Author: Emma LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Glaucia
Author: Emma LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Glaucia, the Greek Slave
Author: Emma LesliePublisher: London : Religious Tract Society
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From bondage to freedom, by the author of 'Glaucia, the Greek slave'.
Author: Emma LeslieLittle faults and their cure, by the author of 'Glaucia the greek slave'.
Author: Little faultsThe lost baby, by the author of 'Glaucia the Greek slave'.
Author: Emma LeslieHarold's revenge, by the author of 'Glaucia, the Greek slave'.
Author: Emma LeslieAncient Rome
Author: Christopher S. MackayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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In the Hands of God
Author: Johanna Bard RichlinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119498X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion Why do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington, DC, area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants’ turn toward intense religiosity, and their resulting evangelical commitment. The conditions of migrant life—family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future—shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic “healing” of migrants’ psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives. Looking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity.
Ancient Rome
Author: Matthew DillonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136761438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
A companion volume to the highly successful and widely used Ancient Greece, this Sourcebook is a valuable resource for students at all levels studying ancient Rome. Lynda Garland and Matthew Dillon present an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Providing a comprehensive coverage of all important documents pertaining to the Roman Republic, Ancient Rome includes: source material on political developments in the Roman Republic (509–44 BC) detailed chapters on social phenomena, such as Roman religion, slavery and freedmen, women and the family, and the public face of Rome clear, precise translations of documents taken not only from historical sources, but also from inscriptions, laws and decrees, epitaphs, graffiti, public speeches, poetry, private letters and drama concise up-to-date bibliographies and commentaries for each document and chapter a definitive collection of source material on the Roman Republic. All students of ancient Rome and classical studies will find this textbook invaluable at all levels of study.
Populus
Author: Guy de la BédoyèrePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226840166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata. Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient Rome was stimulating, dynamic, and often downright dangerous. The Romans relaxed and gossiped in baths, stole precious water from aqueducts, and partied and dined to excess. Everyone from senators to the enslaved crowded into theaters and circuses to watch their favorite singers, pantomime, and comedies and scream their approval at charioteers. The lucky celebrated their accomplishments with elaborate tombs. Amid pervasive inequality and brutality, beauty also flourished through architecture, poetry, and art. From the smells of fragrant cookshops and religious sacrifices to the cries of public executions and murderous electoral mobs, Guy de la Bédoyère’s Populus draws on a host of historical and literary sources to transport us into the intensity of daily life at the height of ancient Rome.