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Occult Roots of Religious Studies

Author : Yves Mühlematter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110660334
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Occult Roots of Religious Studies written by Yves Mühlematter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiographers of religious studies have written the history of this discipline primarily as a rationalization of ideological, most prominently theological and phenomenological ideas: first through the establishment of comparative, philological and sociological methods and secondly through the demand for intentional neutrality. This interpretation caused important roots in occult-esoteric traditions to be repressed. This process of “purification” (Latour) is not to be equated with the origin of the academic studies. De facto, the elimination of idealistic theories took time and only happened later. One example concerning the early entanglement is Tibetology, where many researchers and respected chair holders were influenced by theosophical ideas or were even members of the Theosophical Society. Similarly, the emergence of comparatistics cannot be understood without taking into account perennialist ideas of esoteric provenance, which hold that all religions have a common origin. In this perspective, it is not only the history of religious studies which must be revisited, but also the partial shaping of religious studies by these traditions, insofar as it saw itself as a counter-model to occult ideas.

A Science for the Soul

Author : Corinna Treitel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878121
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book A Science for the Soul written by Corinna Treitel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Science for the Soul, historian Corinna Treitel explores the appeal and significance of German occultism in all its varieties between the 1870s and the 1940s, locating its dynamism in the nation's struggle with modernization and the public's dissatisfaction with scientific materialism. Occultism, Treitel notes, served as a bridge between traditional religious beliefs and the values of an increasingly scientific, secular, and liberal society. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Treitel describes the individuals and groups who participated in the occult movement, reconstructs their organizational history, and examines the economic and social factors responsible for their success. Building on this foundation, Treitel turns to the question of how Germans used the occult in three realms of practice: Theosophy, where occult studies were used to achieve spiritual enlightenment the arts, where occult states of consciousness fueled the creative process of avant-garde painters, writers, and dancers and the applied sciences, where professionals in psychology, law enforcement, engineering, and medicine employed occult techniques to solve characteristic problems of modernity. In conclusion, Treitel considers the conflicting meanings occultism held for contemporaries by focusing on the anti-spiritualist campaigns mounted by the national press, the Protestant and Catholic Churches, local and national governments, and the Nazi regime, which after years of alternating between affinity and antipathy for occultism, finally crushed the movement by 1945.

Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004402500
Total Pages : 1532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols) written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.

Disinflation in Transition Economies

Author : Marek D?browski
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639241503
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Disinflation in Transition Economies written by Marek D?browski and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1981, this book has established itself as the major new interpretation of the historical concept of Ibn Khaldun, the great figure of Arab -- Islamic letters and of historical thought overall -- a figure generally thought to be on a par with Thucydides, Vico, Herder and others of similar stature. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldun has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models of Islamic philosophy. Book jacket.

Magic and Divination in Early Islam

Author : Emilie Savage-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351921010
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Divination in Early Islam written by Emilie Savage-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices, including belief in jinn, warding off the evil eye, the production of amulets and other magical equipment, conjuring, wonder-working, dream interpretation, predicting the weather, casting lots, astrology, and physiognomy. The ten studies here are concerned with the pre-Islamic antecedents of such practices, and with the theory of magic in healing, the nature and use of amulets and their decipherment, the arts of astrometeorology and geomancy, the refutation of astrology, and the role of the astrologer in society. Some of the studies are highly illustrated, some long out of print, some revised or composed for this volume, and one translated into English for the first time. These fundamental investigations, together with the introductory bibliographic essay, are intended as a guide to the concepts, terminology, and basic scholarly literature of an important, but often overlooked, aspect of classical Islamic culture.

The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364358
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from being merely a symbol of the classical legacy, the nymph was invested with a surprisingly broad range of meanings. Working on the basis of these assumptions, and thus challenging Aby Warburg’s famous reflections on the nympha that both portrayed her as cultural archetype and reduced her to a marginal figure, the contributions in this volume seek to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age. Contributors: Barbara Baert, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Agata Anna Chrzanowska, Karl Enenkel, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Michaela Kaufmann, Andreas Keller, Eva-Bettina Krems, Damaris Leimgruber, Tobias Leuker, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, Bernd Roling, and Anita Traninger.

The Knights of Modernism

Author : Branko Vraneš
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662619326
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Knights of Modernism written by Branko Vraneš and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.

Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond

Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 849168073X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.

On The Nightmare

Author : Ernest Jones
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015881297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book On The Nightmare written by Ernest Jones and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

Author : Amar Annus
Publisher : Oriental Inst Publications Sales
ISBN 13 : 9781885923684
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World written by Amar Annus and published by Oriental Inst Publications Sales. This book was released on 2010 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions.

Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires

Author : Alan Lenzi
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires written by Alan Lenzi and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your understanding of divination’s role in supporting or undermining imperial aspirations in the ancient Near East This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires. Features: Interdisciplinary approaches include propaganda studies Essays examine how biblical and other ancient Near Eastern texts were shaped by political and theological empires Index of ancient sources

Studies in Al-Kimya'

Author : Ahmad Y. al- Hassan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783487142739
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Al-Kimya' written by Ahmad Y. al- Hassan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses eight critical issues in the history of Latin and Arabic alchemy and chemistry, which are currently accepted without concrete evidence, and are based mainly on conjecture.The essays in the book are based on extensive research into Arabic manuscripts and Latin literature. The results of this research are challenging. They prove the Arabic origin of the Summa Perfectionis and the other Geber Latin works. Thus the prevailing conjectures about assumed Latin authors are refuted on the basis of ample evidence. The book discusses the Arabic original of Liber de compositione alchimiae that was the first treatise on alchemy to appear in the West. It brings into light for the first time Jabir's book of recipes on the colouring of glass and his other chemical industrial recipes. An essay discusses potassium nitrate and nitric acid in Arabic and Latin sources. Both were known before the 13th century. Explosive gunpowder with the ideal formula and portable cannon were known in Arabic military treatises in the 13th century. The book gives an essay on the distillation of wine and alcohol since the eighth century. The final essay is on the composition of Damascus steel."--Publisher's description.

I'll Carry My Own Groceries, Thank You: Connecting with Your Aging Parents and Adult Children to Live Happier, Healthier Lives Together.

Author : Cathy L. Ewing
Publisher : Cathy Ewing
ISBN 13 : 9781734468304
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book I'll Carry My Own Groceries, Thank You: Connecting with Your Aging Parents and Adult Children to Live Happier, Healthier Lives Together. written by Cathy L. Ewing and published by Cathy Ewing. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine having a more fulfilling relationship with your adult children or aging parents. Can we become close friends with our aging parents or our adult children? Imagine building closer and more fulfilling relationships using communication techniques often reserved for friends. Is it possible to set aside the pre-scripted caregiver role and still help each other? Maybe we can be encouraged to carry our groceries, make our own decisions, and respect each other as adults. How do we make small changes to avoid undermining each other's physical and emotional confidence? In I'll Carry My Own Groceries, Thank You, author Cathy Ewing, takes us on a one-year journey with her 87-year-old mother and 23-year-old daughter as they try to move from a close-knit family to best friends. She shares research on the impact of communication and activity on health and aging. Ewing reflects on her reactions to situations with her mother and daughter and how she could have handled it better. The book is packed with ideas and stories about listening, being active, getting creative and nurturing the family tree. It is a light read that will make you laugh and maybe shed a tear. Ewing finds ways to: * Improve each generation's physical health at the same time. * Get more from life by stoking our curiosity. * Exercise the brain with creative challenges. * Tie us more closely to our family tree. Cathy Ewing, is an expert in change management. She has made a career of working with teams in high-stress situations when interactions can be at their best or worst. These experiences made her aware of how family members knowingly or unwittingly steal each other's power and confidence. She chose to work in Alaska and enjoy time with her mother while they are both healthy.

The Gundestrup Cauldron

Author : Garrett S. Olmsted
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gundestrup Cauldron written by Garrett S. Olmsted and published by Peeters. This book was released on 1979 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant

Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant written by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly study of the structure, development, and themes of Emanuel's Swedenborg's work Secrets of Heaven and its contemporary critical reception.

From the Molecular World

Author : Alan J. Rocke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642274161
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book From the Molecular World written by Alan J. Rocke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Kopp (1817–1892) is best remembered today as a historian of chemistry, but during his lifetime he was one of the most eminent chemists of his day, and one of the earliest pioneers of physical chemistry. Late in his career he wrote an endearing fantasy about personified molecules. Published in 1882, Aus der Molecular-Welt (From the Molecular World) portrayed the intimate details of what might actually be happening in the sub-microscopic world; the atoms and molecules we meet there have agency, personalities, sometimes even dialog. Filled with appealing tropes, humor, and whimsical asides, Kopp’s short book provided an examination of the chemistry and physics of his day that was always light-hearted on the surface, but often surprisingly profound. Properly interpreted, the book provides a revealing tour of nineteenth-century debates concerning chemical theory. It is here translated into English, richly annotated, and equipped with an illuminating preface by a leading historian of chemistry. It provides entertaining reading to practicing chemists, as well as new insights to historians of science.

Strategic Conspiracy Narratives

Author : Mari-Liis Madisson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429670443
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Conspiracy Narratives written by Mari-Liis Madisson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of public opinion about certain topics. They allow the connecting of different events that have taken place in various times and places and involve several actors that seem incompatible to bystanders. This book focuses on strategic-function conspiracy narratives in the context of (social) media and information conflict. It explicates the strategic devices in how conspiracy theories can be used to evoke a hermeneutics of suspicion – a permanent scepticism and questioning of so-called mainstream media channels and dominant public authorities, delegitimisation of political opponents, and the ongoing search for hidden clues and coverups. The success of strategic dissemination of conspiracy narratives depends on the cultural context, specifics of the targeted audience and the semiotic construction of the message. This book proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing contemporary strategic communication. The authors develop a theoretical framework that is based on semiotics of culture, the notions of strategic narrative and transmedia storytelling. This book is targeted to specialists and graduate students working on social theory, semiotics, journalism, strategic communication, social media and contemporary social problems in general.