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Periodic linear groups factorized by mutually permutable subgroups
No full textThe aim is to investigate the behaviour of (homomorphic images of) periodic linear groups which are factorized by mutually permutable subgroups. Mutually permutable subgroups have been extensively investigated in the finite case by several authors, among which, for our purposes, we only cite J. C. Beidleman and H. Heineken (2005). In a previous paper of ours (see M. Ferrara, M. Trombetti (2022)) we have been able to generalize the first main result of J. C. Beidleman, H. Heineken (2005) to periodic linear groups (showing that the commutator subgroups and the intersection of mutually permutable subgroups are subnormal subgroups of the whole group), and, in this paper, we completely generalize all other main results of J. C. Beidleman, H. Heineken (2005) to (homomorphic images of) periodic linear groups
Magical Persistence. Rethinking the Vedic Taxonomy of Wisdom with Jonathan Z. Smith’s Approach to Alterity and Canon
No full textThis paper reflects about the ways we use comparison to explore data, semantics, and functions, which initially reflected various historical contexts,5 but which modern scholars later labelled as ‘magic.’ To this end, in the first part of this article, I will touch upon some methodological questions that concern comparison, focusing on Smith’s reflections about the scholarly criteria for selecting comparison data and his critical use of taxa, similarities and differences for the historical study of religious phenomena. In the second part, I suggest applying J.Z. Smith’s criticism of the scholarly use of ‘the magical’ outside the cultural contexts in which the terms ‘magic’ and ‘magical’ initially occurred and in which they were semantically shaped. This approach will enable me to identify the taxonomies that articulate the ‘study of magic’ outside the Mediterranean world, especially in the study of Indian antiquity. I will discuss the impact of ‘magic’ understood, in Smith’s view, as a “second-order category,” on the scholarly understanding of the Vedic taxonomy of tradition. To do this, I will focus on the first centuries before the Common Era when the mainstream Brahmanical tradition started to be described as four-fold wisdom. To illustrate my argument, I will adopt Smith’s theorization of canon as a paradigm and I will analyze the historical arrangement of religious sources of tradition within the Brahmanical schools
Terapia cognitivo comportamentale per i sintomi psicotici. Manuale per i terapisti. Edizione italiana a cura di F. Starace e F. Mazzi.
No full textTraduzione Italiana di Smith et al. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychotic Symptoms: A Therapist's Manual
Philippe Bornet éd., Translocal Lives and Religion. Connections between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World, Sheffield, Equinox, 2021, 318 p., ISBN 978-1-781-79582-8.
No full textAfter the end of the twentieth century, inspired by methodologies stressing the global framework of interactions, scholars envisaged the modern world as a space irreversibly open wherein both scattered individuals and communities move along networks of visible and invisible, short- and long-term routes. Starting with the standpoint that both people and their religions move and make contact with each other, this book explores the lives of those « in-between » characters who witnessed the points of contact between different contexts within a global network of «situational interactions» in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The main objective of the volume, however, goes further, as the title suggests. It aims to provide a « translocal » approach to the study of religion in the late modern world between Europe and Asia and – one could add – the United States
Scolpita sulla roccia per durare: la pace e la sua fragilità nelle iscrizioni di Aśoka
No full textIn questo saggio si analizza il tema della pace e della pacifica convivenza fra gruppi religiosi nel contesto della produzione epigrafica attribuita ad Aśoka Maurya. Si esplorano alcuni degli editti nei quali lo scenario di pace trova fondamento nel superamento della guerra, che nell’autonarrazione aśokea coincide con la conquista di Kaliṅga (odierno Oḍiśa). L’obiettivo è provare a ricostruire il discorso politico aśokeo sulla strategia più efficace a garantire la durevolezza della pace. Di fronte alla fragilità della pace quale condizione di assenza di guerra, merita attenzione che Aśoka abbia affidato i suoi editti a rocce, pietre e rupi, simbolicamente indistruttibili e collocate a vista d’uomo in luoghi strategici lungo le vie commerciali, i pellegrinaggi e gli avamposti militari.In this essay, the theme of peace and peaceful coexistence among religious groups is analyzed within the context of the epigraphic production attributed to Aśoka Maurya. In some of the edicts examined, the scenario of peace is grounded in the overcoming of war, which in Aśoka‘s self-narrative coincides with the conquest of Kaliṅga (today Oḍiśa). The aim is to attempt to reconstruct Aśoka’s political discourse on the most effective strategy to ensure the durability of peace. Faced with the fragility of peace as a condition of the absence of war, it is noteworthy that Aśoka entrusted his edicts to rocks, stones, and cliffs, symbolically indestructible and placed conspicuously in strategic locations along trade routes, pilgrimages, and military outposts
L’agency delle emozioni nell’epica indiana fra animazione, comics e graphic novel
No full textChe cosa possono avere in comune una principessa dell’epica indiana, sottoposta agli obblighi del suo status sociale, e una donna dei nostri tempi alle prese con le prepotenze della società contemporanea? Cartoni animati, comics e graphic novel mostrano che l’elemento in comune sono i sentimenti, le emozioni, in particolare quelle che accompagnano la nascita di un amore, la passione degli amanti, ma anche la rottura di una promessa, di un vincolo di fiducia quando sorgono le difficoltà, le incomprensioni o le aspettative disattese. Attraverso le opere di Nina Paley, Samhita Arni e Moyna Chitrakar, Saraswati Nagpal e R. Manikandan, Devdutt Pattanaik, si mostrerà come nel dare un volto animato ai personaggi del poema indiano Rāmāyaṇa, gli illustratori di oggi, sia in India che altrove, affrontano nuove sfide con narrative solo apparentemente antiche
War, Salvation, and Rebirth at «Casa Eranos»
