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Les Parisiennes

French Women Composers of the Long Nineteenth Century

Diana Ambache

Spanning the period from the French Revolution to the beginning of the First World War, Ambache reveals the breadth and diversity of women’s composing, placing their lives and works within a broad sweep of French political and social history.

For example, the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen de 1789 recognised men (but not women); however that same year, Isabelle de Charrière composed her Airs et Romances, and aristocrat Hélène de Montgeroult survived the Reign of Terror by improvising variations on La Marseillaise

Towards the end of the 19th century, as France celebrated its recovery after the Franco-Prussian war, Augusta Holmès was commissioned to write Ode Triomphale for the Revolution’s centennial. Her opera La Montagne Noire , staged in 1895 would, nonetheless, be one of few operas by a woman to be produced at the Paris Opéra that century.

Ambache reveals a wide range of little-known composers such as Louise Bertin, the only composer Victor Hugo collaborated with – on the opera La Esmeralda, and Julie Candeille (the composer of Catherine or la belle fermière , the longest running opera by a woman), whilst also placing composers who we are now beginning to appreciate more fully in their musical and historical context: women such as Louise Farrenc, Pauline Viardot, Cécile Chaminade and Lili Boulanger.

Far more than simply a lady at the piano or even a successful salon hostess, Ambache argues that some thirty French women contributed substantially to French musical life in the 19th century.

The Author

Diana Ambache was the first woman in Britain to found and direct her own classical orchestra, the Ambache Chamber Orchestra. As a pianist she has given concerts, taught and lectured in over 30 countries on five continents. She is the author of The Soul of the Journey, an account of the music and art inspired by the excursions of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn to Scotland and Italy (2021) and Grażyna Bacewicz, the First Lady of Polish Music (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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Introduction

Part 1

1.Opéras, Citoyennes, Sonates, et Mélodies

2. Paris - the artistic centre of Europe

3. Vocal music, prodigious talent, and new pianism

4. Meyerbeer’s Prophète, Viardot at Chopin’s funeral, chamber music societies in the Second Republic 1848-1852

5. Opéra, chamber music, and more songs in the Second Republic

6. Chamber music and Piano Études in the Second Empire 1852-1870

Part 2

7. La Belle Époque 1870-1940

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Long Agos and Worlds Apart

The Definitive Small Faces Biography Sean Egan

The Small Faces epitomised the maxim, “Never mind the width, feel the quality.” In their brief original lifespan, they released just three official albums and a dozen-and-a-half authorised non-album singles and B-sides. Yet more than five decades after the London quartet’s split the phenomenal quality of that compact body of work has ensured a continuing and unassailable musical esteem bordering on legend.

Gut-bucket vocalist Steve Marriott brought a bluesy grit to both compositions of gravitas and effervescent pop numbers. Bassist Ronnie Lane collaborated with him to form one of the most formidable songwriting partnerships of the era. Ian McLagan was an exhilaratingly blurred-fingered keyboardist. Kenney Jones brought up the rear with blistering drum patterns, with his rolls often used to provide an explosive fanfare to Small Faces singles. Such a talent-oozing line-up was virtually predestined to conjure excellence. ‘Tin Soldier’, their exquisitely sophisticated psychedelic-soul release of 1967, regularly appears in polls to decide history’s greatest singles. However, the band are just as much loved for rip-roaring power-pop like ‘Sha-La-LaLa-Lee’ and ‘All or Nothing’ and storming instrumental B-sides such as ‘Grow Your Own’ and ‘Almost Grown’. Their acknowledged masterpiece is Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (1968), an album that was not only artistically superb but groundbreaking in boasting a narrative song suite.

The breadth of their talents helps explain why their catalogue is endlessly recycled and why their corpus has been disproportionately inspirational: the Small Faces were clear or acknowledged influences on David Bowie, Paul Weller, Quiet Riot, Blur, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and even Led Zeppelin.

Long Agos and Worlds Apart covers the Small Faces’ full, tumultuous story. It explores the group’s 1965 formation, their Sixties glory years, the redistribution of the band members at the turn of the Seventies into Humble Pie and the Faces, the ill-fated but grimly fascinating Small Faces reunion of the late Seventies, and the little-known but worthy 1981 Small-Faces-in-all-but-name project the Majik Mijits. A closing section brings the story up to date. The book draws on lengthy new interviews, including ones with Kenney Jones, Lane’s close friend Pete Townshend and original Small Faces member Jimmy Winston. It features contributions from many associates and intimates, including managers, agents, publicists, songwriters, auxiliary musicians, fan-club personnel, recording engineers, journalists, friends and wives. It also draws on numerous interviews the author conducted down the years with both Jones and McLagan, much of which material is previously unpublished. A revealing, impartial, exhaustive and definitive account, Longs Agos and Worlds Apart lays to rest several myths about the Small Faces while at the same time seeking to redress the lack of credit accorded a truly great band.

The Author

Sean Egan is an author, journalist, editor and television screenwriter.

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INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

Chapter 2: ALMOST GROWN

Chapter 3: I CAN’T DANCE WITH YOU

Chapter 4: I FEEL MUCH BETTER

Chapter 5: SOMETHING I WANT TO TELL YOU

Chapter 6: WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM

Chapter 7: IT’S TOO LATE

Chapte 8: OWN UP TIME

Chapter 9: AFTERGLOW

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Fabricating Authenticity

Edited by Jason Ellsworth and Andie

Alexander

Fabricating Authenticity expands on revised posts that originally appeared on the blog for Culture on the Edge — an international research collaborative that analyzes strategies of identification. The newly envisioned main chapters in this volume draw on a variety of sites, topics, and case studies to explore what is at stake in claims of authenticity. Here, authenticity is examined as a socially contested and constructed label that is used to manage and codify a variety of choices in relation to understandings of identity formation. Building on the main chapters, Fabricating Authenticity is a collaborative enterprise that engages early career scholars to respond, critique, and press further the approaches and arguments put forth by members of Culture on the Edge.

Following the format of the earlier volumes in the Working with Culture on the Edge series, the introduction and afterword provide a more substantive, theoretical analysis on the discourse of authenticity. Together with the main chapters and responses, Fabricating Authenticity explores everyday examples that work as productive conversation-starters for those wanting to complicate and examine authenticity claims, thus making this an ideal volume for the introductory classroom and beyond.

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Jason Ellsworth is a Research Fellow, doctoral candidate, and sessional Lecturer in the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department at Dalhousie University.

Andie Alexander is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for the Study of Religion at Leibniz University Hannover.

Religious Studies

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Preface

Jason Ellsworth and Andie Alexander

Introduction: Commodifying Authenticity

Jason Ellsworth and Andie Alexander

1. Is There Lettuce in Greek Salad?

Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama

2. Beyond Authenticity?

Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Dawson College

3. Marketing the Authentic Taco

Jason Ellsworth

4. A Remembrance of Dishes Past

Rachel D. Brown, University of Victoria

5. Because YOU’RE an Early Adopter (and I’M NOT): Commodity Fetishism and Identification

Christopher R. Cotter, The Open University

6. Fool’s Gold: Tapping into Luxury

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong

7. “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline”

Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University

8. Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: COVID-19, Higher Ed, and the Politics of “Experience”

Sierra L. Lawson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

9. A Man, A Tan, “God’s Plan”

Richard Newton, University of Alabama

10. Just in It for a Paycheck?: On Philanthrocapitalism, Petro-States, and Paid Protesters

Stacie Swain, University of Victoria

11. On the Tyranny of Individualism: MAGA Boy, Media, and the Drum Matt Sheedy, University of Bonn

12. Symbols and Ownership

Yasmine Flodin-Ali, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

13. Donald Trump: A “Baby Christian”?

Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University

14. An Orbiter Is a Simp, a Foid Is a Foid

Nevada S. Drollinger-Smith, Arizona State University

15. Naming Things

Steven Ramey, University of Alabama

16. While Whitey’s on the Moon

Annie Rose O’Brien, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

17. In Their Own Terms

Vaia Touna, University of Alabama

18. Laurel, Mississippi, in Its Own Terms (kind of)

Marshall A. Cunningham, University of Chicago

19. “A Good Fake or a Bad Fake?”

