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S35/1022 --- S35/1026 --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- Japan--Buddhism: sacred texts (incl. commentaries) see also 37/ --- Japan--Buddhist sects: Zen --- Rinzai (Sect) --- Buddhist sects --- Zen Buddhism --- Linji (Sect) --- Controversial literature

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Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.

Judaism and social problems. --- Justice (Jewish theology) --- Social justice --- Righteousness (Jewish theology) --- Religion and justice --- Social problems and Judaism --- Social problems --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Rabbinical literature --- History and criticism. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bible. --- Emmanuel Levinas. --- Jewish theology. --- Rabbinic literature. --- cities. --- class. --- community. --- ethics. --- faith traditions. --- hermeneutics. --- homelessness. --- philosophy. --- polemics. --- politics. --- poverty. --- religion. --- sacred texts. --- social justice. --- Rabbinical literature - History and criticism.

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Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in which Muslim men and women experience the myriad dimensions of sharia often go unnoticed and unpublicized. So too do recent historical changes in sharia judiciaries and contemporary strategies on the part of political and religious elites, social engineers, and brand stewards to shape, solidify, and rebrand these institutions.Sharia Transformations is an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and the changes that have occurred in the court discourses and practices in recent decades. Michael G. Peletz approaches Malaysia’s sharia judiciary as a global assemblage and addresses important issues in the humanistic and social-scientific literature concerning how Malays and other Muslims engage ethical norms and deal with law, social justice, and governance in a rapidly globalizing world.

Islamic law --- Islamic law. --- Islam --- Islam and politics --- Islamic ethics --- Islam and politics. --- Social aspects --- anthropology. --- arabic. --- assemblage. --- bureaucratization. --- court. --- governance. --- history. --- islam. --- islamic law. --- islamization. --- judiciary. --- justice. --- kuala lumpur. --- law. --- legal system. --- malays. --- malaysia. --- muslim. --- nonfiction. --- piety. --- religion. --- religiosity. --- righteousness. --- sacred texts. --- sharia courts. --- sharia. --- sin. --- social justice. --- social science. --- sulh. --- virtue. --- west malaysia.

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Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? Charlotte D. Eubanks argues that the medieval genre of "explanatory tales" illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Her highly original approach to understanding Buddhist textuality focuses on the sensual aspects of religious experience and also looks beyond Japan to explore pre-modern book history, practices of preaching, miracles of reading, and the Mahayana Buddhist "cult of the book."

Books and reading --- Buddhism --- Buddhist literature, Japanese --- Folk literature, Japanese --- Movement, Psychology of --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- History --- History and criticism. --- affect theory. --- amida. --- bodhisattvas. --- book history. --- buddha. --- buddhism. --- buddhist texts. --- china. --- cult of the book. --- dharma. --- east asia. --- embodiment. --- explanatory tales. --- history of the book. --- indian scriptures. --- japan. --- japanese didactic tales. --- mahayana buddhism. --- materiality. --- medieval japan. --- memory. --- miracles. --- nonfiction. --- popular religion. --- preaching. --- religion. --- religious texts. --- sacred literature. --- sacred texts. --- scroll. --- sermons. --- setsuwa. --- spirituality. --- sutra recitations. --- sutra. --- textual culture. --- transubstantiation.

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The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this book tells the story of the first criticism of Kabbalah, Ari Nohem, written by Leon Modena in Venice in 1639. In this scathing indictment of Venetian Jews who had embraced Kabbalah as an authentic form of ancient esotericism, Modena proved the recent origins of Kabbalah and sought to convince his readers to return to the spiritualized rationalism of Maimonides. The Scandal of Kabbalah examines the hallmarks of Jewish modernity displayed by Modena's attack--a critical analysis of sacred texts, skepticism about religious truths, and self-consciousness about the past--and shows how these qualities and the later history of his polemic challenge conventional understandings of the relationship between Kabbalah and modernity. Dweck argues that Kabbalah was the subject of critical inquiry in the very period it came to dominate Jewish life rather than centuries later as most scholars have thought.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Cabala --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Mysticism --- History. --- Judaism --- Modena, Leone, --- Ari Nohem. --- Bible. --- Christian Kabbalah. --- Christianity. --- Cordovero. --- Elijah Benamozegh. --- Guide of the Perplexed. --- Hasidism. --- Hebrew printing. --- Isaac Haver Wildmann. --- Isaac Luria. --- Isaac Reggio. --- Israel Saruq. --- Jewish Kabbalah. --- Jewish community. --- Jewish intellectuals. --- Jewish law. --- Jewish life. --- Jewish modernity. --- Jewish theology. --- Jewish tradition. --- Julius Frst. --- Kabbalah. --- Leon Modena. --- Maimonides. --- Pardes Rimonim. --- Pico della Mirandola. --- Sabbatai Zevi. --- Sabbatianism. --- Safed Kabbalah. --- Solomon Rosenthal. --- Venetian Jews. --- Zohar. --- antiquity. --- contemporary Jewish life. --- divine being. --- early modern Venice. --- esoteric information. --- esoteric kabbalistic treatises. --- esoteric secrets. --- esotericism. --- exegesis. --- kabbalistic books. --- kabbalistic hermeneutics. --- kabbalistic theology. --- manuscript production. --- modernity. --- mystical symbolism. --- philosophic knowledge. --- philosophy. --- printed book. --- pseudepigraphic. --- ritual practices. --- sacred texts. --- sefirot. --- theosophical Kabbalah. --- theurgic powers. --- Controversial literature