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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Part I. Mysticism, hierarchy, and the sacraments. Mediating religious unity: Nicholas of Cusa's shift from Council to Pope / Joshua Hollmann -- Action, contemplation, and prayer: Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual exercises mediating the Pseudo-Areopagite / Rebecca Coughlin -- Literary real presence: the eucharist in John Donne's secular poetry / Shaun Ross -- Host desecration narratives: confirming Christ's physical presence / Cheryl Petreman -- Part II. Images and iconoclasm. From the site of presence to the medium of representation, and beyond: the fluid epistemology of imagery in post-Reformation Poland-Lithuania / Tomasz Grusiecki -- Between icon and idol: re-forming the religious image in the Dutch Republic / Olenka Horbatsch -- The mediation of Lutheran Platonism: Lucas Cranach's painting Gesetz and Gnade / Eric M. Parker -- Part III. Music and verse. Musical mediations of John Donne's 'A hymne to God the father' / Anna Lewton-Brain -- 'Sweet mirth, and musick rare': sensual spirituality in the work of Benjamin Keach / Justin Irwin -- Part IV. Life and death. The judgement of God: using suicide to combat atheism / Lara Apps -- Illuminating the public sphere: analogies of light in early-modern utopias / Richard Greydanus -- Making a pagan's death: David Hume's self-fashioning in the final days / Gregory Bouchard |
| Summary |
In recent years, writing on early-modern culture has turned from examining the upheavals of the Reformation as the ruptured birth of early modernity out of the late medieval towards a striking emphasis on processes of continuity, transition, and adaptation. No longer is the 'religious' seen as institutional or doctrinaire, but rather as a cultural and social phenomenon that exceeds the rigid parameters of modern definition. Recent analyses of early-modern cultures offer nuanced accounts that .. |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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| Subject |
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Essays.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Religion
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Europe -- Religion -- Congresses
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Europe -- Religion -- History
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Europe
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kirby, W. J. Torrance.
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| ISBN |
9781443863384 |
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1443863386 |
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