Empire Religion And Identity

Author : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004694330

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Empire, Religion, and Identity by Soumen Mukherjee Pdf

This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism. The first part of the book explores idioms of self-fashioning in global platforms and religious congresses. The second part explicates the nature of movements of such ideas. Cumulatively, they offer fresh and invaluable insights into their histories in modern South Asia against the backdrop of, and in relation to, wider transcultural global flows. Contributors: Soumen Mukherjee, Toshio Akai, Jeffery D. Long, Arpita Mitra, Philip Goldberg, Ankur Barua, Oyndrila Sarkar, Madhuparna Roychowdhury, Navras J. Aafreedi, and Faridah Zaman.

Author : Elisabeth R. O'Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 904294031X

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Egypt and Empire by Elisabeth R. O'Connell Pdf

Across Eurasia and North Africa in the First Millennium AD, empires rose and fell, each adopting a universalizing faith which distinguished it broadly from its neighbours. In Egypt, our sources are particularly rich, owing to the landâe(tm)s arid climate and the unparalleled survival not only of stone, ceramic and metalwork, but also of organic material such as textiles, wood and manuscripts found on papyrus, parchment and paper. This volume brings together over a dozen of the worldâe(tm)s leading specialists to explore the dialectical interplay between empire and religious identity through a series of case studies from Egypt. Evidence from Egypt suggests that it was precisely in the context of empire that âe~religious identityâe(tm) emerged as a distinctive marker. Using the unrivalled abundance and variety of surviving material culture, this volume explores the formation, renegotiation and reconstitution of religious identities from the Roman period forward. Whereas Egyptâe(tm)s âe~pharaonicâe(tm) millennia (c. 3000-30 BC) have been studied as a coherent whole, later eras are often studied as fragments. Egypt and Empire offers a different approach by covering together periods that are usually treated separately in different academic disciplines.

Author : Robert P. Geraci,Michael Khodarkovsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0801433274

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Of Religion and Empire by Robert P. Geraci,Michael Khodarkovsky Pdf

This book is the first to investigate the role of religious conversion in the long history of Russian state building, with geographic coverage from Poland and European Russia to the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, and Alaska.

Author : Gregory L. Bruess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1124574693

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Religion, Identity and Empire: A Greek Archbishop in the Russia of Catherine the Great by Gregory L. Bruess Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Dunn,Wendy Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004301573

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Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium by Geoffrey Dunn,Wendy Mayer Pdf

Christians Shaping Identity explores different ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them to the 12th century C.E. It also illustrates how modern readings of that past continue to shape Christian identity.

Author : Teena Purohit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071582

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The Aga Khan Case by Teena Purohit Pdf

An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.

Author : Jeremy M. Schott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203462

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Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity by Jeremy M. Schott Pdf

In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. During this turbulent period, which began with Diocletian's persecution of the Christians and ended with Constantine's assumption of sole rule and the consolidation of a new Christian empire, Christian apologists and anti-Christian polemicists launched a number of literary salvos in a battle for the minds and souls of the empire. Schott focuses on the works of the Platonist philosopher and anti- Christian polemicist Porphyry of Tyre and his Christian respondents: the Latin rhetorician Lactantius, Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, and the emperor Constantine. Previous scholarship has tended to narrate the Christianization of the empire in terms of a new religion's penetration and conquest of classical culture and society. The present work, in contrast, seeks to suspend the static, essentializing conceptualizations of religious identity that lie behind many studies of social and political change in late antiquity in order to investigate the processes through which Christian and pagan identities were constructed. Drawing on the insights of postcolonial discourse analysis, Schott argues that the production of Christian identity and, in turn, the construction of a Christian imperial discourse were intimately and inseparably linked to the broader politics of Roman imperialism.

Author : Haig Z. Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 3030701301

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Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 by Haig Z. Smith Pdf

This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.

Author : Elizabeth Digeser,Robert Frakes
Publisher : Edgar Kent
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030251408

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Religious Identity in Late Antiquity by Elizabeth Digeser,Robert Frakes Pdf

Explore the different aspects of religious identity as it evolved from the third century onward from multiple contributors and different methodological approaches.

Author : Cilliers Breytenbach,Julien M. Ogereau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004367197

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Authority and Identity in Emerging Christianities in Asia Minor and Greece by Cilliers Breytenbach,Julien M. Ogereau Pdf

This book explores how the early Christians constructed, developed, and asserted their identity and authority in Asia Minor and Greece in the first five centuries CE.

Author : Lindsey A. Mazurek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316517017

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Isis in a Global Empire by Lindsey A. Mazurek Pdf

It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

Author : Richard Flower,Morwenna Ludlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198813194

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Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity by Richard Flower,Morwenna Ludlow Pdf

Rhetoric and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how individuals and groups ascribed religious categories during late antiquity. Particular focus is given to the role of rhetoric in the expression of religious identity, in order to give mutual illumination to both phenomena in this period.

Author : Caitlin Killian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804754217

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North African Women in France by Caitlin Killian Pdf

A sociological study of the cultural choices and identity negotiation of North African women immigrants in France.

Author : Marianne Sághy,Edward M. Schoolman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633862568

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Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire by Marianne Sághy,Edward M. Schoolman Pdf

Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.

Author : Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean,Ellen Bradshaw Aitken
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004130944

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Philostratus's Heroikos by Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean,Ellen Bradshaw Aitken Pdf

This multidimensional collection of essays explores the interrelation of religion, cultural identity, politics, literature, myth, and memory during the Roman Empire by focusing on the cultural dynamics embedded in and surrounding Philostratus s Heroikos, an early third-century C.E. dialogue about Homer and the heroes of the Trojan War. The essays focus on ritual and literary dimensions of hero cult; cultural and community identity reflected in the Heroikos and in early Christianity; and the cultural, literary, and political turn toward heroes in the negotiation of difference, particularly with those outside the Roman Empire. Contributors to this volume include classicists, archaeologists, ancient historians, and scholars of early Christianity: Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Susan E. Alcock, Hans Dieter Betz, Alain Blomart, Walter Burkert, Casey Dué, Simone Follet, Sidney H. Griffith, Jackson P. Hershbell, Christopher Jones, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Francesca Mestre, Gregory Nagy, Corinne Ondine Pache, Jeffrey Rusten, M. Rahim Shayegan, James C. Skedros, and Tim Whitmarsh.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).