Disciplines of faith : studies in religion, politics, and patriarchy / edited by Jim Obelkevich, Lyndal Roper, Raphael Samuel
1987, 1st edition. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430286
ISBN: 0710209932
Physical description; xvi, 581 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; "Disciplines of Faith : Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy" presents a collection of essays examining topical manifestations of social history and multi-denominational religious belief, from the Renaissance to the modern age. The papers are laid out under the following categories :1. 'Introduction' by Jim Obelkevich, Lyndal Roper and Raphael Samuel"Religion and Family Life", Comprising :2. James Ault : 'Family and Fundamentalism : the Shawmut Walley Baptist Church'3. Rickie Burman : 'Women in Jewish Religious Life : Manchester 1880-1930' 4. Gail Malmgreen : 'Domestic Discords : Women and the Family in East Cheshire Methodism, 1750-1830'"Sexuality", Comprising :5. Luisa Accati : 'The Larceny of Desire : the Madonna in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe'6. Henry Abelove : 'The Sexual Politics of early Wesleyan Methodism'7. Cornelie Usborne : 'The Christian Churches and the Regulation of Sexuality in Weimar Germany'"Feminism", Comprising :8. Phyllis Mack : 'Feminine Symbolism and Feminine Behaviour in radical Religious Movements : Franciscans, Quakers and the Followers of Gandhi'9. Alex Owen : 'Women and nineteenth-century Spiritualism : Strategies in the Subversion of Femininity'10. Alison Milbank : 'Josephine Butler : Christianity, Feminism and Social Action'"Popular Piety", Comprising :11. Stephen Barton : 'Paul, Religion and Society'12. Guy Boanas ; Lyndal Roper : 'Feminine Piety in fifteenth-century Rome : Santa Francesca Romana'13. Angelo Torre : 'Village Ceremonial Life and Politics in eighteenth-century Piedmont'"Sects", Comprising :14. Eileen Barker : 'Being a Moonie : Identity within an Unorthodox Orthodoxy'"Colonization and Resistance", Comprising :15. Inga Clendinnen : 'Franciscan Missionaries in sixteenth-century Mexico'16. Tristan Platt : 'Notes on the Devil's Cult among South Andean Miners'17. Terence Ranger : 'Religion in the Zimbabwe Guerilla War' "The Reformation", Comprising :18. Michael Lynch : 'The Reformation in Edinburgh : the Growth and Growing Pains of Urban Protestantism'19. Merry Wiesner : 'Luther and Women : the Death of Two Marys'"Revivalism", Comprising :20. Christopher B. Turner : 'Revivalism and Welsh Society in the Nineteenth Century'21. Robert Colls : 'Primitive Methodists in the Northern Coalfields'"The Catholic Parish", Comprising :22. Hugh McLeod : 'Catholicism and the New York Irish 1880-1910'23. Roger Magraw : 'Popular Anticlericalism in nineteenth-century Rural France'24. John Bukowczyk : ' "Mary The Messiah" : Polish Immigrant Heresy and the malleable Ideology of the Roman Cathlic Church in America 1880-1930' "Religion and Radicalism", Comprising :25. Christopher Hill : 'God and the English Revolution'26. Eileen Yeo : 'Chartist Religious Belief and the Theology of Liberation'27. E. Ellis Cashmore : ' "Get Up, Stand Up" : the Rastafarian Movement'"Socialism and Religion", Comprising :28. David Ormrod : 'The Christian Left and the beginnings of Christian-Marxist Dialogue, 1935-45'29. Chris Read : 'The God-Builders in Pre-Revolutionary Russia : Social Democracy as a Religion'30. Franco Rizzi : 'Socialist Propaganda in the Italian Countryside'"Religion and Nationalism", Comprising :31. Sheridan Gilley : 'Pearse's Sacrifice : Christ and Cuchulain Crucified and Risen in the Easter Rising, 1916'"Religion and Fascism", Comprising :32. John Pollard : ' "A Marriage of Convenience" : the Vatican and the Fascist Regime in Italy'33. Tom Gallagher : 'The Catholic Church and the Estado Novo of Portugal'"Art and Music", Comprising :34. Bob Scribner : 'The Image and the Reformation'35. Jim Obelkevich : 'Music and Religion in the Nineteenth Century'.Text by Marion Lawson. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects; Religion and sociology. Religion and politics. Sex role Religious aspects. Sex role.
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