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The death of sacred texts : ritual disposal and renovation of texts in world religions / / edited by Kristina Myrvold
| The death of sacred texts : ritual disposal and renovation of texts in world religions / / edited by Kristina Myrvold |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MyrvoldKristina |
| Soggetto topico |
Sacred books
Books - Religious aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-317-03640-9
1-315-61531-2 1-317-03639-5 1-282-54528-0 9786612545283 0-7546-9621-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Accounts of a Dying Scroll: On Jewish Handling of Sacred Texts in Need of Restoration or Disposal; 2 Relating, Revering, and Removing: Muslim Views on the Use, Power, and Disposal of Divine Words; 3 A Fitting Ceremony: Christian Concerns for Bible Disposal; 4 The Death of the Dharma: Buddhist Sutra Burials in Early Medieval Japan; 5 Rites of Burial and Immersion: Hindu Ritual Practices on Disposing of Sacred Texts in Vrindavan; 6 Is a Manuscript an Object or a Living Being?: Jain Views on the Life and Use of Sacred Texts
7 Making the Scripture a Person: Reinventing Death Rituals of Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism8 Disposing of Non-Disposable Texts: Conclusions and Prospects for Further Study; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458907003321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The death of sacred texts : ritual disposal and renovation of texts in world religions / / edited by Kristina Myrvold
| The death of sacred texts : ritual disposal and renovation of texts in world religions / / edited by Kristina Myrvold |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MyrvoldKristina |
| Soggetto topico |
Sacred books
Books - Religious aspects |
| ISBN |
1-317-03640-9
1-315-61531-2 1-317-03639-5 1-282-54528-0 9786612545283 0-7546-9621-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Accounts of a Dying Scroll: On Jewish Handling of Sacred Texts in Need of Restoration or Disposal; 2 Relating, Revering, and Removing: Muslim Views on the Use, Power, and Disposal of Divine Words; 3 A Fitting Ceremony: Christian Concerns for Bible Disposal; 4 The Death of the Dharma: Buddhist Sutra Burials in Early Medieval Japan; 5 Rites of Burial and Immersion: Hindu Ritual Practices on Disposing of Sacred Texts in Vrindavan; 6 Is a Manuscript an Object or a Living Being?: Jain Views on the Life and Use of Sacred Texts
7 Making the Scripture a Person: Reinventing Death Rituals of Guru Granth Sahib in Sikhism8 Disposing of Non-Disposable Texts: Conclusions and Prospects for Further Study; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792404103321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism / / Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ
| Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism / / Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ |
| Autore | Brown Brian A. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Laozi
Confucius |
| Soggetto topico |
Sacred books
Religions - Relations |
| ISBN | 1-4422-6578-7 |
| Classificazione | REL017000REL007030REL018000REL032030REL065000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
contents; foreword; illustrations; acknowledgments; abridgment and dramatic presentations; prologue. Four Fingers and a Thumb: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta; book one. FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH TO OUR COMMON SPIRITUAL ANCESTORS; introduction. East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion; exordium. What We Once Knew; preface. Why the Z Factor Matters; chapter 1. from the foundations of the earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West; chapter 2. a priest becomes a prophet: Commissioned at the River
chapter 3. a chance meeting at the crossroads of history: Before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylonchapter 4. the silk route: The Axis of the Axial Age; chapter 5. the extant avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle; chapter 6. the fraternal twins of world religions: Monism for Monotheists; book two. THE TAOIST TESTAMENT; introduction. Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First Millennium BCE; preface. Magic and iMagination; chapter 7. tao te ching; book three. THE CONFUCIAN TESTAMENT; introduction. Tradition versus Innovation; preface. Fireworks, East and West chapter 8. analectsbook four. THE BUDDHIST TESTAMENT; introduction. The Indian Origins of Buddhism; preface. The Path of the Teachings; chapter 9. dhammapada; book five. THE HINDU TESTAMENT; introduction. Reciprocal Illumination; preface. With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi; chapter 10. bhagavad gita; book six. THE Z FACTOR; introduction. The Texts; preface. New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies; chapter 11. israel in exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer; chapter 12. jesus as a zoroastrian saoshyant, the redeemer of the world chapter 13. chinvat bridge: the final judgment. Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and Confirmed in the Quranbook seven. THE "DEAD ZEE SCROLLS"; introduction. Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls"; preface. A Model for the Twenty-First Century; chapter 14. among the ruins: Tablets and Cylinders; chapter 15. from aurel stein to mary boyce and beyond: Controversies in the Twentieth Century and Resolution in the Twenty-First; epilogue. The Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet from the East for the Twenty-First Century APPENDIX. Images of the Original Eastern Testaments and Tantalizing Hints of Things to Comenotes; bibliography; index; about the author; about the contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798476603321 |
Brown Brian A. <1942->
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism / / Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ
| Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism / / Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ |
| Autore | Brown Brian A. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Laozi
Confucius |
| Soggetto topico |
Sacred books
Religions - Relations |
| ISBN | 1-4422-6578-7 |
| Classificazione | REL017000REL007030REL018000REL032030REL065000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
contents; foreword; illustrations; acknowledgments; abridgment and dramatic presentations; prologue. Four Fingers and a Thumb: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta; book one. FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH TO OUR COMMON SPIRITUAL ANCESTORS; introduction. East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion; exordium. What We Once Knew; preface. Why the Z Factor Matters; chapter 1. from the foundations of the earth: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West; chapter 2. a priest becomes a prophet: Commissioned at the River
chapter 3. a chance meeting at the crossroads of history: Before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylonchapter 4. the silk route: The Axis of the Axial Age; chapter 5. the extant avesta: Pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle; chapter 6. the fraternal twins of world religions: Monism for Monotheists; book two. THE TAOIST TESTAMENT; introduction. Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First Millennium BCE; preface. Magic and iMagination; chapter 7. tao te ching; book three. THE CONFUCIAN TESTAMENT; introduction. Tradition versus Innovation; preface. Fireworks, East and West chapter 8. analectsbook four. THE BUDDHIST TESTAMENT; introduction. The Indian Origins of Buddhism; preface. The Path of the Teachings; chapter 9. dhammapada; book five. THE HINDU TESTAMENT; introduction. Reciprocal Illumination; preface. With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi; chapter 10. bhagavad gita; book six. THE Z FACTOR; introduction. The Texts; preface. New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies; chapter 11. israel in exile: God as Israel's Only Redeemer; chapter 12. jesus as a zoroastrian saoshyant, the redeemer of the world chapter 13. chinvat bridge: the final judgment. Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" Corrected and Confirmed in the Quranbook seven. THE "DEAD ZEE SCROLLS"; introduction. Searching for the "Dead Zee Scrolls"; preface. A Model for the Twenty-First Century; chapter 14. among the ruins: Tablets and Cylinders; chapter 15. from aurel stein to mary boyce and beyond: Controversies in the Twentieth Century and Resolution in the Twenty-First; epilogue. The Resurrection of Zoroaster: A Prophet from the East for the Twenty-First Century APPENDIX. Images of the Original Eastern Testaments and Tantalizing Hints of Things to Comenotes; bibliography; index; about the author; about the contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821598703321 |
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Brown Brian A. <1942->
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity / / Guy G. Stroumsa
| The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity / / Guy G. Stroumsa |
| Autore | Stroumsa Guy G. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sacred books - History and criticism
Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Christianity and other religions Books - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| ISBN |
0-674-97486-7
0-674-97488-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Double Paradigm Shift -- 1. A Scriptural Galaxy -- 2. A Divine Palimpsest -- 3. Religious Revolution and Cultural Change -- 4. Scripture and Culture -- 5. The New Self and Reading Practices -- 6. Communities of Knowledge -- 7. Eastern Wisdoms -- 8. A World Full of Letters -- 9. Scriptural and Personal Authority -- Conclusion: Alexandria, Jerusalem, Baghdad -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150218503321 |
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Stroumsa Guy G.
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| Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush
| Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
| Collana | Signifying (on) Scriptures |
| Soggetto topico | Sacred books - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-39729-6
9786611397296 0-8135-4462-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- ; Talking back -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- ; Talking back -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- ; Talking back -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- ; Talking back -- In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai -- ; Talking back. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454649403321 |
| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush
| Theorizing Scriptures [[electronic resource] ] : new critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon / / edited by Vincent L. Wimbush |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WimbushVincent L |
| Collana | Signifying (on) Scriptures |
| Soggetto topico | Sacred books - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-281-39729-6
9786611397296 0-8135-4462-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell -- Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam -- Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann -- Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- ; Talking back -- Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng -- Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews -- Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu -- Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke -- Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan -- ; Talking back -- Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell -- Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje -- Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions -- Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker -- Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond -- ; Talking back -- Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding -- American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson -- Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris -- Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle -- Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort -- Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond -- Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa -- ; Talking back -- In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky -- Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker -- Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai -- ; Talking back. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782288003321 |
| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Three testaments [[electronic resource] ] : Torah, Gospel, and Quran / / Brian Arthur Brown
| Three testaments [[electronic resource] ] : Torah, Gospel, and Quran / / Brian Arthur Brown |
| Autore | Brown Brian A. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (657 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religions - Relations
Abrahamic religions Sacred books |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781442214941
1442214945 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | bk. 1. Torah -- bk. 2. Gospel -- bk. 3. The Quran. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465417903321 |
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Brown Brian A. <1942->
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| Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Three testaments [[electronic resource] ] : Torah, Gospel, and Quran / / Brian Arthur Brown
| Three testaments [[electronic resource] ] : Torah, Gospel, and Quran / / Brian Arthur Brown |
| Autore | Brown Brian A. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (657 p.) |
| Disciplina | 208/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religions - Relations
Abrahamic religions Sacred books |
| ISBN |
9781442214941
1442214945 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | bk. 1. Torah -- bk. 2. Gospel -- bk. 3. The Quran. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791710403321 |
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Brown Brian A. <1942->
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| Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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