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Studies In Egyptian Religion Dedicated To Professor Jan Zandee
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Book Synopsis Studies in Egyptian Religion, Dedicated to Professor Jan Zandee by : M. Heerma van Voss
Download or read book Studies in Egyptian Religion, Dedicated to Professor Jan Zandee written by M. Heerma van Voss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The Approach to Egyptian Religion /C. J. Bleeker -- The Significance of Religious Festivals /C. J. Bleeker -- Egyptian Festivals /C. J. Bleeker -- Festivals of the Gods /C. J. Bleeker -- The Festivals of the King /C. J. Bleeker -- Festivals of the Dead /C. J. Bleeker -- Postscript /C. J. Bleeker -- Bibliography /C. J. Bleeker -- Index /C. J. Bleeker.
Book Synopsis Studies in Egyptian Religion by : Jan: Festschrift Zandee
Download or read book Studies in Egyptian Religion written by Jan: Festschrift Zandee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 13 :0812296400 Total Pages :257 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination by : Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
Download or read book Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination written by Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority. Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends.
Book Synopsis 'The Heathen in his Blindness...' by : S.N. Balagangadhara
Download or read book 'The Heathen in his Blindness...' written by S.N. Balagangadhara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b) members from different cultures experience many aspects of the world differently; (c) the empirical and theoretical study of both culture and religion emerged within the West. The present study argues that these truisms have implications for the conceptualization of religion and culture. More specifically, the thesis is that non-western cultures and religions differ from the descriptions prevalent in the West, and it is also explained why this has been the case. The author proposes novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India, and the nature of cultural differences. Religion is important to the West because the constitution and the identity of western culture is tied to the dynamic of Christianity as a religion.
Book Synopsis Gods and Men in Egypt by : Françoise Dunand
Download or read book Gods and Men in Egypt written by Françoise Dunand and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Egyptians conceptualized with remarkable continuity their relations with the gods over a 3500-year period.
Book Synopsis Dreams, Sufism and Sainthood by : Katz
Download or read book Dreams, Sufism and Sainthood written by Katz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Muhammad al-Zawâwî's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. The study reconstructs Zawâwî's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawâwî's religious experience are thoroughly explored. The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam. Particular attention is paid to the way Zawâwî and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being awliya', or living saints.
Book Synopsis Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East by : Kehl-Bodrogi
Download or read book Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East written by Kehl-Bodrogi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with Islamic sects in the Near East such as the Alevis (Turkey), Druzes (Libanon), Alawis (Syria), Ahl-i Haqq (Iran, Iraq) and Shabak (Iraq), which have in common a syncretistic system of belief with a strong Shi'ite influence, as well as secrecy and endogamy. The contributions in this volume focus on the present situation of these communities, their relation to mainstream Islam, their involvement in national and ethnic politics, aspects of faith and rituals, the relevance of sacred texts, modes of religious and social transformation, and the recent revival of Alevism. In view of the new visibility of these formerly "hidden" sects and their increasing social and political importance, this volume provides important information for all scholars interested in the religious and political situation of the region.
Book Synopsis Theory and Practice of Yoga by : Knut A. Jacobsen
Download or read book Theory and Practice of Yoga written by Knut A. Jacobsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays provides fascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to Yoga: Classical Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantric Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of Yoga, Yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of Yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Larson is Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, an internationally acclaimed scholar on the history of religions and philosophies of India, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The publication is in honour of him.
Book Synopsis Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions by : Ria Kloppenborg
Download or read book Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions written by Ria Kloppenborg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of studies describing and analyzing stereotypes of women in the religions of Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia, and in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Medieval Christianity, Islam, Indian Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Tibetan religions, and modern Neopaganism. In all these traditions the stereotypes are based on generalizations, which are socially, culturally or religiously legitimized, and which seem to have a lasting influence on society's conceptions of women. They represent oversimplified opinions, which are, however, regularly challenged by the women who are affected by them. In all traditions the stereotypes are ambiguous, either because women have challenged their validity, or because historical developments in society have reshaped them. They influence public opinion by emphasizing dominant views, as a strategy to restrain women and to keep them controlled by the rules and morals of a male-dominated society.
Book Synopsis English and Hindi Religious Poetry by : John A. Ramsaran
Download or read book English and Hindi Religious Poetry written by John A. Ramsaran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion and Time by : Anindita Niyogi Balslev
Download or read book Religion and Time written by Anindita Niyogi Balslev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on the concept of time in the major religious traditions. The theme of time so central to the religious point of view offers a focal point for fruitful interreligious dialogue.
Book Synopsis Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience by : Albert I. Baumgartner
Download or read book Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience written by Albert I. Baumgartner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we may imagine them to be biological as well; but in fact, they are social constructs, and a source of fundamental metaphors for the classification of experience. They thus help organize the world, at the same time as they express basic human identity. They vary from culture to culture and can productively be compared and contrasted from one setting to another. We intend these papers to be a test case of the benefit to be gained from attention to Religious Anthropology.
Book Synopsis Transitions and Transformations in the History of Religions by : Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Download or read book Transitions and Transformations in the History of Religions written by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canonization and Decanonization by : Toorn
Download or read book Canonization and Decanonization written by Toorn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section processes out of which canons eventually emerge are highlighted in contributions devoted to particular religions, viz. African religions, Judaism and Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. The articles of the second section are of particular relevance to the contemporary situation in the western world, dealing with aspects such as forms of the survival of a canon in processes of modernization, canonization and the challenge of plurality, and canonization and hermeneutics. The reader may benefit even more from this volume as it contains also An Annotated Bibliography on the subject.
Book Synopsis Chaeremon, Egyptian Priest and Stoic Philiosopher by : Chaeremon (of Alexandria.)
Download or read book Chaeremon, Egyptian Priest and Stoic Philiosopher written by Chaeremon (of Alexandria.) and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 BCE-200 CE by : Leslie Baynes
Download or read book The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses 200 BCE-200 CE written by Leslie Baynes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.
Book Synopsis Conceptualizing Religion by : Benson Saler
Download or read book Conceptualizing Religion written by Benson Saler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we transform a folk category - in this case, religion - into an analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In addressing that question, this book critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion for scholarly purposes, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. The author argues that the most plausible analytical strategy can be based on the idea of family resemblances, especially as that idea has been used and developed in contemporary prototype theory. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of 'more or less' rather than a matter of 'yes or no, ' and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
