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| 81. |  | Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Religion | Gender Studies | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Off with her head!: the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture Author: Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Classical Religions | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head . The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: On Roman time: the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity Author: Salzman, Michele Renee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Classical History Publisher's Description: Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance rema . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Passionate uncertainty: inside the American Jesuits Author: McDonough, Peter 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they belie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | Title: Petrarch's genius: pentimento and prophecy  Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.Petra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 86. |  | Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to Santiago Author: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European History Publisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran Author: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Sociology | Social Theory | Middle Eastern Studies | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history Author: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: Pulling the devil's kingdom down: the Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Author: Walker, Pamela J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Christianity | Victorian History | Religion | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Those people in uniforms who ring bells and raise money for the poor during the holiday season belong to a religious movement that in 1865 combined early feminism, street preaching, holiness theology, and intentionally outrageous singing into what soon became the Salvation Army. In Pulling the Devil . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America Author: Prothero, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kenn . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: The quiet hand of God: faith-based activism and the public role of mainline Protestantism Author: Wuthnow, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism - a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, att . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | African American Studies | American Studies | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the new millennium Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Sociology Publisher's Description: During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Popular Culture | United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: Religion in Hellenistic Athens Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Similar Items |