Theater of a Thousand Wonders
Title | Theater of a Thousand Wonders PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Taylor |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 681 |
Release | 2016-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108107699 |
The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rather than one of rise and decline in the face of early stages of modernization. Based on research in a wide array of manuscript and printed primary sources, and informed by recent scholarship in art history, religious studies, anthropology, and history, this is the first comprehensive study of shrines and miraculous images in any part of early modern Latin America.
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
Title | Theater of a Thousand Wonders PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9781108114509 |
The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.
Theater of a Thousand Wonders
Title | Theater of a Thousand Wonders PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Taylor |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 681 |
Release | 2016-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107102677 |
The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.
Pathways through Early Modern Christianities
Title | Pathways through Early Modern Christianities PDF eBook |
Author | Andreea Badea |
Publisher | Böhlau Köln |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2023-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 341252607X |
In the midst of a global pandemic, the Frankfurt POLY (Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities) Lectures on "Pathways through Early Modern Christianities" brought together a virtual, global community of scholars and students in the Spring and Summer of 2021 to discuss the fascinating nature of early modern religious life. In this book, eleven pathbreaking scholars from the "four corners" of the early modern world reflect on the analytical tools that structure their field and that they have developed, revised and embraced in their scholarship: from generations to tolerance, from uniformity to publicity, from accommodation to local religion, from polycentrism to connected histories, and from identity to object agency. Together, the chapters of this reference work help both students and advanced researchers alike to appreciate the extent of our current knowledge about early modern christianities in their interconnected global context—and what exciting new travels could lie ahead.
The Street Is Ours
Title | The Street Is Ours PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn William Miller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1108426972 |
A compelling history of the impact of automobiles on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
Title | Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Kathleen Rowe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108421210 |
This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.
The [Oxford] Handbook of the Jesuits
Title | The [Oxford] Handbook of the Jesuits PDF eBook |
Author | Ines G. Zupanov |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0190924985 |
Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.