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Author : Albrecht Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783946646181
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Holy Fools and Divine Madmen written by Albrecht Berger and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alina G. Birzache
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317310632
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Holy Fool in European Cinema written by Alina G. Birzache and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the way that the profile and the critical functions of the holy fool have developed in European cinema, allowing this traditional figure to capture the imagination of new generations in an age of religious pluralism and secularization. Alina Birzache traces the cultural origins of the figure of the holy fool across a variety of European traditions. In so doing, she examines the critical functions of the holy fool as well as how filmmakers have used the figure to respond to and critique aspects of the modern world. Using a comparative approach, this study for the first time offers a comprehensive explanation of the enduring appeal of this protean and fascinating cinematic character. Birzache examines the trope of holy foolishness in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, French cinema, and Danish cinema, corresponding broadly to and permitting analysis of the three main orientations in European Christianity: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. This study will be of keen interest to scholars of religion and film, European cinema, and comparative religion.
Author : Paul M. Blowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259592X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Visions and Faces of the Tragic written by Paul M. Blowers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the classical Greek and Roman tragedians. It analyses a whole array of hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of " in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation, aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence. Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting (and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the theological intelligence and accountability of " and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of tragical emotions.
Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935387391
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Yoga Tradition written by Georg Feuerstein and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique reference work from the foremost writer on Yoga today, THE YOGA TRADITION surveys the 5,000-year history of Hindy, Buddhistm, Jaina, and Sikh Yoga, featuring full and partial translations of numerous key scriptures and over 200 illustrations. It is considered the CLASSIC text on Yoga practice and history.
Author : Costica Bradatan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317860187
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Religion in Contemporary European Cinema written by Costica Bradatan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is itself a form of religious life. A sense of complex, subterraneous interaction between religious, heterodox, secular and atheistic experiences has thus emerged, which makes the phenomenon all the more fascinating to study, and this is what Religion in Contemporary European Cinema does. The book explores the mutual influences, structural analogies, shared dilemmas, as well as the historical roots of such a "post-secular constellation" as seen through the lens of European cinema. Bringing together scholars from film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God.
Author : Nikola Pantić
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100096261X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Sufism in Ottoman Damascus written by Nikola Pantić and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah's grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing it to Ottoman subjects. This book highlights considerable overlaps between Sufis and ʿulamāʾ with state appointments in early modern Province of Damascus, arguing for the possibility of sociologically defining a Muslim priestly sodality, a group of religious authorities and wonder-workers responsible for Sunni orthodoxy in the Ottoman Empire. The Sufi-ʿulamāʾ were integral to Ottoman networks of the holy, networks of grace that comprised of hallowed individuals, places, and natural objects. Sufism in Ottoman Damascus sheds new light on the appropriate scholarly approach to historical studies of Sufism in the Ottoman Empire, revising its position in official early modern versions of Ottoman Sunnism. This book further re-approaches early modern Sunni beliefs in wonders and wonder-working, as well as the relationship between religion, thaumaturgy, and magic in Ottoman Sunni Islam, historical themes comparable to other religions and other parts of the world.
Author : David M. DiValerio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199391211
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Holy Madmen of Tibet written by David M. DiValerio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last millennium in Tibet, tantric yogins have been taking on norm-overturning modes of behaviour and dress, including provoking others to violence, publicly consuming filth, having sex, and draping themselves in human remains. Because of this they have been called 'madmen' (smyon pa), but have also achieved a degree of saintliness. This book is the first comprehensive study of these 'holy madmen', who have captured the imaginations of Tibetans and Westerners alike.
Author : Mihail Mitrea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000833135
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography written by Mihail Mitrea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century. The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility.
Author : Paul David Buell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004447288
Total Pages : 1005 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Arabic Medicine in China written by Paul David Buell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopaedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and Chinese medical establishments. We translate the surviving material and context it in the history and ethnobiology of the medicine described.
Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351706470
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook on Sufism written by Lloyd Ridgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chronological history of the Sufi tradition, divided in to three sections, early, middle and modern periods. The book comprises 35 independent chapters with easily identifiable themes and/or geographical threads, all written by recognised experts in the field. The volume outlines the origins and early developments of Sufism by assessing the formative thinkers and practitioners and investigating specific pietistic themes. The middle period contains an examination of the emergence of the Sufi Orders and illustrates the diversity of the tradition. This middle period also analyses the fate of Sufism during the time of the Gunpowder Empires. Finally, the end period includes representative surveys of Sufism in several countries, both in the West and in traditional "Islamic" regions. This comprehensive and up-to-date collection of studies provides a guide to the Sufi tradition. The Handbook is a valuable resource for students and researchers with an interest in religion, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
Author : Varlaam Novakshonoff
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545256206
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (562 download)
Download or read book God's Fools written by Varlaam Novakshonoff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of Saint in the Orthodox Church
Author : Youval Rotman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674973119
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium written by Youval Rotman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Youval Rotman examines how the figure of the mad saint or mystic was used as a means of individual and collective transformation prior to the rise is Islam.
Author : Richard SIBBES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations. Third edition, corrected. With a preface by E. Culverwell written by Richard SIBBES and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504082087
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Coyote Road written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the archetypal Trickster from Michael Cadnum, Charles de Lint, Patricia A. McKillip, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. World Fantasy Award Finalist The mythic Trickster is both good and bad, wise and witless, sacred and profane. He appears in many different guises in world mythology, taking the form of a god in Greek legend; a coyote, raven, or rabbit in Native American lore; a meddlesome faery in English folktales; a larger-than-life human being in Germany; or the charming, seductive, and deadly kitsune of the Japanese. In true Trickster fashion, this captivating collection of stories will elicit both laughs and gasps. A Louisiana swamp girl makes a wager with a bon à rien who fiddled the devil out of hell in Delia Sherman’s “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche.” World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip introduces a pickpocket who tries to predict the future with stolen cards, but for whom fate has something else in store, in “The Fortune-Teller.” And in “The Dreaming Wind” by Jeffrey Ford, a seasonal gale causes havoc among humans and nature—but nothing compares to what happens when it fails to reappear. “The anthology features tricksters of many cultures from all over the world. Along with Coyote, there are stories here of Loki, Legba, Hermes, Raven, the Monkey King of China, and the fox spirits of Japan. . . . Windling and Datlow have done their usual excellent job of selecting quality work.” —Strange Horizons “Sophisticated and well-written.” —Fantasy Literature
Author : Richard Sibbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ... written by Richard Sibbes and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sergey A. Ivanov
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199272514
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond written by Sergey A. Ivanov and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square is a familar Russian landmark. Yet few people know what made Basil so famous. He was a saint who wandered about naked, bullied passers-by, brawled in the market-place, and once even smashed a revered icon. Saints such as Basil overturn the conventional concept of sainthood - what, we may ask, is saintly about them? This book aims to solve the mystery by exploring the figure of the holy fool in Byzantium and in later Russianhistory.
Author : Sujata Iyengar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472557506
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary written by Sujata Iyengar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicians, readers and scholars have long been fascinated by Shakespeare's medical language and the presence of healers, wise women and surgeons in his work. This dictionary includes entries about ailments, medical concepts, cures and, taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body, bodily functions, parts, and pathologies in Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Medical Language will provide a comprehensive guide for those needing to understand specific references in the plays, in particular, archaic diagnoses or therapies ('choleric', 'tub-fast') and words that have changed their meanings ('phlegmatic', 'urinal'); those who want to learn more about early modern medical concepts ('elements', 'humors'); and those who might have questions about the embodied experience of living in Shakespeare's England. Entries reveal what terms and concepts might mean in the context of Shakespeare's plays, and the significance that a particular disease, body part or function has in individual plays and the Shakespearean corpus at large.
