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Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets
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ISSN: 09342575 ISBN: 9783110620405 3110620405 9783110624526 9783110621341 Year: 2020 Volume: 524 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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There is growing interest in understanding the phenomenon of prayer and praying in the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. This book brings together papers by leading scholars in these fields to revisit long-standing questions and chart new paths of inquiry into the nature, form, and practice of prayer in the ancient world. The essays in this volume deal with particular texts of and about prayer, practices of prayer, and figures and locations (both historical and literary) that are associated with prayer and praying. These studies draw on a range of methods and theoretical approaches, including form and text criticism, literary and narrative analysis, and anthropological and sociological analysis, or they apply particular theories of discourse, ethics, and moral agency to these ancient texts. Together, they offer fresh interpretations of addressing the divine in the literature of Early Judaism and Christianity --Back Cover.


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Het waakzame hart : de kunst van het contemplatieve leven
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ISBN: 9020917641 Year: 1990 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo


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By noon prayer : the rhythm of Islam
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ISBN: 9781845200978 9781845200961 1845200977 1845200969 9781003084839 1003084834 9781000186710 1000186717 9781000183207 1000183203 9781000189834 100018983X 9781847884541 1474214533 1282285971 9786612285974 1847884547 9781474214537 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg,

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A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural and visual materials. Grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society, the study captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims' everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam - moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic.

Conversing with God : prayer in Erasmus' pastoral writing
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ISSN: 03183319 ISBN: 9780802041012 0802041019 9786612029387 128202938X 144267346X 9781442673465 Year: 1997 Volume: 13 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press,

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Conversing with God opens up for scholarly attention a much neglected aspect of Erasmus' philosophia Christi, building a lucid and cogent argument for the important theological aspect of Erasmus' prayers, which has often been discounted or denied by more traditional scholarship. Underlying this analysis is a principle both rhetorical and pastoral: accommodation. Pabel explains that in teaching his contemporaries how to accommodate their prayer to God, Erasmus engaged in a 'literary cure of souls, ' or a pastoral ministry executed through the printing press. In Conversing with God Hilmar M. Pabel examines Erasmus' understanding of prayer and how he taught western Christendom to pray in the Reformation era of the sixteenth century. To this end, Pabel adopts Erasmus' own rhetorical analysis of prayer, understood as a colloquy or conversation with God, and considers: Who is God, the audience of prayer? What sort of person should one be in order to pray? What is the proper object of prayer? With which words should one pray?

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