Перед вами – увлекательная книга о пророке Мухаммеде. Прочитав ее, вы узнаете много не только о самом Мухаммеде, но и об Аравии, арабах и о тех временах, в которые он жил. Автора книги, Вашингтона Ирвинга, принято называть отцом американской литературы. Он одним из первых решился написать биографию пророка ислама. До сих пор книга Ирвинга считается лучшей биографией Мухаммеда, написанной христианином. Книга проникнута глубоким уважением к лично ...
«Золотой легендой» в Средневековье называли собрание житий святых Католической церкви, составленное в 1250-е годы Иаковом Ворагинским, итальянским монахом-доминиканцем. Эта книга приобрела широкую известность и оказала значительное влияние на европейское искусство и культуру.
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The Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds li ...
Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin ...
Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that explore forms of mobility where pilgrimage is ju ...
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becom ...
