Search Results - Modern Paganism

Sexual personae by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Subjects: “…Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism.…”
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The Devil's tabernacle the pagan oracles in early modern thought / by Ossa-Richardson, Anthony, 1981-

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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

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The mythic forest, the green man and the spirit of nature the re-emergence of the spirit of nature from ancient times into modern society / by Varner, Gary R.

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The Enlightenment a genealogy / by Edelstein, Dan

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? …”
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Marginal voices

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Heresy in the Roman Catholic Church a history / by Thomsett, Michael C.

Table of Contents: “…Heresy in historical perspective -- The origins of heresy : the first four centuries -- Heresy from the fifth to the eighth century -- Heresies in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Catharism : a major heretical movement -- The Waldensians : heretics and witches -- The seeds of the Reformation -- The new paganism and witchcraft -- The Spanish Inquisition -- Martin Luther -- The growth of the Reformation -- The Roman Inquisition -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Old Catholics and modernism : nineteenth century heresy -- The modern view : politics of the Roman Church.…”
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Hidden histories Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean / by Raʻad, Basem L.

Table of Contents: “…"Canaan nails" : idealized perceptions and their uses ; Polytheistic origins of monotheism ; Sacred sites, pagan roots ; Ugaritic revelations : what an ancient city tells us ; Wheels of fortune : the alphabet -- Modern myths and (de)colonized history. …”
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Astrology and cosmology in the world's religions by Campion, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Cosmology and religion: measurement and meaning -- Astrology: the celestial mirror -- Australia: the dreaming -- Oceania: navigating the sky -- North Americas: the Great Spirit -- South and Central America: salvation and sacrifice -- Sub-Saharan Africa: heaven on earth -- Egypt: the solar society -- China: the celestial offices -- India: ancient traditions and modern practice -- Babylon: signs in the sky -- The Jews: myth, magic, and transcendence -- Classical Greece: ascent to the stars -- Christianity: influence and transcendence -- Islam: faith and reason -- Theosophical, new age, and pagan cosmologies: nature and transformation.…”
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Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Table of Contents: “…Titian, Philip II, and pagan iconography / Anne J. Cruz -- Visual eroticism, poetic voyeurism : Ekphrasis and the complexities of patronage in G�ongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea / Lucia Binotti -- Hercules and the statue garden : Sans�on Carrasco's Ekphrastic and imperial contests in Don Quijote II.14 / Frederick A. de Armas -- The legend of Marus Curtius Romanus as a sign of Auctoritas in early modern Spain / Ignacio L�opez Alemany -- Coins, value and trust : the problematic of vell�on in seventeenth-century Spanish culture / Elvira Vilches -- Tampering with signs of power : Juan de Palafox, historiography, and the limits of heraldry / John Slater -- Antonio P�erez and the power of treason / Ana Mar�ia G. …”
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Social change, resistance and social practices

Table of Contents: “…: analyzing political armed violence as a social production process / Simon Sottsas -- Fifteen years of NAFTA : the impact on rural Mexico / Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles -- Power and resistance in post-NAFTA Mexico : transformational and system-stabilizing NGOs / Krista Brumley -- As neoliberal crises persist, indigenous-led movements resist : examining the current social and political-economic conjuncture in southern Mexico / Molly Talcott -- The production of the "illegal subject" / Nicole Trujillo-Pagan -- Migration, transnationalism and post-modernity / Alejandro I. …”
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