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Polish Exile
Chabad Hasidism in the Interwar Years
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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Hasidism, a vibrant Jewish mystical movement, emerged in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. Among its branches, Chabad took root and flourished in tsarist Russia, radiating its distinct intellectual and spiritual approach from the Russian town of Lubavitch. But World War I, the October …
Berruyer's Bible
Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightenment Catholicism in France
Inbunden, 2021
1490 kr
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The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the …
Berruyer's Bible
Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightenment Catholicism in France
Häftad, 2021
411 kr
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The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieu was an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French, the Histoire promoted progress, the pursuit of happiness, the …
Uncomfortable Pew
Christianity and the New Left in Toronto
Inbunden, 2021
1490 kr
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In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest Christian denominations, and the role that …
Uncomfortable Pew
Christianity and the New Left in Toronto
Häftad, 2021
411 kr
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In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest Christian denominations, and the role that …
Communities of the Soul
A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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Religion is fundamental to contemporary Puerto Rican society. From the cosmology of the Indigenous Taíno, to the wide range of Judeo-Christian churches and sects, to the practitioners of spiritism, Afro-Caribbean religions, and witchcraft, religious practice in its many forms permeates the lives of …
Communities of the Soul
A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico
Häftad, 2021
383 kr
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Religion is fundamental to contemporary Puerto Rican society. From the cosmology of the Indigenous Taíno, to the wide range of Judeo-Christian churches and sects, to the practitioners of spiritism, Afro-Caribbean religions, and witchcraft, religious practice in its many forms permeates the lives of …
Callings and Consequences
The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be “called” by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea …
Callings and Consequences
The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France
Häftad, 2021
383 kr
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The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be “called” by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea …
Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars
Av Kevin P. Spicer, Rebecca Carter-Chand
Inbunden, 2022
732 kr
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In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, and practice became tools for politicians and church leaders alike to appropriate as …
To Make a Village Soviet
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland
Häftad, 2022
439 kr
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In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet Ukraine. Nevertheless, the state decided they …
Protestant Liberty
Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878
Inbunden, 2022
1034 kr
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Tensions between Protestantism and Catholicism dominated politics in nineteenth-century Canada, occasionally erupting into violence. While some liberal politicians and community leaders believed that equal treatment of Protestants and Catholics would defuse these ancient quarrels, other Protestant …
Protestant Liberty
Religion and the Making of Canadian Liberalism, 1828–1878
Häftad, 2022
411 kr
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Tensions between Protestantism and Catholicism dominated politics in nineteenth-century Canada, occasionally erupting into violence. While some liberal politicians and community leaders believed that equal treatment of Protestants and Catholics would defuse these ancient quarrels, other Protestant …
Water from Dragon's Well
The History of a Korean-Canadian Church Relationship
Häftad, 2022
411 kr
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A Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The century-long Korean-Canadian church relationship has had a …
Disciples of Antigonish
Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1880–1960
Av Peter Ludlow
Häftad, 2022
439 kr
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For generations eastern Nova Scotia was one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous influence over the development of Canadian …
Black American Missionary in Canada
The Life and Letters of Lewis Champion Chambers
Av Hilary Bates Neary, Hilary Bates Neary
Inbunden, 2022
1461 kr
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Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada. Born enslaved in Maryland, Chambers purchased his freedom as a young man before moving to Canada West in 1854; there he farmed and in time served as a pastor and missionary until …
Black American Missionary in Canada
The Life and Letters of Lewis Champion Chambers
Häftad, 2022
437 kr
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Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada. Born enslaved in Maryland, Chambers purchased his freedom as a young man before moving to Canada West in 1854; there he farmed and in time served as a pastor and missionary until …
People’s Reformation
Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish
Inbunden, 2023
1568 kr
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The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of England that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion, and would eventually launch new wars, new …
People’s Reformation
Building the English Church in the Elizabethan Parish
Häftad, 2023
439 kr
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The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of England that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion, and would eventually launch new wars, new …
Towards a Godless Dominion
Unbelief in Interwar Canada
Inbunden, 2023
1568 kr
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In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and ’30s, groups of militant unbelievers …
Towards a Godless Dominion
Unbelief in Interwar Canada
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and ’30s, groups of militant unbelievers …
Finding Molly Johnson
Irish Famine Orphans in Canada
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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Ireland's Great Famine produced Europe's worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place. The story Canada …
Finding Molly Johnson
Irish Famine Orphans in Canada
Häftad, 2024
452 kr
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Ireland's Great Famine produced Europe's worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place. The story Canada …
Contesting Zion
The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine
Av Adrian Ciani
Häftad, 2025
328 kr
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The modern relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel is rooted in a long history of hostility between Judaism and Roman Catholicism. Through the centuries, popes and theologians marginalized the Jewish people, assigning them collective guilt for the death of Jesus Christ and claiming …
Tradition and Tension
The Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1945–1985
Häftad, 2025
411 kr
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In 1945 the Presbyterian Church was one of Canada's largest and most culturally influential churches. This impressive standing, in the aftermath of a depression and a global war and just twenty years after much of its membership had departed to form the United Church of Canada, was a mark of the …
Apparition Fever
Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium
Häftad, 2025
439 kr
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In the early 1930s, a wave of Marian apparitions – cases in which visionaries reported seeing and receiving messages from the Virgin Mary – swept over Belgium. With over forty apparition sites and hundreds of visionaries, the Belgian apparitions, often attended by crowds of onlookers, were …
Colonial Convergences
American Presbyterian Missionaries and Belgian Rule in Congo
Häftad, 2027
418 kr
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The American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) is known for its work exposing the atrocities perpetrated by Belgian imperialists in central Africa, which led to it being unsuccessfully sued for libel by a concession company allied to the colonists in 1909. But while the libel trial marked a pivotal …
Two Worlds
The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Häftad, 1990
415 kr
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Religion was at the heart of Ontario life for many years. In Two Worlds, Westfall examines the origin, character, and social significance of the powerful and distinctive Protestant culture that grew and flourished in Southern Ontario in the mid-Victorian
Small Differences
Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: an International Perspective
Häftad, 1991
439 kr
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The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences
World Mission
Canadian Protestantism and the Quest for a New International Order, 1918-1939
Inbunden, 1991
1433 kr
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Wright examines these churches' historical connections with the outside world and their newly cultivated interest in international politics. He argues that the clerical and missionary élite's vision of "a new internationalism" was burdened by essentially "Victorian" ideas of the inherent …
