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Book Grand Rapids  Greek Heritage

Download or read book Grand Rapids Greek Heritage written by Paul N. Chardoul and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greeks in Michigan

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  • Author : Stavros K. Frangos
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2012-05-02
  • ISBN : 0870139142
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Greeks in Michigan written by Stavros K. Frangos and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Greek culture on Michigan began long before the first Greeks arrived. The American settlers of the Old Northwest Territory had definite notions of Greeks and Greek culture. America and its developing society and culture were to be the "New Athens," a locale where the resurgence in the values and ideals of classical Greece were to be reborn. Stavros K. Frangos describes how such preconceptions and the competing desires to retain heritage and to assimilate have shaped the Greek experience in Michigan. From the padrone system to the church communities, Greek institutions have both exploited and served Greek immigrants, and from scattered communities across the state to enclaves in Detroit, Greek immigrants have retained and celebrated Greek culture.

Book Greek Americans

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  • Author : Charles C. Moskos
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-12-13
  • ISBN : 1351516728
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Greek Americans written by Charles C. Moskos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.

Book Greek Heritage

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  • Author : The American Quarterly of Greek Culture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Greek Heritage written by The American Quarterly of Greek Culture and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Heritage

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Greek Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Nationalism and Diaspora Politics in America  1940 1945

Download or read book Greek Nationalism and Diaspora Politics in America 1940 1945 written by Alexandros Kosmas Kyrou and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diachronic Nature of the Greek Heritage

Download or read book The Diachronic Nature of the Greek Heritage written by Demetrios J. Constantelos and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Almost Lost

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  • Author : Thomas H. Logan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780966531671
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Almost Lost written by Thomas H. Logan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are hungry for good news from their cities, and here's a heartening example from the heartland, with mouth-wateringly beautiful photographs to pull you in. Almost Lost, Building and Preserving Heritage Hill, Grand Rapids, Michigan begins like a suspense novel, with the startling declaration, We almost lost it. Turn to a full-page, black-and-white photograph of wrecking cranes demolishing the 1888 Romanesque Revival, Grand Rapids City Hall. That image clearly demonstrates what was at stake when well-meaning urban renewal projects threatened the old houses on Heritage Hill. Thanks to local advocacy groups and government recognition, Heritage Hill Historic District is saved -- for all kinds of residents. Variety is a keynote sounded throughout the story, from diversity of architectural styles, home cost and scale, to diversity of residential population. Author Thomas Logan identifies and discusses 15 major architectural styles found on Heritage Hill.

Book The Urban World and the First Christians

Download or read book The Urban World and the First Christians written by Steve Walton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

Book The Love of David and Jonathan

Download or read book The Love of David and Jonathan written by James E. Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were David and Jonathan 'gay' lovers? This very modern question lies behind the recent explosion of studies of the David and Jonathan narrative. Interpreters differ in their assessment of whether 1 and 2 Samuel offer a positive portrayal of a homosexual relationship. Beneath the conflict of interpretations lies an ambiguous biblical text which has drawn generations of readers - from the redactors of the Hebrew text and the early translators to modern biblical scholars - to the task of resolving its possible meanings. What has not yet been fully explored is the place of David and Jonathan in the evolution of modern, Western understandings of same-sex relationships, in particular how the story of their relationship was read alongside classical narratives, such as those of Achilles and Patroclus, or Orestes and Pylades. The Love of David and Jonathan explores this context in detail to argue that the story of David and Jonathan was part of the process by which the modern idea of homosexuality itself emerged.

Book The Divine Purchase

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  • Author : Douglas Vickers
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2015-08-24
  • ISBN : 1498226191
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book The Divine Purchase written by Douglas Vickers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary church exhibits an elasticity and diversity of doctrine that at times sits oddly with biblical foundations. The presuppositions that God is and that God has spoken too often give place to the assumed priority of the explanatory competence of human reason. In that, the theology of the church is captive to the thought forms of an Enlightenment rationalism on one hand, or the looseness of postmodernist assumptions of individual autonomy on the other. In those respects, theological argument proceeds from man to God, and not--as in its biblically revealed contours--from God to man. The Divine Purchase calls the church back to a clear commitment to the gospel of redemption. The kernel of the gospel resides in the apostolic statement that Christ "purchased the church with his own blood." That divinely ordained accomplishment projects the only remedy for the human condition in the present decaying culture and its intellectual uncertainty and confusion.

Book Corinth in Late Antiquity

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  • Author : Amelia R. Brown
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-22
  • ISBN : 1786733587
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Corinth in Late Antiquity written by Amelia R. Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city's ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological studies, she connects this process to broader changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the late antique Mediterranean.

Book The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism

Download or read book The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. His many articles on this subject have, however, appeared mostly in conference volumes and Festschriften, and have therefore not had wide circulation. By putting them together in a single work, this will bring the essays to the attention of a much broader scholarly readership and make them more readily available to students in the fields of ancient history and early Judaism. The pieces are quite varied, but develop a number of connected and related themes: Jewish identity in the pagan world, the literary representations by Jews and pagans of one another, the interconnections of Hellenism and Judaism, and the Jewish experience under Hellenistic monarchies and the Roman empire.

Book Scribal Culture in Ben Sira

Download or read book Scribal Culture in Ben Sira written by Lindsey A. Askin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scribal Culture in Ben Sira Lindsey A. Askin explores scribal culture as a framework for analysing features of textual referencing throughout the Book of Ben Sira (c.200 BCE), revealing new insights into how Ben Sira wrote his book of wisdom.

Book Gerald R  Ford

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  • Author : United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1544 pages

Download or read book Gerald R Ford written by United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  Gerald R  Ford  1976 1977

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Gerald R Ford 1976 1977 written by Ford, Gerald R. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States