God's Province

God's Province
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9780773599314
ISBN-13 : 0773599312
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis God's Province by : Clark Banack

Compared to the United States, it is assumed that religion has not been a significant factor in Canada’s political development. In God’s Province, Clark Banack challenges this assumption, showing that, in Alberta, religious motivation has played a vital role in shaping its political trajectory. For Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta from 1916 until 1931, William "Bible Bill" Aberhart, founder of the Alberta Social Credit Party and premier from 1935 until 1943, Aberhart’s protégé Ernest Manning, Alberta’s longest serving premier (1943–1968), and Manning’s son Preston, founder of the Alberta-based federal Reform Party of Canada, religion was central to their thinking about human agency, the purpose of politics, the role of the state, the nature of the economy, and the proper duties of citizens. Drawing on substantial archival research and in-depth interviews, God’s Province highlights the strong link that exists between the religiously inspired political thought and action of these formative leaders, the US evangelical Protestant tradition from which they drew, and the emergence of an individualistic, populist, and anti-statist sentiment in Alberta that is largely unfamiliar to the rest of Canada. Covering nearly a century of Alberta’s history, Banack offers an illuminating reconsideration of the political thought of these leaders, the goals of the movements they led, and the roots of Alberta’s distinctiveness within Canada. A fusion of religious history, intellectual history, and political thought, God’s Province exposes the ways in which individual politicians have shaped one province’s political culture.

Providence

Providence
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Publisher : Crossway
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9781433568374
ISBN-13 : 1433568373
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Providence by : John Piper

New from Best-Selling Author John Piper From Genesis to Revelation, the providence of God directs the entire course of redemptive history. Providence is "God's purposeful sovereignty." Its extent reaches down to the flight of electrons, up to the movements of galaxies, and into the heart of man. Its nature is wise and just and good. And its goal is the Christ-exalting glorification of God through the gladness of a redeemed people in a new world. Drawing on a lifetime of theological reflection, biblical study, and practical ministry, pastor and author John Piper leads us on a stunning tour of the sightings of God's providence—from Genesis to Revelation—to discover the allencompassing reality of God's purposeful sovereignty over all of creation and all of history. Piper invites us to experience the profound effects of knowing the God of all-pervasive providence: the intensifying of true worship, the solidifying of wavering conviction, the strengthening of embattled faith, the toughening of joyful courage, and the advance of God's mission in this world.

In the Province of the Gods

In the Province of the Gods
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 0299314243
ISBN-13 : 9780299314248
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Province of the Gods by : Kenny Fries

An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.

A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 740
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044019835271
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by : Oskar Seyffert

The Protocol of the Gods

The Protocol of the Gods
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9780520910362
ISBN-13 : 0520910362
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The Protocol of the Gods by : Allan G. Grapard

The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple complexes, Allan Grapard characterizes what he calls the combinatory character of pre-modern Japanese religiosity. He argues that Shintoism and Buddhism should not be studied in isolation, as hitherto supposed. Rather, a study of the individual and shared characteristics of their respective origins, evolutions, structures, and practices can serve as a model for understanding the pre-modern Japanese religious experience. Spanning the years from a period before historical records to the forcible separation of the Kasuga-Kofukuji complex by the Meiji government in 1868, Grapard presents a wealth of little-known material. He includes translations of rare texts and provides new, accessible translations of familiar documents.

A Time of Lost Gods

A Time of Lost Gods
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780520303034
ISBN-13 : 0520303032
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis A Time of Lost Gods by : Emily Ng

Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China’s Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach Mao’s reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an ever-receding horizon, those “left behind” by labor outmigration refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. Following pronouncements of China’s rise, and in the wake of what Chinese intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.

Gods Chinese Son

Gods Chinese Son
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0393315568
ISBN-13 : 9780393315561
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Gods Chinese Son by : Jonathan D Spence

A powerful account of the largest uprising in human history--the Taiping rebellion (1845-64)--in which 20 million Chinese were left dead, God's Chinese Son tells "a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time; a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity" (Washington Post Book World). Photos. Author lectures & tour.

Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9781351628686
ISBN-13 : 1351628682
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 by : John D. Grainger

The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy, Egypt, Greece and even Gaul. It was, however, one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration, but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire, notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments, several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods, such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra, and also Judaism, originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration, based on original sources, of the means by which Syrians, whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC, saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families.

In the Land of a Thousand Gods

In the Land of a Thousand Gods
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 820
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ISBN-10 : 9780691233659
ISBN-13 : 0691233659
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Land of a Thousand Gods by : Christian Marek

A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman Empire In this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. Blending rich narrative with in-depth analyses, In the Land of a Thousand Gods shows Asia Minor’s shifting orientation between East and West and its role as both a melting pot of nations and a bridge for cultural transmission. Marek employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more. He draws on the latest research—in fields ranging from demography and economics to architecture and religion—to describe how Asia Minor became a center of culture and wealth in the Roman Empire. A breathtaking work of scholarship, In the Land of a Thousand Gods will become the standard reference book on the subject in English.

The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781009394789
ISBN-13 : 1009394789
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions by : Corinne Bonnet

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.