RELIGION / Christianity / History
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John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity
John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery ther...
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Critical Theory and Early Christianity
This volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (mediat...
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Spectres of John Ball
For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, best known for his saying 'When Adam delved and Eve Span, Who was then the gentleman'. But over the past hundred years his memory has faded dramatically. Along with Wat Tyler, Ball wa...
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Jesus and Addiction to Origins
This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of the argument, offered in the opening section, is that there is nothing special or extraordinary about human behaviors and constructs that are claimed to...
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales
This book provides a timely and original overview of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its longer term affects on the social and physical landscape of England and Wales during the decades that followed. Combining for the first time the full wealth of archaeological evidence gathered over the la...
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Death's Dominion
Through a discussion of power dynamics with a critical eye towards the political situation of influential Christian leaders including Constantine, Damasus, Ambrose, and Augustine, Death's Dominion demonstrates the ways in which these individuals sought to craft Christian identity and cultural memory...
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Iconic Books and Texts
James W. Watts, William A. Graham, Deirdre C. Stam, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Michelle P. Brown, S. Brent Plate, Zeev Elitzur, Jacob Kinnard, M. Patrick Graham, Natalia K. Suit, Timothy Beal, Shawn Loner, Kristina Myrvold, Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Yohan Yoo, Brian Malley, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Philip P. Arnold, Jason T. Larson, Claudia V. Camp
Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension o...