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..., tightly controlled handwriting with his erstwhile friend Wagner s flowing screed that evoke the time and place of a great event in Nietszche s life and confirm the charm of this project. Lesley Chamberlain doi 10.1215/0961754X-7900096 Alexandra Sofroniew, Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Meacham June L. , Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions: Gender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany , ed. Beach Alison I. , Berman Constance H. , and Bitel Lisa M. , intro. Bitel . ( Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2014 ), 307 pp...

... opposed to quietism are healthy but suggests that there may be goods worthier than health of human devotion. This essay concludes that the main differences between what it terms “judgmental” and “irenic” regimes are disagreements over anthropology and metaphysics. The presumptions that truths...

... with three sets of devotional materials—two papier-mâché medallions painted by nuns at the convent of Wienhausen in northern Germany on the eve of the Reformation; a n'kisi n'kondi figure from the Yombe group of Kongo peoples in the nineteenth-century; and a description, taken from Marilynne Robinson's novel...

....” Three kinds of religious tradition in India have nurtured the perception that sound is sacred: Hindu bhakti , Sufism, and Santism, all of which this essay explores in case studies both of the formative period of devotional music in North India and of the current state of the genre and its venues...

... fidelity to detail, and the ability to live with incertainty. By way of example, this essay offers an instance from a current study that the author, a Roman Catholic, is undertaking of intensely devotional medieval Hindu poetry, in part read along with passages from the biblical Song of Songs...

... and spaces of devotion can also be predatory. There are cases in which exopraxis amounts to an act of predation on what makes a religion to which one does not belong successful, and there are cases in which it amounts to an act of appropriation, for one’s own purposes, of a sacred place belonging to another...

... and aristocratic cult of Myō’onten, a Japanese form of the Hindu goddess of music, Saraswati, who is presently an object of devotion for both Hindu and Muslim musicians in North India. This essay, based on nearly three decades of research in India and Japan, offers some answers to a question raised repeatedly...

... during the eighteenth century by J. C. Gottsched, J. J. Bodmer, and J. J. Breitinger. Special attention is given to the paradox that Gottsched, the leader of the German antiquarians, and Bodmer, the leader of the German progressives, were equally devoted to the Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophical system...

... through an exploration of religious objects, Bynum explores recent work on the devotional significance of the footprint, using as her detailed example the footprint of Christ supposedly left on the Mount of Olives and revered by Christians and Muslims. She discusses how the power of this footprint...

... to Richard Rorty that a full issue would be devoted, some day, to conversations among people who have inspired in each other “interesting and important” intellectual disagreements. The editor further explains how, over the intervening years, the disagreements among contributors have evolved. While Common...

... on material culture. Considering Caroline Walker Bynum's early pathbreaking work about twelfth-century treatises on religious life, it was neither obvious nor inevitable that she would cap her extraordinary career by illuminating Christian devotional objects. That she did so is both a wonder and a great...

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... is writing two books regarding the Crusades: Fragments of Devotion: Relics and Remembrance in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and Crusades and Devotion: Following the Cross and Its Meaning in the Medieval World . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Anna Sapir Abulafia , a fellow...

..., devoted to new ways of making money—might well bring results surprising to believers in incommensurability. The late Vicki Hearne was able to communicate with animals, from dogs to elephants: the dif- ference between her level of success with beasts and that of diplomats with human beings would repay...

... accompanied by a series called Shakespeare and Theory, of which a dozen titles have appeared, with at least nine more on the way. Whether or not one thinks that whole books need to be devoted to “Shakespeare and ecofeminist theory,” “Shakespeare and posthumanist theory,” and so on, there is no question...

... Florence in the fifteenth century has been devoted to demonstrating that most commissions of this culture’s famed works of art by members of the city’s ruling elite were inspired by impulses more self-interested than a desire to celebrate...

... of the French scholar André Cabussut) was an exploration of devotional language used by men as much as by women and that, when used by men, it often expressed male psychological and religious needs. 7 Male writers of works of spiritual advice, prayers, or devotional treatises often referred to the “mothering...

..., female devotion, and female power. Although Arnold asserts in closing that the early modern rendition of the three women “loses some of its flexibility” in comparison with the medieval Magdalene, the thoroughness of Arnold's research suggests otherwise. The difference may be that the flexibility...

... to shaping characteristics that have come to be associated with the piety of the later Middle Ages. They emphasized an affective religious response, extravagant asceticism, Christ's humanity, Eucharistic devotion, inspiration of the Holy Spirit, bypassing of clerical authority, and—underscoring female...