Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) |
Contents |
List of plates; List of figures; Preface; 1. The origins of tennis: the monks'' racket; 2. The tennis games of the Middle Ages; 3. The language of tennis; 4. Tennis in Renaissance literature; 5. Tennis in the German ballhouse; 6. Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard; 7. Lawn tennis in America; 8. Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France; 9. Lawn tennis under the Kaiser; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on the illustrations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Summary |
Is it possible to capture, in brief, the fundamental changes that affected the role of religion within modern Western society? For a long time, many scholars would have answered that question in the positive; most of them would certainly have counted increasingly tolerant attitudes towards forms of religion that were once been regarded as unacceptable, as being one of those central features. In the light of the current revision of the established 'truths' concerning modern religion, it is now possible to once again address the wide-spread belief that modernity meant the gradual victory of more |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index |
Notes |
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Print version record |
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Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890
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SUBJECT |
Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890 fast |
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Newman, John Henry. swd |
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Anti-Catholicism -- England -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Anti-Catholicism
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Protestantismus
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Rezeption
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Anglikanische Kirche
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Antipapisme.
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Verdraagzaamheid.
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England -- Church history -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043270
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England
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Großbritannien
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Church history
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005052868 |
ISBN |
9780567539847 |
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0567539849 |
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1283200473 |
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9781283200479 |
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9786613200471 |
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6613200476 |
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