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Book Blood and Kinship

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  • Author : Christopher H. Johnson
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0857457500
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Blood and Kinship written by Christopher H. Johnson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “blood” awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.

Book Piety and Politics

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  • Author : Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0874136938
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Piety and Politics written by Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent final chapel at Versailles, completed in 1710 near the end of his long reign (1643-1715). Construction, begun in 1699 on foundations of 1689, spanned the offices of two premiers architects du roi, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte. Eight painters and over 100 sculptors participated in the monumental undertaking, which remains almost unchanged today. An unusually large number of archival documents, drawings, and early texts about the chapel allow a detailed reconstruction of its history and meaning. Given Louis XIV's renown as one of the great kings and art patrons of all history and the universal definitions of his power in terms of divine kingship, the story of his palace chapel interests all historians of the ancien regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Athen  um

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1842
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Book Publisher and Bookseller

Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Martyr to the Truth

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  • Author : Charles J.T. Talar
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2012-10-18
  • ISBN : 1610978374
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Martyr to the Truth written by Charles J.T. Talar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography Joseph Turmel (1859-1943) has left an intensely personal account of his struggles to reconcile his Catholic faith with the results of historical-critical methods as those impacted biblical exegesis and the history of dogma. Having lost his faith in 1886, he chose to remain as a priest in the Church, even while he worked to undermine its teachings. He did so initially in writings published under his own name and, as his conclusions became increasingly radical, under a veritable team of pseudonyms. He was excommunicated in 1930. His account of his life is less a discussion and defense of his ideas than it is a moral justification of his conduct. Turmel is associated with the left wing of Roman Catholic Modernism along with Albert Houtin, Marcel Hebert, and Felix Sartiaux

Book Appleton s Literary Bulletin

Download or read book Appleton s Literary Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John of the Cross

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  • Author : Edward Howells
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-04-12
  • ISBN : 104000041X
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book John of the Cross written by Edward Howells and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and teaching of John of the Cross, the Spanish mystic who remains a major source of Western thought on spirituality, theology and mysticism. Leading academics discuss the importance and legacy of John from historical, theological, philosophical, pastoral, ecumenical, psychological and literary perspectives. The book focuses on his place in Carmel, his understanding of desire, and the role of transformation in his theology. Approaching John in the context of the late medieval mystical tradition, it offers a timely re-evaluation of his work and a significant reassessment of his relevance in the context of current debates.

Book The quarterly review

Download or read book The quarterly review written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Telegraph

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1840
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Catholic Telegraph written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Society Must Be Defended

Download or read book Society Must Be Defended written by Michel Foucault and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foucalt deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war.

Book Disciplines of Faith

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  • Author : James Obelkevich
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 1136820795
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Disciplines of Faith written by James Obelkevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Mystic Fable  Volume One

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  • Author : Michel de Certeau
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1995-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226100375
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Mystic Fable Volume One written by Michel de Certeau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

Book Martin Bucer and the English Reformation

Download or read book Martin Bucer and the English Reformation written by Constantin Hopf and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europe   s Welfare Traditions Since 1500  Volume 1

Download or read book Europe s Welfare Traditions Since 1500 Volume 1 written by Thomas McStay Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition