Kimberley Christine Patton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6397356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberley Christine Patton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberley Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Patton |
| SIGNATURE | PATTON K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Episcopal Divinity School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Magus: Jonathan Z. Smith and “the absolute wonder of the human imagination”
SS: What got you interested in the religions that you study? JS: Because they’re funny. They’re interesting in and of themselves. They relate to the world in which I live, but it’s like a fun house mirror: Something’s off. It’s not quite the world I live in, yet it’s recognizable. So that gap interested me. . . . I mean, you ask me what I get out of it. . . . I get a feeling of the absolute wonder of the human imagination. It’s unstoppable. It’s …
“Motherbaby”: A Death in Childbirth at Çatalhöyük
Introduction The buried human body is at once both corpse and artifact. As corpse, it is stamped with the biomarkers of a previous existential phase, that is, of animate, gendered, and environmentally situated life, when that body was experienced as “the centre of the world towards which all objects turn their face ... the pivot of the world” (Merleau-Ponty 1980: 82; see Meskell 2000: 16). As artifact, it is as much “creation” or ideological repr…
Witchcraft and Deep Time-a debate at Harvard
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism - and by implication the possible connections with prehistoric ritual and belief. Archaeology wa…
Religion of the gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity
A communion of subjects: Animals in religion, science, and ethics
AcknowledgmentsEssay AbstractsHeritage of Volume - Mary Evelyn TuckerPrologue - Loneliness and Presence - Thomas BerryIntroduction - Paul Waldau and Kimberly PattonPart IPart II
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen authors, including many leading voices in the study of religion, offer essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering broader issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. A comprehensive, elegantly written i…
A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leadi…
“He who sits in the heavens laughs”: Recovering Animal Theology in the Abrahamic Traditions
When I wandered into the “vast ocean of the Talmud” a decade or so ago, unaware of the warning within the same texts that Gentiles who undertake the study of Jewish sacred literature should be put to death, I finally found what I had been seeking for years. Here at last was a glimpse of God's personality–His likes and dislikes, His idiosyncracies, His religious observances. To my delight, I also dis-covered in the tractate ' Abodah Zarah the answ…
Witchcraft and Deep Time-a debate at Harvard
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism - and by implication the possible connections with prehistoric ritual and belief. Archaeology wa…
“He who sits in the heavens laughs”: Recovering Animal Theology in the Abrahamic Traditions
When I wandered into the “vast ocean of the Talmud” a decade or so ago, unaware of the warning within the same texts that Gentiles who undertake the study of Jewish sacred literature should be put to death, I finally found what I had been seeking for years. Here at last was a glimpse of God's personality–His likes and dislikes, His idiosyncracies, His religious observances. To my delight, I also dis-covered in the tractate ' Abodah Zarah the answ…
A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leadi…
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen authors, including many leading voices in the study of religion, offer essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering broader issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. A comprehensive, elegantly written i…
Religion of the gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity
A communion of subjects: Animals in religion, science, and ethics
AcknowledgmentsEssay AbstractsHeritage of Volume - Mary Evelyn TuckerPrologue - Loneliness and Presence - Thomas BerryIntroduction - Paul Waldau and Kimberly PattonPart IPart II
Witchcraft and Deep Time-a debate at Harvard
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism - and by implication the possible connections with prehistoric ritual and belief. Archaeology wa…
“Motherbaby”: A Death in Childbirth at Çatalhöyük
Introduction The buried human body is at once both corpse and artifact. As corpse, it is stamped with the biomarkers of a previous existential phase, that is, of animate, gendered, and environmentally situated life, when that body was experienced as “the centre of the world towards which all objects turn their face ... the pivot of the world” (Merleau-Ponty 1980: 82; see Meskell 2000: 16). As artifact, it is as much “creation” or ideological repr…
The Magus: Jonathan Z. Smith and “the absolute wonder of the human imagination”
SS: What got you interested in the religions that you study? JS: Because they’re funny. They’re interesting in and of themselves. They relate to the world in which I live, but it’s like a fun house mirror: Something’s off. It’s not quite the world I live in, yet it’s recognizable. So that gap interested me. . . . I mean, you ask me what I get out of it. . . . I get a feeling of the absolute wonder of the human imagination. It’s unstoppable. It’s …
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