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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science  Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Indigenous Religions | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics | Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Literature Publisher's Description: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Wandering, begging monks: spiritual authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity Author: Caner, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Classical Religions | Christianity | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community Author: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Religion | Ethics | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditation Author: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | Japan Publisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Medicine | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums" - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and tre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: California's spiritual frontiers: religious alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910 Author: Frankiel, Sandra Sizer 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Christianity Publisher's Description: In this fascinating work, Frankiel examines California's rich, multi-faceted religious history during the period in which the state was taking shape on the American landscape. Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The history of make-believe: Tacitus on imperial Rome Author: Haynes, Holly Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Political Theory | Ancient History Publisher's Description: A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories , this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire. Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Huang Di nei jing su wen: nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen Author: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich) 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | History of Medicine Publisher's Description: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Middle Eastern History | Christianity | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Social Science | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | Philosophy Publisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern times Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French Studies Publisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Sister of wisdom: St. Hildegard's theology of the feminine Author: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Religion | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Intellectual History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Descartes's imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking Author: Sepper, Dennis L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Renè Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorized a radical, unresolvable split between mind and body. In this long-overdue examination of the role of imagination in Descartes's thought, Dennis Sepper reveals a Descartes quite different from the usual dualisti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: A medieval mirror, Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500 Author: Wilson, Adrian Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and inclu . . . [more] Similar Items |