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Author : Bodil Liljefors Persson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books of Chilam Balam
ISBN : UVA:X004530680
Author : Bruno Boute,Thomas Småberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004240032
In the past two decades, scholarship in the Humanities and in the Social Sciences has witnessed the synchronic and often tangled rise of Ritual and Performance Studies. This interdisciplinary collection of essays in disciplines ranging from Theology to Antropology to Business Administration offers an insightful guide to assumptions, approaches and methods that underpin much of cutting-edge research in the field, with the help of case-studies spanning four continents and covering a long-haul period from the High Middle Ages to the Present.
Author : Henrik Bogdan,Göran Larsson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350413306
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars.
Author : Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351493659
Religions often nurture important skills that help believers locate themselves in the world. Religious perceptions, practices, emotions, and beliefs are closely interwoven with the environments from which they emerge. Sigurd Bergmann's driving emphasis here is to explore religion not in relation to, but as a part of the spatiality and movement within the environment from which it arises and is nurtured.Religion, Space, and the Environment emerges from the author's experiences in different places and continents over the past decade. At the book's heart lie the questions of how space, place, and religion amalgamate and how lived space and lived religion influence each other.Bergmann explores how religion and the memory of our past impact our lives in urban spaces; how the sacred geographies in Mayan and northeast Asian lands compare to modern eco-spirituality; and how human images and practices of moving in, with, and through the land are interwoven with the processes of colonization and sacralising, and the practices of power and visions of the sacred, among other topics.
Author : Kerry M. Hull,Michael D. Carrasco
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457117534
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
Author : Matthew White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083309
“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.
Author : Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252363
Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
Author : Robert M. Carmack,Janine L. Gasco,Gary H. Gossen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317346784
The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their influence in the world community. For courses on Mesoamerica (Middle America) taught in departments of anthropology, history, and Latin American Studies.
Author : Torsten Janson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000092854565
Torsten Janson has been a lecturer in Islamology at Lund University, Sweden, since 1995.
Author : Anne-Christine Hornborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89076972827
Author : Magnus Lundberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christian union
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010390391
Author : Julio Edgar Lopez-Maldonado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X84940
Author : Shinji Yamase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131688066
Author : Ann Kull
Publisher : Stockholm University
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015066798805
This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. The aim of this dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it is a study in the tradition of the history of ideas, and thus attempts an analysis of Nurcholish's ideational production and methodological approach. Secondly, it aims to locate Nurcholish's ideas and activities within the Indonesian context. To this end it provides a presentation of his life, intellectual influences and an overview of relevant historical facts.
Author : Leif Carlsson
Publisher : University of Lund Department of History
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123290913
In the beginning of the Common Era, a number of religious texts were written recounting heavenly journey adventures. These narratives have come to constitute a recurring theme in research regarding ancient religions. This book features several early Jewish and Christian heavenly journey texts. Most of them are included in the apocalyptic literature. During the earlier research, the heavenly journey motif was understood to be one of many elements in this literature. It was not until the latter part of the 20th century that the stories of the heavenly journeys were treated as a type of their own among these texts. The approach of this study serves to illuminate the function of the texts and the circumstances and settings in which they were composed and later passed on, something which scholars have only recently begun to acknowledge. Of vital importance is the status of the heavenly travelers as well as their relationships with other members of the Tradition Group considered to have authored the texts. Two main types of heavenly journeys appear in the accounts. One type has the function of providing an identity for the heavenly traveler, and the other constitutes a paradigm for the events awaiting mankind after death. The concluding section of the book is a relatively long exposition of 3 Baruch. This text, which in its entirety portrays a heavenly journey, informs the reader about death. In common with a number of other heavenly texts, 3 Baruch has both Jewish and Christian elements. Moreover, it clearly reflects a universal perspective. A similar perspective is also found in several of the other heavenly journey narratives which provides a reasonable explanation for how they could be used in both Jewish and Christian contexts.
