The Struggle for Virtue: Asceticism in a Modern Secular Society 9780884653738, 0884653730

Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World 9780271072623

Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not intr

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Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity? 9780367522674, 9780367522773, 9781003057307

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Beyond Pleasure: Cultures of Modern Asceticism 9781845459871

Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet e

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The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society 9780814738733

The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in rec

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The Biafran War: The Struggle for Modern Nigeria 9780755623945, 9781780764634

The Biafran War was truly a 'brother's war', which saw family and friends on opposing sides. When the bre

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Reconstructing Nonviolence: A New Theory and Practice for a Post-Secular Society 9781138553897, 9781315148731

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Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints 9780520065239

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Boccaccio's Heroines: Power And Virtue in Renaissance Society (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) 0754653641, 9780754653646

In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues

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Boccaccio's Heroines: Power And Virtue in Renaissance Society (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) 0754653641, 9780754653646

In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues

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Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) 9780268103057, 0268103054

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