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In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer…

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Isbn: 9780271076720

Utgivningsår:20160728

Utgivare: Pennsylvania state university press

Mediatyp: BB

Image, action, and idea in contemporary jewish art

av:Ben Schachter

Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben…

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Isbn: 9780271079127

Utgivningsår:20171215

Utgivare: Pennsylvania state university press

Mediatyp: BC

Transmitting the spirit – religious conversion, media, and urban violence i

av:Martijn Oosterbaan

Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its successfully incorporating native cosmologies in new religious frameworks. This volume probes for more complex explanations to this phenomenon in the favelas of Brazil, once one…

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Isbn: 9780271078434

Utgivningsår:20170802

Utgivare: Pennsylvania state university press

Mediatyp: BB

Surviving image – phantoms of time and time of phantoms: aby warburgs histo

av:Georges Didi-huberman

The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman’s extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the “life” of…

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Isbn: 9780271072081

Utgivningsår:20161128

Utgivare: Pennsylvania state university press

Mediatyp: BB

German pietism and the problem of conversion

av:Jonathan Strom

August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the…

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