Andie Alexander

20. Pay Attention!: Media, Performance, and Discourses on Authenticity

Daniel Jones

21. Do People Misunderstand Their Own Religion? Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College

22. But is It Really Religion?

Savannah H. Finver, Ohio State University

23. If It’s Not Authentic, It’s Not a Religion

Teemu Taira, Univesity of Helsinki

24. Rebranding Religion: Authenticity, Representation, and the Marketplace

Zabeen Khamisa, Wilfrid Laurier University-University of Waterloo

25. Is There Neo-Nazi DNA? Ancestry Tests and Biological Essentialism in American Racism

Martha Smith, Fullerton College

26. Making Sense of a Sense of Self

Israel L. Domínguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

27. The Moves We Make

K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama

28. Trans* Muslims and Jessica Krug: Analyzing the Discursive Power of Authenticity

Hinasahar Muneeruddin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Afterword: A Little Heritage Goes a Long Way

Andie Alexander and Jason Ellsworth

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Tradition

A Critical Primer

Steven Engler

This book looks at the concept of tradition in the study of religion. It examines the history of the concept, uses in the discipline, theoretical perspectives (including Indigenous and post/decolonial studies, cognitive science and hermeneutics), and critical perspectives on key thinkers (Halbwachs, Gadamer, Ricoeur, J & A Assmann, Boyer, Morin) and recommendations for clearing the air of a key theoretical tension surrounding the concept of the invention of tradition.

Questioning the use of ‘tradition’ as a synonym for ‘religion,’ the book models a relational and ideology-critical approach to complex concepts. It engages with important theoretical issues, including opposition to 'modernity,' Indigenous 'self-conscious traditionalism.' colonial discourses, intersections with ritual, agency and reason and 'the invention of tradition.' Discussionswith examples from a variety of religions and cultures - including African, Indigenous North American, south Pacific, AfroBrazilian, Japanese, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and esoteric. Four case studies – on esoteric Traditionalism, Candomblé, great/little traditions and Indigenous traditions in Canadian law – engage central ideas in greater detail.

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Steven Engler is Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Talking Tradition

Chapter 2: Pure Tradition vs. History

Case Study 1: Traditionalism and the denial of historical truth

Chapter 3: Invention and Authority

Case Study 2: Normative tradition in Candomblé

Chapter 4: Tradition and Modernity

Case Study 3: Great and Little Traditions

Chapter 5: Agency and Reason

Case Study 4: Indigenous Tradition and Canadian Law

Chapter 6: Key Thinkers of Tradition

Conclusion

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Becoming a Teacher Who Writes Let Teaching be your Writing Muse

Nancy S. Gorrell

Every teacher should get this book, read it, and use it. Here, Gorrell chronicles her development from novice English teacher – through New Jersey State Teacher of Year, through full maturation as a teacher-writer self and teacher-artist self – and she shows in vivid detail by personal example what it takes to courageously apply the principles and methods she outlines for others.

Arthur J. Stewart PhD, ecologist and poet

Gorrell swaps perfectionism for interdisciplinarity, and encourages us to reach beyond our perceived boundaries. Packed with useful classroom exercises from a master teacher, the book is a pleasure to read and will enrich any teaching and writing practice. It makes a timely intervention into today’s test-linked and assessment-driven public schooling, reminding creative writing teachers that by encouraging joy, they have the power to transform.

Sarah Beth Kaufman, Trinity University, professor/writer and former student

Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writers and co-learners. The chronology moves through the author’s evolution as a creative writer, a teacher-writer, and then a teacher-artist, all the while writing and learning with her students in English classes and reaching out to students and teachers across the curriculum. The book serves as both an inspirational account of Gorrell’s personal story of becoming and as a guidebook for teachers to reflect on and create their own analogous story of becoming. Each chapter includes an illustrative teaching story or poem and the author’s reflections on her evolving journey, along with model student writing intended to both instruct and inspire readers and their students in their own writing. It also contains reflective exercises for teachers to work through and teaching activities that they can use in their classes. An additional feature of the book is its attention to writing across the curriculum and its inclusion of interdisciplinary models and applications. The book incorporates the work of the author as well as that of her many collaborators, including a number of interdisciplinary contributors and former students.

The Author

Nancy S. Gorrell is an award-winning English teacher, author, and poet. Her previously published book (with Erin Colfax) in this series is Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response (Equinox, 2012). She is currently Director of the SSBJCC Holocaust Memorial and Education Center Survivor Registry, Bridgewater, NJ.

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Series Editor’s Preface

Martha Pennington

Prologue The Grasshopper in the Window or What Keeps Me Teaching

Foreword Musings on a 10th Muse

Mark Gutkowski, Global Academic Dean, Avenues: The World School

Introduction Becoming a Teacher Who Writes

SECTION ONE:

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4 Knowing Where You’ve Come From: Writing Memories

5 Discarding Baggage: Reframing Myths

6 Knowing Where You’re Going: The American High School

7 Knowing Your Students: Times of Transition and

8 Knowing the Creatively “Gifted” Student

9 Balancing Freedom and Structure: The Paradox of Boundaries

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Epilogue “The Students in the Window” Poetry and Prose from the Pandemic

Conclusion 2023

Afterword On Musings

APPENDICES

Appendix A Poetry Watch and Hawk Watch Resources (Chapter 2)

Appendix B “The Weight of Nothing,” by Amy Uyematsu (Chapters 3 and 8)

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Embodied Reception

South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts

Edited by Henriette Hanky, Knut A. Jacobsen and István Keul

This volume investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religious and spiritual traditions. The collection’s essays explore processes of adoption and adaptation, and the ways in which somatic religious practices are transplanted into new contexts, acquiring new meanings and generating dynamics of their own. Using the concept of “embodied reception” as a heuristic, the contributions address the dialectic between inscribing knowledge on practitioners’ bodies and opening new avenues for meaning-making through bodily experiences.

The collection assembles a range of empirical cases: contemplative bodily techniques such as postural yoga, mindfulness, and meditation; ritual practices in modern advaitic satsang; South Indian martial art; tantric goddess veneration; contemporary Sāṃkhyayoga practices. The empirical studies span devotional communities, yoga institutions, New Age milieus, and secularized contexts, providing a rich tapestry of contemporary embodied reception in and outside South Asia. Assembling research on embodied forms of reception both in South Asia and in Western countries, the volume advocates for paying close attention to entangled histories of knowledge. Grounded in this empirical outlook, the volume also speaks to theoretical and methodological debates on travelling bodily practices. The contributions suggest theoretical and methodological frameworks ranging from aesthetics of religion to sociology of knowledge, from ethnographical to cognitive approaches.

The Editors

Henriette Hanky is University Lecturer in the Study of Religions at the University of Stavanger and a doctoral candidate at the University of Bergen.

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen.

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Editors’ Preface

Henriette Hanky, Knut A. Jacobsen and István Keul

I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. Introduction Embodied Reception: South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts

Henriette Hanky

2. Training—Sensing—Predicting: Towards a Theory of the Reception of Practices as Embodied

Anne Koch, University of Freiburg

3. The Search for Rigour in Ethnographies of Bodily Practice

Theo Wildcroft, The Open University

II PERFORMING TEXTUAL TRADITIONS

4. Transpersonal Therapy and a Tantric Temple: The Parātrīśikā in Western Practice

István Keul

5. Practicing the Yogasūtra? An Approach to the Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Philosophy’s Somatic Aspects

Laura von Ostrowski, University of Hamburg

6. Lay Sāṃkhyayoga Practices in Contemporary India

Knut A. Jacobsen

III BODILY PRACTICES ON THE MOVE

7. Embodied Receptions and the Creation of B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma

Suzanne Newcombe, The Open University and Inform, King's College London

8. Between Patañjali and Psychology: Acem’s ‘Classical, Meditative Yoga’ Margrethe Løøv, NLA University College, Oslo

9. Kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘ in Performance: Adoptions and Adaptations of a South Indian Martial Art

Lucy May Constantini, The Open University

IV EMBODIED MEANING-MAKING

10. Osho in a Nutshell? Dynamic Meditation and the Relationship Between Bodily Performance and Meaning-Making

Henriette Hanky

11. “Being here fully”: Autoethnographic Approaches to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as an Embodied Group Interaction of an Authentic Self

Alan Schink, Ulm University

12. Moving Beyond the Mind Through “Listening by Heart”: The Role of Experience in Modern Advaitic Satsangs

Elin Thorsén, University of Gothenburg

13. Aligning the Good and the Beautiful: Yogic Aesthetics in a Globalized World Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside

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Archaeology of Urban Bondage

The New York African Burial Ground

Augustin F.C. Holl

The unexpected re-discovery and the ensuing excavation of the African Burial Ground - known in the 18th century as the “Negro Burial Ground” - lifted the lid on the early history of African presence in this part of the United States East Coast. The African Burial Ground Memorial is today one of the land-mark managed by the National Park Service, as a tribute to these men, women, and children, enslaved to build the wealth of that extraordinary and vibrant metropolis.

