Booty Taken in Holy War: A Cross-Cultural Perspective The Bible and the History of Muslim Black Africa

Theology ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 105 (826) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Humphrey J. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Holy War ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
History Of

Exodus 32 and the Theory of Holy War: The History of a Citation

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Walzer
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Holy War ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of

Throughout much of the history of political thought in the West, the Bible was at once a constitutional document and a kind of case book, putatively setting limits to speculation as well as to conduct. Theologians and political theorists were forced to be judges interpreting a text or, more often, lawyers defending a particular interpretation before the constituted powers in church and state or before the less authoritative court of opinion. The Bible became, like other such texts, a dissociated collection of precedents, examples and citations, each of which meant what the lawyers and judges said it meant.

The Study of Chinese Women and the Anglican Church in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Kwok Pui-lan
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Women ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Mission Schools ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

This chapter presents a cross-cultural study of gender, religion, and culture, using the history of Chinese women and the Anglican Church in China as a case study. Instead of focusing on mission history as previous studies usually have done, it treats the missionary movement as a part of the globalizing modernity, which affected both Western and Chinese societies. The attention shifts from missionaries to local women’s agencies, introducing figures such as Mrs. Zhang Heling, Huang Su’e, and female students in mission schools. It uses a wider comparative frame (beyond China and the West) to contrast women’s work by the Church Missionary Society in China, Iran, India, and Uganda. It also places the ordination for the first woman in the Anglican Communion—Rev. Li Tim Oi—in the development of postcolonial awareness of the church.

Expanding Horizons in the History of Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. R. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Current Anthropology

This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.

Virgin Birth Controversy. Study in the Anthropology of Ignorance

Anthropos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-418
Author(s):  
Ana Bilinović Rajačić ◽  
Marko Škorić
Keyword(s):  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Virgin Birth ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

Virgin birth controversy enjoys a privileged status in the history of anthropology and reflects the exceptional interest anthropology takes in “biological facts” of human procreation. In the widest sense, this controversy centers around procreative beliefs, or more precisely, the “discovery” of people who were considered to be ignorant of the facts of physiological paternity and the causal relationship between copulation and pregnancy (in humans). This paper offers an overview of the main theoretical approaches and an insight into the variety of empirical findings presented by the numerous participants in the virgin birth debate. It especially focuses on a critical assessment of the provided argumentation on the subject of procreative ignorance, as well as the matter of interpretation of ethnographical facts and an analysis of the meaning of “biological facts” from a cross-cultural perspective.

A Controversial Debate over the Interpretation of Tattooing in the Bible: An Ethnohermeneutics Approach From ‘Rice to Bread’

Exchange ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Shuma Iwai
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Biblical Principles

AbstractThis paper examines from the cross-cultural perspective the increasing practice of tattooing. The author, a native of Japan, investigates tattooing in both the Japanese and American context, and analyzes the biblical principles related to tattooing in order to discover the implications for Christians in various cultural contexts.

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