Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.

Download or read book Christian Homes written by Tine Van Osselaer and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the ‘angel in the house’. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.

Download or read book Lived Religion written by Meredith B McGuire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich spiritual life revolves around her women's spirituality group and the daily practice of meditative dance? Or Laura, who identifies as Catholic but rarely attends Mass, and engages daily in Buddhist-style meditation at her home altar arranged with symbols of Mexican American popular religion? Diverse religious practices such as these have long baffled scholars, whose research often starts with the assumption that individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally framed package of beliefs and practices. Meredith McGuire points the way forward toward a new way of understanding religion. She argues that scholars must study religion not as it is defined by religious organizations, but as it is actually lived in people's everyday lives. Drawing on her own extensive fieldwork, as well as recent work by others, McGuire explores the many, seemingly mundane, ways that individuals practice their religions and develop their spiritual lives. By examining the many eclectic and creative practices -- of body, mind, emotion, and spirit -- that have been invisible to researchers, she offers a fuller and more nuanced understanding of contemporary religion.

Download or read book Religion in Modern Europe written by Grace Davie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for scholars and students of Sociology, Religion, Politics, European Studies, and Philosophy.

Download or read book Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World written by Merry Wiesner-Hanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World is the first global survey of such for the early modern period. Merry Wiesner-Hanks assesses the role of personal faith and the church itself in the control and expression of all aspects of sexuality. The book ranges over developments within Europe and beyond to the European colonies including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Goa, which were establishing themselves around the world. Christian missionaries and rituals and structures accompanied all of the imperial powers and the control of the sexuality of both indigenous peoples and colonists was an essential part of policy. The book is introduced with a clear, original and engaging account of the central concepts in the study of sexuality in Christianity, such as shame, sin, the body, marriage and gender. Drawing on diverse evidence including literary, medical and historical the following sections chart changes in Western Christianity in the Late Middle Ages, Protestantism and Catholicism in Europe, Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe and Russia, and finally the Spanish, Portuguese, English and Dutch Colonies. Merry Wiesner-Hanks exciting book covers both the ideas and effects in each period. Christianity and Sexuality in the early Modern World includes discursive bibliographies which discuss major books and articles at the end of each chapter.

Download or read book The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe 1750 2000 written by Hugh McLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book, historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.

Download or read book When Fathers Ruled written by Steven Ozment and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless.Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe? Did the home and family life matter to most people? In this wide-ranging work, Steven Ozment has gathered the answers of contemporaries to these questions. His subject is the patriarchal family in Germany and Switzerland, primarily among Protestants. But unlike modern scholars from Philippe Arics to Lawrence Stone, Ozment finds the fathers of early modern Europe sympathetic and even admirable. They were not domineering or loveless men, nor were their homes the training ground for passive citizenry in an age of political absolutism. From prenatal care to graveside grief, they expressed deep love for their wives and children. Rather than a place where women and children were bullied by male chauvinists, the Protestant home was the center of a domestic reform movement against Renaissance antifeminism and was an attempt to resolve the crises of family life. Demanding proper marriages for all women, Martin Luther and his followers suppressed convents and cloisters as the chief institutions of womankind's sexual repression, cultural deprivation, and male clerical domination. Consent, companionship, and mutual respect became the watchwords of marriage. And because they did, genuine divorce and remarriage became possible among Christians for the first time. This graceful book restores humanity to the Reformation family and to family history.

Download or read book Reformation Europe written by Steven E. Ozment and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of man's study of earthquakes, discusses what is currently known about these tremors, and explores the possibility of their prevention.

Download or read book A History of Virility written by Alain Corbin and published by European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. This book was released on 2016 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays follow the socio-historical evolution of virility, as opposed to masculinity, to unsettle popular accounts of politics and culture. A major contribution to the nascent field of masculinity studies, this history consults painting, sculpture, literature, philosophy, film, and cultural and sociological critique. With the twentieth century delivering one blow after another to hegemonic virility, this book also explores where manliness might be headed next.

Download or read book The Reformation World written by Andrew Pettegree and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet, this book is beautifully illustrated throughout. The strength of this work is its breadth and originality, covering the Church, art, Calvinism and Luther.

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Download or read book INTRONISONS J SUS ROI D AMOUR DE NOS FOYERS written by Maurice CANIONI and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Pape Pie XI l'a dit : « Le laïcisme est la négation radicale de la royauté du Christ ; en organisant la vie sociale comme si Dieu n'existait pas, il engendre l'apostasie des masses. » Nous en sommes là et les conséquences en seront tragiques, surtout pour les nations naguère chrétiennes. Des châtiments sont à notre porte, l'actualité le garantit. Les gouvernants, les législateurs, le clergé dévoyé, les mauvais riches, les mondains, les matérialistes, les impurs, sombreront tous dans la tombe de l'oubli et dans la réprobation universelle et divine, non sans avoir provoqué d'incalculables ruines spirituelles, morales, matérielles, et fait répandre à flots le sang par les crimes et les guerres. Mais Jésus l'a promis : Je règnerai malgré mes ennemis et tous ceux qui s'y opposeront. Ce Règne sera de miséricorde, de paix, d'amour, de justice. Édifions ce Règne. Intronisé Roi du foyer, Jésus bénira et sanctifiera la famille, et par elle toute la société.

Download or read book Instruction abr g e sur la d votion au sacr coeur de J sus suivie written by Confrérie de sacré coeur de Jésus, St. Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Le c ur de J sus written by Benoît de Baenst and published by Editions de l'Emmanuel. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans cet ouvrage très pédagogique, l’auteur nous plonge dans l’histoire et la spiritualité du cœur de Jésus, ou Sacré Cœur. Partant des apparitions de Paray-le-Monial au XVIIe siècle, il élargit notre regard pour nous en faire découvrir les origines, l’ampleur et l’actualité. Le cœur de Jésus n’est pas, en effet, une dévotion parmi les autres (sentimentale ou doloriste, comme on le croit trop souvent), mais désigne le message central de l’Écriture, déployé dans toute l’histoire de l’Église et dont nous sommes appelés à vivre pleinement aujourd’hui. Un livre lumineux et argumenté, pour renouveler notre compréhension du cœur de Jésus et le laisser transformer notre cœur. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Prêtre du diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles et membre de la Communauté de l’Emmanuel, Benoît de Baenst a enseigné la théologie pendant de nombreuses années et est coresponsable de l’Unité pastorale des Sources Vives à Ixelles et Uccle. Il est l’auteur de Que penser de l’au-delà ? (Fidélité, 2020) et La Parole de Dieu (Emmanuel, 2021).