You are looking at 1-5 of 5 entries for:
- All: Feast of Fools x
- Sociology x
Did you mean Fools, Feast of Fools, Feast of
Jesus Reference library
Kathleen E. Corley
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
...however, are portrayed in negative ways: the women are incompetent and the men are often fools. In this regard, Jesus treats the male and female characters in his stories equally as caricatures. Apart from gender, Jesus did have interest in class and class inequity in his culture. He favors the resistant attitude of the lower classes, imagines a kingdom of God where even the poor gather for a feast, and represents the results of the economic injustices of his society in sometimes shockingly realistic ways. There is no evidence, however, that Jesus...
Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in North America Reference library
Peter C. Mancall
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...modern Saint Augustine on the east coast of Florida in 1513 , and Hernando de Soto, who led an epic journey from Cuba into the interior of the Southeast from 1539 to 1541 , providing Europeans with their first sustained views of the modern states of Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and eastern Texas . In 1540 a conquistador named Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led his troops northward from Mexico and into the Southwest on a fool’s quest for the fabled city of Cíbola, rumored to be a land of gold and jewels. He made it as far as ...
Education Reference library
Heather D. D. Parker, Erin E. Fleming, Timothy J. Sandoval, Daniele Pevarello, Michele Kennerly, Pheme Perkins, Sarit Kattan Gribetz, and Lillian I. Larsen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
...as the “humanizing” of the young scribe ( Carr, 2005 ). The physical disciplining of youthful scribes can be conceived as part of this humanizing. Just as the Egyptian Instruction of Any (Anii) knew that the wild natures of brutish animals could be tamed through physical discipline, so too Proverbs draws similar analogies: “A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools” ( 26:3 ). Given the patriarchal and paternalistic tendency of the education envisioned in the Hebrew Bible, the humanizing of male youths through...
Popular Religion and Magic Reference library
Jo-Ann Scurlock, Ann Jeffers, Pauline Hanesworth, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Jared C. Calaway, Mika Ahuvia, and Justin Marc Lasser
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
...fall under the rubric of popular religion. The dead were honored with prayers and small gifts such as a sprinkling of grain, some violets, or bread soaked in wine (Cicero, On the Laws 2.22; Ovid, Fast. 2.533–542); At the Parentalia and Feralia festivals (18–21 February), people brought gifts to the tombs of their family and ancestors and feasted in honor of the dead—practices that carried over into the early Christian era. People of all social classes participated in these rituals, although we can see in the accounts of Cicero and Ovid attempts by the Roman...
Imagery, Gendered Reference library
Elizabeth W. Goldstein, Ken Stone, Julia M. O’Brien, Carole R. Fontaine, Greg Carey, Michal Beth Dinkler, and Susan Grove Eastman
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
... ( Murphy, 1990 ). However, the poems are drenched in the local territory and key vocabulary of the Promised Land that invite a more materialist interpretation. The explicit language and astonishing portrait of female speech and agency outside of (or preceding) a marital relationship scandalized both Jewish and Christian authorities, prompting deliberate mistranslation of some pronouns to gender the sexual advances made as male. The overall allegorizing of the characters, locations, and motifs transforms the Song into a story of love between God and Israel...
