scholarly journals El miedo y la religión: algunas reflexiones generales

2018 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Francisco Díez de Velasco
Keyword(s):  
General Point ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Resumen: Partiendo de un análisis general en la línea de la disciplina Historia de las Religiones, se revisa el binomio miedo y religión tanto en el pasado como en el presente. Se aboga por destacar el interés del tema, pero también por plantear los usos problemáticos que se hacen del miedo para sustentar una estigmatización de ciertos desarrollos religiosos o incluso de las religiones de modo genérico.Abstract: The binomial fear and religion both in past and present is studied in this paper from a general point of analysis in the line of the discipline History of Religions. This paper is committed to highlighting the importance of the subject, but also for raising the problematic uses made of fear to sustain religious stigmatization.Palabras clave: Miedo, religión, estigma, islamofobia, Antisemitismo.Key words: Fear, religion, stigma, islamophobia, Antisemitism.

The semantics of Greek names for plants

1936 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
General Point ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The names given to plants in ancient and modern Greek are not only of interest in themselves but have some bearing upon a general point in the history of the meaning of words. Many of the names of plants in ancient authors can only be interpreted with a certain vagueness: of νάρκισσος we can only say that it is some sort of daffodil; κρίνον is pretty certain to be a lily of some kind; we can hardly go further. In these straits it is natural enough to enquire into the meaning of these words in Modern Greek, and here we certainly find no lack of information, but unless we scrutinise this modern evidence with some care we are apt, I think, to let it lead us too far, or even in some wrong direction. How this modern evidence ought, in my opinion, to be used is the subject of this present paper.

Review of John R. Levison's, Filled with the Spirit Part III, Early Christian Literature Chapter 3, 'Filled with the Spirit and the Book of Acts'

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Roger Stronstad
Keyword(s):  
Original Study ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Book Of Acts

Abstract Filled with the Spirit by John R. Levison is a highly original study of this theme in Israelite, Jewish, and early Christian literature. The following response to Levison's book focuses on Part III, Early Christian Literature, section 3, 'Filled with the Spirit and the Book of Acts' (pp 317365). Levison organizes his discussion under the topics, 'The Salience of a Slave-Girl', 'The Allure of Ecstasy at Pentecost', 'Speaking in Tongues', and 'Spirit and the Inspired Interpretation of Scripture'. Levison's methodology is a combination of a history of religions approach, intertextuality, and contextual exposition. According to the reviewer's assessment, Levison's approach to the subject paganizes those experiences which Luke portrays to be uniquely Judeo-Christian, profanes what Luke portrays to be an awe-inspiring sacred marvel, and humanizes what Luke portrays to be the mysterious or luminous tangible experiences of the Spirit.

scholarly journals Qual comparação em História das Religiões segundo Lévis-Strauss?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Nicola Maria Gasbarro
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function

Esta contribuição analisa a perspectiva atual do comparativismo a partir de pressupostos metodológicos (Pettazzoni) e das conclusões (Sabbatucci) da História das Religiões Italiana. A consciência histórica e crítica da dissolução da noção universal de “religião” interroga-se sobre as possibilidades metodológicas dadas pela Antropologia Estrutural, para repensar o objeto intelectual da comparação histórico-religiosa. A noção de “ordem das ordens” pode nos ajudar a compreender as “religiões” dos outros por conta de seu sentido simbólico e de sua função como conduta prática e existencial. A História das Religiões pode levar a uma História Comparada das Civilizações; portanto, a necessidade civil é evidente. Palavras-chave: História das religiões, Antropologia, História Comparada Abstract This paper analyzes the current comparative perspective based upon methodological presuppositions (Pettazzoni) and points of arrival (Sabbatucci) in the History of Religions in Italy. Critical and historical consciousness of the dissolution of the universal notion of “religion” reflects on the methodological possibilities provided by Structural Anthropology in order to think the subject of intellectual historic-religious comparison over. The notion of “order of orders” may help our understanding of the “religions” of others through their symbolic meaning and function of practical and existential conduct. The History of Religions may thus lead to a Comparative History of Civilizations; therefore, the need for preparedness is evident. Keywords: History of Religions; Anthropology; Comparative History.

Frazer's “Folk-Lore in the Old Testament”

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Henry Preserved Smith
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Comparative Study

Sir James George Frazer is a well known authority on the subject he has made his own, and his voluminous works are familiar to every student of anthropology and the history of religions. The fact that he has put his extensive knowledge at the disposition of the Old Testament student is to be welcomed. This he has done in the works mentioned below, the larger one in three volumes, the smaller one by condensation and omission giving the main points of interest. That the larger work meets a felt want is indicated by the fact that a second printing was called for the year after the first publication, a symptom of the present interest in the comparative study of religions.

