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An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddesttown
ISBN: 9781592405497 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ
In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin,... Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: t...
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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
ISBN: 9781594631498 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, Lewis-Kraus packs his bag, grateful for the chance to wake each morning with a sense of direction. Irreverent, moving, hilarious,...
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of esca...
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Meeting the Buddha: On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India Edited B
ISBN: 9781573225069 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From E.M. Forster to Peter Matthiessen to Allen Ginsberg, many of the world's most acclaimed writers have traveled to the holy lands of India seeking spiritual enlightenment. Their lyrical and highly personal recollections are compiled here for the first time in one volume, taking readers on a colorful journey to each of the eight Buddhist pilgrimage sites of India.
From E.M. Forster to Peter Matthiessen to Allen Ginsberg, many of the world's most acclaimed writers have traveled to the holy lands of India seeking ...
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Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook for Beginners, New Edition with Illustrations
ISBN: 9781905816057 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced the text of 52 church memorials in Latin, and this edition is illustrated with photographs of eight of the epitaphs, providing explanatory captions that help contextualize each inscription. With an introduction that discusses the conventions of lettering, abbreviations, Latinized personal names, and stock phrases found on these memorial stones, Reading Latin Epitaphs is not only a volume for ecclesiastical scholars...
This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John...
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Atlantic Tabor
ISBN: 9781908308894 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A photographic tour of the pilgrims of Ireland's Croagh Patrick plus text describing the pilgrimage phenomena in general
A photographic tour of the pilgrims of Ireland's Croagh Patrick plus text describing the pilgrimage phenomena in general
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Papua New Guinea, 1983
ISBN: 9781963851946 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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On the Highway of the Stories of the Gods
ISBN: 9781991083418 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Traveler's Path: Finding Spiritual Growth and Inspiration Through Travel
ISBN: 9781641802123 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,40 |
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Travel Therapy: Around The World In Search Of Happiness
ISBN: 9781946743664 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion: A Search for Unity
ISBN: 9780819229014 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anglican Communion is said to be coming apart at the seams. But is that really true? Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion is the exciting new book that challenges the tired narrative of Anglican disunity. Jesse Zink has traveled tens of thousands of miles around the world, visiting and worshiping with Anglicans in some of the Communion's most diverse provinces--Nigeria, the largest province ministering in an unstable political environment; South Sudan, at one point the fastest-growing church in the world, now rebuilding after devastating civil wars; England, the mother...
The Anglican Communion is said to be coming apart at the seams. But is that really true? Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion is the exciting ne...
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The Bible on Location: Off the Beaten Path in Ancient and Modern Israel
ISBN: 9780827612228 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this innovative guidebook Julie Baretz takes readers to twenty-one off-the-beaten-path locations in Israel where Bible stories are said to have happened. At each site she sets the scene by relating the historical context of the event, then follows with the biblical text itself and her own lively commentary. Captivating and complex Bible characters bring the locations to life as they face social, ethical, and spiritual dilemmas not unlike our own today. Baretz s narratives draw on history, archaeology, academic scholarship, and rabbinic literature for interpretations that enhance the...
In this innovative guidebook Julie Baretz takes readers to twenty-one off-the-beaten-path locations in Israel where Bible stories are said to have hap...
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In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
ISBN: 9781615193264 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60,000-mile global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to dedicate their lives to Buddhism.
In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories--of prison, extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile--she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism: who they are, their experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and what stands in their way. Toomey's quest took on... An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60,000-mile global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to dedicate the...
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The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the Shadows
ISBN: 9781910519585 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we use the experience of darkness to lift our spirits, challenge our hearts and minds and draw us closer into the heart of God?
How can we use the experience of darkness to lift our spirits, challenge our hearts and minds and draw us closer into the heart of God?
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Camino
ISBN: 9780692336328 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light
ISBN: 9781250239686 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Borobudur: Masterpiece in Stone: The History and Meaning Behind the World's Largest Buddhist Monument (Revised Third Edition)
ISBN: 9780804859011 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Texas Tombstones: New Braunfels
ISBN: 9781634995665 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo: To Santiago de Compostela and Finisterre from Irun or Oviedo
ISBN: 9781786310149 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guidebook to walking the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. The 820km Camino del Norte from Irun via Bilbao and Santander takes around 5 weeks to complete. The 355km Camino Primitivo takes about 2 weeks. Includes the Camino Finisterre from Santiago to the coast.
Guidebook to walking the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. The 820km Camino del Norte...
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The Way of the Stars: Journeys on the Camino de Santiago
ISBN: 9780813933153 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million people a year make pilgrimages, if not for expressly religious reasons, then for an alternative to secular goals and the preoccupation with consumption and entertainment characteristic of contemporary life. In The Way of the Stars, the journalist Robert Sibley, motivated at least in part by his own sense of discontent, recounts his walks on one of the most well-known pilgrimages in the Western world--the Camino de Santiago. A medieval... Since medieval times, pilgrimages have been a popular religious or spiritual undertaking. Even today, between seventy and one hundred million peopl... |
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Nashville to Santiago de Compostela: cars, trains, planes, and a whole lot of walking
ISBN: 9781937081621 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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