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Volume 59, Issue 1, 2012
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Ethical Formation and Subjection
- Author: Jonathan Schofer
- pp. 1–31 (31)
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Abstract Ethical formation in and through subjection is an extremely widespread pattern that is not limited to particular traditions, time periods, or regions. Examining this pattern requires us to integrate the study of power with the study of virtue and self-cultivation: power is productive of selves, and selves appropriate the ideals presented to or pressed upon them. This paper refines our approaches to power and ethics by showing that we need to address at least three facets of ethical formation and subjection: (a) material power relations, including the ability to kill, torture, punish, imprison, confine, observe, and censor; (b) discourses, and particularly figurative discourses, that convey conceptions of the self as well as ethical ideals; and (c) emotions and motivations of embodied persons who encounter norms and ideals.
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Mother of the Gods: Goddess of Power and Protector of Cities
- Author: Birgitte Bøgh
- pp. 32–67 (36)
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Abstract The article presents a survey of the roles and status of Meter’s cult in the western Black Sea area, her reception in the archaic period, and the subsequent development of the goddess’s characteristics. Based on new scholarship on the goddess’s roles and status in Phrygia, and taking as a starting point an analysis of a selected number of archaeological Meter objects from the Black Sea region, it will be argued that Meter in this area throughout the centuries functioned as, primarily, a goddess of power, a protector of cities, and a goddess of the elite — the very traits that also characterised her cult in Phrygia. Furthermore, it is suggested that Meter, because of these traits, was eagerly embraced by official authorities outside the Black Sea area also, and that hence they were the primary reason for her early presence in Athens and later in Rome.
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Mircea Eliade et le « nouvel homme » à la chemise verte
- Author: Michel Gardaz
- pp. 68–92 (25)
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Résumé Il est presque impossible d’écrire sur l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade sans aborder l’épineuse question de son engagement politique et de son influence sur sa conception de l’histoire des religions. Comme nous le démontrerons dans cet article, le concept de « l’homme nouveau » élaboré par le savant roumain possède les mêmes caractéristiques que celui théorisé par Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, le fondateur de la Légion de l’Archange Michel. Eliade adhère, durant sa jeunesse, à l’idéal politique mis de l’avant par le fondateur du mouvement fasciste roumain et sert de porte-voix idéologique à certains éléments doctrinaires de la pensée politique de Codreanu. Dans un premier temps, nous discuterons de la quête paneuropéenne du « nouvel homme » durant les années 1930. Dans un deuxième temps, nous proposons une reconstitution des grandes lignes de l’histoire de l’engagement d’Eliade auprès de la Garde de Fer. Dans un troisième temps, nous analyserons la conception de « « l’homme nouveau » de Codreanu, puis les correspondances avec le modèle éliadien. Enfin, nous examinerons l’idée du « nouvel humanisme » élaboré par le savant roumain durant les années 1960 afin de retrouver d’éventuelles traces idéologiques de « l’homme nouveau ».
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Schriften zur Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 1888–1902. By Ernst Troeltsch. (Kritische Gesamtausgabe, Band 1). Edited by Christian Albrecht, with Björn Biester, Lars Emersleben and Dirk Schmid. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Xxi + 1097 p. ISBN 978-3-11-020923-5 (hb.). Rezensionen und Kritiken 1915–1923. By Ernst Troeltsch. (Kritische Gesamtaufgabe, Band 13). Edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, with Diana Feßl, Harald Haury and Alexander Seelos. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Xxii + 821 p. ISBN 978-3-11-022199-2 (hb.).
- Author: Christoph Auffarth
- pp. 93–95 (3)
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The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science. By Kevin van Bladel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 278 p. ISBN 10: 0195376137 (hb.).
- Author: Christian H. Bull
- pp. 96–98 (3)
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Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief. By David Morgan (ed.). Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2010. Xiv + 304 p. ISBN 10: 0415481163 (pb.).
- Author: Dag Øistein Endsjø
- pp. 99–101 (3)
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Śiva’s Demon Devotee: Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār. By Elaine Craddock. London: SUNY Press, 2010. Xii + 193 p. ISBN-10: 1438430884 (hb.).
- Author: Gavin Flood
- pp. 102–103 (2)
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Salvation Goods and Religious Markets: Theory and Applications. By Jörg Stolz (ed.). Bern et al.: Peter Lang, 2008. 287 p. ISBN 978-3-03911-211-1 (pb.).
- Author: Anne Koch
- pp. 104–106 (3)
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Holy Nations and Global Identities: Civil Religion, Nationalism, and Globalisation. By Annika Hvithamar, Margit Warburg, and Brian Arly Jacobsen (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2009. Vi + 307 p. ISBN-10: 9004178287 (hb.).
- Author: James V. Spickard
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Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture. By Jeffrey Samuels. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2010. xxx + 167 p. ISBN 978 0 8248 3385 5 (hb.).
- Author: Silke K. Yasmin Fischer
- pp. 111–115 (5)
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