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Religion and the Cultures of Kenya
Religion is not only about spiritual experience but also about attitude and identity formation. A renowned sociologist Emile Durkheim describes...
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College Cultures
This chapter examines how gender ideologies shaped the spatial, material and social cultures of the coeducational colleges. It argues that civic...
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Jews, Consumer Culture, and Jewish Consumer Cultures: An Introduction
More than a decade ago, Jewish studies witnessed an economic turn, driven by a growing interest in Jews’ economic activities, Jewish-gentile economic...
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Mixed Marriage Patterns in Istanbul: Gendering Ethno-religious Boundaries
This study focuses on the mixed marriages between individuals from Rum Orthodox, Jewish, and Armenian communities with Muslims, who are legally...
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Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy
The dissemination of Safedian Kabbalah in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy represents a critical turning point in the history of...
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Constructing “Mad” Religious Experiences in Early Modern Sweden
This chapter discusses the process of constructing religious experiences as pathological and ‘mad’ in early modern Sweden, during an era of great...
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Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language
This chapter discusses how the German preoccupation with “Arabdom” led to a paranoid classification of Kiswahili as a language contaminated by...
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Artisans of Religion at the Moral Frontiers: Finnish Soldiers’ Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Attitudes in World War II
The chapter studies the role of religion in Finnish soldiers’ everyday life during World War II. How did the soldiers engage with religious practices...
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Negotiating Germanness with Indian Religious History: Transfers of Academic Knowledge and Notions of völkisch Belief
Völkisch, racist, and essentialist constructions of religious belief flourished in the first half of the twentieth century. After 1933, debates on...
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Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800
This volume charts the diversity of early modern colophons to explore new analytical approaches to scribal cultures across the globe between circa...
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The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion
This chapter traces the use of religious governance in England’s early attempts to colonise Virginia between 1606 and 1624. It assesses how, in the...
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Canonical Versus Apocryphal: Religious Texts Condemning Witchcraft
Taking as a starting point the Christian Apocrypha, namely the Life of St. Basil the Younger and the Apocalypse of the Virgin (but also other...
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Confronting Religious and Regional Conflicts in Sudan
From 1899 to 1955, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a Condominium theoretically subordinate to two countries but in practice dominated by Britain. At its...
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Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe...
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Prayer and the Body in Lay Religious Experience in Early Modern Finland
Toivo’s chapter systematizes prayer as experience on three levels, as everyday encounters, as social processes and as structures. It shows the...
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The Conversos of Valencia: Prosopography of a Socio-Religious Community (1391–1420)
Since the nineteenth century, conversos have been among the most prolific lines of research for medievalists and early modern historians. The...
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Cold War Cultures
The Cold War confrontation and the threat of nuclear devastation had a profound effect on many aspects of life, even in matters as basic as sexuality...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Paradigms Shifts in the Study of the ‘Religious Question’ in China
This chapter looks at the three competing paradigms that have defined the multi-disciplinary scholarship on Chinese religions since Deng: a...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Birth of Mexican Nationalism Reflection on Religious Symbol of Mexican Nation
This chapter deals with the specific case of Mexican nationalism which shows different features than its counterparts in Europe. There are some...