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‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia - and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.
Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Mana --- History. --- Magic --- Religion --- Witchcraft --- cultural heritage --- pacific languages --- spiritual power --- Tapu (Polynesian culture)
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Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each chapter presents a separate regional case, with an historically and geographically different background, the volume discloses commonalities, similarities and intellectual echoes through its compar
Intellectuals --- Muslims --- Intellectuels --- Musulmans --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Intellectual life. --- Manār (Cairo, Egypt : 1898) --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Intellectuals - Islamic countries --- Muslims - Intellectual life --- rashid --- rida --- muhammad --- 2abduh --- shakib --- arslan --- reform --- muslim --- revival --- movements --- Manar (Cairo, Egypt : 1898)
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"Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity constitutes an exceptional religious tradition flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa already since late antiquity. The volume places Ethiopian Orthodoxy into a global context and explores the various ways in which it has been interconnected with the wider Christian world from the Aksumite period until today. By highlighting the formative role of both wide-ranging translocal religious interactions as well as disruptions thereof, the contributors challenge the perception of this African Christian tradition as being largely isolated in the course of its history. Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa's Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity"--
Christianity --- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān. --- Religions --- Church history --- Ethiopic Church --- Ethiopian Orthodox Church --- Ethiopia Orthodox Tewahedo Church --- Aithiopikē Ekklēsia --- Kanīsat Athyūbiyā --- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo bétakerestiyān --- Orthodox Tewahedo Church --- YaʼItyop̣yā béta kerestiyān --- Church of Ethiopia --- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta krestiyān --- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo bétakrestiyān --- YaʼItyop̣yā béta krestiyān --- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church --- Ethiopian Church --- Mana Kiristaanaa Ortoodoksi Tawaahidoo Itoohpiyaatti --- Orthodox Tewahdo Church (Ethiopia) --- Tewahdo Church (Ethiopia) --- Tewahdo Orthodox Church (Ethiopia) --- Orthodox Tewahido Church (Ethiopia) --- Ortodox Tewahido Church (Ethiopia) --- Orthodox Täwaḥado Church (Ethiopia)
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"No previous full-scale study has been undertaken so far to study the polemical writings of the Muslim reformist Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) and his associates in his well-known journal al-Manār (The Lighthouse). The book focuses on the dynamics of Muslim understanding of Christianity during the late 19th and the early 20th century in the light of al-Manār's sources of knowledge, and its answers to the social, political and theological aspects of missionary movements in the Muslim World of Riḍā's age. The basis of the analysis encompasses the voluminous publications by Riḍā and other Manārists in his journal. Besides, it makes use of newly-discovered materials, including Riḍā's private papers, and some other remaining personal archives of some of his associates."--T.p. verso.
Islamic renewal. --- Christianity and other religions. --- Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā. --- Manār (Cairo, Egypt : 1898) --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Relations --- History --- Reform --- Renewal --- Abu Abd Allah --- Abu Muhammad Syafi'i --- al-Syekh al-Sayyid Muhammad Rasyid Rida --- Mohamed Rachid Rida --- Muḥammad Rashīd ibn ʻAlī Riḍa al-Ḥusainī --- Muhammad Rasjid Rida --- Muhammed Reşid Rıza el-Hüseyni --- Rashīd Riḍā, Muḥammad --- Rasjid Rida, Muhammad --- Rasyid Rida --- Reşid Rıza --- Riḍā, al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rashīd --- Riḍā, Muḥammad Rashīd --- Riḍā, Rashīd --- Ridha, Muhammad Rasjid --- رشيد رضا، محمد --- رضا، السيد محمد رشيد --- رضا، محمد رشيد --- محمد رشيد رضا --- Theology --- Middle East and Islamic Studies --- Arabic --- Egypt --- Gospel --- Jesus --- Muslims --- Quran
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