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Recite in the Name of the Red Rose
Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth-century Iran
Inbunden, 2006
654 kr
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Recite in the Name of the Red Rose introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, Fatemeh Keshavarz provides a systematic examination of the array of religious impulses in recent …
Holy Book in Comparative Perspective
Av Frederick M. Denny, Rodney L. Taylor m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
275 kr
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Ten noted religious studies scholars examine the sacred scriptures of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Mormonism to produce an authoritative, comprehensive survey of the writings that shape the world's major religions. The Holy Book in Comparative …
Hear Our Voice
Women in the British Rabbinate
Av Sybil Sheridan, Sybil Sheridan m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
205 kr
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In this anthology by and about Jewish women, fifteen British rabbis discuss the changing role of Jewish clergywomen in the six decades since the private ordination of Regina Jonas, the first woman rabbi. Through personal testimony and scholarly inquiry, they take note of the legacy of their …
Study of Hinduism
Inbunden, 2003
687 kr
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In this text, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual investment in Hinduism. Since the early 19th century, when the scholarly investigation of Hinduism began to take shape as a modern academic discipline, Hindu studies has evolved from its …
Islamic Ethics of Life
Abortion, War and Euthanasia
Häftad, 2003
333 kr
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A consideration of three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time - abortion, war and euthanasia - from the Muslim perspective. Scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce this volume which both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces …
Voices from the Pagan Census
A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States
Av Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
404 kr
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Voices from the Pagan Census provides insight into the expanding but largely unstudied religious movement of Neo-Paganism in the United States. The authors present the findings of ""The Pagan Census"", which was created and distributed by Berger and Andras Corban Arthen of the Earthspirit …
Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions
The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam
Inbunden, 2003
574 kr
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Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic messianic movement that originated in fifteenth-century central Asia and Iran and survives to the present in Pakistan and India. In the first full-length study of the sect, Shahzad Bashir illumines the significance …
Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding
Av Fred Astren, Frederick M. Denny
Inbunden, 2004
687 kr
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This work examines the changing relationship of this Jewish sect to rabbinic Judaism and the influence of Muslim and Christian environments.
Memory, Music, and Religion
Morocco's Mystical Chanters
Inbunden, 2005
625 kr
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Why do religious communities remember some events and not others? Why do some kinds of music find a continuing place in worship while others seem to lose their appeal? Why is it that the Islamic tradition is understood so narrowly, even by some Muslims, when in fact it has a broadly textured …
Ritualizing on the Boundaries
Continuity and Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora
Inbunden, 2007
621 kr
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In his comparative study of four Tamil resettlements, Clothey examines the rituals that have traveled with these South Indian communities - Hindu, Muslim, and Christian - and how these practices perpetuate or modify the heritages these groups claim for themselves in their new environs. Clothey …
Under the Canopy
Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa
Häftad, 2007
305 kr
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This is a thought-provoking study of how ritual unites an African community against social and economic hardships.A case study in the transcendent powers of ritual and faith, ""Under the Canopy"" illustrates how the healing rites performed at St. John's Apostolic Faith Mission Church, located in …
Muslim Medical Ethics
From Theory to Practice
Av Frederick M. Denny, Jonathan E. Brockopp m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
343 kr
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A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concerns,""Muslim Medical Ethics"" draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of …
Self and Secrecy in Early Islam
Inbunden, 2008
512 kr
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This book presents an original inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts. In this comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture, Ruqayya Yasmine Khan draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to …
Sufi Heirs of the Prophet
The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh
Häftad, 2008
446 kr
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This book offers an examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic society.""Sufi Heirs of the Prophet"" explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the …
Colors of the Robe
Religion, Identity, and Difference
Häftad, 2008
361 kr
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This book offers a compelling case study of Buddhism in contemporary Sri Lanka.""Colors of the Robe"" probes the Sri Lankan world of Buddhism and politics and suggests innovative directions for the global study of religion, culture, and violence. In a volume that surpasses other studies in locating …
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam
The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century
Inbunden, 2009
569 kr
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This book presents an analysis of the dynamic relationship between apocalyptic prophesies and medieval Muslim politics. ""Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam"" analyzes the role of Muslim messianic and apocalyptic beliefs in the development of the 'Abbasid Caliphate to …
Sonic Theology
Hinduism and Sacred Sound
Av Guy L. Beck
Häftad, 2009
390 kr
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This title presents a comparative approach to understanding the centrality of sound to Hindu religious practices. The Hindu world is permeated by sound: drums, bells, gongs, cymbals, conches, flutes, and an array of vocalizations play a central role in worship. Guy L. Beck contends that the …
Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt
Häftad, 2009
503 kr
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This is a fascinating insider's account of Sufi life in contemporary Egypt. For centuries Sufism - Islamic mysticism - held a major place in Islamic spirituality, intellectual life, and popular religion. While many scholars have commented on Sufism's decline, few have delved deeply into present-day …
History of the Jews of Arabia
From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse Under Islam
Häftad, 2009
276 kr
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This is a reconstructed history of a complex Jewish community in Arabia at a critical juncture in world history. The Jewish communities of Arabia had a great influence on the attitudes that Muslims hold toward Jews, and yet relatively little has been written about their history. Through techniques …
Rethinking Islamic Studies
From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism
Av Carl W. Ernst, Richard C. Martin
Inbunden, 2010
1311 kr
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This is a groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era. ""Rethinking Islamic Studies"" upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new …
Rethinking Islamic Studies
From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism
Av Carl W. Ernst, Richard C. Martin
Häftad, 2010
446 kr
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This is a groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era. ""Rethinking Islamic Studies"" upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new …
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India
Inbunden, 2010
681 kr
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Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. …
Community of Witches
Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States
Häftad, 2013
277 kr
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A Community of Witches explores the beliefs and practices of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft—generally known to scholars and practitioners as Wicca. While the words ""magic,"" ""witchcraft,"" and ""paganism"" evoke images of the distant past and remote cultures, this book shows that Wicca has emerged …
Fundamentalism
Perspectives on a Contested History
Av Simon A. Wood, David Harrington Watt
Inbunden, 2014
625 kr
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Thirty years after the Iranian Revolution and more than a decade since the events of 2001, the time is right to examine what the discourse on fundamentalism has achieved and where it might head from here. In this volume editors Simon A. Wood and David Harrington Watt offer eleven interdisciplinary …
Partners of Zaynab
A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith
Inbunden, 2014
681 kr
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How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles and interactions reveal about the Shia Muslim faith? In Partners of Zaynab, Diane D'Souza presents a rich …
Hindu Ritual at the Margins
Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations
Av Linda Penkower, Tracy Pintchman
Inbunden, 2014
689 kr
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Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic, social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings where ritual itself or direct …
Shurāt Legends, Ibāḍī Identities
Martyrdom, Asceticism, and the Making of an Early Islamic Community
Av Adam Gaiser
Inbunden, 2016
681 kr
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In Shurāt Legends, Ibādī Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature. He examines the catalogs or lists of martyrs (martyrologies) of the early shurāt (Khārijites) in the context of late antiquity, showing that …
Copts in Context
Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2017
689 kr
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Though the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence. In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, this community was caught up in regional violence, and its predicament became a …
Speaking Qur’an
An American Scripture
Inbunden, 2017
574 kr
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In Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture, Timur R. Yuskaev examines how Muslim Americans have been participating in their country’s cultural, social, religious, and political life. Essential to this process, he shows, is how the Qur’an has become an evermore deeply American text that speaks to …
Mysticism in Iran
The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept
Av Ata Anzali
Inbunden, 2017
631 kr
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“Mysticism” in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of ‘irfan as an alternative Shi‘i model of spirituality. Ata Anzali draws on a treasure-trove of manuscripts …
