Lazarus, Mary and Martha

Lazarus, Mary and Martha
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800638306

Lazarus, Martha, and Mary: reframing the discussion -- Social identity and prototypes: a social-scientific model for historical and theological application -- Johannine processing of the past in relation to Lazarus, Martha, and Mary -- Lazarus, Martha, and Mary as prototypes -- The raising of Lazarus from the dead as prototypical -- The resurrection of Lazarus in early Christian art -- A theological conclusion: the raising of Lazarus and Christian identity.

Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults

Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults
Author: Mieke Prent
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 813
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047406907

This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200–600 BC). The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of sanctuaries, the history of their use and their religious and social functions, offering new insights into the period as a whole. Ancient Crete is known as an island whose religion displays a strong continuity with ‘Minoan’ traditions. The period of 1200–600 BC in general, however, is considered as one of profound socio-political and cultural change. This study explores the idea of ‘continuity’ by detailing the different processes and mechanisms involved in the maintenance of older cult traditions and provides balance by placing the observed changes in cult customs and the use of sanctuaries in the broader context of societal change.

Smärre Meddelanden

Smärre Meddelanden
Author: Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1934
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

Intercultural Encounters

Intercultural Encounters
Author: Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825867836

This book brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Like its author, it operates at the borderline between social anthropology and intercultural philosophy. It seeks to make a contribution to intercultural philosophy, by formulating with great precision and painful honesty the lessons deriving from extensive intercultural experiences as an anthropologist. Its culminating section presents an intercultural philosophy revolving on the tenet 'cultures do not exist'. The kaleidoscopic nature of intercultural experiences is reflected in the diversity of these texts. Many belong to a field that could be described as "meta-anthropology", others are more clearly philosophical; occasionally they spill over into belles lettres, ancient history, and comparative cultural and religious studies. The ethnographic specifics supporting the arguments are diverse, deriving from various African situations in which the author has conducted participatory field research (Tunisia, Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa).

The Mysteries of Stonehenge

The Mysteries of Stonehenge
Author: Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 896
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1445659549

The mythic foundations of the world's greatest archaeological mystery.

The Science of Folk-Lore

The Science of Folk-Lore
Author: Alexander Haggerty Krappe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429871112

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously working in the legacy of Savigny and the Brothers Grimm, the author explored the unrecorded traditions found within popular fiction, custom, belief, magic and ritual, attempting a reconstruction of humanity’s spiritual history through popular rather than elite voices. The work was intended to prove useful to scholars of related fields to folk-lore, with hopes of eventual interdisciplinarity.