Temples In Transformation
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Temples in Transformation
Author | : Filip Čapek |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2023-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783643913982 |
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The focus of this book is on temples in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-600 BC) and their transformations. In order to capture the long-term context, some significant sites with temples from the Late Bronze Age are also presented and discussed. The author traces both material culture related to the temples and the way in which the same themes are treated in Old Testament texts concentrated primarily on Israel and Judah. From the analysis of these texts, he deduces a threefold transformation of the form of memory in relation to the temples and the cult. The first concerns a contrastive reshaping (Philistia and other neighbouring political entities), the second an external (Israel) and the third an internal (Judah) silencing of the actual form of religious practice in the Iron Age.
Bonds of the Dead
Author | : Mark Michael Rowe |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226730165 |
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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Mark Rowe offers a crucial account of how religious, political, social, and economic forces in the twentieth century led to the emergence of new funerary practices in Japan and how, as a result, the care of the dead has become the most fundamental challenge to the continued existence of Japanese temple Buddhism. Far from marking the death of Buddhism in Japan, Rowe argues, funerary Buddhism reveals the tradition at its most vibrant. Combining ethnographic research with doctrinal considerations, this is a fascinating book for anyone interested in Japanese society and religion.
Gods Temples and Ritual Practices
Author | : Ton Derks |
Publsiher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9053562540 |
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Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Gallien - Siedlungsgeschichte - Tempel - Ritus - Religion - Götter.
Tantric Temples
Author | : Peter Levenda |
Publsiher | : Nicolas-Hays, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780892546015 |
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Tantra is one of the most misunderstood of the esoteric disciplines. In order to get a clear idea as to the nature of Tantric ritual and belief it is necessary to go where Tantra is still practiced and from where important Tantric teachings originated a thousand years ago: the island of Java in present-day Indonesia. This book illustrates the history of Tantrism in Java with more than a hundred photographs of temples, statues and iconography dedicated to the system -- some rarely seen before, including the recently-excavated "white temple" of Yogyakarta -- and accounts of contemporary practices in the shrines, cemeteries and secret schools of Java It is this Tantra -- the Tantra of Java -- that has influenced secret societies, mystics, alchemists, Kabbalists and magicians for hundreds if not thousands of years. This book tells the story of how human sexuality became a metaphor and a template for both spiritual transformation and the manipulation of reality/ of how various sexual acts and psycho-biological states became the basis for a comprehensive cosmology that incorporates every aspect of human experience. Sometimes the secrets are buried where you least expect to find them. Sometimes they are hidden in plain sight. Sometimes... they are both. In the largest Muslim country in the world we will discover a path of Tantra so unique, yet so vibrant and alive, that we will be astonished that no one had heard of it until now.
Tradition Transmission and Transformation from Second Temple Literature through Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
Author | : Menahem Kister,Hillel Newman,Michael Segal,Ruth Clements |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004299139 |
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Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation presents fourteen papers delivered at the Thirteenth Orion Center International Symposium, which trace the development of interpretive traditions found in Second Temple texts through later interpretive contexts.
The Building of the First Temple
Author | : Peter Dubovský |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161538374 |
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What can we say about 1 Kings 6-8 that attributes the construction of the temple in its full glory to Solomon? Peter Dubovsky approaches these texts from the diachronic point of view by investigating evidence gathered from the ancient Near East demonstrating that temples were often changed. He analyzes biblical texts indicating that the first temple underwent some important changes. This result leads to the final step of his investigation: he offers a minimalist version of a chronological development of the first temple and ventures to offer a more nuanced model. This conclusion, on the one hand, should be ultimately confronted with the results of archaeological excavation once they become available; on the other hand, this study can point to some nuances that only a text can preserve and no archaeologist can ever unearth.
Indian Temple Architecture
Author | : Adam Hardy |
Publsiher | : Abhinav Publications |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 8170173124 |
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Leopards in the Temple
Author | : Morris Dickstein |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674006046 |
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The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American society. Offering a social as well as literary history, Dickstein provides a frank assessment of more than 20 key figures.