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Yoga in cultural contexts, Volume 4 is a publication connected to the joint project of Department of Theory and History of Culture of the University of Silesia (now the Department of Theory and History of Culture) and the Department of Sport and Tourism Management of the Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, which has been carried out since 2013. Yoga in cultural contexts, Volume 4 constitutes an interdisciplinary book, containing works by, among others, cultural scientists, Indologists, Arabists and sociologists. The chapters included in the volume discuss yoga as a complex system of beliefs and practices rooted in the cultural context of India, as well a phenomenon gaining increasing importance in Western culture.

Social sciences. --- History of religion.

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The first monograph devoted to the legal status of religious minorities status accorded to dimmī-s ( Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations. The studies brought together in this volume provide an important contribution to the history of ḏimmī-s in the medieval dār al-islām, and more generally to the legal history of religious minorities in medieval societies. The central question addressed is the legal status accorded to ḏimmī-s (Jews and Christians) in the Muslim law in the medieval Muslim west (the Maghreb and Muslim Spain). The scholars whose work is brought together in these pages have dealt with a rich and complex variety of legal sources. Many of the texts are from the Mālikī legal tradition; they include fiqh, fatwā-s, ḥisba manuals. These texts function as the building blocks of the legal framework in which jurists and rulers of Maghrebi and Peninsular societies worked. The very richness and complexity of these texts, as well as the variety of responses that they solicited, refute the textbook idea of a monolithic ḏimmī system, supposedly based on the Pact of ‘Umar, applied throughout the Muslim world. In fact when one looks closely at the early legal texts or chronicles from both the Mashreq and the Maghreb, there is little evidence for a standard, uniform ḏimmī system, but rather a wide variety of local adaptations. The articles in this volume provide numerous examples of the richness and complexity of interreligious relations in Medieval Islam and the reactions of jurists to those relations.

History of religion --- religious minorities --- jews --- christians --- legal status --- Al-Andalus --- Brepols --- Islam --- Muslims

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"The aim of this book is to investigate the taking and giving of hostages in peace processes during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in Scandinavia and adjacent areas. Scandinavia has been absent in previous research about hostages from the perspectives of legal and social history, which has mostly focused on Antiquity (the Roman Empire), Continental Germanic cultures, such as the Merovingian realm, and Anglo-Saxon England. The examples presented are from confrontations between Scandinavians and other peoples in which the hostage giving and taking was displayed as a ritual act and thus became symbolically important. Hostages were a vital part of the peace processes and used as resources by both sides in the ‘areas of communication’ within the ‘areas of confrontation’. Literary texts as well as runic inscriptions, picture stones, place names, and personal names are used as source material."

History --- Philosophy --- History of religion --- Anthropology --- Faith (religious) schools --- Legal history

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Traditionen sind dynamisch und vielgestaltig. Die Haltung der Kirche zum Judentum erfuhr durch das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil mit der Erklärung Nostra aetate eine positive Wende. Wie können diese tiefgreifenden Veränderungen und die hier beobachtbare Traditionsdynamik beschrieben und gedeutet werden? Elisabeth Höftberger eröffnet durch eine dekonstruktive und kulturwissenschaftlich reflektierte theologische Traditionstheorie einen neuen Blick auf kirchliche und religiöse Traditionen. Die entworfene dialogsensible Traditionshermeneutik und Rezeptionstheorie bieten Deutungsalternativen zu Polarisierungen wie Bruch und Kontinuität und leisten einen Beitrag zu einer interdisziplinären Theologie.

Christianity. --- Hermeneutics. --- Judaism. --- Council. --- History of Religion. --- Perception. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.

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'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.' - Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.

European history --- Social & cultural history --- Historiography --- History of religion --- secularization theory --- history of emotions --- religious sociology --- spirituality