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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2017

        The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation

        by Ian S. McIntosh, Lesley D. Harman

        Reviewing peace and reconciliation, secular pilgrimages, and international perspectives on sacred journeys, this book offers the reader an opportunity to encounter multiple voices and viewpoints on one of the most ancient practices of humankind. With an estimated third of all international travellers now undertaking journeys anticipating an aspect of transformation (the hallmark of pilgrimage), this book includes both spiritual and non-spiritual voyages, such as journeys of self-therapy, mindfulness and personal growth. It also: - Provides a multidisciplinary perspective, covering themes such as gender, human rights, equality, the environment, peace, history, literature, and politics - Reflects the rich diversity and multiple meanings of pilgrimage through an international writer team spanning four continents- Includes case studies of pilgrimage in action from around the world

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        Sociology
        November 2016

        Church, state and social science in Ireland

        Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73

        by Peter Murray, Maria Feeney

        The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century is the subject of this book. Drawing on newly available material, it looks at how social science, which had been a church monopoly, was taken over and bent to new purposes by politicians and civil servants. This case study casts new light on wider processes of change, and the story features a strong and somewhat surprising cast of characters ranging from Sean Lemass and T.K. Whitaker to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father Denis Fahey.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

        In the early modern period, the term 'enthusiasm' was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents of the Enlightenment used it more widely against Paracelsian chemists, experimental philosophers, religious dissenters and divines, astrologers or anyone claiming superior knowledge. But who exactly were these enthusiasts? What did they believe in and what impact did they have on their contemporaries? This book concentrates on the notorious case of the French Prophets as the epitome of religious enthusiasm in early Enlightenment England. Based on new archival research, it retraces the formation, development and evolution of their movement and sheds new light on key contemporary issues such as millenarianism, censorship and the press, blasphemy, dissent and toleration, and madness. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        History of religion
        July 2016

        Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain

        by Edited by Gareth Atkins

        This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. Each of the chapters in this volume focuses on the reception of a particular individual or group, and together they will appeal to not only historians of religion, but those concerned with material culture, the cult of history, and with the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith and doubt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

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        History of religion
        July 2013

        Black Bartholomew's Day

        Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity

        by David J. Appleby

        Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662. It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centres centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political order This book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England.

      • Trusted Partner
        History of religion
        May 2013

        Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350–1560

        by Mairi Cowan

        Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c. 1350-1560 examines lay religious culture in Scottish towns between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It looks at what the living did to influence the dead and how the dead were believed to influence the living in turn; it explores the ways in which townspeople asserted their individual desires in the midst of overlapping communities; and it considers both continuities and changes, highlighting the Catholic Reform movement that reached Scottish towns before the Protestant Reformation took hold. Students and scholars of Scottish history and of medieval and early modern history more broadly will find in this book a new approach to the religious culture of Scottish towns between 1350 and 1560, one that interprets the evidence in the context of a time when Europe experienced first a flourishing of medieval religious devotion and then the sterner discipline of early modern Reform.

      • Trusted Partner
        Sociology
        November 2016

        Church, state and social science in Ireland

        Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73

        by Peter Murray, Maria Feeney

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2017

        Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain

        by Gareth Atkins

        This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were. Long after the mechanisms of canonisation had disappeared, people continued not only to engage with the saints of the past but continued to make their own saints in all but name. Just as strikingly, it claims that devotional practices and language were not the property of orthodox Christians alone. Making and remaking saints in the nineteenth-century Britain explores for the first time how sainthood remained significant in this period both as an enduring institution and as a metaphor that could be transposed into unexpected contexts. Each of the chapters in this volume focuses on the reception of a particular individual or group, and together they will appeal to not only historians of religion, but those concerned with material culture, the cult of history, and with the reshaping of British identities in an age of faith and doubt.

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        The Arts
        June 2017

        Productive failure

        Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories

        by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Alpesh Kantilal Patel

        This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. The author also examines 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. This book also provides original commentary on how queer theory can deconstruct and provide new approaches for writing art history. Overall, this title provides methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        June 2017

        Productive failure

        Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories

        by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Alpesh Kantilal Patel

        This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history. However, this is done through a deliberate 'productive failure' - specifically, by not upholding the strictly genealogical approach that is regularly assumed for South Asian art histories. For instance, one chapter explores the abstract work of Cy Twombly and Natvar Bhavsar. The author also examines 'whiteness', the invisible ground upon which racialized art histories often pivot, as a fraught yet productive site for writing art history. This book also provides original commentary on how queer theory can deconstruct and provide new approaches for writing art history. Overall, this title provides methods for generating art history that acknowledge the complex web of factors within which art history is produced and the different forms of knowledge-production we might count as art history.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Forms of faith

        Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England

        by Jonathan Baldo, Isabel Karremann

        1 Introduction: a world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England - Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann Part I: Religious ritual and literary form 2 Shylock celebrates Easter - Brooke Conti 3 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations - Phebe Jensen 4 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho - Jacqueline Wylde 5 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances - Christina Wald 6. Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration - Isabel Karremann Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict 7 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me You Know Me (1605) - Brian Walsh 8 Tragic mediation in The White Devil - Thomas J. Moretti 9 'A deed without a name:' evading theology in Macbeth - James R. Macdonald 10 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict - Mary A. Blackstone 11 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism - Alexandra M. Block 12 Foucault, confession, and Donne - Joel M. Dodson 13 Afterword: reformed indifferently - Richard Wilson Index

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2017

        Forms of faith

        Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England

        by Jonathan Baldo, Isabel Karremann

        1 Introduction: a world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England - Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann Part I: Religious ritual and literary form 2 Shylock celebrates Easter - Brooke Conti 3 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations - Phebe Jensen 4 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho - Jacqueline Wylde 5 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances - Christina Wald 6. Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration - Isabel Karremann Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict 7 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me You Know Me (1605) - Brian Walsh 8 Tragic mediation in The White Devil - Thomas J. Moretti 9 'A deed without a name:' evading theology in Macbeth - James R. Macdonald 10 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict - Mary A. Blackstone 11 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism - Alexandra M. Block 12 Foucault, confession, and Donne - Joel M. Dodson 13 Afterword: reformed indifferently - Richard Wilson Index

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Conflict, peace and mental health

        Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland

        by David Bolton

        What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions drawing upon over 25 years work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focussing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services were put in place and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the Omagh bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental health needs of conflict affected communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Conflict, peace and mental health

        Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland

        by David Bolton

        What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions drawing upon over 25 years work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focussing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services were put in place and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the Omagh bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental health needs of conflict affected communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

      • Trusted Partner
        Religion & politics
        July 2013

        Church, nation and race

        Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918–45

        by Ulrike Ehret

        Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. As a prequel to books on Hitler, fascism and genocide, the book turns towards ideas and attitudes that preceded and shaped the ideologies of the 1920s and 1940s. Apart from the long tradition of Catholic anti-Jewish prejudices, the book discusses new and old alternatives to European modernity offered by Catholics in Germany and England. This book is a political history of ideas that introduces Catholic views of modern society, race, nation and the 'Jewish question'. It shows to what extent these views were able to inform political and social activity. Church, nation and race will interest academics and students of antisemitism, European history, German and British history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Religion & politics
        July 2013

        Church, nation and race

        Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918–45

        by Ulrike Ehret

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