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Imagining The Sacred Past
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Author : Samantha Kahn Herrick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-31
Imagining The Sacred Past written by Samantha Kahn Herrick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-31 with History categories.
In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on condition that he convert to Christianity. This work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikings' transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes. It also sheds light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power.
Figuring The Sacred
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Author : Paul Ricœur
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
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Figuring The Sacred written by Paul Ricœur and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.
Liturgy S Imagined Past S
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Author : Teresa Berger
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Liturgy S Imagined Past S written by Teresa Berger and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Religion categories.
This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established images of liturgy’s past. Based on papers presented at the 2014 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference, Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s seeks to invigorate discussion of methodologies and materials in contemporary writings on liturgy’s pasts and to resource such writing at a point in time when formidable questions are being posed about the way in which historians construct the object of their inquiry.
Sacrifice Imagined
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Author : Douglas Hedley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-09-08
Sacrifice Imagined written by Douglas Hedley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-08 with Religion categories.
Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice remains a part of our cultural and intellectual 'imaginary'. Hedley proposes good reasons to think that issues of global conflict and the ecological crisis highlight the continuing relevance of the topic of sacrifice for contemporary culture. The subject of sacrifice has been decisively influenced by two books: Girard's The Violence and the Sacred and Burkert's Homo Necans. Both of these are theories of sacrifice as violence. Hedley's book challenges both of these highly influential theories and presents a theory of sacrifice as renunciation of the will. His guiding influences in this are the much misunderstood Joseph de Maistre and the Cambridge Platonists.
Setting Down The Sacred Past
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Author : Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-30
Setting Down The Sacred Past written by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-30 with History categories.
As early as the 1780s, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light an extraordinary trove of sweeping race histories that African Americans wove together out of racial and religious concerns. Asserting a role in God's plan, black Protestants sought to root their people in both sacred and secular time. A remarkable array of chroniclers—men and women, clergy, journalists, shoemakers, teachers, southerners and northerners—shared a belief that narrating a usable past offered hope, pride, and the promise of a better future. Combining Christian faith, American patriotism, and racial lineage to create a coherent sense of community, they linked past to present, Africa to America, and the Bible to classical literature. From collected shards of memory and emerging intellectual tools, African Americans fashioned stories that helped to restore meaning and purpose to their lives in the face of relentless oppression. In a pioneering work of research and discovery, Maffly-Kipp shows how blacks overcame the accusation that they had no history worth remembering. African American communal histories imagined a rich collective past in order to establish the claim to a rightful and respected place in the American present. Through the transformative power of storytelling, these men and women led their people—and indeed, all Americans—into a more profound understanding of their interconnectedness and their prospects for a common future.
Imagining Religion
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Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1982
Imagining Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Religion categories.
With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity—simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. "These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre."—Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review
God And The Creative Imagination
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Author : Paul Avis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
God And The Creative Imagination written by Paul Avis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Religion categories.
'A mere metaphor', 'only symbolic', 'just a myth' - these tell tale phrases reveal how figurative language has been cheapened and devalued in our modern and postmodern culture. In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues the contrary: we see that actually, metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. Avis examines what he calls an alternative tradition, stemming from the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth and Keats and drawing on the thought of Cleridge and Newman, and experience in both modern philosophy and science. God and the Creative Imagination intriguingly draws on a number of non-theological disciplines, from literature to philosophy of science, to show us that God is appropriately likened to an artist or poet and that the greatest truths are expressed in an imaginative form. Anyone wishing to further their understanding of God, belief and the imagination will find this an inspiring work.
Imagining The Sacred
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Author : Vernon Ruland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Imagining The Sacred written by Vernon Ruland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
"Imagining the sacred" helps readers expand their imagination and experience what it means to live, wonder, think and pray from within a religious tradition other than one's own. As neighborhood skylines in every region in the world grow richer with a montage of church spires, mosques, synagogues, and temples, Ruland surveys this living and evolving religious world.
The Book Of Sacred Reading Practices
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Author : Jeff Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-09
The Book Of Sacred Reading Practices written by Jeff Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with categories.
You can get past preconceptions, assumptions, and prejudices and read from a place of deep authority. By Inviting the Divine into the process of interpreting what a text means for you right here and right now, you can come to a new understanding and appreciation of the books which are most important. This book provides several easy-to-follow, step-by-step approaches to a pair of well-loved spiritual exercises: Lectio Divina, which invites God to help the reader notice the important aspects of the text, and Holy Imagining, which uses sensory information to help root the reader in the events being read about. These practices are great entry points into the world of contemplative activities, or powerful tools in an evolving spiritual practice.
The Sacred And The Feminine
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Author : Griselda Pollock
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2008-03-30
The Sacred And The Feminine written by Griselda Pollock and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-30 with Social Science categories.
The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Catherine Clement's famous ecumenical "Conversation" of the same name which focused on the relationship between meaning and the body at whose interface the feminine is positioned. Brought to the wider public as the 'sacred feminine', it has also made its mark on popular culture. Taking up the debate and moving beyond anthropology or theology, writers from varied ethnic, geo-cultural and religious perspectives here join with secular cultural analysts to explore the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. The book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', exploring the ways in which visual practices have explored this rich, contested and highly charged territory.