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Book The Medieval Dominicans

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  • Author : Eleanor Giraud
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-30
  • ISBN : 9782503569031
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Medieval Dominicans written by Eleanor Giraud and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Order of Preachers has famously bred some of the leading intellectual lights of the Middle Ages. While Dominican achievements in theology, philosophy, languages, law, and sciences have attracted much scholarly interest, their significant engagement with liturgy, the visual arts, and music remains relatively unexplored. These aspects and their manifold interconnections form the focal point of this interdisciplinary volume. The different chapters examine how early Dominicans positioned themselves and interacted with their local communities, where they drew their influences from, and what impact the new Order had on various aspects of medieval life. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as the making and illustrating of books, services for a king, the disposition of liturgical space, the creation of new liturgies, and a Dominican-made music treatise. In doing so, they seek to shed light on the actions and interactions of medieval Dominicans in the first centuries of the Order's existence.

Book Legal Identity  Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic

Download or read book Legal Identity Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic written by Eve Hayes de Kalaf and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Book The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa

Download or read book The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa written by Philippe Denis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. It is a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development.

Book The Dominicans

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  • Author : William A. Hinnebusch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780907271611
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book The Dominicans written by William A. Hinnebusch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book If Dominican Were a Color

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  • Author : Sili Recio
  • Publisher : Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2020-09-22
  • ISBN : 1534461795
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book If Dominican Were a Color written by Sili Recio and published by Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colors of Hispaniola burst into life in this striking, evocative debut picture book that celebrates the joy of being Dominican. If Dominican were a color, it would be the sunset in the sky, blazing red and burning bright. If Dominican were a color, it’d be the roar of the ocean in the deep of the night, With the moon beaming down rays of sheer delight. The palette of the Dominican Republic is exuberant and unlimited. Maiz comes up amarillo, the blue-black of dreams washes over sandy shores, and people’s skin can be the shade of cinnamon in cocoa or of mahogany. This exuberantly colorful, softly rhyming picture book is a gentle reminder that a nation’s hues are as wide as nature itself.

Book Dominicans in Africa

Download or read book Dominicans in Africa written by Philippe Denis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominicans have been in sub-Sahara Africa since the fifteenth century. Today the Order has communities in a dozen African countries. The story is recounted here by many voices, the majority from Africa itself while the rest have long associations with that continent. In this book only the Dominican friars are taken into account. The nuns and apostolic sisters are mentioned in passing. No doubt another book will be necessary to tell the full story.

Book My Journal of the Council

Download or read book My Journal of the Council written by Yves Congar and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yves Congar was a theological advisor to the preparatory commission for Vatican II, and attended all sessions of the Council (1962-1965) as a theological expert. His daily journal provides a window into the Council's workings and into the development of what would become a series of historical documents and declarations. Theologian Yves Congar op, silenced and exiled in 1955, was in 1960 made a theological advisor to the preparatory commission for Vatican II. From then on, and all through the Council (1962-1965), he was an influential day-to-day participant in its work. His diary provides a window into the Council's workings and the development of what would become a series of historical documents and declarations. It also offers Congar's own down-to-earth and candid perspective on many of the remarkable people and events that shaped the Council.

Book A History of the Irish Dominicans

Download or read book A History of the Irish Dominicans written by M. H. MacInerny and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dominican Republic

Download or read book Dominican Republic written by Kerry-Ann Morris and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the geography, history, government, lifestyles, culture, and current issues of the Dominican Republic.

Book Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic  1880 1916

Download or read book Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic 1880 1916 written by Teresita Martínez-Vergne and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular education, private property, modern agricultural techniques, and an open political process. Black immigrants, bourgeois women, and working-class men and women in the capital city of Santo Domingo and in the booming sugar town of San Pedro de Macoris, however, formed their own surprisingly modern notions of citizenship in daily interactions with city officials. Martinez-Vergne shows just how difficult it was to reconcile the lived realities of people of color, women, and the working poor with elite notions of citizenship, entitlement, and identity. She concludes that the urban setting, rather than defusing the impact of race, class, and gender within a collective sense of belonging, as intellectuals had envisioned, instead contributed to keeping these distinctions intact, thus limiting what could be considered Dominican.

