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A Politics of Grace

Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context

By: Christiane Alpers

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A Politics of Grace

Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context

By: Christiane Alpers

Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate – public theology, Radical Orthodoxy, and post-liberal Protestantism – in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. The volume builds on and combines public theology's aspiration to craft a non-triumphant political theology, fit for a post-Christendom context, Radical Orthodoxy's hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies; as well as post-liberalism's Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers, such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, John Howard Yoder, Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx; to suggest that a political theology in the post-Christendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world.

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241

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567679861

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9780567679864

Pygmalion in Bavaria

The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-century Aesthetic Art Theory

By: Christiane Hertel,Ignaz Günther

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Pygmalion in Bavaria

The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-century Aesthetic Art Theory

By: Christiane Hertel,Ignaz Günther

Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Gèunther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture"--Provided by publisher.

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314

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Penn State Press

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0271037377

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9780271037370

The Sultan's Shadow

One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West

By: Christiane Bird

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The Sultan's Shadow

One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West

By: Christiane Bird

A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

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401

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Random House Incorporated

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0345469402

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9780345469403

Camillo Sitte

The Birth of Modern City Planning

By: George R. Collins,Camillo Sitte,Christiane Crasemann Collins

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Camillo Sitte

The Birth of Modern City Planning

By: George R. Collins,Camillo Sitte,Christiane Crasemann Collins

This 1889 text by a noted Austrian architect and urban planner ignited a new age of city planning. Inspired by medieval and baroque designs, Sitte emphasized the creation of spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements. Numerous illustrations, plus extensive commentary, notes, and bibliography.

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482

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Courier Corporation

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0486451186

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9780486451183

India's Middle Class

New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity

By: Christiane Brosius

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India's Middle Class

New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity

By: Christiane Brosius

This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India. Rich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies, research material, and illustrations. Offering a model of how urban cosmopolitan India might be studied and understood in a transnational and transcultural context, the book takes the reader through three panoramic landscapes: new ‘world-class’ real estate advertising, a unique religious leisure site — the Akshardham Cultural Complex, and the world of themed weddings and beauty/wellness, all responses to India’s new middle classes’ tryst with cosmopolitanism. The work will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, South Asian studies, media studies, anthropology and urban studies as also those interested in religion, performance and rituals, diaspora, globalisation and transnational migration.

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391

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Routledge

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1136704833

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9781136704833

Visions of the Courtly Body

The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court

By: Christiane Hille

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Visions of the Courtly Body

The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court

By: Christiane Hille

In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.

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312

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Walter de Gruyter

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305006255X

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9783050062556

Art and Language: Explorations in (Post) Modern Thought and Visual Culture

By: Christiane Treichl

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Art and Language: Explorations in (Post) Modern Thought and Visual Culture

By: Christiane Treichl

Art and Language: Explorations in (Post) Modern Thought and Visual Culture sheds new light on the symbiotic relationship between art and language by exploring how these cultured sets consociate on philosophical and art-historical levels. Against the backdrop of (visual) semiotics the first section of the book considers the differences between art and language from various vantage points: meaning-making, asking if art is a language, Ernst Cassirer's symbolic forms, Jan Muka?ovský's signs, and Gilles Deleuze's philosophy. The second section of the book deals with the works of (post) modern artists from diverse cultural backgrounds who unfasten traditional linguistic and artistic systems by destabilising the viewer and blurring the boundaries between art and language. The author argues that this is the most productive, cutting-edge aspect of the word-image relationship of that period. Language provides (post) modern art with its thrust and focus and offers a site for critical intervention. The artistic forays the author embarks on cover a wide range touching on Surrealism, Dada, Arabic Calligraphy, and Chinese Conceptualist Art.

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209

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kassel university press GmbH

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3737601968

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9783737601962

A Politics of Grace

Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context

By: Christiane Alpers

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Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context

By: Christiane Alpers

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567679853

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9780567679857

The Return of Marie Joelle

By: Christiane Angibeau-Thompson

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The Return of Marie Joelle

By: Christiane Angibeau-Thompson

THE RETURN OF MARIE-JOELLE dramatically built around a romance, family values and traditions, is a vivid tale of eternal love spanning the mystery of life, death and beyond. Caught in a violent storm while canoeing on the Dordogne River in Southwest France, Marie Joelle at the age of seventeen tragically drowns. A few years later, her family and friends find themselves helplessly baffled by a mystery that shakes their core beliefs about life and death. The subsequent birth of Anais continues to mystify everyone as the little girls behavior gives many compelling manifestations indicating the possibility that the soul of their beloved Marie-Joelle has been reincarnated in the body of the child Anais. The story, carries an intriguing charm which may captivate a diversity of readers, regardless of their spiritual convictions, for this is not a treatise on any particular religious creed.

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288

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iUniverse

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1450214711

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9781450214711

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