Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas. Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition, Paperback - ***

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth PerezWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthrop...

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Reducere. Phoenix from the Ashes is a comprehensive look at the state of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council--one of a series of recurrent p...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their ...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968.

Reducere. From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured h...

Reducere. In this five-volume opus-now available in its entirety in paperback-Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to ...

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western ...

Reducere. A beautiful presentation of this Marian Feast. Illustrated in full color.

A groundbreaking history of Europe's new lefts, from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s In the 1960s, the radical youth of Weste...

Reducere. Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participatio...

Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

Reducere. Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country's civil rights mov...

Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this study advances our knowledge of creolistics. Focusing...

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist, he is a keen observer by honed habit. Simultaneousl...

Reducere. Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descen...

Reducere. This eloquent and provocative autobiography, originally published in 1972, records a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, compassionate account of t...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lisa Jane DischNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type:...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 bw illusNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 15Cover type: Pape...

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

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For the first time in English, Benebell Wen reveals the rich history and theoretical principles underlying the ancient practice of crafting Fu tali...

Reducere. From Scripture, Fathers & Doctors of the Church, St. Thomas, official pronouncements, holy writers. Their creation, test, fall, nature, powers, dut...

Bulent Gokay examines Turkey's recent remarkable political and economic transformation within the context of broader regional and global change to ...

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Reducere. This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries...

Jacob M. Kohlhaas's Beyond Biology is a breakthrough in the theology of parenthood, integrating Catholic social thought and social scientific studi...

It's 1893, and Lorraine Williams can't wait to attend the Chicago World's Fair and see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones. But when...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas...

Reducere. When it was first published twenty-five years ago, this classic work of political theory gained notoriety because neither its approach nor its inte...