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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Estudar a Carta aos Efésios hoje é voltar à fonte límpida da teologia cristã, sendo necessário ter em mãos uma chave de leitura que possa ajudar o leitor a penetrar na complexa realidade do século I d.C. e do pensamento de Paulo de Tarso. Ao se tratar de um texto que abre a Carta aos Efésios, o estudo retórico-literário da sua bênção inaugural permite ao estudioso conhecer a extensão e a penetrabilidade do pensamento paulino. Com isso, a teologia que jorra do texto analisado é uma realidade inevitável, que culmina na experiência pessoal do encontro com o texto vivo da Palavra de Deus.
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers. Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and histori...
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