Undoing Conquest

Undoing Conquest
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Publisher : Orbis Books
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9798888660164
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Book Synopsis Undoing Conquest by : Common, Kate

Download or read book Undoing Conquest written by Common, Kate and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Undoing Babel

Undoing Babel
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781487511272
ISBN-13 : 1487511272
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Book Synopsis Undoing Babel by : Tristan Major

Download or read book Undoing Babel written by Tristan Major and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Major’s illuminating and original insight into Anglo-Latin and Old English works, including the writings of Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin, Ælfric, and Wulfstan, reveals the cultural ideologies and anxieties that transformed the Babel narrative. In doing so, Major argues that these Babel narratives provide a basis for understanding the world’s ethnic and linguistic diversity as well as a theological stimulus to evangelize non-Christian and non-European people. Undoing Babel highlights the depth of literary innovation in this period and disproves any notion of a single Anglo-Saxon reception of biblical sources.

Constantinople, a Sketch of Its History from Its Foundation to Its Conquest by the Turks in 1453

Constantinople, a Sketch of Its History from Its Foundation to Its Conquest by the Turks in 1453
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Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : CHI:18374802
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Book Synopsis Constantinople, a Sketch of Its History from Its Foundation to Its Conquest by the Turks in 1453 by : William Jackson Brodribb

Download or read book Constantinople, a Sketch of Its History from Its Foundation to Its Conquest by the Turks in 1453 written by William Jackson Brodribb and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Undoing Theology

Undoing Theology
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Publisher : SCM Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780334056232
ISBN-13 : 0334056233
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Book Synopsis Undoing Theology by : Chris Greenough

Download or read book Undoing Theology written by Chris Greenough and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental issue with ‘queer’ research is it cannot exist in any definable form, as the purpose of queer is to disrupt and disturb. Undoing Doing generates a process of ‘undoing’ as central to queer research enquiries. Aiming to engage in a process which breaks free from traditional academic norms, the text explores three life stories: an intersex-identifying Catholic, a former ‘ex-gay’ minister and a Christian who engages in bondage and fetishist practices. Employing an ‘undoing’ methodology, which liberates the researcher and allows intuitive, reflective and creative methods, the book makes a significant contribution to the fields of gender, sexuality and queer studies in religion, both empirically and theoretically.

Undoing Slavery

Undoing Slavery
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9781512823288
ISBN-13 : 1512823287
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Book Synopsis Undoing Slavery by : Kathleen M. Brown

Download or read book Undoing Slavery written by Kathleen M. Brown and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges. Slavery exploited the bodies of men and women differently: enslaved women needed to be acknowledged as mothers rather than as reproducers of slave property, and enslaved men needed to claim full adult personhood without triggering white fears about their access to male privilege. Slavery's undoing became more fraught by the 1850s, moreover, as federal Fugitive Slave Law and racist medicine converged. The reach of the federal government across the borders of free states and theories about innate racial difference collapsed the distinctions between enslaved and emancipated people of African descent, making militant action necessary. Escaping to so-called "free" jurisdictions, refugees from slavery demonstrated that a person could leave the life of slavery behind. But leaving behind the enslaved body, the fleshy archive of trauma and injury, proved impossible. Bodies damaged by slavery needed urgent physical care as well as access to medical knowledge untainted by racist science. As the campaign to end slavery revealed, legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.

The Fabric of Europe

The Fabric of Europe
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Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027344723
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Book Synopsis The Fabric of Europe by : Harold Stannard

Download or read book The Fabric of Europe written by Harold Stannard and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Federation Or Desolation

Federation Or Desolation
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Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001489366
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Book Synopsis Federation Or Desolation by : Alan Paton

Download or read book Federation Or Desolation written by Alan Paton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: