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Between Magic And Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies In Ancient Mediterranean Religion And Society, Sulochana Asirvatham, Corinne Pache, John Watrous
Between Magic And Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies In Ancient Mediterranean Religion And Society, Sulochana Asirvatham, Corinne Pache, John Watrous
Corinne Pache
Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the …
Irigaray’S Madonna, Julie Kelso
Irigaray’S Madonna, Julie Kelso
Julie Kelso
In this essay, I argue that Luce Irigaray’s recent, seemingly esoteric readings of the Madonna, actually provide us with a constructive, perhaps even politically progressive, interpretive mode for engaging with the religious texts and figures of our tradition as women. As such, I argue that through her own specific interpretive practice Irigaray provides us with a new image of Mary, and this new Madonna figures the very interrelational interpretive practice that Irigaray believes essential when it comes to our engagements with the (religious) texts of our tradition. Irigaray’s Madonna is an ethical listener, interpreter and exchanger of ‘sacred’ discourse and …
Atonement: Pope Francis And Ecological Sin, Michael Murphy
Psalms 69 And 117, Michael Murphy
Medievalism And The Subject Of Religion, Richard Utz
Medievalism And The Subject Of Religion, Richard Utz
Richard Utz
Assesses the reasons for the relative disregard of scholarly work on studying the continuity of religious thought and faith by scholarship in Medievalism Studies over the last 25 years. Postulates that medievalism scholars have an ethical obligation to investigate and historicize religion and theology, at least in its temporal manifestations.