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The Maritain factor
taking religion into interwar modernism
By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists -both converts- Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of...
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Engels | 212 pagina's (PDF, 24 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Christian homes
religion, family and domesticity in the 19th and 20th centuries
Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the...
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Engels | 228 pagina's (PDF, 18 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Piety and modernity
Third volume in the series Dynamics of Religious Reform. Piety and Modernity examines the dynamics of religious reform from the point of view of piety and devotional life between 1780 and 1920 in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Low Countries. The 'long' nineteenth century saw the introduction of devotional organizations as a means of channeling popular religion. This era also witnessed the translation and publication of devotional books, journals, and pamphlets on a massive scale....
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 44 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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The transformation of the christian churches in Western Europe
1945-2000
Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalised religion is becoming increasingly marginalised. Some scholars, however, speak of a repositioning of the Christian churches in post-modern Europe, citing new forms of religious life and community. This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World...
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Engels | Frans | 352 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Tine Van Osselaer The pious sex
catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium, c. 1800-1940
The construction of gender in Belgian Catholicism. Although women were called the 'pious sex' much earlier, it was during the nineteenth century, when the differences between men and women were being made more explicit, that an intense bond between women and religion was developed. Religiosity was thought to be a 'natural' part of femininity and turned religious masculinity into an oddity. This clear-cut gender ideology, however, remains an ideology (prescribed and contested) that needs to be put...
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Engels | 272 pagina's (PDF, 8,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Sign or symptom?
exceptional corporeal phenomena in religion and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Religion and science on paranormal events. Described as 'the hand of God', as 'pathological' or even as 'a clever trick', exceptional corporeal phenomena such as miraculous cures, stigmata, and incorrupt corpses have triggered heated debates in the past. Depending on their definition as either 'supernatural', 'psycho-somatic' or 'fraudulent', different authorities have sought to explain these enigmatic occurrences by stimulating inquiries and claiming jurisdiction over them. As a consequence, separate...
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Engels | 208 pagina's (PDF, 9,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Charity and social welfare
How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief. Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce criticism,...
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Engels | 312 pagina's (PDF, 31 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Matthias Meirlaen Revoluties in de klas
secundair geschiedenisonderwijs in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, 1750-1850
Tussen 1750 en 1850 vormden de Zuidelijke Nederlanden het toneel van verschillende politieke omwentelingen. De Oostenrijkse, Franse revolutionaire, Napoleontische, Hollandse en Belgische bestuurders volgden elkaar in een snel tempo op. In het kader van de beoogde bestuurlijke centralisatie, stond het onderwijs tijdens deze regimewissels telkens bovenaan de politieke agenda. Vooral over het curriculum voor het secundair onderwijs werd hevig gediscussieerd. 'Revoluties in de klas' gaat uitvoerig in...
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Nederlands | 391 pagina's | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2014
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Children who changed the world
Children Who Changed the World What do Malala Yousafzai and Anne Frank have in common? Both opened the eyes of the world to the injustice done to them as children. Malala deliberately set out to fight for her right to education. While Anne Frank unwittingly became a symbol of the effect of war on the lives of children. Children Who Changed the World, tells the stories of more than twenty children who have opened the worlds eyes to serious problems in society, and who have contributed to the solution....
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Engels | ePub2, 21 MB | PixelPerfect Publications, The Hague | 2017
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Jacopo Cellini Universalism and liberation
Italian catholic culture and the idea of international community, 1963-1978
The changing attitude of Catholic culture towards modernity. After decades of a problematic, if not plainly hostile, approach to modernity by Catholic culture, the 1960s marked the beginning of a new era. As the Church employed a more positive approach to the world, voices in the Catholic milieu embraced a radical perspective, channeling the need for social justice for the poor and the oppressed. The alternative and complementary world views of 'universalism' and 'liberation' would drive the engagement...
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Engels | 272 pagina's (PDF, 1,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Religious institutes and catholic culture in 19th- en 20th-century Europe
A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well...
