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Dan liever dood! : over martelaren en hun religieuze drijfveren
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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Martyrs have a special status in every religion. They are "heroes" who give their lives for their ideals. Their death acquires a symbolic meaning and its own story within their own religious tradition. There is no fixed definition of 'the' martyr, in every time and situation people give it its own meaning. However, the death of the martyr is always shocking and creates a deep duality. In Dan liever dood!, experts address how we deal with martyrdom in the traditions of the five major world religions. What is meant by ""martyrdom"" in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism? And in the secular world? Where does this talk of 'martyrs' come from, and how is their martyrdom valued?


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Religions around the Arctic : Source Criticism and Comparisons
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ISBN: 9176351807 9176351831 Year: 2022 Publisher: Stockholm Stockholm University Press

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At a seminar at the University of Bergen, Norway, in September 2018, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden presented and discussed various forms of source criticism and comparison with examples from the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of Eurasia and North America. A selection of the papers read at the seminar are published in this volume. Each of the chapters in the first part compares local phenomena from two or more cultural contexts: a Swedish, a Karelian, an Estonian and an Irish place name that include words for hostage (Stefan Olsson), Old Icelandic and Sami ancestor mountains (Eldar Heide), and Finno-Karelian bear incantations and Ob-Ugrian bear songs (Vesa Matteo Piludu). The second part gives examples of different forms of source criticism in the analysis of indigenous Sami religion. The functions of a newly found ritual drum is discussed in relation to contemporary written sources (Dikka Storm & Trude Fonneland), the court proceedings from a witchcraft trial in 1692 is discussed with the help of Gérard Genette’s category ‘voice’ (Liv Helene Willumsen), and a content analysis of an introduction to indigenous Sami religion shows that the editor added text of his own to the original manuscript (Konsta Kaikkonen). In the third part, the area is widened to other parts of the Arctic. Here, a selection of theoretical perspectives is used to illuminate local empirical material. They give examples of how Native North American bear rituals and sweat bath traditions can be analysed with the help of an ecology of religion model and ritual theories, respectively (Riku Hämäläinen), of how Soviet researchers used the concepts of ‘spirits’ and ‘gods’ when they analysed the world view of the Nganasan (Olle Sundström), and of how representatives of academia have been instrumental in the ‘finding, claiming, and authorizing’ of Sakha religions (Liudmila Nikanorova). Although the papers only deal with a few of the peoples living in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions, the examples of source critical and comparative problems they discuss are of great general relevance.


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Gongsheng Across Contexts : A Philosophy of Co-Becoming.
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ISBN: 9819973252 9789819973255 9789819973248 Year: 2024 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature,

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This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/kyōsei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only translate “symbiosis” in biology but also broadly deployed in philosophical, social and political contexts. It is a cross-contextual attempt to study the foundation of gongsheng/kyōsei as a philosophy of co-becoming, with exploration of its significance for thinking about the planetary challenges of our times.


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Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion : Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction
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ISBN: 0520961226 9780520961227 9780520285859 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.


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Sounding Islam : Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World
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ISBN: 9780520298712 0520298713 0520970764 9780520970762 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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"Sounding Islam investigates the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media, the anthropology of semiotic mediation, and sound studies. Based on long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site of divine manifestation, becomes refracted in media practices that have become integral parts of religion. At the core of Eisenlohr's concern is the interplay of voice, media, affect, and listeners' experience, especially within the context of Mauritian Islamic practices. The work is a contribution to the anthropological study of sound, media, and religious experience and a rich study of Mauritius, diasporic South Asian communities, and global Islam."--Provided by publisher.


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Hispania sacra.
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ISSN: 0018215X 19884265 Year: 2014 Publisher: Madrid : Instituto "Enrique Flórez, " Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

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"Revista de historia eclesiástica."

