From fertility cult to worship / Walter J. Harrelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1970.Description: xiii, 138 p. : 15 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • BM656 .H3 1970
Contents:
Six of the eight chapters included were presented as the Haskell lectures at the Graduate School of Theology, Oberlin College, in 1965. Originally published by Doubleday, 1969.
Contents:
Preface: The need for re-examination -- worship in a secular age -- 1. The Israelite world view -- Ancient Near Eastern cosmology -- The Babylonian creation story -- Heavenly archetypes -- Israelite cosmology -- Historical analogies -- Analogies with the act of creation -- Analogies with the processes of fertility -- Worship and cosmology -- 2. The ordering of time and space -- The Israelite calendar -- The sacred seasons -- The Passover rite and its observance -- Unleavened bread -- Pentecost-weeks -- Tabernacles -- Booths -- The Sabbath -- Sacred places -- Shechem -- Shiloh -- Gilgal -- Jerusalem -- The Holy Land -- The ordering of man's daily life -- Birth -- Circumcision -- Marriage -- Sickness and death -- 3. The Israelite cultus -- Cultic personnel -- The Levites -- The established priesthood -- Cultic objects -- The sacrifices -- The revolutionary commandment 4. The New Year and covenant renewal -- The new year in Israel -- The fertility motif -- Ritual curses -- Covenant renewal -- Covenant renewal in North Israel -- 5. Worship and creation -- Creation in the practice of worship -- Theophany hymns -- Creation hymns -- Hymns of judgment -- Creation restored in worship -- The fixed order and its use in worship -- 6. Worship and the history of salvation -- The experience of ecstasy -- Blunt honesty with God -- The call to take a stand -- 7. Worship and Torah -- Torah in the ancient covenant ceremonies -- The negative requirements -- The positive laws -- Torah in the worship of the Jerusalem Temple -- The birth of Judaism -- Torah in post-exilic worship -- Torah and the call to decision -- A suggestion for Christian worship -- 8. Worship and the end -- The coming king -- The coming Zion -- The new Exodus -- The new heaven and the new earth -- Facing the future -- Being judged by the future -- Being supported by what is to be -- Being drawn toward the future.
Summary: Summary:Summary: "The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease. Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Throughout detailed descriptions of informality in action, the book provides interesting starting-points to investigate the renewed dilemmas of the informal economy and its linkages with globalization processes"
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Six of the eight chapters included were presented as the Haskell lectures at the Graduate School of Theology, Oberlin College, in 1965.
Originally published by Doubleday, 1969.

Contents:

Preface: The need for re-examination --
worship in a secular age --
1. The Israelite world view --
Ancient Near Eastern cosmology --
The Babylonian creation story --
Heavenly archetypes --
Israelite cosmology --
Historical analogies --
Analogies with the act of creation --
Analogies with the processes of fertility --
Worship and cosmology --
2. The ordering of time and space --
The Israelite calendar --
The sacred seasons --
The Passover rite and its observance --
Unleavened bread --
Pentecost-weeks --
Tabernacles --
Booths --
The Sabbath --
Sacred places --
Shechem --
Shiloh --
Gilgal --
Jerusalem --
The Holy Land --
The ordering of man's daily life --
Birth --
Circumcision --
Marriage --
Sickness and death --
3. The Israelite cultus --
Cultic personnel --
The Levites --
The established priesthood --
Cultic objects --
The sacrifices --
The revolutionary commandment 4. The New Year and covenant renewal --
The new year in Israel --
The fertility motif --
Ritual curses --
Covenant renewal --
Covenant renewal in North Israel --
5. Worship and creation --
Creation in the practice of worship --
Theophany hymns --
Creation hymns --
Hymns of judgment --
Creation restored in worship --
The fixed order and its use in worship --
6. Worship and the history of salvation --
The experience of ecstasy --
Blunt honesty with God --
The call to take a stand --
7. Worship and Torah --
Torah in the ancient covenant ceremonies --
The negative requirements --
The positive laws --
Torah in the worship of the Jerusalem Temple --
The birth of Judaism --
Torah in post-exilic worship --
Torah and the call to decision --
A suggestion for Christian worship --
8. Worship and the end --
The coming king --
The coming Zion --
The new Exodus --
The new heaven and the new earth --
Facing the future --
Being judged by the future --
Being supported by what is to be --
Being drawn toward the future.

Summary:

"The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease. Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Throughout detailed descriptions of informality in action, the book provides interesting starting-points to investigate the renewed dilemmas of the informal economy and its linkages with globalization processes"