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Book California Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard O. Cowan
  • Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781570082009
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book California Saints written by Richard O. Cowan and published by Bookcraft, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The City of the Saints

Download or read book The City of the Saints written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saints of the California Missions

Download or read book Saints of the California Missions written by Norman Neuerburg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission paintings and painted sculpture of the Spanish and Mexican eras.

Book Saints of California

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  • Author : Edward Mornin
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0892369841
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Saints of California written by Edward Mornin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "San Francisco, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara. How did all these Spanish saints' names come to pepper the map of California? This handy reference guide features more than ninety entries on the Golden State's namesake saints. It includes fascinating historical information from Old California on the origins of each name, color illustrations of each saint from paintings and other artworks, and a synopsis of the saint's life."--Cover, p. [4].

Book Saints and Citizens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisbeth Haas
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0520280628
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Saints and Citizens written by Lisbeth Haas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.

Book The Saints of Santa Ana

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  • Author : Jonathan E. Calvillo
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0190097795
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Saints of Santa Ana written by Jonathan E. Calvillo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers into the Mexican-majority neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California, a city once dubbed the hardest place to live in the U.S. Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the challenges faced by Mexican immigrants in this working-class city, highlighting how faith practices are central to social interactions and community building. How does faith shape residents' sense of ethnic identity? Drawing on five years of participant observation and in-depthinterviews, The Saints of Santa Ana offers a rich portrait of a fascinating American community.

Book Gold Rush Saints

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  • Author : Kenneth N. Owens
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780806136813
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Gold Rush Saints written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.

Book Prepare for Saints

Download or read book Prepare for Saints written by Steven Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-07-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of a famous collaboration, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's making of the modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Watson explores the transatlantic, commercial, racial, gay, and artistic aspects of this story (NewYork/Paris, with Kansas City thrown in for fun; Thomson's score echoes the very American rhythms of his youth). Juicy, smart, and sophisticated writing and analysis.

Book Miracle Cures

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  • Author : Robert A. Scott
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-10-04
  • ISBN : 0520271343
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Miracle Cures written by Robert A. Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scott has written a magnificent book on the realities of religious healing. He brings sensibility, reason, impressive insight, and the best information to bear—qualities seldom manifested in the centuries of claim, cynicism, and controversy on the topic. His analysis is destined to raise the level of discourse on dramatic religious experiences."—Neil Smelser, author of The Odyssey Experience

Book The City of the Saints

Download or read book The City of the Saints written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All the Saints of the City of the Angels

Download or read book All the Saints of the City of the Angels written by J. Michael Walker and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artist-author J. Michael Walker wandered L.A.'s many streets named after saints, uncovering their transcendent beauty. Combining meticulous research with artistic inspiration, Walker depicts historical and contemporary Angelinos as their divine equivalents. Proud, defiant, and illuminative, these "street-saints" reveal their own unique versions of sublimity and, in doing so, challenge traditional notions of what it means to bless and blessed."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Saints of the California Missions

Download or read book Saints of the California Missions written by Norman Neuerburg and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missions had magnificent paintings of their namesakes and are reproduced here in color with their stories.

Book Wondrous in His Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip M. Soergel
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-06-28
  • ISBN : 0520378903
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Wondrous in His Saints written by Philip M. Soergel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known pilgrimage literature yields a vivid portrait of religion before, during, and after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. These "advertisements," combining testimonies of miracles with fantastic legends about shrines, fueled the conflict between Catholics and Protestants and helped shape a distinctive Catholic historical consciousness. Soergel stresses the power of the printed word as a defense of traditional authority, testing other historians' assertions about the neglect of printing and literacy in the Counter-Reformation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Book The Political Lives of Saints

Download or read book The Political Lives of Saints written by Angie Heo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.

Book The City of the Saints  and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Download or read book The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California written by Richard Francis Sir Burton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was a British explorer, writer, scholar, and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. "The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to Canada" was first published in London in 1861. It is a description of this trip with the detail and close scholarly writing that were Burton's hallmark.

Book The Saints of San Simeon

Download or read book The Saints of San Simeon written by Michele Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless journey of marvelous and moving stories of the SAINTS OF SAN SIMEON from the devotional collection at Hearst Castle comes to life in this engaging book. A scholar, local historian and patron of fine art and a collector of devotional art, Michele, a former guide at Hearst San Simeon Historical Monument, writes about the amazing and fascinating devotional art contained in the collection of newspaper tycoon William Randolf Hearst. Hearst was an avid collector of many artifacts in the 1920s and 1930s, including an extensive collection of devotional art. Her book describes the lives of the saints, their attributes and martyrdom.

Book Junipero Serra

Download or read book Junipero Serra written by Linda Gondosch and published by Magnificat-Ignatius. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 18th-century Spain, daring stories of missionaries spreading the Gospel in the New World ignited the imagination of a devout young boy. Miguel Serra's dream soon became a reality. As Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, he traveled to the New World and tirelessly preached the love of Christ to the natives living in the uncharted wilderness of California. Join the "founding father of California" on his amazing journey. Experience the zeal of the saint who established the first nine Catholic missions in California, from San Diego to San Francisco.