Author: Keith P. Luria
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520301501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that historians have oversimplified the struggle between high and low culture in early modern Europe. He shows how religion was constructed in a complex relationship between villagers, concerned with creating their own religion, and a bishop, intent on cultivating in his flock a Counter-Reformation style of worship and a new standard of social behavior. Luria analyzes records of pastoral visits, examines forms of devotion to saints, and undertakes an ethnographic investigation of one community, to illustrate this interaction. He uncovers a process of cultural change in which villagers and reformers alike took an active role in creating their own culture by adopting, adapting, or resisting the symbols, practices, and meanings of others. The theoretical insights of his study will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and others concerned with rural society, comparative religion, and questions of cultural change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Territories of Grace
Author: Keith P. Luria
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520301501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that historians have oversimplified the struggle between high and low culture in early modern Europe. He shows how religion was constructed in a complex relationship between villagers, concerned with creating their own religion, and a bishop, intent on cultivating in his flock a Counter-Reformation style of worship and a new standard of social behavior. Luria analyzes records of pastoral visits, examines forms of devotion to saints, and undertakes an ethnographic investigation of one community, to illustrate this interaction. He uncovers a process of cultural change in which villagers and reformers alike took an active role in creating their own culture by adopting, adapting, or resisting the symbols, practices, and meanings of others. The theoretical insights of his study will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and others concerned with rural society, comparative religion, and questions of cultural change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520301501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that historians have oversimplified the struggle between high and low culture in early modern Europe. He shows how religion was constructed in a complex relationship between villagers, concerned with creating their own religion, and a bishop, intent on cultivating in his flock a Counter-Reformation style of worship and a new standard of social behavior. Luria analyzes records of pastoral visits, examines forms of devotion to saints, and undertakes an ethnographic investigation of one community, to illustrate this interaction. He uncovers a process of cultural change in which villagers and reformers alike took an active role in creating their own culture by adopting, adapting, or resisting the symbols, practices, and meanings of others. The theoretical insights of his study will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and others concerned with rural society, comparative religion, and questions of cultural change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Territories of Grace
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Category : Grenoble Region (France)
Languages : en
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Category : Grenoble Region (France)
Languages : en
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Correspondence and Papers Connected with Recent Occurences in the Northwest Territories
Author: Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State
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Category : Northwest Territories
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Northwest Territories
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The Statesman's Year-Book 1987-88
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1731
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1731
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1976-77
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
A People's History of Christianity, Vol 2
Author: Denis R. Janz
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451479751
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
On Its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Each volume provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy, and more.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451479751
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
On Its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Each volume provides a valuable overview on such topics as birth and death, baptism rites, food, power, heresy, and more.
Ready Reference Manual of the Statute Laws of the States and Territories in the United States and the Provinces of Canada
General and Private Laws, and Memorials and Resolutions of the Territory of Dakota
Author: Dakota Territory
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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General Laws, and Memorials and Resolutions of the Territory of Dakota
Peale's Popular Educator and Cyclopedia of Reference: Historical, Bio- Graphical, Scientific and Statistical. Embracing the Most Approved and Simple Methods of Self-instruction in All Departments of Useful Know- Ledge
Author: Richard S. Peale
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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