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“michael p carroll”

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  • American Catholics in the Protestant Imagination

    Rethinking the Academic Study of Religion

    by Michael P. Carroll ...
    Michael P. Carroll argues that the academic study of religion in the United States continues to be shaped by a "Protestant imagination" that has warped our perception of the American religious experience and its written history and analysis.In this provocative study, Carroll explores a number of historiographical puzzles that emerge from the American Catholic story as it has been understood ... Read more

    $64.89 CAD

  • The Cult of the Virgin Mary

    Psychological Origins

    by Michael P. Carroll ...
    Tracing devotion to Mary to psychological and historical processes that began in the fifth century, Michael Carroll answers intriguing questions: What explains the many reports of Marian apparitions over the centuries? Why is Mary both "Virgin" and "Mother" simultaneously? Why has the Marian cult always been stronger in certain geographical areas than in others? The first half of the book presents ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis and Theism

    Critical Reflections on the Grünbaum Thesis

    by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Michael P. Carroll, Harriet Lutzky, Jerry S. Piven, David Livingstone Smith, Carlo Strenger, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Adolf Grünbaum ...
    How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with an essay by Adolf Grünbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers of ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • For the Glory of God

    How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery

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    Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European ... Read more

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  • A World Without Women

    The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science

    by David F. Noble ...
    In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace their absence to a deep-rooted legacy of the male-dominated Western religious community. He shows how ... Read more

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  • Contesting the Renaissance

    by William Caferro ...
    Series series Contesting the Past
    In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.An influential investigation into the nature of the European RenaissanceSummarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the RenaissanceEngages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern ... Read more

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  • Men Astutely Trained

    A History of the Jesuits in the American Century

    by Peter Mcdonough ...
    A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient virtues & to the pursuit of the free play of ideas. This book explains developments among the Jesuits and sets them in ... Read more

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  • Mere Civility

    Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration

    by Teresa M. Bejan ...
    A New Statesman Best Book of the YearA Church Times Book of the YearWe are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical.Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we ... Read more

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  • America's Church

    The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Vatican II

    A History of Catholic Reform in America

    by Colleen McDannell ...
    In 1962 a group of Catholic leaders traveled to Rome, charged by Pope John XXIII with the task of making the gospel of Christ relevant in a modern world. The Second Vatican Council transformed the lives of Catholics through sweeping reforms -- yet its effect on the daily lives of practicing Catholics has never been fully understood.In this illuminating study, religious historian Colleen McDannell ... Read more

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  • History Matters

    Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the ... Read more

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