Rituals of Prosecution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals of Prosecution write by Jane K. Wickersham. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Rituals of Prosecution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Counter-Reformation, inquisition manual authors working in Italian lands adapted the Catholic Church's traditional tactics of inquisitorial procedure, which had been formulated in the medieval period, to the prosecution of philo-Protestants. Through a comparison of the texts of four such authors to contemporary inquisition processes, Jane K. Wickersham situates the Roman inquisition's prosecution of philo-Protestants within the larger framework of the complex religious upheavals of the sixteenth century. Identifying the critical role played by ritual practice in discovering and prosecuting heretical subjects, Wickersham uncovers two core reasons for its use: first, as a practical means of prosecuting a variety of philo-Protestant beliefs, and second, as an approach firmly grounded within the Catholic Church's history of prosecuting heresy. Finally, Rituals of Prosecution provides an in-depth examination of the inquisitorial processes of urban residents from humble socio-economic backgrounds, providing new insight into how the prosecution of ordinary people was conducted in the early modern era.
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
The Cultural Politics of Obeah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Politics of Obeah write by Diana Paton. This book was released on 2015-08-10. The Cultural Politics of Obeah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia
Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia write by Robert Weinberg. This book was released on 2013-11-20. Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “riveting history . . . brings us face to face with this notorious trial” of a Russian Jew who was framed for ritual murder in 1913 (Jewish Book World). On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a thirty-nine-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis’s trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg’s account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia. It is a gripping narrative culled from trial transcripts, newspaper articles, Beilis’s memoirs, and archival sources, many appearing in English for the first time.
Occult Crime
Occult Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Occult Crime write by . This book was released on 1993-04. Occult Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Restorative Justice Ritual
The Restorative Justice Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Restorative Justice Ritual write by Lindsey Pointer. This book was released on 2020-12-23. The Restorative Justice Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Restorative justice is an innovative approach to responding to crime and conflict that shifts the focus away from laws and punishment to instead consider the harm caused and what is needed to repair that harm and make things right. Interest in restorative justice is rapidly expanding, with new applications continuously emerging around the world. The restorative philosophy and conference process have shown great promise in providing a justice response that heals individuals and strengthens the community. Still, a few key questions remain unanswered. First, how is the personal and relational transformation apparent in the restorative justice process achieved? What can be done to safeguard and enhance that effectiveness? Second, can restorative justice satisfy the wider public’s need for a reaffirmation of communal norms following a crime, particularly in comparison to the criminal trial? And finally, given its primary focus on making amends at an interpersonal level, does restorative justice routinely fail to address larger, structural injustices? This book engages with these three critical questions through an understanding of restorative justice as a ritual. It proffers three dominant ritual functions related to the performance of justice: the normative, the transformative, and the proleptic. Two justice rituals, namely, the criminal trial and the restorative justice conference, are examined through this framework in order to understand how each process fulfills, or fails to fulfill, the multifaceted human need for justice. The book will be of interest to students, academics, and practitioners working in the areas of Restorative Justice, Criminal Law, and Criminology.
