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The Love-Fear Antinomy in Deuteronomy 5-11
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Examines the lexemes \"love\" (ʾhb) and \"fear\" (yrʾ) in Deut 5-11 in order better to understand the way they complement each other in both their cognitive and affective domains. The affective domain of \"love\" in Deuteronomy has not been appreciated fully in exegetical work on chs. 5-11 because (a) most scholars assume a commanded love can only be cognitive, and (b) the ancient Near Eastern treaty parallels suggest such a cognitive, behavioral interpretation. This study will argue not only that \"love\" in Deut 5-11 has affective connotations, confirming other recent research on this topic, but will suggest further that love-terminology and fear-terminology have been combined in Deuteronomy in both their cognitive and affective aspects in order to demarcate the connotations of each. The result of this deliberate antinomy is that \"love\" is restricted in order to prevent an affection devoid of reverence. Conversely, \"fear\" is restricted to prevent a terror devoid of delight. The two lexemes complement each other in Deut 5-11 deliberately to define the covenant relationship between YHWH and Israel, and thereby create a covenant ethic for ancient Israel.
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My foolish heart : a pop-up book of love
\"From the creator of the bestselling Griffin & Sabine series comes a loving gift book that's (literally) full of heart. This quirky book takes six heart-themed expressions and gives them new meaning through engaging pop-ups. From Brave Hearted (a heart that looks like a tiger) to Light Hearted (a heart with lightbulbs surrounding it), My Foolish Heart features Bantock's signature art style in a small and giftable package. With its inimitable word play on turns of phrase, this playful book is a delightful surprise for Valentine's Day or whenever a token of unexpected affection is in order\"-- Provided by publisher.
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When I use a word . . . The pharmacology of love and sex
The anthropologist Helen Fisher, who died just a few weeks ago, was well known for her many elegant studies on the pharmacology and neuroanatomy of the three primary emotions associated with mating and reproduction: sexual desire or lust, romantic love, and long term attachment or devotion. Lust, she thought, was mediated in the brain by oestrogens and androgens, romantic love by increases in dopaminergic and adrenergic function and reduced serotonergic function, largely in the right ventral tegmental area and the right caudate nucleus, and attachment by oxytocin and vasopressin, largely in the ventral pallidum. Drugs that might be thought to have aphrodisiac properties might be modelled on these findings, but beneficial effects have either not been confirmed or have not been impressive in clinical trials, and adverse effects are always a concern.
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'Animals Just Love You as You Are': Experiencing Kinship across the Species Barrier
This article explores how affective relationships between humans and animals are understood and experienced. It argues that, although the context of close relationships with pets has changed, affective relationships between humans and animals have a long history. The affinities between people and their pets are experienced as emotionally close, embodied and ethereal and are deeply embedded in family lives. They are understood in terms of kinship, an idiom which indicates significant and enduring connectedness between humans and animals, and are valued because of animals' differences from, as well as similarities to, humans. Kinship across the species barrier is not something new and strange, but is an everyday experience of those humans who share their domestic space with other animals. Rather than witnessing a new phenomenon of post-human families, multi-species households have been with us for a considerable length of time but have been effectively hidden from sociology by the so-called species barrier.
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Energic Pillow Talk: Philip Sidney's Defence in Bed with Sweet Poesy
This article reads Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil & Stella alongside his versification of David's Psalms to argue that, for Sidney, energia is rightly understood as a lover's relationship between poetic theory and poetic practice. Looking to the craft of his sonnets and \"his\" Psalms demonstrates the \"right\" relationship Sidney believes a poet must have with poetry so that \"we [do not] miss the right use of the material point of Poesy\" (Defence). I figure the act of making love as a way to see that Sidney shows us there is no distance between \"sacred\" and \"secular\" poesy because making \"aright\" is akin to the way lovers learn each other and seek to marry both hearts and minds so they become one; the theory of loving becomes the act of loving. Sidney believes in verse as he believes in his God. Sidney also believes \"the most excellent work\" is made from the \"immortal goodness of that God who giveth us hands to write and wits to conceive\" (Defense). The craft created by Philip Sidney's craftsman's hands is what teaches us how \"Sweet Poesy\" \"feel[s] those passions, which easily...may be betrayed by that same forcibleness or energia...of the writer\" (Defense).
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THE VOCABULARY OF CHASTE LOVE IN THE NINUS FRAGMENTS
The partially preserved Ninus romance is one of the oldest surviving specimens of the Greek novelistic. Ninus' fragments suggest a plot that adhered to the love-adventure pattern, as known from the five extant romantic novels. Much like these, Ninus told a story where a significant part of the action oscillated between two poles: the force of eros and the obligation of chastity. The hero's desire for the girl presents a challenge to his thus-far chaste existence and is further restrained by the need to respect the girl's chastity. Kanavou discusses the vocabulary used by the author of Ninus to express this latter vital theme. She notes similarities to and differences from the terminology of chastity found in the extant novels and further suggests a connection between Ninus' vocabulary of chastity and the question of the novel's authorship.
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New Religious Movements before Modernity?
Can the study of new religious movements be extended historically towards a longue durée history of religious innovation? Several sociological theories suggest that fundamental differences between premodern and modern religious configurations preclude this, pointing to a lack of religious diversity and freedom of religion in premodern centuries. Written from a historical perspective, this article questions this view and suggests historical religious movements within Christianity as possible material for a long-term perspective. Using the Franciscans and the Family of Love as examples, it points out possible themes for productive interdisciplinary research. One suggestion is to study the criticisms surrounding premodern new religious movements, which might be used to analyze the historical differentiation of religion. Another avenue is the study of premodern terminologies and concepts for religious communities, which could provide a historical horizon for the ongoing debate about the typology of new religions.
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When a Yuma Meets Mama: Commodified Kin and the Affective Economies of Queer Tourism in Cuba
In this article, I explore the kinship imaginaries that emerged between gay male tourists from North America and Europe and Cuban male sex workers and their families within the context of Havana’s queer-erotic economies. Whereas male sex workers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean tend to conceal their male clients from their families, Cuban sexual laborers in this study incorporated queer foreigners into kinship imaginaries. Such bonds often conferred the rights and obligations of kin, while \"blood\" kinship was increasingly described in and subject to financial terms. Motivated by money rather than \"blood\" or \"choice,\" kinship ties fostered between foreign gay men and younger male sex workers prompt a rethinking of non-normative kin ties as an alternative to dominant systems of kinship and suggest the political and economic roots of familial bonds more broadly.
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Texts within Text: An Intertextual Study of Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love
This qualitative research critically explores the intersection of multiple historical, socio-cultural and political discourses in The Forty Rules of Love. For this purpose, the current study has been conducted through the theoretical perspective of postmodern historiographic metafiction with the analytical method of intertextuality. Early on, the novel has been studied with respect to fascination for Rumi and spirituality. However, the current research tends to analyze the novel in the light of postmodernism that encourages the syncretic mixing of innovation and tradition, and past and present into a unified whole, through the lens of intertexuality. The researchable issue is to investigate how the writer blends history into fiction and what sorts of techniques she employs to formulate historiographic metafictional nature of the text by intermingling of various other texts/discourses leading to a unique blend of multi-layered meaning residing in a single text. The study focuses on the contribution of the form of the text towards the production of meaning in terms of plurality and the elicitation of ideological discourses underlying the main schema. Specifically, this study aims to ascertain the outcome of intertextual fusion of historical and postmodern narrative in the novel and its important role in the elicitation of multi-tiered meanings, beliefs and underlying ideologies embedded in the text of the novel. This study finds that, as an amalgam of multiple voices and discourses, The Forty Rules of Love is a critical commentary not just upon a historical faction of Sufi tradition, but also on the ideology of Islam as a peaceful religion, promoting religious tolerance and giving liberty of righteous thoughts and actions.
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