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Karl Leisner : victor in vinculis
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ISBN: 9782930273594 Year: 2011 Volume: *1 Publisher: Durbuy Coccinelle BD

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Women towards priesthood : ministerial politics and feminist praxis
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ISBN: 0521392837 9780521392839 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,


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The stereotype of the priest in the Old French fabliaux : anticlerical satire and lay identity
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ISBN: 3039100726 0820468886 9783039100729 9780820468884 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford: Lang,

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The Old French fabliaux may be notorious for their bawdy content, but few aspects of these medieval comic narratives are as astonishing as their depiction of the parish priest, whose fiscal and sexual transgressions are on occasion so enormous that lay protagonists are driven to inflict graphic punishments ranging from public exposure and communal beating to castration and murder. In this study, Burrows draws on social psychological research into the cognitive and socio-motivational components of stereotyping to explore the forces underlying the creation and development of the fabliau priest. Through an assessment of the constituent elements of the figure against a background of a range of literary and historical sources, Burrows demonstrates that the literary figure is the product of the specific socio-historical context of contemporaneous changes in relationships between Church and laity in which anticlerical stereotyping, in a manner comparable to other instances of outgroup derogation, can be attributed to a quest for positive social identity and ingroup solidarity on the part of an inscribed lay audience.


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Priests and prophets among Pagans, Jews and Christians : [colloquium, January 2011, Oxford]
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ISBN: 9789042929746 904292974X Year: 2013 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters

Toward the millennium : Messianic expectations from the Bible to Waco
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ISSN: 01698834 ISBN: 9004110372 9004378995 9789004110373 Year: 1998 Volume: 77 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon.


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Beyond priesthood : religious entrepreneurs and innovators in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9783110447019 3110447010 3110448181 9783110447644 9783110448184 3110447649 Year: 2017 Volume: 66 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different.Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious professionals, their dynamic interaction with established religious authorities and institutions, and their contributions to religious innovation in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the late Hellenistic period through to Late Antiquity, from the City of Rome to mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, from Greek civic practice to ancient Judaism.A further advantage of our volume is the wide range of media of transmission taken into account. Our contributors look at both old and new materials, which derive not only from literary sources but also from papyri, inscriptions, and material culture. Above all, this volume assesses critically convenient terminological usage and offers a unique insight into a rich gamut of ancient Mediterranean religious specialists.

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