1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248334303316

Autore

Rice Nicole R. <1973->

Titolo

Lay piety and religious discipline in Middle English literature / / Nicole R. Rice [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-20165-9

1-281-98292-X

9786611982928

0-511-46476-2

0-511-57550-5

0-511-46323-5

0-511-46550-5

0-511-46243-3

0-511-46402-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; ; 73

Disciplina

820.9/382

Soggetti

English prose literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Religion and literature - England - History - To 1500

Spiritual life in literature

Spiritual life - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Religious thought - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Translations of the cloister : regulating spiritual aspiration -- Dialogic form and clerical understanding -- Lordship, pastoral care, and the order of charity -- Clerical widows and the reform of preaching -- Conclusion : spiritual guides in fifteenth-century books : cultural change and continuity.

Sommario/riassunto

In late-fourteenth-century England, the persistent question of how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One answer was



provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. These texts engaged with many of the same cultural questions as poets like Langland and Chaucer; however, they have not received the critical attention they deserve until now. Nicole Rice analyses how the idea of religious discipline was translated into varied literary forms in an atmosphere of religious change and controversy. By considering the themes of spiritual discipline, religious identity, and orthodoxy in Langland and Chaucer, the study also brings fresh perspectives to bear on Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. This juxtaposition of spiritual guidance and poetry will form an important contribution to our understanding of both authors and of late medieval religious practice and thought.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708399003321

Titolo

Domestic entitlements : meeting the needs : hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 17, 2005

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 60 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Government spending policy - United States

Entitlement spending - United States

Budget - United States

Medicare

Medicaid

Social security - United States

Budget

Economic policy

Entitlement spending

Government spending policy

Social security

Legislative hearings.

United States Economic policy

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Serial no. 109-4."

Print version is available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 24, 32-33).

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484968403321

Titolo

Esoteric Transfers and Constructions : Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / / edited by Mark Sedgwick, Francesco Piraino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030617882

3030617882

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities, , 2946-2665

Disciplina

277.3083

200

Soggetti

Religions

Theology

Islam - Doctrines

Judaism - Doctrines

Comparative Religion

Christian Theology

Islamic Theology

Jewish Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Esoteric and the Mystical, Transfers and Constructions -- 2. Seekers of Love: The Phenomenology of Emotion in



Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mystical Sources -- 3. Rabbi Salim Shabazi and Sufism: Synthesis or Juxtaposition? -- 4. “And you should also adjure in Arabic:” Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Formulas in the Solomonic Corpus -- 5. Compelling the Other: Esoteric Exorcism as a Reflection of Jewish–Christian Social Tensions in Premodern German Demonic Ritual Magic -- 6. Tlemcen, Algeria: A Would-Be Esoteric Colonial Settlement of the fin de siècle -- 7. Alfarabi as Leo Strauss’s Teacher of Platonic Esoteric Writing: Leo Strauss’s Rediscovery of Esotericism and its Islamic Origin -- 8. Aleister Crowley and Islam -- 9. The Sufi Shaykh and his Patients: Merging Islam, Psychoanalysis, and Western Esotericism -- 10. Sufism and the Enneagram -- 11. “A Remarkable Resemblance”: Comparative Mysticism and the Study of Sufism and Kabbalah -- 12. Heretical Orthodoxy: Eastern and Western Esotericism in Thomas Moore Johnson’s “Platonism” -- 13. Astrology, Letters and Cosmos: Ferid Vokopola’s Syncretism.

Sommario/riassunto

Similarities between esoteric and mystical currents in different religious traditions have long interested scholars. This book takes a new look at the relationship between such currents. It advances a discussion that started with the search for religious essences, archetypes, and universals, from William James to Eranos. The universal categories that resulted from that search were later criticized as essentialist constructions, and questioned by deconstructionists. An alternative explanation was advanced by diffusionists: that there were transfers between different traditions. This book presents empirical case studies of such constructions, and of transfers between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the premodern period, and Judaism, Christianity, and Western esotericism in the modern period. It shows that there were indeed transfers that can be clearly documented, and that there were also indeed constructions, often very imaginative. It also shows that there were many casesthat were neither transfers nor constructions, but a mixture of the two.