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  • Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe

    by Mary Lee Nolan, Sidney Nolan ...
    Series series Studies in Religion
    Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe is a commanding exploration of the importance of religious shrines in modern Roman Catholicism. By analyzing more than 6,000 active shrines and contemporary patterns of pilgrimage to them, the authors establish the cultural significance of a religious tradition that today touches the lives of millions of people.Roman Catholic pilgrimage sites in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Lost Teachings of the Cathars

    Their Beliefs and Practices

    by Andrew Phillip Smith ...
    A deep-dive into the history, culture, and legacy of the medieval Christian dualist movement, Catharism—as seen in popular novels by Dan Brown and Kate Mosse.Centuries after the brutal slaughter of the Cathars by papally endorsed Northern French forces, and their suppression by the Inquisition, the medieval Cathars continue to exert a powerful influence on both popular culture and spiritual ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Geometry of Love

    Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church

    by Margaret Visser ...
    A "delightful" tour of Rome's St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building ( The Christian Science Monitor).In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent "anthropologist of everyday life," takes on the living history of the ancient church of St. Agnes. Examining every facet of the building, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wandering Mind

    What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    by Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    by Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Dangerous Mystic

    Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

    by Joel F. Harrington ...
    Life and times of the 14th century German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart TolleMeister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic whose wisdom powerfully appeals to seekers seven centuries after his death. In the modern era, Eckhart's writings have struck a chord with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Public Policy

    A New Introduction

    by Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun ...
    Series series Textbooks in Policy Studies
    A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Dance of Death

    by Hans Holbein ...
    A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabreOne of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Heaven on Earth

    The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals

    by Emma J. Wells ...
    A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built them.'An impeccable guide to the golden age of ecclesiastical architecture' The Times'Vivid, colourful and absorbing' Dan Jones'An epic ode to some of our most beautiful and beloved buildings' Helen CarrThe emergence of the Gothic in twelfth-century France ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Vocation in Black and White

    Dominican Contemplative Nuns Tell How God Called Them

    by Association of the Monasteries of Nuns ...
    "Within the Dominican Order, whose motto is Truth and whose mission is the proclamation of that Truth, some proclaim primarily through their contemplative 'tryst' with that Truth. Here some of these women of the Dominican monasteries tell of how they came to embrace this way of life which to many is such a mystery. Each is a story as unique and human as its author."-Suzanne Noffke, O.P., ... Read more

    $6.29 USD