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  • Interactions Between Rivals: The Christian Mission and Buddhist Sects in Japan (c.1549-c.1647)

    de Peter Hanenberg, Angelo Cattaneo, Alexandra Curvelo ...
    Series Libro 17 - passagem
    This volume presents comprehensive research on how southern European Catholics and the Japanese confronted each other, interacted and mutually experienced religious otherness in early modern times.In their highly variable and asymmetric relations, during which the politi¬cal-military elites of Japan at times not only favoured, but also opposed and strictly controlled the European presence, ... Leer más

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edición de David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Leer más

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  • Aztec Thought and Culture

    A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind

    Traducido por Jack Emory Davis ...
    de Miguel León-Portilla ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions

    Essays in Comparative Religion

    de Mircea Eliade ...
    In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six ... Leer más

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  • From the Monastery to the World

    The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

    de Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal ...
    Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal were both poets and priests, wholly committed to a life of spiritual contemplation which was never far from the gritty work that lead them to risk life and reputation in order to raise worldwide consciousness concerning issues of social justice and the abuse of human rights. From the Monastery to the World collects the complete correspondence between these ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Jesuits

    A History

    de Markus Friedrich ...
    Traducido por John Noël Dillon ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Music as Medicine

    The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

    Edición de Peregrine Horden ...
    Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Visionary Experience In the Golden Age of Spanish Art

    de Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to ‘represent the unrepresentable’, Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. He reveals how the spirituality of the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Athanasius Kircher

    The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    Edición de Paula Findlen ...
    First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    de Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Heirs of St. Teresa of Avila:

    Defenders and Disseminators of the Founding Mother's Legacy

    de Christopher C. Wilson, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Carmelite Studies IX
    This issue of Carmelite Studies presents new insights into the lives and writings of individuals who knew Teresa of Ávila in life and who, after her death in 1582, worked to propagate and defend her legacy, including the illustrious nuns Ana de San Bartolomé, Ana de Jesús, María de San José, and Ana de San Agustín, and her close male confidant and collaborator, Jerónimo Gracián de la Madre de Dios ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Passwords to Paradise

    How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions

    de Nicholas Ostler ...
    "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters, the words we read now are in any number of languages that would have been unknown or unrecognizable at the time of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD