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Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book harvard lectures on the revival of learning

Download or read book harvard lectures on the revival of learning written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning written by Sir John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning written by John Sandys and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning Classic Reprint written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning In an admirable volume, entitled Harvard College by an Oxonian, the late Dr George Birkbeck Hill has spoken of the 'never-failing stream of benefactions by which the love of Harvard men is shown for Harvard.' Among these benefactions is a fund for the endowment of special courses of Classical Lectures, for which Harvard is indebted to the munificence of a member of the Class of 1881, Mr Gardiner Martin Lane, of Boston. Mr Lane has a hereditary interest in the Classics. He is the son of the late George Martin Lane, for forty-three years Professor of Latin at Harvard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning   Primary Source Edition

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning Primary Source Edition written by John Edwin Sandys and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning  by John Edwin Sandys

Download or read book Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning by John Edwin Sandys written by John Edwin Sandys and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rebecca s Revival

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  • Author : Jon F Sensbach
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674043456
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Rebecca s Revival written by Jon F Sensbach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. All but unknown today, Rebecca Protten left an enduring influence on African-American religion and society. Born in 1718, Protten had a childhood conversion experience, gained her freedom from bondage, and joined a group of German proselytizers from the Moravian Church. She embarked on an itinerant mission, preaching to hundreds of the enslaved Africans of St. Thomas, a Danish sugar colony in the West Indies. Laboring in obscurity and weathering persecution from hostile planters, Protten and other black preachers created the earliest African Protestant congregation in the Americas. Protten's eventful life--the recruiting of converts, an interracial marriage, a trial on charges of blasphemy and inciting of slaves, travels to Germany and West Africa--placed her on the cusp of an emerging international Afro-Atlantic evangelicalism. Her career provides a unique lens on this prophetic movement that would soon sweep through the slave quarters of the Caribbean and North America, radically transforming African-American culture. Jon Sensbach has pieced together this forgotten life of a black visionary from German, Danish, and Dutch records, including letters in Protten's own hand, to create an astounding tale of one woman's freedom amidst the slave trade. Protten's life, with its evangelical efforts on three continents, reveals the dynamic relations of the Atlantic world and affords great insight into the ways black Christianity developed in the New World.

Book Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Download or read book Lectures on Revivals of Religion written by Charles Grandison Finney and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illusory Abiding

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  • Author : Natasha Heller
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-05-11
  • ISBN : 1684175437
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Illusory Abiding written by Natasha Heller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism, Illusory Abiding offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature, developed a range of cultural competencies through which they navigated social and intellectual relationships. They mastered repertoires internal to their tradition—for example, guidelines for monastic life—as well as those that allowed them to interact with broader elite audiences, such as the ability to compose verses on plum blossoms. These cultural exchanges took place within local, religious, and social networks—and at the same time, they comprised some of the very forces that formed these networks in the first place. This monograph contributes to a more robust account of Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China, and demonstrates the importance of situating monks as actors within broader sociocultural fields of practice and exchange.

Book Reinventing State Capitalism

Download or read book Reinventing State Capitalism written by Aldo Musacchio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wave of liberalization that swept world markets in the 1980s and 90s altered the ways that governments manage their economies. Reinventing State Capitalism analyzes the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority shareholders in publicly-traded corporations or as financial backers of purely private firms (the so-called “national champions”). Focusing on a detailed quantitative assessment of Brazil’s economic performance from 1976 to 2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini examine how these models of state capitalism influence corporate investment and performance. According to one model, the state acts as a majority investor, granting the state-owned enterprise (SOE) financial autonomy and allowing professional management. This form, the authors argue, has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by state ownership. According to another hybrid model, the state uses sovereign wealth funds, holding companies, and development banks to acquire a small share of equity ownership in a corporation, thereby potentially alleviating capital constraints and leveraging latent capabilities. Both models have benefits and costs. Yet neither model has entirely eliminated the temptation of governments to intervene in the operation of natural resource industries and other large strategic enterprises. Nevertheless, the longstanding debate over whether private ownership is superior or inferior to state capitalism has become irrelevant, Musacchio and Lazzarini conclude. Private ownership is now mingled with state capital on a global scale.

Book God Fearing and Free

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  • Author : Jason W. Stevens
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 0674058844
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book God Fearing and Free written by Jason W. Stevens and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has been on the rise in America for decades—which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americans have always conducted their cultural life through religious symbols, never more so than during the Cold War. In God-Fearing and Free, Stevens discloses how the nation, on top of the world and torn between grandiose self-congratulation and doubt about the future, opened the way for a new master narrative. The book shows how the American public, powered by a national religious revival, was purposefully disillusioned regarding the country’s mythical innocence and fortified for an epochal struggle with totalitarianism. Stevens reveals how the Augustinian doctrine of original sin was refurbished and then mobilized in a variety of cultural discourses that aimed to shore up democratic society against threats preying on the nation’s internal weaknesses. Suddenly, innocence no longer meant a clear conscience. Instead it became synonymous with totalitarian ideologies of the fascist right or the communist left, whose notions of perfectability were dangerously close to millenarian ideals at the heart of American Protestant tradition. As America became riddled with self-doubt, ruminations on the meaning of power and the future of the globe during the “American Century” renewed the impetus to religion. Covering a wide selection of narrative and cultural forms, Stevens shows how writers, artists, and intellectuals, the devout as well as the nonreligious, disseminated the terms of this cultural dialogue, disputing, refining, and challenging it—effectively making the conservative case against modernity as liberals floundered.

Book The Buddhist Revival in China

Download or read book The Buddhist Revival in China written by Holmes Welch and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the world's major religions, Chinese Buddhism has probably experienced the most traumatic modernization. Less than forty years have separated the self-contained Manchu Empire from the establishment of a Communist state. The consequences are described in this book. Holmes Welch offers the first detailed account of the careers of recent Buddhist leaders and of the diverse organization they started. Eighteen Chinese Buddhist associations are identified as the author traces the struggle for national leadership. The role of T'ai-hsii, the leader best known to Western readers but not, it is shown, among Buddhists, is given a controversial reassessment. After examining the main features of the revival, Welch puts them into a larger political framework. In the process, he offers copious evidence that our picture of Chinese Buddhism has been distorted. What has been termed a "revival" was actually a secular reorientation. The author's conclusion is that this secularization, vigorous as it was, in reality foreshadowed the decline of Chinese Buddhism as a living religion.

Book Faith on the Margins

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  • Author : Charles H. Parker
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 067427671X
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Faith on the Margins written by Charles H. Parker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 1572 revolt against Spain, the new Dutch Republic outlawed Catholic worship and secularized all church property. Calvinism prevailed as the public faith, yet Catholicism experienced a resurgence in the first half of the seventeenth century, with membership rivaling that of the Calvinist church. In a wide-ranging analysis of a marginalized yet vibrant religious minority, Charles Parker examines this remarkable revival. It had little to do with the traditional Dutch reputation for tolerance. A keen sense of persecution, combined with a vigorous program of reform, shaped a movement that imparted meaning to Catholics in a Protestant republic. A pastoral organization known as the Holland Mission emerged to establish a vigorous Catholic presence. A chronic shortage of priests enabled laymen and women to exercise an exceptional degree of leadership in local congregations. Increased interaction between clergy and laity reveals a picture that differs sharply from the standard account of the Counter-Reformation's clerical dominance and imposition of church reform on a reluctant populace. There were few places in early modern Europe where a proscribed religious minority was so successful in remaining a permanent fixture of society. Faith on the Margins casts light on the relationship between religious minorities and hostile environments.

Book The Great Persuasion

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  • Author : Angus Burgin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 0674067436
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Great Persuasion written by Angus Burgin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation revisited their worldview after the Great Depression. In this intellectual history of that project, Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider the most basic assumptions of a market-centered world.