The Boundaries of Sin and Communal Identity
Author | : Linda Gale Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Linda Gale Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda Gale Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The primary source materials for the study of Muslim preaching include unedited manuscripts of anonymous Andalusian sermonaries and of well-known preachers such as Ibn Marzuq and Ibn `Abbad of Ronda. These sources were gathered during archival research conducted in Rabat and Madrid from 1999 to 2000. The Christian primary sources consist of the edited sermonaries of St. Vincent Ferrer and an anonymous fourteenth-century Dominican preacher, and the treatises of San Pedro Pascual.
Author | : Suzanne Conklin Akbari |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442661399 |
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. ‘Foundations’ traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; ‘Performing the Body’ focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; ‘Bodily Rhetoric’ explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and ‘Material Bodies’ engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 2822 |
Release | : 2010-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110215586 |
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Author | : Mayte Green-Mercado |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501741470 |
In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, Green-Mercado depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. Visions of Deliverance helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.
Author | : Madeleine Pelner Cosman |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 987 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1438109075 |
Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the
Author | : Alexandre Coello de la Rosa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2020-01-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351391291 |
A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious figures, as well as the socio-historical contexts in which sainthood operates, in order to better understand the role of saints in monotheistic religions. Using comparative religious and anthropological approaches, an international panel of contributors guides the reader through three main concerns. They describe and illuminate the ways in which sanctity is often configured. In addition, the diverse cultural manifestations of the cult of the saints are examined and analysed. Finally, the various religious, social, and political functions that saints came to play in numerous societies are compared and contrasted. This ambitious study covers sanctity from the Middle Ages until the contemporary period, and has a geographical scope that includes Europe, Central Asia, North Africa, the Americas, and the Asian Pacific. As such, it will be of use to scholars of the history of religions, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue, as well as students of sainthood and hagiography.
Author | : Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521889391 |
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
Author | : Mercedes García-Arenal |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2018-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271082976 |
This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.
Author | : Beatrice Gruendler |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 904742381X |
The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.