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Move closer to God one day at a time by reading the Psalms and
practicing prayer in ways you may not have imagined before. This is
a prayer book for every day of the year for people who don't
usually think about using a prayer book. Drawing on a wide variety
of resources—lives of saints and sages from every age, psalms,
guides for personal reflection and suggestions for practice—Rev.
Larry J. Peacock offers helpful guidance for anyone hungry for a
richer prayer life. Each day's reading has four parts: Remember a
notable person of faith or a significant event Read a psalm or
another scripture passage Ponder that day's scripture or person of
faith Practice a variety of ways to pray, including prayer through
play, music and physical movement This new edition features the
addition of ancient and modern sages from inside and outside the
Christian tradition as well as updated resources for deepening your
spiritual life throughout the year.
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Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very
center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and
welfare institutions and serving as a legal means to keep family
property intact through several generations. In this book R. D.
McChesney focuses on the major Muslim shrine at Balkh--once a
flourishing city on an ancient trade route in what is now northern
Afghanistan--and provides a detailed study of the political,
economic, and social conditions that influenced, and were
influenced by, the development of a single religious endowment.
From its founding in 1480 until 1889, when the Afghan government
took control of it, the waqf at Balkh was a formidable economic
force in a financially dynamic region, particularly during those
times when the endowment's sacred character and the tax privileges
it acquired gave its managers considerable financial security. This
study sheds new light on the legal institution of waqf within
Muslim society and on how political conditions affected the
development of socio-religious institutions throughout Central Asia
over a period of four hundred years.
Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
"The Goodly Word: Al-Kalim al-Tayyib"-written by the renowned
fourteenth century jurist, Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya-is one of the most
referred to works on prayer and the merits of prayer. Exclusively
based on what the Prophet Muhammad himself said and did, "The
Goodly Word" includes prayers for every moment of the Muslim's
life. It is presented in a bi-lingual edition so that the exact
prayers of the Prophet can be read in the original Arabic. "The
Goodly Word" has been translated into English by the late Ezzeddin
Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies, two distinguished scholars who
have also translated "An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith" and "Forty Hadith
Qudsi", both published by the Islamic Texts Society.
How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been
received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in
Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and
colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate
Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten. The original Chinese
political liturgy embodied assumptions about sociopolitical order
different from those of Japan. Over more than thirteen centuries,
Japanese in power expressed a persistently ambivalent response to
the ritual's challenges and often tended to interpret the ceremony
in cultural rather than political terms. Like many rituals, the
sekiten self-referentially reinterpreted earlier versions of
itself. James McMullen adopts a diachronic and comparative
perspective. Focusing on the relationship of the ritual to
political authority in the premodern period, McMullen sheds fresh
light on Sino-Japanese cultural relations and on the distinctive
political, cultural, and social history of Confucianism in Japan.
Successive sections of The Worship of Confucius in Japan trace the
vicissitudes of the ceremony through two major cycles of adoption,
modification, and decline, first in ancient and medieval Japan,
then in the late feudal period culminating in its rejection at the
Meiji Restoration. An epilogue sketches the history of the ceremony
in the altered conditions of post-Restoration Japan and up to the
present.
For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the
religious images they place in temples and home shrines for
purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life
through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or
goddess into material support. Priests and devotees then maintain
the enlivened image as a divine person through ongoing liturgical
activity: they must awaken it in the morning, bathe it, dress it,
feed it, entertain it, praise it, and eventually put it to bed at
night. In this linked series of case studies of Hindu religious
objects, Richard Davis argues that in some sense these believers
are correct: through ongoing interactions with humans, religious
objects are brought to life.
Davis draws largely on reader-response literary theory and
anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in
order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images over many
centuries. He shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the
only ones to enliven images. Bringing with them differing religious
assumptions, political agendas, and economic motivations, others
may animate the very same objects as icons of sovereignty, as
polytheistic "idols," as "devils," as potentially lucrative
commodities, as objects of sculptural art, or as symbols for a
whole range of new meanings never foreseen by the images' makers or
original worshipers.
Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of
Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century,
individual practitioners-including monks, nuns, teachers,
disciples, and laypeople-have kept texts describing how to perform
the daily rites. These manuals represent an intimate counterpart to
the canonical sutras and the tantras, speaking to the lived
experience of Buddhist practice. Conjuring the Buddha offers a
history of early tantric Buddhist ritual through the lens of the
Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang on the ancient Silk
Road. Jacob P. Dalton argues that the spread of ritual manuals
offered Buddhists an extracanonical literary form through which to
engage with their tradition in new and locally specific ways. He
suggests that ritual manuals were the literary precursors to the
tantras, crucial to the emergence of esoteric Buddhism. Examining a
series of ninth- and tenth-century tantric manuals from Dunhuang,
Dalton uncovers lost moments in the development of rituals such as
consecration, possession, sexual yoga, the Great Perfection, and
the subtle body practices of the winds and channels. He also traces
the use of poetic language in ritual manuals, showing how at
pivotal moments, metaphor, simile, rhythm, and rhyme were deployed
to evoke carefully sculpted affective experiences. Offering an
unprecedented glimpse into the personal practice of early tantric
Buddhists, Conjuring the Buddha provides new insight into the
origins and development of the tantric tradition.
This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural
settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple
festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and
operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe
of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for
religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in
this book were their supreme collective achievements and were
carried out virtually without assistance from local officials or
educated elites, clerical or lay.
Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the
highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in
pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and
extraordinarily diverse. Festivals and their associated rituals and
operas provided the emotional and intellectual materials out of
which ordinary people constructed their ideas about the world of
men and the realm of the gods. It is, David Johnson argues,
impossible to form an adequate idea of traditional Chinese society
without a thorough understanding of village ritual. Newly
discovered liturgical manuscripts allow him to reconstruct North
Chinese temple festivals in unprecedented detail and prove that
they are sharply different from the Daoist- and Buddhist-based
communal rituals of South China.
Light of Devotion: Oil Lamps of Kerala, an in-depth study of the
medieval oil lamps of Kerala and beyond, contributes a new chapter
to the history of Indian art. These art objects are primary sources
for a broader discussion of the ritual use of Hindu oil lamps,
their related and unique cultural history, their motifs, style and
subject matter. From an understudied region, they include miniature
masterpieces in bronze of figural and mythic representations. Many
of the pieces presented are previously unpublished. Hindu
traditions and the underlying philosophy of these votive offerings
to temple deities represented by the flaming oil lamps will
interest those who study history of religions, art history and
South Asian studies. The author has included oil lamps found not
only in Kerala but also examples discovered in an international
array of museums and collections. These lamps and their
inscriptions offer a key to unlock the problem of the dating of
Keralan bronze sculpture.
Although Christians are lovers of the Bible, not all have learned
and followed the venerable Christian custom of praying directly
from Scripture. In this thoroughly readable and helpful book, Evan
Howard shows Christians how to recover and reap the rewards of this
vital practice. Praying the Scriptures features down-to-earth
guidance on praying the Lord's Prayer and the Psalms, on praying
out of the Scriptures for worship, thanksgiving, revival and
personal needs. It includes a clear and thorough listing of
biblical passages for a variety of prayers. Free of gimmickry but
full of practical advice, this book is for new Christians and those
who desire a deeper, more biblically saturated prayer life.
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