Fabio Bolzonar Catholicism and the welfare state in secular France

Even though the policy impact of Catholicism has increasingly been acknowledged, existing scholarship lacks a coherent view on its changing influence over time and in different political contexts. In this book, Fabio Bolzonar investigates the influence of Catholicism on developments in French social protection from World War II to the mid-2010s. He discusses the factors that have favoured or inhibited it and explores the hybridization between Catholic values and secular principles in the social engagement...

Engels | 223 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023

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Dries van den Akker | Paul Begheyn Johannes Vermeer en de jezuïeten in Delft

Johannes Vermeer en zijn relatie tot de Delftse jezuïeten.

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Engels | Nederlands | 147 pagina's | Adveniat, Baarn | 2023

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Missionary education

historical approaches and global perspectives

Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors - from both Europe and the Global South - address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They elaborate on...

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Engels | PDF, 23 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Cold war Mary

ideologies, politics, Marian devotional culture

One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual...

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Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Neo-Thomism in action

law and society reshaped by Neo-Scholastic philosophy 1880-1960

In his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879), Pope Leo XIII expressed the conviction that the renewed study of the philosophical legacy of Saint Thomas Aquinas would help Catholics to engage in a dialogue with secular modernity while maintaining respect for Church doctrine and tradition. As a result, the neo-scholastic framework dominated Catholic intellectual production for nearly a century thereafter. This volume assesses the societal impact of the Thomist revival movement, with particular attention...

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Engels | 331 pagina's (PDF, 16 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Hans Krabbendam Saving the overlooked continent

American Protestant missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975

Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe's religious future. They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe's Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe became the recipient of America's missionary enterprise. The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political programs of the U.S., all of which positioned...

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Engels | PDF, 7,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020

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Kristien Suenens Humble women, powerful nuns

a female struggle for autonomy in a men's church

Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. With a subject hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery, this book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of four Belgian religious women. A close reading of their personal writings unveils their conflicted existence: ambitious, engaged, and bold on the one hand, suffering and isolated on the other, they were both...

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Engels | 380 pagina's (PDF, 30 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020

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The survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850

In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jesuits were put under strict surveillance, but in the Dutch Republic they were able to continue their missionary work. It is this regional contrast and the opportunities it offered for the Order to survive that make the Low Countries an exceptional and interesting case in Jesuit history. Just as in White...

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Engels | PDF, 8,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019

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Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister

understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse

Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...

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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018

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Jan De Volder Cardinal Mercier in the first world war

Belgium, Germany and the catholic church

Church leaders and their contrasting opinions in the face of the Great War Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation during the First World War. With his famous pastoral letter of Christmas 1914 'Patriotisme et Endurance' he reached a wide audience, and gained international influence and respect. Mercier's distinct patriotic stance clearly determined his views of national politics, especially of the 'Flemish...

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Engels | PDF, 10 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018

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Kadoc Mission & science

missiology revised

Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was...

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Engels | Frans | 438 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Gender and christianity in modern Europe

beyond the feminization thesis

Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal...

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Engels | 240 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Stichting Nederlandse Orgelmonografieën The profusion of Heaven

the organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam

The two seventeenth-century organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam are world-famous. They form an undisputed climax to organ building in the Netherlands in the Golden Age. This book is the first standard work on this earthly reflection of heavenly harmony. The organs are among the oldest in the Netherlands. The main organ was built in 1655 by the famous organ builder Hans Wolff Schonat. The monumental case was designed by Jacob van Campen, the celebrated architect of the Royal Palace on the Dam....

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Engels | 313 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016

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Sola Gratia

bron voor de reformatie en uitdaging voor nu

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Duits | Engels | Nederlands | 236 pagina's | Boekencentrum, Zoetermeer | 2004

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Samuel Otte | Henk Otte | John Mastenbroek Burger van twee werelden

de reis van ds. G.H. Kersten naar Amerika

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Engels | Nederlands | 252 pagina's | De Banier, [Apeldoorn] | 2018

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Living memoria

studies in medieval and early modern memorial culture in honour of Truus van Bueren

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Duits | Engels | 432 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2011

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Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe

Learning, Liturgy and Spiritual Practice

Engels | 302 pagina's | Radboud University Press, Nijmegen | 2023

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Pope Eugenius III (1145-1153)

the first Cistercian pope

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Engels | 362 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2018

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