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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England [PDF]
, 2005 This paper presents a definitive text of hitherto little-known early documents concerning ‘The Drummer of Tedworth’, a poltergeist case that occurred in 1662-3 and became famous not least due to its promotion by Joseph Glanvill in his demonological work,
Craster H. H. E. +9 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Model Pendidikan Kesalehan Transformatif Pengembangan Epistimologi Dalam Pendidikan Islam [PDF]
, 2010 Transformative piety is the core of Islamic view that emphasizes the importance of transformative belief in piety activity. Piety means the ability to do good deeds for oneself and others.
Hambali, A. (Adang)
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Feminisms in Iraq: Beyond the Religious and Secular Divide [PDF]
Gender a Výzkum, 2019 This article explores feminisms and women’s activisms in today’s Iraq and highlights the heterogeneity of both their religious and secular expressions in analysing them in relation to each other rather than as distinct.
Zahra Ali
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RCIA and the Formation of Liturgical Piety [PDF]
, 1988 (Excerpt) Here is what I think the formation of liturgical piety means. You will recognize at once, I believe, these words which in December 1988 will celebrate their 25th birthday, words taken from the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the first ...
Huck, Gabe
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Egyptian personal piety and Israel's wisdom literature
Acta Theologica, 2001 This article evaluates the movement of Egyptian personal piety and its relation to Israelite wisdom texts. Hymns and prayers of personal piety developed in the New Kingdom at the same time as “heretic” Harpers’ songs and love songs.
S. Fischer
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Childhood, children and family lives in China [PDF]
, 2017 In this chapter we bring into focus those aspects of family lives in China that are concerned with children’s family relationships, and the ways in which such issues are part and parcel of the broader institutionalisation of childhood.
Phoenix, Ann +3 more
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