Search Results - "Religion"

Sober, strict, and scriptural collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Calvin, history, and memory / Herman Paul and Bart Wallet -- Calvin's image in Catholic France during the nineteenth century / Michele Sacquin -- French Protestants and the legacy of John Calvin: reformer and legislator / Patrick Cabanel -- Issus de Calvin: collective memories of John Calvin in Dutch neo-calvinism / Herman Paul and Johan de Niet -- Calvin's truth and Hungarian religion: remembering a reformer / Botond Gaal -- Calvin in Germany: a marginalized memory / Stefan Laube -- Servetus vs. …”
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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY -- The Poets and the Playwrights. …”
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Geographies of sexualities theory, practices, and politics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Phil Hubbard -- Politics -- Pussies declawed : unpacking the politics of a queer womens bathhouse raid / Catherine Nash and Alison Bain -- Religion, identity and activism : queer Muslim diasporic identities / Farhang Rouhani -- HIV+ bodyspace : aids and the queer politics of future negation in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Matthew Sothern -- Autonomy, affinity and play in the spaces of radical queer activism / Gavin Brown -- Counting on queer geography / Michael Brown -- Conclusions and future directions, or our hopes for geographies of sexualities (and queer geographies) / Kath Browne, Gavin Brown and Jason Lim.…”
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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Soares -- Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts -- Revolution and religion : Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore -- Reclaiming the past : Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal -- "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. …”
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Morse -- Part III: Establishing new religious spheres -- Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abé -- Institutional diversity and religious integration: the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson -- The archeology of anxiety: an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman -- Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. …”
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A just & true love feminism at the frontiers of theological ethics : essays in honor of Margaret A. Farley /

Table of Contents: “…Freedom-in-relation : autonomy, relationality, solidarity -- Feminist theology and sexual ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Human rights and women's rights : initiatives and interventions in the name of universality / David Hollenbach -- Transnational feminism and the rhetoric of religion / Serene Jones -- Postcolonial challenges and the practice of hospitality / Letty M. …”
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Women constructing men female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Haggerty -- The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak -- "Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood -- Constructing masculine narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The professor / Sara Pearson -- The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick -- Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig -- "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde -- The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter -- Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams -- Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode -- Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen -- "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. …”
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Redefinitions of Irish identity a postnationalist approach /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Irish neutrality: from nationalism to postnationalism -- Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet: Hubert Butler's perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland / Billy Gray -- The search for global Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain / Miriam O'Kane Mara -- Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic games in Rocky road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the ash / Sean Crosson -- "Who put the ball in the English net": the privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger's In high Germany / Damien Shortt -- The postmodern promise of Robert Macliam Wilson's fiction / Matt Mcguire -- Gocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena -- Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities / David Cregan-- "Scattering us like seed": Dermot Bolger's postnationalist Ireland / Paula Murphy -- "What ish my nation": nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín / Grace Tighe Ledwidge -- The postnationalist crisis: theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones / Catherine Rees -- Elegy and celebration: landscape, place and dwelling in the poetry of moya Cannon / Irene Gilsenan Nordin -- The inner life of the nation: religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama / Ulf Dantanus.…”
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Reproductive health and human rights the way forward /

Table of Contents: “…Merrick -- Measuring reproductive health : from contraceptive prevalence to human development indicators / Joan Kaufman -- Bearing human rights : maternal health and the promise of ICPD / Mindy Jane Roseman -- Advocacy strategies for young people's sexual and reproductive health : using UN processes / Bonnie Shepard -- Approaches to sexual and reproductive health and HIV policies and programs : synergies and disconnects / Sofia Gruskin -- Technology, reproductive health, and the Cairo consensus / Kelly Blanchard -- The Cairo "compromise" on abortion and its consequences for making abortion safe and legal / Marge Berer -- Advocacy for sexuality and women's rights : continuities, discontinuities, and strategies since ICPD / Françoise Girard -- Situating reproductive health within the academy / Alaka Basu -- The political limits of the United Nations in advancing reproductive health and rights / Heidi Larson and Michael R. Reich -- Examining religion and reproductive health : constructive engagement for the future / Frances Kissling -- Conclusion : conceptual successes and operational challenges to ICPD : global reproductive health and rights moving forward / Rebecca Firestone, Laura Reichenbach, and Mindy Jane Roseman.…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world

Table of Contents: “…Soares -- Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts -- Revolution and religion : Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore -- Reclaiming the past : Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal -- "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. …”
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Morse -- Part III: Establishing new religious spheres -- Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abé -- Institutional diversity and religious integration: the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson -- The archeology of anxiety: an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman -- Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. …”
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A just & true love feminism at the frontiers of theological ethics : essays in honor of Margaret A. Farley /