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Religion --- Religión --- History --- Historia --- Catholic Church --- Église catholique --- Catholic Church. --- IGLESIA CATOLICA --- Histoire --- PUBLICACIONES PERIODICAS. --- Spain --- Espagne --- Spain. --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Hispanic civilization --- historiography --- history of religion --- christianity --- religious traditions --- anthropology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Chiesa cattolica --- Church of Rome --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Gereja Katolik --- Iglesia Católica --- Kanisa Katoliki --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolicheskai͡a t͡serkovʹ --- Katolicki Kościół --- Katolyt͡sʹka t͡serkva --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kościół Katolicki --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Roman Catholic Church --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- Rooms-Katholieke Kerk. --- Église catholique --- Christian church history --- Religious studies --- 27 <05> --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Tijdschriften --- Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- Godsdienstwetenschap --- Christelijke kerkgeschiedenis --- Spanje --- History of Europe --- hispanic civilization --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Spain - Church history - Periodicals --- Religió --- Església Catòlica --- Història --- Història eclesiàstica


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The stranger at the feast
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ISBN: 0520968972 9780520296497 9780520968974 0520296494 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"The Stranger at the Feast is the first full-length ethnographic study of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on two years of field study on the Zege peninsula on Lake Tana between 2008 and 2014, the book follows the material relationships by which Ethiopian Orthodox Christians relate to God, each other, and the material environment. It shows how religious life in Zege is based around a ritual ecology of prohibition and mediation in which fasting and avoidance practices are necessary in order to make the material world fit for religious life. The book traces how religious feeding and fasting practices have been the idiom through which Christians in Zege have understood the turbulent political changes of recent decades"--Provided by publisher.

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E-books --- Anthropology --- Christianity --- Taboo --- Mediation --- Religious aspects --- Ethiopia --- Church history. --- Good offices (Mediation) --- Conflict management --- Dispute resolution (Law) --- Purity, Ritual --- Religion --- Sacrilege --- Religions --- Church history --- Law and legislation --- Abesinija --- Abesiniye --- Abessinien --- Abisinia --- Abissinia --- Abissinii︠a︡ --- Abisynja --- Abyssinia --- Aethiopia --- Alta Ætiopia --- Äthiopien --- Avēssynia --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Äthiopien --- Ėfiopii︠a︡ --- Empire of Ethiopia --- Éthiopie --- Etiopia --- Etiopie --- Eṭiopiye --- Etiyopiyah --- Etiyopyah --- Etʻovpia --- Etyopiyah --- Etyopyah --- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia --- Federazione etiopica --- Gouvernement impérial d'Éthiopie --- Ḥabash --- Hạbashah --- ʼIḤeDeRi --- Imperial Ethiopian Government --- Ityop --- Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik --- Ityopp'ya --- ʼItyoṗyā --- Motumā céhumsa ʼItyopyā --- People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia --- Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia --- Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia --- Repubblica democratica federale d'Etiopia --- República Democrática Federal de Etiopía --- République fédérale démocratique d'Éthiopie --- Transitional Government of Ethiopia --- YaH̲ebratasabʼāwit ʼItyoṗyā gizéyāwi watādarāwi mangeśt --- YaʼItyoṗyā ḥezbāwi dimokrāsiyāwi ripublik --- YaʼItyopyā mangeśt --- YaʼItyoṗyā ne. na. mangeśt --- YaʼItyoṗyā neguśa nagaśt mangeśt --- YaʼItyop̣ya yašegeger mangeśt --- Ye-Ityopp'ya Federalawi Dimokrasiyawi Ripeblik --- YeĪtyopʼiya Fēdēralawī Dēmokrasīyawī Rīpeblīk --- エチオピア --- Echiopia --- Ethiopia (Territory under British occupation, 1941-1942) --- Reserved Areas of Ethiopia (Territory under British occupation, 1942-1955) --- class distinctions. --- eating. --- fasting. --- feeding practices. --- haile selassie. --- hospitality. --- imperial era. --- large scale religious change. --- local transformations. --- modern secular state. --- northern ethiopia. --- orthodox christians. --- orthodox society. --- radical upheaval. --- religious traditions. --- ritual prohibition. --- secularization of the state. --- zege peninsula. --- YaʼI.Fé.De.Ri. --- IFeDeRi

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