Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation

Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation

Author: Yvonne Petry

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9004138013

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This study examines the thought of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), a French religious thinker who relied on Jewish Kabbalah and its mystical understanding of gender to argue that a female messiah had arrived who would heal the political and religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe.


Kabbalah and Modernity

Kabbalah and Modernity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-09-15

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 900418287X

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The persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. Often, and necessarily, this new interest and openness went along with a contextualization and re-valuation of earlier scholarly approaches to kabbalah. This volume brings together leading representatives of this ongoing debate in order to break new ground for a better understanding and conceptualization of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.


Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547

Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547

Author: Christopher Ocker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-07-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9047409981

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This is a study of the religious controversy that broke out with Martin Luther, from the vantage of church property. The book shows how acceptance of confiscation was won, and how theological advice was essential to the success of what is sometimes called a crucial if early stage of confessional state-building.


Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture

Author: Kathleen P. Long

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 131713057X

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In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. How do early scientific discourses infiltrate other cultural domains such as literature, philosophy, court life, and the conduct of households? How do these new contexts deflect scientific pursuits into new directions, and allow a larger participation in the elaboration of scientific methods and perspectives? Might there have been a scientific subculture, particularly surrounding alchemy, which allowed women to participate in scientific pursuits long before they were admitted in an investigative capacity into official academic settings? This volume poses those questions, as a starting point for a broader discussion of scientific subcultures and their relationship to the restructuring and questioning of gender roles.


The Jews and the Reformation

The Jews and the Reformation

Author: Kenneth Austin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0300186290

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The first comprehensive account of Protestant and Catholic attitudes toward Jews and Judaism in the European Reformation ​In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations towards Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning. Martin Luther’s writings are notorious, but Reformation attitudes were much more varied and nuanced than these might lead us to believe. This book has much to tell us about the Reformation and its priorities—and has important implications for how we think about religious pluralism more broadly.


Wandering Women and Holy Matrons

Wandering Women and Holy Matrons

Author: Leigh Ann Craig

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9004174265

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This book explores womena (TM)s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about womena (TM)s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.


Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral

Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral

Author: Carolyn Marino Malone

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9047405315

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This interdisciplinary study interprets the façade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century Church liturgy and politics. The façade promoted the aims of the church of Wells, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the English Church and State following Magna Carta.


Gemeindeordnung und Kirchenzucht: Johannes a Lascos Kirchenordnung für London (1555) und die reformierte Konfessionsbildung

Gemeindeordnung und Kirchenzucht: Johannes a Lascos Kirchenordnung für London (1555) und die reformierte Konfessionsbildung

Author: Judith Becker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 9047420659

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This study describes the origins of early Reformed confessional development using the example of those congregations of religious refugees most heavily influenced by John Laski: the congregation at Emden and the Dutch and French Strangers’ Churches in London. At its center are questions about the congregation as the location of ecclesiology. The outlines of Laski’s theology--which viewed the congregation as the communion of the body of Christ--are described in comparison to the approaches of other Reformers and in relationship to daily reality in the second half of the sixteenth century. Working from a rich base of source materials, the author discusses the development of teachings on church offices and the practice of church discipline, thus illuminating the self-understanding of the three congregations. Becker shows how reciprocal influences and attempts to conform led to the unification of doctrine and community life within these congregations.


Queen's Apprentice

Queen's Apprentice

Author: Joseph F. Patrouch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9004180303

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This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.


Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

Author: István Keul

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004186840

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Conceived as another chapter in the European history of religions (Europäische Religionsgeschichte), this book deals with the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania. Navigating along multiple narrative tracks, and attempting to treat the religious history of an entire region – over a limited time period – in a differentiated, polyfocal way, the book represents a departure from the master narratives of any singularly oriented religious history. At the same time, the present work seeks to contribute to laying the groundwork at the micro- and meso-contextual level of East-Central European confessionalization processes, and to developing interpretive models for these processes in the region.