Stripping the Veil

Stripping the Veil
Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192671642

Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should have ended by the mid-sixteenth century. Instead, many convent congregations exhibiting elements of traditional and evangelical practices in Protestant regions survived into the seventeenth century and beyond. How did these convents survive? What is a Protestant nun? How many convent congregations came to house nuns with diverse belief systems and devotional practices, and how did they live and worship together? These questions lead to surprising answers. Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions. It also demonstrates how incremental shifts in practice and belief led to the emergence of a complex, often locally constructed, devotional life. This continued presence of nuns and the survival of convents in Protestant cities and territories of the German-speaking parts of the Holy Roman Empire is evidence of a more complex lived experience of religious reform, devotional practice, and confessional accommodation than traditional histories of early modern Christianity would indicate. The internal differences and the emerging confessional hybridity, blending, and fluidity also serve as a caution about designating a nun or groups of nuns as Lutheran, Catholic, or Reformed, or even more broadly as Protestant or Catholic during the sixteenth century.

Fixing the Liturgy

Fixing the Liturgy
Author: Claire Taylor Jones
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512825697

Stripping Gypsy

Stripping Gypsy
Author: Noralee Frankel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199754330

"In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition

Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition
Author: John Pawlikowski
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781580510424

An extraordinary exploration into the mutual validity of the Jewish and Christian covenants. The contributors gathered here address such topics as shared texts, the rabbinical response to emerging Christianity, and apocalyptic and mystical texts.

DeepLight

DeepLight
Author: Susan Creighton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-04-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1532645422

DeepLight: A Memoir of the Soul is a rich narrative of a contemporary woman's spiritual quest. Within the context of her extensive study of religious and mystical traditions, and her experiences as a woman, a monastic, and an Episcopal priest, Susan Creighton weaves a spiral tapestry of memories, journal entries, and poetry. Her search for an authentic practice of contemplative prayer led across cultural, historical, and religious boundaries, but is most significantly shaped and enriched by the teachings of mystics like St. John of the Cross and the ancient tradition of Orthodox ascetical theology and spiritual practice. Now living under vows as an anchorite, her memoir shares with the reader ways in which the Jesus Prayer and other spiritual practices lead to deeper contemplative prayer as well as helping us develop greater discrimination and compassion for ourselves and others.

Borges and Dante

Borges and Dante
Author: Humberto Núñez-Faraco
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039105113

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctorate--University College, London, 2001).

Present and Future of Biblical Studies

Present and Future of Biblical Studies
Author: Tat-siong Benny Liew
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004363548

What is the current state of the field known as biblical studies? How will biblical studies continue to develop in this diverse, globalized, and digital age? In this book, a diverse group of scholars who are known for their innovative practice of biblical interpretation come together to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed journal, Biblical Interpretation, by sharing their thoughts on and questions about the assumptions, practices, and parameters of biblical studies as well as their desires and fears about its disciplinary future. Covering a wide range of topics, geographical regions, resources, understandings, and viewpoints, this exceptional collection of essays will make you and help you rethink the conventions and convictions of biblical studies as an academic discipline.

Sacred Space, Sacred Thread

Sacred Space, Sacred Thread
Author: John W. Welch
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532635249

The insightful studies contained in this book will be of significant value to anyone interested in experiencing more deeply the intersections between materiality and spirituality. Part 1 introduces readers into Egyptian, Israelite, Christian, and Hindu temples, shrines, or sanctuaries. Part 2 helps readers understand how items of colored fabrics, clothing, robes, and veils, convey ritual meanings. Part 3 reports two panel discussions that exemplify the pathway of fruitful conversation. Matter and spirit might seem to some to be polar opposites. But as these studies by distinguished and diverse scholars demonstrate, spiritual experiences are constructively defined and refined within the coordinates of place and time. Sacred space, as well as sacred cloth, define borders, but not necessarily boundaries, between the sacred and the profane. These material coordinates physically enclose and also spiritually disclose. They both symbolize and synergize, as they encompass and expansively inspire. These original and enjoyable presentations will help all readers to hold tenaciously to the tenets and also the tensions inherent in physical spiritual experiences.

The Practice of Lubrication

The Practice of Lubrication
Author: Thomas Christian Thomsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1926
Genre: Lubrication and lubricants
ISBN: