Download or read book The Certainty of the World of Spirits Fully Evinced written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe written by Nicholas Seager and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.
Download or read book Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature written by James D. Hartman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature, James D. Hartman uncovers the genesis of the captivity narrative in the English providence tale and its transformation in the seventeenth century. Exploring the cultural context in which both English providence tales and their American counterparts emerged - focusing in particular on the influence of religious, scientific, and literary developments during this critical period - Hartman offers a provocative reassessment of the origins of American literature.
Download or read book Science and Specters at Salem written by Matt Goldish and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers. Science and Specters at Salem turns instead to the intellectual background of the judges to understand why they accepted controversial types of evidence. The role of judges in a witch trial was central. Goldish argues that in Salem the judges' acceptance of questionable touch tests and spectral evidence was a result of their intellectual commitments. Several of the Salem judges were highly educated, and some of them were adherents of a particular philosophical school in England led by Henry More and Joseph Glanvill which Goldish calls "the anti-Sadducees." He demonstrates how the ideas of these leading thinkers, friends of Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton, could have led to the deaths of twenty accused witches in Salem. This book will interest students and scholars of witch trials, American colonial history, Atlantic history, legal history and early modern Europe, as well as lay readers wanting a better understanding of Salem.
Download or read book Mysticism in Early Modern England written by Liam Peter Temple and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.
Download or read book Religion the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Jennifer Spinks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in artworks, books, fragmentary texts and even in Protestant ‘relics’. Some contributions reassess communal and individual responses to cases of possession, others focus on witchcraft and manifestations of the disordered natural world. Canonical figures and events, from Martin Luther to the Salem witch trials, are looked at afresh. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how cultural and interdisciplinary trends in religious history illuminate the experiences of early modern Europeans. Contributors: Susan Broomhall, Heather Dalton, Dagmar Eichberger, Peter Howard, E. J. Kent, Brian P. Levack, Dolly MacKinnon, Louise Marshall, Donna Merwick, Leigh T.I. Penman, Shelley Perlove, Lyndal Roper, Peter Sherlock, Larry Silver, Patricia Simons, Jennifer Spinks, Hans de Waardt and Alexandra Walsham.
Download or read book Angels and Belief in England 1480 1700 written by Laura Sangha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the way the Church utilized the belief in angels to enforce new and evolving doctrine.Angels were used by clergymen of all denominations to support their particular dogma. Sangha examines these various stances and applies the role of angel-belief further, to issues of wider cultural and political significance.
Download or read book Science in an Enchanted World written by Julie Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the Saducismus triumphatus (1681), Joseph Glanvill’s book on witchcraft is among the most frequently published from the seventeenth century, and its arguments for the reality of diabolic witchcraft elicited passionate responses from critics and supporters alike. Davies untangles the intricate development of this text and explores how Glanvill’s roles as theologian, philosopher and advocate for the Royal Society of London converge in its pages. Glanvill’s broader philosophical method and unique approach to the supernatural provide a case study that enables the exploration of the interaction between the rise of experimental science and changing attitudes to witchcraft.
Download or read book The Phantom World The History and Philosophy of Spirits Apparitions Revised written by Augustine Calmet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Civil War written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.
Download or read book Demonology and Witchcraft written by Jean-Pierre Coumont and published by Brill. This book was released on 2004 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive bibliography on demonology and witchcraft systematically describing all materials -including books, monographs, conference reports and doctoral dissertations- covering these subjects subjects from the 15th century to the 21st century. 5000 entries and indices on author, subject and anonymous works. 320 b/w illustrations of title-pages.
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Human Body Considered Rationalistically Irrespective Of But Not Antagonistic To Revelation Edited by J H F written by John Henry FREESE (Director of the Freese College.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Human Body written by John Henry Freese and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Gospel Revealed anew by Jesus Vol II written by James E. Padgett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of communications from Jesus and other celestials received by James Padgett and first published in 1950. The volume continues the coverage of the concept of Divine Love, and how this effects the new birth first promised by Jesus 2000 years ago. Many other important spiritual topics are also covered. This edition has dates added, and a great many useful footnotes and cross references.
Download or read book DIVINE LOVE Transforming the Soul written by James E. Padgett (Recorder) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume three of 5 books. Altogether the books contain the messages received from angelic realms by means of automatic writing through the mediumistic work of James E. Padgett between 1914 and 1920. They reveal information such as: the realities of the spirit and soul universe; the qualities and attributes of the Creator; laws of Divine Love and natural Love; qualities of Absolute Truth; understanding the human soul, spirit body and mortal body; soul progression on earth and in the spirit world; spiritual laws such as the law of compensation and the law of attraction; the two paths of spiritual development as first presented by Jesus in the first century, each path resulting in the purification of the soul, but only one path resulting in eternal progression, complete emotional bliss and immortality. The major theme of the basic principles governing the reception of Divine Love by the human soul is also covered.
Download or read book MESSAGES Communications from the Spirit World written by James E. Padgett (recorder) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who comes to write these messages? What do they want humans to know? This book is about communications between worlds, our physical earth and the world of the unseen spirit. The messages are from soul calling to soul, heart calling to heart. It is not generally known that spirits once themselves mortal endeavor in diverse ways to contact humanity. This book is evidence of this phenomenon. Read this book and discover a wealth of subjects of interest to all mankind. You will see that the primary message from the spirits is that the Universe exists and operates from the place of Love, and that each human is the focus of God's Love and Care.
Download or read book The Teachings of Jesus written by Joseph Babinsky (ed.) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation and edit of 150 messages from Jesus through James Padgett. These messages were delivered between 1914 and 1920. During this period if his life Padgett received over 2500 messages from the spirit world. Of this number, the editor collected 150 messages specifically from Jesus and placed them in chronological order. This book is a must read for every one. It tells of the true mission of Jesus and his core message about the inflowing of divine love, which is God's great gift to humanity. In plain language, easy to understand, Jesus answers the question, "What is the true destiny of man?" The word about the great gift of God's love is the one answer we all seek and deeply want.
