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Mazus neue Heimat : Interpretationen und Institutionen einer chinesischen Göttin in Taiwan
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ISBN: 3940132594 9783940132598 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin : regiospectra Verl.,

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Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
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ISBN: 9789004366008 9004366008 Year: 2018 Publisher: BRILL

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Encounters, networks, identities and diversity are at the core of the history of Buddhism. They are also the focus of this book. While long-distance networks allowed Buddhist ideas to travel to all parts of East Asia, it was through local and trans-local networks and encounters, and a diversity of people and societies, that identities were made and negotiated. This book undertakes a detailed examination of discrete Buddhist identities rooted in unique cultural practices, beliefs and indigenous socio-political conditions. Moreover, it presents a fascinating picture of the intricacies of the regional and cross-regional networks that connected South and East Asia.


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Entre lignes de partage et territoires de passage : les identités religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. "Paganismes", "judaïsmes", "christianismes"
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ISBN: 9789042921306 9782758400462 2758400464 9042921307 Year: 2009 Volume: 47 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,


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Exile and religious identity : 1500-1800
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ISBN: 9781848934573 9781781440797 1848934572 9781138546035 9781315654218 9781317318385 9781317318392 1781440794 1781444269 1138546038 9781781444269 Year: 2018 Volume: 18 Publisher: London: Routledge,

Religious identity and the problem of historical foundation : the foundational character of authoritative sources in the history of christianity and judaism
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ISBN: 9004130217 9789004130210 9047412834 9789047412830 Year: 2004 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The essays collected in this book deal with the question how, throughout the history of Christianity, Christian communities have tried to construct their identity by anchoring their views in authoritative and normative sources. The main focus is upon the problem of historical foundation through textual traditions but other authoritative sources ( role of religious leaders; ritual traditions) are taken into consideration as well.The book takes as its point of departure the fact that with the rise of modernity the former dependence of western church and society on authoritative sources was called into question. Ever since, appeal to such sources is no longer self-evident; at times it is even regarded as problematic. Based on this radical change brought about by modernity, the book is divided in two main parts. The first part deals with the question how Christian churches and confessions ( Roman-Catholic and Protestant) confronted modernity and which role was played by authoritative sources in the tradition to the modern era. Special attention will be paid to the way in which Judaism reacted to many of the same impulses, both societal and religious ones. The second part deals with the premodern period, from early Christianity to the post-Reformation era, and focuses on the role authoritative traditions, textual or otherwise, have played in providing various Christian communities with a relative stable identity.The aim of the book is to elucidate processes resulting in the formation of authoritative traditions as well as the effects of these traditions on the identity of Christian and Jewish communities. In addition, the book attempts to clarify the various ways in which Christian and Jewish communities have reacted to the growing suspicion authoritative traditions aroused in the western world since the rise of modernity.


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Popular belief in contemporary China : a discourse analysis
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ISSN: 09462325 ISBN: 9783897333789 3897333783 Year: 2015 Volume: 69 Publisher: Bochum: Projekt,

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This publication offers a fresh and unique approach to the topic of popular belief in contemporary China. It focuses on the positions of participants in the Chinese-language discourse rather than taking the current state of research in the Western world as the starting point for its exploration. This study lays open the discursive thread in the People's Republic of China about indigeneity and the critical reception by Chinese academics of Western research approaches. Many Chinese authors have begun to question the ability of Western theories to adequately explain phenomena in China. This book also deals with discursive strategies in Chinese academics aimed at the legitimation of popular belief and in support of a scientific treatment of popular belief in the People's Republic of China. The author gives a comprehensive overview of the broad range of positions within this rapidly unfolding social and academic sphere


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Letters and communities : studies in the socio-political dimensions of ancient epistolography
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ISBN: 9780198804208 0198804202 0191842400 0192526227 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press,

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In the ancient world, letter-writing not only forged connections between individuals, but also helped to construct and cultivate group-identities and communities. This volume explores the interrelation of epistolary communication and socio-political practice across four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.


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Food and religious identities in Spain, 1400 – 1600
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ISBN: 0367887215 9780367887216 9780415790673 0415790670 9781315212920 9781351817035 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Routledge

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In the late fourteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to three major religions which co-existed in relative peace. Over the next two centuries, various political and social factors changed the face of Iberia dramatically. This book examines this period of dynamic change in Iberian history through the lens of food and its relationship to religious identity. It also provides a basis for further study of the connection between food and identities of all types. This study explores the role of food as an expression of religious identity made evident in things like fasting, feasting, ingredient choices, preparation methods and commensal relations. It considers the role of food in the formation and redefinition of religious identities throughout this period and its significance in the maintenance of ideological and physical boundaries between faiths. This is an insightful and unique look into interreligious dynamics. It will therefore, be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Early Modern European History and Food Studies.


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Religion und Stadtekonkurrenz : zum politischen und kulturellen Kontext von Pausanias' Periegese
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ISBN: 1282187651 9786612187650 3110216566 9783110216561 9783110206890 3110206897 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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Die Studie wählt einen neuen Forschungsansatz, der von der Prämisse ausgeht, dass es sich in der Periegese des Pausanias um kaschiertes Städtelob (beziehungsweise Städtetadel) handelt. Die Autorin weist zur Begründung auf eine gezielte "Verrätselung" der Periegese hin, die sie vor allem aus dem gattungsuntypischen Anfang und Schluss des Werks ableitet. Zentrales Kriterium der Städtewertungen ist die Religion, ein politischer Zusammenhang, der seit dem Hellenismus Tradition hat. Die zum Teil bisher ungeklärten Strukturen des Werks, wie die Lückenhaftigkeit oder der kompilative Charakter der Periegese, führt Frateantonio auf verschiedene rhetorische Beschreibungsprinzipien zurück, die sie in ihrem Verhältnis zum kulturellen Kontext der Zweiten Sophistik untersucht. Das dominante Vorbild des Pausanias sieht die Autorin in dem hellenistischen Historiker Polemon von Ilion.


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Debate and dialogue : Christian and pagan cultures c. 360-430
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ISBN: 9781138376076 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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This is a story of Babylon and Jerusalem - binary oppositions in Christian polemics against 'paganism' in 360-430. In Christian texts, Jerusalem cannot exist without Babylon and vice versa. The theme of this book is the construction of Christian identity through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions.

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