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The Bible and Gender Troubles in Africa
Quickly changing concepts on gender roles are a pivotal issue in after-colonial African societies. Many women (and men) are calling for a radical change as they feel traditional gender concepts as being oppressive, inhuman and un-Christian. Gender equality, gender fairness is on their agenda. On the other hand, for many men (and women) these societal changes are painful “gender troubles” an…
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- 22
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- 978-3-86309-655-7
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- Bible in Africa Studies no. 22
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- 220 BIB
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion : Literary, Historical, and Religiou…
“This volume not only brings together an impressive collection of internationally renowned scholars but also offers ambitious and far-reaching conclusions that reassess what ‘religion’ meant in the nineteenth century.” —Jo Carruthers Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies, Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion interrogates the seemingly obvio…
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- 9780814213971
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- 330
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- 200 CON
Sino-Christian Theology : A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary…
“Sino-Christian theologyâ€? usually refers to an intellectual movement emerged in Mainland China since the late 1980s. The present volume aims to provide a self-explaining sketch of the historical development of this theological as well as cultural movement. In addition to the analyses on the theoretical issues involved and the articulations of the prospect, concrete examples are also …
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- 230 SIN
The Baptized Muse : Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions, the issue of how to harmonize pagan education and Christian convictions became increasingly pressing. Especially classical poetry, the staple diet of pagan education, was considered morally corrupting (because of it…
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- 9780198726487
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- 230 POL b
A Very Capable Life The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman. Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In cel…
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- 9781897425411.01
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- -
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 208 pages
A Woman of Valour The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
A Woman of Valour is the biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle, a French-Canadian woman who found love with a priest thirty-three years her senior. Against all social convention, they lived, produced three children, and built a life together after fleeing their village. However, after several years together, Bouchard’s husband ultimately chose to return to the priesthood, abandoning his …
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- 9781897425848.01
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- -
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 256 pages
A Very Capable Life The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman. Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In cel…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781897425411.01
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- Canada
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- -
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- 208 pages
Under the Nakba Tree Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada
Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, when Mowafa visited his family’s homeland of Palestine at the beginning of the Second Intifada, he witnessed the effects of prolonged conflict and…
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- -
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- 9781771992039.01
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- -
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 216 pages
Man Proposes, God Disposes Recollections of a French Pioneer
In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of a…
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- 9781926836553.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 272 pages
C’est le temps d’en parler L'histoire de Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
La biographie de Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle raconte la vie d’une jeune Canadienne d’humble origine qui tombe en amour avec le curé de son village, et qui en subit les terribles conséquences pour le reste de ses jours. L’histoire de cette femme s’étend sur plus d’un siècle (de 1858 à 1973), une période qui voit surgir plusieurs événements déterminants de l’histoire du Can…
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- 9781897425251.01
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- 241 pages
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