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The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore

Author : Sandra Hudd
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498524125
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore written by Sandra Hudd and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore: Entwined Histories of a Colonial Convent and a Nation, 1854–2015 explores key issues and developments in colonial and postcolonial Singapore by examining one particular site in central Singapore: the former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, established in 1854 and now a food and entertainment complex. The Convent was an early provider of social services and girls’ education—almost a mini-city within walls, including a thriving community of schools, an orphanage, and a women’s refuge. World War II and the Japanese occupation, followed by the creation of the new Republic of Singapore, presented a new set of challenges, but it was the convent’s size and prime location that made it attractive for urban redevelopment in the 1980s and led to government acquisition, demolition of some buildings, and the remainder put out to private tender. The chapel and the former nuns’ residence are classified as National Monuments but, in line with government policy of adaptive re-use of heritage sites, the complex now contains bars and restaurants, and the deconsecrated chapel is used for wedding receptions and events. Tracking the physical and usage changes of the site, this book works to make sense of that eventful journey, a paradoxical journey that moves only in time, not in space, and includes abandoned babies, French nuns, Japanese bombings, and twenty-first century dance parties. In a society that has undergone massive change economically and socially, and, above all, transitioned from a small colonial enterprise to a wealthy independent city-state, those physical changes and differing usages of the Convent site over the years track the changes in the nation. The wider ongoing tensions between heritage conservation and the modern global city are explored by examining what has been chosen for preservation, the quintessentially Singaporean hybridity of the commercial reuse of historic buildings, as well as the nostalgia for what has been lost.

The Monastery ; And, Chronicles of the Canongate

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monastery ; And, Chronicles of the Canongate written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Convent of Little Flowers

Author : Indu Sundaresan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416586180
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book In the Convent of Little Flowers written by Indu Sundaresan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a poignant collection of contemporary short stories about the challenges and consequences faced by women in Indian life today. Like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Indu Sundaresan’s In the Convent of Little Flowers gives readers an eloquent and illuminating collection of stories about contemporary Indian life, exploring the cutting-edge issues that surround the clash between ancient tradition and modernity. In the collection’s title story, a young woman adopted by an American family in Seattle receives a letter from Sister Mary Theresa, a nun at the Convent of Little Flowers in Chennai, where she stayed as a child. Unbeknownst to the Indian woman, the nun is her biological mother’s sister. In another story, the grandmother of an Indian journalist begs her grandson to intervene and stop a young widow from being burned alive. And when a teenaged daughter bears a child out of wedlock, her entire family is thrown into turmoil. With their lush prose, vividly rendered settings, and complex characters, these and the other stories in this elegant collection bring readers into the experience of Indian women at home and abroad, where modernity offers them lives their grandmothers could never dream of, while at the same time taking away parts of their history. With a delicate touch, Indu Sundaresan weaves the pieces of the conflict together, presenting a nuanced and unforgettable tapestry.

Through the Narrow Gate, Revised

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312340957
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Through the Narrow Gate, Revised written by Karen Armstrong and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read and cherished by thousands all over the world since it was first published in 1981, Through the Narrow Gate takes the reader on a spiritual journey that began one September day in 1962 when Karen Armstrong said good-bye to her family at London's King's Cross station and journeyed on to the convent in Tripton to become a nun. Through the Narrow Gate is by turns a book of spiritual revelation and an intimate look at life inside the cloistered walls of the convent."--BOOK JACKET.

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Protestantism with Five Hundred and Fifty Illustrations by the Best Artist

Author : James Aitken Wylie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book The History of Protestantism with Five Hundred and Fifty Illustrations by the Best Artist written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The history of Protestantism

Author : James Aitken Wylie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The history of Protestantism written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spiral Staircase

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368343
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Spiral Staircase written by Karen Armstrong and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of her own search for God by the highly-acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism; and Islam: A Short History. In 1969, after seven years as a Roman Catholic nun -- hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God -- Armstrong left her convent. She knew almost nothing of the changed world she was entering, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures. Her struggle against despair was fueled by a string of discouragements -- failed spirituality, doctorate and jobs, fruitless dealings with psychiatrists -- but finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy and given proper treatment. She then began the writing career that would become her true calling, and as she focused on the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, her own true inner story began to emerge. She would come to experience brief moments of transcendence through her work -- the profound fulfillment that she had not found in the long hours of prayer as a young nun. Powerfully engaging, often heart-breaking, but lit with bursts of humour, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary history of self.

