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| 21. |  | Title: Myths in stone: religious dimensions of Washington, D.C Author: Meyer, Jeffrey F Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | Christianity | United States History Publisher's Description: Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols - from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and ex . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Voice of the living light: Hildegard of Bingen and her world Author: Newman, Barbara 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Medieval Studies | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard authority, brings major scholars together to prese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | 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 |
| 24. |  | Title: The memory of the eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity Author: Frank, Georgia 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original anal . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 Author: Bloch, Ruth H 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Christianity | Women's Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Gregory the Great: perfection in imperfection Author: Straw, Carole Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Classical History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gregory I (590-604) is often considered the first medieval pope and the first exponent of a truly medieval spirituality. Carole Straw places Gregory in his historical context and considers the many facets of his personality - monk, preacher, and pope - in order to elucidate the structure of his thou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: The Mathers: three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728 Author: Middlekauff, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | Christianity Publisher's Description: In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers - Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mathe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | 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 |
| 29. |  | Title: Basil of Caesarea Author: Rousseau, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Religion | Classics | Ancient History | Christianity | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his pasto . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Medieval History Publisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Visionary Women: ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England Author: Mack, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Women's Studies Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil society Author: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | Christianity Publisher's Description: After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implicati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: The frontiers of Catholicism: the politics of ideology in a liberal world Author: Burns, Gene 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Religion | Social Theory | Gender Studies | Christianity | Politics Publisher's Description: Gene Burns examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church, illuminating as well the processes of ideological change. Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Business of the heart: religion and emotion in the nineteenth century Author: Corrigan, John 1952- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significanc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: From Genesis to genetics: the case of evolution and creationism Author: Moore, John Alexander 1915- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Science | Christianity | History of Science Publisher's Description: The clash between evolution and creationism is one of the most hotly contested topics in education today. This book, written by one of America's most distinguished science educators, provides essential background information on this difficult and important controversy. Giving a sweeping and balanced . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: One king, one faith: the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century Author: Roelker, Nancy L. (Nancy Lyman) Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | European Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passi . . . [more] Similar Items |