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Book Holy Brotherhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Rose Lange
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 019513723X
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Holy Brotherhood written by Barbara Rose Lange and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of this exceptional religious community."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Holy Brotherhood

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  • Author : Hermann Adler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book The Holy Brotherhood written by Hermann Adler and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud written by Julia Navarro and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of History’s Most Sacred Treasures. . . An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . . Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . . Marco Valoni, chief of Italy’s Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no accident. It is only the last in a long line of mishaps, going back over a hundred years, that have occurred in the church – which happens to be home to what millions of the faithful believe is that authentic burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Valoni and his crack team of specialists embark on an investigation that soon leads them into dangerous territory, territory controlled by some of the most powerful men in the world. Not only do they discover evidence of a secret Christian sect that traces its priests to the very disciples of Jesus himself, but also that the Knights Templar – supposedly destroyed forever when Philip the Fair of France watched their last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, burn at the stake in 1314 – may not have disappeared at all, and may indeed be very much alive and active in the 21st century. Julia Navarro skillfully weaves the Italians’ thrilling present-day investigation with the spine-tingling history of the Holy Shroud itself, and with a chilling tale of ancient rivals, equally devoted to the relic, and equally willing to sacrifice anything – perhaps even their immortal souls–to possess it. From communities of the Middle East founded by Jesus himself, to medieval Byzantium, to the highest councils of the Vatican and the boardrooms that run the world today, The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud is a provocative page-turner of the highest order – one that will challenge you to believe. "The screams of the tortured men echoed within the thick walls of the dungeons. How many days had passed since they were arrested? The Templars had lost count. . . . A man, his face concealed by a hood, watched the suffering of the knights from the shadows, these knights who had once wielded their swords and risked their very lives to defend the Cross. Reveling in their torment, sick with avarice and cruelty, Philippe signaled the torturers to go on…. Broken and bloodied, Jacques de Molay could hardly see, but he sensed who it was beneath the hood. A smile came to the Grand Master’s lips when the king demanded that he confess where he had hidden the holy shroud of Jesus. At last Philippe saw that it was futile to continue. De Molay would not yield…. Fire began to burn the Templars’ ravaged flesh. Jacques de Molay’s eyes remained fixed on Philippe, and before him and the people of Paris the Grand Master proclaimed his innocence and called down divine justice on the king of France and Pope Clement, summoning them to stand with him before the judgment of God within the year. A shiver ran down Philippe’s spine as de Molay’s words rang out. No, God could not be on the side of these Templars, these heretics. He, Philippe, king of France, was obeying the laws of the Church. But was he obeying the laws of God?" —From The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

Book Love and the Law in Cervantes

Download or read book Love and the Law in Cervantes written by Roberto González Echevarría and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

Book The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Download or read book The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia

Download or read book Count Sergei Witte and the Twilight of Imperial Russia written by Sidney Harcave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Witte served as finance minister and later prime minister of Russia during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II, and was in large part responsible for the development policies which saw Russia transformed from a peasant economy into an industrial nation. This is the first biography of Witte in English.

Book Don Quixote Explained

Download or read book Don Quixote Explained written by Emre Gurgen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Quixote Explained focuses on seven topics: how Sancho Panza refines into a good governor through a series of jokes that turn earnest; how Cervantes satirizes religious extremism in Don Quixote by taking aim at the Holy Roman Catholic Church; how Don Quixote and Sancho Panza check-and-balance one anothers excesses by having opposite identities; how Cervantes refines Spanish farm girls by transforming Aldonza Lorenzo into Dulcinea; how outlaws like Roque Guinart and Gines Pasamonte can avoid criminality and why; how Cervantes establishes inter-religional harmony by having a Christian translator, on the one hand, and a Muslim narrator, on the other; and lastly, how Cervantes replaces a medieval view of love and marriage?where a woman is a housekeeper, lust-satisfier, and child begetter?with a modern view of equalitarian marriage typified by a joining of desires and a merger of personalities. "AN ERUDITE EXAMINATION OF THE THEMES AND IDEAS IN DON QUIXOTE. I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE WRITING AND EXPOSITION OF THIS WELL-REASONED CRITIQUE. BUY IT AND STUDY IT. GERALD J. DAVIS, AUTHOR OF DON QUIXOTE, THE NEW TRANSLATION BY GERALD J. DAVIS" WWW.DON-QUIXOTE-EXPLAINED.COM

