Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
For over a century Spain controlled the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and its collapse provoked, both then as it does now, a range of analyses over which there has been little agreement. In the second edition of this successful text, Henry Kamen asks: was the Golden Age of Spain in the sixteenth...
A Cross Too Heavy
Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.'
Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism
Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Pynchon and Philosophy
Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach.
by G. Patios
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.
by Sally Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Sally Henderson's long love affair with Africa and its elephants was brought to life in the bestselling Silent Footsteps. Now she returns with Ivory Moon, a memoir set in Namibia - in one of the most hostile landscapes on the planet.
When Sally and her husband, Jer, volunteer to run a remote...
by Maia Kotrosits, H. Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.
Militant Christianity
An Anthropological History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A powerful chronicle of the astounding persistence of Indo-European glorification of battle, morphed into today's militant Christian Right. The book is written as a lively chronicle making clear the astounding power of the ancient cultural tradition embedding our language, and the real battle we face to contain this 'Christian' jihad.
Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective
Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed English-language literature to reframe Muslims’ potential to connect with others. Focussing on...
Reason, Will and Emotion
Defending the Greek Tradition against Triune Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This powerful exploration of an important topic in philosophy of mind from ancient to contemporary philosophy presents an original argument against the current direction of debate and examines a wide range of philosophers from both continental and analytic traditions.
Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century
Rhetoric of Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Beyond Catholicism
Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Faith and Fascism
Catholic Intellectuals in Italy, 1925–43
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This is a study of the Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI) between 1925 and 1943, the organisation of Catholic Action for the university sector. The FUCI is highly significant to the study of Catholic politics and intellectual ideas, as a large proportion of the future Christian Democrats...