Encyclopedia of Religion

The character of Torah study in classical rabbinic times can be inferred from careful study of the surviving rabbinic literature ...

al cultures around the world, is conceived both as a source of charisma and as something deeply vulnerable to violation. The qed ...

Morgan, Michael L. Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought: The Di- alectics of Revelation and History. Bloomington, Ind., 1992. Najma ...

the west. Rituals of the Rising Sun are those celebrating joy and life. This category includes birth, marriage, rice ceremo- nie ...

as many as two thousand people were burned to death under his regime, and many thousands of others suffered imprison- ment, conf ...

lem, 1973) were compiled, it would seem, when he was still young. In them the teachings of his teacher Riy are excep- tionally p ...

Origins of the Tosafot B. T. Tractate Origins Of Tosafot Berakhot A reworking of the tosafot of Yehudah ben Yitshaq of Paris, in ...

Every single line of the Talmud was analyzed acutely and tested, sometimes by uncovering contradictions between it and other sta ...

position of the various personalities. The way in which the tosafot spread and the way in which they were studied also parallel ...

the years 1170 and 1220 students from Germany did not study with northern French Tosafists (as they did before and after this pe ...

All these newly highlighted distinctions between Ger- many and northern France can account for a number of sys- temic difference ...

Strong ascetic tendencies and related interest in mysti- cism and magic were demonstrated in both Germany and northern France du ...

practice came to be called totemism. By the time the origin, significance, and definition of totemism became a major topic of co ...

sort of analogic relationship (of substance, origin, identity, or interest) between a totem and its human counterpart, and he th ...

tion is not easily explained away as merely another mode of designation, or naming. Wherever social units of any kind— individua ...

ans to the great land mass of continental America. The year was 1519 and the Spanish conquest of Mexico had begun. At that time ...

existence of another god, Huracán (whence the English word hurricane). While in Zempoala Huracán is represented as a chacmool, a ...

sought by the sick, who were brought into the street to be cured as he passed by (Acts 5:15). And miracles were wrought not only ...

In Sri Lanka, Buddhists perform comparable rites. In the presence of a superior, one joins the hands in reverence, bows or kneel ...

or silver about their necks while a chaplain recited the follow- ing prayer: “God give a blessing to this work, and grant that t ...