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Engels | 216 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Ivo Nieuwenhuis Het was maar een grapje
Nederland in tien humorschandalen
‘Humor is om te lachen’, zo luidt het cliché. Maar mensen kunnen zich er ook enorm kwaad over maken. Van Wim Sonnevelds Frater Venantius tot Koot en Bies Tegenpartij en Youp van ’t Heks pisnicht – stuk voor stuk vormden ze de aanleiding tot een fikse rel. Een publieke woede-uitbarsting over humor vertelt ons veel over de tijdsgeest, en over hoe die soms ineens omslaat. Aangevuurd door de (sociale) media kan de spanning hoog oplopen. In die cocktail van veranderende normen en waarden, hoge kijkcijfers...
Nederlands | ePub2, 9,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2023
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Satoshi Kikuchi From Eckhart to Ruusbroec
a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century
In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that...
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Engels | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014
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Frans Douw Het zijn mensen
het verhaal van een gevangenisdirecteur
‘Het zijn mensen’ is het verhaal van Frans Douw over het gevangeniswezen. Een gevangenis is een omgeving waarin ongelijkheid, angst en onderdrukking een grote rol spelen. Eigenlijk staat de gevangenis voor alles wat voormalig gevangenisdirecteur Frans Douw haat. En precies dat maakte hem tot een gedreven mensen-directeur. Douw ging eind 2015 met pensioen na een lange carrière die volledig in het teken heeft gestaan van wat hij ‘menswaardige detentie’ noemt: gedetineerden verdienen veel meer vertrouwen...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products,...
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Engels | PDF, 1,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Frederik Schreuder Een wereld vol almanakken
Honderd bijzondere exemplaren
Eeuwenlang werden almanakken dagelijks gebruikt door mensen uit alle lagen van de bevolking. Ze boden praktische informatie, bevatten nieuws en nieuwtjes en werden ingezet als propagandamateriaal. Er zijn er miljoenen geproduceerd in verschillende vormen en gemaakt van verschillende materialen. Dit boek toont honderd exemplaren afkomstig uit de hele wereld. Naast iedere fraai afgebeelde almanak of kalender staat een beschrijving van herkomst en inhoud. Die inhoud varieerde nogal: van Gregoriaanse...
Nederlands | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 72 MB) | Walburg Pers, Amsterdam | 2023
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Merlijn Twaalfhoven Het is aan ons
waarom we de kunstenaar in onszelf nodig hebben om de wereld te redden
In ‘Het is aan ons’ laat Merlijn Twaalfhoven zijn licht schijnen op hoe kunst kan helpen de wereld te veranderen. Eenieder van ons kan bijdragen aan het oplossen van kleine en grote wereldproblemen. Hoe dat werkt, laat Merlijn Twaalfhoven zien in dit bevlogen en onverbloemd idealistische boek. Als componist en theatermaker organiseerde hij overal ter wereld onalledaagse, prikkelende voorstellingen. We reizen met hem mee, naar een vluchtelingenkamp in Jordanië, een huiskamerfestival in Jeruzalem,...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2020
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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera
multidisciplinary perspectives
The role of mythology in Ancien Régime opera. Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's La favola d'Orfeo (1607) and Christoph Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian dramma per musica and French tragédie en...
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Engels | 184 pagina's (PDF, 4,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Richard W. Wrangham De goedheidsparadox
deugen de meeste mensen wel?
In De goedheidsparadox presenteert de beroemde primatoloog Richard Wrangham een opvallend originele theorie om de tijdloze vraag te beantwoorden hoe en waarom de homo sapiens is ontstaan. Een kwart miljoen jaar geleden maakte de toenemende intelligentie onder onze voorouders de weg vrij voor de invoering van de sociaal geaccepteerde doodstraf. Het was deze verandering, zo betoogt Wrangham, die ontwikkeling, meer samenwerking, de accumulatie van cultuur en uiteindelijk de opkomst van de beschaving...
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Nederlands | 414 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2021
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Paganism in the Middle Ages
threat and fascination
Interdisciplinary study of pagan culture from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. In this volume the persistence, resurgence, threat, fascination, and repression of various forms of pagan culture are studied in an interdisciplinary perspective from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. Contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices, as well as with the Christianization of pagan rural populations or with the different strategies of oppression of pagan beliefs. The...
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niet gecodeerde talen | 250 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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