No full textQuesto articolo esamina i primi anni dell’impresa di Eranos, evidenziando come la visione di Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn possa essere pienamente compresa solo considerando la fondazione di Eranos durante il periodo interbellico e la sua connessione con i movimenti della Lebensreform dei primi anni del Ventesimo secolo e la School of Wisdom a Darmstadt. In particolare, Monte Verità e la School of Wisdom, precedenti a Eranos, furono significativi esperimenti culturali e intellettuali. L’idea di Eranos, pur attingendo ispirazione da tali realtà, si distinse per una marcata enfasi sull’indagine scientifica, direzione fortemente influenzata da Carl G. Jung. L’iniziativa favorì un’unione singolare fra mitologia, simbolismo religioso e antropologia con le teorie psicologiche emergenti, posizionandosi come una nuova piattaforma per il discorso accademico sullo studio delle religioni in un’epoca di trasformazioni come quella degli anni Trenta.This paper explores the initial years of the Eranos initiative, highlighting that Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn’s vision can be fully grasped only by considering Eranos’ establishment during the interwar period and its connection with the Lebensreform movements of the early twentieth century and the School of Wisdom in Darmstadt. Notably, Monte Verità and the School of Wisdom, predating Eranos, were significant cultural and intellectual experiments. The idea of Eranos, while drawing inspiration from such realities, distinctively emphasized scientific inquiry, a direction greatly influenced by Carl G. Jung. The initiative fostered a unique melding of mythology, religious symbolism, and anthropology with emerging psychological theories, positioning itself as a novel platform for academic discourse about the study of religion in the transformative era of the 1930s
Sexuality as a promotion of power: How the chief wife becomes a means of persuasion in the vedic rhetoric on kingship
No full textIn the ancient South Asian texts about ritual known as Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas, the wives of the king play an interesting role in terms of bodily actions and ritual rhetoric. Especially the so-called “chief wife” (mahiṣī) is described as a central and liminal player who serves as a sexual counterpart of the king at the main solemn rituals, i.e. Aśvamedha and Rājasūya, involving the travel of a horse in unconquered lands and the royal consecration, respectively. In this essay I suggest that the construction of female sexuality is a crucial point to fix the boundaries around the notion of authority, not only that of the king, but also that of his practitioner, i.e. the brāhmaṇa or purohita. From this starting point I suggest also that the chief wife of the king may be reconsidered as one of the most strategic actor on a ritual and political stage. I will try to show that the mahiṣī’s sexual function in the ritual exegesis had gained value, in connection with the attempt to deify the human primus inter pares of the political organisation, i.e. the king. More specifically, I will deal with the ritual language and codification concerning the mahiṣī’s sexuality in order to illustrate the formulation of her body in the rituals prescribed in the Brāhmaṇas about solemn rites. I will discuss how the persuasive force of description and prescription about her bodily actions served as a means of persuasion in displaying the king’s power. Finally, I suggest rethinking the role of gender in royal rituals from the perspective of literary criticism
History-Telling about Prester John
No full textThe legend of Prester John has been a debated topic in medieval studies ever since the nineteenth century. It is during the twentieth century, however, and especially in recent years, that this subject caught the attention of scholars from other disciplines. What the historical research has provided is the real absence, the non-existence of true Prester Johns among the real actors of the Crusades, in the travels to the East, at the failed diplomatic encounters with potential allies beyond the Christian lands. In this sense, the available historical data support both the conclusion that Prester John is a fictional figure never to have existed, and the supposition that memories about important historical rulers shaped the portrait of plausible allies in faraway lands. But even more important is the real material historical impact created out of this absence
Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn’s Ashram: The Great Mother and the Personal History of Eastern Religions
No full textThe Eranos endeavor started in Switzerland with the aim of creating a cultural bridge between East and West in the European political scene of the 1930s. Its founder, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn was an artist, an intellectual, a scholar with a political agenda and a personal vision of the study of religions as a path of consciousness, a psychological healing, and a political instrument of harmony among religions. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn also actively built a network of relevant relationships in the cultural and political landscape of central Europe, which facilitated the success of Eranos and its survival beyond the disturbances of the Second World War. This article explores the relational capital Fröbe-Kapteyn with the help of the theologian Rudolf Otto; it also examines how her interest in the Eastern religions and analytical psychology entangled with biases and gender stereotypes differently pursued by the academic trio of C.G. Jung, Heinrich Zimmer, and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer.Le projet Eranos fut lancé en Suisse dans le but de créer un pont culturel entre l’Orient et l’Occident dans le contexte politique européen des années 30. Sa fondatrice, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, était une artiste, une intellectuelle et une érudite avec un agenda politique et une vision très personnelle de l’étude des religions en tant que chemin de conscience, thérapie psychologique et instrument politique capable d’établir l’harmonie entre les religions. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn a activement travaillé à la construction d’un important réseau de relations dans le paysage culturel et politique d’Europe centrale, favorisant le succès des rencontres Eranos et la survie du projet après les troubles de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le présent article explore le capital relationnel de Fröbe-Kapteyn, lequel pouvait s’appuyer sur le théologien Rudolf Otto. Nous examinons également la manière dont son intérêt pour les religions orientales et la psychologie analytique se croisent avec les préjugés et stéréotypes de genre diversement affirmés par le trio académique composé par C. G. Jung, Heinrich Zimmer et Jakob Wilhelm Hauer
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