The author of Archaeology of Urban Bondage has been part of the African Burial research project from its beginning in 1993 to its end in 2006 and this volume is the only comprehensive presentation of this unique project in its multidisciplinary dimension. It looks at the enslavement of Africans in the Atlantic world from their origins in Africa, their life and death in New Amsterdam-New York in the 17th -18th East coast, relying on history, archaeology, and bio-anthropology. The argumentation is rigorously fact-based and inferences data driven.

The archaeology and history of the African presence in northeast United States are not limited to a European – African face to face. The genesis of the “Negro Burial Ground” is the result of different strands of history. Some issues, like the location of the African burial ground, generally taken for granted as starting point, are problematized in this book. Important questions as “why is the African burial ground located where it was?”, “how was the cemetery built up?”, “what are the key patterns of the buried population?”, “can agency and intentionality be discerned in the archaeological record at hand?”, are framed and addressed. Organized in two parts and framed from the “Global Africa” theoretical perspective, the book weaves data from history, archaeology, and biological anthropology to craft an integrated narrative on the deceased buried in the African Burial Ground.

The Author

Augustin F.C. Holl is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Africa Research Center, School of Sociology and Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China.

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Introduction

Prologue: From New-Amsterdam to New-York

Part I: From Africa to New Amsterdam – New York

Chapter 1 – Archaeology of the Atlantic Enslavement Systems

Chapter 2 – Genealogy of the “Negro Burial Ground”

Part II: An Archaeology of Urban Slavery

Chapter 3 – The Early Sequence (ca. 1645 – 1740)

Chapter 4 – The Middle Sequence (ca. 1740 – 1780)

Chapter 5 – The Late Sequence (ca. 1780 – 1796)

Chapter 6 – The African Burial Ground: Long-term Global

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The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga

Gidi Ifergan

Just as light reflects on a mirror, the source of awareness, the true Self, is projected onto the mind, reflecting the world of phenomena and enabling cognition. However, the mind, which carries within it the sense-of-self as the agent or ego, is wrongly convinced that it is the source of primary awareness, the true Self. Moreover, similar to a dusty and murky mirror, the mind reflects reality in a distorted manner, as its reflections become misrepresented through habitual tendencies and mental processes. And it is such distortion which produces confusion and suffering. Yoga in action redirects attention to the mind itself and seeks to remove the psychological blemishes, just like polishing a mirror. At the culmination of this process, the mind is liberated from mental processes and the causes of affliction and abides in an empty yet clear state. This is how the clear discerning gaze of yoga can be realised, by distinguishing between the source of light, which represents the true Self, and the mirror itself, which represents the mind and sense of self. Such a gaze has the power to liberate one from the misconceptions and emotions that hinder cognitive clarity.

This study explores the road map of yoga as reflected in the Yogasūtra of Patañjali (third century CE) and the Sāṁkhyakārikā of Iśvarakṛṣṇa (350–450 CE) which leads to the rise of this discerning insight, evading interpretations motivated by naivety on the one hand, and excessive suspicion on the other. Inspired by the psychology of yoga, the author offers a meditation focused on the sense of self and the cultivation of a discerning clear gaze.

The Author

Dr. Gidi Ifergan, a scholar of Indian philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism, currently conducts research and teaches at The Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University in Melbourne. He is the author of The Man from Samyé: Longchenpa on Praxis, Its Negation and Liberation (2014) and The Psychology of the Yogas (2021).

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Subject: Yoga Studies; Religious Studies

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Preface

1 Introduction: Metamorphosis of a Gaze

2 The Sense of I-am-ness Asmitā

3 The True Self Puruṣa

4 The Discerning Clear Gaze Viveka-Khyāti

5 Meditation on the Sense of I-am-ness

6 Concluding Observations

Appendix A: Yogasūtra: Authors, Texts and Readers

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Violence, Conspiracies, and New Religious Movements

A Tribute to James R. Lewis

Edited by Margo Kitts

Stimulated by the vast scholarly output of James Lewis, experts opine on violence, conspiracies, and new religious movements. On violence, Mark Juergensmeyer explains his “epistemic worldview analysis” in interviewing religious terrorists; Michael Barkun describes transnational conspiracy theories such as the Sovereign Citizens Movement and QAnon; David Bromley highlights the “lost cause movement” which built up confederate identity for Southerners long after the Civil War; Mattias Gardell explores the link between bibliocaust and holocaust from 1499 Granada through the National Socialists of WWII to the Qur’an burnings of Rasmus Paladan in contemporary Sweden. On new religious movements, Rebecca Moore critiques the reputed pathology of the leader in “suicide cults,” the problem with “monolithic inferences” in examining members’ willingness to die, and the elusiveness of comparative new religions to rigid stereotyping; Catherine Wessinger investigates the extraordinary charisma of David Koresh of the Branch Davidians at Waco, 76 of whom died in the 1993 conflagration with U.S. agents. On media and the law, Carole Cusack traces arguments about religious dress codes in liberal versus illiberal societies;Stefano Bigliardi and his students point out the misleading portrayal of religious sects in films; Zang Xinzhang clarifies the Chinese concept of Xie Jiao in application to Falun Gong. Margo Kitts summarizes the stellar contributions in the introduction.

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Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator, Religious Studies and East-West Classical Studies, Department of History, Humanities, and International Studies at Hawai’i Pacific University in Honolulu. Table of Contents Overleaf

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Violence, Conspiracies, and New Religions: Introduction Margo Kitts

Part I: Religion and Violence

1. Researching Religious Terrorism

Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara

2. Conspiracy Theories Across Borders

Michael Barkun, Syracuse University

3. Lost Cause: The Rise and Fall of a Symbolic Crusade Movement

David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University

4. By the Cleansing Flames of Fire: Koran Burnings, Racialized Religion and Politized Nostalgia in Sweden

Mattias Gardell, Uppsala University

Part II: New Religious Movements

5. James R. Lewis and Jonestown Studies

Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University

6. The Charisma of David Koresh

Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University

Part III: Media and the Law

7. Invented Religions and the Law: The Significance of Colanders, Hoods, and Pirate Costumes for Members of Jediism and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Carole Cusack, University of Sydney

8. Director’s Cu(l)ts, Reel Researchers: Exploring Sects in the Movies

Stefano Bigliardi, Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi, all at Al Akhawayn University

9. The Complicated Relationship between Xie Jiao and Cult in the PRC

Zhang Xinzhang and Xu Weiwei, both at Hangzhou City University

New book from Equinox Publishing Community Archaeology in Israel / Palestine

Edited by Raz Kletter, Liora Kolska Horwitz and Emanuel Pfoh

Although Community (or Public) Archaeology originated in western countries, it has now spread all over the world. It integrates the archaeological past with living peoples in new and unique ways. It is however, a rather loosely-defined field; to some it means an attitude and a theoretical concept, which is, or should be, valid for archaeology as a whole and for every archaeologist. For others it is a certain practice or sub-field of archaeology, which by now has its own experts – that is, community archaeologists.

It is perhaps not surprising that in Israel/Palestine Community Archaeology touches heavily upon the present, perhaps more than upon the past. No archaeology in this region is ‘neutral’ and the living communities are part of the heated, on-going political, social and religious conflicts that have shaped the past, and are shaping this land for over more than a hundred years. The question is whether archaeology, including Community Archaeology, strive to neutrality? Can Community Archaeology free us from the hegemonic position of the archaeologies of nations and states?

This is the first volume dedicated to Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine. Chapters in the book challenge (in several ways, though not always explicitly) the traditional “Biblical Archaeology” approach to the archaeology of Israel/Palestine. They present their individual concepts and ideas about Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine, bringing different questions and treating different case studies, and also reaching different though not unrelated conclusions. The volume gives a first, refreshing look of a new archaeology in an old land.

The Editors

Raz Kletter is Docent for Near Eastern Archaeology at Helsinki University.

Liora Kolska Horwitz is a prehistorian and archaeozoologist affiliated with the National Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Emanuel Pfoh is a researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, and at the Centre of Excellence "Ancient Near Eastern Empires", University of Helsinki, Finland. Table of Contents Overleaf

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1. The Nature and Development of Community Archaeology in Israel/Palestine: An Introduction

Raz Kletter and Liora Kolska Horwitz

2. Sebastia: Promoting Community’s Role in Preserving Cultural Heritage in Conflict Areas

Osama Hamdan, Al Quds University and the Mosaic Centre, Jericho, Palestine, and Carla Benelli, ATS Custody of the Holy Land, Italy

3. Something Old, Something New: Conducting Community Archaeology at the Wrong Site

Tawfiq Daʿadli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

4. Community Archaeology in Israel: Test Cases, Observations – and Questions

Gideon Sulimani

5. A Socialist Critique of Archaeology in Israel: Community and Antiquities as Social Value

Ianir Milevski, Israel Antiquities Authority

6. Community Archaeology before Community Archaeology? Dhahr el-Mazra‘a (Nahariya) and Kfar Bar’am

Raz Kletter

7. Community Archaeology and the Har Michia Rock Art Park in the Negev/alNaqab

Joshua Schmidt, University of Haifa, and Liora Kolska Horwitz

8. Archaeological Communities in the Shadow of Dividedness: Impressions from Israeli and Palestinian Scholars

Dirk Conradie

9. “Truth springeth out of the earth” (Psalm 85:12): The Museum Curator and Community Archaeology

Irit Ziffer, Eretz Israel Museum

10. Archaeology in a Tray: Integrating Students with Autism in Laboratory Research

Nimrod Marom, University of Haifa, Nofar Shamir, University of Haifa, Inbal Vortman-Shoham, Avnei Derech La’Haim [Milestones for Life], Roee Shafir, University of Haifa, Lee Perry Gal, University of Haifa / Israel Antiquities Authority, Bat-Sheva Hadad, University of Haifa, and Guy Bar-Oz, University of Haifa

11. Silwan (East Jerusalem): Trying to Breach the Archaeological Siege of a Community under Occupation

Yonatan Mizrachi, Emek Shaveh, Israel

12. Toward a Decolonial and Denationalized Public Archaeology

Raphael Greenberg, Tel Aviv University

13. An Afterword on History, Archaeology and Heritage in Israel/Palestine

Emanuel Pfoh

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Fertile Crossroads

Elites and Exchange in the Southern Levant’s Early Iron Age

Sarah Malena

The southern Levant linked the major powers of the ancient Near East. More often than not, peoples of this land were politically and economically dominated by greater kingdoms and empires. During the transition between the Iron I and II Ages (late eleventh to early ninth centuries BCE) however, imperial occupation and active colonization diminished, and local leadership emerged. Fertile Crossroads examines how, despite the lack of large-scale institutional support throughout the ancient world, small-scale leaders persisted in long-distance interactions and established the foundations for Iron Age polities. Malena critically examines the most direct evidence of these developments with the aid of historical and anthropological approaches regarding intercultural interaction and social change. Despite challenging disparity among historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Fertile Crossroads demonstrates that interactions (including diplomacy, commerce, competitive emulation, and aggression) were taking place within the southern Levant and with more distant neighbors, such as Egypt, Arabia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and even the Aegean. In this new application of interaction models and synthesis of evidence, Malena shows how smallscale exchange had a significant impact on socio-political changes in the region, especially involving shifts in elite networks, territories, group identities, and political power.

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Interactions with Philistines in 1 & 2 Samuel

Chapter Three: Solomon’s Interactions and Economic Policies

Chapter Four: The Special Case of Jerusalem—A Discussion

Chapter Five: Epigraphic Evidence Relating to Exchange

Chapter Six: Non-local Ceramics in the Iron I-IIA Transition

Chapter Seven: Synthesis and Conclusions

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New book from Equinox Publishing Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline

On the Future of a Humanities Ph.D.

Edited by Russell T. McCutcheon

This landmark publication needs to be read—and read widely. Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline is more than a manifesto: it sparks a conversation, a crucial conversation, that we’d be wise to collectively engage, advance, enrich and put into action. Our very survival as a discipline depends upon it. From the Foreword by Raj Balkaran

Given the continued challenges that face the higher education job market in the Humanities in North America, this multiauthored volume offers (i) a critical assessment of the current situation of Humanities doctoral students, early career scholars, and those now working in doctoral degree-granting institutions in the U.S. along with (ii) concrete proposals for a way forward. In turn, these proposals (iii) are the starting point for constructive reflections by faculty now working in leading American doctoral programs. The aim for the volume is therefore to initiate and then move forward a conversation among future, current, and recent graduate students as well as those who train them concerning the content, process, and purpose of acquiring advanced research skills in the early twenty-first century university. For this is a time when most everyone in higher ed. knows that a decreasing few who earn these degrees will ever attain work as tenured faculty members while an ever increasing number will, instead, end up either in perpetually insecure contingent faculty positions or, for a variety of reasons, will opt to seek careers outside academia, where the explicit relevance of their training is, at least at present, uncertain and uncharted. The volume asks what the role of these students’ faculty, supervisors, degree programs, and Departments ought to be in helping them—and thereby helping these doctoral programs themselves, along with their affiliated faculty—to excel in an economic, and sometimes political, environment that is often not kind to scholarship in the Humanities.

The Editor

Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and, for 18 years, was the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He has written on problems in the academic labor market throughout his 30-year career and helped to design and run Alabama’s skills-based M.A. in religion in culture. Among his recent work is the edited resource for instructors, Teaching in Religious Studies and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Foreword

Raj Balkaran

Preface

Russell T. McCutcheon

Introduction

Russell T. McCutcheon

Context

1. “The University Absolutely Had Nothing in Place…”: Life After Grad School with Bradley Sommer

Jacob Barrett, Erica Bennett and Bradley Sommer

2. “A Series of Decisions Which Are Going to Affect You Over Time…”: Life After Grad School with Pamela Gilbert

Jacob Barrett, Erica Bennett and Pamela Gilbert

3. “What I’m Doing is Pivoting My Career…”: Life After Grad School with Jared Powell

Jacob Barrett, Erica Bennett and Jared Powell

4. “Be Thoughtful About What Skills You’re Developing…”: Life After Grad School with Shannon Trosper Schorey

Jacob Barrett, Erica Bennett and Shannon Trosper Schorey

Manifesto

5. Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline: On Earning and Awarding a Humanities Ph.D.

Andrew Ali Aghapour, Shannon Trosper Schorey, Thomas J. Whitley, Vaia Touna and Russell T. McCutcheon

Responses

6. The Future of an Illusion

Barbara R. Ambros and Randall Styers

7. A Response to the Manifesto

David Frankfurter

8. In the Best Scenario…

Martin Kavka

9. The Way We Lived Then and Now: The Ph.D. and its Employments

Richard A. Rosengarten

Afterword

Emily Crews

Appendices

Appendix 1: Tracking Doctoral Graduates in the Study of Religion

Russell T. McCutcheon

Appendix 2: SBL/AAR Position Advertisements, 2001-2019 Russell T. McCutcheon

New book from Equinox Publishing

Information

Structure in Spoken English

A Systemic Functional Linguistics View

Gerard O'Grady

In a series of publications in the 1960s culminating in the 1967 book Intonation and the Grammar of English and the three articles Notes on Transitivity and Theme , Halliday proposed a system of information structure. Tonic items were presented as New or as if they were not recoverable from the context and cotext. Post tonic items were Given or recoverable. The status of pre-tonic items was ambiguous and needed to be considered in context.

Halliday’s view has proven to be reliable over the past 50 years but this book aims to revise it. The book argues that Halliday’s system was premised on two views both of which have been questioned over the years. The first is that Halliday’s notion of recoverability was influenced by Shannon and Weaver’s mathematical theory of information predictability where information can be encoded in terms of bits which are transmitted from source A to source B. This is not how SFL theory sees language functioning. Languaging is not simply the transmitting of information but rather a social semiotic practice which interactants deploy to affiliate with others while pursuing their individual needs. Secondly the binary division of information as either New (1 bit) or Given (0 bit) has been questioned in recent years by work which has looked at presuppositions and implications. In addition to these issues the book argues that Halliday’s definition blurs the important distinction between referentiality and identification. The book concludes by presenting an updated Hallidayan model which is sensitive to the above issues.

