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This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the past 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between rel...
Author
Dr. Colleen McDannell, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lang
Binding
Paperback
Pages
432
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300048580
EAN Code
9780300048582
ISBN #
7
Originally worshipped by the people of a small and politically insignificant eastern Mediterranean community, the Hebrew God rose to become the monotheistic deity of the entire Western tradition. In this absorbing book, well-known biblical scholar Bernhard Lang provides for the first time a full por...
Author
Bernhard Lang
Binding
Paperback
Pages
258
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300186908
EAN Code
9780300186901
ISBN #
6
The biblical story of Joseph ranks in the history of world literature alongside The Odyssey and other ancient legends as a seminal canonical text and has provided rich material for later writers to imitate and elaborate. This book, by Bernard Lang, an internationally acclaimed biblical scholar, exam...
Author
Bernhard Lang
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
030015156X
EAN Code
9780300151565
ISBN #
4
What do Christians believe they will experience after a virtuous life? What will an eternity in the hereafter be like? In this copiously illustrated, lively book, Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang describe and interpret the ways in which believers - from biblical authors to medieval mystics, from ...
Author
Dr. Colleen McDannell, Bernhard Lang, Colleen McDannell
Binding
Paperback
Pages
432
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300091079
EAN Code
9780300091076
ISBN #
1
In heaven, we will meet our friends: this was one of the most conspicuous expectations Christians had, and continue to have, of life after death. While the theme as such is almost as old as Christianity, it came to flourish only in early-modern times, peaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
Author
Bernhard Lang
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
166
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN #
3631620004
EAN Code
9783631620007
ISBN #
5
This text argues that the essential meaning of Christian ritual is embodied in six elementary forms - praise, prayer, sermon, sacrifice, sacrament and spiritual ecstasy. It is divided into six interpretative sections explaining the meaning of each.
Author
Bernhard Lang
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
542
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
0300069324
EAN Code
9780300069327
ISBN #
3
Anthropological Approaches to the Old Testament (Issues in Religion and Theology, 8)
Binding
Paperback
Pages
175
Publisher
Fortress Pr
ISBN #
0800617711
EAN Code
9780800617714
ISBN #
2
Theological & Religious Studies, Sociology, Biblical Studies
Author
Bernhard Lang
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Sheffield Academic Pr
ISBN #
0907459315
EAN Code
9780907459316
ISBN #
8
Author
Bernhard Lang
ISBN #
0829805680
Austrian composer • Opera composer
Business category:Musicians • Choreographers
Piano • Philology
Specialty:Musical composer
Academic degree:Professor
He is particularly known for the provocatively titled opera " I Hate Mozart ", with libretto by Michael Sturminger, composed for the Viennese " Mozart year " festival in 2006....
Bernhard Lang (b. 24 February 1957, Linz) is an Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde school, particularly advocating a style known as "repetition-perpetrator".