Catharina Raudvere - Böcker

Trollkonor, sejdare och häxor är populära bland dagens nyhedningar och goth-anhängare. Populariteten har inneburit att mycket av det som skrivits om häxor och häxförföljelser har varit spekulativt och fantasifullt - särskilt när man talar om de fö...

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I Myter om det nordiska diskuterar författarna hur synen på den nordiska mytologin har förändrats. Från tiden till 1800-talets slut då våra gamla gudar var både politiskt och estetiskt gångbara till det nutida Sverige då myterna reduceras till sko...

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Världen var på många sätt en annan för 1000 år sedan, såväl i praktik som i tanke. Människan ansågs leva på en plats, "Midgård", i mitten av världen, omgiven av andra världar bebodda av andra makter. Där fanns gudar, jättar, dvärgar, alv...

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Bilden av det förgångna tolkas alltid genom de tankemönster samtiden tillhandahåller, och olika tider har därför skapat skiftande biler av historien. I Hedendomen i historiens spegel tecknar författarna en bild av hur fornnordiska texter fått olik...

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Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (e...

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Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of t...

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This series looks at the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the earliest times to the present day. This volume looks at the Middle Ages.

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Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of t...

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In the rising momentum for new and reformulated cultural identities, the Turkish Alevi have also emerged on the scene, demanding due recognition. In this process a number of dramatic events have served as important milestones: the clashes between ...

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In the rising momentum for new and reformulated cultural identities, the Turkish Alevi have also emerged on the scene, demanding due recognition. In this process a number of dramatic events have served as important milestones: the clashes between ...

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Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (e...

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In the rising momentum for new and reformulated cultural identities, the Turkish Alevi have also emerged on the scene, demanding due recognition. In this process a number of dramatic events have served as important milestones: the clashes between ...

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In the rising momentum for new and reformulated cultural identities, the Turkish Alevi have also emerged on the scene, demanding due recognition. In this process a number of dramatic events have served as important milestones: the clashes between ...

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Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (e...

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Sufism is the subject of intensive discussion and debate. Yet, it is also true that the study of contemporary Sufism has been overlooked by the fields of Middle Eastern, Islamic and religious studies. The networks, political agendas, development o...

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Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (e...

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Sufism is Islam's principal mystical tradition, providing its followers with the inner, esoteric or purely spiritual dimension of their faith. This path to spirituality has developed over centuries throughout the Islamic world, fundamentally influ...

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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use ...

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This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief.¿What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where¿sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually l...

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This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief.¿What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where¿sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually l...

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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means ¿¿ of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alte...

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This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means ¿¿ of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alte...

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This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels - in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioni...

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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use ...

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Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use ...

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This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels - in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioni...

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Istanbul, Jerusalem, New York, Madrid. Vår omvärld bubblar och sjuder av konflikter och kolliderande intressen med kopplingar till religiösa frågor som inte alltid är begripliga för sekulariserade nordbor. I denna antologi gör religionsvetare, -hi...

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