1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437645403321

Autore

Bryan Eric Shane

Titolo

Icelandic folklore : and the cultural memory of religious change / / by Eric Shane Bryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781641893763

1641893753

9781641894654

9781641893756

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Borderlines

Disciplina

398.2094912

Soggetti

Folklore - Iceland - History

Tales - Iceland - History and criticism

Reformation - Folklore

Christianity - Folklore

Tradition

Kollektives Gedächtnis

Electronic books.

Iceland Social life and customs

Island

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter.

Nota di contenuto

; Frontmatter -- ; CONTENTS -- ; Preface -- ; Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Stories, Memories, and Mechanisms of Belief -- The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365 -- The Elf Woman's Conversion: Memories of Gender and Gender Spheres -- The Fylgjur of Iceland: Attendant Spirits and a Distorted Sense of Guardianship -- The Elf Church: Memories of Contested Sacred Spaces -- The Stupid Boy and the Devil: Sæmundur Fróði Sigfússon, Magic, and Redemption -- ; Conclusion -- ; Select Bibliography -- ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly all recent examinations of Icelandic (and Scandinavian) folklore



from the nineteenth century and earlier have concerned themselves with the origins and production of folktales rather than with the cultural implications of their content. This volume extends those discussions by offering an interdisciplinary methodology that weaves together the literature, religious and political history, and other cultural phenomena that have impacted folk narratives as evidence of the emergent cultural memory of a society undergoing the religious developments of Christianization and Reformation. Iceland's uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralization" of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan in origin) intermingled as Christianity, and later Reformation, spread through the North. This volume unlocks that secret story by placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry. The analysis herein reveals a cultural memory of belief.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910799987403321

Autore

Khan Muhammad Akram <1945, >

Titolo

Islamic economics and finance : a glossary / / Muhammad Akram Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-36599-3

0-429-23448-1

1-134-36600-0

1-280-26767-4

9786610267675

0-203-61531-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 23

Classificazione

83.20

Altri autori (Persone)

KhanMuhammad Akram <1945->

Disciplina

330/.03

Soggetti

Economics - Arabic

Economics - Religious aspects - Islam - Arabic

Arabic language - English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Rev. edition of: Glossary of Islamic economics. London ; New York : Mansell, 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Islamic economics and finance have increased in importance over the last few decades, with new Islamic financial institutions opening up and a number of important books published on the topic. This glossary, fully updated and revised for the new edition, uses easy to understand language to introduce terms used by Muslim scholars, historians and legal experts. The book covers terms from Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Malaysian and English sources whilst covering the Islamic side of such terms as taxation, banking, insurance, accounting, and auditing.