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The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

The French Revolution and Religion in Global Perspective

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume examines the French Revolution’s relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation during the Revolution, as well as the religious legacies that spanned from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributors explore the myriad ways that individuals, communities, and nation-states reshaped religion in France, Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, and around the world.

The Collector of Treasures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

The Collector of Treasures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Heinemann

Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.

Breaking Up the Bank
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Breaking Up the Bank

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Data Book, Operating Banks and Branches
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 844

Data Book, Operating Banks and Branches

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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My Own Private Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

My Own Private Germany

In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupa...

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 871

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe

This authoritative collection offers a detailed overview of religious ideas, structures, and institutions in the making of Europe. Written by leading scholars in the field, it demonstrates the enduring presence of lived and institutionalised religion in the social networks of identity, policy, and power over two millennia of European history.

Revolution as Reformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Revolution as Reformation

Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age Revolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832 highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays explore the various ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a perpetual process of recalibration and reformulation, provided the lens through which Protestants experienced and understood social and political change in the Age of Revolutions. In particular, they call attention to how Protestants used those changes to continue or accelerate the Protestant imperative o...

Bankrupt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Bankrupt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Complicity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Complicity

In Scotland, a self-appointed executioner dispenses justice to fit the crime. Thus the lenient judge who let a rapist go is punished by being raped, while a man who killed is killed in turn. By the author of The Wasp Factory.

Congressional Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

Congressional Record

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1900
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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