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Ritual, Spectacle, And Theatre In Late Medieval Seville (Chapter 1), Christopher B. Swift

Publications and Research

From the fall of Islamic Išbīliya in 1248 to the conquest of the New World, Seville was a nexus of economic and religious power where interconfessional living among Christians, Jews, and Muslims was negotiated on public stages. From out of seemingly irreconcilable ideologies of faith, hybrid performance culture emerged in spectacles of miraculous transformation, disciplinary processionals, and representations of religious identity. Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville reinvigorates the study of medieval Iberian theater by revealing the ways in which public expressions of devotion, penance, and power fostered cultural reciprocity, rehearsed religious difference, and ultimately helped establish Seville …

Collaborative Constructions: Designing High School History Curriculum With The Lost & Found Game Series, Owen Gottlieb, Shawn Clybor

Articles

This chapter addresses design research and iterative curriculum design for the Lost & Found games series. The Lost & Found card-to-mobile series is set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the twelfth century and focuses on religious laws of the period. The first two games focus on Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, a key Jewish law code. A new expansion module which was in development at the time of the fieldwork described in this article that introduces Islamic laws of the period, and a mobile prototype of the initial strategy game has been developed with support National Endowment for the Humanities. The …

قواعد الإيمان عند الحاخام موسى بن ميمون من خلال كتابه "سراج الدارسين" ومدى تأثير الإسلام عليها The Rules Of Faith For Rabbi Musa Bin Maimon Through His Book "Siraj Uldarseen" And The Extent Of Islam's Influence On Them, Qais Salem Al-Maaytah

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

تأتي هذه الدراسة لتتحدث عن شخصية جدلية مهمة ومن كبار الفلاسفة اليهود الذين ظهروا في القرون الوسطى، وعاش في كنف الإسلام وهو موسى بن ميمون والذي يعتبره اليهود من كبار علمائهم ومفكريهم، ولكن الدراس لفكر موسى بن ميمون يجد أنه تأثر بعلماء الإسلام وفلاسفته ومن أكثرهم ابن رشد الذي تتلمذ على يديه، وسأحاول في هذه الدراسة أن أثبت أن قواعد الإيمان التي ذكرها ابن ميمون في كتابه: "سراج الدارسين" كانت في معظمها مستمدة من الفكر والفلاسفة الإسلامية وأن كثير من هذه القواعد خالفت أصول اليهود في التوراة والتلمود، فسيقوم الباحث بذكر القاعدة ثم ذكر أقوال العلماء المسلمين الموافقة لها؛ …

The Impact Of Religious Ritual Initiation On Males, David Mcmillan

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The following paper is focused on revealing the influence that religious ritual initiations/rites of passages have on males from the religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. In the first section of the paper, I explain why it is important that the influence that religious ritual initiations have on males be studied. The second section covers the literature that was used to obtain my research results. The third section explains how the methodologies of content analysis and semiotics were incorporated into my research. In the fourth section, I reveal that practices such as self-control and discipline are common traits in how …

Abe, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Abe (2019) directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade.

Finding Lost & Found: Designer’S Notes From The Process Of Creating A Jewish Game For Learning, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This article provides context for and examines aspects of the design process of a game for learning. Lost & Found (2017a, 2017b) is a tabletop-to-mobile game series designed to teach medieval religious legal systems, beginning with Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (1180), a cornerstone work of Jewish legal rabbinic literature. Through design narratives, the article demonstrates the complex design decisions faced by the team as they balance the needs of player engagement with learning goals. In the process the designers confront challenges in developing winstates and in working with complex resource management. The article provides insight into the pathways the team …

Introduction: Jewish Gamevironments – Exploring Understanding With Playful Systems, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

The study of Judaism, Jewish civilizationi, and games is currently comprised of projects of a rather small set of game scholars. A sample of our work is included in this issue.

Comparing Fundamentalisms: A Social Movement Theory Approach, David Romney

Student Works

The last forty years have witnessed the emergence of a number of Islamist and Jewish fundamentalist groups, resulting in a number of comparative studies that try to explain this phenomenon (e.g. Antoun and Hegland 1987; Sivan and Friedman 1990). Although scholars have argued varying reasons for this recent religious resurgence, most have recognized the importance of the 1967 war to both Jewish and Islamist fundamentalist movements. Some of these scholars see the religious resurgence following this war as a continuation of religious sentiments expressed by pre-1967 Zionist and fundamentalist Islamic groups rather than as a new movement (Davis 1987, 149-152).

Update - March 2008, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Editorial: Sectarian Self Engaging the Other
-- The Necessity of Interfaith Dialogue
-- A Comparative Approach to Islam and Democracy
-- Fethullah Gülen and the 'People of the Book': A Voice from Turkey for Interfaith Dialogue (Reprint)
-- News from the Center