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Healing in the History of Christianity
ISBN: 9780195157185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing. In the second century, St. Ignatius was the first to describe the eucharist as the medicine of immortality. Prudentius, a 4th-century poet and Christian apologist, celebrated the healing power of St. Cyprian's tongue. Bokenham, in his 15th-century Legendary, reported the healing power of milk from St. Agatha's breasts. Zulu prophets in 19th-century Natal petitioned Jesus to cure diseases caused by restless spirits. And Mary Baker Eddy invoked the...
Healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing. In the...
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235,34 zł |
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The Power of Religion: A Comparative Introduction
ISBN: 9780195093292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Power of Religion is an engaging introduction to six religious traditions--Native American religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism--which recognizes the diversity of religious belief and offers both comparative and historical analysis. Genuinely accessible to undergraduates and general readers, it shows how various forms of these traditions are lived out in practice, experience, and community, presenting religions as conceivable ways of living and demonstrating how religious beliefs are integrally related to other aspects of life. Many chapters open with a...
The Power of Religion is an engaging introduction to six religious traditions--Native American religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and ...
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320,00 zł |
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Healing in the History of Christianity
ISBN: 9780199729944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healing, and Christians down the ages have seen this as a prominent feature of their faith. Indeed, healing is one of the most constant themes in the long and sprawling history of Christianity. Changes in healing beliefs and practices offer a window into changes in religious authority, church structure, and ideas about sanctity, history, resurrection, and the kingdom of God. Porterfield chronicles these changes, at the same time shedding important new...
Amanda Porterfield offers a survey of ideas, rituals, and experiences of healing in Christian history. Jesus himself performed many miracles of healin...
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170,59 zł |
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The Protestant Experience in America
ISBN: 9780313328015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Protestants have been the dominant religious group since the colonial period, and they remain a vibrant and influential cultural force in the United States. But the term Protestant encompasses people with a vast range of beliefs, backgrounds, politics, and experiences, and this books provides an accessible introduction to this complex situation. "The Protestant Experience in America" lays out the history of Protestants in America, the core beliefs and common practices that they mostly share, the major events and controversies, and long-term trends for the future of Protestants in the... Protestants have been the dominant religious group since the colonial period, and they remain a vibrant and influential cultural force in the Unite... |
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249,01 zł |
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American Religious History
ISBN: 9780631223221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.
In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the hist...
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248,73 zł |
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Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism
ISBN: 9780195068214 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life. She finds that by conflating marriage as a trope of grace with marriage as a social construct, Puritan ministers invested relationships between husbands and wives with religious meaning. Images of female piety represented the humility that Puritans believed led all Christians to self-control and, ultimately, to love. But while images of...
A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed...
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320,05 zł |
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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries
ISBN: 9780195113013 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This work allowed them to disseminate the Prostestant religious principles in which they believed, and by enabling them to acquire professional competence as teachers, to break into public life and create new opportunities for themselves and other women. No institution was more closely associated with women missionaries than Mount Holyoke College. In this book, Amanda Porterfield examines Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon and the missionary women she...
American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This wor...
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290,17 zł |
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Corporate Spirit: Religion and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
ISBN: 9780199372652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield looks at the intertwining of commercial and religious forces in the history of incorporation in the US. She focuses on three elements-the revolutionary implications of religious disestablishment, the proliferation of religious organizations, and religious organizations as models of commercial operation.
In this groundbreaking work, Amanda Porterfield looks at the intertwining of commercial and religious forces in the history of incorporation in the US...
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205,45 zł |
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American Religious History
ISBN: 9780631223214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.
In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the hist...
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625,01 zł |
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Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation
ISBN: 9780226271965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition and in spite of evangelicalism s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects. In "Conceived in Doubt," Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, religious doubt... Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely a... |
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127,27 zł |
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Religion in American History
ISBN: 9781405161374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This student-friendly introduction combines both thematic and chronological approaches in exploring the pivotal role religion played in American history - and of its impact across a range of issues, from identity formation and politics, to race, gender, and class.
This student-friendly introduction combines both thematic and chronological approaches in exploring the pivotal role religion played in American histo...
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470,07 zł |
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The Business Turn in American Religious History
ISBN: 9780190280192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion...
Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity...
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591,47 zł |
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The Business Turn in American Religious History
ISBN: 9780190280208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The authors analyze the financing, production, marketing, and distribution of religious goods and services and the role of wealth and economic organization in sustaining and even shaping worship, charity, philanthropy, institutional growth, and missionary work. Treating religion...
Business has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity...
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217,91 zł |
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Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War
ISBN: 9780226337746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky's work has long been inflected with history--for her characters the past looms large in the present--and in her decades-long career, she has been recognized for transforming the role of women in contemporary crime fiction.
What's less well-known is that before Paretsky began her writing career, she earned a PhD in history from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on moral philosophy and... Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski, now i...
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171,54 zł |
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Religion on Campus
ISBN: 9780807855003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates.
To explore firsthand how college students understand, practice, and learn about religion, the authors visited four very different U.S. campuses: a Roman Catholic university in the East, a state university in the West, a historically black university in the South, and a Lutheran liberal arts college in the North. They... The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus ...
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206,88 zł |
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