Twilight of the Saints
Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 August 2016
- ISBN 9780190619145
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 illus. 0
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Short description:
Twilight of the Saints takes readers to Ottoman Syria and Palestine and offers a new interpretation of the religious history of the region. James Grehan looks past Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and uncovers a common folk religiosity which has largely disappeared in modern times.
MoreLong description:
In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social history
that looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion in the Middle East. The most common narratives about the region introduce us to the separate traditions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, highlighting how each one has created its own distinctive traditions and communities. Twilight of the Saints offers a reinterpretation of religious and cultural history in a region which is today associated with division and violence. Exploring the religious habits of ordinary people, from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, when the region was part of the Ottoman Empire, Grehan shows that members of different religious groups participated in a common, overarching religious culture that was still visible at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Most evident in the countryside, though present everywhere, this religious mainstream thrived in a society in which few people had access to formal religious teachings. This older, folk religious culture was steeped in notions and rituals that the modern world, with its mainly theological conception of religion, has utterly repudiated. Indeed, the people of Syria and Palestine today would hardly recognize religion as it was experienced in the not-so-distant past. Only by uncovering this lost lived religion, argues Grehan, can we appreciate the largely unacknowledged revolution in religion that has taken place in the region over the last century.
Deeply engaging and delightful.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Religious Possibilities
II. Magic Men
III. A Religion of Tombs
IV. Sacred Landscapes
V. Haunted Landscapes
VI. Blood and Prayer
VII. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
