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UNINA9910452003903321 |
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Campion Nicholas |
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Astrology and cosmology in the world's religions [[electronic resource] /] / Nicholas Campion |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2012 |
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0-8147-0842-0 |
0-8147-4445-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 273 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Astrology |
Cosmology |
Religions |
Religion |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cosmology and religion: measurement and meaning -- Astrology: the celestial mirror -- Australia: the dreaming -- Oceania: navigating the sky -- North Americas: the Great Spirit -- South and Central America: salvation and sacrifice -- Sub-Saharan Africa: heaven on earth -- Egypt: the solar society -- China: the celestial offices -- India: ancient traditions and modern practice -- Babylon: signs in the sky -- The Jews: myth, magic, and transcendence -- Classical Greece: ascent to the stars -- Christianity: influence and transcendence -- Islam: faith and reason -- Theosophical, new age, and pagan cosmologies: nature and transformation. |
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When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980's. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how they hold significance for human lives on earth. Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions offers an accessible overview of the astrologies of the world's religions, placing them into context within theories of how the wider universe came into being and |
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operates. Campion traces beliefs about the heavens among peoples ranging from ancient Egypt and China, to Australia and Polynesia, and India and the Islamic world. Addressing each religion in a separate chapter, Campion outlines how, by observing the celestial bodies, people have engaged with the divine, managed the future, and attempted to understand events here on earth. This fascinating text offers a unique way to delve into comparative religions and will also appeal to those intrigued by New Age topics. |
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UNINA9910169179603321 |
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Autore |
Rietbergen P. J. A. N. |
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Power and religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini cultural policies / / by Peter Rietbergen |
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Brill, 2005 |
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Leiden ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 437 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; volume 135 |
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Papacy - History - 1566-1799 |
Rome (Italy) Civilization Christian influences History 17th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: When the bees flew -- Prologue: Giacinto Gigli, chronicler, or: power in the streets of Rome -- Chapter One: The Barberini build a chapel, or: rising to power in post-Tridentine Rome -- Chapter Two: Maffeo Barberini-Urban VIII, the Poet-Pope, or: the power of poetic propaganda -- Chapter Three: The ‘Days and Works’ of Francesco, Cardinal Barberini, or: how to be a powerful cardinal-padrone? -- Chapter Four: Prince Eckembergh comes to dinner, or: power through culinary ceremony -- Chapter Five: The Bare Feet of St Augustine, or: the power of religious images -- Chapter Six: Lucas Holste (1596–1661), scholar and librarian, or: the power of books and libraries -- Chapter Seven: Ibrahim al-Hakilani (1605–1664), |
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or: the power of scholarship and publishing -- Chapter Eight: Urban VIII between White Magic and Black Magic, or: holy and unholy power -- Epilogue: The Return of the Muses: Instruments of cultural policy in Barberini Rome, 1623–1644 -- Conclusion: “L’età fortunata del Mele”, or ‘Honey’s Happy Age’: The Barberini pontificate as a generation, a crossroads—problems of perspective -- Index. |
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In ten chapters, partly case-studies, this monograph analyzes the (new) ways in which cultural manifestations were used to create the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). It was the intensified interaction between culture and power-politics that created what we now call ‘the Baroque’. Based on a rich variety of, hitherto largely unexplored, primary sources, the book addresses the basic issues of papal power in the post-Tridentine period. It does not study actual papal politics, but rather the cultural forms that were essential to the representation and legitimatization of the papacy’s power, both secular and religious and that (co-)determined the effectiveness of papal policy. Precisely during Urban’s long pontificate, the manifold, always imaginative and often unexpected uses of power representation became, in the end, not so much a series of cultural forms as, in a sense, the structure of early modern (Roman) society. |
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