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Hinter Klostermauern
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Viel ist schon geschrieben worden über die großartige kulturelle Leistung, die Klöster im Mittelalter vollbrachten und viel auch über ihre Geschichte. Doch was wissen wir über das alltäglich Leben hinter den dicken Klostermauern? Was bedeutete es, die Gelübde abzulegen und das eigene Leben der Gemeinschaft unterzuordnen? Welche... more...
1.1.-30.6.2007
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 307.00The collection of rulings publishes the administration of justice by governmental courts in the Federal Republic of Germany pertaining to the relationship of church and state, and also regarding further problems which are characterized by the relevance of religious concerns. more...
Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 94.99The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point... more...
Nietzsche-Studien 2008
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 278.00Philosophical discussions are the main focus of the Nietzsche-Studien. However, the Nietzsche reception of other disciplines such as classical studies, literary studies or theology are also considered. The Nietzsche-Studien, therefore, serve not just the ideas of any one school or direction. rather introduce various different approaches to interpreting... more...
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
Touchstone 2009; US$ 21.99I'm Perfect, You're Doomed is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness -- a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery apocalypse; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale... more...
History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 27.99Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth century. Arriving in Bremen in 1066 and soon falling... more...
The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers... more...
The Call of Conscience
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95Initially, when the government in Paris responded with force to the November 1, 1954 insurrection of Algerian nationalists, French public opinion offered all but unanimous support. Then it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of Muslims were herded into resettlement camps in Algeria; that Algerians suspected of nationalist sympathies were imprisoned... more...
The Highest Poverty
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 17.95What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism... more...
A Chosen People, a Promised Land
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 68.00Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities. A Chosen People, a Promised Land gets to the heart of this contradiction by exploring how Native Hawaiian members of the Church... more...