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The Author

Gerard O’Grady is a professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.

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1. An outline of a theory of Information Structure

2. Theme and topic: What they are what they do

3. The prosodic realisation of Given and New information

4. Is Information binary?

5. From initial to target state: the dynamic unfolding of propositions

6. Information structure in the wild

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New book from Equinox Publishing

Pagan Religions in Five Minutes

Edited by Suzanne Owen and Angela Puca

'For those who want to know about Paganism today, as far in the round as it is possible swiftly to get, it should be a first port of call.'

From the Foreword by Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol

Pagan Religions in Five Minutes provides an accessible set of essays on questions relating to Pagan identities and practices, both historically and in contemporary societies as well as informative essays on different Pagan groups, such as Druidry, Wicca, Heathenry and others. The book includes answers to a range of questions such as: How many Pagans are there? What do Pagans believe? Is Paganism a real religion or is it just made-up? Is Satanism a type of Paganism? Do all Pagans celebrate the solstices? Why is it written “Pagan” and other times “pagan”? Do they have sacred texts? Is Druidry the indigenous religion of Europe? What does the pentagram symbol mean? Can anyone be a witch? Are Pagans anti-Christian? The book also covers issues with terminology, including the labelling of ancient, non-Western and indigenous groups as ‘pagan’, common assumptions and misconceptions about Pagans, and more.

Each essay is by a leading scholar in the field, offering clear and concise answers along with suggestions for further reading. The book is ideal for both the curious and as an entry book for classroom use and studying Paganism.

Because each chapter can be read in about five minutes, the books offer ideal supplementary resources in classrooms or an engaging read for those curious about the world around them.

The Editors

Suzanne Owen is an Associate Professor in the study of religion at Leeds Trinity University, researching British Druidry and indigeneity in Newfoundland.

Angela Puca , Ph. D. (2021), is an independent Religious Studies scholar and university lecturer. She is bridging the gap between academia and the general public with her social media project, Angela’s Symposium, where she disseminates peer-reviewed research to a wide audience engagingly. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Italian witchcraft and shamanism to be published by Brill.

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Foreword

Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol

Preface

Suzanne Owen and Angela Puca

Paganism

1. What is Paganism? Angela Puca

2. Is Paganism a religion? Suzanne Owen

3. What is the difference between Pagan, pagan, Paganism and neoPaganism? Graham Harvey, The Open University

4. How did modern Paganism begin? Sabina Magliocco, University of British Columbia

5. What is the relationship between ancient and contemporary Paganism? Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne

6. How many Pagans are there? Vivianne Crowley, Nottingham Trent University

7. Are most Pagans solitary practitioners? Helen A. Berger, Brandeis University

8. What is a Pagan worldview? Graham Harvey

9. Is there anything common to all Pagan Religions? Jennifer Uzzell, Pagan Federation

10. Is Paganism a nature religion? Ethan Doyle White

11. How do Pagans view nature and the environment? Chas S. Clifton

12. Do Pagans have sacred sites? Ethan Doyle White

13. Do all Pagans follow the same festivals? Doug Ezzy, University of Tasmania

14. Do Pagans have a holy book like the Bible? Denise Cush, Bath Spa University

15. What is the relationship between Theosophy and Paganism? Yves Muehlematter, University of Zurich Pagan religions

16. Can a Pagan follow more than one path or tradition? Caroline Tully

17. What is the difference between hard and soft polytheism? Jefferson Calico

18. What is the difference between an eclectic and a traditional Pagan or witch? Angela Puca

19. Are all witches Pagan? Mary Hamner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

20. Can anyone be called a “witch”? Francesca Po

21. What is the difference between Wicca and witchcraft? Mary Hamner

22. What is Heathenry? Jefferson Calico

23. What is the difference between Druidism and Druidry? Jennifer Uzzell

24. Is Druidry the indigenous religion of Europe? Suzanne Owen

25. What are Techno Pagans? Chris Miller, University of Ottawa

26. What was ancient Slavic “paganism”? Giuseppe Maiello, University of Finance and Administration, Prague

27. What is Romuva in Lithuania? Milda Ališauskienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

28. Is Romuva an official religion in Lithuania? Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

29. How has Paganism developed in Brazil? Karina Oliveira Bezerra Pagan beliefs and practices

30. How do Pagans conceive of gods? Vivianne Crowley

31. Is there salvation in paganism? Michael York, Bath Spa University

32. Can a person have Pagan beliefs without being Pagan? Alessandro Testa, Charles University, Prague

33. Are some Pagans atheist? Sarah Best

34. Do Pagans worship ancestors? Jennifer Uzzell

35. What are pagan ethics? Michael York

36. How do Pagans interact with deities and spirits? Jenny Butler, University College Cork

37. What does a Pagan minister do? Holli Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary

38. What does the pentacle symbol mean to Pagans? Angela Puca

39. Do Pagans believe in reincarnation or life after death? Jennifer Uzzell

40. Do Pagans practise ritual sex? Angela Puca

41. Are Astrology and Tarot part of Paganism? Francesca Po

42. How do Pagans view magic? Karina Oliveira Bezerra

43. Is there a difference between magic and magick? Caroline Tully

44. What is chaos magic? Isis Mrugalla, University of Tübingen

45. Do Pagans use the Internet for their religion? Franz Winter, University of Graz

46. Is Christmas a pagan festival? Alessandro Testa

47. Is Carnival a pagan festival? Alessandro Testa

48. Are Halloween and Easter pagan festivals? Jenny Butler

Pagan discussions

49. Do Pagans practise sacrifice? Jefferson Calico

50. Are Satanism and Paganism the same? Ethan Doyle White

51. What explains the enduring bias against Pagans? Franz Winter

52. Is there antipathy between Pagans and Christians? Denise Cush

53. Can a Christian also be a Pagan? Rhiannon Grant, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

54. Can Paganism be applied to non-European religions, such as Shinto? Doug Ezzy

55. Can witchdoctors and Africana spiritual traditions be regarded as Pagan? Mary HearnsAyodele

56. How much of Paganism is based on cultural appropriation? Sabina Magliocco

57. Do Pagans have particular political views? Ethan Doyle White

58. Is there a problem with fascism in contemporary Paganism? Amy Hale

59. Were Pagans involved in the war in Ukraine? Giuseppe Maiello

60. Why do some polytheists reject the term Pagan? Angelo Nasios

61. Is Paganism empowering to women and LGBTQI+? Giovanna Parmigiani, Harvard Divinity School

62. Is Paganism queer? [M] Dudeck

63. Why is witchcraft popular among teenagers? Denise Cush

64. Do Pagans avoid technology? Chris Miller

65. What is WitchTok? Mary Hamner

66. How do Pagans use fiction and film? Carole Cusack, University of Sydney

67. Is Paganism make-believe? [M] Dudeck Studying and teaching Pagan religions

68. How do scholars study Paganism? Chris Miller

69. Should Pagan religions be taught in schools? Denise Cush

70. Are contemporary Pagan religions indicative of a new form of religiosity? Denise Cush

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The Spider Dance

Tradition, Time and Healing in Southern Italy

Giovanna Parmigiani

A counter to the hegemonic ‘linearity bias’ in scholarly research, Parmigiani’s important and skilful ethnography on time and historicity adds a vital dimension to the study of magic, one that will certainly have wide-ranging consequences for how we understand the human mind, more-than-human worlds, consciousness, and knowledge itself. Susan Greenwood, author of The Anthropology of Magic and Magic, Witchcraft, and the Otherworld

An important contribution to the ethnology of spirituality and religion in the Mediterranean.

Professor Sabina Magliocco, University of British Columbia

Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear ideas and experiences of time and temporality by showing the interconnectedness of alternative historicities, healing, and place-making among persons engaged in reviving, continuing, or re-creating traditional Pagan practices. The Spider Dance looks at local Pagans and at their ritual practice and interpretation of the traditional dance and music called pizzica. Pizzica is associated with tarantismo, a phenomenon present in that area for hundreds of years and attested until the second half of the XX century. Affecting mostly (but not only) women, tarantismo has been described in the form of malaise and physical suffering thought to be provoked by the bite of tarantula spiders and cured with pizzica music and dance. At the turn of the century tarantismo disappeared and new forms, called neotarantismi, emerged. The Spider Dance describes a novel “spiritual” form of neotarantismo and highlights its connections with contemporary forms of magic and healing. The relevance of The Spider Dance is not limited to a description of particular Pagan groups and practices. It also makes some key practical and theoretical contributions to the anthropological study of magic, of contemporary religions, of “historicities,” and to scholarly debates around complementary medicine and “well-being,” in Italy and abroad.

