Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-history or Its Parody by: Ephraim Nissan (Author),Yohanan Petrovsky-Shte(Author) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2024th Publication Date: 2024/8/23 Language: English Print Length: 406 pages ISBN-10: 3031460685 ISBN-13: 9783031460685 Book Description Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the hi...
The Jesuits in Syria: 1625-1683: Fishers of Men by: Mazin Tadros (Author) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2024th Publication Date: 2024/7/27 Language: English Print Length: 290 pages ISBN-10: 3031636074 ISBN-13: 9783031636073 Book Description This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early mode Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced i...
Pattes of World History: Volume Two: From 1400 with Sources by: Peter von Sivers (Author),Charles A. Desnoyers(Author),George B. Stow(Author)&0more Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 3rd Publication Date: 2017/9/1 Language: English Print Length: 832 pages ISBN-10: 0190693614 ISBN-13: 9780190693619 Book Description Pattes of World History, Third Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors ...
Ocean Liners: A New History by: Anthony Burton (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport Publication Date: 2024/9/30 Language: English Print Length: 184 pages ISBN-10: 1399049798 ISBN-13: 9781399049795 Book Description There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the world. The book starts with the first scheduled transatlantic crossings in the age of sail, then moves on through the development of th...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics by: Valentino Gasparini (Editor),Maik Patzelt (Editor),Rubina Raja (Editor),Anna-Katharina Rieger (Editor),Jörg Rüpke (Editor),Emiliano Urciuoli (Editor) Publisher: De Gruyter Publication Date: 2020/4/6 Language: English Print Length: 605 pages ISBN-10: 3110557576 ISBN-13: 9783110557572 Book Description The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectiv...
Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present (SUNY in Humanities to the Rescue) by: Victoria W. Wolcott (Editor) Publisher: State University of New York Press Publication Date: 2024/4/1 Language: English Print Length: 282 pages ISBN-10: 1438497512 ISBN-13: 9781438497518 Book Description “Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.” These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K....
Medieval Saints and their Sins: A New History of the Middle Ages through Saints and their Stories by: Luke Daly (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword History Publication Date: 2024/8/4 Language: English Print Length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1399050621 ISBN-13: 9781399050623 Book Description Explore the vibrant tapestry of the Middle Ages through the lives of medieval saints, revealing intimate perspectives on faith, fear, and societal change, while delving into topics resonant with today’s world.St...
Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century by: Rehav Rubin (Author) Publisher: De Gruyter Publication Date: 2018/5/22 Language: English Print Length: 351 pages ISBN-10: 311056453X ISBN-13: 9783110564532 Book Description The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century, and thus fills a significant lacuna both in the history of cartography and in Jewi...
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt by: Febe Armanios (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2011/2/25 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 019974484X ISBN-13: 9780199744848 Book Description In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives. Ottoman Copts frequently tued to religious discourses, practices, and rituals as they dealt with various trans...
The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis by: Michael W. Higgins (Author) Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication Date: 2024/9/10 Language: English Print Length: 344 pages ISBN-10: 1487010052 ISBN-13: 9781487010058 Book Description A fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church.Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the consummate disruptor, disrupting archaic modes of church goveance, disrupting our collective spiritual complacency in the fac...
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