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Civilization, Medieval. --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- 925 --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Social life and customs --- Europe - Social life and customs

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This volume deals with a phenomenon of increasing global significance, the South Asian diaspora. In particular it deals with the role of religion. The diversity of religious life in South Asia is remarkable and much of this diversity is replicated in the diaspora communities around the world. The case studies in this book explore and analyse the social, religious and cultural reality of people in the diaspora belonging to Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism and originating from four of the South Asian nation states (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka). The book highlights the religious diversity that exists in the diaspora communities both across the traditions and within the particular religions.

South Asians --- Religion. --- Social life and customs. --- South Asian diaspora --- Sud-Asiatiques --- Sud-asiatiques --- -South Asians --- -Asians --- Social life and customs --- Religion --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Asians --- Ethnology --- South Asians - Foreign countries --- South Asians - Social life and customs --- South Asians - Religion

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Popular Culture in the Ancient World is the first book to provide an interdisciplinary study of the subject. Traditionally neglected by classical scholars, popular culture provides a new window through which we can view the ancient world. An international group of scholars tackles a fascinating range of subjects and objects - from dice oracles to dressing up, from toys to theological speculation. Diverse comparative and theoretical approaches are used alongside many different ancient sources to provide a wide-ranging and rigorous approach to ancient popular culture. After a substantive introduction, the book moves from classical Greece through the Roman Empire to end in the late antique world. It enriches our understanding of the ancient world as well as our conception of the legacy of the ancient world in our own.

Popular culture --- Manners and customs. --- Popular culture. --- Rome --- Greece --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire). --- Social life and customs. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Social life and customs --- Popular culture - Rome --- Popular culture - Greece --- Rome - Social life and customs --- Greece - Social life and customs

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En Asie du Sud, la possession par des divinités ou des esprits, entendue comme cette présence étrangère à soi en soi, n’a guère été prise en compte dans la réflexion générale s’intéressant à ce type de manifestation. Dans le sous-continent lui-même, son étude s’est focalisée sur les zones géographiques périphériques et concentrée majoritairement sur les « tribus ». De plus, nombre d’interprétations l’ont réduite à une catégorie autonome, perdant de vue qu’il s’agit de l’une de ces interactions parmi tant d’autres, à la croisée des idiosyncrasies et des symboles partagés, par lesquelles les acteurs mettent en forme leur monde. En articulant leur réflexion sur la parole, le corps et le territoire, les quinze auteurs de ce volume ont voulu restituer la multiplicité des significations et la variété de ses liens avec toute une série de pratiques sociales et d’institutions, de discours et d’émotions. La possession, comme trajectoire de vie, perception des espaces propres aux dieux et aux hommes et représentation de la société, y compris dans ses dimensions identitaires et politiques, est à la fois mode de pensée et d’action. Ainsi apparaît-elle, par excellence, comme un « travail de la culture » qui lie intimement perception individuelle, modèle cognitif et société.

Spirit possession --- Possession par les esprits --- South Asia --- Asie méridionale --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Social life and customs. --- Spirit possession - South Asia. --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- croyance --- territoire --- corps --- parole --- possession --- dieux

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Religion is never simply there . In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis , Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than portraying this ancient religion as a well-structured, totalizing community, the fourth-century papyri sketch a dynamic image of lived religious practice, with all the contradictions, fuzzy boundaries, and limitations of everyday life. Following these microhistorical insights, this book demonstrates how family life, gift-giving, death rituals, communal gatherings, and book writing are connected to our larger academic debates about religious change in late antiquity.

Manichaeans --- Kellis (Extinct city) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion --- Religious life and customs --- Social life and customs --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religious adherents --- Religious life.