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Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
Release : 1874
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Book Synopsis The temple of memory [a poem]. by : Kenelm Henry Digby
Download or read book The temple of memory [a poem]. written by Kenelm Henry Digby. This book was released on 1874. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jun Jing
Release : 1998-10-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Temple of Memories by : Jun Jing
Download or read book The Temple of Memories written by Jun Jing. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was subjected to intense suffering during the Maoist era, culminating in its forcible resettlement in December 1960 to make way for the construction of a major hydroelectric dam, and how the village eventually sought recovery through the commemoration of that suffering and the revival of a redefined religion. Before 1949, the Kongs had dominated their area because of their political influence, wealth, and, above all, their identification with Confucius, whose precepts underlay so much of the Chinese ethical and political tradition. After the Communists came to power in 1949, these people, as a literal embodiment of the Confucian heritage, became prime targets for Maoist political campaigns attacking the traditional order, from land reform to the “Criticize Confucius” movement. Many villagers were arrested, three were beheaded, and others died in labor camps. When the villagers were forced to hastily abandon their homes and the village temple, they had time to disinter only the bones of their closest family members; the tombs of earlier generations were destroyed by construction workers for the dam.
Author : Naftali S. Cohn
Release : 2013-01-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis by : Naftali S. Cohn
Download or read book The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis written by Naftali S. Cohn. This book was released on 2013-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.
Author : Kenelm Digby
Release : 2023-03-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Temple of Memory by : Kenelm Digby
Download or read book The Temple of Memory written by Kenelm Digby. This book was released on 2023-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
Release : 2019-07-04
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Book Synopsis The Temple of Memory by : Kenelm Henry Digby
Download or read book The Temple of Memory written by Kenelm Henry Digby. This book was released on 2019-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
