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Right From the Start
Right from the Start is the autobiography of Lord Roberts from his birth in 1930 up to the year 2000, told against the backdrop of his time and its leading…
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Rorty’s Politics of Redescription
Political philosopher Richard Rorty’s influence on contemporary thought has increased in tandem with the controversy his outspoken views have provoked. His rejection of the grand, metaphysical questions of traditional philosophy…
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Rorty’s Politics of Redescription
Political philosopher Richard Rorty’s influence on contemporary thought has increased in tandem with the controversy his outspoken views have provoked. His rejection of the grand, metaphysical questions of traditional philosophy…
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Sacred Place, Chosen People
‘A sense of place’: what do we mean? Why are some places felt be holy? What is a sense of nationality in spiritual terms? Is nationalism fundamentally opposed to international…
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Salt of the Earth
This, the third of the novels in the series The Land of the Living, which began with Flesh and Blood and The Best of Friends, follows the career of the central…
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Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch is without doubt one of Germany’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, a fact which was endorsed in October of 1996 when she was awarded the prestigious Büchner prize for…
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Screen Christologies
PrefaceAcknowledgements 1 Cinema as a contemporary site of religious activity2 The cultural and religious significance of film3 Models of redemption evident in film4 Film noir as a repository of theological significance5 …
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Secret Sins
“Secret Sins is a human and humane book. . . . It succeeds admirably in its purpose in exposing cosy myths.”
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Seeking God’s Kingdom
The years between 1906 and 1939 in Europe were characterized by a concern, expressed in political, economic, and religious terms, about the social conditions that had resulted from more than…
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Selected Poems of Saunders Lewis
A collection of poems by Wales’ most important literary figure of the 20th century translated from the Welsh (with an introduction and notes) by Joseph P. Clancy. Introduction A Daisy…
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Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain
Hildegart Rodríguez’s sensational death at the hands of her own mother usually overshadows her fascinating life. Alison Sinclair’s examination of Rodríguez’s role as a central player in the Spanish chapter…
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Shadows of Mary
In medieval thought, Mary was a virgin, a mother, a daughter, and a wife, alone of all her sex and yet also continually invoked in order to define femininity in…