World
epub |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Walt Whitman [Whitman, Walt]
NATURE AND DEMOCRACY—MORALITY. Democracy most of all affiliates with the open air, is sunny and hardy and sane only with Nature—just as much as Art is. Something is required to ...
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United States
February 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Hess, Richard S. [Hess, Richard S.]
Mount Ebal At 3,100 feet, Mount Ebal is the highest mountain in Samaria. Mount Gerizim, its counterpart, is 2,900 feet in height. Nine and one-third miles to the west is ...
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Bible Study & Reference
February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Francis Wheen [Francis Wheen]
8 Candles in the wind Ours is an evangelical culture. So many people convinced that they’ve been saved by Jesus, cured by homeopathy or the laying on of hands, abducted ...
( Category:
United States
February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Sean Oliver-Dee [Oliver-Dee, Sean]
CHAPTER 6 Religion and Violence This chapter will take on another aspect of the narrative embedded among some in the “new establishment” – that religion has been the principal cause ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
February 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-06 | Author:Darwish, Nonie [Darwish, Nonie]
Child rearing: American parents’ traditional upbringing standards are also very different. First of all, they instill in their children—boys and girls equally—the American values of respect, thrift, hard work, and ...
( Category:
Middle Eastern
February 23,2017 )
epub |deu, eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Michelle DeRusha
Shunned Martin Luther wasn’t the first monk to marry, nor was Katharina the first nun. Augustinian monk Bartholomew Bernhardi married in 1521, and in 1522 the former monk Martin Bucer ...
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Christianity
February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-16 | Author:Richard Baris [Baris, Richard]
The Rest Is History In the seminal work of economist Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan, he describes what is called “the ratchet effect.”[188] In periods of American history when we ...
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Conservatism & Liberalism
February 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lippy, Charles H.
Opposing Government Policies on Religious Grounds The civil rights movement of mid-century exemplifies another paradigm of the interaction of religion and society. Not only does it powerfully demonstrate the first ...
( Category:
Catholicism
February 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Hewitt
Édouard Manet, Mademoiselle Lucie* Delabigne, called Valtesse de la Bigne, 1879, pastel on canvas, 55.2 × 35.6cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs ...
( Category:
France
February 12,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Lee
Reynald’s destination was the holiest place of all – the very wellspring of the crusading spirit. Pilgrims flocked from all over Christendom to pray nearby at Christ’s birthplace in Bethlehem, ...
( Category:
General
January 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:John Julius Norwich
KYOTO Pleasure Gardens and Vermilion Palaces LESLEY DOWNER When you look out over the present Kyoto from the west gate of Kiyomizu Temple, you see such long crowded rows of ...
( Category:
World
January 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:James Kenneth Hamrick [Hamrick, James Kenneth]
Chrysostom’s personification of death and Hades, his evocative language (e.g., “tasted his flesh,” “abolished,” “purged,” “bound in chains”), and the masterful and poetic utilization of parallelism and imagery all contribute ...
( Category:
Orthodoxy
January 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Iber, Patrick [Iber, Patrick]
Lázaro Cárdenas speaks at the closing session of the First National Conference of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional on 6 October 1963. The background portraits of José María Morelos and ...
( Category:
Caribbean & Latin American
January 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Micah White [White, Micah]
Strategic Insight The Ghost Dance is a crucial example for activists to consider. It validates voluntarism and theurgism. Protest does not need to directly challenge power in order to be ...
( Category:
Political Advocacy
January 15,2017 )
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]
37 Neither the Time Nor the Place Ḥasdai Crescas In the construction business, they’ll often dynamite an old building to make room for a new one, and something similar has ...
( Category:
Judaism
January 11,2017 )
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