The Author

Giovanna Parmigiani holds a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto, is a Lecturer on Religion and Cultural Anthropology at Harvard Divinity School and a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

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Preface

Chapter 1. Il Matto/The Fool

Chapter 2. Il Mago/The Magician

Chapter 3. La Papessa/The High Priestess

Chapter 4. L’Imperatrice/The Empress

Chapter 5. La Temperanza/Temperance

Conclusions. Il Mondo/The World

Appendix: Resources on Pizzica and Tarantismo

New book from Equinox Publishing

Grażyna Bacewicz

Joanna Sendłak

translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska

Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist, a very fine pianist, and a talented author. She studied composition at the Conservatory in Warsaw with Kazimierz Sikorski, violin with Józef Jarzębski and piano with Józef Turczynski. Graduating in 1932, she travelled to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, later returning there to work with Carl Flesch. Her compositional output covered many genres, from ballets to songs and choral works, but also ranging from symphonies, concerti, and chamber works to pieces for solo piano. In 1936 she became principal violinist in the Polish Radio Orchestra. She then toured Europe as a soloist in the two years leading up to World War II, later resuming her career as a concert violinist and pianist after the war. For many years, Grażyna Bacewicz held the post of Vice-President of the Union of Polish Composers. She also served as a judge in many prestigious international music competitions. Strong and sensitive, and exceptionally family oriented, Grażyna Bacewicz was also blessed with unusual charm, phenomenal energy and huge creative potential.

Grażyna Bacewicz became world famous and won numerous prizes for her compositions, which were regularly performed by the best musicians, and picked up for publication. She received enthusiastic reviews from music critics, among them Stefan Kisielewski, who noted the ‘passionate ferocity’ of her playing and described her concerto for string orchestra as ‘a rare piece of healthy and tasty music’.

This biographical story, based on letters and other family documents, has been brought to us first hand by the composer’s grand-daughter, the writer Joanna Sendłak.

The Author and Translator

Joanna Sendłak is the author of a number of novels, most recently The Dreamer of 76th Street (Nowy Świat, 2016), With Fire: Grażyna Bacewicz in Love on the Eve of War (Skarpa Warszawska, 2018) and Symphony of Stars (Skarpa Warszawska, 2019). Two volumes of her short stories were published by Fundacja Światło Literatury in 2019: Atotsi and Labirynt

Halina Maria Boniszewska was born in the UK to Polish parents. She studied at the universities of London, Oxford and Warwick, as well as the Intermediate Department at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She translated (from Polish into English) Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebałkowska (Equinox, 2020), and Desperado: An Autobiography by Tomasz Stańko as told to Rafał Księżyk (Equinox, 2022).

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Early Life

1. Łódź

Student Life

2. Warsaw

3. Paris

Professional Life

4. Belgium

5. Paris

6. Russia

7. India

Chronological History of Life and Work

Selected Works

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New book from Equinox Publishing From the Ground to the Sky

Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology

Edited by Fabio Silva and Liz Henty

Skyscape Archaeology, only recognised as such in 2014, as a method of investigating the connections between the ground and the sky, brought archaeology and archaeoastronomy closer together, while imbuing the latter with the diverse and up-todate set of methodologies and theoretical frameworks that characterise modern archaeology and anthropology. Although several important strides still need to be made in order to fully bridge the interdisciplinary gap, the approach of skyscape archaeologists has proven successful, with the skyscape being increasingly recognised by archaeologists at large as an important component of any research project that tries to understand the lifeworlds of past societies.

This volume commemorates the tenth anniversary of Skyscape Archaeology by assembling a series of papers (collected from the volumes of the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology ) that demonstrate the theoretical and methodological breadth, as well as the socio-cultural depth of interpretation, that define this new wave of archaeoastronomy. It serves not only as a celebration of research accomplished over the last decade, but also as a testament to what skyscape research can look like.

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Archaeology

The Editors

Fabio Silva is Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Modelling at Bournemouth University.

Liz Henty gained her PhD from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and her thesis examined the history of archaeoastronomy and its relationship with archaeology.

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Foreword

Timothy Darvill, Bournemouth University

1. Introduction: Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology

Liz Henty and Fabio Silva

Theory & Method

2. Reflecting the Sky in Water: A Phenomenological Exploration of Water-skyscapes

Ilaria Cristofaro, Universit3 degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

3. A Neolithic World View Lost in Translation: The Case of the Tarxien Temples

Katya Stroud, Heritage Malta

4. Analysis of Structures' Orientations in Archaeoastronomy: Methods for the Quantitative Statistical Assessment of Peaks in Composite Probability Distributions

José Abril, University of Seville

5. Notes on the Accuracy of Google Earth Pro Heading Information for Archaeoastronomy and Landscape Archaeology Studies

William Romain, Indiana University

6. Cosmo-Logics in Contemporary Lowland South America

Alejandro M. López and Agustina Altman, both at CONICET, Argentina

Case Studies

7. The Great Stone Circle (B) at Grange, Co. Limerick: A Ceremonial Space for All Seasons?

Frank Prendergast, Dublin Institute of Technology

8. Crab Supernova Rock Art: A Comprehensive, Critical and Definitive Review

E.C. Krupp, Griffith Observatory

9. Using Virtual Reality to understand Astronomical knowledge and Historical Landscapes at Preclassic Ceros, Belize

Jeffrey Ryan Vadala and Susan Milbrath, both at University of Florida

10. "Sun Marker": A Laboratory for Experiential Cultural Astronomy

Angela M. Richman, National Park Service, USA, Von Del Chamberlain, Utah Valley University, and Joe Pachak, Archaeological Consultant, USA

11. Investigating Archaeology and Astronomy at the Hurlers, Cornwall 2013-2019

Jacqueline A. Nowakowski, Carolyn Kennett, James Gossip, all at Cornall Archaeological Unit, UK, and Brian Sheen, Roseland Observatory, UK

12. The Golden Hat of Schifferstadt: An Astronomically Significant Deposit Location?

Luca Amendola, Heidelberg University

Debate

13. "A Slow Convergence"? Archaeoastronomy and Archaeology

Anthony Aveni, Colgate University, Timothy Pauketat, University of Illinois, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain, and Timothy Darvill

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How to Do Things with Myths

A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There

Ivan Strenski

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of the author’s oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel “performative” theory of myth.

Beginning from its mid-19th-century foundations with philologist, Friedrich Max Müller, myths had been conceived in textual terms as quasi-biblical, static narratives. Not until the impact of ethnographic studies of traditional societies in the early 20thcentury did myths come to be regarded in situ as living agents shaping their societies. Leading a movement against Müller’s static, textual view of myths were his French sociological critics, notably Émile Durkheim and his équipe. The Durkheimians felt that myths mattered because of what they “did” by functioning within human societies. Adopting the Durkheimian notion of function was Bronislaw Malinowski. But as a pragmatist and positivist, Malinowski narrowed his conception of myths to utilitarian terms. In place of Malinowski’s utilitarianism, the author proposes a “performative theory” of myths – a theory freeing myths for a wider range of agency in culture, unrestricted by Malinowski’s behaviorism and positivism. Conceived as “important stories,” myths can thus “do things” in many, often subtle and unquantifiable, ways, depending upon a given culture’s own value system. Conceptually and theoretically, a performative theory situates itself with respect to the efforts of some of the most popular contemporary myth theorists -- Bruce Lincoln, Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil, Robert A. Segal and Jonathan Z. Smith.

The Author

Ivan Strenski is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Muslims, Islams, and Occidental Anxieties: Conversations about Islamophobia (2022), Understanding Theories of Religion (2014) and Why Politics Can’t Be Freed from Religion: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power and Politics (2009), Arabic translation (2016).

