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Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days.

• Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for new routes to Asia, through to the global context of post-9/11 America of the 21st century
• Includes discussion of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, political affiliations, and other elements of individual and collective identity
• Incorporates recent...

More than a million tourists visit religious landmarks in San Antonio, Texas, each year, observing and sometimes participating in religious activities there. The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park--managed by the National Park Service, in cooperation with the Catholic Church--is one of hundreds of religious places in America and around the world where tourists have become a familiar presence. In Blessed with Tourists, Thomas S. Bremer explores the intersection of tourism and commerce with religion in American, using the missions and other San Antonio sites as prime...

Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days.

• Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for new routes to Asia, through to the global context of post-9/11 America of the 21st century
• Includes discussion of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, political affiliations, and other elements of individual and collective identity
• Incorporates recent...

Im Januar 2011 feierte Edeltraud Werner, seit 1994 Professorin fur Franzosische und Italienische Sprachwissenschaft, ihren 60. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass veranstaltete das Institut fur Romanistik der Universitat Halle ein Festkolloquium, in dessen Mittelpunkt das Verhaltnis von Dialekt und Standardsprache, vor allem in Italien, aber auch in anderen europaischen Sprachen und Kulturen, stand. Die Beitrage des Bandes betrachten das Vorkommen von Dialekten und Minderheitensprachen in der Literatur fruher und heute, in den neuen Medien sowie in Institutionen wie der Schule. Herausbildung,...

Russian political history and Russian church history are tied together very tightly. One cannot properly understand the overall history of Russia without considering the role of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
Cross and Kremlin uniquely surveys both the history and the contemporary situation of the Russian Orthodox Church. The first chapter gives a concise chronology from the tenth century through the present day. The following chapters highlight several important issues and aspects of Russian Orthodoxy -- church-state relations, theology, ecclesiastical structure, monasticism,...

The book deals with Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine after the emergence of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018/19 and examines related conflicts with regard to developments in Eastern Orthodox Christianity worldwide.

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