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Author: Joshua Blau
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: modern, revival, semitic, languages, differences, arabic, hebrew, standard, renaissance, parallels
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1981
ISBN-10: 0520095480
ISBN-13: 9780520095489
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Author: Arthur Giles
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: modern, personal, narrative, tour, time, americans, athenians, western, waves, america, across, athens
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-10: 1429005203
ISBN-13: 9781429005203
A Scotsman (?) travels in the U.S., mostly in the Mid-Atlantic but with jaunts Southward and in the Mid-West.
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Author: Peter Jan Margry
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: itineraries, sacred, new, world, pilgrimage, modern, shrines
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2008-12-15
ISBN-10: 9089640118
ISBN-13: 9789089640116
The modern pilgrimage—to sites ranging from Graceland to the veterans’ annual ride to to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Jim Morrison’s Paris grave—is intertwined with man’s existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it’s no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers—and Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the modern media’s multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a qu
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Author: Arthur Giles
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: modern, americans, athens, personal, narrative, time, tour, athenians, across, home, waves, royal, capital, america, western
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-10: 1429005211
ISBN-13: 9781429005210
A Scotsman (?) travels in the U.S., mostly in the Mid-Atlantic but with jaunts Southward and in the Mid-West.
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Author: Pieter Spierenburg
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: modern, europe, inmates, institutions, experience, disciplinary, prison
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 2007-08-15
ISBN-10: 9053569898
ISBN-13: 9789053569894
Though the prison is central to the penal system of most modern nations, many believe that imprisonment did not become a major judicial sanction until the nineteenth century. In this readable history, Pieter Spierenburg traces the evolution of the prison during the early modern period and illustrates the important role it has played as both disciplinary institution and penal option from the late sixteenth century onward. Placing particular emphasis on the prisons of the Netherlands, Germany, and France, The Prison Experience examines not only the long-term nature of prisons and the historica
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Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: preludes, modern, cosmology, religious, scientific, spirit, universe, matter
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 1860944698
ISBN-13: 9781860944697
Cosmology is an unusual science with an unusual history. This book examines the formative years of modern cosmology from the perspective of its interaction with religious thought. As the first study of its kind, it reveals how closely associated the development of cosmology has been with considerations of a philosophical and religious nature. From nineteenth-century thermodynamics to the pioneering cosmological works of Georges Lemaitre and Arthur E Milne, religion has shaped parts of modern cosmological theory. By taking the religious component seriously, a new and richer history of cosmology
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