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Book Synopsis Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead by : Michael F Graham
Download or read book Blasphemies of Thomas Aikenhead written by Michael F Graham and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern book-length study of the case of Thomas Aikenhead, the sometime University of Edinburgh student who in 1697 earned the unfortunate distinction of being the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain.
Download or read book Unspeakable written by Dilys Rose and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh in the late 17th century is centre of religious authoritarianism, intolerance and fear. The flames of the city's famous Enlightenment are yet to burn. Based on the true story of Thomas Aikenhead, this is the fictional account of a 20 year-old student who was the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for blasphemy. Dilys Rose is one of Scotland's very best literary writers. This is a brilliant historical novel, from an acclaimed and award-winning writer at the height of her powers, with great resonance for today.
Download or read book Unspeakable written by Dilys Rose and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true case, a young man pays the ultimate price for saying what he thinks in this masterful historical novel by a writer at the height of her powers. Edinburgh in the late 17th century is centre of religious authoritarianism, intolerance and fear. The flames of the city’s famous Enlightenment are yet to burn. Based on the true story of Thomas Aikenhead, this is the fictional account of a 20 year-old student who was the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for blasphemy. Dilys Rose is one of Scotland’s very best literary writers. This is a brilliant historical novel, from an acclaimed and award-winning writer at the height of her powers, with great resonance for today.
Download or read book Born in Blood written by John J. Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in 1717. But where had this powerful organization come from and why had Freemasonry been attacked by the Roman Catholic Church? Robinson answers those questions and more.
Book Synopsis The Books of Nature and Scripture by : J.E. Force
Download or read book The Books of Nature and Scripture written by J.E. Force and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 by : David Nash
Download or read book Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 written by David Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of crime and the law in historical context. The methodology used unpacks the wider historiographical and contextual issues related to each thematic area and facilitates discussion of the wider implications for the history of crime and social relations. The case studies in the volume cover a range of incidents relating to crime, law and deviant behaviour since 1700, from policing vice in Victorian London to chain gang narratives from the southern United States. The book concludes by demonstrating how these narratives can be brought together to produce a more nuanced history of the area and suggests avenues for future research and study.
Book Synopsis A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Download or read book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil Within written by Brian Levack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of demon possession and exorcism through the ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms—violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of foreign objects, displaying contempt for sacred objects, and others—exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims’ bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession and exorcism in the Reformation period, but also reaches back to the fifteenth century and forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French, Italian, and Spanish towns, thirty boys in an Amsterdam orphanage, a small group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts—these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States and throughout Europe that Brian Levack closely examines, taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians, biblical scholars, pastors, physicians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness, the author argues that demoniacs and exorcists—consciously or not—are following their various religious cultures, and their performances can only be understood in those contexts. “Riveting [and] readable . . . must-reading for students of history, psychology and religion.” —Publishers Weekly “Levak, a distinguished historian of early modern witchcraft, now sets exorcism in a long historical perspective, providing the most comprehensive and scholarly overview of the theme yet published.” —Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book Religious Fascism written by Garry Otton and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wasn't Germany in 1935; it was Scotland in 2000 when MSP Wendy Alexander announced repeal of anti-gay law 'Section 28'. Christian fundamentalist Brian Souter poured 2m into a 'Keep the Clause' campaign backed by a tabloid newspaper, Cardinal Winning of the Catholic Church and a string of influential social conservatives. Billboards went up across Scotland vilifying homosexual practices. Newspapers spread warnings of gay 'cliques' and an 'international conspiracy'. Attempts were made to close gay organisations whilst doors and windows were smashed. Intellectuals who lent support were denounced. It was a time when diagrams appeared in newspapers illustrating homosexuals' distinguishing features. Parliament buckled while a community in crisis endured verbal abuse, beatings, suicides and murders. A lesson in history that lends meaning to events today.
Book Synopsis Doubting Thomas by : Heather Richardson
Download or read book Doubting Thomas written by Heather Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of sex, drugs and blasphemy in late seventeenth-century Edinburgh experienced through four viewpoints over fifteen years: Dr Robert Carruth, his wife Isobel, and university students Mungo Craig and Thomas Aikenhead.
Book Synopsis Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression by : Jeroen Temperman
Download or read book Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression written by Jeroen Temperman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the legal ramifications of existing anti-blasphemy laws and debates the legitimacy of such laws in Western liberal democracies.
Book Synopsis English Bibles on Trial by : Avner Shamir
Download or read book English Bibles on Trial written by Avner Shamir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore antagonism towards, and acts of violence against, English Bibles in England and Scotland (and, to a lesser degree, Ireland) from the English Civil War to the end of the eighteenth century. In this period, English Bibles were burnt, torn apart, thrown away and desecrated in theatrical and highly offensive ways. Soldiers and rebels, clergymen and laymen, believers and doubters expressed their views and emotions regarding the English Bible (or a particular English Bible) through violent gestures. Often, Bibles of other people and other denominations were burnt and desecrated; sometimes people burnt and destroyed their own Bibles. By focusing on violent gestures which expressed resentment, rejection and hatred, this book furthers our understanding of what the Bible meant for early modern Christians. More specifically, it suggests that religious identities in this period were not formed simply by the pious reading, study and contemplation of Scripture, but also through antagonistic encounters with both Scripture itself and the Bible as a material object.
Book Synopsis The Methodist Churches of Toronto by : Thomas Edward Champion
Download or read book The Methodist Churches of Toronto written by Thomas Edward Champion and published by G.M. Rose & Sons. This book was released on 1899 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Toronto was formerly the town of York.
Book Synopsis The Uses of Reform: 'Godly Discipline' and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610 by : M.F. Graham
Download or read book The Uses of Reform: 'Godly Discipline' and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610 written by M.F. Graham and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uses of Reform is a study of the Reformation as a movement for behavioral reform, concentrating on Scotland during the first fifty years (1560-1610) of its Reformation as a primary example. The opening chapters trace the development of "Godly Discipline" as part of the European-wide reform movement. Graham follows this general narrative with a study of the creation and implementation of a disciplinary system in Scotland. Finally, he compares disciplinary practices in the Scottish Church with those of the Huguenot communities of France. Looking closely at the proceedings of church courts which enforced regulations concerning behavior, Graham paints a picture of the Reformation as a social process. This book, the first of its kind in the historiography of the Scottish Reformation, explores how Reformed protestantism affected local communities and redefined relationships.
Book Synopsis Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment by : Michael Hunter
Download or read book Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment written by Michael Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents detailed case-studies of the expression of atheistic opinion in early modern England and Scotland.
Book Synopsis Charles Areskine’s Library by : Karen Baston
Download or read book Charles Areskine’s Library written by Karen Baston and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Charles Areskine’s Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate’s private book collection to explore key themes of the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland.
Book Synopsis Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States by : Jasper Doomen
Download or read book Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States written by Jasper Doomen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States adds new context to the ongoing debate over the scope of religious freedom, drawing from a variety of perspectives to discuss the meaning of religion itself within a democratic state. This book argues that categorizing religion as a solely private affair is too narrow an interpretation and questions whether ideas like freedom, human dignity, and equality can be truly actualized in a neutral and secular state. Contributors explore the impact of religion, acknowledged or not, on legislation, human rights, and group rights through legal, historical, and sociological lenses. Scholars of constitutional law, jurisprudence, international law, and political science will find this book particularly useful.
