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This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion after 1900. This volume concerns the ways in which the term medium still marks an overlapping of – and thus problematizes – the aforementioned division between religion and the secular, the personal and the technological.The term medium carries with it a seed of doubt that is itself inseparable from investment in the medium's power: insofar as they communicate with an "other" realm, mediums offer the hope and promise of new possibilities and improved efficiency, and thus of a better life; yet they have simultaneously been under suspicion of altering (or even inventing) the messages they communicate. It is due to this combination of promise and suspicion that "mediumism" has tended to evoke scientific, religious, and moral controversies. Thus, we can speak of a "mediumistic trial" – that is, a process in which a medium is put to the test concerning its potentials and trustworthiness. Around 1800, experts were asked if a modern secular institution would be capable of inspiring, domesticating or excluding trance mediumship. This question has stayed with us ever since, and the answers have remained inconclusive. That is why the past and present of mediumship may be asked to elucidate each other.

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Comment écrire une histoire des temps coloniaux à partir de points de vue d'Algériens ? Quels rapports établir entre la colonisation et le réformisme musulman, problème majeur de l'histoire contemporaine de l'islam ? C'est à ces deux questions, aussi centrales qu'irrésolues, que s'attaque cette étude sur l'ibadisme aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Ce livre retrace la trajectoire de la minorité des musulmans berbères et ibadites du Mzab depuis l'occupation de cette région du nord du Sahara par la France, en 1882, jusqu'à l'indépendance de l'Algérie, en 1962. Il montre la manière dont, face à la domination coloniale, des savants musulmans - les oulémas - s'emparent de l'idée de réforme en islam, pour en faire une arme de conquête du leadership et de reconfiguration de la religion et de la société locales. Par-delà le face-à-face entre la France et l'Algérie, circuler entre Le Caire, Tunis, Alger et le Mzab permet à ces lettrés de trouver de nouveaux modèles politiques, d'opérer de fortes ruptures culturelles et de s'adapter à d'importants changements socio-économiques. Trois générations successives d'oulémas repensent l'ibadisme comme foi et comme pratique et, surtout, redéfinissent les contours de leur communauté face à l'occupation étrangère, tout en lui ménageant une place dans la nation algérienne en construction. Très minoritaires (1 % à peine de la population), les ibadites se révèlent un observatoire unique des bouleversements vécus par les Algériens à la période coloniale. Au terme d'un patient travail de terrain et en archives (de langues arabe et française), Augustin Jomier renouvelle la question du réformisme musulman, révélant l'existence de sa variante ibadite et, plus largement, la métamorphose coloniale de l'islam. Il montre surtout qu'écrire l'histoire de l'Algérie en observant l'évolution des institutions sociales et culturelles antérieures à la colonisation permet de restituer la capacité d'action des colonisés, leurs manières de donner sens aux cadres.

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A young man arrives in the public square to confront his father and his city for its violence and greed. He wants off the social grid. In a dramatic gesture of renunciation, he takes off all his clothes and hands them back to his father and walks away, in search of a new identity and purpose with his God. In this insightful and inspiring book, Bartoli explores the meaning of Francis' gestures of nudity from his moment of conversion to his ritual of death. They are a window into a life of hope and suffering, loss and peace, a man who uses his nudity to tell his struggle for acceptance by the God that he loves so well--

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This book is a brief, simplified presentation of eleven major world religions active today. It is an objective study of the history, beliefs, sacred scripture, festivals, and population. It is intended to supply knowledge without comparing the religions or attempting to convert anyone to any of them. It is a book to further knowledge for understanding living religions and their cultures. The contents are described according to the locations of their origins, the Middle, Far, and Near East. The book is readable for youths and adults. The book is very useful for students taking beginning courses in religion and religions. This book is quickly readable without distracting references. The importance of the eleven religions described in this book is noted in that they claim the membership of five of the seven billion people in our world. -- back cover.

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