... of martyrdom in the Iranian cinema of sacred defense, originally conceived to depict the spiritual dimensions of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88). I explore the foundational role of this genre in the postrevolutionary Iranian cinema and its development in concert with television. I then argue that representations...

...Kazim Abdullaev The relationship between the sacred drink haoma and narcotic plants is a major focus in studying the religious and ritualistic traditions of the ancient people of Indo-Iran and Central Asia. This study addresses this question through an analysis of archaeological data gathered...

... these economic arguments seriously. Duke University Press 2010 Sacred Cows and Secular History: Cow Protection Debates in Colonial North India C. S. Adcock round the turn of the twentieth century, British colonial officials in India were inun- dated with petitions that deployed...

...Fatemeh Keshavarz Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi’s Fihi Ma Fih Fatemeh Keshavarz Studies of Rumi can no longer stay on the fringes of ing, much remains unsaid. Many feel...

... a particular conception of religion is disseminated by state institutions in the private realms of culture and education in order to form new Islamic selves that agree to put the nation's “sacred” interests above all “particular” interests. The article problematizes the way military service is normalized...

... social and political issues requiring resolution in both cases include the tensions resulting in, and arising from, syncretism and assimilation, contested narratives regarding sacred places and ancestral origins, and the implications for citizenship among peoples who define themselves in epochal...

...Yasemin Gencer Images of children appear with striking frequency in Turkish Republican cartoons produced in the years immediately following the War of Independence (1919–23). Turkish nationalistic ideology commonly conceives of the nation as a sacred entity worthy of the people’s devotion and often...

...Bhrigupati Singh; Naisargi Dave In this article we explore particular sacred and profane forms in which animals are killed in contemporary India. Taking up religious and secular, rural and urban, industrial and domestic instances from our fieldwork, we examine the affects, doubts, pleasures...

... centrality to their sacred texts. His translation was based on the Persian Sirr-i akbar produced by the Mughal prince Dara Shukoh (d. 1659), who had claimed that the Upanishads held the key to the Quran's mysteries. How did this imperial project of translation infused with an Islamic interpretive framework...

.... It attempts this both empirically, employing sources that elicit religious experience as well as larger social forces, and theoretically, challenging canned distinctions between sacred space and profane property in favor of a view that includes human and nonhuman relations. [email protected]...

...Figure 1. Ali and Vahid in the cinematic city of sacred defense. Safar be Chazzabeh (dir. Rasool Mollagholipour). ...

.... to an ancient sacred lineage, is an effort to impart to a i) There is no archaeological evidence to show that city a specific religious sanctity which it lacked. But at this early time the region around present day Ayodh- even in the myths the proccss of identification of the ya was inhabited...

... consider the Indian landscape alive. Trees and serpents are part of this sacred land- scape, and they represent the earliest form of worship in Ancient India. The pipal tree (Ficus religiosa), called Asvattha in Sanskrit, is unrivaled...

... phenom­ enon, has been discussed in two ways: first, in ageneral way pertaining to broader outlooks on the meaning of life, history, power, culture, education, and economy and how each relates to the sacred, religion, and the clerical class, and, second, in a particular way with regard...

... loci of cultural interchange, heritage diplomacy, and investment among Buddhist communities and national governments throughout Asia. This includes the layering of Buddhist sacred sites and monumental archaeology as UNESCO World Heritage, which has not only reinforced the international importance...

... , and praise songs simply called gīt . Yet the most sacred genre of Sidi devotional songs is called jikar , whose legendary corpus features 125 songs. These songs represent a body of devotional poetry from which Sidi community members draw in remembrance of their African Sufi ancestor-saints...

... the subtle, such as restrictions on the movement of women, to the reckless, such as in the case of lynching 8 Muslims and Dalits (those formerly known as “untouchables”) and snatching away minority groups' claim-making rights in the name of protecting “sacred animals” and “sacred Hindu rivers...

... connected history geography space area studies References Abulafia David . The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 . Albera Dionigi Couroucli Maria , eds. Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims...

... the sacred shrines. Religious commodities of all sorts are sold in shops and bought by the pilgrims, who are usually avid consumers of religious memora- bilia. Notwithstanding the fact that the commoditization of the religious tradition periodically attracts the wrath and condemnation of religious...