Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France: Fragments of Religion 1441189742, 9781441189745

The opposition between 'religion' and 'modernity' has long held the status of a self-evident truth.

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Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France: Fragments of Religion
1441189742, 9781441189745

The opposition between ‘religion’ and ‘modernity’ has long held the status of a self-evident truth. Recently, however, t

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Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in

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Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies that confessional difference often seems an unavoidab

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The global rise of political religion is one of the defining and most puzzling characteristics of current world politics

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Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, gr

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How religious belief and practice shaped daily life in early modern France.

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Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion:

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Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l’Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that

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What can I do? To what degree do we control our own desires, actions, and fate - or not? These questions haunt us, and h

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Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visi

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