English | 2015 | ISBN: 0198724462 | 288 Pages | PDF | 1,3 MB In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. “St John’s” is a vibrant church, with a...
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by Marlene TrompEnglish | 2006 | ISBN: 0791467406 | 261 Pages | PDF | 3.5 MB Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture. Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism-the religion of seances, mediums, and ghostly encounters-in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining...
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English | 2012 | ISBN: 0195183495 | 216 Pages | PDF | 1,3 MB The question of teaching evolution in the public schools is a continuing and frequently heated political issue in America. From Tennessee’s Scopes Trial in 1925 to recent battles that have erupted in Louisiana, Kansas,...
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English | 2016 | ISBN: 0198785372 | 248 Pages | PDF | 4,4 MB In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance...
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English | 2015 | ISBN: 0198749635, 0198808542 | 336 Pages | PDF | 1,7 MB Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology explores the role of Aristotelian concepts, principles, and themes in Thomas Aquinas’s theology. Each chapter investigates the significance of Aquinas’s theological reception of Aristotle in a central theological domain:...
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2016 | ISBN: 082485568X | English | 272 Pages | PDF | 5 MB Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of...
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English | 2016 | ISBN: 0190267143 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1,7 MB In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess...
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English | 2015 | ISBN: 019874708X | 280 Pages | PDF | 3 MB This volume examines the use of the image of the Jewish temple in the writings of the Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian, Bede (d. 735). The various Jewish holy sites described in the Bible possessed...
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English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199656037 | 320 Pages | PDF | 2 MB What do we mean when we talk about “being Christian” in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in...
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