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Fabio Bolzonar Catholicism and the Welfare State in Secular France
Continuities and Changes in the Catholic Mobilizations in the Social Policy Domain (1940-2017)
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 | 224 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby The emperor and the elephant
Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne
"A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources0In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ?Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 363 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Performing the sacred: Christian representation and the arts
Non-fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Cathleen A. Fleck Reimagining Jerusalem's architectural identies in the later middle ages
Non-fictie
Engels | 402 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Ed Simon Elysium
a visual history of angelology
"Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable--angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians with robes, halos, and harps. By contrast, in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch, they...
Engels | 399 pagina's | Cernunnos, New York | 2023
Gedrukt boek