... in Flushing Meadows Park and vie for legitimacy. This chapter examines the various tactics and resources used by faction leaders to assert their authority over the movement, including appeals to prophecy, control of sacred space, and the ability to communicate with followers. This chapter also considers...

..., at Riverside Church, William Sloane Coffin took the pulpit in the mid-1970s. He spoke frequently of ‘prophecy,’ but tended to use the term simply as a form of political activism, rather than insisting upon its spiritual relevance. While earlier liberal evangelicals had sought to combine social activism...

...This chapter investigates the dynamic role of prophecy and prophetic prayer in the growth of global Pentecostalism. It reviews the relationship posited by some theologians, missiologists, and social scientists between experiences of the Spirit and the phenomenal growth of a movement in which “power...

...This chapter argues that theatricality plays an important part in exploring the authority and authenticity of prophecy in Latin epic. Confrontations between prophets and rulers allow an exploration of both power and prophecy. The chapter looks at the double prophecies of Mopsus and Idmon...

... to answer is how we can interpret the uses that poets make of the relationship between gods and human, cults and rituals, ritual metaphors, religious activities, including for example divination (oracles, prophecy), descent to the Underworld, necromancy, the role of the seer / prophet and his identification...

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... the hero has in Hades with his former companion Elpenor, the seer Teiresias, and his mother Antikleia. The chapter further offers an interpretation of the prophecy of Teiresias, which has often been seen as problematic by readers and scholars alike. This chapter shows that, on the contrary, it can...

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...Figure I.1 Manuscripts Containing Prophetic Material in the Late Medieval Upper-German-speaking Empire This chapter introduces the topic of German eschatological prophecies and the period under consideration, ca. 1380–1480. It describes German vernacular prophecies as texts which are short...

...This extremely popular German-language prophecy foretells the leveling of the Church hierarchy by German princes and laypeople. This leveling is to be followed by a renewal of Christendom and the coming of a blessed time. This chapter considers this prophecy with regard to its severe criticism...

...This chapter examines the moment of prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid 6, which laments the death of Augustus' nephew. It uses Derridean and Freudian ideas about the relationship between past and present to offer a coherent reading of Aeneid 6 as a whole. Aeneas Anchises...

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... Argus Argos hermaios lophos Moira Moirai dais kleromancy Thriai AESOP Semnai Theai justice distribution moira fate semnai theai timai kosmos stones prophecy kleromancy “Protéiforme par nature,” ¹ Hermes is perhaps one of the most complex, multifaceted characters...

...This chapter discusses how Early Protestants domesticated prophecy by rejecting the dreams and visions of radicals on the one hand, and by institutionalizing prophecy as a mediated and derivative activity, on the other hand. But while the Protestant reformers domesticated prophecy, they did...

...When writers on demonology applied apocalyptic prophecy to the understanding of witchcraft, they were, then, only adopting in their own specialism a highly respectable form of enquiry with a considerable bearing on other major contemporary concerns. Free of the need to explain away this aspect...

... historical role — was determined by biblical prophecy and uncovered by eschatological enquiry. atheism demonology heretics heresy idolatry misfortune as historical phenomenon Brenz Johann Bullinger Heinrich casuistry catechisms confession dancing Decalogue drinking family the Gifford George...

...This chapter explores the visual language of the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, in particular Perpetua’s visions in which she describes her coming martyrdom in various and mysterious images. It locates the text in the experimental field between prophecy and divination, and in so...

... together, these seven conditions make up a prototype of ideal martyrdom: seven ideal conditions for martyrdom (ICMs) that map onto the Gospel story of Jesus. Each ICM contributes to the appeal and mobilizing power of a martyrdom story. ideal conditions of martyrdom (ICM) underdog mentor prophecy true...

... of the Twelve unlock the Moses tradition and reinfuse it into the history of prophecy covered in their work. By doing so, the Levite redactors affirm their own much earlier connection to Moses as the patron saint of their order in the pre-Persian period. ¹⁴ The reliance on Moses as a structuring...

...This chapter focuses on Muhammad, with particular emphasis on his prophecy. Revelation was the source of Muhammad's knowledge and prophecy. This is an exceptional state in which consciousness is lost, human capacities are suspended, and the hidden depths of the unconscious are manifested...