Objects of Devotion: Religion in Early America, Hardcover

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, ...

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

Reducere. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

Reducere. God is often at work through the ordinary: ordinary people, ordinary objects, ordinary grace. Through the ordinary, God communicates epiphanies, sa...

Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

Reducere. Religion and Profit Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel Winner of the 2010 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ana...

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

Reducere. Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive r...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

DescriptionIn My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United S...

Gholsons in Early America and Their Connections with the Founding Fathers is the fifth entry in Donna Gholson Cook's well- documented family histor...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loya...

Reducere. There truly is a "reason for the season, " and it has nothing to do with gifts, reindeer, shopping, or chocolate (well, maybe chocolate). But it is...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

Reducere. This book is about how God's Word shapes and rules our devotion to him. What is the best way of talking about this? 'Spirituality' is what many peo...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

DescriptionFrom the Very Beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Amy HollywoodIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 200Collection: TRIOSPublication date...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Amy HollywoodIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 200Collection: TRIOSPublication date...

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 ...

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rechel Hope ClevesCharity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex m...

DescriptionVolume ten includes Ch gyam Trungpa's three most recent books and many selected writings. The Collected Works of Ch gyam Trungpa brings ...

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

DescriptionCo-published with the Royal Mint Museum. War has shaped currencies, creating, abolishing and moulding them. By providing the means throu...

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in peopl...

Reducere. Through image and word, author and photographer Jill Geoffrion unfolds the the story of Mary at Chartres on the pages of this book. Geoffrion offer...

Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscript...

Reducere. Description"Even if you are already drowned in the cycle of the ocean of repeated births and deaths, when you once find attachment (love) and devot...

A pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. The book will open up new avenues of discussion among st...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chorbishop Seely Joseph BeggianiFor St. Ephrem of Syria (d. 373) and Jacob of Serugh (d. 521), God is utterly mysterious, y...

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in ...

Reducere. This book contains prayers and devotions dedicated to the memory of Saint Anthony of Padua, a Franciscan priest who travelled widely and was renown...