Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe
Author: David MaxwellPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the fascinating social history of a remote chiefdom in Zimbabwe. The book focuses on the religion and politics of the area, describing how the Hwesa people adapted the Christianity that the missionaries brought to found their own popular Christianity, pitted against local notions of evil. It also examines the role of the chief, challenging the idea that the they were no more than colonial stooges.Key Features*Original and perceptive writing from a prominent Africanist historian*Fresh body of new data, challenging conventional wisdom
Taxes Management Act 1970 (UK)
Author: The Law The Law LibraryPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717264145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Taxes Management Act 1970 (UK) The Law Library presents the official text of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (UK). Updated as of March 26, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Taxes Management Act 1970 (UK) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
The Six Marys
Author: Witness LeePublisher: Living Stream Ministry
ISBN: 0736307109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Church Growth in Burundi
Author: Donald HohenseePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity
Author: Wout Jac. van BekkumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The leading theme of this collection of essays and studies is the diversity of aspects of medieval communal identity. While the authors were selected for the very diversity of their interests, their final papers do tend to cohere around some recurrent themes. All of the studies in this volume touch upon one or more of the complex issues that lie at the heart of religious identity in the Middle Ages. They do so through concrete study of the very real practices by which medieval Jews, Christians and Muslims could police the perimeters of their spiritual communities. The authors were especially urged to note instances where religious identity was shaped without reference to dogmas, creeds, or sacred law. In no case are any of these papers satisfied with normative, legal definitions of Jew, Christian, or Muslim in medieval times. Sometimes small and subtle, sometimes explicit, dire, and violent, the techniques that emerge from these studies testify to the diversity of strategies of medieval communal identity over space and their changes over time.
Ethics and the Military Profession
Author: George R. LucasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781269759564
Category : Just war doctrine
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Trent 1475
Author: R. Po-chia HsiaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300051069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
"On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested all eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman living in Trent on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites. Under judicial torture and imprisonment, the men confessed and were condemned to death; their women-folk, who had been kept under house arrest with their children, denounced the men under torture and eventually converted to Christianity. A papal hearing in Rome about possible judicial misconduct in Trent made the trial widely known and led to a wave of anti-Jewish propaganda and other accusations of ritual murder against the Jews." "In this engrossing book, R. Pochia Hsia reconstructs the events of this tragic persecution, drawing principally on the Yeshiva Manuscript, a detailed trial record made by authorities in Trent to justify their execution of the Jews and to bolster the case for the canonization of "little Martyr Simon." Hsia depicts the Jewish victims (whose testimonies contain fragmentary stories of their tragic lives as well as forced confessions of kidnap, torture, and murder), the prosecuting magistrates, the hostile witnesses, and the few Christian neighbors who tried in vain to help the Jews. Setting the trial and its documents in the historical context of medieval blood libel, Hsia vividly portrays how fact and fiction can be blurred, how judicial torture can be couched in icy orderliness and impersonality, and how religious rites can be interpreted as ceremonies of barbarism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Haitian Revolution
Author: Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624661777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful." --Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Author: Jane LandersPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.