Book Holy White Lies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sameh Egyptson
  • Publisher : Sameh Egyptson
  • Release : 2018-10-28
  • ISBN : 9770287806
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Holy White Lies written by Sameh Egyptson and published by Sameh Egyptson. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Lie is a translation for a fatwa in Arabic, Al-Kedhb al-Abyad, issued by theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman for The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR). Al-Qaradawi and his companions are part of one of the biggest movements in the world, The Muslim Brotherhood. The book presents extensive research in the Muslim Brotherhood sources to understand the ideology and strategies of the movement from the most important primary sources and how it uses White Lies to reach the aim of their strategies. It also shows examples of the application of these strategies in the West with a documented study in Sweden, where the author relied on the documents of the archives of Swedish government institutions. The book contains over 800 footnotes. The Muslim Brotherhood has, according to one of the most prominent leaders in the movement, Youssef Nada, more than 100 million members all over the world. It is a controversial movement since they have managed to advance all the way to governmental positions in many Muslim countries and they have official and unofficial relations with many politicians and religious authorities all over the world. At the same time, it is singled out as one of the biggest greenhouses for terror organizations and terrorists. Published with aid from Swedish Culture Center (Cairo) First Edition at Dar El Maaref Publishing House (Cairo) 2018 ISBN: 789-977-02-8480-4

Book Miguel de Cervantes s Don Quixote

Download or read book Miguel de Cervantes s Don Quixote written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most influential work to emerge from Spain's Golden Age, Don Quixote laid the groundwork for the Western literary canon and remains one of its major achievements.

Book Cervantes   Don Quixote

Download or read book Cervantes Don Quixote written by Roberto González Echevarría and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes’ novel and its characters have become integrated into the cultures of the Western Hemisphere, influencing language and modern thought while inspiring art and artists such as Richard Strauss and Pablo Picasso. Based on Professor Roberto González Echevarría’s popular open course at Yale University, this essential guide to the enduring Spanish classic facilitates a close reading of Don Quixote in the artistic and historical context of renaissance and baroque Spain while exploring why Cervantes’ masterwork is still widely read and relevant today. González Echevarría addresses the novel’s major themes and demonstrates how the story of an aging, deluded would-be knight-errant embodies that most modern of predicaments: the individual’s dissatisfaction with the world in which he lives, and his struggle to make that world mesh with his desires.

Book Troubled Waters

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  • Author : I. Michael Aronson
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-11-23
  • ISBN : 0822976692
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Troubled Waters written by I. Michael Aronson and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study, I. Michael Aronson offers a closely argued and many-faceted reinterpretation of Russian anti-Semitism and tsarist nationalities policy. He examines, and refutes, the widely held belief that the anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia in 1881 were a result of a conspiracy supported by the tsarist government or circles close to it, investigating claims and counterclaims about what happened during that fateful year and guiding the reader through a maze of events and decades of subsequent interpretations.Although the pogroms are treated within the context of Russian history, Aronson's analysis has significance for Jewish studies as well. When the Russian government adopted reactionary and repressive policies, Jews began to seek new solutions to the problems that plagued them: massive numbers emigrated to the United States; other turned to revolutionary socialism; still others were attracted to Zionism and supported the creation of the state of Israel.

Book Incidents of Travel in Egypt  Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land

Download or read book Incidents of Travel in Egypt Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land written by John Lloyd Stephens and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805-1852) read like the most inspired of novels, their poetic immediacy placing the reader square in the saddle of adventure. In this classic 1837 work-which no less a critic than Edgar Allan Poe praised for its "freshness of manner evincing manliness of feeling"-Stephens takes the reader on an evocative journey through the Middle East, from a visit to the pyramids of Egypt to encounters with enthusiastic locals and much more, Complete with all the beautiful original illustrations by English artist and architect FREDERICK CATHERWOOD (1799-1854), this delightful book continues to enthrall adventurous spirits today.

Book Red Ryvington

Download or read book Red Ryvington written by William Bury Westall and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toward a United States of Russia

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  • Author : Dimitri Sergius Von Mohrenschildt
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780838630136
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Toward a United States of Russia written by Dimitri Sergius Von Mohrenschildt and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the federal-regional trend in nineteenth-century Russian political and social though and action. The author shows conclusively that the decentralizing federal-democratic trend in the nineteenth century was stronger than is generally realized.

Book The Holy Land of the Hindus

Download or read book The Holy Land of the Hindus written by Robert Lee Lacey and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: