{"title":"Disease: Discourse and interpretation in premodern South Asia","authors":"A. Cerulli","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49041407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
All humans, past and future, are forced to grapple with the abstract phenomenon of passing and ending time, as well as ideas about time, such as eternity and finality. Death especially is a confrontation with the passing, ending, irre-versibility, and unpredictability of time, over which humans have little to no power. In response to the threat of time and death, humans employ coping mechanisms, a common and perhaps universal example of which is anthropomorphiza-tion. Fashioning events and phenomena into social agents with human-like characteristics and abilities reduces their uncertainty and unpredictability. It increases comprehension of and control over them, and renders them more manageable, palpable, and familiar. This paper explores how this process can be recognized in textual and iconographic sources from the Ancient Near East. Firstly, it gives an overview of what people expected and thought of lifetime and death, and demonstrates that the daily confrontation with uncontrollable time and what may be the biggest challenge of life, namely accepting its inevitable end, was perceived as a struggle. Secondly, it provides insight in how the personification of time and death as well as the responses to these phenomena, such as fear and grief, contributed to coping with these difficult experiences.
{"title":"Coping with time and death in the Ancient Near East","authors":"Irene Sibbing‐Plantholt","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12420","url":null,"abstract":"All humans, past and future, are forced to grapple with the abstract phenomenon of passing and ending time, as well as ideas about time, such as eternity and finality. Death especially is a confrontation with the passing, ending, irre-versibility, and unpredictability of time, over which humans have little to no power. In response to the threat of time and death, humans employ coping mechanisms, a common and perhaps universal example of which is anthropomorphiza-tion. Fashioning events and phenomena into social agents with human-like characteristics and abilities reduces their uncertainty and unpredictability. It increases comprehension of and control over them, and renders them more manageable, palpable, and familiar. This paper explores how this process can be recognized in textual and iconographic sources from the Ancient Near East. Firstly, it gives an overview of what people expected and thought of lifetime and death, and demonstrates that the daily confrontation with uncontrollable time and what may be the biggest challenge of life, namely accepting its inevitable end, was perceived as a struggle. Secondly, it provides insight in how the personification of time and death as well as the responses to these phenomena, such as fear and grief, contributed to coping with these difficult experiences.","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42541029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist ethnography in the study of religion","authors":"Gwendolyn Gillson","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/rec3.12419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49286796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing environmental degradation and (in)fertility in Yorùbá orature","authors":"Oluwabunmi Tope Bernard","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12418","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/rec3.12418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46465712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaker dance and the religious production of spectacle","authors":"D. Logan","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/rec3.12414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48911757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on rehabilitating “magic” in the study of early Christian literature","authors":"S. Patel","doi":"10.1111/rec3.12415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44397,"journal":{"name":"Religion Compass","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/rec3.12415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42428957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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