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True Humanity
A guide to Bible understanding and motivator for research
Contemporary Sufism
What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. The three main themes: piety, politics, and popular culture are explored in relation to the Islamic and Western contexts that shape them, as well as to the historical conditions that frame contemporary ...
A Concordance to Proust
Frances Stern's bold and well-researched claim is that Proust's main sources of inspiration in A la recherche du temps perdu can be traced in Dante's Divina Commedia, Racine's PhÈdre, Goethe's Faust and Wagner's Parsifal. Here is an extraordinary work of scholarship that offers, as George Painter says, "four neglected threads which will perhaps aid us to find the way, and issue out to rebehold the stars."
Small Wars
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Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.
Shakespeare's Language
This work serves as a definitive guide to understanding unfamiliar words in Shakespeare's works. ""Shakespeare's Language, Second Edition"" is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language that may be unfamiliar to today's readers of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.This revised and updated edition contains more than 17,000 definitions - more than 2,000 of which are new - from the adjective ""chop-fallen"" in ""Hamlet"" to the verb ""beshrew"" in ""Much Ado About Nothing"". It also features an all-new chapter, ""Introduction to Shakespeare and His Language,"" which provides essential background on Shakespeare's life and works, as well as an in-depth discussion of how modern readers can approach his works in order to best understand and enjoy them.The entries in this book feature: definitions of words as they are used in the texts; a Shakespearean quote placing each defined word or phrase in context; the word's part of speech; and, variant usages. Its coverage includes geographical references, historical and mythological figures, and foreign-language expressions.
Modern Sufis and the State
Sufism is typically thought of as the mystical side of Islam. In recent years, it has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to the spread of forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of democratic ideals of tolerance and pluralism. Are Sufis in fact as otherworldy and apolitical as this stereotype suggests? Modern Sufis and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions that are made about Sufism today. Focusing on India and Pakistan within a broader global context, this book provides locally grounded accounts of how Sufis in South Asia have engaged in politics f...
