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Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
ISBN: PB: 9780226731261, ISBN: HB: 9780226731124, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage". In a creative inve...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....
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£34,00
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Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation
ISBN: PB: 9780300192537, Yale University Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 colour images, 81 black&white illus.
This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-refor...
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£26,00
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Franco's International Brigades Adventurers, Fascists and Christian Crusaders in the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781849042475, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Foreign volunteers fought on behalf of General Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War for a right-wing cause whose aim was to smash democracy. These assorted adventurers, fascists, and Catholic crusaders were on t...
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£17,99
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Madonna of 115th Street Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
ISBN: PB: 9780300157529, Yale University Press, July 2010
360 pp., 12.7x19.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.
This is a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying d...
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£18,99
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