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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452942703321

Autore

Szpiech Ryan

Titolo

Conversion and narrative [[electronic resource] ] : reading and religious authority in Medieval polemic / / Ryan Szpiech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-89866-7

0-8122-0761-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

The middle ages series

Disciplina

248.2/460902

Soggetti

Apologetics - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Conversion - Christianity - History - To 1500

Religious biography - History and criticism

Identification (Religion) - History - To 1500

Christian converts from Judaism - History

Jewish converts from Christianity - History

Muslim converts from Christianity - History

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Christianity and other religions - Islam

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Islam - Relations - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Peripety to Prose -- Chapter 2. Alterity and Auctoritas -- Chapter 3. In the Shadow of the Khazars -- Chapter 4. A War of Words -- Chapter 5. The Jargon of Authenticity -- Chapter 6. The Supersessionist Imperative -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a "great man" who urged him to awaken from his slumber.



Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity and wrote a number of works attacking his old faith. Abner tells the story in fantastic detail in the opening to his Hebrew-language but anti-Jewish polemical treatise, Teacher of Righteousness.In the religiously plural context of the medieval Western Mediterranean, religious conversion played an important role as a marker of social boundaries and individual identity. The writers of medieval religious polemics such as Teacher of Righteousness often began by giving a brief, first-person account of the rejection of their old faith and their embrace of the new. In such accounts, Ryan Szpiech argues, the narrative form plays an important role in dramatizing the transition from infidelity to faith.Szpiech draws on a wide body of sources from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the place of narrative in the representation of conversion. Making a firm distinction between stories told about conversion and the experience of religious change, his book is not a history of conversion itself but a comparative study of how and why it was presented in narrative form within the context of religious disputation. He argues that between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, conversion narratives were needed to represent communal notions of history and authority in allegorical, dramatic terms. After considering the late antique paradigms on which medieval Christian conversion narratives were based, Szpiech juxtaposes Christian stories with contemporary accounts of conversion to Islam and Judaism. He emphasizes that polemical conflict between Abrahamic religions in the medieval Mediterranean centered on competing visions of history and salvation. By seeing conversion not as an individual experience but as a public narrative, Conversion and Narrative provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on medieval writing about religious disputes.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795854603321

Autore

Chambers R. L (Ray L.)

Titolo

An introduction to model-based survey sampling with applications [[electronic resource] /] / Raymond L. Chambers, Robert G. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-162789-5

0-19-162790-9

9786613593962

1-280-49873-0

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 265 p. : ill

Collana

Oxford statistical science series ; ; 37

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkRobert G

Disciplina

519.5/2

Soggetti

Sampling (Statistics) - Methodology

Sampling (Statistics) - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Basics of model-based survey inference -- pt. 2. Robust model-based survey methods -- pt. 3. Applications of model-based survey inference.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910587598603321

Titolo

Corona in Lateinamerika

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baden-Baden, : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022

ISBN

3-7489-3002-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Studien zu Lateinamerika ; Band 43

Soggetti

GTB

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Einleitung / Kristina Dietz, Stefan Peters -- Die Corona-Pandemie in Lateinamerika--ein Überblick aus der Perspektive sozialer Ungleichheiten / Christiane Schulte -- Annäherungen an Covid-19 und Ungleichheiten in Lateinamerika / Alba Caroslo -- Covid-19 und die lateinamerikanischen Arbeitsmärkte / Jürgen Weller -- Sorge im Zentrum: die Folgen der Corona-Krise in Lateinamerika aus Geschlechterperspektive / Carroline Kim -- Ungleichheit in Zeiten von Corona oder--Lateinamerikas Wege in die Zukunft / Hans-Jürgen Borchardt -- Die konspirationistische Internationale im Covid-Kontext: Verschwörungserzählungen, Apokalypsen und Affektkulturen einer "neuen Rechten" in Lateinamerika / Patrick Eser -- Nicaragua: Liebe in Zeiten von Covid-19 / Moritz Krawinkel -- Corona-Krisenmanagement und Demokratie in Lateinamerika und der Karibik / Claudia Zilla -- Mehr Empörung als Angst: soziale Mobilisierung in Kolumbien in Zeiten der Pandemie / Axel Rojas -- Gewalt und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Zeiten der Covid-19-Pandemie in Brasilien / Carolina Alves Vestena -- Anti-Ökologismus in Brasilien: von schleichender zu offener Gewalt / Andréa Zhouri

Sommario/riassunto

Die Corona-Pandemie hat Lateinamerika mit besonderer Härte getroffen. In keiner Weltregion haben sich so viele Menschen nachweislich mit dem Virus infiziert wie hier. Unter dem Einfluss der Pandemie haben Armut und Ungleichheiten zugenommen und die Wirtschaftskrise hat sich verschärft. In einigen Ländern haben autoritäre und repressive Tendenzen zugenommen. All dies stellt die Region vor enorme Herausforderungen. Der Sammelband widmet sich den Folgen



der Corona-Pandemie und den pandemiebezogenen politischen Maßnahmen in Lateinamerika und der Karibik. Die Beiträge betrachten die Folgen der Pandemie für soziale Ungleichheiten, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Gewalt gegen Frauen, Demokratie, Menschenrechte, Arbeit, die Mobilisierung von Protest und Umweltpolitik. Die Artikel diskutieren, welche gesellschaftlichen und politischen Lehren sich aus den Pandemieerfahrungen in Lateinamerika Ende 2021 ziehen lassen, zu einem Zeitpunkt an dem die Region weit entfernt ist von einer postpandemischen Ära. Mit Beiträgen von Carolina Alves Vestena, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Alba Carosio, Kristina Dietz, Patrick Eser, Caroline Kim, Moritz Krawinckel, Stefan Peters, Axel Rojas, Christiane Schulte, Jürgen Weller, Andréa Zhouri und Claudia Zilla.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit Latin America particularly hard. In no other region of the world have so many people been infected with the virus as here. Influenced by the pandemic, poverty and inequality have increased, the economic crisis has worsened and, in some countries, authoritarian and repressive tendencies have grown, all of which poses enormous challenges for the region. This anthology is dedicated to the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and pandemic policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The articles it contains examine the consequences of the pandemic in terms of social inequalities, gender relations, violence against women, democracy, human rights, labour, the mobilisation of protest and environmental policy. They discuss what social and political lessons can be drawn from the pandemic experience in Latin America at the end of 2021, when the region is far from a post-pandemic era. With contributions by Carolina Alves Vestena, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Alba Carosio, Kristina Dietz, Patrick Eser, Caroline Kim, Moritz Krawinckel, Stefan Peters, Axel Rojas, Christiane Schulte, Jürgen Weller, Andréa Zhouri and Claudia Zilla.