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1. Introduction: Myths, Performatives, Performances and Performers

2. “Sola Scriptura”: Max Müller’s Theory of Myths

3. French Connections: Durkheimian Ritualism Replaces Müller’s Hegemony of Myth

4. About Henri Hubert: Durkheim’s Mythologist

5. What Lévi-Strauss May or May Not Owe to Henri Hubert

6. Müller’s Legacy, Broken: Malinowski and the Pragmatist Theory of Myths

7. Taking Responsibility for the Concept of “Myth”

8. Conceptual Problems for Robert A. Segal and Jonathan Z. Smith

9. Henri Hubert Undoes Aryanist Political Myths

10. The Myth of Moscow, Third Rome: What It Seeks to “Do”

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Ray Brown

His Life and Music

Jay Sweet

Ray Brown: His Life and Music is the first full-length biography of Ray Brown, one of the most outstanding practitioners of bass playing in jazz music. Brown’s career spans the most popular and creative eras of jazz, from 1940 to the dawn of the 21st century. During his early professional career, Ray Brown first toured with territory bands, and by 1946, he was hired by Dizzy Gillespie to play in his small group and big band. At this time, Brown became the first call New York bassist to accompany other bop musicians like Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. He also served as the bassist with Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic and frequently recorded with an impressive stable of jazz musicians. In 1947 Ray Brown married legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald and soon divided his time by working as the leader of Fitzgerald’s trio while playing with Gillespie, Jazz at the Philharmonic, and as a guest accompanist.

After first playing together at Carnegie Hall in 1949, Ray Brown began regularly working with Canadian piano sensation Oscar Peterson until 1965. The Peterson Trio would become one of the most lucrative acts in jazz history. After leaving Peterson, Ray Brown worked as a Los Angeles studio musician and played on numerous commercial recordings but never abandoned swing-based jazz. During these years, he also became involved as a manager, promoter, and teacher. Throughout the mid-1970s until he died in 2002, Ray Brown remained one of the most excellent practitioners of mainstream jazz during a time when some elements of the music moved far away from this style. With so many jazz musicians from his generation succumbing to drugs and tragedy, Ray Brown’s longevity and professionalism are a testament to his talents, intelligence, and professionalism.

The Author

Jay Sweet is a professional jazz bassist, educator, writer, and researcher. He teaches bass instruction and courses in Jazz History, American Music History, and Music Appreciation at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is also the owner of Sweet Music Academy, where he and his staff have taught well over 3,500 students. Jay has performed and recorded with several noted artists. He has worked as a contributing editor of Jersey Jazz Magazine and released the book A History of American Music: An Origin Story 1750-1950 (Kendall Hunt). He is also the host of the popular podcasts 30 Albums For 30 Years (1964-1994) and The Jazz Real Book.

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Preface

Foreword

Alyn Shipton

Chapter 1: The Steel City and the Aluminum Bass (1926-1944)

Chapter 2: Working the Territory (1944-1945)

Chapter 3: Dizzy, Bird, and Bop (1945-1946)

Chapter 4: The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (1946)

Chapter 5: "The New Star" (1947)

Chapter 6: Fitzgerald, Granz, and Peterson (1947-1949)

Chapter 7: Time Changes: Fitzgerald to Peterson (1950)

Chapter 8: The Oscar Peterson Duo and Early Trio (1950-1952)

Chapter 9: Navigating the Changes: Transitions (1953)

Chapter 10: The Studio Recordings of the First Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (1954-1958)

Chapter 11: The JATP Tours and Records (1954-1958)

Chapter 12: The Classic Oscar Peterson Trio with Singers (1954-1958)

Chapter 13: The Session Recordings of the Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (1954-1958)

Chapter 14: Sideman Sessions Without Peterson (1955-1958)

Chapter 15: Bass Hits!, This Is Ray Brown and The Poll Winners (1956-1958)

Chapter 16: The Second Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (Part 1) (19591961)

Chapter 17: The Second Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (Part 2) (19621965)

Chapter 18: Solo and Sideman Sessions (1959-1965)

Chapter 19: Commercial Studio Efforts (1966-1969)

Chapter 20: Jazz Efforts (1966-1969)

Chapter 21: Sessions (1970-1974)

Chapter 22: The L.A. Four (1974-1983)

Chapter 23: Sideman Sessions (1975-1979)

Chapter 24: Brown’s Bag: Albums listing Ray Brown as a Leader (1975-1979)

Chapter 25: Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Monty Alexander, and Notable Sideman Sessions (1980-1984)

Chapter 26: The Ray Brown Trio with Gene Harris and Further Leadership (1980-1991)

Chapter 27: Sideman Sessions (1985-1989)

Chapter 28: Sessions (1990-1994)

Chapter 29: Green and Brown: The Ray Brown Trio (1991-2002)

Chapter 30: Some of My Best Friends and Final Sideman Sessions (1994-2002)

Chapter 31: Super Bass (1991-2000)

Chapter 32: Coda: Remembering Ray Brown

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Empirical Perspectives on the Use of Hungarian Nominal Demonstratives

Enikő Tóth

Deixis and the use of demonstratives are widely studied topics across languages. The fundamental purpose of this book is to provide an account of the semantics and pragmatics of Hungarian nominal demonstratives by examining why a speaker opts for a given demonstrative form in a particular speech situation and by investigating how the meaning of a demonstrative interacts with contextual clues during the process of reference resolution. These questions are addressed from an empirical perspective; the study incorporates the results of experimental work and corpus-based analyses. The present volume emphasizes the need to rely on various types of data source obtained by the application of diverse methods (including elicitation, corpus-linguistic and experimental methods) to develop a comprehensive account of demonstrative use. The empirical findings reported contribute to our understanding of demonstrative practice as an interactional process between the speaker and the addressee; it is argued that demonstrative reference in Hungarian is a dynamic, highly context-dependent, interactive and addressee-oriented process.

The volume not only expands current approaches to the use of Hungarian nominal demonstratives, it also provides new insights on demonstrative use in a language where this phenomenon has not been explored by empirical tools before. The data collected and the research findings make valuable contributions to the current international debate on the role of factors that govern the choice of demonstratives in different languages.

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Subject: Linguistics

The Author

Enikő Tóth is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Debrecen in Hungary.

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Introduction

1. Demonstratives - Meaning and Use

2. Different Approaches to Demonstratives

3. Empirical Studies on the Use of Hungarian Demonstratives

4. Contrastive Uses of Hungarian Demonstratives

5. Conclusion

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The Handbook on Music Business and Creative Industries in Education

Edited by Daniel Walzer

Creative arts professions (music, media, and performance) remain in a period of flux. As the music industry and related fields adapt to changing business models, student interest in training for a career in the entertainment sector continues to rise. Though the expansion of global degree offerings in the creative industries expands each year, a “state of the field” on educational and pedagogical issues in the music business and the creative industries has yet to be created.

Creative arts research encompasses a broad range of sectors in the music and entertainment industries; among these subfields include performance, technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and social justice. Globally, formal training for such pathways happens most often in higher education. The Handbook provides a practical and engaging resource for faculty, staff, administrators, graduate students, and industry members working on the “front lines” in teaching and learning. It presents a wide range of global perspectives from academics, BIPOC voices, and ECRs from the United States, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Canada.

Another factor that affects HE stakeholders is the absence of a versatile resource on the teaching and learning issues in music business and related fields. WhileThe Handbook avoids overly prescriptive models of teaching and learning, the volume includes topical research through case studies, ethnographies, and a thorough cross-section of qualitative and quantitative methods. Such a resource may be germane particularly to educators transitioning from industry to faculty appointments in HE. Authors are encouraged to draw from their expertise and use narrative analysis to support their perspectives.

The Editor

Daniel Walzer is Assistant Professor of Music and Arts Technology at Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis.

