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Author: Stephen Eddy Snow Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781604731811 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance
Author: Stephen Eddy Snow Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781604731811 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance
Author: John G. Turner Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300252307 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 460
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An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
Author: Susan S. Morrison Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134737637 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 207
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This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as tainting sacred space.
Author: Stefan Paas Publisher: SCM Press ISBN: 0334058791 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 375
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What does “missional” mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? Leading missiologist Stefan Paas asks what missional spirituality could possibly mean for today’s local church. This fully revised new international edition will make this an important introduction to contemporary thinking on mission and the church.
Author: Brannon Wheeler Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 100906312X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 483
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Islam is the only biblical religion that still practices animal sacrifice. Indeed, every year more than a million animals are shipped to Mecca from all over the world to be slaughtered during the Muslim Hajj. This multi-disciplinary volume is the first to examine the physical foundations of this practice and the significance of the ritual. Brannon Wheeler uses both textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam. He provides a 'thick description' of the elaborate camel sacrifice performed by Muhammad, which serves as the model for future Hajj sacrifices. Wheeler integrates biblical and classical Arabic sources with evidence from zooarchaeology and the rock art of ancient Arabia to gain insight into an event that reportedly occurred 1400 years ago. His book encourages a more nuanced and expansive conception of “sacrifice” in the history of religion.
Author: Pnina Werbner Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 025302885X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 350
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" . . . will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain, Europe, the Middle East, and southern Africa. Drawing on 12 years of fieldwork in Pakistan and Great Britain, she elucidates the complex organization of Sufi orders as regional and transnational cults, and examines how such cults are manifested through ritual action and embodied in sacred mythology and global diasporas. A focus of the study is the key event in the order's annual ritual cycle, a celebration in which tens of thousands of people gather at the saint's lodge in Pakistan and in the streets of Britain. Werbner challenges accepted anthropological and sociological truths about Islam and modernity, and reflects on her own role as ethnographic observer. Pilgrims of Love is a major contribution to our understanding of disaporic Islamic practices, highlighting the vitality of Sufi orders in the postcolonial world.
Author: Venetia Porter Publisher: ISBN: 9780674062184 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. With contributions from renowned experts, this book opens out onto the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees, as a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans, and as an expression of faith in the modern world.
Author: Stephen Eddy Snow
Author: Stephen Eddy Snow
Author: Shaikh- Abdullah Ibn Jibrin - Shaikh Abdul Muhsin Al-Obaikan
Author: John G. Turner
Author: Susan S. Morrison
Author: Stefan Paas
Author: John Bunyan
Author: Waldo Selden Pratt
Author: Brannon Wheeler
Author: Pnina Werbner
Author: Venetia Porter