Locating the past/discovering the present : perspectives on religion, culture, and marginality / edited by David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Jewish connection: Chaucer and the Paris Jews, 1394 / Sheila Delany -- Christian interpretations of Kabbalah: a case study in marginality / Susan (Shya) M. Young -- Reading from the margins at Little Gidding, c.1625-1640 / Paul Dyck -- The seductive serpent / Eva Maria Räpple -- Memoirs of Byzantium / Myrna Kostash -- "The writing on the wall": Rembrandt, Milton, and Menasseh ben Israel in Ken McMullen's R / David Gay -- Marginality, martyrdom, and the messianic remnant: reflections on the political witness of Saint Paul / Chris K. Huebner -- Shared marginalization and negotiated identities: religion and feminism in philosophy / Janet Catherina Wesselius -- Celluloid temple: viewing the televised Ramayan as a Hindu ritual act / Robert Menzies.

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This collection examines the production and recreation of religious ideas and images in different times and locations, achieving a comparative perspective on the transmission of religious influences. The essayists look at contact and conflict between insiders and outsiders, centres and margins, Jews and Christians, Slavs and Greeks, and ancient ritual behaviours and modern television broadcasting, as part of the negotiation of new identity positions, relationships, and accommodations. The book combines the disciplines of literary studies, cultural studies, art history, religion, history, and critical theory, making it an important resource to a range of scholars as well as non-specialists.

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