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| 81. |  | Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships  Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: On Roman time: the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity Author: Salzman, Michele Renee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Classical History Publisher's Description: Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance rema . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history Author: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Religion Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | Title: Gender and salvation: Jaina debates on the spiritual liberation of women Author: Jaini, Padmanabh S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | South Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining salvation? In Gender and Salvation , P. S. Jaini brings to light heretofore untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: Why Waco?: cults and the battle for religious freedom in America Author: Tabor, James D 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. Whether these tragic deaths could have been avoided is still debatable, but what seems clear is that the events in Te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Tibet | Autobiographies and Biographies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: The messiah before Jesus: the suffering servant of the Dead Sea scrolls Author: Knohl, Israel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Messiah bef . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | Philosophy Publisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: The art and politics of Wana shamanship Author: Atkinson, Jane Monnig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Religion | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity Author: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Christianity | Classical Religions | History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: Hidden heritage: the legacy of the Crypto-Jews Author: Jacobs, Janet Liebman Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Latin American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really want Author: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European History Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Classical Religions | Classics | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more] Similar Items |