Author: Hannah AdamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations,including the substance of H. Adams's View of religions. The whole revised by T. Williams. To the whole is prefixed, An essay on truth, by A. Fuller. 3rd Lond. ed., with new articles and corrections
Author: Hannah AdamsA Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations
Author: Hannah AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This is a facsimile of the 1817 fourth edition of Hannah Adams's pioneering harbinger of the scholarly study of religion. The book surveys the diversity of religion, mostly of historical and contemporary Christian sects and movements but with significant inclusions of Jewish, Muslim, and "heathen" religious groups. Adams's particular contribution was the self-conscious effort to treat all religious groups on the same level and to avoid explicit or implicit judgments. She preferred to use self-descriptions where she had them. It is this non-normative approach that gives the book its historical value. Thomas Tweed's introduction discusses Adams's life and sets her and her book usefully in their context. He includes a helpful guide to the key entries.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Minding the Darkness
Author: Peter Dale ScottPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214544
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Minding the Darkness is the final volume of Peter Dale Scott's landmark trilogy Seculum. Following Coming to Jakarta and Listening to the Candle, it brings stunning, triumphant conclusion to a remarkable and sui generis poem. "There is nothing quite like these books," as the American Book Review remarked: "Scott's trilogy, only two-thirds completed as yet, is certain to be one of the most remarkable and challenging works of our rime." Scott's hypnotic epic poem concerns the political and the personal, and their darkly powerful relationships. With its riveting images, Poundian collage, tight three-line stanzas, and eerie, accumulated juxtapositions, Minding the Darkness fully hears out James Laughlin's opinion that "Not since Robert Duncan's Groundwork and before that William Carlos Williams Paterson, has New Directions published a long poem as important as Peter Dale Scott's."
Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction
Author: Jarlath KilleenPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748690816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the 'beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of liberal Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape. By providing a fully historicized account of the beginnings of the genre in Ireland, the book also addresses the theoretical controversies that have bedevilled discussion of the Irish gothic in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The book gives ample space to the critical debate, and rigorously defends a reading of the Irish gothic as an Anglican, Patriot tradition. This reading demonstrates the connections between little-known Irish gothic fictions of the mid-eighteenth century (The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and Longsword), and the Irish gothic tradition more generally, and also the gothic as a genre of global significance.
Mission in the Spirit
Author: Julie C. MaPublisher: OCMS
ISBN: 9781870345842
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Revivalism and Social Reform
Author: Timothy L. SmithPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592449980
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Coming to Jakarta
Author: Peter Dale ScottPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Not since Robert Duncan's Ground Work and before that William Carlos Williams' Paterson has New Directions published a long poem as important as Coming to Jakarta! --James Laughlin
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