Faith, Embodiment, and "turning Turk"
Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
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Turning Turk
Author: D. Vitkus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1137052929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:2
Author: Helena Kaler
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Published: 2006-03-07
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748643206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse than death and as a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. In addition, she shows how England's encounter with Islam reanimated post-Reformation debates about the embodiment of Christian faith. As Degenhardt compellingly demonstrates, the erotics of conversion added fuel to the fires of controversies over Pauline universalism, Christian martyrdom, the efficacy of relics and rituals, and even the Knights of Malta.
Doing Kyd
Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1526108941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in higher-education curriculum for English and drama.
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 074868655X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse t
Becoming Christian
Author: Dennis Austin Britton
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0823257169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities. Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation. Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape.
Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe
Author: Bent Holm
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Published: 2021-07-23
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 3990121251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe confrontation between European countries and the expanding Ottoman Empire in the early modern era has played a major role in numerous fields of history. The aim of this book is to investigate the European-Ottoman interrelations from three angles. One deals with the circumstances: How did the Europeans meet the Turks in pragmatic and diplomatic connections? Another concerns imagery: how were the Turks depicted in literature and art? The third examines performativity: how were the Turks inserted into plays, operas and ceremonies? This book confronts mental, visual and embodied images with historical positions and conditions. The focus, therefore, is on the dynamic interactive processes of experience, embodiment and imagination in context. Bringing together Turkish and European scholars, it applies a number of research strategies used by historians to the history of art, literature, music and theatre. Contributions by Pál Ács | Robert Born | Asli Çirakman | Anne Duprat | Kate Fleet | Bent Holm | Marcus Keller | Maria Pia Pedani | Mogens Pelt | Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen | Günsel Renda | Pia Schwarz Lausten | Charlotte Colding Smith | Suna Suner | Dirk Van Waelderen
'Hamlet' Without Hamlet
Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-01-11
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 0521870259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The Transformative Power of Faith
Author: Erin Dufault-Hunter
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 073917553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Transformative Power of Faith examines how and why some people, particularly those coming out of highly self-destructive, violent, and antisocial backgrounds who appear beyond repair, experience profound personal transformation through conversion to strong faith. Illustrated by stories of converts who came out of serious drug addiction, gangs, and poverty through adherence to a demanding faith, Erin Dufault-Hunter argues for a narrative approach to conversion. This holistic theoretical perspective offers an alternative epistemological stance to reductionistic models sometimes perpetuated among social scientists and religious ethicists alike. In this study, the narrative lens gives vision of the religious “Other” a depth and complexity too often lacking. Such an approach allows a deeper understanding of the dynamics of personal transformation in ways that make sense of psychological and social factors without ignoring so-called “spiritual” ones.
