas in the Later Tradition 11. Tara, Chinnamasta, and the Mahavidyas The Mahavidyas Tara Chinnamasta 12. Goddesses and Sacred Geography Earth as a Goddess/ India as a Goddess The Sakta Ptthas The Ganges and the Sacrality of Rivers 13. Village Goddesses The Local Rootedness of the Village Goddesses Mythological Themes Festivals Death, Disease, and Ambivalence Appendix: The Indus Valley Civilization Notes Bibliography Index
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