Table of Contents: “…Freedom-in-relation : autonomy, relationality, solidarity -- Feminist theology and sexual ethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Human rights and women's rights : initiatives and interventions in the name of universality / David Hollenbach -- Transnational feminism and the rhetoric of religion / Serene Jones -- Postcolonial challenges and the practice of hospitality / Letty M. …”
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Women constructing men female novelists and their male characters, 1750-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Haggerty -- The medium makes the man: Anne Plumptre's Something new and The history of myself and my friend / Katharina Rennhak -- "Too much in the common novel style": reforming masculinities in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Sarah Ailwood -- Constructing masculine narrative: Charlotte Brontë's The professor / Sara Pearson -- The lifted veil: George Eliot's experiment with first-person narrative / Frederick Burwick -- Assimilating the "pretty youngster": George Eliot's eroticized men on the borderlines of morality, religion, race, and nation / Rainer Emig -- "His spirituality or his manliness": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's (re)constructions of Christian masculinity / Roxanne Harde -- The differential construction of masculinity in the writings of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Richter -- Knitting paradise lost: masculinity and domesticity in the novels of Carol Shields / Ellen McWilliams -- Looking (im)properly: women objectifying men's bodies in contemporary Australian women's fiction / Katherine Bode -- Unmaking the self-made man: Louise Erdrich's fictional exploration of masculinity / Angela Laflen -- "I've tried my entire life to be a good man": Suzanne Brockmann's Sam Starrett, ideal romance hero / Sarah S.G. …”
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Redefinitions of Irish identity a postnationalist approach /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Irish neutrality: from nationalism to postnationalism -- Close-cropped grass comes up again fresh and sweet: Hubert Butler's perspective on community, nationalism and a globalised Ireland / Billy Gray -- The search for global Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain / Miriam O'Kane Mara -- Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic games in Rocky road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the ash / Sean Crosson -- "Who put the ball in the English net": the privatisation of Irish postnationalism in Dermot Bolger's In high Germany / Damien Shortt -- The postmodern promise of Robert Macliam Wilson's fiction / Matt Mcguire -- Gocal identities in a postnationalist Ireland as reflected through contemporary Irish poetry / Carmen Zamorano Llena -- Divided subjectivities and modern Irish masculinities / David Cregan-- "Scattering us like seed": Dermot Bolger's postnationalist Ireland / Paula Murphy -- "What ish my nation": nationalism and neo-nationalism in the novels of Colm Tóibín / Grace Tighe Ledwidge -- The postnationalist crisis: theatrical representations of Irish anxiety, identity and narrative in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Marie Jones / Catherine Rees -- Elegy and celebration: landscape, place and dwelling in the poetry of moya Cannon / Irene Gilsenan Nordin -- The inner life of the nation: religion, the otherworld and death in contemporary Irish drama / Ulf Dantanus.…”
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Reproductive health and human rights the way forward /

Table of Contents: “…Merrick -- Measuring reproductive health : from contraceptive prevalence to human development indicators / Joan Kaufman -- Bearing human rights : maternal health and the promise of ICPD / Mindy Jane Roseman -- Advocacy strategies for young people's sexual and reproductive health : using UN processes / Bonnie Shepard -- Approaches to sexual and reproductive health and HIV policies and programs : synergies and disconnects / Sofia Gruskin -- Technology, reproductive health, and the Cairo consensus / Kelly Blanchard -- The Cairo "compromise" on abortion and its consequences for making abortion safe and legal / Marge Berer -- Advocacy for sexuality and women's rights : continuities, discontinuities, and strategies since ICPD / Françoise Girard -- Situating reproductive health within the academy / Alaka Basu -- The political limits of the United Nations in advancing reproductive health and rights / Heidi Larson and Michael R. Reich -- Examining religion and reproductive health : constructive engagement for the future / Frances Kissling -- Conclusion : conceptual successes and operational challenges to ICPD : global reproductive health and rights moving forward / Rebecca Firestone, Laura Reichenbach, and Mindy Jane Roseman.…”
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Swedenborg explorer's guidebook a research manual for inquiring new readers, seekers of spiritual ideas, and writers of Swedenborgian treatises / by Woofenden, William Ross

Table of Contents: “…Swedenborg's writings -- Chronology of published works and unpublished documents -- Alphabetical listing of Swedenborg's writings -- Classification by subject of Swedenborg's writings -- Annotated bibliography of Swedenborg's writings by year -- Published and unpublished writings -- Works of uncertain authorship and projected works that were never written -- Lost works -- Selected collateral literature -- Concordances and compendiums -- Indexes -- Dictionaries -- Documentary collections -- Bibliographies -- Doctrinal summaries -- A. basic reference -- B. general -- The lord -- The word -- E. humankind -- F. love, faith, use -- G. creation, providence, freedom -- H. sex and marriage -- Regeneration -- J. life after death, the spiritual world -- Exegetical works -- A. old testament -- B. new testament -- Studies in correspondences, parables, etc -- Major biographies of Swedenborg -- Historical studies -- A. church history -- B. church polity -- Autobiographies and biographies -- Of prominent swedenborgians -- Metaphysics -- Critical studies -- A. published works -- B. theses and dissertations -- Periodicals -- A. current periodicals -- B. former periodicals -- Indexes to periodicals -- Digests, outlines, and synopses -- Studies in science and religion -- Religious education materials -- Prayer and other devotional materials -- Literature for children -- Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Selected list of key Swedenborgian concepts -- Pre-theological concepts relevant to the history of science and philosophy -- Concepts bridging the pre-theological and theological concepts -- Revelations about humankind and our intended destiny -- Major documentary collections and booksellers.…”
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A Colonial Affair : Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India / by Agmon, Danna, 1977-

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The Limits of Religious Tolerance / by Levinovitz, Alan

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Geographies of sexualities theory, practices, and politics /

Table of Contents: “…/ Phil Hubbard -- Politics -- Pussies declawed : unpacking the politics of a queer womens bathhouse raid / Catherine Nash and Alison Bain -- Religion, identity and activism : queer Muslim diasporic identities / Farhang Rouhani -- HIV+ bodyspace : aids and the queer politics of future negation in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Matthew Sothern -- Autonomy, affinity and play in the spaces of radical queer activism / Gavin Brown -- Counting on queer geography / Michael Brown -- Conclusions and future directions, or our hopes for geographies of sexualities (and queer geographies) / Kath Browne, Gavin Brown and Jason Lim.…”
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