Troubling Topics Sacred Texts

Author : Roberta Sterman Sabbath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110651003

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Troubling Topics, Sacred Texts by Roberta Sterman Sabbath Pdf

Abrahamic scriptures serve as cultural pharmakon, prescribing what can act as both poison and remedy. This collection shows that their sometimes veiled but eternally powerful polemics can both destroy and build, exclude and include, and serve as the ultimate justification for cruelty or compassion. Here, scholars not only excavate these works for their formative and continuing cultural impact on communities, identities, and belief systems, they select some of the most troubling topics that global communities continue to navigate. Their analysis of both texts and their reception help explain how these texts promote norms and build collective identities. Rejecting the notion of the sacred realm as separate from the mundane realm and beyond critical challenge, this collection argues—both implicitly and sometimes transparently—for the presence of the sacred within everyday life and open to challenge. The very rituals, prayers, and traditions that are deemed sacred interweave into our cultural systems in infinite ways. Together, these authors explore the dynamic nature of everyday life and the often-brutal power of these texts over everyday meaning.

Author : Roberta Sterman Sabbath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666907971

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Sacred Body by Roberta Sterman Sabbath Pdf

Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the divine and focus instead on the “everyday sacred,” earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoid abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism.

Author : Roberta Sabbath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047430964

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Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture by Roberta Sabbath Pdf

Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays which collectively and individually enlist literary approaches including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms. Sacred Tropes represents a pioneering, comparatist approach to Abrahamic studies.

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religions
ISBN : 1440848378

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Sacred Texts Interpreted by Carl Olson Pdf

Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine - directly -the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia - and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence. --

Author : Richard D. Hecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religious literature
ISBN : OCLC:867794979

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Sacred Texts of the World by Richard D. Hecht Pdf

Author : Ioannis Smarnakis,Zissis D. Ainalis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040021194

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The Late Byzantine Romance in Context by Ioannis Smarnakis,Zissis D. Ainalis Pdf

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.

Author : Allen Upward
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465580795

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The New Word by Allen Upward Pdf

Author : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : EAN:8596547793373

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The Book Of Lies by Aleister Crowley Pdf

The Book of Lies was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley under the pen name of Frater Perdurabo. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive." The book consists of 91 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

Author : Richard D. Hecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sacred books
ISBN : OCLC:21219399

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Sacred Texts of the World by Richard D. Hecht Pdf

Author : Evan Fales
Publisher : Gcrr Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736273906

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Reading Sacred Texts by Evan Fales Pdf

Drawing significantly on the work of Emile Durkheim and Claude Lévi-Strauss, this book proposes a way to navigate between two pitfalls that undermine comprehension of alien cultures and their sacred literature. First, it offers a vigorous defense of the principle of charity when interpreting religious texts. But this, then, must confront the oddity, even deep implausibility, of many religious claims. The "way out" of this dilemma takes seriously Durkheim's seminal hypothesis that religious belief systems reflect native efforts to understand the social realities of their society. It brings to bear Lévi-Strauss's claim that the structure of religious narratives reflects attempts to bring intellectual order to those realities in a way we can decipher through the use of certain analytic techniques. The next major element to this book is philosophical. What are such things as social roles, institutions, and conventions? Finding possible answers to that question enables the discovery of match-ups between religious concepts-of souls, gods, demons, and the like-and social realities, giving substance to Durkheim's general thesis. But what about the Bible? The second half of this book is devoted to exploring what the implications might be for an understanding of the origins of Judaism and Christianity. It does so by applying anthropological analyses to puzzles posed by stories found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Matthew. The upshot is both a political reading of the texts and a conceptual re-framing of such baffling claims as the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and Transubstantiation.

Author : Michael J. Cholbi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440836800

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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by Michael J. Cholbi Pdf

This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. Euthanasia was practiced by Greek physicians as early as 500 BC. In the 20th century, legal and ethical controversies surrounding assisted dying exploded. Many religions and medical organizations led the way in opposition, citing the incompatibility of assisted dying with various religious traditions and with the obligations of medical personnel toward their patients. Today, these practices remain highly controversial both in the United States and around the world. Comprising contributions from an international group of experts, this book thoroughly investigates euthanasia and assisted suicide from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. It presents the ethical arguments for and against assisted dying; highlights how assisted dying is perceived in various cultural and philosophical traditions—for example, South and East Asian cultures, Latin American perspectives, and religions including Islam and Christianity; and considers how assisted dying has both shaped and been shaped by the emergence of professionalized bioethics. Readers will also learn about the most controversial issues related to assisted dying, such as pediatric euthanasia, assisted dying for organ transplantation, and "suicide tourism," and examine concerns relating to assisted dying for racial minorities, children, and the disabled.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032179880

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The Death of Sacred Texts by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization processes when new technologies have made it possible to mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.

Author : Darren Slade
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532684982

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Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry, Volume 1, Issue 2 by Darren Slade Pdf

Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM journal) is a biannual, not-for-profit, free peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes the latest social-scientific, historiographic, and ecclesiastic research on religious institutions and their ministerial practices. SHERM is dedicated to the critical and scholarly inquiry of historical and contemporary religious phenomena, both from within particular religious traditions and across cultural boundaries, so as to inform the broader socio-historical analysis of religion and its related fields of study. The purpose of SHERM is to provide a scholarly medium for the social-scientific study of religion where specialists can publish advanced studies on religious trends, theologies, rituals, philosophies, socio-political influences, or experimental and applied ministry research in the hopes of generating enthusiasm for the vocational and academic study of religion while fostering collegiality among religious specialists. Its mission is to provide academics, professionals, and nonspecialists with critical reflections and evidence-based insights into the socio-historical study of religion and, where appropriate, its implications for ministry and expressions of religiosity.

Author : Roy Hammerling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666722888

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Speaking of Religion . . . by Roy Hammerling Pdf

Of late, speaking about religion has become a problem. Whether we are in our homes, at worship, on the street, in college classrooms, or anywhere that conversations happen, speaking about religion often can turn into a heated exchange. As our political and religious divisions widen, so does our inability to cross over to meet others halfway with compassionate, convicted, and civil dialogue. Speaking of Religion . . . not only offers ways in which we might open ourselves to hearing and caring about others, but also seeks to help us understand our own convictions more fully. Such dialogue is not often easy, but it is essential if we ever hope to find our way into a future where fear, hatred, and cruelty can be set aside. As Plato is reputed to have said, "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light." Speaking of Religion seeks to look for light in a world that all too readily gets lost in the night of religious ignorance.

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520274198

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Fighting Words by John Renard Pdf

One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting Words makes solid text-based scholarship accessible to the general public, beginning with the premise that a balanced approach to religious pluralism in our world must build on a measured, well-informed response to the increasingly publicized and sensationalized association of terrorism and large-scale violence with religion. In his introduction, Renard provides background on the major scriptures of seven religious traditions—Jewish, Christian (including both the Old and New Testaments), Islamic, Baha’i, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Sikh. Eight chapters then explore the interpretation of select facets of these scriptures, focusing on those texts so often claimed, both historically and more recently, as inspiration and justification for every kind of violence, from individual assassination to mass murder. With its nuanced consideration of a complex topic, this book is not merely about the religious sanctioning of violence but also about diverse ways of reading sacred textual sources.