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works

Author : Vanessa L. Rapatz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513141
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works written by Vanessa L. Rapatz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

The Trial of Jan Hus

Author : Thomas A. Fudge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199988080
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Jan Hus written by Thomas A. Fudge and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six hundred years ago, the Czech priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) traveled out of Bohemia, never to return. After a five-year legal ordeal that took place in Prague, in the papal curia, and finally in southern Germany, the case of Jan Hus was heard by one of the largest and most magnificent church gatherings in medieval history: the Council of Constance. Hus was burned alive as a stubborn and disobedient heretic before a huge audience. His trial sparked intense reactions and opinions ranging from satisfaction to condemnations of judicial murder. Thomas A. Fudge offers the first English-language examination of the indictment, relevant canon law, and questions of procedural legality concerning Jan Hus and the Holy See. In the modern world, there is instinctive sympathy for a man burned alive for his convictions, and it is presumed that any court sanctioning such action must have been irregular. Was Hus guilty of heresy? Were his doctrinal convictions contrary to established ideas espoused by the Latin Church? Was his trial legal? Despite its historical significance and the strong reactions it provoked, the trial of Jan Hus has never before been the subject of a thorough legal analysis or assessed against prevailing canonical legislation and procedural law in the later Middle Ages. The Trial of Jan Hus shows how this popular and successful priest became a criminal suspect and a convicted felon, and why he was publicly executed, providing critical insight into what may be characterized as the most significant heresy trial of the Middle Ages.

Boys of the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Boys of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine; Including an Account of the Geography, History, Antiquities, and Inhabitants of These Countries ... By J. L. Porter. Maps and Plans

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Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Regina amoris; or, The lady of love, a play. Acting ed

Author : A. Inman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Regina amoris; or, The lady of love, a play. Acting ed written by A. Inman and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Nuns

Author : Henrike Lähnemann
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805112694
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Nuns written by Henrike Lähnemann and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middle Ages half of those who chose the religious life were women, yet historians have overlooked entire generations of educated, feisty, capable and enterprising nuns, condemning them to the dusty silence of the archives. What, though, were their motives for entering a convent and what was their daily routine behind its walls like? How did they think, live and worship, both as individuals and as a community? How did they maintain contact with the families and communities they had left behind? Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber offer readers a vivid insight into the largely unknown lives and work of religious women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using previously inaccessible personal diaries and letters, as well as tapestries, painting, architecture and music, the authors show that the nuns were, in fact, an active, even influential part of medieval society. They functioned as role models and engaged in spirited dialogue with other convents, with the citizens of their home towns and with the local nobility. Full of self-confidence, they organised their demanding daily lives; ran their complex convent economies as successful businesses; offered girls a comprehensive theological, musical and practical education; produced magnificent manuscripts; ministered to the convent sick and dying with homemade medicines and to family and friends with advice. Initially—and fiercely—they resisted the Reformation, only for some of the convents to survive as Protestant women’s foundations to this day. Now, for the first time in centuries, this account by Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber allows the voices of these remarkable women to be heard outside the cloister and to invite us into their world.

Jerusalem; the topography, economics and history from the earliest times to A. D. 70

Author : George Adam Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem; the topography, economics and history from the earliest times to A. D. 70 written by George Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Romance in the Life of Sixtus the Fifth, Entitled The Broken Bow

Author : Dion Boucicault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Romance in the Life of Sixtus the Fifth, Entitled The Broken Bow written by Dion Boucicault and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nuns

Author : Silvia Evangelisti
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579904
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Nuns written by Silvia Evangelisti and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'? Or socially engaged women, active in the outside world to a degree impossible for their secular sisters? Nuns tells the fascinating stories of the women who have lived in religious communities since the dawn of the modern age - their ideals and achievements, frustrations and failures, and their attempts to reach out to the society around them. Drawing particularly on the nuns' own words, Silvia Evangelisti explores how they came to the cloister, how they responded to monastic discipline, and how they pursued their spiritual, intellectual, and missionary activities. The book looks not only at the individual stories of outstanding historical figures such as Teresa of Avila but also at the wider picture of convent life - what it symbolized to contemporaries, how it reflected and related to the world beyond the cloister, and what it means in the world today.