(1) Pagan Survivals in Mohammedan Civilisation (2) High Gods in North America: Upton Lectures in Religion, Manchester College, Oxford, 1932 (3) East and West in Religion (4) Christian Myth and Ritual: a Historical Study (5) A Short History of Religions

Nature ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 134 (3383) ◽  
pp. 305-307
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Short History ◽  
High Gods ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
Christian Myth

ALEXANDER KNYSH, Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, Themes in Islamic Studies (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000). Pp. 370.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-475
Author(s):  
WILLIAM C. CHITTICK
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Short History ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Islamic Mysticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Basis

This much-needed historical survey of the Sufi tradition brings together a great deal of specialized literature, especially the European scholarship that is often ignored in North America. The first eight chapters of the book discuss the beginnings of the tradition, early figures, gradual institutionalization, poetical and metaphysical expressions, and the foundations of the great tariqahs. Chapter 9 provides an overview of the later history of the tariqahs on a regional basis, in most cases coming into the 20th century. Chapter 10 discusses major concepts and practices. Given Knysh's keen awareness that the Sufi tradition cannot be isolated from the Islamic tradition as a whole, surprisingly little attention is paid to the roots of Sufism in the Qur[ham]an and the hadith. Then again, the survey is necessarily selective and aims only to highlight major figures and movements. Any serious attempt to be comprehensive would have given us a multi-volume study. Every specialist will be disappointed at the failure to discuss or at least mention certain figures, movements, themes, or topics.

Cognitive Science, Ritual, and the Hellenistic Mystery Religions

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 383-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luther Martin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Mystery Religions ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Of Religion

AbstractMuch research in the cognitive science of religion has dealt with ritual. Two forms of ritual have been focused on, those characterised by repetition and routinisation, the characteristic most often attributed ritual, and the less noted forms in which ritual performance is infrequent and irregular but highly emotional and arousing. I hope, in this essay, to suggest the utility of cognitive theorising for the historical study of ritual with examples from the religions of the Roman Empire, especially, the Hellenistic Mystery Religions and the early Christianities, and to arouse interest in pursuing such studies further in the history of religions.

scholarly journals A Short History of the Use of Lime as a Building Material Beyond Europe and North America

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorn Carran ◽  
John Hughes ◽  
Alick Leslie ◽  
Craig Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of

Family–, Court–, and State–Archives (Haus–, Hof–, Und Staats–Archiv) at Vienna

1921 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Short History ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The University ◽  
Mutual Agreement

On October 26 Professor Dr. Joseph Redlich, on behalf of the University of Vienna, delivered an address to the Fellows of the Royal Historical Society on the present state of the Family-, Court-, and State-Archives (Haus-, Hof-, und Staats-archiv) at Vienna. Professor Redlich gave a short history of these famous Archives, with a general survey of the astounding wealth of historical documents and State Papers which they contain. He explained the great dangers with which the dismemberment of the old Empire of the Habsburg Dynasty and the formation of several new sovereign states out of the ancient Austrian territories threatened the very existence of these early sources of historical study. He was happy to be able to report that most of these dangers had been averted—at least for the time being—by mutual agreement of the representatives of several Governments concerned. The unanimously accepted thesis that in execution of the respective clauses of the Peace Treaty, the so-called principle of “provenience” should be rigorously observed, gives a guarantee that the Viennese Central Archives of the Dynasty, the State and the Empire will on the whole remain in their present state.

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