(Hardback)
By: Dr Isabel C. Troconis
ISBN: 9780567719126
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John L. Allen
ISBN: 9780141024653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Opus Dei is one of the most talked about, but least known religious organizations. This work separates the myths from the facts and descibes: the actual use of whips and the cilice; the extent of Opus Dei's funds; the identities of its influential members in politics, banking and high office; and how much power this shadowy group really has.
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By: Icel
ISBN: 9780225666496
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A reduced size of the "Order of Christian Funerals" approved by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England, Wales and Scotland. It is the culmination of a long process of revision and new composition based on many years' experience of the 1969 "Ordo Exsequiarum" and its English editions.
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By: Armand Brunelle III
ISBN: 9798350947915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Jill Krebs
ISBN: 9781498523554
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This ethnography uses a lived religion approach to explore devotion in contemporary Marian apparitional movements. It investigates how individuals understand and express Catholic identity in the modern world through beliefs, practices, and relationships with individuals, institutions, and divine figures.
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By: Peter Kent
ISBN: 9780275944414
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume brings together some of the leading scholars of Vatican history to examine papal diplomacy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essays consider the role of the Vatican in the major events of the modern era (the unification of Italy, World Wars I and II, the Holocaust, the war in Vietnam, the Nicaraguan revolution).
(Paperback)
By: Diana Webb
ISBN: 9781350183575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: George Vass
ISBN: 9780722093528
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Richard Gelm
ISBN: 9780313289033
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study assesses the political effects of the Second Vatican Council on the politics of American Catholics. Emphasizing the way in which religion adapts and changes, the study provides a valuable consideration of the tensions within the U.S. Catholic Church since Vatican II and the political impact of Vatican II.
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By: Frank J. Coppa
ISBN: 9780275990299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focuses on Rome's response to the modern world, exploring the papacy's political and diplomatic role. This book examines the Vatican's impact upon the major development and ideologies over the years, including capitalism, nationalism, socialism, communism, modernism, racism, and anti-Semitism.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Paul Vallely
ISBN: 9781472915962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Meg Greene
ISBN: 9780313323003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Carol Rittner
ISBN: 9781474281577
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John K. Roth
ISBN: 9780826475664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Sperber
ISBN: 9780691656939
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Sperber
ISBN: 9780691655512
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Daniel H. Levine
ISBN: 9780691608679
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Throughout Latin America, observers and activists have found in religion a promise of deep and long-lasting democratization. But for religion to change culture and politics, religion itself must change. Such change is not only a matter of doctrine, ritual, or institutional arrangements but also arises out of the needs, values, and ideas of average
(Hardback)
By: Daniel H. Levine
ISBN: 9780691637099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Bradford E. Hinze
ISBN: 9780826417213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of how the practices of dialogue have actually worked or failed to work at every level of the church over the past forty years. Beginning at the most basic level, that of the parish, this book moves up the ecclesiastical ladder from parish councils, to diocesan synods, to the (Roman) synod of bishops.
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By: Timothy Tackett
ISBN: 9780691610818
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book provides a comprehensive collective biography of the parish priests in one diocese--their origins, education, and careers: their relationship with their parishioners; and the process by which they were politicized prior to 1789. The author's analysis uses both quantitative and more traditional historical techniques. Originally published
(Hardback)
By: Timothy Tackett
ISBN: 9780691638881
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Atkin
ISBN: 9781350177277
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Marjorie Underwood
ISBN: 9780837165677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1972
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kathleen G. Cushing
ISBN: 9780719058349
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Assessing the relationship between reform and the papacy in eleventh-century Europe from the perspectives of social and religious change, this book fills a gap in current literature and offers new insights into an important topic in medieval history
