Sacred Biography And History
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Author | : Thomas J. Heffernan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1992-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019536001X |
Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the intentions of medieval authors, who were neither credulous fools nor men blinded by piety. Concentrating on English texts, Heffernan reconstructs the medieval perspective and considers sacred biography in relation to the community for which it was written; identifies the genre's rhetorical practices and purposes; and demonstrates the syncretistic way in which the life of the medieval saint was transformed from oral tales to sacred text. In the process, Heffernan not only achieves a more contextually accurate understanding of the medieval saints' lives, but details a new critical method that has important implications for the practice of textual criticism.
Author | : Juliane Schober |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120818125 |
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature and art history present a broad range of explorations into sacred biography as an interpretive genre. Easch essay makes unique contributions and the collection as a whole engages methodological and interpretive approaches that are central to scholars of Buddhism and those specializing in the study of south and Southeast Asia.
Author | : Osmond Tiffany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Rian Thum |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067496702X |
For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr—the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet—have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing’s official national narrative. Rian Thum argues that the roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage dominated understandings of the past. Beyond broadening our knowledge of tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government, this meditation on the very concept of history probes the limits of human interaction with the past. Uyghur historical practice emerged from the circulation of books and people during the Qing Dynasty, when crowds of pilgrims listened to history readings at the tombs of Islamic saints. Over time, amid long journeys and moving rituals, at oasis markets and desert shrines, ordinary readers adapted community-authored manuscripts to their own needs. In the process they created a window into a forgotten Islam, shaped by the veneration of local saints. Partly insulated from the rest of the Islamic world, the Uyghurs constructed a local history that is at once unique and assimilates elements of Semitic, Iranic, Turkic, and Indic traditions—the cultural imports of Silk Road travelers. Through both ethnographic and historical analysis, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History offers a new understanding of Uyghur historical practices, detailing the remarkable means by which this people reckons with its past and confronts its nationalist aspirations in the present day.
Author | : Henry Hunter |
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Release | : 1786 |
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Author | : Osmond Tiffany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Henry Hunter |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1828 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Jonathan Black |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780874876 |
From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect us The Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, from Creation, to Evolution through to the operations of the supernatural in the modern world. This tale of how people and peoples have been helped by angels and other angelic beings is woven into a spellbinding narrative that brings together Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Elijah, Mary and Jesus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, the angels who helped Hungarian Jews persecuted by the Nazis, and stories from African, Native American and Celtic traditions. Told from the spiritual point of view, The Sacred History relates every betrayal, every change of heart, every twist and turn, everything that looks like a coincidence, every portent, every clue, every defeat, every rescue moments before the prison door clangs shut. This is the angelic version of events.
Author | : Osmond Tiffany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Susan Suntree |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803231989 |
"Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future."---Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel --