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Religion and Cult in the Dodecanese during the First Millennium BC publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name, held in Rhodes in October 2018. Religion has always been one of the major components of peoples' lives, an integral part of social, economic and political contexts, contributing to the formation of culture and history. In order to study and understand the religious and cult practices of a particular region, it is necessary to explore their various expressions through material culture and written sources. The oldest known cult remains in the Dodecanese can be dated to the end of the 10th and early 9th centuries BC and throughout the 1st millennium BC. They demonstrate the existence of a vibrant island society with various evolving cult practices. As a major stopover on maritime trade routes, the southeastern Aegean was influenced by contacts from throughout the Greek world and beyond. The contributions to this volume draw on archaeological and literary sources to explore both the development and continuity of cults in the Dodecanese, from the Early Iron Age through to the 1st century BC.
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Religion as a discontinued model - that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, then, do gain and loss explain themselves in this frictional relationship? This is what the contributions to this volume explore using examples from different regions of global modernity. They are grouped around questions on which religions have worked particularly hard: the ethos of freedom in modernity, the challenges posed by modern sciences, the relationship to authority, new perspectives on one's own tradition and participation in 'modern' discourse. With contributions by Reiner Anselm | Martin Baumann | Reinhold Bernhardt | Anne Beutter | Amir Dziri | Silke Gülker | Michael Hochgeschwender | Frank Neubert | Almut-Barbara Renger | Valérie Rhein | Markus Ries | Erdal Toprakyaran | Andreas Tunger-Zanetti | Margit Wasmaier-Sailer.
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This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion after 1900. This volume concerns the ways in which the term medium still marks an overlapping of – and thus problematizes – the aforementioned division between religion and the secular, the personal and the technological.The term medium carries with it a seed of doubt that is itself inseparable from investment in the medium's power: insofar as they communicate with an "other" realm, mediums offer the hope and promise of new possibilities and improved efficiency, and thus of a better life; yet they have simultaneously been under suspicion of altering (or even inventing) the messages they communicate. It is due to this combination of promise and suspicion that "mediumism" has tended to evoke scientific, religious, and moral controversies. Thus, we can speak of a "mediumistic trial" – that is, a process in which a medium is put to the test concerning its potentials and trustworthiness. Around 1800, experts were asked if a modern secular institution would be capable of inspiring, domesticating or excluding trance mediumship. This question has stayed with us ever since, and the answers have remained inconclusive. That is why the past and present of mediumship may be asked to elucidate each other.
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L'ouvrage est né d'une réflexion de caractère historique portant sur les modes d'articulation, dans la société civile, d'une théologie politique. Cette dernière n'a pas été examinée du point de vue théorique, en particulier dans le cadre classique des relations de l'Église et de l'État, mais sous l'angle anthropologique. Ce sont donc toutes les formes de manifestation d'un donné à voir qui sont ici concernées : gestes, formes, rituels, mises en scène, par lesquels le pouvoir tente d'affirmer sa légitimation.
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In his controversial poem “I Sing the Body Electric”, Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual. Bodies are our fundamental way of being – being in the here and now, being in time and space. Bodies we have and bodies we are are as much sensed, felt, experienced, seen, or heard as they are material objects.2 As bodies, we are in space, and through our bodies, their processes, their practices, their skills, we leave traces in space and time and extend ourselves in space. Bodies that extend and reach out and communicate through voice, as well as how voice materialises the immaterial, was the topic of a colloquium, “I Sing the Body Electric”, held at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, in 2014, which in turn inspired the following special issue of the Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM). Following on from the colloquium’s inspiration, this JRFM issue is dedicated to the interrelation between religion, body, technology, and voice and its analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective using approaches from musicology, philosophy, and religious studies.
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Este texto es un esfuerzo de actualizar el judaísmo secular y humanista, que en los tiempos modernos orientó a los mayores pensadores, científicos, artistas y activistas judíos, de Spinoza a Hanna Arendt, de Freud a Einstein, de Gershwin a Chagall, de Kafka a Roth, de Theodor Hertzl a Emma Goldman, de Isaac Deutscher a Amos Oz, así como a la gran mayoría de sus premios Nobel. Judíos, que no invocaban libros sagrados o mandamientos divinos para afirmar una identidad judaica, que se nutrieron de la historia y de la cultura judía, de sus dramas psíquicos y existenciales, de lazos particulares de solidaridad cuando los judíos son perseguidos, como de revuelta cuando los judíos actúan sin sensibilidad frente al sufrimiento de los otros.
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Cet ouvrage rassemble les réflexions menées lors d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Lyon en janvier 2016. Les différents articles examinent les « nouvelles approches du fait religieux », c'est-à-dire la manière dont de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences humaines et sociales renouvellent leur façon de comprendre et analyser le fait religieux. De l'époque médiévale au très contemporain, entre histoire, sociologie, anthropologie ou sémiologie, chercheurs et chercheuses y donnent à voir la méthode mobilisée pour aborder des objets classiques (croyances et pratiques) ou plus nouveaux (histoire matérielle, histoire du genre et des sexualités). Avec les contributions de Yves Krumenacker, Boris Klein, Noémie Recous, Julie Cosson, Léo Botton, Marion Maudet, Caroline Muller, Nicolas Balzamo, Maïté Recasens, Nicolas Guyard.
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Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings is a university-level, textbook introduction to the study of the Bible, its literary forms, and historical and cultural contexts. This textbook is a companion to the Bible courses taught in the English Department at Kansas State University, in particular ENGL 470 The Bible, though it is available for use in other courses and contexts. This textbook examines the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Tanakh) and the early Christian writings of the New Testament. It is an introduction to the analysis of biblical texts, their histories, and their interpretations. The emphasis throughout this textbook is on the literary qualities of these biblical texts as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
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