Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897-1945) (SUNY in Contemporary Jewish Thought) by: Tom Navon (Author) Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Publication Date: 2024/1/1 Language: English Print Length: 295 pages ISBN-10: 1438495919 ISBN-13: 9781438495910 Book Description This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocau...
Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (Religion and American Public Life) by: Carl R. Weinberg (Author) Publisher: Coell University Press Publication Date: 2021/10/15 Language: English Print Length: 366 pages ISBN-10: 1501759299 ISBN-13: 9781501759291 Book Description In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism’s tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservativ...
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (The Middle Ages Series) by: Ann E. Zimo (Author) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Publication Date: 2024/9/24 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1512824895 ISBN-13: 9781512824896 Book Description How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First CrusadeIn Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the...
Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe: Imagery of Hatred by: Jakub Hauser (Editor),Eva Janáčová (Editor) Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg Publication Date: 2021/1/18 Language: English Print Length: 300 pages ISBN-10: 3110616076 ISBN-13: 9783110616071 Book Description In eleven contributions, Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe, Imagery of Hatred deals with visual manifestations of antisemitism in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. The publication, which presents heretofore...
The Bible: A Global History by: Bruce Gordon (Author) Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 2024/9/17 Language: English Print Length: 528 pages ISBN-10: 1541619730 ISBN-13: 9781541619739 Book Description A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eteal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’...
Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire by: Douglas Boin (Author) Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Publication Date: 2015/3/3 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 162040317X ISBN-13: 9781620403174 Book Description The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later–and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movem...
The Fundamental Problems of Weste Metaphysics by: Xavier Zubiri (Author), Thomas Fowler Joaquín Redondo(Translator)&0more Publication Date: 2009/10/27 Language: English Print Length: 244 pages ISBN-10: 0761848770 ISBN-13: 9780761848776 Book Description This book introduces the profound reflections of Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983) on the history of philosophy to English-speaking audiences. As a philosopher who rethought much of philosophy and theology, Zubiri felt it necessary to be in continuous...
Glamour and Geology: Women in Petroleum Geology and Popular Culture by: E. Allen Driggers (Author) Publisher: Springer Edition: 2024th Publication Date: 2024/9/10 Language: English Print Length: 292 pages ISBN-10: 3031645243 ISBN-13: 9783031645242 Book Description During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job. Newspapers, the oil industry, and other publications published stories about the glamorous working geo...
The Many Faces of Early Mode Italian Jewry: Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities (Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, 65) by: Martin Borýsek (Editor),Davide Liberatoscioli (Editor) Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg Publication Date: 2024/7/1 Language: English Print Length: 350 pages ISBN-10: 3111048039 ISBN-13: 9783111048031 Book Description The Jewish population of early mode Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various lingui...
Crucified With Christ: Meditation on the Passion, Mystical Death, and the Medieval Invention of Psychotherapy by: Dan Merkur (Author) Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Publication Date: 2007/7/5 Language: English Print Length: 156 pages ISBN-10: 0791471055 ISBN-13: 9780791471050 Book Description Crucified with Christ offers a fascinating study of the psychoanalytic character of medieval meditation. Most meditation practitioners imagined themselves in the place of an eyewitness to the passion;...
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