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The Compostela Conspiracy

Author : Paul Robbert Rijkens
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782225811
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Compostela Conspiracy written by Paul Robbert Rijkens and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an investigative novel that starts by asking the simple but pertinent question: since there are no sources whatsoever testifying that the saint, or his remains were in Spain, then who invented all this, and why? I became interested in this issue after having read a tiny sentence in the official history book of St. James, which casually states that the Cathedral of Compostela lost the relics of St. James for nearly three hundred years, from 1588 to 1879. Lose the most important relics in Christendom? I surmised that they didn’t lose them, because they never had them in the first place. That also would despatch the implausible tale of how the saint’s remains had travelled by stone vessel, steered only by the wind, in eight days, from Jerusalem to Galicia in Spain, in 44 A.D. Still, St. James’ legends gave rise to the largest pilgrimage in European history. A riddle indeed. Challenged by a publisher, I decided to investigate this story not as most historians have, namely to accept the Church’s version, but instead, to follow a journalistic approach; to search for those who benefitted - who had ulterior motives. Banking on my business experience, and art historical knowledge, I hoped to solve this riddle whilst walking part of the route, the so-called ‘camino’, between Burgos and Santiago de Compostela. In so doing I also aimed to find out why people should want to do this arduous journey today, as ca. 300,000 annually do. It resulted in this travel account and investigative analysis, and a very defensible solution to the riddle of St. James. The Church employed fear to persuade Christians to seek penance and forgiveness at an empty shrine in Spain. This exploit I have called a conspiracy. A serious accusation, but in my view, also a defensible claim. Once underway something strange happened. An English former banker was shot in front of my eyes. Whilst this incident is fictional, it strangely fits in my fact-based investigation of what happened between the 9th to 16th centuries when literally millions upon millions of pilgrims took a year off to visit Compostela. The pilgrimage led to a colossal industry, and the strange shooting incident pointed me to some of its present-day benefactors.

The Saint James Conspiracy

Author : Jessica Murphy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532017618
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Saint James Conspiracy written by Jessica Murphy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mackellan Kirby, professor of Ancient Religious Studies, with some ongoing connection to the British SAS, is enjoying retirement in Ireland, when he discovers an anomaly in the Dead Sea Scroll he has been entrusted with translating. Always ready to solve any mystery, he enlists the aid of his American niece and nephew. Their search takes them to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in northern Spain, the goal of thousands of pilgrims every year. But their holiday jaunt immediately turns deadly when other factions become interested in their search. The artifact they recover, in the cellars of the cathedral, brings together writings from the first century A.D. about a charismatic leader who escaped from Judaea with his wife Mary; the story of the eleventh century bishop entrusted with the construction of the cathedral; and the truth of the Conspiracy of St. James--a cover-up of a secret so significant that its exposure could rock the modern Christian church to its knees. If only Kirby and his young relatives live long enough.

The Way of St. James Conspiracy

Author : Ulrich Hinse
Publisher : EDITION digital
ISBN 13 : 3965211870
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Way of St. James Conspiracy written by Ulrich Hinse and published by EDITION digital. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious murders make the pilgrims on the Way of St James shudder from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. By chance, one of the pilgrims, the German chief detective Raschke from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, witnessed an act. At first, the encounter seems random. Then, however, a series of murders begins, which takes place parallel to the pilgrimage of the police officer. Attacks are also committed on Raschke, who is apparently to be eliminated as an annoying witness. For the Spanish police, the German becomes a decoy who should lead them to the perpetrators.

Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World

Author : Francois Soyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395601
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World written by Francois Soyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, François Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750.

Contemporary Conspiracy Culture

Author : Jaron Harambam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000059332
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Conspiracy Culture written by Jaron Harambam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ethnographic study, the author takes an agnostic stance towards the truth value of conspiracy theories and delves into the everyday lives of people active in the conspiracy milieu to understand better what the contemporary appeal of conspiracy theories is. Conspiracy theories have become popular cultural products, endorsed and shared by significant segments of Western societies. Yet our understanding of who these people are and why they are attracted by these alternative explanations of reality is hampered by their implicit and explicit pathologization. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical sources, this book shows in rich detail what conspiracy theories are about, which people are involved, how they see themselves, and what they practically do with these ideas in their everyday lives. The author inductively develops from these concrete descriptions more general theorizations of how to understand this burgeoning subculture. He concludes by situating conspiracy culture in an age of epistemic instability where societal conflicts over knowledge abound, and the Truth is no longer assured, but "out there" for us to grapple with. This book will be an important source for students and scholars from a range of disciplines interested in the depth and complexity of conspiracy culture, including Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Ethnology, Folklore Studies, History, Media Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. More broadly, this study speaks to contemporary (public) debates about truth and knowledge in a supposedly post-truth era, including widespread popular distrusts towards elites, mainstream institutions and their knowledge.

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008522138
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain written by Paul Preston and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.

Siegener Periodicum zur internationalen empirischen Literaturwissenschaft

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Encyclopedia of Global Religion

Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761927298
Total Pages : 1529 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Religion written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.

Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre

Author : Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331920212X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre written by Cristina Sánchez-Carretero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the route to Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage itself, it instead examines a peculiar part of the route, the Camino to Finisterre, employing multiple perspectives that consider the processes of heritagization, the effects of the pilgrimage on local communities, and the motivations of the pilgrims. The book is based on a three-year research project and is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between anthropologists, sociologists, historians and archaeologists. Instead of ending in Santiago, as the rest of the Caminos do, this route continues to the cape of Finisterre on the Galician Atlantic coast. This part of the Camino de Santiago is not officially recognized by the Catholic Church and does not count as part of reaching Compostela, the recognition granted by the Catholic Church to those pilgrims who have walked at least 100 km. For this reason, as well as its relationship with the sun cult, many pilgrims call this route “the Camino of the atheists.” In fact, the Catholic Church is a strong force for the heritagization of the rest of the Caminos, and maintains a clear ignoratio strategy concerning the Finisterre route: Officially, the church neither opposes nor recognizes this route.

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

Author : Janet E. Burton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 184383667X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Cistercians in the Middle Ages written by Janet E. Burton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the 11th and 12th centuries. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.

Christianity

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101189991
Total Pages : 1227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Christianity written by Diarmaid MacCulloch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history and fills in often neglected accounts of conversion and confrontation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. MacCulloch introduces us to monks and crusaders, heretics and reformers, popes and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in shaping human history and the intimate lives of men and women. And he uncovers the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the surprising beliefs of the founding fathers, the rise of the Evangelical movement and of Pentecostalism, and the recent crises within the Catholic Church. Bursting with original insights and a great pleasure to read, this monumental religious history will not soon be surpassed.

Current Legal Theory

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Castro's Secrets

Author : Brian Latell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137278412
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Castro's Secrets written by Brian Latell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of Cuba's powerful intelligence agency and how it was used by Castro in an attempt to launch a third world war, drawing on testimony by high-level defectors to offer insights into Castro's goals and methods.

The Psychology of Personal Constructs

Author : George Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134957424
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Personal Constructs written by George Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Unavailable for many years this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder. The first volume presents the theory of personal construct psychology.

The Politics of Contemporary Spain

Author : Sebastian Balfour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134249802
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Contemporary Spain written by Sebastian Balfour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Spain is now a well-established democracy closely integrated into the European Union, it has suffered from a number of severe internal problems such as corruption, discord between state and regional nationalism, and separatist terrorism. The Politics of Contemporary Spain charts the trajectory of Spanish politics from the transition to democracy through to the present day, including the aftermath of the Madrid bombings of March 2004 and the elections that followed three days later. It offers new insights on the main political parties and the political system, on the monarchy, corruption, terrorism, regional and conservative nationalism, and on Spain's policies in the Mediterranean and the EU. It challenges many existing assumptions about politics in Spain, reaching beyond systems and practices to look at identities, political cultures and mentalities. It brings to bear on the analysis the latest empirical data and theoretical perspectives.

Genghis Khan

Author : John Man
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466861568
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Genghis Khan written by John Man and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. Yet in his homeland of Mongolia he is the revered father of the nation, and the Chinese honor him as the founder of a dynasty. In his so-called Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, worshippers seek the blessing of his spirit. In a supreme paradox, the world's most ruthless conqueror has become a force for peace and reconciliation. As a teenager, Genghis was a fugitive, hiding from enemies on a remote mountainside. Yet he went on to found the world's greatest land empire and change the course of world history. Brilliant and original as well as ruthless, he ruled an empire twice the size of Rome's until his death in 1227 placed all at risk. To secure his conquests and then extend them, his heirs kept his death a secret, and secrecy has surrounded him ever since. His undiscovered grave, with its imagined treasures, remains the subject of intrigue and speculation. This is more than just a gripping account of Genghis' rise and conquests. John Man uses first-hand experiences in China and Mongolia to reveal the khan's enduring influence. He has traveled the length of the empire. He spotlights the tension between Mongols and Chinese, who both claim Genghis' spirit. He is the first writer to explore the hidden valley where Genghis is believed to have died, and one of the few westerners to climb the mountain where he was likely buried. This stunning narrative paints a vivid picture of the man himself, the places where he lived and fought, and the passions that surround him still. For in legend, ritual and intense controversy, Genghis lives on.

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Author : Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169764
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of the Twelfth Century written by Thomas N. Bisson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.