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Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

A Dialogue

By: Gianni Vattimo,Rene Girard

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Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

A Dialogue

By: Gianni Vattimo,Rene Girard

The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives. Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of two major philosophers known for their progressive approach to this issue. Seeking unity over difference, Gianni Vattimo and Ren Girard turn to Max Weber, Eric Auerbach, and Marcel Gauchet, among others, in their exploration of truth and liberty, relativism and faith, and the tensions of a world filled with new forms of religiously inspired violence. Vattimo and Girard ultimately conclude that secularism and the involvement (or lack thereof) of religion in governance are, in essence, produced by Christianity. In other words, Christianity is "the religion of the exit from religion," and democracy, civil rights, the free market, and individual freedoms are all facilitated by Christian culture. Through an exchange that is both intimate and enlightening, Vattimo and Girard share their unparalleled insight into the relationships among religion, modernity, and the role of Christianity, especially as it exists in our multicultural world.

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Columbia University Press

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0231148283

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9780231148283

The Yellow Cross

The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329

By: Rene Weis

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The Yellow Cross

The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329

By: Rene Weis

The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the tenets set forth by Rome, found themselves the focus of ruthless repression. In systematic waves of brutal persecution, thousands of Cathars were captured, summarily tried, and burned at the stake as heretics. Yet so ardent was their faith that during the years 1290 to 1329, the Cathars rose up one last time. René Weis tells the dramatic and moving story of these thirty years, offering a rich medieval tale of faith, adventure, sex, and courage. Having spent years exploring a rich trove of untouched information, including trial records and interrogation transcripts, Weis creates a remarkably detailed portrait of the last great gasp of the movement and the day-to-day life of the individual Cathars in their villages. This is an exceptionally vivid re-creation of a fascinating, and otherwise lost, world.

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Vintage

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0375704418

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9780375704413

The Masculine Civilization

A Meta-History

By: Rene Hirsch

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The Masculine Civilization

A Meta-History

By: Rene Hirsch

For thousands of years, men have struggled to establish their supremacy. At first, they used spirits to secure for themselves a function in a natural world that seemed to have taken sides with the feminine. Eventually, they created an all-mighty divinity, and established their status as second to none other than that highest of all authority. Sailing through history, we show that the way procreation was perceived has determined how men and women positioned themselves in the universe. It has wielded consequences that have deeply affected our evolution, from the primal vision of an all-encompassing natural world in which Mother Nature represented the source of all life, to the subjection of nature and woman, with God the Father sitting at the summit of the creation. This emphasis on gender and nature brings into perspective the current social and economic resurgence of women and the new attitude towards environment that needs to be protected from our own deeds. These intricate leitmotifs make us witness a turning point in our history.

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Rene Hirsch

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1301386995

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9781301386994

Desiree Broussard

By: Lee Rene

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Desiree Broussard

By: Lee Rene

In 1950s New Orleans, perversity rules; there are no saints, but plenty of sinners. In the shadowy world of clandestine sex clubs, the police are a lethal force and sexuality can be deadly. Desiree Broussard is trapped in the black vortex of the sordid underbelly of life in the Big Easy. Her beauty attracts the attention of the mysterious scion of the wealthiest family in the city. Blinded by their attraction, they are sucked into a deadly vortex of the most powerful force in the city, the New Orleans police.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509226397

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9781509226399

All God's Children

By: Rene Denfeld

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All God's Children

By: Rene Denfeld

James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group -- they called themselves a "family" -- was arrested for a string of violent murders. While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to every city from New York to San Francisco, and to many small towns in between, bringing violence with them. In 2003, almost eleven years after his original murder, Nelson, now called "Thantos", got out of prison, returned to Portland, created a new street family, and killed once more. Twelve family members were arrested along with him. Rene Denfeld spent over a decade following the evolution of street family culture. She discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of these teenagers hail from loving middle-class homes. Yet they have left those homes to form insular communities with cultish hierarchies, codes of behavior, languages, quasireligions, and harsh rules. She reveals the extremes to which desperate teenagers will go in their search for a sense of community, and builds a persuasive and troubling case that street families have grown among us into a dark reversal of the American ideal.

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PublicAffairs

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0786734191

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9780786734191

The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]

An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact

By: Rene Maunier

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The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]

An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact

By: Rene Maunier

First published in 1998. This is part I of the sociology of colonies, and Volume XVII of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series. Written in the language in the 1932, this part provides an introduction to the study of race contact, and the social problems involved in expansion of peoples.

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Routledge

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1136245227

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9781136245220

A Foreign and Wicked Institution

The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England

By: Rene Kollar

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A Foreign and Wicked Institution

The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England

By: Rene Kollar

This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.

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318

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James Clarke & Company

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0227903110

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9780227903117

Color Atlas of Vascular Tumors and Vascular Malformations

By: Odile Enjolras,Michel Wassef,Rene Chapot

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Color Atlas of Vascular Tumors and Vascular Malformations

By: Odile Enjolras,Michel Wassef,Rene Chapot

Full color reference on hemangiomas and superficial vascular malformations.

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101

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Cambridge University Press

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0521848512

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9780521848510

Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms

By: Rene Poupardin

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Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms

By: Rene Poupardin

IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of biographers and the calumnies set afloat by political opponents, the real character of the man who had now taken over the burdensome heritage left by the Emperor Charles. Louis, who was at this time thirty-six years old, was, in form and manners, a tall, handsome man, broad-shouldered, with a strong voice, skilled in bodily exercises, fond, as his ancestors were, of the chase, but less easily led away by the seductions of passion and good cheer...

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Jovian Press

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1537804243

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Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28

By: Rene Caillie

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Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28

By: Rene Caillie

Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.

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Routledge

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1136023100

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Nature Walks in Connecticut

Explore Mountains, Forests, Caves, and Coastlines Throughout the State

By: Rene Laubach,Charles W. G. Smith

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Nature Walks in Connecticut

Explore Mountains, Forests, Caves, and Coastlines Throughout the State

By: Rene Laubach,Charles W. G. Smith

Destined to become the most popular guide to the trails of Connecticut, including the mountains and lush woodlands of the west, the fertile Connecticut River Valley, and the famously beautiful eastern shoreline. AMC Nature Walks guides rake a holistic view of the landscape -- everything along the trail, each formation, field, and tree has a story to tell. While you walk, learn about the mobbing behavior of birds, beavers and the fur trade, volcanoes, the history of Tory Den, and more!

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Appalachian Mountain Club

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1878239694

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Book's by Rene Girard

Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

The Yellow Cross

The Yellow Cross

The Masculine Civilization

The Masculine Civilization

Desiree Broussard

Desiree Broussard

All God's Children

All God's Children

The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]

The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]

A Foreign and Wicked Institution

A Foreign and Wicked Institution

Color Atlas of Vascular Tumors and Vascular Malformations

Color Atlas of Vascular Tumors and Vascular Malformations

Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms

Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms

Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28

Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28

Nature Walks in Connecticut

Nature Walks in Connecticut

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