Gerasim Zelic (1752-1828) è una delle figure più emblematiche del panorama culturale serbo a cavallo fra Sette e Ottocento. Archimandrita del monastero serbo-ortodosso di Krupa, diplomatico e ...scrittore, dal 1794 al 1811 Zelic; ricoprì la carica di Vicario generale dei serbi di Dalmazia e, come tale, fu uno degli attori principali degli eventi legati alla polemica confessionale che al tempo agitava la regione. La sua autobiografia, intitolata Žitije e pubblicata a Budapest nel 1823, lo colloca inoltre fra i protagonisti di un'epoca cruciale per la nascita della nuova letteratura serba.
Seguendo un approccio multidisciplinare, i saggi raccolti nel volume Gerasim Zelic e il suo tempo analizzano la vicenda di Gerasim Zelic, il suo coinvolgimento negli eventi legati alla polemica confessionale in Dalmazia e la sua attività letteraria, allargando la discussione all'epoca in cui visse l'archimandrita serbo. Particolare attenzione viene dedicata al contesto in cui Zelic operò, ovvero la penisola balcanica, nonché alla storia culturale dei serbi di Ungheria fra XVIII e XIX secolo Testo dell'editore.
Offering an authoritative study of the plural religious landscape in modern Syria and of the diverse Christian and Muslim communities that have cohabited the country for centuries, this volume ...considers a wide range of cultural, religious and political issues that have impacted the interreligious dynamic, placing them in their local and wider context.
Combining fieldwork undertaken in government-held areas during the Syrian conflict with critical historical and Christian theological reflection, this research makes a significant contribution to understanding Syria's diverse religious landscape and the multi-layered expressions of Christian-Muslim relations. It discusses the concept of sectarianism and how communal dynamics are crucial to understanding Syrian society. The complex wider issues that underlie the relationship are examined - including the roles of culture and religious leadership - and it questions whether the analytical concept of sectarianism is adequate to describe the complex communal frameworks in the Middle Eastern context. Finally, the study examines the contributions of contemporary Eastern Christian leaders to interreligious discourse, concluding that the theology and spirituality of Eastern Christianity, inhabiting the same cultural environment as Islam, is uniquely placed to play a major role in interreligious dialogue and in peace-making.
The book offers an original contribution to knowledge and understanding of the changing Christian-Muslim dynamic in Syria and across the region, and therefore should be a key resource for students, scholars and readers interested in religion, current affairs and the Middle East.
Most writers have considered that the great European explorations during the Age of Discovery were motivated primarily by a thirst for knowledge of other lands, desire for international trade, or ...missionary zeal. Professor Rogers demonstrates that there was another significant reason why Europeans traveled to the East during the lade medieval and Renaissance period. This was the dream of a Christian Indies, which in turn led to a quest for the Christians of the Farther East. The author specifically seeks to establish a direct relation between the knowledge of Indian and Ethiopian Christians which was available in Jerusalem from early Christian times onward and which returning pilgrims disseminated in the West, and the presence of the Portuguese in South India and the Ethiopian highlands in the early sixteenth century. Throughout his presentation of the evidence for the chain of events which links Palestinian knowledge with Portuguese action, Professor Rogers places emphasis on the early printed books and tracts which circulated both accurate information and rumor. Specimen pages from some of these books are reproduced as illustrations, and there is a double-page chart showing the genealogy of the nations and the sects of the Christians. There is a list of the early printed books which the author has used in his study as well as a bibliography.
This article surveys the diasporic life and legacy of the Ethiopian ecclesiastic Täsfa Ṣeyon. After examining his origins in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and the circumstances of his arrival in ...mid-sixteenth-century Rome, the article outlines his contributions to the evolving Latin Catholic understanding of Ethiopia. Täsfa Ṣeyon was a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community leader, as well as a prominent adviser to European humanist scholars and Church authorities concerned with orientalist philologia sacra as it pertained to Ethiopian Orthodox (täwaḥedo) Christianity. As such, he was a key extra-European agent in the Tridentine project of Ethiopianist and Eastern Christian knowledge production. The article also surveys the complex modern legacy of Täsfa Ṣeyon's career, documenting his posthumous influence in the fields of Ethiopianist Semitic studies and Ethiopian vernacular historiography.
An English translation of Arman Akopian's comprehensive Introduction to Aramean and Syriac Studies, from the earliest appearances of Arameans in the historical record, through to the modern day.
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