Religion in History, Society and Culture
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven: Nature and Flower Imagery in Latter-Day Saints Women's Literature, 1880-1920
1st Edition
By Susanna Morrill
April 27, 2016
First published in 2006. This volume marks the tenth volume in its series: Religion in History, Society and Culture. This series is designed to bring exciting new work by young scholars on religion to a wider audience. Susanna Morrill offers here a fine and sensitive reading of the little known, ...
Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation & Lived Experience Among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559–1642
1st Edition
By Lisa McClain
June 08, 2015
Through compelling personal stories and in rich detail, McClain reveals the give-and-take interaction between the institutional church in Rome and the needs of believers and the hands-on clergy who provided their pastoral care within England. In doing so, she illuminates larger issues of how ...
Theories of the Gift in South Asia: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Reflections on Dana
1st Edition
By Maria Heim
February 27, 2015
This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift....
Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich
1st Edition
By Theodore M. Vial
September 11, 2014
The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict,...
Steel City Gospel: Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh
1st Edition
By Keith A. Zahniser
September 03, 2013
Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an ...
Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns: The Legacy of the Mi'raj in the Formation of Islam
1st Edition
By Brooke Olson Vuckovic
June 21, 2013
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj)....
Explaining Mantras: Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra
1st Edition
By Robert A. Yelle
August 19, 2003
Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra. The author reveals how mantras work in light of both the esoteric tradition of Tantra and a general semiotic theory of ritual. Mantras mimic the act of sexual reproduction and the ...
Las Abejas: Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas
1st Edition
By Marco Tavanti
December 20, 2002
Las Abejas came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity...