Women Prophets for a New World: Angela of Foligno, “Living Saints”, and the Religious Reform Movement in Cardinal Cisneros’s Castile

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-162
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Angela Of Foligno ◽  
Women Prophets

Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Rajbir Singh Judge
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
A Site

Abstract This article rethinks how we understand religious reform under colonial rule by examining Maharaja Duleep Singh, the deposed ruler of the Sikh empire, and how the Singh Sabha, a Sikh reform movement, debated, deployed, and organized around him in the late nineteenth century. I demonstrate how religious reform was a site of intense conflict that reveals the processes of argumentation within the contours of a tradition, even as the colonial state sought to continually mediate the terms. Embedded within a frame of inquiry provided by the Sikh tradition, the contestations that constituted reform within the tradition remained intimately tied in with the question of sovereignty. Ranjit Singh's empire in Panjab had only been annexed 30 years earlier in 1849 and remained a central reference point for thinking about the political at the turn of the century. These debates surrounding Duleep Singh, therefore, disclose the contentious engagements within a tradition that cannot be reduced to binary designations such as colonial construct/indigenous inheritance or religious/political.

Jihad in West Africa: early phases and inter-relations in Mauritania and Senegal

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Curtin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Religious History ◽  
West African ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Religious Leadership ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Early Phases

The tradition of religious revolution directed against partially Muslim rulers is traced to the religious reform movement among the zwāya of Mauritania in the 1660s, and to the jihad that brought them briefly into control of Futa Toro, Cayor, Walo, and Jolof in the 1670s. In spite of the reconquest of these states by their secular rulers and the re-establishment of Hassānī control in southwestern Mauritania, the tradition of religious revolt and the aim of establishing an imamate under religious leadership lived on, to reappear in other Fulbe states. It came a generation later, with the jihad of Malik Sy in Bundu during the 1690s, and direct connexions can be traced between the leadership in Bundu and the leadership in the later jihad in Futa Jallon. The jihad in Futa the 1770s and 1780s followed in the same tradition. This evidence suggests that the external influence of the mid-eighteenth-century revival of Islam in Arabia and the Middle East has been overemphasized in West African religious history. Forces working for the reform of Islam based in Africa itself were already at work.

Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Forrestal
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Wars Of Religion ◽  
Catholic Reformation ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Congregation Of The Mission ◽  
Catholic Reform ◽  
The Church ◽  
And Training

This book offers a major reassessment of the thought and activities of the most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations for de Paul’s prominence in the dévot reform movement that emerged in the wake of the Wars of Religion, it explores how he turned a personal vocation to evangelize the rural poor of France into a congregation of secular missionaries, known as the Congregation of the Mission or the Lazarists, with three interrelated strands of pastoral responsibility: the delivery of missions, the formation and training of clergy, and the promotion of confraternal charity. It demonstrates that the structure, ethos, and works that de Paul devised for the Congregation placed it at the heart of a significant enterprise of reform that involved a broad set of associates in efforts to transform the character of devotional belief and practice within the church. The book’s central questions concern de Paul’s efforts to create, characterize, and articulate a distinctive and influential vision for missionary life and work, both for himself and for the Lazarist Congregation, and it argues that his prominence and achievements depended on his remarkable ability to exploit the potential for association and collaboration within the dévot environment of seventeenth-century France in enterprising and systematic ways. It is the first study to assess de Paul’s activities against the backdrop of religious reform and Bourbon rule, and to reconstruct the combination of ideas, practices, resources, and relationships that determined his ability to pursue his ambitions.

Civic Religions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Marnef
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Administration And Supervision ◽  
Religious Landscape

As centers of a vivid socioeconomic, cultural and religious life cities acted as important agents of religious change. This chapter starts with a survey of the multilayered religious landscape of the late medieval cities. Civic authorities played an increasing role in the administration and supervision of the sacred and developed a specific type of civic religion. The religious Reform movement launched in the 1520s by Martin Luther and other evangelic-minded Reformers was to a large extent an urban event. The pace and the dynamics of Reform were complex and diverse depending on the political and social context of the cities involved. City governments aimed for civic unity and religious uniformity but this ideal was difficult to realize in a period of increasing religious fragmentation.

German Pietists and Church Music in the Baroque Age

1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Joyce Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Church Music ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Religious Reform

Scholars of Pietism, the religious reform movement of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, have attempted in recent years to increase understanding and respect for the movement among American scholars. F. Ernest Stoeffler's The Rise of Evangelical Pietism (1971), Dale Brown's Understanding Pietism (1978), and Peter Erb's Pietists: Selected Writings (1983) all begin with a plea for open-minded recognition of Pietism's positive contributions. Our negative interpretation of the movement, they note, has been shaped largely by those opponents who first gave the Pietists their label.

scholarly journals (الحركة الإصلاحية في عُمان في العصر الحديث (نور الدّين السالمي وأبي مسلم البهلاني، نموذجين (The reform movement in Oman in the modern era (Nour al-Din al-Salmi and Abu Muslim al-Bahlani, two examples))

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-93
Author(s):  
يوسف سعيد الكاسبي
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Loss Of Consciousness ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Modern Era

شهدت عُمان خلال العصر الحديث - شأنها شأن العالم العربي والإسلامي - بروز حركات إصلاحية، كان لها أثر فعال ودور متميز في إصلاح مختلف المجالات الحيوية في هذا البلد العربي الإسلامي، وما كان ذلك ليتم أو يكتمل، إلاّ بالانطلاق من إصلاح الأوضاع الثقافية والعلمية، التي ظلت إلى ذلك الحين، تشكو تخلفا كبيرا نتيجة فقدان الوعي بأهميتها، ولقد ساهم بعض المفكرين العُمانيين في هذه الحركة الإصلاحية، نذكر من بينهم نور الدّين السالمي وأبي مسلم البهلاني، الذيْن سنجعل منهما نموذجين لبحثنا، كون إصلاحاتهما مست عديد الميادين، منها: الإصلاح التربوي والإصلاح الديني والإصلاح الاجتماعي. إن هذا البحث يندرج ضمن البحوث التاريخية، لذا كان من الطبيعي أن يقوم على المنهج التاريخي الاستعراضي، وكذا على المنهج الاستقرائي التحليلي، وقد حاولت فيه استقراء الجوانب المتعلقة بالحركة الإصلاحية في عُمان، متتبعا لها ومعلقا عليها من حين لآخر. الكلمات المفتاحية: الحركة الإصلاحية، العالم العربي الإسلامي، فقدان الوعي، عُمان، الثقافية، العلمية. Abstract During the modern era, Oman - like the Arab and Islamic world - witnessed the emergence of reform movements, which had an effective impact and a distinguished role in reforming the various vital areas in this Arab and Islamic country. Until then, it complains of a great backwardness as a result of losing awareness of its importance, and some Omani thinkers have contributed to this reform movement, among them we mention Nour al-Din al-Salmi and Abu Muslim al-Bahlani, whom we will make as models for our research. The fact that their reforms touched many fields, including: Educational reform, religious reform and social reform. This research falls within the historical research, so it was natural for it to be based on the historical review method, as well as the inductive analytical method, in which I tried to extrapolate the aspects related to the reform movement in Oman, following it and commenting on it from time to time. Keywords: The reform movement, the Arab Islamic world, loss of consciousness, Oman, cultural, scientific.

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