Book Dominican Republic

Download or read book Dominican Republic written by Erin Foley and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the Dominican Republic"--Provided by publisher.

Book Why the Cocks Fight

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  • Author : Michele Wucker
  • Publisher : Hill and Wang
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1466867884
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Why the Cocks Fight written by Michele Wucker and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.

Book Dominican Gallery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aidan Nichols
  • Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780852443934
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Dominican Gallery written by Aidan Nichols and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Dominicans

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  • Author : Simon Tugwell
  • Publisher : Paulist Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780809124145
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Early Dominicans written by Simon Tugwell and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirituality of St. Dominic and his early followers was a force in 13th-century Europe. Here is a selection of works that represent the simplicity, ruggedness and clarity of the Dominicans' biblically-based, Christ-centered spirituality.

Book Praying with the Dominicans

Download or read book Praying with the Dominicans written by John Vidmar and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since St. Dominic de Guzmán founded the Order of Preachers 800 years ago, Dominican men and women have continued to shape Catholic spirituality, challenging the faithful to know God in their minds and to love God in their hearts. Praying with the Dominicans is a wellspring of Dominican prayer from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Dominican spirituality emphasizes the goodness of the created world as the handiwork of a loving God. Author John Vidmar, OP, presents a generous sampling of this rich spiritual tradition in the form prayers, meditations, poems, hymns, devotions, and reflections. Within this book the reader will find an account of St. Dominic's nine ways of prayer, along with the Eucharistic writings of Thomas Aquinas. St. Catherine of Siena is prominently featured, as are contemporary English Dominicans Timothy Radcliffe and Bede Jarrett, Dominican theologian Mary Catherine Hilkert, Dominican inspirational poet Maryanna Childs, and many others. Also included are selections representing the vibrant tradition of Dominican Marian devotion. Illustrations and musical samples accompany the text. No comparable single-volume source offers such a diverse collection of Dominican prayer and thought. This book will guide, enlighten, and inspire anyone who wishes to experience the dynamic charism of the Order of Preachers. +

Book The Dominican Racial Imaginary

Download or read book The Dominican Racial Imaginary written by Milagros Ricourt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on the island of Hispaniola—Haitians of African descent—she finds that the Dominican Republic’s social elite has long propagated a national creation myth that conceives of the Dominican as a perfect hybrid of native islanders and Spanish settlers. Yet as she pores through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth. Through fieldwork at the Dominican-Haitian border, she gives a firsthand look at how Dominicans are resisting the official account of their national identity and instead embracing the African influence that has always been part of their cultural heritage. Building on the work of theorists ranging from Edward Said to Édouard Glissant, this book expands our understanding of how national and racial imaginaries develop, why they persist, and how they might be subverted. As it confronts Hispaniola’s dark legacies of slavery and colonial oppression, The Dominican Racial Imaginary also delivers an inspiring message on how multicultural communities might cooperate to disrupt the enduring power of white supremacy.

Book Anglican Dominicans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Goodrich
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-04-10
  • ISBN : 9781497595651
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Anglican Dominicans written by Kevin Goodrich and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglican Dominicans: An Introduction for Seekers and the Curious offers the reader an opportunity to explore a fascinating new form of religious life, which mixes together ancient monastic commitments, internet communication, and a zeal for spreading the message of the Gospel. Traditional orders of monks and nuns have existed for thousands of years, but the Anglican Order of Preachers embraces men and women, married and single, ordained and lay, from across the world. "Informative is not a sufficient word for the scope of this work. It is informative, but it is more, it is invitational -- that is, it invites one to learn, know, discern, and possibly relate to the Dominican way of being spiritual. He shows significantly that spirituality is more than doing things a certain way, it is being spiritual in a certain way." - The Very Reverend Doctor Jeffery Mackey, O.P. Founder of the Anglican Order of Preachers