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Author: Kloppenborg Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004378642 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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Preliminary Material /Ria Kloppenborg -- Introduction /Ria Kloppenborg -- The Concluding Bath of the Varunapraghāsa /Jan Gonda -- The Fourth Priest (The Brahmán) in Vedic Ritual /Henk W. Bodewitz -- The Changing Pattern of Pāñcarātra Initiation: A Case Study in the Reinterpretation of Ritual /Sanjukta Gupta -- Some Beliefs and Rituals Concerning Time and Death in the Kubjikāmata /Teun Goudriaan -- Protective Covering (Kavaca) /Karel R. van Kooij -- Interpreting Fire-Walking /Kees W. Bolle -- A Magic Kĕris from Kalimantan /Jan A. Schoterman -- The Earliest Buddhist Ritual of Ordination /Ria Kloppenborg -- Spells on the Life-Wood. An Introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist Ceremony of Consecration /Losang Paldhen Gyalzur and Antony H.N. Verwey -- Index of Ritual Terms /Ria Kloppenborg -- Notes on Authors /Ria Kloppenborg -- Bibliography D.J. Hoens /Ria Kloppenborg.
Author: Kloppenborg Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004378642 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Ria Kloppenborg -- Introduction /Ria Kloppenborg -- The Concluding Bath of the Varunapraghāsa /Jan Gonda -- The Fourth Priest (The Brahmán) in Vedic Ritual /Henk W. Bodewitz -- The Changing Pattern of Pāñcarātra Initiation: A Case Study in the Reinterpretation of Ritual /Sanjukta Gupta -- Some Beliefs and Rituals Concerning Time and Death in the Kubjikāmata /Teun Goudriaan -- Protective Covering (Kavaca) /Karel R. van Kooij -- Interpreting Fire-Walking /Kees W. Bolle -- A Magic Kĕris from Kalimantan /Jan A. Schoterman -- The Earliest Buddhist Ritual of Ordination /Ria Kloppenborg -- Spells on the Life-Wood. An Introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist Ceremony of Consecration /Losang Paldhen Gyalzur and Antony H.N. Verwey -- Index of Ritual Terms /Ria Kloppenborg -- Notes on Authors /Ria Kloppenborg -- Bibliography D.J. Hoens /Ria Kloppenborg.
Author: Axel Michaels Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019026263X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 395
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Are the richness and diversity of rituals and celebrations in South Asia unique? Can we speak of a homo ritualis when it comes to India or Hinduism? Are Indians or Hindus more involved in rituals than other people? If so, what makes them special? Homo Ritualis is the first book to present a Hindu theory of rituals. Based on extensive textual studies and field-work in Nepal and India, Axel Michaels argues that ritual is a distinctive way of acting, which, as in the theater, can be distinguished from other forms of action. The book analyzes ritual in these cultural-specific and religious contexts, taking into account how indigenous terms and theories affect and contribute to current ritual theory. It describes and investigates various forms of Hindu rituals and festivals, such as life-cycle rituals, the Vedic sacrifice, vows processions, and the worship of deities (puja). It also examines conceptual components of (Hindu) rituals such as framing, formality, modality, and theories of meaning.
Author: Gerdien Jonker Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004101623 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 312
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This publication gives an analysis of Mesopotamian communal remembrance. It deals with public and private aspects of ancient memory practice and explores the interface between the oral and the written. New insights are offered to the interdisciplinary discussions on collective memory and national remembrance.
Author: Shlomo Bîderman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004101548 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
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Scripture and Knowledge clarifies the epistemological uses of scripture and examines some of the ways in which these uses have been understood in religious traditions. The author contends that philosophers have neglected scripture as a means of understanding religion. He shows the inadequacy of prevalent emphases on either the content or the social function of scripture as the sole measure of its role. As the author demonstrates, scripture has a unique epistemological aspect, that of a framework that gives believers a total picture of the world and its significance. A discussion of the knowledge claims made by scripture and of the authority by which these claims are justified is accompanied by extended examples from Jewish and Hindu sources.
Author: Jonathan Glustrom Katz Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004105997 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 302
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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.
Author: Benson Saler Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004095854 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 314
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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.
Author: A Van Debeek Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004112469 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 552
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This volume is the most wide-ranging religio-historical study on (de)canonization ever published. It contains significant contributions to the study of canonization in different religions in ancient times as well as in modern societies. An Annotated Bibliography adds greatly to its value.
Author: Gedaliahu A. Guy Stroumsa Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004105041 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 216
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This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These esoteric traditions do not reflect the influence of Greek Mystery religions, as has often been claimed, but rather seem to stem from the Jewish background of Christianity. They were adopted by various Gnostic teachings, a fact which helps explaining their eventual disappearance from Patristic literature. The ten chapters study each a different aspect of the problem, including the questions of Gnostic and Manichaean esotericism. This book will be of interest to all students of religious history in Late Antiquity. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author: Kloppenborg
Author: Kloppenborg
Author: Axel Michaels
Author: Gonda
Author: Brian Kemble Pennington
Author: Gerdien Jonker
Author: Shlomo Bîderman
Author: Jonathan Glustrom Katz
Author: Benson Saler
Author: A Van Debeek
Author: Gedaliahu A. Guy Stroumsa