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Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
by Andrea Seri
This book focuses on certain local powers in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (ca. 2000-1595 BC), namely the chief of the city (rabianum), the elders, the 'city', and the assembly. This is a novel approach to Old Babylonian history that allows us to understand the constituency, activities, and sphere of influence of local institutions of authority, and the way they coped with state officials and royal policies. This focus on local power allows ...
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Representing Religion
by Tim Murphy
Since Saussure argued that there is an arbitrary, not a natural, relationship between a signifier and what it signifies, the human sciences have been in a "crisis of representation." This volume consists of essays which explore the critical and constructive dimensions of that crisis. The critical dimension focuses on the history of Religious Studies, especially phenomenology, showing how it has been predicated on a transcendental, non-empirical ...
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Meditations of the Heart: The Psalms in Early Christian Thought and Practice. Essays in Honour of Andrew Louth
edited by Andreas Andreopoulos, Augustine Casiday and Carol Harrison
The Psalms are one of the most important biblical texts in Patristic exegesis, commentary, preaching, liturgical practice and theological reflection. Their language and imagery is all-pervasive; they were not only interpreted by the fathers but a good deal of Patristic exegetical practice actually evolved from engagement with them; they directly informed Christological and Ecclesiological reflection; were central to early monasticism; inspired ...
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Conscience and the 'Parochial and Plain Sermons' of John Henry Newman
by Fabio Attard SDB
A theme rightly associated with the personality of John Henry Newman is that of conscience. To the general reader, Newman's life story comes across as a witness of someone who followed the light of his conscience wherever it lead him. Yet, for those who decide to enter into a more familiar knowledge of the man, it will soon become clear that the meaning of conscience in his life goes much deeper than was originally thought. The main aim of this ...
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Defining Islam
edited by Andrew Rippin
Defining Islam: A Reader aims to present original source material and scholarly reflections on how the word "Islam" is to be used and understood. Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims, questions of what it meant to be a member of that group, who was to be included and who excluded, and what the requirements for membership were, have proven to be both divisive and defining for the community itself. ...
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Emblemata sacra: The Rhetoric and Hermeneutics of Sacred Discourse in Images
edited by A. Guiderdoni and R. Dekoninck
This volume of essays follows a conference that took place in January 2005 in Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to the close collaboration between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Literature Department) and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (the research group 'Figures et formes de la spiritualite dans la litterature et les expressions artistiques'). The thirty-eight essays have been organised in seven sections. The first section ...
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Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursileria and Saintliness in Spanish Novels
by Kathy Bacon
This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.á Kathy Bacons innovative approach to sainthood leads to fresh readings of texts by Spains three principal realist novelists: La familia de León Roch and Nazarín (Benito Pérez Galdós, 1878 and 1895), La Regenta ...
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Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes: Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop
edited by Peter F Dorman and Betsy M Bryan
This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space ...
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Lord's Table: The Meaning of Food in Early Judaism and Christianity
by Gillian Feely-Harnick
This anthropological study looks at how dietary laws and customs were used to create a system of religious symbolism and ultimately forge a sense of community and identity in biblical times. 184P (Smithsonian Institute 1994)
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Ani-La: The Nuns from Redna Menling
by J. van de Belt
'No, but we are different. Tonpa Sherab treated men and women in the same way, he passed on his teachings to both men and women and that is why we nuns are on equal footing with the monks, quite unlike the Buddhists.'

The Bön religion is often seen as a part of the Tibetan Buddhism but its bond is actually far more complex and has its own origin in the history of Tibet. The role of women worshipping in Bön and Tibetan ...
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