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Dreams that matter
Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of moving encounters with the Prophet Muhammad. In close dialogue with her Egyptian interlocutors, Islamic textual traditions, and Western theorists, Mittermaier teases out the dream's ethical, political, and religious implications. Her book is a provocative examination of how present-day Muslims encounter and engage the Divine that offers a different perspective on the Islamic Revival. Dreams That Matter opens up new spaces for an anthropology of the imagination, inviting us to rethink both the imagined and the real.
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Ordinary lives and grand schemes
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
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Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela
Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the \"Neo-Assyrian Period.\" This was the time when some of Israel's greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book examines the basic idea of prophecy and how this is shaped by the way we study the subject, and it then presents a number of fresh insights on a range of prophetic topics. These include the relationship between Israelite and other forms of prophecy in Assyria and Egypt and the relationship between what prophets said and the written forms in which their words were passed on. Other topics of contemporary interest include what these prophetic texts have to say about the environment, the place of intercession in Israelite and Assyrian religion, and whether the message of the trailblazing Israelite prophets of the eighth century was basically about judgment and community ruin or about hope and community well-being.
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Egypt
Egyptian cosmology is significant both as a study in itself and in view of its significant impact on later Western worldviews, especially in relation to its notions of a cosmos struggle between light and darkness, and elaborate views on the soul’s ascent to the stars, including a judgment of the dead.² Merged with Babylonian astral divination and Greek philosophy, Egyptian spirituality gave rise to the Western-Islamic-Indian tradition of astrology. If there is a single theme that lies at the heart of Egyptian spiritual astronomy, it is of the sun in its splendor as an image of monarchy and, in its
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Sarapis et Neôtera élus parmi les dieux
L’une des plaquettes en bronze de la collection Bianchini déposées à la fin du xviii e s. au Cabinet des Médailles de Paris porte un texte et une image prétendument inintelligibles qui en révéleraient la nature magique. Un nouvel examen du document, en réalité la pièce principale d’un bracelet, permet d’y reconnaître une assemblée de vingt‑huit divinités reflétant le paysage religieux de l’Égypte du ii‑iii e s. apr. J.‑C., ainsi que deux courtes acclamations. L’une célèbre la grandeur du nom de Sarapis, l’autre celle de Neôtera l’invincible, une déesse difficile à cerner, mais qui paraît souvent recouvrir une forme d’Isis assimilée à Korè. L’invocation magnifiée de ces deux figures divines, représentées avec leur « panthéon », participe d’un phénomène religieux fréquent à cette époque que l’on qualifie aujourd’hui de « mégathéisme ». Sarapis and Neôtera elected among the godsOne of the bronze plates formerly in the Bianchini collection, which entered the Cabinet des Médailles (Paris) at the end of the 18th cent., bears a text and an image, supposedly unintelligible and therefore thought to be of a magic nature. A new examination of this plaque, which is in fact the main part of a bracelet, shows that it depicts an assembly of twenty‑eight divinities, illustrating the religious landscape of Egypt in the 2nd‑3rd cent., and two short acclamations. The first one exalts the greatness of the name of Sarapis, the second that of Neôtera the invincible. The latter is difficult to define, but she often seems to correspond to a form of Isis assimilated to Kore. The glorifying invocation of these two gods, depicted with their “pantheon”, may be considered as an expression of what is today called “megatheism”.
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THE PROPHECY OF THE LAMB (P. VIENNA D. 10,000)
[… Pasaenhor read the] book of the days that [happened in Egypt together with those that] will happen regarding a [… He said to me the punishments that will happen in the town,] the field and the [entire] district. [I said to him: ‘‘Shut] your mouth!’’ I spoke previously about the […].
Pasaenhor [discovered] the fate [of the children who] will be born to us. We did not [know what we should do(?) … The] great water of Egypt will become [blood(?) … Afterwards, there occurred for her] the hour of birth, [and she bore two children], but she was
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Supplices (The Suppliants) and its trilogy
For many years, Aeschylus′Suppliceswas regarded by the great majority of classicists as the earliest extant Aeschylean play. The main basis for this view was the prominence of its Chorus, due not only to the high proportion of the play devoted to its songs but also to its central importance, as a group personality, to the dramatic situation with which the play is concerned. This feature (when treated without further discrimination), together with the limited degree of characterization involved in the roles assigned to the first and especially to the second actor, fitted the general awareness that Greek tragedy
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