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Introduction: Editor’s Welcome

Daniel Walzer

Chapter 1: Music Business Education: A German Perspective

Martin Lücke, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Berlin

Chapter 2: Running a Student-Led Music Label-Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Music Business and Professional Practice Training

Ian Stevenson, Jeff Crabtree and Monica Rouvellas, all at University of Technology, Sydney

Chapter 3: Embedding Effectual Entrepreneurship Across the Music Business Curriculum

Jeremy Peters, Wayne State University

Chapter 4: Thinking Out Loud: The 5Rs of Musicians’ Project and Career Decision Making

Mathew Flynn, University of Liverpool

Chapter 5: How Do I Look? The Importance of Visual Analysis for Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education

Helen Elizabeth Davies, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Chapter 6: Songwriting, Visuality and Technological Determinism–Exploring Artistic Responses to Perceived Negative Effects of Streaming on Songwriting and Production

Hussein Boon, University of Westminster

Chapter 7: Anyone Can be a Musician: Art School Pedagogy and the Rise of the NonMusician

Simon Strange, Bath Spa University

Chapter 8: Scaling Up: Teaching Contemporary Music Through Repertoire Structures

Sean Foran, Jade O’Regan, University of Sydney, Vincent Perry, Charles Darwin University, and Tom O’Halloran, Edith Cowan University

Chapter 9: “How NOT to land an internship”: A Case Study of Experiential Learning in Sound Recording and Music Production Education

Kirk McNally, University of Victoria

Chapter 10: Putting Down Roots: Making Music and Embracing Messiness in Graduate School

Taylor Ackley, Brandeis University, and Joe Sferra

Chapter 11: Reconceptualising Higher Education Programs in Music for a Rapidly Changing Global Creative Industries Sector: An Australian Perspective

Ryan Daniel, James Cook University

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Explorations in Translation Studies

Readings Empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics

Edited by Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

The book is a collection of eight seminal works on translation studies empowered by full-fledged Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The chapters can all be characterized as textbased, meaning-oriented and metafunctional, involving different aspects of language operating in the context of culture, serving to explore the notion of translation as recreation of meaning in context. It is a book that centres on the theoretical and methodological framework in this research area, with instances of translation between different languages being treated as illustrations of phenomena that arise in translation. Arranged chronologically to reflect the development of ideas and based on Hallidayan SFL, the chapters are all written by M.A.K. Halliday and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen.

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The Editors

Bo Wang is Research Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau, China.

Yuanyi Ma received her doctoral degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is an independent researcher in China.

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, in the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Guest Professor at Beijing Science and Technology University, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University.

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Subject: Linguistics

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Introduction

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma

Personal note

Christiann M.I.M. Matthiessen

Chapter 1 Towards a theory of good translation

M.A.K. Halliday

Chapter 2 The environments of translation

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Chapter 3 Multilingual studies as a multi-dimensional space of interconnected language studies

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya and Canzhong

Wu

Chapter 4 The gloosy ganoderm: Systemic Functional Linguistics and translation

M.A.K. Halliday

Chapter 5 Pinpointing the choice: Meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text

M.A.K. Halliday

Chapter 6 Choice in translation: Metafunctional considerations

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Chapter 7 The notion of a multilingual meaning potential: A systemic exploration

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Chapter 8 Translation, multilingual text production and cognition viewed in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

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Religion, Death and the Senses

Edited by Christina Welch and Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore six physical and three socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss. Each sense section will comprise two chapters to provide differing examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the lens of human physical and cultural senses. Chapters will include historical and contemporary examples of ways in which death, dying and grieving are inextricable from their physical sensual expressions and sociocultural mores.

Most books about death explore how death can be theorised, theologised, and philosophised, or attend to the particular needs of health professionals working in palliative or pastoral care, with little attention to how people engage with and attend to, death, dying and grief sensually. The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual responses to death and dying, and secondly, through its contributors who are drawn from a wide spectrum of professional, practical, and theoretical expertise and scholarship in fields which continue to redefine our understanding of mortality.

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Subject: Religious Studies

The Editors

Christina Welch is a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester.

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack is an Adjunct Professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music Research and Composition, Western University, Canada.

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Series Foreword

Graham Harvey, The Open University

Introduction: Death and the Senses

Christina Welch and Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

Part I: Physical Senses

Death and the Sense of Movement

Chapter 1.Kinetic Death: O’Bon: Hawai’i’s Japanese Dance of the Dead

Candi Cann, Baylor University

Chapter 2. Egungun – Moving the masks of our ancestors

Olu Taiwo, University of Winchester

Death and the Sense of Sight

Chapter 3. Death in Sight: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Art

Celia Grace Kenny, Trinity College Dublin

Chapter 4. Images of Death and their Metamorphosis: From The Grim Reaper to Santa Muerte

Kate Kingsbury, University of British Columbia

Death and the Sense of Smell

Chapter 5. Smelling Death: An Olfactory Account of Popular English Funeral Customs, c.1850-1920

Helen Frisby, University of West of England

Chapter 6. The Sense of Smell and the Odour of Death

Wendy Birch, University College London

Death and the Sense of Sound

Chapter 7. ”Sounding out Death” and Death and the Sense of Sound

Suzi Garrod, Next Steps for Living, Dying, Grieving, and Christina Welch

Chapter 8. Sounding her Death Ballads: Funeral Songs as my Mother’s Final

Words

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

Death and the Sense of Taste

Chapter 9. Food for the Dead, Food for the Living

Bev Rogers

Chapter 10. Tasting the Dead

Christina Welch

Death and the Sense of Touch

Chapter 11. Crafting as a Continuing Bond: Linking Handicrafts and Lost Loved Ones

Enya Healey-Rawlings, University of Winchester

Chapter 12. The Sense of Touch in Relation to Working with Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains

Heidi Dawson-Hobbis, Univesity of Winchester

Part II: Cultural Senses

Death and the Sense of Decency

Chapter 13. Displaying the Dead with Decency: Considering Embalmed Fleshy Bodies at Funeral Homes, and De-fleshed Plastinated Corpses at BODY WORLDS

Chapter 14. Body Disposal, Decency and Dark

Tourism: A Case Study Approach

Alasdair Richardson, University of Winchester, and Christina Welch

Death and the Sense of Humour

Chapter 15. Satire in the Time of a Pandemic: An Interview with Cold War Steve

Laura Hubner, University of Winchester

Chapter 16. It’s not Funny is it?: Humour as a Coping Strategy against Death by Funeral Workers in the UK

Angie McLachlan

Death and the Sense of Loss

Chapter 17. When Glaciers Die: Mourning and Memorialisation in Ecological Devastation

Jonatan Juelsbo, University of Winchester

Chapter 18. Grave Goods as Continuing Bonds

Kym Swan, Funeral Arranger

Afterword

Graham Harvey

Lucy Jacklin and Christina Welch

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Korean Religious Texts in Iconic and Performative Rituals

Yohan Yoo

This book examines the ways in which scriptures are accepted and appropriated by religious people in Korea. It explores how sacred texts in various religions, including Protestantism, Buddhism,Confucianism, and Shamanism, attain their sacred status and power. It also delves into how the performative aspect of scriptures is often intrinsically linked to their iconic status. The book highlights the close relationship between the performative use and the iconic nature of these scriptures, showing how they are ritualized and performed in religious practices.

In Korea, a distinct mix of religions coexists, each contributing to the country's religious diversity. Christianity, as the largest religion, represents a significant portion of the population, yet Buddhism, as Korea's major traditional religion, holds a comparable influence. Confucianism, with its deep historical roots and impact on Korean customs and values, continues to shape the society, particularly through ancestral rites and customs that prioritize elders. Many contemporary Koreans still resort to shamanic rituals and divinations, which have prevailed among the common people for thousands of years. Examples from these religions in Korea vividly illustrate that the iconic and performative dimensions of scriptures are generally witnessed in religions that recognize sacred texts. The interplay and complementary functions of these dimensions in the lives of the religious are also examined. The book presents compelling examples showing how the content, physical form, recitations, written characters, and imagery of scriptures are ritualized to exert sacred power.

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The Author

Yohan Yoo is a Professor of Comparative Religion at Seoul National University. His previous publications include three books in Korean: Myths of Our Era (2012), Understanding Religious Studies (2020), and Understanding Religious Symbolism (2021). He has also co-authored Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution (Routledge, 2021) and co-edited Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings (Equinox, 2021) with James W. Watts.

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1. Introduction: Explaining Sacred Texts and Religion by Using Korean Examples

2. Possession and Repetition: How Korean Lay Buddhists Appropriate Scriptures

3. Performative Scripture Reading Rituals in Early Korean Protestantism

4. Sensory Readings of Scriptures by Neo-Confucian Scholars

5. Performing Scriptures: Ritualizing Sacred Texts in Korean Shamanic Recitation

6. Powerful Tiny Scriptures: Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism

7. Scriptures for Recitation in Donghak (Eastern Learning)

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