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Music for Piano and Orchestra
Suitable for all admirers of the piano, this work brings together more than 3,000 works for piano and orchestra. It comes with a supplement containing over 200 new entries.
The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity
This 2000 book analyses the revival of charismatic Protestant Christianity as an example of globalization. Simon Coleman shows that, along with many social movements, these religious conservatives are negotiating their own interpretations of global and postmodern processes. They are constructing an evangelical arena of action and meaning within the liminal, chaotic space of the global. The book examines globalization not only as a social process, but also as an embodied practice involving forms of language and ritualized movement. Charismatic Christianity is presented through its material culture - art, architecture and consumer products - as well as its rhetoric and theology. The book provides an account of the incorporation of electronic media such as television, videos and the Internet into Christian worship. Issues relating to the conduct of fieldwork in contexts of globalization are raised in an account which is also a major ethnography of a Faith ministry.
Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy
This the first scholarly study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the papacy, explores the transformation of the Vatican into a major financial power and the part this played in the developement of the modern papacy. Using hitherto unexplored sources, he sheds new light on tensions between the Vatican's engagement with capitalism and the Church's social teaching and conflicts between the Vatican and the Allies during the Second World War and the early Cold War.
The Vatican at War
When Pope Benedicts butler began leaking secret Vatican documents to an Italian journalist he was motivated by a desire to save the Catholic church from what he saw as a mounting tide of corruption. Among the issues he felt should be brought to the attention of the pope and the public were the roles of freemasonry and the secret services in Vatican affairs, and the mysterious disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl, Emanuela Orlandi. The Orlandi affair ties the present travails of the papacy to the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and the death in London of its chairman, Roberto Calvi. The banker found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge was caught in a web of Cold War intrigue, from which the Vatican is...
A History of Italian Cinema
A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language >
Silvio Berlusconi
Ginsborg, a noted historian of contemporary Italy, here explains why Silvio Berlusconi should be taken seriously. This book combines historical narrative with careful analysis of Berlusconi's political development.
States of Violence
An exploration of the often unrecognized violent foundations of modern nations
Politische Show in Italien
Umberto Bossi, Parteiführer der Lega Nord, und Silvio Berlusconi, Parteiführer von Forza Italia, zählen zu den erfolgreichsten Politikern Italiens. Beide beherrschen die politische Inszenierung nach allen Regeln der Kunst. Während Umberto Bossi in erster Linie durch sein bewusst ungepflegtes Äußeres und seine rüde und sexistische Sprache auf sich aufmerksam macht, setzt Silvio Berlusconi, Medienmogul und Präsident des AC Mailand, gezielt die italienische Fußballbegeisterung für sein Kommunikationsmanagement ein. Tina Schöpfer zeigt in ihrer politikwissenschaftlichen Analyse auf, in welche Rollen Umberto Bossi und Silvio Berlusconi schlüpfen, welche Themen sie besetzen, welche Spr...
L'Unto del Signore
Di Berlusconi molto è stato detto e scritto. Ma pochi si sono soffermati sull'intreccio di rapporti che lo legano al mondo cattolico. In queste pagine,Pinotti e Gümpel ripercorrono la straordinaria avventura del Cavaliere in una prospettiva originale, che ne illumina i lati oscuri caricando di nuovo senso le sue scelte politiche. Partendo dai suoi primi passi di imprenditore, l'inchiesta racconta la vera storia della Banca Rasini e dei suoi soci, analizza le connessioni con Calvi e Sindona e le operazioni offshore, e ricostruisce le origini della Fininvest, con il suo complesso e inestricabile gioco di scatole cinesi. Attraverso preziose testimonianze inedite, rilegge la nascita di Forza Italia, i rapporti con l'Opus Dei e Cl, lo scambio di favori con la Curia, i legami con i nuovi cavalieri della finanza bianca, fino all'involuzione teocon sui grandi temi bioetici e alle battaglie in favore della famiglia. Una "santa alleanza" unisce i due poteri forti del nostro Paese, che sembrano non poter più fare a meno uno dell'altro.
