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Private Altars
Author | : Katherine Mosby |
Publsiher | : Berkley Trade |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0425171264 |
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In this "stunningly lyrical" (Time) novel, Katherine Mosby weaves a haunting story of a woman trapped in the wrong place and time. "She's not cray, she's just educated, " is how she is described. Abandoned by her husband, the outspoken Vienna Daniels is forced to make a life for herself and her children in a small West Virginia town that neither understands nor accepts her...
The Medieval Mediterranean City
Author | : Felicity Ratté |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2021-08-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781476639093 |
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This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area. The focus of the study--four cities on the Italian peninsula, and four in Syria and Egypt--is the interconnectedness of the design and use of urban structures, streets and open space. Each chapter offers an historical analysis of the buildings and spaces used for trade, education, political display and public action. The work includes historical and social analyses of the mercantile, social, political and educational cultures of the eight cities, highlighting similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic practices. Sixteen new maps drawn specifically for this book are based on the writings of medieval travelers.
Alternate Civilities
Author | : Robert Paul Weller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429970924 |
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Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist's answer to the argument that China's cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. Robert Weller draws on his knowledge of both China and Taiwan to show how such sweeping claims fail to take account of potential democratic stimuli among local-level associations such as business organizations, religious groups, environmental movements, and women's networks. These groups were pivotal in Taiwan's democratic transition, and they are thriving in the new free space that has opened up in China. They do not promise a clone of Western civil society, but they do show the possibility of an alternate civility.
A Collection of Antique Vases Altars Pater Tripods Candelabra Sarcophagi c
Author | : Henry Moses |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : Art objects, Classical |
ISBN | : OXFORD:501487724 |
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Princeton Alumni Weekly
Author | : Jesse Lynch Williams,Edwin Mark Norris |
Publsiher | : princeton alumni weekly |
Total Pages | : 990 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101081978064 |
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Chanukah in a New Light
Author | : Isaac Hutner,Pinchas Stolper |
Publsiher | : Pinchas Stolper |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1931681767 |
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Place No Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Author | : Joanne Punzo Waghorne |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789811003851 |
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This book discusses Asia’s rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity. The essays in this volume – covering topics from the global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and Hong Kong to the regional centers of Gwalior, Pune, Jahazpur, and sites like Wudang Mountain – examine in detail the spaces created by new or changing religious organizations that range in scope from neighborhood-based to consciously global. The definition of “spatial aspects” includes direct place-making projects such as the construction of new religious buildings – temples, halls and other meeting sites, as well as less tangible religious endeavors such as the production of new “mental spaces” urged by spiritual leaders, or the shift from terra firma to the strangely concrete effervesce of cyberspace. With this in mind, it explores how distinct and blurred, and open and bounded communities generate and participate in diverse practices as they deliberately engage or disengage with physical landscapes/cityscapes. It highlights how through these religious organizations, changing class and gender configurations, ongoing political and economic transformations, continue as significant factors shaping and affecting Asian urban lives. In addition, the books goes further by exploring new and often bittersweet “improvements” like metro rail lines, new national highways, widespread internet access, that bulldoze – both literally and figuratively – religious places and force relocations and adjustments that are often innovative and unexpected. Furthermore, this volume explores personal experiences within the particularities of selected religious organizations and the ways that subjects interpret or actively construct urban spaces. The essays show, through ethnographically and historically grounded case studies, the variety of ways newly emerging religious communities or religious institutions understand, value, interact with, or strive to ignore extreme urbanization and rapidly changing built environments.
Clemency Cruelty in the Roman World
Author | : Melissa Barden Dowling |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472115154 |
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Explores the formation of clemency as a human and social value in the Roman Empire