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This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era.

Syriac Christians --- Syriac literature --- Syrian language --- Syrians --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Civlization. --- History --- Syria --- Languages. --- Syriac language --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Aramaic language --- Syrian Christians --- Christians --- Ethnology --- Civilization --- History and criticism --- Civilization. --- Civlization --- 939.4 --- 939.4 Geschiedenis van Syrië --- Geschiedenis van Syrië --- Syrians - Asia - History --- Syrians - Civlization --- Syriac Christians - History --- Syrian language - History --- Syriac literature - History and criticism --- Syriac medicine

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World history --- anno 500-1499 --- Civilization, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Civilisation médiévale --- Moyen Age --- Encyclopedias. --- Encyclopédies --- Europe --- History --- Histoire --- Civlization, Medieval --- 940.1 --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- 940.1 Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- Civilisation médiévale --- Encyclopédies --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Medieval civilization --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Civlization, Medieval - Encyclopedias --- Middle Ages - Encyclopedias --- Europe - History - 476-1492 - Encyclopedias --- Moyen âge --- 476-1492

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Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.

291.3 --- 291.3 Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus liturgie --- Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus liturgie --- 291.3 Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus; liturgie --- Godsdienstwetenschap: cultus; liturgie --- History of civilization --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Religious studies --- Ritual --- Religion --- Anthropology --- Human evolution --- Social evolution --- Religion and sociology --- History --- Ritual. --- Rituel --- Social Sciences --- Religion - History --- Religion. --- religion --- ritual --- humanity --- civlization --- evolution of life --- religion and science --- intellectual authority --- language and culture