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...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...

... as late as 1948. The Master of the Sacred Palace in the Vatican, the Holy Roman Office, the Congregation of the Index, and regional inquisitors cast a wide, if leaky, net of review, prohibition, correction, or expur- gation. The archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, contain- ing...

...Judith Herrin Shaw Brent D. , Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 930 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

... appear anemic in com- parison with the anguishing, burning problems that the author raises, but one dare not ignore his prescriptions, given the importance of the topic he so aptly analyzes. —Shlomo Deshen Rabbi Kalonymos Kalmish Shapira, Sacred Fire, trans. J. Hershy Worch, ed. Deborah...

....” 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...

... 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...

... before. He then goes on to discuss, as exemplary of Japanese attitudes toward change, the Shinto ritual during which the sacred shrines of Ise Jingū are torn down and rebuilt every twenty years. The essay concludes by explaining how the impetus for this ritual is also involved in less-exalted aspects...

... that includes many mausoleums of Muslim saints and other Muslim holy places visited by Christians. The rationale and logic of such exopraxes is wild hope (in the Lévi-Straussian sense of wild ). Pilgrims from one religious community travel to the sacred place of another not so much for communication or contact...

... health to some who pass through it may become numinous to locals, and the trees surrounding it will be adorned with hopes and colorful fabrics.4 Sacred places of this order differ from places of worship: the hope expressed in a wild mountain pass on the branches of an oak tree is of a quality different...

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.... On the evening of the same day, twelve court musicians entered the site before the sanctuary the kagura- sha, an open building with no walls, only a roof and pillars and per- formed Shinto ritual music. The sacred sound echoed in the forest surround- ing the palace for much of the night. After several hours...

..., mishine mishine called shrine, granary sacred small the keptin is den treasure for eight years, suggests the crucial...

...: The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places (New York: Berghahn, 2015), 196 pp. How is it possible for different religious communities to share sacred sites? One leading view (Robert Hayden s) is that antagonistic tolerance is as genial as such sharing gets. Bowman s Sharing...

... Wars), Egypt is constructed as an exotic byway, fi lled with unique creatures and bizarre practices like animal worship. For example, we learn that the crocodile is sacred for some Egyptians. . . . Those who live near Thebes and Lake Moeris regard them as especially sacred. Each group rears...

... University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 8 1Glenn Bowman, ed., Sharing the Sacra: The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places (New York: Berghahn, 2015), 196 pp. How is it possible for different religious communities to share sacred sites? One leading view (Robert Hayden...

... God of Israel commanded Gideon to obliterate the holy place of another god, and to establish His cult on the ashes of the former—the trees hewn from the polytheists’ sacred grove would fuel his offering to the One God. Gideon acts out what would become the classic...

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... came Coward and Penelhum, Mystics and Scholars. The edi- tors explain that Goodstriker, speaking on behalf of the Blood Indians, said that tradition forbids writing down the sacred teachings, therefore his presentation did not appear in print. He looked at the tefilin. Ah, rawhide, he said. Then he...

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... England. His own metaphor for this way of reading was the mixing of pure waters. As he sat on the banks of Walden Pond reading the Bhagavad Gı¯ta¯, he felt that “the sacred Walden water is mingled with The author wishes to express his gratitude to Vinay Lal 1. Thoreau...