The Saint of Beersheba - 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 Saint of Beersheba write by Alex Weingrod. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Saint of Beersheba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weingrod presents an anthropological study of the development of a new Jewish saint, or zaddikin Israel and of the annual pilgrimage to his enshrined grave by thousands of North African Jews. It is the fascinating story of how Rabbi Chayim Chouri, an aged Tunisian rabbi, became famed as the "Saint of Beersheba," after his death in the 1950s. The author focuses upon the meaning of this event in the lives of the participants, and interprets the relevance of mystical-religious traditions to present-day Israeli society, politics, and culture. It includes a photographic essay that brilliantly evokes the joyful events that occur during the ritual and festivity of the pilgrimage.
The Sacred and Its Scholars
The Sacred and Its Scholars - 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 Sacred and Its Scholars write by Thomas A. Idinopulos. This book was released on 1996. The Sacred and Its Scholars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of essays is devoted to a careful examination of the importance of methodology in the study of primary religious data. The essays focus on the 'Sacred' as an ultimate object of descriptive analysis and critical scrutiny on the part of a select number of North American and European methodologists in the study and teaching of the history of religions and its allied disciplines. The central question to which the contributors respond are these: What is the Sacred? Is it a being or a concept of a being; is it a mental state or an objective reality or something else entirely? Can the Sacred be described as an empirical fact, or as a formal rule for religious inquiry? If the Sacred is a valid category in the study and teaching of religion, then what can be said about the antithesis of the sacred, namely the profane or the secular? This volume probes these questions with great care in order to justify a number of ways the Sacred can be construed as an indispensable notion for the study and teaching of religion.
The Making of Saints
The Making of Saints - 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 Making of Saints write by James F Hopgood. This book was released on 2005-04-24. The Making of Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A multidisciplinary study of the commonalities between heroes, icons, saints, and their institutions, across several cultures.
Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco
Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco - 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 Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco write by Issachar Ben-Ami. This book was released on 1998. Saint Veneration Among the Jews in Morocco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among Moroccan Jews, saint worship is an important cultural characteristic, practiced throughout the population. Saint Veneration among the Jews in Morocco, the only book in English on this topic, contains essential information about Moroccan Jewry not available anywhere else. The Hebrew edition, published by Magnes Press in 1984, has become a standard classic in the study of the history, culture, and religious practices of Moroccan Jewry. In this new English language edition, based on ten years of fieldwork, Issachar Ben-Ami provides the basic historical and ethnographic information about saint veneration. He illuminates the intricate network that connects the saints and their faithful followers, while revealing the ideological fundamentals that sustain the interrelationship and ensure ritual continuity. Using material selected from more than 1,200 testimonies collected during the course of his research, Ben-Ami describes historical and legendary types of saints, customs and beliefs related to the saints or their sanctuaries, and the practices and ceremonies that take place during or outside the hillulah, the the festival that celebrates the anniversary of the death of a saint. Two chapters are dedicated to a comparison with the cult of saints among the Muslims in Morocco as well as to the relationship between Jews and Muslims in Morocco in what concerning saint veneration. In addition, Ben-Ami has included an exhaustive list of 656 saints-25 of whom are women-as well as documentation of the burial sites and legendary stories of the saints' lives as they have been told by their followers and worshippers in Israel. Also included are popular creative works such as legends, stories, dreams, and songs extolling the greatness and miraculous deeds of the saints. The picture that emerges from this study is that of a strong community of believing Jews who lived in the expectancy of the coming of the Messiah and welcomed miracles as part of their routine life. With the immigration of the Jews of Morocco to other countries, this fascinating world has disappeared, although it has found new ways of expression in Israel.
The Saint's Saints
The Saint's Saints - 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 Saint's Saints write by Susan Weingarten. This book was released on 2018-12-10. The Saint's Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Saint's Saints presents Jerome’s world picture as seen through his saints’ Lives. It analyses both his rhetoric and his descriptions of realia, and the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish sources to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world for his readers. Susan Weingarten looks at how Jerome dovetails his literary sources with his experience of the material world of the fourth century to write the Lives of the saints Paul, Hilarion, Malchus and Paula, effectively using them to write the Life of Saint Jerome. This is the first full-length study of Jerome’s saints’ Lives. It widens the on-going debate about mutual influences in Jewish and Christian literature in the fourth century, and revises our picture of the historical geography of Palestine.
