Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs of the Whole World: or, a Complete and impartial view of all the religions in the various nations of the universe, etc. [With plates.]
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Author: William HURD (D.D.)A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World: Or, A Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe, Both Antient and Modern, from the Creation Down to the Present Time
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, of the Whole World, Or, A Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe, Both Ancient and Modern, from the Creation Down to the Present Time ...
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Book That Changed Europe
Author: Lynn HuntPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674251490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.
Before Religion
Author: Brent NongbriPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
The Thing about Religion
Author: David MorganPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662841
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows readers how to study what has come to be termed material religion—the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material world. Material religion includes the things people wear, eat, sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It also encompasses the places where religion and the social realities of everyday life, including gender, class, and race, intersect in physical ways. This interdisciplinary approach brings religious studies into conversation with art history, anthropology, and other fields. In the book, Morgan lays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts and shows how they work together to center materiality in the study of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan then applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and emphasizing the importance of historical context. The Thing about Religion will be an essential tool for experts and students alike. Two free, downloadable course syllabi created by the author are available online.
Religion in Primitive Cultures
Author: Wilhelm DupréPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110870053
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies
Author: Colin RenfrewPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110714356X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.
Author: William Hurd