Let’s cross that body when we get to it: gender and ethnicity in rabbinic literature [0.03%]
且走到那桥再拆吧：拉比文献中的性别与种族问题
Gwynn Kessler
Gwynn Kessler
This article explores rabbinic constructions of gender and ethnicity by reading two apparently disparate biblical characters together: Mordechai and Zipporah. Zipporah and Mordechai transgress gender boundaries both in the biblical text and...
Sex and the City (of God): is sex forfeited or fulfilled in Augustine's resurrection of body? [0.03%]
奥古斯丁的肉身复活论：性是被放弃还是得以实现？
Margaret R Miles
Margaret R Miles
Reading Augustine’s hypothetical description of resurrection bodies through Freud and his critics’ construction of "sexuality," I suggest that Augustine’s mature writings on the resurrection include some-thing like post-Freudian ideas of...
John Wall
John Wall
This essay argues for a new religious ethical approach to fatherhood centered on children and their expanding capabilities for participation in society. Under the notion of "childism"—in analogy to feminism, womanism, humanism, and the lik...
Patton E Burchett
Patton E Burchett
This paper aims to illuminate the phenomenon of mantras and to critique the category of magic through an examination of mantra as magical language. Mantras have often been referred to as "magic formulas" or "spells," yet one searches the sc...
M Whitney Kelting
M Whitney Kelting
While Jain religious models of virtue articulate the renouncer as the focus of virtue, Jains likewise participate in the western Indian discourse of women's virtue, which centers around the dedicated wife (pativratā) and the virtuous woman...
Free will and determinism in first Isaiah: secular hermeneutics, the poetics of contingency, and Emile Durkheim's Homo duplex [0.03%]
旧约第一以赛亚中的自由意志与决定论：世俗的释义学，偶然性诗学及爱弥尔·涂尔干的人类二重身理论
Jacques Berlinerblau
Jacques Berlinerblau
Are human beings the sovereign authors of their own thoughts and actions? Or are thought and action determined by external forces beyond their comprehension and control? For the biblical document known to exegetes as First Isaiah (chapters ...
Interiors, intentions, and the "spirituality" of Islamic ritual practice [0.03%]
伊斯兰仪式实践的内在精神与其意图及场所的关系
Paul R Powers
Paul R Powers
The Arabic term niyya (intention) is prominent in texts of Islamic ritual law. Muslim jurists require niyya in the "heart" during such ritual duties as prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage. Western scholars often treat niyya as a "spiritual" com...
More lurid than lucid: the spiritualist invention of the world "sexism" [0.03%]
更浮夸而不清晰：“性别主义”一词的灵媒发明
J B Buescher
J B Buescher
Nineteenth-century American spiritualists coined the word sexism long before its modern incarnation in order to refer to a complex of ideas about human sexuality and reproduction that were consonant with the general advancement of women's r...
The Romans and ritual murder [0.03%]
罗马与仪式谋杀案
Celia E Schultz
Celia E Schultz
The Roman abhorrence of human sacrifice presented by ancient literary sources stands in contrast to the frequency of rites requiring the death of a human being performed by the Romans during the Republic (509-44 BCE). After examining the wa...
Exe(o)rcising power: women as sorceresses, exorcists, and demonesses in Babylonian Jewish society of late antiquity [0.03%]
以女巫、驱魔者和妖妇的面貌行使权力：古代巴比伦犹太社会中的女性形象
R Lesses
R Lesses
This article examines talmudic discussions and archaeological finds from Sassanian Babylonia to explore two distinct but related topics: how some actual women employed ritual practices to gain power (such as the recitation of incantations a...