Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...

eBooks de Referencia

Si te gustan los eBooks de Referencia, seguro que te encanta esta selección.
Mostrando 2017 - 2040 de 24562 resultados
Skip side bar filters
  • Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence

    Edición de Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts ...
    An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence—historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to ... Leer más

    Antes $518 MXN Ahora $457 MXN

  • From Ritual to Romance

    Series series Bollingen Series
    Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She ... Leer más

    $593 MXN

  • Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity

    de Alison Weber ...
    Celebrated as a visionary chronicler of spirituality, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) suffered persecution by the Counter-Reformation clergy in Spain, who denounced her for her "diabolical illusions" and "dangerous propaganda." Confronting the historical irony of Teresa's transformation from a figure of questionable orthodoxy to a national saint, Alison Weber shows how this teacher and reformer used ... Leer más

    $543 MXN

  • Words That Make A World: Wedding Vows Across Civilisations

    Words That Make a World is a comparative exploration of wedding vows across ten of the world's great traditions — Hindu, Christian (Protestant and Catholic), Jewish, Islamic, Zoroastrian, Shinto, African Traditional, Buddhist, and Secular Humanist.Author Mohan Krishnamurthy decodes each tradition's vow in depth: its language, its ancient origins, its philosophical architecture, and the ... Leer más

    $137 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • THE INVOICE OF GREATNESS: Everybody Want to Be Great Until Greatness Sends the Invoice

    The Invoice of Greatness is a faith-driven leadership testimony about the private cost behind public success. Dr. Shawn Harris shares how God interrupted his comfort, stretched his obedience, and used pressure, sacrifice, discipline, and service to build something greater than a title or position. Through the lessons of leadership, athletics, family, access, and purpose, this book reminds readers ... Leer más

    $429 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Getting Along?

    Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils

    de Adam Morton ...
    Examining the impact of the English and European Reformations on social interaction and community harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights the tension and degree of accommodation amongst ordinary people when faced with religious and social upheaval. Building on previous literature which has characterised the progress of the Reformation as 'slow' and 'piecemeal', this volume furthers our ... Leer más

    $1,200 MXN

  • Judaism and Psychoanalysis

    Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth century Europe, Freud's Jewishness and the Jewishness of his early colleagues. They also exemplify what the psychoanalytic approach can contribute to the study of Judaism. Clinical studies illuminate ... Leer más

    $1,252 MXN

  • Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism

    de Marjon Ames ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful together to create a new religious community. This study explores the ways in which early Quaker ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature

    This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient Jewish psyche dealt with times of extreme turmoil and how Jewish theology altered to meet the challenges experienced.The volume explores various early Jewish literature, including both the canonical and ... Leer más

    $1,046 MXN

  • The Maltese Dialogue

    Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights 1554–1556

    de Kiril Petkov ...
    The Maltese Dialogue is the first comprehensive treatise of the history, institutions, and political projects of the Order of the Knights of Saint John of the Hospital, commonly known as the Maltese Order. It was written during the tenure of Grand Master Fra Claude de la Sengle (1553-1557), although the conversation between Commendator Fra Giuseppe Cambiano, one of the Order’s most prominent ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

    Essays in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz

    Edición de Yuen-Gen Liang, Jarbel Rodriguez ...
    Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volumepresents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America.Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

    Edición de Marjorie Levine-Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Resources
    This volume examines the ideals and experiences of work during the long nineteenth century. The meanings attached to work had resonance in multiple aspects of people’s lives, and the sources consider this breadth. The primary sources examine the association of work with respectability, the challenges industrialization posed to men’s traditional labour and identities, and the pressures placed on ... Leer más

    $1,337 MXN

  • Print Letters in Seventeenth‐Century England

    Politics, Religion, and News Culture

    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious controversy, and news culture—those published as pamphlets, as broadsides, and in newsbooks in the interests of ideological disputes and as political and religious propaganda. The epistolary texts examined in this book, be they fictional, ... Leer más

    $1,149 MXN

  • Learning and Culture in Carolingian Europe

    Letters, Numbers, Exegesis, and Manuscripts

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and how social and cultural imperatives transformed the life of scholarship, schools and learning in Carolingian Europe. Several essays consider the significance of numerical and scientific studies in the ... Leer más

    $4,013 MXN

  • Protestantism, Poetry and Protest

    The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c. 1534–1591)

    de S.K. Barker ...
    Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591) was a key figure in the establishment and development of the French Protestant Church. Of all its indigenous leaders, he was perhaps closest to Calvin, and took a leading role in all the major debates about resistance, church order and doctrine of the Church. He was also a prodigious writer of political, religious and poetical works, whose output corresponds to a ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Capitalism and Religion in World History

    Purification and Progress

    de Carl Mosk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Purity condemns filth; piety disparages corruption. Amassing riches offered to a transcendental world, the priests of ancient faiths found themselves trapped in contradiction. By loaning out their resources to merchants, they made themselves pariahs to true prophets. Before Islam squared the circle, bringing capital mobility and credit creation into coexistence with devotion, religion stymied ... Leer más

    $1,389 MXN

  • Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies

    Selected Writings

    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion: Collected Works
    William A Graham, a leading international scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, gathers together his selected writings under three sections: 1.History and Interpretation of Islamic Religion; 2.The Qur'an as Scripture, and 3. Scripture in the History of Religion. Each section opens with a new introduction by Graham, and a bibliography of his works is included. Graham's work in Islamic studies ... Leer más

    $1,252 MXN

  • Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child

    Funeral Monuments and their European Context

    de Jeannie Labno ...
    The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention. Whilst the practice of erecting monuments to the dead was widespread across Renaissance Europe, the vast majority of these commemorated adults, with children generally only appearing as part of their parents' memorials. However, as this study reveals, in Poland ... Leer más

    $1,029 MXN

  • Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome

    Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534–1549

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along ... Leer más

    $1,337 MXN

  • Pope Alexander III (1159–81)

    The Art of Survival

    Edición de Anne J. Duggan, Peter D. Clarke ...
    Series series Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
    Alexander III was one of the most important popes of the Middle Ages and his papacy (1159-81) marked a significant watershed in the history of the Western Church and society. This book provides a long overdue reassessment of his papacy and his achievements, bringing together thirteen essays which review existing scholarship and present the latest research and new perspectives. Individual chapters ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Routledge Revivals: Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989)

    Volume I: History and Politics

    Edición de Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    First published in 1989, this is the first of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique.This volume deals with the role of politics, history, religion, imperialism and race in the ... Leer más

    $1,080 MXN

  • Indian Ethics

    Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I

    Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World. This is the first such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. The volume explores the scope and limits of ... Leer más

    $1,269 MXN

  • Nicholas of Cusa - A Companion to his Life and his Times

    This work is a guide to the life, thought and activities of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the great fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian, jurist, author of mystical and ecclesiastical treatises, cardinal and reformer. It is intended not only for advanced scholars, but also for beginners and those simply curious about a man who has been called 'one of the greatest Germans of the fifteenth ... Leer más

    $857 MXN

  • George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878)

    Theological Formation, Life and Work

    The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyn’s theological formation, which places him in the context of the world of traditional high ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN