Keeping Peace in Troubled Times: Perspectives from Different Disciplines on War and Peace (Contributions to Inteational Relations) by: Nina Käsehage (Editor) Publisher: Springer Edition: 2024th Publication Date: 2024/6/2 Language: English Print Length: 281 pages ISBN-10: 303156037X ISBN-13: 9783031560378 Book Description This interdisciplinary anthology offers both theoretical reflections and empirical data on past, present and possible future war and crisis situations. In addition, against the ...
Pattes of World History, Volume Two: From 1400 by: Peter von Sivers (Author),Charles A. Desnoyers(Author),George B. Stow(Author)&0more Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 4th Publication Date: 2020/9/25 Language: English Print Length: 528 pages ISBN-10: 0197517048 ISBN-13: 9780197517048 Book Description Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility, Pattes of World History, Brief Fourth Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of ori...
Geneva’s Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563: Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology) by: Jon Balserak (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2024/9/17 Language: English Print Length: 336 pages ISBN-10: 0197672302 ISBN-13: 9780197672303 Book Description Geneva was hated and loved in sixteenth-century France. Representing those who hated them were the French Catholic govement, who tried desperately to eradica...
The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by: Virginia Burrus (Author) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Publication Date: 2007/10/29 Language: English Print Length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 081222020X ISBN-13: 9780812220209 Book Description Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic conces that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a comm...
Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society by: Krijn Pansters (Editor),Anton ten Klooster (Editor) Publisher: De Gruyter Publication Date: 2024/6/4 Language: English Print Length: 358 pages ISBN-10: 3111446956 ISBN-13: 9783111446950 Book Description Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society offers a broad – historical, theological, and philosophical – reflection on the phenomenon of moral conversion. Examining life-changing transformations within trajectories of spiritual and moral ...
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum (The Mode Jewish Experience) by: Jeffrey Shandler (Author) Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication Date: 2024/6/4 Language: English Print Length: 170 pages ISBN-10: 0253069998 ISBN-13: 9780253069993 Book Description Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were ...
A Lost World: The Galician Shtetl and Siberia (Fokus, 15) by: Lidia Zessin-jurek (Editor) Publisher: Ferdinand Schoningh Wilhelm Fink & Publication Date: 2023/12/31 Language: English Print Length: 417 pages ISBN-10: 3506791648 ISBN-13: 9783506791641 Book Description The lost world of East European Jews meets the lost world of life under the Soviet rule. From the Galician shtetl of Mos’ciska (Mostyska)–now in Ukraine near the Polish border–the memoir follows a Jewish family ...
Memorializing the Unsung: Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism (World Christianity) by: Elochukwu Uzukwu C.S.Sp. (Author) Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication Date: 2024/7/23 Language: English Print Length: 244 pages ISBN-10: 0271096985 ISBN-13: 9780271096988 Book Description by: the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; t...
Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan by: Tahir Kamran (Author) Publisher: Reaktion Books Publication Date: 2024/9/6 Language: English Print Length: 568 pages ISBN-10: 1789149134 ISBN-13: 9781789149135 Book Description Spanning thousands of years, a wide-ranging history of Pakistan from the Bronze Age to partition and beyond. This book takes us on a sweeping jouey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistan’s history, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to contemporary ti...
Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher (Sinica Leidensia, 157) by: Jonathan A. Silk (Editor),Stefano Zacchetti (Editor) Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Publication Date: 2022/11/17 Language: English Print Length: 454 pages ISBN-10: 900451581X ISBN-13: 9789004515819 Book Description China has a long and complex history of interactions with the world around it. One of the most successful imports–arguably the most successful before mode times and the impact of the West–is Bu...
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