Religion and Animals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal

What do animals have to do with religion? This article answers this broad question with special attention to issues related to animal ethics and animal philosophy. Topics covered include the religious dimension of human-animal relationships; the role of animals in human self-imagination; the formation of religions based on human-animal relationships, especially in responding to the dilemmas and tensions raised by killing animals for food and sacrifice; and central issues in the method and theory of critically studying animals and religion. Working at the intersection of the history of religions and animal studies, this essay provides grounding in the subfield of “animals and religion,” as well as references to a wide range of work on the study of animals. The article also cites studies of the subject in both the religions of traditional peoples, including the Cree, Koyukon, Naxi, Nivkhi, and Tuvan, and the so-called world religions, including Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions; Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions; and Daoist traditions.

XV. Contributions to the chemical history of Archil and of Litmus

1840 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 273-324 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Organic Substances ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chemical History ◽  
The Subject

Among the numerous and complex questions as to the constitution of organic substances, which have latterly attracted the attention of chemists, there is scarcely one possessed of more interest to the manufacturer, as well as to the philosopher, and the elucidation of which might better be expected to lead to improved processes in the arts, or to throw more light on difficult points of abstract theory, than the study of the nature and mode of origin of those remarkable colouring materials which form the basis of the archil and litmus of commerce, and which are obtained from lichens of various genera and species, themselves totally devoid of colour. Although the problem of the origin and nature of these bodies has never been con­templated by chemists in the general point of view, by which alone consequent and satisfactory results could have been arrived at, yet from a very early period in organic chemistry, attention had been directed to isolated portions of it, particularly with regard to litmus, which from its general use as a reagent excited curiosity, and became the subject of frequent, though incomplete examination. Indeed, the nature of litmus appears to have been to many chemists peculiarly obscure, as not withstanding the researches of Fourcroy and Vauquelin, of Tennant, Chevreul, Peretti, Desfosses, and many others, Berzelius declared in the last year that the chemistry of litmus remained yet to be created. Regarding archil, still less knowledge has been obtained. I am not aware of any writer who has occupied himself directly with its examination; and, indeed, it is only incidentally that Heeren mentions, in his admirable memoir of the lichen products, any facts belonging to the substance found in commerce.

scholarly journals A guest at the table of the gods: Religion and the origins of academic life

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-76
Author(s):  
Peter Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Task

Proceeding from the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, this paper is an attempt to survey the historical premises of the academic study of religion, both as a practice of detaching the subject matter of religion from its institutional restrictions, and as a practice of rehearsing certain modalities of thought and action (philosophical as well as religious) flourishing in the ancient world long before Christianity conquered the sphere of public worship in the fourth century. By paying particular attention to themes of suspension and commensality in religious practice and discourse, an attempt is made to reconsider the critical task of the history of religions, famously devised by Bruce Lincoln as a reversal of the orientation of religious discourse.

Schelling and History (1909–11)

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Samuel Andrew Shearn
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
On Certainty ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Ernst Troeltsch

This chapter gathers Tillich’s academic work from 1909 to 11, including two dissertations on Schelling and his lecture on certainty and the historical Jesus. Schelling provided Tillich and his modern-positive tradition with a way of thinking about Christianity in the light of the history of religions, after the challenge of Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923) to separate historical and dogmatic method. Tillich notes Schelling’s insistence that humanity is God-positing regardless of unbelief. It is also significant that Tillich affirms the notion of an undoubtable condition of thought, whether as Schelling’s concept of ‘unpreconceivable being’ or Fichte’s I (das Ich). With Schelling, Tillich sees a wider application for justification than the ethical sphere. However, it is first in the Kassel lecture on the historical Jesus that he connects the idealist notion that knowledge is limited to the self-certainty of the subject with the claim that autonomy is justification in the area of thought. This is expressed as the rejection of the misunderstanding that faith is an intellectual work. This could have been the influence of his Lutheran tradition, encouraged by Schelling. The chapter argues it emerged from Tillich’s engagement with Wilhelm Herrmann (1846–1922).

Letter to Professor Arthur D. Nock on Some Fundamental Concepts in the Science of Religion

1949 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-107
Author(s):  
Martin P. Nilsson
Keyword(s):  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Science Of Religion

Prefatory Note. This letter has a lengthy history. More than thirty years ago I felt the necessity of a knowledge of and clearing up of the modes and lines of thought of unlettered people and wrote down a draft of a lecture upon which I have drawn here. Later on I applied my views to a special field, the concept, or to speak more justly the concepts of the soul, in a lecture delivered to the Fifth Congress for the History of Religions at Lund in 1929. Then I put the subject aside, although it always lurked at the back of my mind. Certain recent tendencies in the science of religion caused me to reconsider the problems involved and to write down a draft in order to coördinate and to systematize my views in regard to certain fundamental questions of this science. I happened to mention this in a letter to Professor Nock, and, as he wanted to take cognizance of the draft I had made for private purposes, I translated it into English and sent it to him. When he wished to publish it I asked him to subject my draft to the judgment of an expert anthropologist and to let me know his opinion. Professor Kluckhohn of Harvard was kind enough to read my manuscript and to supply some useful remarks and references. As he found my considerations useful, I consented to their being printed. I thank these two colleagues warmly for the interest they have taken in them. I am under a heavy debt of gratitude to Mrs. W. L. Sperry for her kindness in undertaking the difficult task of revising my English style in this paper as well as in others which I have published in the Harvard Theological Review.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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