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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
The "Festpredigten" festival sermons were originally published in
German in Frankfurt am Main in 1903. A window into the past, they
offer a fascinating glimpse of German Jewry at the turn of the
century. The author, Isaac Rosenberg, received his semichah at the
Rabbiner-Seminar (Hildesheimer) in Berlin in 1888, and graced the
synagogue pulpit in the eastern German city of Thorn for
twenty-five years. He belonged to a new class of rabbis known as
Rabbiner Doktor with Ph.D.s as well as rabbinic ordination. A
leader in his community, Dr Rosenberg delivered passionate sermons
in impeccable High German sermons that uplifted and inspired rather
than rebuked. Yet they contain messages that are as fresh today as
they were a century ago. This English volume includes an intriguing
introduction by Dr Fred Gottlieb on the history of German- Jewish
homiletics and associated controversies.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock,
God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on
the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader
religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer
story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a
holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological
and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage,
place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of
religious significance offers a model for thinking through
connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization,
tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical
components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in
the human experience of place.
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