Secrecy and Concealment

Secrecy and Concealment

Author: Hans Kippenberg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9004378871

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This volume deals with secrecy and concealment in the history of mediterranean religions as pattern of social interaction. Secrecy is a powerful means in establishing identity and interaction as G. Simmel has demonstrated. Using his approach the scholars of this volume describe and explain the practical meaning of concealment in two different religious systems: in Egyptian and Greek polytheism and in Jewish, Christian, Gnostic and Shi'i monotheisms. This point of view reveals that all these religions shaped social norms concerning public and private aspects of the human self.


Bonds of Secrecy

Bonds of Secrecy

Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0812296842

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How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this double-edged conception of secrecy and divinity profoundly affected the way believers acted and thought as subjects under the law, as the devout within monasteries, and as readers before books. One crucial way it did so was by forming an ethical relationship between the self and the world that was fundamentally different from its modern reflex. Whereas today the bearers of secrets might be judged for the consequences of their reticence or disclosure, Saltzman observes, in the early Middle Ages a person attempting to conceal a secret was judged for believing he or she could conceal it from God. In other words, to attempt to hide from God was to become ensnared in a serious sin, but to hide from the world while deliberately and humbly submitting to God's constant observation was often a hallmark of spiritual virtue. Looking to law codes and religious architecture, hagiographies and riddles, Bonds of Secrecy shows how legal and monastic institutions harnessed the pervasive and complex belief in God's omniscience to produce an intense culture of scrutiny and a radical ethics of secrecy founded on the individual's belief that nothing could be hidden from God. According to Saltzman, this ethics of secrecy not only informed early medieval notions of mental activity and ideas about the mind but also profoundly shaped the practices of literary interpretation in ways that can inform our own contemporary approaches to reading texts from the past.


Secret Faith in the Public Square

Secret Faith in the Public Square

Author: Jonathan Malesic

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1587432269

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Provocatively argues that concealing Christian identity in American public life is the best way to maintain faithful witness and integrity.


The Secrets of the Kingdom

The Secrets of the Kingdom

Author: Hugh B. Urban

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780742552470

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The Secrets of the Kingdom is the first book to critically examine the complex relationship between faith and concealment in the Bush White House.


Messianic Secret in Mark's Gospel

Messianic Secret in Mark's Gospel

Author: Heikki Räisänen

Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Published: 2000-11-14

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780567292537

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Räisänen offers a new perspective on the composition and meaning of the collection of motifs in Mark known as the 'messianic secret'.


Lords of Secrecy

Lords of Secrecy

Author: Scott Horton

Publisher: Nation Books

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1568587457

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Horton argues that the rise of the National Security State is stabbing at the heart of American democracy.


Self and Secrecy in Early Islam

Self and Secrecy in Early Islam

Author: Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781570037542

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"In this comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture, Ruqayya Yasmine Khan draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to map interconnections between concepts of secrecy and identity. In early Islamic discourse, Khan maintains, individual identity is integrally linked to a psychology of secrecy and revelation - a connection of even greater importance than what is being concealed or displayed. Khan further maintains that secrecy and identity demarcate boundaries for interpersonal relations when governed by the cultural norms of discretion espoused in these texts."--BOOK JACKET.


Secrets

Secrets

Author: Sissela Bok

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 030776172X

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The author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.


Secrets and Leaks

Secrets and Leaks

Author: Rahul Sagar

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0691168180

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Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used responsibly? Typically, the onus is put on lawmakers and judges, who are expected to oversee the executive. Yet because these actors lack access to the relevant information and the ability to determine the harm likely to be caused by its disclosure, they often defer to the executive's claims about the need for secrecy. As a result, potential abuses are more often exposed by unauthorized disclosures published in the press. But should such disclosures, which violate the law, be condoned? Drawing on several cases, Rahul Sagar argues that though whistleblowing can be morally justified, the fear of retaliation usually prompts officials to act anonymously--that is, to "leak" information. As a result, it becomes difficult for the public to discern when an unauthorized disclosure is intended to further partisan interests. Because such disclosures are the only credible means of checking the executive, Sagar writes, they must be tolerated, and, at times, even celebrated. However, the public should treat such disclosures skeptically and subject irresponsible journalism to concerted criticism.